Weekly Thought and Predictions

I have two pressing issues that have been bothering me this week. Issue one is Phil Fulmer and the University of Tennessee.

The University of Tennessee asked Phil Fulmer to step down as head football coach this past Monday.

Phil Fulmer is a guy that not only has been the head football coach at the University of Tennessee for the last 17 seasons, but also was also born and raised in Tennessee. He played for the Volunteers. The Vols went 30-5 in his 3 years there. After finishing school Fulmer coached the freshman team at Tennessee. He then served 13 years as an assistant coach at the university before becoming the head coach in 1992.

This man bled Tennessee Orange. In his reign over the football program he went 150-51, which ranks 3rd highest win percentage among coaches with 10 or more years. He went to a bowl game in every year in charge but one. He brought a National Title back to Rocky Top in 1998, the university's first since 1951. But that doesn’t matter much now. Not to the money at Tennessee. Not to the boosters. The same boosters who agreed to pay him $2.4M this season, the first on a new 7-year deal he signed over the summer.

This guy is, was and always will be a class act. It is a shame that Tennessee will kick out one of there own so easily. Good luck finding a coach that can do half of what Phil Fulmer did at UT. Or cares half as much as Fulmer cared about the school he so greatly represented for so long.

FULMER EMOTIONAL AT PRESS CONFERENCE


The second issue that I have is Pete Carroll running his mouth about the BCS.

Yes Pete we all know the BCS stinks. We all have seen the way the BCS is screwing up NCAA football. We all realize that the BCS system is what kept your Trojans out of playing for a national championship in 2003.

We get it. What we don’t get is YOU complaining. You have maybe the easiest road every year to the BCS Title game. You play 1 or 2 tough non-conference games (good for you, not enough teams do that), and then you stay on the west coast beating up on the Pac-10 the rest of the season. In most cases all you have to do is win those Pac-10 games and you are in. However you don’t seem to be able to do that. This year you lost to Oregon State, AGAIN!!! What you forget that them beating you in 2006 also kept you out of the title game? Honestly, just take care of business in the Pac-10 and you are in. Stanford last season, what were you guys a 42 point favorite? Really and you are going to complain about the system? It doesn’t take brain surgery. The Pac-10 is not all that good, in that case you have to win ALL of your conference games to play for the national title. Nobody wants to see a team that loses to UCLA (2006) then go on to play in the national championship. The 2 season you swept through the Pac-10 you played for a title. Yet you have the nerve to now complain. You lost to Oregon State! OREGON STATE! Not Oregon, Oregon State! The same Oregon State that got smoked by Penn State. There is someone that should be complaining, Penn State. The players and coaches at Penn State, they would have a legit beef, but you and the Trojans? Gimme a break! Go through that KILLER Pac-10 schedule next year without a loss and we can talk!

THIS WEEKS PICKS:

4-1 last week only missing the Texas-Texas Tech shootout. That puts me at 38-17 for the year.

OHIO STATE wins, but close at Northwestern

ALABAMA survives Nick Saban's first trip back to LSU.

WEST VIRGINIA takes control of the Big East with a win against Cincinnati.

PENN STATE struggles but wins at Iowa.

USC defeats an overrated Cal team

TEXAS TECH makes it 2 in a row against top opponents beating Oklahoma State.

Have a great weekend and enjoy your football!