Bad Day for Mike Haywood, Too

Because I had the opportunity to play golf with Mike Haywood  at a USB event a few years ago, I have taken a more than usual interest in his career.  Haywood was the O-coordinator for Charlie Tuna at the time.  Haywood made it clear in conversation that he wanted to be a head coach.  He got that opportunity at Miami O and made the best of it, parlaying that success into his big break: the head coach position at Pitt, succeeding Dave Wannstedt.  Then, on New Year's Eve, Haywood smacked around his baby mama in South Bend and got arrested.  Pitt fired him on  New Year's Day.  Another guy who gets canned before he ever coaches one game.

1/1/11 wasn't much of a day for The Big Ten, either.  Big stage, Big life, Big 10, Big suck job on New Year's Day.

Northwestern beat the point spread but lost the game, 45-38.  No pass rush, period.  Stupid penalties (7 of them). Gave up 552 yards of offense, including a couple of BIG running plays.  Big Evan Watkin, the replacement QB, processes game situations painfully slowly.  I am so tired of this team; this must be what it feels like to be a Cub fan.

Joe Paterno and Urban Meyer squared off yesterday, spotlighting two men at different stages of their respective careers.  The 46 year old Meyer is riding off into the sunset, while Paterno, 84. is looking forward to another season. Gotta love Joe!  Florida got a pick 6 back door cover with :55 left to take away our +7 winner; final 37-24.

Mark Dantonio probably had 3 or 4 new heart attacks yesterday, because Nick Saban was standing on his chest all afternoon.  I took MSU plus 10 "cause that's a lotta points".  Alabama had a different idea of how much is "a lot of points". AL 49 MSU 7.

Mississippi State bitch-slapped Michigan, 52-14, so we got something right.



This is
(A) a Bridesmaids Convention,
(B)a hostage situation, or
(C) the Rose Court.

 Rose Bowl.  Granddaddy of 'em all. Great matchup, great game.  Poor little kicker boy from the Badgers missed a 3 pointer early, at the end TCU blocks a pass to deny a 2 point conversion.  TCU prevails by 2, we got 3 points, so we win. IMHO, Bret Bielema was outcoached. TCU ran away from WI's strength all day, while WI didn't exploit its power and had no answer to multiple d-stunts.  Props to TCU: Mean Looking Guys. 

Other bowl, the one with Oklahoma, the Fiesta Bowl, the one by which time my eyes were crossing but I was still cursing Northwestern's crappy game because TCU is the same size school and has the same colors but won their game, yeah, that one, we won.  OK won 48-20 in a game that wasn't very close nor very interesting--even to Oklahoma.  They appeared to be having a hard time concentrating on Connecticut, until CT would do something to annoy OK (score, for example), forcing OK to get back to the game for a few minutes until they would lose interest again. 

See you Monday.