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This and That - 02/28/13
Category: FEATURED
Tags: Ashlee Arnau Titus Alabama Football Alex Smith Matt Cassel MLB NBA Danica Patrick

ScottJax gives some advice to Danica, NBA, MLB and more in this weeks edition of…

This and That



I don't know about you, but I am not that good in playing the Lottery. I figure that since the computer picks the numbers that win, okay its the balls that do it, still there has to be a connection between the balls and the computers. Thats why I have the computer pick the numbers for me. Ah, someday the computer will get it right!!



Wow, I have jury duty and have been assigned to a case, with 13 other jurors. It has been interesting so far. Now on with the show.



 The most unbelievable basketball shot, a front-flip half court shot was performed by Ashlee Arnau, a cheerleader at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Miss. The shot is a take-off on the front-flip throw-in that soccer players do. For the record Ashlee plays soccer and runs track for the college.

And to prove it was no fluke she did it again the next day:

In front a Harlem Globetrotter basketball player.

Awesome!!



2 year old shoots hoops. His name is Titus and he has already appeared on Jimmy Kimmel show, ABC, and Fox News.



When is it too early for a college to offer a football scholarship to a player?

Alabama gave a scholarship offer to Dylan Moses, a 2017 prospect from Baton Rouge, La, He is an eight-grader who measured in at 6-foot-1, 215 pounds.

Funny thing, or maybe its not too funny, is that LSU offered Moses a scholarship last year. I even mentioned it last year on the Gab.



It looks like QB Matt Cassel of the Kansas City Chiefs is on the way out as the Chiefs will be trading for 49ers QB Alex Smith. San Francisco will get a second round pick in this years draft and a 2014 conditional pick.



Are the biggest disappointments in the NBA, The Lakers or The Mavericks? Do you have any suggestions?

What about the surprise team in the NBA? Memphis? Golden State?



Since the NHL has resumed, I am not ashamed to admit it, but I have been watching some games this year. Attendance has been up and the Black Hawks are tearing up the league#



So the mighty NHL Rangers have fallen# Its great to see that they are right above my lowly New York Islanders at the bottom of the Division.



Will bringing in the fence in Seattle help the Mariners??



I like the Washington Nationals, so far, to win it all.



I hope both MLB teams from Los Angeles fall on their faces#



After watching The Oscars I have to buy Lincoln when it comes out on DVD. I very rarely go to the movies# I usually wait til the movies come on cable since I pay an arm and two legs for it.



Just a little observation from this past Sunday Daytona 500. Danica you should have taken the lower track with 5 laps to go# You could have won it. You say you were afraid you were going to get crushed, but that didn’t faze Jimmy Johnson did it???

You have to be aggressive sometimes!!!



Til Next Time

Scott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012 College Football Final Top 25
Category: NCAA
Tags: NCAA Football Alabama Cincinnati Florida Georgia LSU Notre Dame Ohio St. Oregon SEC Stanford Texas A&M South Carolina

The basic idea of my computer ratings is to be a better version of the BCS standings, where the focus is on the top teams and having the correct top 2.

For the first few years, my top 2 agreed with the BCS top 2 with the BCS Champion finishing #1 in my final rankings. That changed last year when I had Oklahoma St. #2 going into the bowls and then LSU stayed #1 despite the loss to Alabama.

Once again this season, my top 2 was different from the BCS top 2. I had Notre Dame #1 going in, but Alabama was down at #4, below Florida and Ohio St.

Some might scoff at Florida, which didn’t even win its division, but neither did last year’s pre-bowl #3. Florida also managed to beat both LSU and Texas A&M, which Alabama could not do, and the Tide didn’t even face one of the top 3 teams of the other division until the SEC Championship game.

As for Ohio St., let’s face it: If they weren’t on probation, they would have been in the title game against Notre Dame.

Since I’m about to paste my top 25 below anyway, I’ll give it away. Alabama did finish as #1 in the final rankings this year, the second year in a row my (completely subjective) preseason #1 ended #1. And if we were to look at the top 2 now, what happens? Rematch! Alabama should have to beat them again. It would be even better if they had to beat Georgia again though. In addition, Alabama should also have to travel back in time and beat Texas a second time in 2009.

I’ll be really annoyed if Alabama has a November loss next year and ends up in the title game again anyway, especially being that their SEC East opponents in the regular season will be Tennessee and Kentucky while LSU, for instance, will play Florida and Georgia.

 

Top 25

rank / team / prior

1 Alabama 4

2 Notre Dame 1

3 Ohio St. 2

4 Oregon 6

5 Stanford 5

6 Florida 3

7 S Carolina 8

8 Georgia 10

9 TX A&M 12

10 Kansas St. 7

11 Clemson 15

12 Florida St. 16

13 SJSU 14

14 LSU 9

15 Oklahoma 11

Continue to full blog.

2012 SEC Recap
Category: NCAA
Tags: NCAA Football Alabama LSU Texas A&M. South Carolina Florida Georgia SEC Big XII Pac-12 Notre Dame Vanderbilt Ole Miss Miss. St.

I’m not happy about Alabama winning the BCS title (and finishing #1 in my ratings) and I still don’t like the man at all, but Nick Saban has been pretty good about reminding people what it means to be in the SEC rather than pretending this is all about Alabama. He gave Georgia and the SEC credit, saying, “We got here by 5 yards — Georgia was 5 yards from scoring [the winning touchdown in the SEC title game],” Saban said. “It’s a pretty tough league we play in. We’re going to have to improve as a program to have the opportunity to play for a national championship again, because of the quality of our league.”

After, the LSU game, Saban’s opening remarks to the media included the following: “LSU played a great game. They had a great game plan. They did a great job of executing. I think their quarterback played really well. There was a stretch there in the second half where they converted seven straight third down and five or mores…. This was a very physical game. I’m going to tell you that our guys are probably going to be as sore as they’ve ever been after any game.” It was obviously in part to give his team credit for winning despite this, but he acknowledged all during the following week that if anything he needed to keep a lid on his team’s self-congratulatory mood (he was smart enough to worry about what happened in the A&M game before it happened), so I don’t think he was just patting himself or the team on the back with these comments.

I also want to give Gregg Doyel (who gave the Saban quote about Georgia here) credit for pointing out what an idiot he made out of himself earlier in the year.

I believe the Tide would have finished undefeated and possibly without the scares it had against LSU and Georgia had it competed in any other conference, and the same may well have been true had the Tide faced Notre Dame’s schedule. That’s not to say there wouldn’t have been any close games, but I don’t think there would have been the type of game that either the Tigers or the Bulldogs had against the Tide. I don’t think Texas A&M was as outstanding as some think they were, but they beat Alabama because they got out to a 20-0 lead, and I’m almost certain that they’re the only team in the country that could have realistically done that.

I just mentioned the three best teams that Alabama played this season (at least based on the games those teams gave Alabama), and it could have easily been any one of them in their place. I’ll further note that the Tide did not play Florida or South Carolina. So if the schedule and a couple other things had worked out differently, Alabama could have been the fifth or sixth team in the SEC this year. After all, that’s the spot LSU (at least according to the polls) ended up in this year, and we saw how close they were to Alabama on the field.

Continue to full blog.

 

 

I Was Wrong
Category: NCAA
Tags: NCAA BCS Notre Dame Alabama Nick Saban Brian Kelly NCAA Football NCAA Hockey

 


Listen, I can at least start this post with something worth looking at...Something positive, and Notre Dame related...

Yes, I was wrong...I thought the ND/Alabama BCS Championship game would be close...I said it would be a good game...I said Notre Dame would win...I was wrong...

Alabama dominated Notre Dame in the trenches...The Irish defense that played so well all season, played awful...Missed tackles....Bad angles...and flat out over-powered...As much as people talk about "SEC speed," it was brute stregnth more then speed in this one...

And then there was coaching...Brian Kelly and his staff were totally out coached by Nick Saban and his staff...Nobody expected the Irish to score tons of points...The defense had to do what they have done all year, and they couldn't...Manti Te'o, who always seems to be in the right spot...Always seems to anticipate the play...Without a doubt, he played the worst game of his career...

Alabama was the better team...I was wrong...

This doesn't change a thing...My loyalty for Notre Dame is still strong...Hopefully this season is something to build from...I still hate the ND haters...I respect Saban and wish he was coaching the Browns...But why would anyone want that job over what he has...I still hate Alabama...I still hate rednecks...I still don't like what I feel is the over-hyping of the SEC...Fuck LSU, those overrated shit-stains...

As far as tonight, I was wrong...Feel free to pile on...I'm a big boy, I can take it...

Big Hockey game Tuesday...#2 Notre Dame at #1 Minnesota...It's on NESN...Go Irish!

The Beeze.

Q-o-t-D 1/7/13 Tags: NCAA BCS Notre Dame Alabama

 

Okay...It's the big game...Who do you have? 

Notre Dame or Alabama?

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