The Trojan (Mystique) Broken Again

Every man's nightmare, but every USC fan's reality. Time and time again, we here how USC is the most talented team in CFB, how this could be one of the all-time great teams, we buy into the hype (myself included, see last post) and proclaim them the Kings of College Football. Well, we've seen this script before, the kings are really queens, with their dynasty once again taken down by a lesser advisary (this one happening to be a beaver). While every sports reproter in the nation criticizes Ohio State for their recent meltdowns, we hear nary a peep about the Condoms continuing their yearly ritual of buying into their own greatness, only to see a dream season wiped away by a bottom tier Pac 10 program.

For argument's sake, lets say the Pac 10 and Big 10 are equally difficult conferences. Now look at the losses over the last 3 years for OSU and USC. OSU: Florida (NC Game), Illinois (went to Rose Bowl), LSU (NC Game), USC (greatest team of all-time). USC: Oregon State, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon (the only respectful lose amongst the bunch), Oregon State. Yet USC is the media anointed Kings of College Football. Anyone can get up for the big games (well, anyone except OSU I guess), but it's consistency that makes a champion. Year after year, USC sits back in their posh digs provided by slimey agents and even slimier boosters, hearing how good they are after an early season demolition of a marquee opponent(Arkansas, Nebraska, OSU), and they buy into it all. Inevitably, this program will continue down this path until some measure of discipline is instilled, and I don't think Sneakey Pete is going to be laying down discipline anytime soon. This shakes up the CFB world, and I'm sure fans in Norman, Baton Rouge, Gainsville, Austin are excited...oops, I broke into my best Craig James there. Anyways, here's to the Trojans being put into their place by OSU, even if it was the one with beavers instead of nuts.


OSU (the one with Nuts)
3 things that really excited me from Saturday (lets be honest, barely handling Troy doesn't produce much more than 3 excitable moments):

1) Seniors, have a seat. I love the fact that the Vest pulled the trigger on Pryor. I wanted him to be ready for Wisco, and it looks as if lack of playing time will definitely not be an issue. TP looked great, should have had another TD (why are the senior WR's not being shown the bench?), and had great poise and presence. I have to keep reminding myself that he's still a frosh, but that game was awfully VYesque, right down to the terrible throwing mechanics. In addition to TP, nice to see the 1st member of Block O crack the starting line-up, impressive to see Sabino move in to the 2-Deep, but please, get Posey and Flash Thomas some run time.

2) Bold moves on the O-Line. We took out (well, by injury) our fattest, slowest, dumbest lineman, replaced him at guard with a much quicker (albeit slightly undersized) former C, and insterted a true freshman in to handle the the snapping. I love it. I love getting quicker up front. I love putting Brewster at C after I'm sure he and TP took tons of reps together in pre-season, I love thinking about a more athletic line blcoking for Beanie and TP. Great move.

3) The Glenville Pipeline. They just keep churning out stars, and it looks like the latest may be Jermale Hines (I really wish he was #57). The kid has some unreal football instincts, can lay the wood, and fits that hybrid LB-S role that teams need to combat the spread. He's going to be a star.

Gopher Hunting
No, not what the crew will be doing down in Bloomington this weekend, but hopefully what the OSU defense will be doing Saturday. I still didn't see the emotion and nastiness out of this team that they need to win the big games. Here's hoping that the start of conference play awakens the sleeping giant, that or they can clone various forms of Malc Jenkins prior to the game. While I still agree with the Boom and Zoom statement from last week, there's no getting around my giddiness for the return of Beanie. How do you stop TP and Beanie running an option? The playbook will be conservative this week, but I'm looking for all the stops to be pulled out a week from Saturday.

SOA (Sons of Anarchy for you tv novices)
Watch it. Seriously. It's the best new show of the fall. How can FX get away with the content though? When I hear a basic cable station touting nudity amongst it's content warnings, it blows my mind. In the last 3 weeks alone, we've seen a dude go Mike Tyson all over a carnie's ear, a child molester get his junk cut off and then the junk got mailed to the girl's father, an axe to the back of the dome, strippers, a doberman on meth, more strippers...it's amazing. Enough to make me contemplate starting a biker gang in Bucktown, which would no doubt be fierce.

Hurricane's
They come in with such anticipation, leave devastating destruction in their path, and then are forgotten about weeks later...sounds like any scandal invovling a White House intern. America is one big country of ADD.

My Living Situation
Out of fear that during a drunken rambling I may slip something out about the fact that I have a blog, I'm going to abstain from commenting publicly on this.

Last Thoughts
Someone fix Jesse Palmer's fucking tie!!!!
Why do people feel the need to wear a jersey to a sporting event of a team not even involved?
I wish they'd set up an emergency loan program for recent college graduates, "Um, yeah, I ended up dropping a $500 dollar bar tab last night, not sure I'm going to be able to pay my cable bill this month, and I sure would miss HBO, Showtime, Encore, Skinemax and my DVR...can I get $1000 to tide me over to next paycheck?"
Lastly, when will going back for a weekend at college not be one of the highlight's of my year? I'm guessing not for a while.