Cheers and Boos from Opening Weekend, College Style

I have a few random thoughts concerning this first week, and rather do small paragraphs about each, I'm going to give out Cheers (for things I enjoyed from this past week) and Boos (for things that just made me sick). Maybe this will be a trend, maybe not. But for now, here we go! These are in order of how passionately I feel about them, from high to low.

Cheers! to East Carolina, for the biggest upset of the weekend. It may not be Appalachian State, it may not be Super Bowl XLII, but it was a big upset nonetheless. Good show! You definitely deserved the win, and pulled off in dramatic fashion. Enjoy it while you can!

Cheers! to USC, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Clemson, and Alabama. You are RANKED teams, and you had the guts to schedule your opening game against a team from a BCS school that had a winning record last year. Illinois and Alabama, double cheers for you for going ON THE ROAD against a ranked team. I love it. You guys got guts. On the flip side....

BOOS! to Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma, LSU, Auburn, Texas, Texas Tech, Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona State, BYU, South Florida, and Penn State. Either you scheduled:
A) A team that was really bad last year in a non-BCS conference
B) A team that I'm pretty sure is Division 1-AA
C) A team that I didn't know existed until now
Some of you committed multiple infractions. You should be embarrassed. How does that cupcake taste, at the end of the day?

BOOS! to California. You beat Michigan State. You make me sad. And yes, I am going to ignore the fact that you outplayed us in basically every facet of the game, and that the game was not as close as the score was. Okay, more seriously...

BOOS! to Brian "Freaking" Hoyer. You know what? I'm guessing your summer wasn't that great. I understand that. But don't take it out on this year by sucking again! Along with this, BOO! to our coaching staff in general. Our team looked at times undisciplined and unprepared. Fix it for next game, please!

Cheers! to Otis Wiley. You singlehandedly kept us in the game. Your plays at the end of the half were incredible! You're becoming my favorite player for this year.

Cheers! to USC. Again. That play against a semi-real team? National Championship, anyone?

Cheers! to Utah. You beat Michigan. Gotta love that!

BOOS! to anyone that voted for Pittsburgh in the top 25. Congratulations! Don't you feel stupid. Also, BOOS! to Pittsburgh themselves. You obviously lost your pride. It showed.

BOOS! to ESPN. I realize that LSU-Appalachian State had to be moved up. But could you have moved that to a channel that I had High Definition on, not ESPN Classic which few people get?

BOOS! to ESPN/ABC announcers. You still aren't very good. You still say stupid and very obvious things. Half of you still are not exciting at all. Please fix this!

Cheers! to Duke. You won! You are 1-0. You won by 24, somehow. To everyone else: Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven must be near.

BOOS! to me. I wanted to have a Big 10 preview by last Friday done. But, as you can see, that didn't happen. I have no excuse (except that Big 10 season doesn't start for another few weeks, so I have some time).

With that being said, my NFL preview is in the works and will be up tomorrow, along with the unveiling of two future Championship Fantasy Football teams. Until tomorrow!

Lessons From Summer

It's kinda funny. I did a lot of stuff at work. I accomplished quite a bit at home. Yet, if I were to sum up basically everything I learned this summer, it would be a simple sentence, that I believe to be completely true.

It is better to do nothing in the company of friends than to be doing the greatest things in the world with no one around to enjoy them.

It's a little ironic, don't you think? Especially considering that I have friends that want to know some of the things that happen at work. But the thing is, instead of talking about my job and some of the misadventures there, I'd much rather talk about spending an afternoon with my friend Ben, laughing at the most random things (like Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan). Or I could talk the hours I spent working on blogs, or just random new insights I gained. But, I'd probably not mention those and talk about singing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay" with my friend John, and having people look at me like I'm crazy (correction: more crazy than usual).

It took me a summer where a lot of the time where I was alone, but I was reminded the value of friendship. Good thing too, because school is about to start. After all, seeing all types of people will eventually cause me go back to my more normal, somewhat shy self and wondering why all these people are bothering me because I need a moment's peace!



Completely unrelated announcements to this topic but need to be brought up.
1) I'm going to work real hard and doing updates weekly. Why? Football season is starting, school is in full force, which means I should have a lot more to talk about.
2) I now have a facebook group called "People who read All About 42 or just want to join another facebook group"
http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?info&gid=27150146510#/group.php?gid=27150146510