Sports: All Hail Boise State, Groupie Love & Much More!

Alright please tell me you watched football this past week? Just like we here at the hype envisioned and said, it was an exciting week in football let alone sports. With some major games taking place again this week we must recap some of the meaningful games that happened this past week and you know we got you covered. Because like Floyd Mayweather Jr always says when you’re working we’re working, when you’re eating we’re working and when you’re sleeping were still working!

Can we stop calling Boise St a “Cinderella” team by now? They have smacked some of the best teams in the nation within the last decade. Oregon twice, Oklahoma, TCU three times, Oregon St, Utah a few times, BYU and now you can add Virginia Tech. Not to mention some very good Fresno St, Hawaii and Nevada teams plenty of times (don’t forget Hawaii & Fresno St have had some very good seasons). They have won 5 bowl games, never finished worse then 8-4 and have constantly been ranked in the top 25. Plus have had some solid draft picks, see last year’s first round pick of the NY Jets CB Kyle Wilson. I can go on but there really is no need, Boise is a top tier football program hands down! Boise deserves a shot at the title game if they earn it, I’m so tired of big conference supporters always crying about why their teams should get a shot over small conference squads when they have losses, especially the overrated SEC (I’ll get to that in a minute)!



There are people already arguing they didn’t win impressively enough and that because they don’t play a tough schedule they shouldn’t get an opportunity to play for a championship. Shut up! Did you watch that game Monday night? Boise isn’t using trick plays and wishing upon a star to beat these teams anymore. They have athletes, legit athletes like DJ Harper absolutely ran away from the Va Tech defense on his td run. I not saying they have a top 25 recruiting class coming in every year but don’t be surprised if they get there soon. They are attracting California athletes at a more frequent rate these days. What happens if they are the only team to go undefeated in the whole country? It’s time for some changes let’s all pray they stay on the beaten path if for nothing else it will force the NCAA hands into busting this terrible BCS system up and replacing it with something more favorable.

Now onto the overrated, overhyped and played out SEC. Let me first start by saying there are some legit ball clubs in the conference every year, no question. It always produces good teams with great players that normally wind up making solid if not great pro players. Although I don’t agree with all of the teams who have won, it has produced the last four years BCS champion. I respect the conference as should everyone but give it a break already. The SEC it just like any other conference, they have teams, coaches, games and fans, what makes them so great? Just like any other major conference they have good and bad teams. If you leave it up to the supporters of the SEC every team in the conference belongs in the top 25. Would that include Vanderbilt, Miss St and Kentucky? Oh wait maybe Tennessee? By the way when is the last time Tennessee beat anyone from any of the power conferences? That would be 3 years ago when they beat Wisconsin in the Outback bowl. Cal and UCLA have both walked into Rocky top and left with the W. Virginia Tech and Wyoming have also dug them out. Maybe South Carolina should be in the BCS or maybe Arkansas who is pretty good this year but never really a threat. Besides the 1998 campaign which they wound up losing to Michigan in the bowl game anyway have they been even remotely close to being a staple in the college football hierarchy.

As a matter of fact they have been a completely middle of the road if not terrible team. Wait there’s more how about Ole Miss, they must be that team everyone is scared of right. Nah not really just ask Jacksonville St what they think. Major props to Jacksonville St for walking into Ole Miss’s house and robbing the cookie jar. As a former student of a HBU (Historically Black University) I loved to see a little blood drawn from the big boys. See what I mean the though the SEC is no different than any other major conference. They have terrible teams, middle of the road teams and good teams. It’s time for the South East to get over themselves and stop living on the hype.

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Michigan, TCU, Utah, North Dakota St, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Fresno St, Maryland and East Carolina all got good wins to start the season. Unlike the common season opener they all played teams that are either good, pretty good or at least have a pulse. Check the East Carolina finish.

What in the hell is wrong with the Padres? They had lost 10 games before Mondays win. For all the flack they took from everyone saying they couldn’t win the division you would think they would make sure to stick it to everyone. I still think they win it but unlike a week ago I wouldn’t bet your week 1 football earnings on it.

Another day another groupie story. Ty and Vernon can’t be serious? They are both dating/sexing who? Or better yet what? Come on playas. Maybe that’s the problem”playas”!

As promised I must continue the James Toney/UFC talk. I understand the boxing is dead argument, totally get it. When it comes to main stream sports it’s not as dead as most people think though. While most boxers never see the light of day when it comes to becoming house hold names there are boxers who reach a certain level that MMA fighters could only wish they achieve. Not even the best MMA fighter in the world is known to the average sports fan. I’m pretty sure most people can name 3 boxers. As a matter of fact do this for me, ask your wife, girlfriend or mom (any female that is not a sports fan) to name a MMA fighter and see if they can do it. Then ask them to name 3 boxers and see what happens. Holla at me with the findings please, I will speak to this next week in our ongoing discussion.