JimBob
01-15-2009, 09:25 AM
Remember these important lessons learned
By The Picker
Published: 1/15/2009 2:36 AM
Last Modified: 1/15/2009 3:21 AM
JUST LOOK at some of the important lessons we've learned this season.
Bradford has good sense: He'd have been used like a wishbone in the NFL. Perhaps next year he can help Venables with the secondary.
Earth to Stoops, come back down: After five straight bowl losses, he has forfeited the right to be testy. College football coaches on the whole have become a little like NFL wide receivers, all pouty and righteous. Sweet as the Oklahoma media members are, Stoops is richly blessed and should act like it.
The Big 12 is overrated at football: The defenses rest. The SEC is far and away superior because of the emphasis it puts on cornerbacks.
The TU basketball crowd doesn't get it: It's not the size of the crowd that matters. Times are tough. But once you're there, the fun is free. These people need to take a continuing education class on basketball.
The NFL Channel has far and away the best replay show going: ESPN features a parade of nerds intent on projecting themselves into the stories.
Anybody not voting Utah No.1 is a numbskull: All other votes are based on hypothetical thoughts. USC would kill Utah. Yeah, just like Alabama did. The BCS has ruined a great sport and should be sued.
The worst prediction of the year: True, Pat "The Piper" Jones said Texas was a joke. But far and away the worst picking moment of the year came from ex-king Barry Switzer when he intimated that Utah would be better off wearing skirts and twirling batons than trying to compete with Alabama on the football field. Says a lot about what ex-coaches know about picking, doesn't it.
Tulsa's new baseball park will be constructed so that numerous hitters will face a south wind: Groupies must love the sacrifice bunt.
The NBA in OKC is nowhere near as important as a golf major at Southern Hills: The winner of a golf major is a world champion. The winner of a NBA game in OKC is simply the visitor.
The seasonally adjusted list of top college football coaches is as follows:
1. Carroll, USC.
2. Meyer, Florida.
3. Saban, Alabama.
4. Mack, Texas.
5. Patterson, TCU.
6. Leach, Tech.
7. Stoops, OU.
Hope for the future: In two weeks, right here for the Super Bowl, we will issue another monumental pick and will try to improve upon missing the biggest college game ever by one point, while other media members were hiding under the bed.
We will report on sports galore on almost a daily basis at this site: tulsaworld.com/sportsextra.
And before you know it, we'll be picking Texas over OU by 9 in a wild 2009 setting reminiscent of Euro soccer.
PICKS
Sunday
Eagles (-3 1/2) at Arizona: West game goes first, in the early afternoon.
Just when you think officiating can't get any lousier, get this: In the game with the Giants last week, the Eagles were flagged for pass interference.
The Giants then screamed and yelled, and the refs picked up the flag.
Pot-bellied squinty guys taking arguments, officiating doesn't get any more erratic.
The Arizona quarterback has lost so many steps, if he loses one more, they'll get the shovels.
Note the size of all four remaining playoff quarterbacks.
They're big, thus Bradford's return to the Sooners for muscle.
Eagles by 2.
Baltimore at the Steelers (-6): Imagine this, a Baltimore-Arizona Super Bowl.
Bruce Springsteen would not only have to sing at halftime to save that Super Bowl, he would also have to sing between quarters and during each timeout.
On a more pleasant note, this marks the end of the 2008 Phil Simms announcing reign of pain.
This guy specializes in hypothetical hindsight, which is the repeated stating of stuff he almost said.
Barroom brawl could carry over to the streets.
Polamalu's hair is penalized for tripping.
Steelers by 2.
By The Picker
Published: 1/15/2009 2:36 AM
Last Modified: 1/15/2009 3:21 AM
JUST LOOK at some of the important lessons we've learned this season.
Bradford has good sense: He'd have been used like a wishbone in the NFL. Perhaps next year he can help Venables with the secondary.
Earth to Stoops, come back down: After five straight bowl losses, he has forfeited the right to be testy. College football coaches on the whole have become a little like NFL wide receivers, all pouty and righteous. Sweet as the Oklahoma media members are, Stoops is richly blessed and should act like it.
The Big 12 is overrated at football: The defenses rest. The SEC is far and away superior because of the emphasis it puts on cornerbacks.
The TU basketball crowd doesn't get it: It's not the size of the crowd that matters. Times are tough. But once you're there, the fun is free. These people need to take a continuing education class on basketball.
The NFL Channel has far and away the best replay show going: ESPN features a parade of nerds intent on projecting themselves into the stories.
Anybody not voting Utah No.1 is a numbskull: All other votes are based on hypothetical thoughts. USC would kill Utah. Yeah, just like Alabama did. The BCS has ruined a great sport and should be sued.
The worst prediction of the year: True, Pat "The Piper" Jones said Texas was a joke. But far and away the worst picking moment of the year came from ex-king Barry Switzer when he intimated that Utah would be better off wearing skirts and twirling batons than trying to compete with Alabama on the football field. Says a lot about what ex-coaches know about picking, doesn't it.
Tulsa's new baseball park will be constructed so that numerous hitters will face a south wind: Groupies must love the sacrifice bunt.
The NBA in OKC is nowhere near as important as a golf major at Southern Hills: The winner of a golf major is a world champion. The winner of a NBA game in OKC is simply the visitor.
The seasonally adjusted list of top college football coaches is as follows:
1. Carroll, USC.
2. Meyer, Florida.
3. Saban, Alabama.
4. Mack, Texas.
5. Patterson, TCU.
6. Leach, Tech.
7. Stoops, OU.
Hope for the future: In two weeks, right here for the Super Bowl, we will issue another monumental pick and will try to improve upon missing the biggest college game ever by one point, while other media members were hiding under the bed.
We will report on sports galore on almost a daily basis at this site: tulsaworld.com/sportsextra.
And before you know it, we'll be picking Texas over OU by 9 in a wild 2009 setting reminiscent of Euro soccer.
PICKS
Sunday
Eagles (-3 1/2) at Arizona: West game goes first, in the early afternoon.
Just when you think officiating can't get any lousier, get this: In the game with the Giants last week, the Eagles were flagged for pass interference.
The Giants then screamed and yelled, and the refs picked up the flag.
Pot-bellied squinty guys taking arguments, officiating doesn't get any more erratic.
The Arizona quarterback has lost so many steps, if he loses one more, they'll get the shovels.
Note the size of all four remaining playoff quarterbacks.
They're big, thus Bradford's return to the Sooners for muscle.
Eagles by 2.
Baltimore at the Steelers (-6): Imagine this, a Baltimore-Arizona Super Bowl.
Bruce Springsteen would not only have to sing at halftime to save that Super Bowl, he would also have to sing between quarters and during each timeout.
On a more pleasant note, this marks the end of the 2008 Phil Simms announcing reign of pain.
This guy specializes in hypothetical hindsight, which is the repeated stating of stuff he almost said.
Barroom brawl could carry over to the streets.
Polamalu's hair is penalized for tripping.
Steelers by 2.