View From the Captain's Chair

Just a few random thoughts after watching 12 hours of college football:

* Hail to the Victors!! (part I) Michigan put a beat down on the completely over-hyped Irish. All the slurping about ND’s defense can finally come to an end. Plus Brady Quinn’s Heisman chances just went in the crapper. I’ll look for all those apology columns from the media idiots praising the Shamer’s “great” defense.

* Hail to the Victors!! (part II) Lloyd Carr can now tell everyone to kiss his hairy bung. Just when you are ready to write him off, he rallies the Big Blue Mafia for a fantastic win.

* The Criminoles offense is putrid. How did I think this team was going to do anything this season?

* Larry Coker is going to be fired. Get Butch Davis on that speed dial.

* In an interesting twist, Rutgers coach Greg Schiano probably would have gotten Coker’s job at the “U” had he not left for New Jersey at the end of the 2000 season. Now, Schiano is 3-0 and Rutgers may have their best team in decades.

* Speaking of fired, Chuck Amato will probably get run form NC State.

* Auburn is really good. There is no reason the Tigers can’t finish 12-0.

* Mississippi State and Ole Piss are TERRIBLE!!! The Bulldogs just lost AT HOME to Tulane and Ole Piss has looked awful the last two weeks.

* Spurrier is really having a tough time. The Gamecocks barely survived I-AA Wofford. I think the job is turning out to be a lot more difficult than he expected.

* Oklahoma’s Adrian Peterson is a stud.

* Georgia has gone 8 quarters without giving up a point.

* Huge win for John L. Smith and the Mighty Spartans. Next on tap is ND at home. There is no reason why the Spartans can’t win this game.

* Texas A&M nearly lost to Army late Saturday night. The Black Knights were down four points inside the Aggie five with only seconds to go. But A&M stuffed Army as the clock ran out.

* Fat Fulmer lost another one to Florida. Who’s your daddy?

* Any fan of the Star Wars movies will remember Billy D. Williams portrayal of the smuggler/entrepreneur Lando Calrissian. As fate would have it, just a few weeks ago a Baton Rouge native by the name of Lando Calrissian Bennett pulled an armed robbery on a garbage man. I haven’t heard any of attempts by Han-Solo and Chewbacca to bust Lando out of the Parish Prison, but I will keep you, my loyal readers, posted.