So, you don’t think there is too much in common? What if I asserted that the relative beliefs were 99% common? You’d say “Mike, you must be smoking some wacky tabacky out there in California.” Read the list below.
Another Top 10 team, the same result. A loss. At least it wasn’t a blowout like last year. There was a lot to be proud of in this game, though the Trojans scored 18, the defense really is accountable for 11 of them, a TD, 2-pt conversion, and a field goal. The first TD was totally on the offense with the for all intents and purposes pick-six. Without that, there’s a win.
Special teams were AWESOME in this game. Great punting, great returns, great return coverage, and great placekicking. They showed up.
The offense was not consistent in the least. I think the hits Pryor took in the first quarter might have hurt him physically, but certainly hurt his confidence and judgment. The lack of a bell cow back like Beanie Wells also showed up. Nothing against Boom, he runs hard and provides maximum effort – which is all you can ask – but he’s not going to get those tough yards between the tackles with an opponent like USC.
The O-line was pretty good for all the grief it takes over time. I thought play calling was pretty sound in the first quarter as well. But somehow, we got away from the misdirection and started running Dave again. And again. And again. On 1 yard conversions, I’d think someone might say “Hey, we’ve got a 6’6″, 230 lb quarterback. Why don’t we simply sneak it behind 500 lb benchpress Boren to convert?”
But no, Dave would be the best answer. Pull the guard, have the fullback whiff on his block and the back gets chopped down at or behind the line of scrimmage.
All of the losses hurt when it’s the team you root for – but this one somehow is worse. This one was winnable and slipped away, much like the Texas game last year. At some point, the offense is going to have to join the same team and perform consistently and score touchdowns, not field goals. Eight points were left on the board tonight. That would have amounted to a win too. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle as they say. This was a needless loss.
Now, as for the rest of the season, we’ll see what happens next week on the road in Cleveland vs. Toledo which put up 54 points this week. If we come out with fire and passion, this could be an 11-1 season. If we’re still funky, Toledo could win. Seriously. That would suck.
Here is what we should have learned from 9/11. Yet, we haven’t. In pictures:
The University of Southern California (USC) will play Ohio State in a night game at the ‘Shoe tomorrow evening. If you read anything about this game, you’ll know the Buckeyes have absolutely ZERO chance of winning. They ought not even show up. After all, they lost in LA last year 35-3 (ouch!) and have lost their last 4 big, non-conference games.
I’m a Buckeye fan and thus am not objective in this, but I like this game. I like the setup. I like that no one believes they will win. I like that their Freshman starting quarterback is talking smack. I like that they are -7 point ‘dogs at home. I like that nothing but mild respect is coming from Ohio State about this game. I like that the game last week against Navy was a tougher challenge than anticipated. I like that USC beat the snot out of a horrible San Jose State team building their confidence.
Yep, I betting I’m going to like the final score which will look something like this: 23-12 Buckeyes. And if I’m wrong, I’m wrong. But I believe the perfect storm is brewing and that the big game beatdown predicted won’t happen, at least in the way the pundits are predicting. GO BUCKS!
With all the kerfluffle about the impending Obama speech in our public schools tomorrow I thought I’d drop a post to lambast those liberal, permissive indoctrinators. After all, they know that if you get them early and get them often, you’ve got a better shot at shaping their values and perspectives (this isn’t lost on churches either.)
Here are some choice excerpts from the speech to be delivered tomorrow (not in Medina, Ohio – it’s up to the parents to decide if they want their children exposed to this liberal brainwashing.) Read the full transcript here, if you dare.
Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked a lot about responsibility.
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But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.
And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
Yep, that sure is incendiary stuff – be responsible to yourself. I can see why Michelle Malkin is outraged with this liberal swill.
And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it.
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You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.
Another key liberal bias: hard work is required for success. You can’t just expect to drop into a good job. The nerve of this guy, doesn’t he know that the socialist government will provide all regardless of your effort level? Obama is clearly a menace.
And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
That’s it. Calling on a sense of patriotism and duty to one’s country. We ought to be outraged like Glenn Beck says.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
Doesn’t he know that there are all sorts of valid excuses? He’s asking these kids to overcome adversity and make the most of their opportunities. You can determine your own outcome, how dare he! It is written already. Damned commie! Just like Rush says, he’s dangerous and is destroying the very fabric of our country. We ought to revolt.
That’s why today, I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education – and to do everything you can to meet them.
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Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.
Commitment. Resolve. Work. Setting goals. All part of the liberal agenda to brainwash us into something we don’t want to be. Don’t you see the subtext here? Americans, US Americans, god-fearing Americans don’t need any of that fancy education. We believe the lord will provide for us. We don’t need any of this filthy self-determination pornography.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
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So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
Just look at this guy? I mean, who the hell does he think he is? Putting all that pressure on our kids telling them that if they don’t stay in school, set goals, study hard, and try that they will be letting their country down. I mean really, these are just kids. They don’t need the fate of the free world resting on their shoulders. And I’m sure, since he’s obviously a Kenyan muslim, it’s that allah character he’s referencing in thanking god instead of our good old US American christian god. Damn socialist, atheist, muslim!
[sarcasm off] OK, perhaps this post was a little over the top. But a large segment of the US population is looking at this speech in this particular way. It could be racism. It could be ignorance. It could be malice. But what it’s clearly not, is thoughtful. No, the only real issue to take with this speech if you’re a frothing at the mouth conservative is that the more educated students become, the more likely it is that they will see the world for what it is. They’re less easy to control and less likely to invest in invisible friends.
Yes, thinking children are dangerous children. And that my friends, is the crux of the matter.
Addendum: And, for the record, when the Democrats went wing-nut on Bush I in 1991 for speaking to the public schools, that was an exercise in stupidity too.
