Starting this Saturday, there will be live blogs from certain IPFW sporting events on IAD's new page at: thesessions-iad.blogspot.com.
The first event will be Saturday's mens and womens basketball double header with IUPUI. The women start at 1:30, followed by the men at 4.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
>Time to fire your coach
Hey NFL owners (presidents, GM's, etc.)- it is time to fire your coach.
Longtime coach? Fire him.
Still alive in the playoffs? Fire him.
Just hired him? Fire him.
Why? Because Jon Gruden is back on the market.
Friday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired their coach and GM Bruce Allen, sending shockwaves through Tampa and even Gruden himself. Yeah, they haven't been the contenders yearly and never have they made strong draft day decisions. But let's not forget that before Gruden, the Buccaneers were seen only as that dreamsicle colored mess that resembled only present day Detroit Lions.
Jon Gruden, much like before Tampa with Oakland, made the Bucs winners. More importantly, he made them champions. He took previously all-talk, no-walk players like Warren Sapp and Keyshawn Johnson and combined them with never-quite-there vets like Derrick Brooks, Simeon Rice, Mike Alstott and Brad Johnson and won a SuperBowl with them. He even beat his old team, one that he put together.
Jon Gruden is cold blooded. He will win, he will run his mouth and he will drive his team forward.
He made Tampa Bay something that it never would have been without him.
And realize this: Gruden is the best coach in pro football right now. I hope that someone is smart enough to snatch him up in the big league. And if not, Gruden will go on down to the college level and make a team an instant contender. No other coach in the sport has the fire and inner-strength of Jon Gruden.
So go ahead, fire that new coach Detroit...boot that formerly waiting in the wings assistant Indianapolis. Jon Gruden is the only thing that any team needs right now.
Longtime coach? Fire him.
Still alive in the playoffs? Fire him.
Just hired him? Fire him.
Why? Because Jon Gruden is back on the market.
Friday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired their coach and GM Bruce Allen, sending shockwaves through Tampa and even Gruden himself. Yeah, they haven't been the contenders yearly and never have they made strong draft day decisions. But let's not forget that before Gruden, the Buccaneers were seen only as that dreamsicle colored mess that resembled only present day Detroit Lions.
Jon Gruden, much like before Tampa with Oakland, made the Bucs winners. More importantly, he made them champions. He took previously all-talk, no-walk players like Warren Sapp and Keyshawn Johnson and combined them with never-quite-there vets like Derrick Brooks, Simeon Rice, Mike Alstott and Brad Johnson and won a SuperBowl with them. He even beat his old team, one that he put together.
Jon Gruden is cold blooded. He will win, he will run his mouth and he will drive his team forward.
He made Tampa Bay something that it never would have been without him.
And realize this: Gruden is the best coach in pro football right now. I hope that someone is smart enough to snatch him up in the big league. And if not, Gruden will go on down to the college level and make a team an instant contender. No other coach in the sport has the fire and inner-strength of Jon Gruden.
So go ahead, fire that new coach Detroit...boot that formerly waiting in the wings assistant Indianapolis. Jon Gruden is the only thing that any team needs right now.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
>Is this a ReRun?
Let me be short and sweet.
If the Big XII was nonsense when Colt McCoy was jacked an All-First Team honor (even as the conference Player of the Year), then the NFL and the AP just got more nonsensical.
Days ago, Peyton Manning was named the NFL MVP by the AP. Ignore that his team suffered 2/3rds of the season and barely made the Playoffs. But don't ignore that two days later, the Saints' Drew Brees was named AP Offensive Player of the Year.
No, despite amazing numbers, Brees should not have been considered for MVP. But how is the league's MVP an offensive player but not the best offensive player? It makes NO sense.
Stupid AP, stupid NFL, stupid Big XII. Stupid football.
If the Big XII was nonsense when Colt McCoy was jacked an All-First Team honor (even as the conference Player of the Year), then the NFL and the AP just got more nonsensical.
Days ago, Peyton Manning was named the NFL MVP by the AP. Ignore that his team suffered 2/3rds of the season and barely made the Playoffs. But don't ignore that two days later, the Saints' Drew Brees was named AP Offensive Player of the Year.
No, despite amazing numbers, Brees should not have been considered for MVP. But how is the league's MVP an offensive player but not the best offensive player? It makes NO sense.
Stupid AP, stupid NFL, stupid Big XII. Stupid football.
Monday, January 5, 2009
>Undefeated? HA.
Oh no, the mighty Tar Heels have fallen. Like the big Oak Tree, the "best" team in college basketball comes crashing down with even the faint fight of a determined wind (i.e. Boston College.)
Maybe this will put all these pretentious Carolina lovers on notice. A perfect non-conference season means nothing when the real big boys come knocking. And in the big boy stage of things, BC (while talented) is still a little pre-pubescent. They are no (now number 2!) Duke and they are no Wake Forest. So how will the Heels fair once they have to play ACC games night in and night out?
My guess is, that big old oak is gonna fall again. The sad thing is that I know that UNC country won't get it; they won't take notice. Instead, that big brainless oak (no, not Tyler Hansbrough...well, yeah him too) will just keep trying to get back up, pretending it never got knocked down in the first place.
Does the loss send shockwaves throughout college basketball? Yeah. But only because college basketball was too deluded to see the truth anyway.
Does it change anything? No. It doesn't change how overrated they are, how bad they will crumble under the pressure and the smallness of the likelihood they will contend for a National Title.
Time to wake up, the Tar Heels are dying.
Maybe this will put all these pretentious Carolina lovers on notice. A perfect non-conference season means nothing when the real big boys come knocking. And in the big boy stage of things, BC (while talented) is still a little pre-pubescent. They are no (now number 2!) Duke and they are no Wake Forest. So how will the Heels fair once they have to play ACC games night in and night out?
My guess is, that big old oak is gonna fall again. The sad thing is that I know that UNC country won't get it; they won't take notice. Instead, that big brainless oak (no, not Tyler Hansbrough...well, yeah him too) will just keep trying to get back up, pretending it never got knocked down in the first place.
Does the loss send shockwaves throughout college basketball? Yeah. But only because college basketball was too deluded to see the truth anyway.
Does it change anything? No. It doesn't change how overrated they are, how bad they will crumble under the pressure and the smallness of the likelihood they will contend for a National Title.
Time to wake up, the Tar Heels are dying.
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