Friend and blogging inspiration Fountain Shots has a nice piece on the BCS up. Take a gander, and let me know if you can leave comments because I could not

Today’s examination is about what prompted K-State to name their stadium “Bill Snyder Family Stadium.”

Frankly, I thought it was weird before they re-hired him. Now it’s beyond bizarre. Can you name another coach who goes to work in a building named after him? So how’d KSU come to this arrangement? Insecurity? A pathological desire to have a “history”? Epic levels of hero worship fueled by a lack of real world knowledge? A weak AD? Lets take a look:

Could it be that Mr. Snyder strung together an incredible streak of Big 12 championships? Well let’s put it this way: Bill Self has won 3 times as many titles in the last 3 years as Bill Snyder won during his entire career. Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas A&M have each fired a coach with the same number of titles.

Perhaps Mr. Snyder stacked up BCS Bowl game wins in such a historic way that KSU felt they had to immortalize him in some fashion? Nope. 0-1 in his only trip to a BCS game, which was notable only because the star quarterback raped someone before the game. Icons such as Dennis Erickson, Jeff Wiessinger, Chris Pertersen, and Lawrence’s own BF Mangino have all won more BCS games. Nebraska won more under Frank Solich and they fired him. None have stadiums named after them to my knowledge.

National championships? Try not to laugh. A perfect season? Nope. Charming personality? Bob Knight is more cuddly. Incredible graduation rate? Something like half his players can read at a third grade level.

In 17 years at K-State Bill Snyder won less conference titles than the law of averages would predict.

Wow.

So what’s the deal then? Well, it’s really quite simple. K-State sucks. K-State has sucked for decades. It’s a land grant school with 60% dudes and an incoming average ACT that unbelievably is nearly 2 points lower than its, “We take anyone” in-state rival. Each year, there are about the same number of attractive women at K-State (20), as American Indians and non-athlete blacks — combined. “Diversity” at K-State is considered to be the guys who plant cotton or sunflowers. With crack academic courses such as goat breeding and field cultivating you can assume that nothing but the best and brightest Western Kansas farm boys will spend four to seven years drinking beer and delaying an inevitable return to the combine.

So who can blame them if they want to memorialize their pseudo-success, they’ve got nothing else in their history that doesn’t completely suck.

I do hope that we’ve conclusively destroyed the moronic, nearly incomprehensible myth that K-State has some level of football tradition that can be compared with KU basketball.

I have an off-season weakness for human vs. human Madden competition. While my skill has diminished significantly since the glory days when I didn’t have a job or wife, I still try to get in a few games when I’m not hunting. Amazingly, I’ve never seen the phenomenon that dn found during his 41 season of off-line play. Take a look.

40-37 Kansas in the 2008 Border War. Another stunning example of incompetent coaching by Gary Pinkel, and another notch on BF Mangino’s belt…

Joe Posnanski writes for the Kansas City Star and happens to be my favorite sports writer. His sense of humor makes me look like a crazy person because I’ll sitting at court or in a library laughing all by myself at the newspaper.

Anyway, he runs a blog that’s mostly about baseball. His most recent post includes this:

OK, it’s 5 a.m. in the Oakland Airport — yeah, 5 a.m., this is what I’m going through so I could meet Dave Eggers — and I am staring straight at one of those little mini-airport billboards for something called “Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley.” The Laser Eye’s spokesman of choice? Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell.

The billboard reads: “Best Arm, Best Vision. JaMarcus can throw 80 yards with accuracy. Dr. Gary Kawesch enhanced Jamarcus’ vision in July 2007.”

I have to wonder if, in retrospect, Dr. Gary and the good people at Laser Eye regret putting all their commercial faith in the church of Jamarcus Russell Accuracy. What’s he hitting these days, about 45 percent of his passes? I mean, the guy could overthrow Wyoming. I’m not saying they should have completely abandoned the whole JaMarcus sales strategy, I’m just thinking they could have toned down the accuracy part just a little bit, you know, maybe gone with something a little more subtle like, “Great Arm. Improved Vision. JaMarcus can throw 80 yards. And if you think he misses receivers now, you should have seen him BEFORE Dr. Gary Kawesch enhanced his vision. I mean, seriously, the guy was like almost blind. He kept calling Dr. Gary, ‘Al.’ At one point, he tried to eat one of our coasters because he mistook it for a delicious cinnamon bear claw. Believe us, it could have been a lot worse

The rest is equally funny.

XFL meets Hooters?  What could possibly go wrong with this idea?

If you follow sports at all you might want to check out this.

I’m heading out for yet another dove hunt in a couple of hours.  I’ll let you know how it goes.