Blither, blither

The cold crispies of January are here. We should have lows in the teens for the next few days. New Years is over and it will be more difficult to convince Cindy and
Kate that there are football games on television which are worth watching. The inmates have taken over the asylum with NBA players bringing guns to lockerrooms and college football players at UT being arrested for gun possession.

If college is a place for children to take that turn into adulthood, then perhaps we need to wholesale reconsider who gets to go to college. What would happen if we just eliminated all the money which is used in our universities for athletics? I know that may seem odd from a former college football player, but really, this is getting way out of hand.

And it doesn't seem to get any better. At least Plexico Burrus only shot himself. On the other hand, I distinctly remember noticing all of the building that went on at UGA after the football team won the national championship. I know it may be a bit cynical, but it seemed that the university really got into the building program after the football team won the national championship and the basketball team made it to the final four. Of course, the economy was strong and the HOPE scholarship program was bringing more students to the public universities in Georgia, but that might just present a wash.

Well, on Thursday we get a new national champion, although we won't really know that for sure if TCU beats Boise State (the smurfs). That would leave three undefeated teams and as a pundit for ESPN said yesterday, "Exactly who is the best college football team in Texas?"

If Texas and TCU win their bowl games can we have a final game between them at Texas Stadium? Perhaps the proximity to Fort Worth would give TCU a better chance against the state university in Austin. It would be like the good old days of the forties, fifties and sixties when the schools of the Southwest Conference vied for supremacy in college football. They all had their moments. Perhaps this is the time for them to reform their league, although I do like Arkansas in the SEC. Just make a new league with only the Texas schools and all those Texans and former Texans can fight it out over who is the best in the "best" state. Let the football players in such football states as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and California and everyone else, play for their own national championship, the "non-Texas championship."

I know some unreconstructed Texans who would probably go along with that.