Well, to the surprise of pretty much nobody the Heisman Trophy was awarded to Auburn's Cameron Newton tonight. It remains to be seen if the ongoing investigation surrounding his recruitment will allow him to keep it or not. For a family that to all outward appearances seems to be very close I just do not buy the idea that Cecil Newton was soliciting money from at least one university for his son to sign and 1) his son knew nothing about it 2) what would have cost one school $180,000 was given to another school free.
I want to make very clear that I have no evidence of any of the things I have already said or will say in the rest of this post, these are just the opinions of one guy that will probably be read by about 10 people at the most.
Going strictly be on-field performance I can find no fault with giving Newton the award, the kid had an amazing statistical season and lead an undefeated team to a berth in the national championship game. However, since sports do not exist in a vacuum I would not have voted for Cameron Newton. Like I said earlier, I do not buy the claim that he did not know anything about what went on with the pay-for-play scheme that was going on. So working from the stance that Newton knew about what was happening, he would have knowingly violated NCAA rules and therefore should have been ineligible to play. I feel that if Newton had been allowed to play all season and then yanked off the field just before the SEC championship game or the final regular season game against Alabama it very well could have lead to Auburn losing and the other players on the team who did nothing wrong would miss out on a chance to complete a dream season. Not allowing Newton to play would penalize a lot of innocent kids and that should not happen, BUT, the Heisman Trophy is an individual award and voting for another player would only penalize Cameron Newton who I believe was involved in the violation of NCAA rules. I think that withholding the ultimate individual award in college football would have been appropriate.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
An Explanation
I would like to take the opportunity to thank anyone who is actually reading this post. What I would like to do first is explain the title of this blog. 72 Hours of Bliss comes from my belief that if I was put in charge of the world things would be great for about 3 days before everything just went to crap.
I really don't have any specific agenda in creating this blog, I plan to use it as a way to comment on current news and events, express opinions, and I have the feeling the big one will be commenting on things that either piss me off or that I find funny.
To start off, I went to Wendy's to pick up dinner tonight and I encountered something that I had never seen or heard of at a fast food restaurant before. When I first pulled up to the drive thru speaker the guy taking orders asked me to wait a minute. Not all that unusual but the wait ended up being a little bit longer than normal and I was sitting with my window open, ready to order, and getting very cold. When I got up to the window the guy explained that they had just had a woman pull up and order 20 double stacks and it created a backlog for them. Who orders 20 hamburgers at once? How many people are you trying to feed? As far as I am concerned, if you need that much food you have two options which I will now list in order of preference:
1: Call ahead. You need to give restaurants advance notice if you are going to need an extreme amount of food. Think 6 foot party subs or a table of 25. I think that 20 hamburgers falls into the category of extreme amount of food that should be called in ahead of time.
2: Go inside. I can't be the only one who feels that the purpose of the drive thru window is to pick a number and move on so everybody can just get on with their day?
I really don't have any specific agenda in creating this blog, I plan to use it as a way to comment on current news and events, express opinions, and I have the feeling the big one will be commenting on things that either piss me off or that I find funny.
To start off, I went to Wendy's to pick up dinner tonight and I encountered something that I had never seen or heard of at a fast food restaurant before. When I first pulled up to the drive thru speaker the guy taking orders asked me to wait a minute. Not all that unusual but the wait ended up being a little bit longer than normal and I was sitting with my window open, ready to order, and getting very cold. When I got up to the window the guy explained that they had just had a woman pull up and order 20 double stacks and it created a backlog for them. Who orders 20 hamburgers at once? How many people are you trying to feed? As far as I am concerned, if you need that much food you have two options which I will now list in order of preference:
1: Call ahead. You need to give restaurants advance notice if you are going to need an extreme amount of food. Think 6 foot party subs or a table of 25. I think that 20 hamburgers falls into the category of extreme amount of food that should be called in ahead of time.
2: Go inside. I can't be the only one who feels that the purpose of the drive thru window is to pick a number and move on so everybody can just get on with their day?
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