Finally a Happy Trip to Corvallis

Today for the first time since 2003 I attended a sporting event in Corvallis and left happy. The Ducks beat the Beavers 76-73 to improve to 13-0. If they would have lost today I would have probably never set foot in Corvallis again. Next week we'll find out if the Ducks are for real when they face LA Schools.

I AM MAD

THE BEAVERS WON* (I'LL EXPLAIN THE ASTERISK IN A MINUTE) AND THAT MAKES ME MAD. I'M SITTING IN MY OFFICE AND PEOPLE WHO NORMALLY CHEER FOR THE DUCKS ARE CELEBRATING A BEAVER VICTORY*. ANY DUCK FAN WHO THINKS THAT THIS IS GOOD FOR THE STATE OF OREGON IS WRONG. THIS VICTORY* IS GOOD FOR OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY AND NO ONE ELSE. THIS HORRIBLE FOR FANS OF THE OREGON DUCKS, THIS IS OUR HATED RIVAL AND THEY WON* A BOWL GAME. THIS RUINS MY DAY!!!!

THE ASTERISK IS INTENDED FOR OREGON STATE FANS WHO HAVE STATED THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON DID NOT LEGITIMATLY BEAT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE AN ASTERISK NEXT TO THE WIN IN THE RECORD BOOK. THERE WERE FOUR BLOWN CALLS OR NO CALLS THAT WENT OSU'S WAY THAT SWUNG THE GAME IN THEIR FAVOR, HAD THOSE CALLS BEEN CALLED RIGHT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI WOULD HAVE WON THIS GAME. WHILE I DO BELIEVE THAT LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON AGAINST OKLAHOMA THE OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY BEAVERS LEGITIMATLY WON THIS GAME, I AM REQUIRED TO PUT AN ASTERISK NEXT TO IT UNTIL EVERY BEAVER FAN WHO TOLD ME THAT THERE SHOULD BE AN ASTERISK NEXT TO OUR VICTORY OVER OKLAHOMA RETRACTS THAT STATEMENT AND ADMITS THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SUCKS DID IN FACT BEAT THE OKLAHOMA SOONERS.

I HATE THE BEAVERS!!!!!

I FEEL BETTER NOW

Really Lame Oregon Football Joke of the Week

What's the difference between Ice Cream and the Oregon Football team?

Ice Cream looks good in a bowl!

Gerald Ford: 1913-2006

Former President of the United States Gerald Ford passed away this evening. Ford was was 38th President of the United States and was the only President not to be elected to national office. He was appointed vice president after the resignation of Spiro Agnew by President Richard Nixon and became president after President Nixon's resignation in August of 1974. His presidency lasted only 895 days and is best remembered for the pardon of President Nixon, an unpopular move at the time that probably cost him the election in 1976 but history shows that the pardon was the right thing to do as it allowed the country to move forward. Ford restored honesty and integrity to the White House and brought the Nation back together after the embarrassment of Watergate. On a personal note the President of the United States on the day that I was born (January 10, 1977) was Gerald Ford.

Information from AP report on President Ford's passing was used for this post

My Christmas Present

For Christmas I a got a new set of Duck sweats from my parents, they are exactly the ones I wanted. I think they look great, but my girlfriend thinks that I look like a "tool" and will not be seen in public with me when I wear both the jacket and the pants. I want to wear the sweats to the Oregon-UCLA basketball game that we're going to in a week and a half but she doesn't think I should. What do you guys think?

Luke 2:1-20

The Birth of Jesus

1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register.

4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

The Shepherds and the Angels

8And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ^[a] the Lord. 12This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

13Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

15When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

16So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

Dennisdailyrant.com National Championship Tournament Semifinals

Here's the semifinal results

Game One:

Louisville 21 Florida 17


Game Two:

Ohio State 31 USC 28

One Year Ago Today

It was one year ago today that I started this crazy thing called blogging.

Dennisdailyrant.com National Championship Tournament Second Round

Before I get to the results of my dream tournament I want to congratulate the following schools; Appalaichan State (1-AA), Grand Valley State (D2) and Mount Union (D3). The three schools won national titles in football this weekend. All three of them advanced through there respective playoff brackets and were crowned National Champions, now if only division 1A could get it right. Now the second round results.

Ohio State 34 Boise State 17
USC 28 LSU 24
Louisville 35 Michigan 31
Florida 21 Wisconsin 17

The semifinal games will be played next week.

Ohio State vs USC
Florida vs Louisville

Why do I make stupid bets?

Several months ago I made a bet with the CEO of the credit union in which I work for. The bet was if the Ducks won the civil war he would have to wear a duck shirt to work the follwing Monday, if the rodents won I would have to wear a Beaver shirt to work. Since the Ducks didn't have a kicker that day they lost. The following Monday I made good on the bet, it was perhaps the most humiliating experience of my life. I know it's a couple weeks late but here's the picture to prove it.

DennisDailyRant.com National Championship Tournament First Round Results

The first round results and for eight teams it's on to the quarterfinals.

Ohio State 48 Troy 13

Boise State 28 Auburn 24

LSU 27 BYU 10

USC 35 Wake Forest 7

Louisville 45 Notre Dame 17

Michigan 21 Houston 13

Wisconsin 24 Oklahoma 21

Florida 24 Central Michigan 10

The second round matchups are as follows:

Ohio State vs Boise State
USC vs LSU
Louisville vs Michigan
Wisconsin vs Florida

Sports Fans Can be Delusional

Sports fan often have unrealistic expectations of their teams, for example before this football season I said the Duck were going to finish 10-2 and compete for a BCS bowl. Often message boards are place we go to share our unrealistic expectations. It's also where we go after every loss to complain about our teams. I myself frequently post on educk which is a duck site with message boards. Today while reading educk I came across a link to a post from a fan on a USC message board, now I thought sometimes I get a little upset after a Duck loss but I have nothing on this guy. The following comes courtesy of TrojanAl a delusional USC fan, I think think this guy needs to relax after all USC is ranked in the top 10 and will be playing in the Rose Bowl.

TrojanAl
12-5-06 9:58 AM
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I have analyzed the loss and there clearly has to be some changes made. There is no way that ucla team should have been able to hang with us. Yes, I know that the refs did everything they could to give the game to them, but we still should have pulled through it.

1) Someone has to pay for that loss. You can't just let something like this go without setting an example. Carroll knows who is most at fault and he knows which coach is most expendable. He needs to take action against that person. If it is Kiffin, fine, if it is the oline coach, fine, if it is the d coach who let the ucla qb run all over the field (did our coaches learn NOTHING form texas?) fine. Once the other coaches see that their job is on the line, they will NEVER let this happen again. They have become complacent with all the success and have lost their edge. Time to shake them up.

2) As part of the first point, no more hiring coaches because they are friends or relatives of others. Nepotism is the fastest way to bring down the program that I can think of. Trojan coaches should be hired based on their coaching resume, and nothing else. The players and the fans deserve that. We also need to bring in more REAL Trojans as coaches. Bringing in bRuins and others will undermine the program from within.

3) Booty looked like a deer in the headlights all day. Time to let Sanchez start. He was the NUMBER ONE qb in the country and everyone says he is the real leader we need on the field.

4) We need to recruit harder. I thought there was no way ucla could stay with us because we have all talent and they have no talent. I was wrong. We need to recruit players that are so much better than them that mentally the bRuins will be intimidated before the game even starts. It is time to distance us from them talent wise.

5) Someone needs to "coach" our players on how to respond to the media. I am sick of reading in the times quotes from our players about how "ucla just flat out outplayed us." Get a grip. No one outplays us. The result was a combination of things but ucla didn't beat us.

I have already called Garrett's office to let him know where we need to go from here. If you want to call him about the game, his number is:

(***) ***-****

Remember, if you don't let him know how you feel then you have no right to complain if things continue to go sour.

Trojan Al - esteemed graduate of the generally accepted most ELITE academic institution in the ENTIRE nation - USC entering GPA average a PERFECT 4.0 ( above sister school Stanford), SAT average an astronomical 1370 (towering above fast falling ucla and football factory notre dame, from Princeton Review), ACT average an extraordinary 30 (soaring above academic dinosaur cal, from Princeton Review), and Community Involvement Quotient average 5AA (above Harvard the "USC of the east" ), Time Magazine "Best ACADEMIC University of the Year", ZERO recruits who had to be held back TWO FULL GRADESCHOOL YEARS like the ones at notre dame, and wonderlic scores way above public school texas whose smartest player only got a 4!...and in last four years winner of four national STUDENT-athlete recruiting titles!

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A BCS in Basketball? Why not?

Since the BCS and the bowl system as a whole has worked so well for college football, why not implement a similar system in college basketball? Instead of a 64 team tournament, we could have about 75 or so individual exhibition games across the country. These games would have corporate sponsorship and the matchups for these games would be determined by conference tie-ins. For example the fifth place team from the Pac 10 could play the sixth place team from the Big 12 in Boise Idaho in the Myspace.com game. There would also be a series of bigger more prestigious games, this is where the champions of the Power conferences would play, there would also be a handful of at-large teams selected to play in these games. Two teams would be selected to play in the National Championship game, those teams would be determined by a system which includes several computers, the coaches poll and a poll comprised of former coaches, players and administrators. By only extending the season by one game the players would miss less class time, more fans would be able to travel to see their team play and more teams would be able to finish the season on a winning note. Sounds like a perfect system to me.


Please note: The author of this blog deos not actually believe that there should be a BCS type system in college basketball. This post is meant to point out how ridiculous collge football's post season is. If you were unable to catch the sarcastic tone in this post, I would suggest that you read a different blog.

The Second Annual DennisDailyRant.com National Championship Tournament

Since my first national championship tournament last was a smashing success I have decided to bring the tournament back for another year. The format is the exact same as last year, the eleven division 1A conference champions and five at large teams will fill the tournament bracket. I have seeded the teams 1-16. The first round games will take place on December 9, second round on December 16, semifinals on December 23 and the DennisDailyRant.com National Championship game presented by Michelob Amber Bock will take place on January 1, 2007. Here are the eight First round matchups.

1. the Ohio State (Big Ten) vs 16. Troy(Sun Belt)
8. Boise State (Wac) vs 9. Auburn (at large)

4. LSU (at large) vs 13. BYU (Mountain West)
5. USC (Pac 10) vs 12. Wake Forest (ACC)

6. Louisville (Big East) vs 11. Notre Dame (At large)
3. Michigan (At large) vs 14. Houston (Conference USA)

7. Wisconsin (At large) vs 10. Oklahoma (Big 12)
2. Florida (SEC) vs 15. Central Michigan (MAC)

USC Cheerleader Cheers for Wrong Team-Again!

This video is courtesy of michiganzone.net .

UCLA 13 USC 9

Just as Joanne said they would UCLA beat USC today, that eliminates USC national title consideration. That leaves Florida and Michigan left, my guess is that will probably be Michigan even though it should be Florida. Florida played a much tougher schedule than Michigan and they actually won their conference! Plus do we really need an Ohio State-Michigan rematch. If Michigan were to win, should they really be National Champs? After all Ohio State did already beat them once. Here's an idea, if Michigan does win the rematch they should have to play Ohio State a third time and that would decide who the national champion is. Another question I have is, why not Boise State? They're undefeated! As I've said before the BCS is a joke and we need a PLAYOFF!

Team Scores 201 points in Basketball Game

NCAA Division III Lincoln State College beat Ohio State Marion 201-78 in a basketball game today. It set a division III scoring record, the all time record is 258 held by then Division II troy in 1992.

Team Sets DIII Scoring record

Not the Smartest Girl

When I first saw this picture back in January I thought it was so funny that that I had to post it on my blog. Today I came the picture again with some text added and I still think it's funny.