Random Thoughts Before Christmas

One of our photographers (Steve) asked me Friday night, “Hey Schick, when are you going to update your blog? You good-for-nothing, glasses-wearing fool.” I added that last sentence for dramatic effect. He never said it.

Here goes:

• More than 30 Florida State players will be suspended from the Music City Bowl for an academic cheating scandal. Improprieties at FSU? Wait a second… I gotta sit down.

• Bill Randby is a Florida State grad. Interesting….

• Proponents of the BCS system argue that a college football playoff would diminish the importance of the bowl games. As I write this I realize I’m missing the 3rd quarter of the New Orleans Bowl. I’d better make this quick.

• This past week, more than a half-dozen high school football players decommitted from Nebraska. You have to wonder if Bill Callahan was selling kids on the staff, or the school.

• Nebraska will most likely finish outside the top-25 in recruiting, according to recruiting websites. That’s tough to hear, especially since those rankings are always spot on.

• How did the Huskers do in the three seasons following that top-5 class in 2005? Oh.

• The Wolverines finally got their coach this week, hiring Rich Rodriguez. Somewhere, Steve Pederson was privately hoping that Michigan’s month-long search would go into 2008.

• A lot of major league players who were mentioned in the Mitchell Report have said they only used steroids “once or twice”, and did it “to heal.” Oh, then that’s okay guys. Why didn’t you say that in the first place? You’re forgiven.

• You know what else holds water? “I committed infidelity, but it was only once, and it was only because I was really mad my wife.” Way to go, fellas.

• My New Year’s resolution will be to blog more often.

• That being said, it’s still 2007 and I’m not going to worry about that just yet.