Mailbag questions
Friday, September 26, 2008
Linked above is LSU's newest demi-god, redshirt freshman quarterback Jarrett Lee playing beer pong. God bless LSU fans for pestering me until I linked this. True story, Ryan Perrilloux stopped playing beer pong because he had trouble reading the defenses.
Before we get rolling with some mailbag questions here's a look at the most interesting games for this weekend from over at Deadspin.
David writes:
Are you worried that ESPN's recent economic vote of confidence in the SEC could lead to the Conference's downfall? I'm glad CBS is keeping us safe. I hope Verne Lunquist is the breast plate protecting the SEC from ESPN's Sword of Democles.
I honestly don't think there's anything to worry about with the ESPN deal. I may be in the minority here, but I think what it does is solidify the SEC as the top conference in the country for the next decade. For several reasons.
1. High school kids are impressionable and want to be on television. The CBS and ESPN tag-team puts the SEC in every home in the nation on a regular basis. No matter where you live there will never be a big SEC game that won't be available anywhere in the nation. Period. For recruiting it's an unbelievable asset. Especially when you consider what the ESPN hype machine is going to be like for truly big games. The SEC has a real opportunity over the next decade to not just brand themselves as the A-league of college football, but to simultaneously rebrand other conference football games as an inferior product.
2. The recruiting arm's race for conferences just ended. SEC schools are going to have more money to spend than any other conference and that money is going to be spent competing with other SEC schools for the finest facilities in the land. The days of kids picking an ACC school or a Big Ten school over the SEC (for any reason other than geography) are finished. Truly finished.
3. Topless photos of Verne Lundquist are going to arrive in every top recruit's mailbox in the country. You may think those photos don't sway an 18 year old when it comes to picking a college, but you're dead wrong. The words voluptuous and Verne both begin with "V." You may think this is a coincidence. But, of course, you're a damn fool. I'm so glad the SEC created the Verne Lundquist/Ben Franklin topless photo exemption in the NCAA rulebook. It's like manna from heaven.
This leads me to the only backlash, you know how ESPN pimps ACC basketball like there was no tomorrow even when the basketball product isn't as good as other conferences? This could happen in the SEC. Granted the football is probably going to be better than the basketball in the ACC but look for the ESPN-fellation hate to arise.
Jessi writes:
Clay, what is Fox going to be for Halloween?
The only rule I've laid down for his mom is that he can't be one of those cute costumes. Like a pumpkin, or a puppy, or something of this nature. That's far too emasculating. This is the kind of thing where when he takes up ballet dancing as his college major, I'm going to pinpoint this as his downfall. Of course, my grandmother used to paint my fingernails when I was a kid and I turned out fine...right?
Anyway, Fox will be eight months old on Saturday and I've set out some potential costumes for him. I want eerie. His mom gets to make the final call because, "People judge me based on his costume, not you Clay." I'm open to suggestions.
Posted by Clay Travis at 5:01 PM
 
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