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December 02

My Answer to the BCS Championship Game

Note, as conferance championships are determined and the rankings are finallized, I am going to update this post.
 
Well thanks to the OSU - Michigan game, and West Virginia - Cincinnati playing later tonight.  I have been thinking of the BCS Bowl Games and how it compares to a playoff system in college football.  I think I have been in favor of a playoff system in the past, but I think the bowl system work.  It just needs fine tuning.  Here is my thoughts on the subject.  There are 11 Division I-A conferances in college football.  Based off of a quick glance at ESPN, there are the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Mid American, Mountain west, Pacific 10, SEC, Sun Belt, and WAC Conferances.  So lets have a 6 bowl game system which features the conferance champion of each conferance plus either the highest rated independent school, or if they all suck, the highest ranked non champion. 
 
The BCS National Championship game would feature the two highest ranked conferance champions.  Ideally they should be ranked as #1 and #2.  I mean, if you don't win your conferance, how should you expect to be in the national chapionship game?  Also, take out the human polls.  Base the rankings on the computer scores.  Last year I was pumped for a OSU/Michigan rematch in the national championship game.  But how messed up would it be to reconize OSU as the Big Ten Champion and Michigan as the National Champion?  That type of thing would just make the conferance championship somewhat meaningless.  The rest of the bowl games should feature the rest of the conferance champions either based on thier rank, or just by a lottery process.  So this would add 1 more BCS bowl.
 
Now in the case of conferances like the Big Ten who can have co-champions.  Either they get a conferance championship game, have tie breaking proceedures based on heads up play, or the BCS will reconize the highest ranked "co champion" as the BCS reconized champion for that conferance.
 
Here are the current list of conferance champions (CPU rank, Current BCS rank):
ACC - Virginia Tech (#1, #3)
Big 12 - Oklahoma (#6, #4)
Big East - West Virginia (#10, #9)
Big Ten - Ohio State University (#3, #1)
Conference USA - UCF (Unranked)
Mid American - Miami (Unranked)
Mountain west - Brigam Young (#19, #17)
Pacific 10 - Could not find
SEC - LSU (#2, #2)
Sun Belt - Florida Atlantic (Unranked) (Florida Atlantic won the conference's automatic bowl bid through a tiebreaker by virtue of its head-to-head victory against Troy.)
WAC - Hawaii (#12, #10)
Independent OR Highest Ranked Non Conferance Champion - Missouri (#4, #6)
 
And based on the CPU rank, here would be your money game.
BCS Championship Game: Virginia Tech vs LSU
 
The other 10 teams would play in other bowl games.

What do you think?

November 05

Meh

So I thought I would say hello once again to my blog. I have been extreamly busy recently. Here are a few short blurps if you are intrested.

Been looking for a house or new apartment.

Movies have been so-so lately. The only movies I would write a review about are "300", "The Bourne Ultimatium" and "Transformers". See those if you havenn't already.

I watched the Bills beat up on the Bengals yesterday. Lynch made a fantastic run during the game.

That's all for now. Later!
September 04

My Fiance

Jessica is my fiance. She is simply amazing & I want to tell everyone about it - I want to scream it from the roof-tops. Party  I honestly don't know how I got so lucky finding a girl as intelligent, talented, and gorgeous as she is. And did I mention that I basically robbed the cradle with this one? She's only 22 & she's in the hottest sorority on campus...and you know that Kentucky girls are the best.
 
Although she is extremely high maintenance (she requires manicures and pedicures on alternating weekends) and quite fussy at times (I should never deprive her of her Saturday "me nights"), I know that she is worth the extra effort. Even though she burns home-cooked meals and refuses to take lessons, it doesn't matter. One day she will be a highly paid doctor of anesthesiology and she can pay someone else to slave away in that unkown territory we know as the kitchen.
 
I love her! That's my Story and I'm sticking to it!
 
-JZ
 
 
 
 
March 22

300 Review

This review is a few weeks due.  I really want to tell you how great the movie is and you should go see it.  I will expand on this when I can.

But the short take is... go see it.  You will be glad you did.

I am trying to get back on the blogging horse.
January 22

Inconvenient Truth

The only inconvenient truth in this story is that they will need to UPS in snow shovels to Arizona.

  

Read the story here.
January 19

Cancel

Good read on cancelling memberships online.  Click Here to read the article.
January 10

House votes to increase the minimum wage.

Great, so over the next two years minimum wage is going to increase by $2.10.  That's fantastic news for those who keep their jobs.  The others that the companies can't afford to pay will be screwed as they have to hit the unemployment lines.  Walmart won't be hit as much as the small family owned companies.
 
The unemployment rate will go up, and the media will blame Bush as we get closer to 2008.  Hope you all enjoy the new congress you voted in who while voting for this won't see much of the blame.  You got to love the media.
December 27

President Gerald Ford starts his new life....

Fox News - Click Here
 
Can't say much about him as I did not follow him as much as other Presidents.  I do know he pardoned Nixon.  But he was a President non the less and should be remembered as he will be.  God speed sir.
December 18

300 Trailer

Check out the trailer for the new movie "300".  You can see it by clicking here.  I think it looks pretty good.
 
JZ
December 12

Merry Christmas

For My Democratic Friends:

"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or s ecular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her self or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."

For My Republican Friends:   

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

December 04

ATMs at risk?

Read the article, ATM system called unsafe, and deside for yourself.  As far as I am concerned, this could suck a lot.
November 26

It's called a V-Chip

I just read this short article on IMDBs WENN feed.  It's short, but if you read "Spielberg Blasts "Irresponsible" TV Industry".  Spielberg basically says that he is concerened with what is on TV.  He is concerned with his children seeing shows like CSI.  Well, I would suggest looking into something called the V-Chip Steven.  As far as I know, just about every TV made in the last 10 years has had one.  And also, just about every cable/satilite box also has the same type of featured installed.  You can block shows based on lots of criteria.  Rating, time of day, I think by channel and some more.  Parents have the power to monitor what thier children watches at home already.  So parents like Steven Spielburg should educate themselves on the simple features of thier own TVs before trying lecuture parents on what they should and should not do with thier children.
November 07

Coming soon

I'm back, and ready to take on the world.... politics, pop culture, sports... you name it.  I will give my thoughts.  Look for some sort of post here soon.
 
JZ
April 08

New Photos Posted

Long time no post.  Just to let you know.  If you know where my main website is, there are new photos from 2005 - 2006 posted.  Feel free to check them out.
November 08

Forest Park Sabres take second in the conferance

After some closer looking, it looks like I broke the 3 way tie of the division leaders I was with.  I now got second place overall in the conferance.  Something I think I should have had last week, but hey thats football.  The division leaders are bold, and the members of thier respected divisions are colored as such.  IITWI is holding on to the last wild card currently.
 
BLUE CHIP CONF. OVERALL DIVISION
  TEAM   W L T W L T
  *Troy Electrons 9 0 0 3 0 0
  Forest Park Sabres 7 2 0 3 0 0
  Koeller's Wild Bunch 6 3 0 2 1 0
  Mark's Maulers 6 3 0 3 0 0
  Trey's Buccaneers 6 3 0 2 1 0
  Doug's Fups 6 3 0 2 1 0
  Stadium Invaders 5 4 0 1 2 0
  Dryer's In-It-To-Win-It 5 4 0 2 1 0
  Scott's Scorpions 4 5 0 2 1 0
  Oxford Olympians 4 5 0 1 2 0
  Mongo's Longnecks 4 5 0 1 2 0
  Grants Grunts 3 6 0 1 2 0
  Ryan's Panthers 3 6 0 1 2 0
  Adams Raiders 3 6 0 0 3 0
  Wuest Whackers 2 7 0 0 3 0
  Dave's Horned Toads 1 8 0 0 3 0
               
  ** Clinched Division  * Clinched Playoff Spot  

Forest Park Sabres get some breathing room!!!

The Forest Park Sabres got some breathing room going 2 games over Dryer's In-It-To-Win-It.  After defeating the Wuest Wackers 53 to 41.5.  In-It-To-Win-It lost in a close contest, by 2 points, to the Doug Fups.  The Sabres are continuing thier most impressive season to in thier franchise history.
 
 
NORTHERN HILLS OVERALL DIVISION
  TEAM   W L T W L T
               
  Forest Park Sabres 7 2 0 3 0 0
  Dryer's In-It-To-Win-It 5 4 0 2 1 0
  Ryan's Panthers 3 6 0 1 2 0
  Adams Raiders 3 6 0 0 3 0
               
November 07

This story is too funny!!!

 
The mother in this story is funny as all hell.  Nuff said.

One more for the good guys

 
Sweet!!!!
 
Well the article says that it is the largest counter terrorism operation in Australia.  And that the opperation took a long time.  Wow, you can't just snap your fingers to battle terrorism, imagine that.  Australia has also never had an attack on its home soil, but they still are on the watch for it.  People here in the states can learn a thing or two from our Aussie pals.

Another attack on the religion!!!

 

So a residence advisor at a college decided to ban bible study groups in the dorms.  They used the separation of church and state as an excuse for this ludicrous action.  I can not believe that someone going to college would be so ignorant of what the separation of church and state is to imply.  I don't feel like going into it, but separation of church and state simply was intended to say that the church can not make law for the state.  It's not to say that the state can not recognized the church, or even make law based on church law if that is what the people vote for.  I wonder what religious group was having the meetings; I would put 50 bucks on a Christian organization.

You can never be too suprrised with Cali...

 
Wow, a school in California is not going to punish a student for broadcasting a porn on the school airwaves.  Not sure what I am more shocked by, the fact that a student had the nerve to show his fellow students what he is made of or not maybe.  Or the fact that the administration at this college don't want to get involved in punishing this students involved.  They figure let the students handle it themselves.  Yea, that worked so well so far.  I can imagine that this somehow violates some sort of student code of conduct.  Well, if you want to see University of California Girls Gone Wild, no need to wait for the DVD to come out.  The administration of this school is a joke.