With the open date For Texas Tech Football, we get to bring back the Saturday Column With No Name. We missed it. We’re glad it’s back and can’t wait for your comments and additions to our weekend thinking. So let’s get to it. And if you do have a great name for the column, fire away in the comments below.
- What if nobody in College Football is good? Each week we hear the experts opine that such-and-such team looks good; but who have they played? Texas Tech looks great, but who have they played. At a certain point part of this reflects the idea that nobody wants to give any credit to any team that isn’t a “chosen” team before the season starts. When Texas Tech plays at Houston next Saturday, it will be after a week of folks saying, “Well, who has Tech played? What do we really know about Utah? Are they good?” And then when Tech beats Houston, folks will say, “Ya, that’s a nice road win, but who is Houston? They struggled at Oregon State!” At some point, at this time of the season, folks have to let go of the preseason narratives and be able to look at a team on it’s own merit and say that that team is good. Not just Texas Tech, but all around college football. By the way, it’s this mindset, the inability to breakthrough preseason thinking, that Vegas and now other places prey on and make money off of folks. When they ask Who Have They Played, be smart enough to see and appreciate a good team when you see it. You’ll be ahead of the crowd.
- We all love what Bruce Bochy, Hall of Fame manager for the Texas Rangers has done for the franchise. It’s time to make a change. Please, do it nicely Sunday and allow Bochy a moment in the sun. But under no circumstances should Bochy be back next year. This club has to rethink who they are offensively and who they want to pay or not pay going forward. It’s time for a new direction and perhaps a younger manager. The Rangers have to decide if they’re gonna play to the park and create a team that wins via Small Ball, or deal with a team that had a 1.5 ERA run differential home to road. Biggest in the majors this year. Either way, build Bochy a nice statue, hang a banner for him and then allow the franchise to move forward. At least the Cheatin’ Astros didn’t win the division!
- The Ryder Cup is great, but we can make it better. As the American side is getting boat-raced again by the Euros, things need to change. Here’s three things we think can make this one of the greatest sporting events on the world stage every two years. 1. All players have to pay to play. They’re all multimillionaires. They not only pay all their own expenses, they put up 100K bucks each, winning side takes all. Golf is gambling and the Ryder Cup could benefit from the Ultimate Skins Match every two years. 2. The golfers should not only be allowed to drink beer during the matches, they should be required to. The Ryder Cup has turned into a Drunk Fest. We’re here for it. The golfers have to match the galleries drink for drink. Each hole a duo loses or in singles, got to buy the crowd a drink. Pay up, Butter Cup. 3. Finally, we need to make this matter to our Governments. Each year, the losing side has to cede territory. That’s right. If America wins, we get some land in Scotland or Sweden or where ever. Not a lot. Maybe just a golf course or two comes under American rule. If they Euros win….they get El Paso or Chicago. Good luck with that, Ludvig!
Thanks for hanging out with us for a few minutes on a Saturday. Fire away with your own thoughts in the comments. We’ll see you in the morning with our 5 Things We Know On A Sunday column.
Hyatt
