COLLEGE BALL IS BACK!!!

So, I know it's been ages and ages since I last blogged -- it's been a crazy year for sure. I'm blissfully happy right now sitting on the couch with a cold beer in my hand watching Carolina and the Wolfpack open up the 2009/2010 season (go Gamecocks!). I'm excited to see what Greg McElroy will do this year, but disappointed that Bama scheduled nothing but cupcake out-of-conference games this year. How is the Tide going to contend when it doesn't have strength-of-schedule?!?

Oh well. What am I looking forward to this season?

Houston Knutt. That man is going to make the Rebs win more than just tailgates. I'm convinced. Hottie Toddie, Houston!

I hate that MS State let Sylvester Croom slip through their hands -- the man's a good coach, but no matter how good you are, you just can't recruit talent to Starkville, Mississippi (the name is very apropos) with Tuscaloosa a mere 86 miles away, and with the old money at Ole Miss outbidding you left, right and center. However, Dan Mullen definitely accomplished a lot down in the Swamp, so welcome to the West, Danny-boy, I wish you well...except on November 14. I don't wish you well on that day. But on all the others...yeah.

Lane Kiffin continuing to make an ass of himself. LMAO. At least Fat Phil's replacement is entertaining. The man is dumb. Not stupid -- stupid can be taught. There's just no helping dumb. I'm looking forward to more of his diarrhea-of-the-mouth. And beating the snot outta the Vols yet again on the Third Saturday In October.

From the looks of things thus far (just coming back from the half), Steve-o might actually do something with the Gamecocks this year. I mean, let's face it, if he doesn't, he might have to retreat back into the pros to avoid the humiliation. But Carolina's offense is looking hungry, and they're keeping the chains moving, despite what the scoreboard says (which is 7-0 USC at this point). It says a lot that I've been watching this entire game and can't really give you any opinion as to how the defense is looking in their season opener. They just haven't been on the field enough to evaluate them. Spurrier might consider running a few laps with his boys though -- he's put on a little weight since last season...must be all the barbeque from Maurice's....mmmmm, Maurice's! Man, I'm homesick.

Florida and LSU should be good this year, but no shocker there. I'm gonna miss Tommy but am interested to see how Chizik fills those shoes.

I WON'T be looking forward to the foaming-at-the-mouth-blind-irrational-raving-sidewalk-Georgia-fans (good GOD, they're almost as bad as those fools walking around in head-to-toe creamcicle orange cammo). I'm in Atlanta, so naturally, I'm surrounded by them. Doesn't make them any easier to tolerate though. Especially when they talk trash after their team JUST got their ass handed to them on a silver platter. Please don't misunderstand -- the people who actually ATTENDED UGA don't behave that way. It's the ones that have no more affiliation to the team than walking on the sidewalks on campus that get in your face and try to talk trash without any actual FACTS to back them up that annoy the crap outta me. But then I take solace recalling the mass exodus last year with 7 minutes left in the 4th because the Dawgs were so far behind the Tide they couldn't possibly catch up. And then I laugh at them for thinking that coordinating their outfits might actually help their chances of winning. Boy, don't they get their panties in a twist when you throw FACTS in their face....

And naturally, I'm LOVING the thought of another season of CRIMSON TIDE FOOTBALL!!! I'm incredibly stoked that my boys decided to come visit me in the A for their season opener, and will be cheering them on from inside the Dome (hey, if they're coming all the way from T-town just to see me, I can't possibly NOT go to the game). Still working on nabbing a ticket to the Carolina game since my Carolina girls will be headed up to Tuscaloosa (heyyyyyy Dani, Chrissy and Jen!!!), but I've got enough connections, and if necessary, enough money, to get my butt inside Bryant Denny, so I WILL be there. Trust.

Damn. NC State just picked off a pass from Garcia. I gotta get back to cheering on Carolina! And that was a BULLSHIT call on Carolina!! Pass interference MY ASS! Ok, I'll write more later, but right now I have to make sure my boys from my home state don't let some ACC joke make the SEC look bad...

ROLL TIDE!!!! BRING ON SOME 2009 FOOTBALL!!!