The Results

What a season everyone! Sorry I've it's taken me awhile, I got sidetracked a few times. Louis led the bowl game challenge with 11 correct picks. But as you recall, the race for first place was between Southern Sweetheart and Will (both of them had 85 correct picks by the end of the regular season).

Well guess what? They both had 9 correct picks during the bowl game to finish with 94 so it came down to the final score of the BCS championship game to be the tiebreaker.

As you recall, Florida scored 41 points while the Ohio State only mustered 14 points after 60 minutes of play.

So..

Will- 59
Southern Sweetheart- 67

Congrats to Will for becoming the winner of the first annual Summer of Dev College Football Pick'em Contest! Your frame will be displayed until the end of March Madness and you have also earned rights to prognosticating during the contest next season!

All the Marbles

After predicting Texas winning the big game last year, I'm gonna go with Florida winning by 3.

#4

It looks like Gamecocks receiver Sidney Rice is declaring for the NFL draft. I'll be honest, I was pretty bummed when I first heard the news. He didn't produce as much this year, but NFL scouts are probably drooling over this 6'4" receiver whose physical play and hands naturally come down with the ball. I was pumped about this kid after watching him play in the football state championship (I say football because he also led Gaffney to a basketball state championship too). I was surprised when we redshirted him, but we have coaches to make that type of decision.



Like I said, the news got me down at first. I started wondering are we going to experience another year of 'damn, I wonder how we would have been if he stayed?' similar to this season after the early departures of Jonathan Joseph and Ko Simpson. But then I figured that USC will never really have to worry about the offensive side of the ball with Spurs calling the shots. If you follow recruiting you should know that we have a stellar receiving corp about to enroll, and a few of them are of similar height. Will they have the same type of hands? Who knows? My .02 is just that if they are ready to play, then let them. There isn't much sense is wasting a redshirt year on a skills player that will probably leave after their sophomore or junior year. Anywho, as long as Spurrier doesn't take the joint Miami Dolphins/University of Miami job then we'll be fine. Good luck Mr. Rice.

hi.

Woah, yall still here?

Good to know. Sorry I've been slack.. I've been on a voyage of self-discovery (which could arguably be described as just a search for edible garbage). Plus, you guys know how busy this time of year is at the office. I'll give a brief recap of some the going-ons for the past month.

Christmas was great. I went to a handful of tacky themed parties which I had previously never attended. I guess that honor is reserved for 25 year olds and up. I didn't get dress socks like I always ask for, but did receive alot of other loot to be discussed later.

New Year's Eve was perfect and has kicked off an already-fulfilling 2007. Personally, I found 2006 a little bland. My crowning achievement was passing part one of the national boards exam, but other than that I didn't check off many items on my list of goals. I completed my 2006 resolution of not listening to the song 'Photograph' by Nickelback. I renewed that resolution for another year and also added ThatDamnRascalFlattsSong(tm) to the list.

Anyway, the pickem contest finishes with tomorrow night's BCS championship game. So I guess this place can finally get back to its abnormal self. Future topics include:

-Daddy gets a new pair of shoes
-Tripp gets a haircut
-The Educated Epicurean
-Growing up, instead of wider