Thought #1

Every good party is just one or two guests leaving away from devolving from a packed house to three dudes sitting on a couch watching the 11 p.m. Sports Center. You know how it goes, one person decides it's time to head out and it's a school bell just went off as people split for other venues. Well Nebraska may have just set off the school bell ending the Big 12's house party.

Thursday morning it was reported that Nebraska is going to ditch the Big 12 party for a better one in the Big Ten. Classic party upgrade. Sure they have enjoyed the Big 12 cookout, but they have an invite to a black tie affair up north where they are serving top shelf drinks and shrimp cocktail. So they politely slide out the back door and take off.

Of course just when that happens a few of the other guest start to remember they have a sweet beach bonfire to attend hosted by the Pac-10. It looks like once Nebraska makes its exit the Pac-10 will invite Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., and Colorado to their bonfire. One by one it seems those teams will dip out on the Big 12 cookout, leaving Baylor, Iowa St., Missouri, and both Kansas boys alone on the couch by 9, watching reruns of The Office.

Looks like with as those five sit there they will have two options. Should they call up and invite a bunch of underclassmen and try rekindle the party or do they get on the horn, abandon their own party, and try to find a better place to themselves? Either way, it seems that party will look very different in a short while.

Thought #2

When I was little I read a book called The Whipping Boy. The story was all about this kid that took the beating for the bad things that another kid did. Eventually the kid got fed up and took off, that's all I remember, but the point is I felt awful for the kid getting beat in the story for the other kid's wrong doings.

The University of Southern California had become the whipping boy Thursday for Pete Carrol, as the NCAA will reportedly ban their football program from post season play for two years and may force them to give up as many as 20 scholarships. 

Nice, it's not that Pete robbed a bank, found out the cops were on his tail, and split for Mexico leaving his partners to take the rap. No, Pete split for Seattle and left a totally innocent kid to take his punishment. He'll be sipping a $5 coffee while some kid in So Cal is doing time working at Wendy's because he lost his ride to an education at USC in order to punish Pete and Reggie Bush.

Now I know someone has to be punished here, I know someone has to take the beating for this crime. Here's a radical thought though, how about someone connected to the crime get punished?

Thought #3

The fall of grace has continued for Jeremiah Masoli Wednesday as he was officially kicked off the Oregon football team. This came following a report Monday that Masoli was cited on charges of possession of marijuana and following Masoli's pleading guilty to ripping off laptops and a guitar from a frat party.

Now granted you don't want a thief on your team, but even worse, you don't want a stupid thief. I mean it would be one thing if Jeremiah went George Clooney and ripped off some casinos via some elebortate scheme, but dude jacked a couple of Mac books and a Fender from a party. I mean seriously, I want to see a little more effort out of my team leader. I want to see blueprints drawn up, disguises put into effect, and rope used, lots of rope.