Rich Rodriquez would be pleased to know he was being compared to ol’ you-know-who.

And upon descending from the plane in his first visit to the U.S. and upon seeing the crowds this past Sunday, Hitler remarked, “Well, shoot… I must be more popular than Jesus”.

Honestly. Where the hell does all this all come from? We are obviously obsessed with the man at every level and extent of our culture to where that sweet, lisping grandfatherly figure you see pictured felt compelled to play the Hitler card over the weekend in the context of….. Michigan’s football program? Either that or we are just too damn lazy and dumbed-down to make any cogent and relevant analogies any longer.

Good lord, people. Enough!

The details (and reader comments, of course) here from Deadspin

Quote of the Day

“I asked a question. When you can’t ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me.” - Joe the Plumber

"Now, the well-to-do elites who run the Democratic Party — and their surrogates — greet these people with brickbats. They insult them, talk down to them, and even try to destroy them. Isn’t that the sort of war on the working class that Democrats are always accusing those greedy and heartless Republicans of waging?"

That from Ruben Navarrette Jr. who also opines here on the dogged determination of the press to look into every facet of Joe Wurzelbacher's life but not execute due diligence regarding Obama's ties to less savory characters like Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers.

H/T: InstaGlenn

"And so it was written in desert dust for the followers of The One to obey so that they may enter the Promised Land."

Resolved:
…. Since it looks like its going to go down as the polls might indicate… to have as much fun as humanly possible in the next two plus weeks and beyond. Because if you thought having a dim bulb from Texas in office for 8 years was a hoot just think how much fun 4 (8?) is going to be with a infanticidal socialist running the works.

Remember, dissent is patriotic

And on a related topic of elections, dissent, looting and parasites, KT has an excellent post on the book that had a profound impact on our world view when we read it a year or two out of Seminary.

Quote of the Day

ESPN’s excellent and under-utilized, Eric Kuselias on the radio this afternoon:

“The three worst words in sports: Dr. James Andrews.”

Kuselias was speaking in reference to the New Orleans Saints’ Reggie Bush’s visit to the famed doctor scheduled for tomorrow in Atlanta as it appears Bush tore the meniscus in his left knee in today’s 30-7 loss to the Carolina Panthers which may sideline him for 2-4 weeks. We wish Reggie the best and a speedy recovery.

The obligatory (the real) Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live post (fixed?)

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And if these still don't play, please go here.

Programming Alert

We’re off to Vegas this coming weekend for our annual late October Breeder’s Cup/college football/pro football challenge weekend. We’ll be staying at the Excalibur but depending on the Excal’s sports book, we may be commuting down to the South Point which, in our humble opinion, remains the best sports book in Vegas.

And we want to use this opportunity to announce the unveiling of the first ever BwD general election guide which will be rolled out later this week. Primary focus will be lent to the local and state propositions that are on the ballot. Stay tuned.

Finally, B-Daddy has some words of wisdom regarding the mortgage meltdown and you know who that will never see broad circulation before Nov. 4.

A hopeless attempt at playing catch-up on college football coverage

Just when you stopped worrying and learned to love the (zone read) spread option offense, Gary Danielson, former Purdue quarterback and current CBS college football analyst says its dead.

A while back we wrote of how Rich Rodriguez’s arrival in Michigan from West Virginia with the spread option offense represented the full mainstreaming of that offense into college football culture and how it would continue the trend of other schools mimicking the offense.

In addition to “big boys” such as Oklahoma and Florida using this set as their primary offense, Auburn has adopted it also this year but with disastrous results. 4-3 Auburn’s HC, Tommy Tuberville fired his offensive coordinator Tony Franklin last week.

But no matter, we figured this offense to represent a seismic shift in offensive philosophies across the country and the type of athletes that were recruited to a) run it and b) defend it. We thought we saw the future during the 2006 Rose Bowl when a 7-point favorite USC and their fast, free-flowing defense simply did not have an answer for uber-athlete QB Vince Young running the Texas Longhorn offense out of the spread option set.

We envisioned a move away from the traditional power running game and the vertical passing game to this more horizontally-oriented multi-faceted attack. 300 lb. defensive linemen were out and a front seven that averaged between 220 and 260 lbs. and which could all run 4.5s was going to be in.

Or perhaps not. Not that Danielson necessarily thinks it’s a gimmick but rather, much like the veer and triple option-type attacks that have been used by the service academies over the years to compensate for a lack of size and speed, the spread option has been used by non-traditional powers to vault themselves into the national spotlight. See: Missouri and West Virginia. And lack of talent is something that the traditional powers should not have a problem with. Here’s Danielson:

"Instead of teams going more to it, I think you'll see teams going to it as part of an offense. The top schools can get the best talent. For them, there's no need to do it ... I love it as a part of my package, not as the only package."

And for a system that is so reliant on the quarterback, Danielson doesn’t think the risk is worth the reward:

"Still, it's somewhat of a high-wire attack, and as West Virginia has learned recently, when you're quarterback (Pat White) gets nicked, you lose your passing game and a good part of your running game. You go away from that, and it's not a great fit.
"When an Alabama, LSU or Ohio State falls (from their offensive scheme), they land on the sidewalk, brush off the scratch and walk away. When a Missouri, Kansas or West Virginia falls from the high wire, they break their legs. You've got to have more that you can do."

Danielson claims he saw his own version of the future earlier this season when the spread option jumped the shark.

"The spread officially peaked (early this season) when I saw Michigan spread out and running a fake snap count, (with the quarterback) looking to the sideline, trying to fool Miami of Ohio ... which Michigan used to just line up and run over."

We respect Danielson quite a bit and think he is a very good analyst and while we don’t think that we’ll ever see a program like USC, for instance, go with the spread option as its primary set, we still think that as defenses continue to load up with speed and athleticism, offenses will need an effective counter by which a well-run spread option offense will affect.

Story here.

Friday, Oct. 17 2008

Just missed sunset last night at LaJolla cove but caught some of the afterglow with these odd cloud patterns that were rolling in from the water. Is this Santa Ana breaking? Doesn't necessarily feel like it this morning.

Not necessarily waiting for the other shoe to drop

Well, that didn’t take long. Suit’s debate opponent, Joe the Plumber owes back taxes, doesn’t even possess a plumber’s license and is in danger of being denied practicing his trade in hand, altogether. Fat chance now on ever owning that plumbing business which is poor Joe’s idea of the “American Dream”. Clueless Joe… what was this guy thinking by having the audacity to question Suit’s tax plan? Didn’t he get the message about what happens when you are not fully prostrate before The One. Trust us, we are running as fast as we can in the opposite direction if we are ever within eye-shot of Suit.

Of course, Joe experiences the misfortune of being an American citizen (as far as we know) and not an illegal alien whereby an impenetrable lead shield would’ve protected Clueless Joe from a righteously dogged media.

As it is, we suppose we’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for the truth squad to get around to reporting-out on some tax problems of Suit’s very own campaign treasurer.

H/T: Hot Air

Potatos

The walking, talking gaffe-meister, Sarah Palin, was at it again out on the campaign trail. It must be that Alaska public education that makes it difficult to count on one hand. Video here.

Rhymes with “sacrifice”, “moving the runner over” and “small ball”

When we sat down and pondered what these people had to say, it really made us examine who it was we were voting for and why. We think, “reconsider” may be too strong of a word but they do make a very compelling case, and besides, a vote for McCain would be the ultimate in selfish and self-serving behavior and we don’t think that’s something anyone wants hanging over their head.

"Think about it. With Barack Obama in office, assholes like us will fade into a distant unpleasant memory. Don't get us wrong, we'll still be hanging around, probably as junior staffers in some federal arts agency. But you have our word on it -- we'll be practically invisible. No more C-word t shirts, no more intersection blockades, no more vandalism until the next election cycle. Nosirree, we'll be timid and well-behaved and quiet as church mice, working away on grant proposals. We think you will also be pleased to know that under Obama, negative news stories and the steady flow of shitty anti-American war movies will virtually disappear overnight."

More from these followers of M.T. Suit over at Iowahawk’s joint.