(Get) A Sporting Life

I know the BCS is always complete and utter shit, but it still rankles that Illinois and Kansas get BCS berths while Mizzou is stuck in a total crapola non-BCS Cotton Bowl with unranked(!) Arkansas. It is small consolation that the game is a New Years Day game that will feature the two best players in college football this year. It is a ridiculously boring matchup and Missouri deserved better. It especially sucks that Kansas gets rewarded for their special-Olympics style schedule (although one could say the same about Ohio State as well.) It says something when the number one team in the nation can lose its conference title game to the team that ends the season at #4 in the BCS, and the former #1 drops entirely out of the BCS series matchups. It says the entire system is a joke and Ohio State and LSU aren't really playing for dick. UPDATE: This is from Burwell at the PD : Of course it doesn’t make sense. You know it, I know it, even the doofuses who continue to perpetrate this idi...

"Wha? Oh, Mel Kiper here dudes. The Illini will win seven. No, eight. No, seven. Hey, man, no fair. Stop bogarting the Doritos." The Goat checked in with an assessment of the 2007 Illini: I think the people who are picking Illinois to win 7 games are completely stoned. Not that our non-conference schedule is anything tough but for the first time I can remember, we play Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St, Wisconsin and Iowa in the same season. The two conference teams not on our schedule this season are Michigan St. and Purdue. We've had two fantastic recruiting classes but that also means we're young in a couple of areas so I think it's much more fair to expect 7 wins out of the team next season. We do return 9 starters from a defense that was much improved last season and watch out for incoming Freshmen (Martez Wilson - linebacker and D'Angelo McCray - defensive line). Our offense should be better. Keys are obviously Juice Williams and Rashard Mendenhall. Mend...