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ESPN’s Eliminator Challenge: How I Made it Through the First Four Weeks

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 4, 2012

When Colin Cowherd encouraged his listeners to play ESPN’s Eliminator Challenge, I decided to give it a whirl. I started doing because I figured it wouldn’t require much effort and because it sounded fun. Of course with my brain, I ended up taking the simple challenge and search for complexities. And given that I’ve made it four weeks while 90% of the pool has been eliminated, I’ll share the strategy that’s gotten me this far.

The Eliminator Challenge requires participates to pick one winner every week, but individual teams can only be picked once. For example, if one picked Chicago to beat Indianapolis Week 1, you can’t pick Chicago this week against Jacksonville, or any other week for the rest of the season.

In order to finish with a perfect entry, one will have to pick seventeen teams. Even if one were to know team records at the end of the season, the participant would still have to pick five teams that did not make the playoffs. (Personally, I’m figuring that I will end up picking at least seven non-playoff teams.) Last year, there was one 9-7 that didn’t make the playoffs (Tennessee) and seven 8-8, so one will essentially have to rely on a mediocre team winning at some point in the season. This doesn’t have to be restricting: last year, there were multiple spots where one would have been comfortable picking the 6-10 Panthers to win.

All this considered, I figured winning the pool would requiring picking some bad and mediocre teams at the beginning and end of the year. Good teams could be counted on to win at any point in the season; figuring out when inconsistent team could win was the key.

Week 1: For the first two weeks of the season, every team plays its hardest, even the bad ones. The ideal pick would be a team that had an abnormally good year last year; they would play hard early, but fade in the middle of the year (Cincinnati early in 2010 after they made the playoffs in 2009 is a good example). Everyone talked about Houston over Miami, New Orleans over Washington, and Detroit over St. Louis, but I noticed Jacksonville was playing at Minnesota. It wasn’t likely I’d want to pick either team again, so I went with the Vikings since they were at home. When the Jaguars kicked a field goal to take the lead with about a minute, I stop following the game, only to check back ten minutes later and see that the Vikings had won. In retrospect, I would have picked the Lions. At the time, I didn’t think the Lions would fade as quickly as they have. At the same time, I don’t know that there are going to be that many situations where I will want to pick the Vikings, so overall it was a good first pick.

Week 2: In week 2, the best pick would be a desperate but talented 0-1 team playing at home. The Giants, Cowherd’s pick, fit that bill to a T. But I was wary of using the Giants so early. Houston, now at Jacksonville, was another popular pick, as was New England at home against Arizona (the Cardinals’ upset took a large percentage of the pool). I opted with Cincinnati, who was facing Cleveland and rookie Brandon Weedon at home. The Browns played their rivals tough, but the Bengals pulled away with the win. In retrospect, I would have picked either Miami (playing at home against an Oakland team traveling on a short week) or Buffalo, playing at home against Kansas City. I really do regret not picking Buffalo here. While Miami will likely be playing hard later in the year with their rookie, Buffalo plays hard in the first four weeks every year. Cincinnati I could have picked either in Week 4 (where they won in Jacksonville) or this week (at home against Miami).

Week 3: There were not a lot of gimmes on the schedule this week. I didn’t want to pick San Francisco yet, and Cowherd warned against it. I thought some about Carolina because they were hosting the Giants on Thursday. I gave a passing thought to Arizona, because I thought they were better than Philadelphia and would make a statement game at home. I thought some about Atlanta, but I didn’t want to take a team traveling cross-country on a short week. I seriously considered taking Buffalo, for the reasons I mentioned above, but they were playing on the road at Cleveland (if they were playing Cleveland at home I probably would have picked them). Instead, I opted to take the Jets over Miami, mainly because Cowherd said this was the Jets’ last winnable game for a while. Besides, I still needed to take some teams I didn’t think were very good. (If I hadn’t picked the Jets, I would have taken Indianapolis at home over Jacksonville, which would have bounced me.) CBS cut to Dolphins’ kicker Dan Bailey’s missed field goal in overtime right before he attempted it. After the Jets won I was most grateful that I wouldn’t have to rely on them again for the rest of the season. 38% of the pool was knocked out because they picked either San Francisco or New Orleans, another 6% for picking Pittsburgh.

Week 4: I was really tempted to take a good team like Baltimore or Houston this week, given how much of the pool had been “eliminated” and that two of my three picks won on overtime field goals. Looking over the NFL, I still felt that a lot of team would still play hard, given how many teams had a young quarterbacks they believed in (hopefully this means a lot of 5-8 will still be trying late in the season). I didn’t want to take Baltimore because they were playing on a short week and had just played to two very physical opponents. Arizona was coming off a statement win, so I didn’t want to take them either. Even though Green Bay was going to play like a man on fire after getting jobbed on Monday Night Football, I didn’t want to pick against a New Orleans team who was getting one of their last chances in the national spotlight. Nor did I want to take the Patriots over the Bills, because I knew there will be other good places to pick New England down the stretch. I had some reservations about picking Denver at home against Oakland. For one, they’d like improve as Manning got more comfortable with his new team, but the Broncos’ schedule is tough, and I still didn’t want to use San Francisco. So I went with Denver, and for the first time, I enjoyed my eliminator pick winning comfortable.

Even though the teams I’ve used up are a collective 10-6, I feel good with where I’m at. I’d like to have one team besides the Jets that I was glad was off the table, but I haven’t used any of the elite teams (San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Baltimore, Arizona, New England). This week, there were several teams on the schedule I felt comfortable picking: Green Bay, Baltimore, San Francisco, the Giants, Chicago, San Diego, and Houston. I’m going with the Giants. While I think San Francisco is more of lock, the Giants have only one more potentially lopsided home game, against New Orleans in December. Super Bowl Champs tend to fade late in the year after, so I don’t mind using them now. I’m mindful of the fact Cleveland blew out the Giants at home four years ago and sometimes a win-less rises up, but New York is 2-2 and needs this one. I won’t be beating myself up if the Giants loose this one.

Final piece of advice: in Week 7, the only lock is going to be New England over the Jets, unless you care to pick the Tennessee-Buffalo winner. I just might.

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Ron Brown’s Testimony: Wasn’t it a Sports Issue?

1 Comment Posted by on May 27, 2012

(A note: while I write for a website that covers the Nebraska Cornhuskers, this is derekjohnsonmuses.com piece and not a piece that reflects the views of huskerlocker.com . The goal of this piece was to cover the one aspect of the Brown-fiasco that concerned sports, although I may have spilled over into social commentary in some places. As those of you who read this blog regularly know, I consider myself to be a devote Christian and a social conservative. In future posts, I intend to deal with the other aspects of raised by Brown’s testimony that concern Christian apologetics.)

For a while, Ron Brown’s testimony at a public forum in Omaha has been on my mind, as both a sports topic and a Christian apologist’s topic. I wonder if the whole thing would have blown up the way that it did if Brown had just differentiated his position from that of the University of Nebraska’s at the meeting. He spoke for three minutes at the meeting, mostly just calling the council to consider the Scripture and what it said. It was a bit uncouth, but never in the statement did Brown say anything hateful. In response, ESPN’s Page 2 was flooded with articles calling for Brown a bigot and that leaders who took such “hateful” positions should be relegated to positions with religious non-profits.

But there is really only one relevant question for sports talk radio in this matter: should an assistant coach at a major college be taking any political position? I’ve mulled over how I would feel if there was a Nebraska assistant taking the opposite position on homosexuality. I would be saddened, but that’s that particular coach’s right to do so.

In general, there’s a good reason that coaches are discouraged from taking controversial political positions. To develop a well-formed position that is above reproach takes time and study, and coaches spend all day in their offices studying tape. The debate over a gay anti-discrimination ordinance specifically is a difficult piece of legislation to debate. While they are community leaders, they are not the first people we should look to on issues like the one before us.

Brown’s testimony at the public forum could have been tailored better (as it was in his open letter he sent to the Lincoln Journal-Star the day before Lincoln had their public forum on the “fairness” amendment).  Don’t misconstrue what I’m writing: I’m not saying that Ron Brown can’t take the stage at public forums as a private citizen. But, in the debate over the gay agenda, each side is waiting to pounce on the others flubs, and Brown did give them a reason with his unpolished statement.

But the sports writers who have taken up positions against Brown have made the same mistake he did, only worse. Charles P. Pierce wrote in his grantland.com post said “But somebody should take [Ron Brown] aside and explain to him that the world is changing around him and that, for everyone’s sake, it’s time for him to adjust or get out of the way.” Just telling Ron Brown to shut up and get out of the way? While they gay lifestyle is widely accepted where Pierce lives in Massachusetts, it’s not as widely accepted in other areas of the country (even California voted to ban gay marriage), and that hammering it at other people’s heads doesn’t help his position, the hallmark of which is tolerance. Which means being permissive of the views of other and supporting their right to have those beliefs, even if they disagree with your own.

Alongside Pierce, Rick Reilly and Gene Wojciechowski have been quick to publish angry, politically driven piece on ESPN. If one of these sportswriters took these positions and went into town hall-debate with a Christian apologist like James White or Colleen Carroll Campbell on the homosexual lifestyle, I would not be surprised if their arguments looked shoddier than Ron Brown’s did. But then of course, they are sportswriters.

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Florida State-Big 12: A Match Made in Wonderland

2 Comments Posted by on May 22, 2012

Pointing West?

I’m sure if Tom Osborne had known that Florida State, the school of his old coaching pal, would eventually come to the Big 12, he never would have moved Husker nation to the Big 10. Seriously though: there is no good reason for Florida State to go to the Big 12, even if DeLoss Dodds shares the profits from the Longhorn Network. Even if the money is better, conference sustainability trumps dollar signs. What’s most remarkable about this potential realignment is that the ACC, the basketball league that established $25 million exit fees (which have kept Virginia Tech from seriously considering the SEC) and looked like it would swallow the Big East, looks like it could be headed for turmoil itself.

 

Old war foes almost conference foes?

Alas, if only Larry Scott had allowed Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, and Texas Tech to come into the Pac 12 last fall, and the rest of the Big 12 could have gone to the Big East, and this mess would be mostly over.

To Tomahawk Nation: even if the money in the Big 12 is better, that conference’s future can never be certain because of the Longhorn Network. In that conference, everyone else will be looking to leave, and Texas can always got to the Pac 12 because of the way the Pac 12 Network will be set up. Yes, there were thirteen years of hearing “Why do we need Florida State in this conference?” at the basketball coach’s meetings, but the ACC is not what the Big 12 was pre-2010 blow-up, Nebraska and Colorado, boom, outta here. You’ve got a good commissioner, now you just have to get him to work toward a conference network.

There is one scenario that Florida State moving to the Big 12 would make some sense: if there were five other institutions on board coming to the Big 12 with the Seminoles, thus forming the Big 16 and its own conference network. Imagine it: Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Rutgers, and UConn expand the Big 12′s reach into the east. Who cares if Iowa State’s closest division game is now in Morgantown, West Virginia? They always did their best when they recruited Florida. (Sorry, this is where the conference realignment post get as fanciful as Lord of the Rings.)

Future annual rivals?

This is just what happens in the long college football offseason: we get pointless stories like this. Let’s thank Chip Brown, and don’t forget Florida State: you have it good in the ACC. If you hire an elite coach (and eventually, you will), you’ll have an easy path to the national title game through Wake, North Carolina State, and eventually Syracuse, much easier than in the Big 12. Don’t get greedy like Texas A&M did.

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Filibuster: Bo Ryan Reacts to Jarrod Uthoff’s Request for a Divorce

4 Comments Posted by on April 19, 2012

When I got out of the shower this morning, I heard some old geezer whining on ESPN Radio with Mike and Mike, and when I heard Mike Greenberg ask him to stay on through a break, I  assumed it was Bo Ryan, the Wisconsin basketball coach who was not allowing Jarrod Uthoff, a true freshman who redshirted this past season, to transfer. What I couldn’t understand is why Ryan would call up in the middle of a radio show he was being criticized on and offer up additional fodder. (Mike and Mike Interview.)

While Ryan clearly made his situation much worse, I was reminded of Darnell Autry wanting to leave Northwestern prior to the Wildcats’ miracle run to the Rose Bowl in 1995, a story that I read in Gary Barnett’s book High Hopes over ten years ago. Autry was even visiting Arizona State when Barnett called then-Sun Devils coach Bruce Synder and told him that Autry wouldn’t be given a release. The memory of that story struck me, so I serached for it and found a LA Times article (Link) from before the ’96 Rose Bowl about Autry’s literally playing Hamlet in the 1995 off-season. The difference between that situation and the Ryan/Uthoff was that, one, Autry’s debate stayed private, and two, we are listening to Ryan discuss the situation mid-divorce.

To be fair, Ryan should be angry at this point. Uthoff told him he was leaving while Ryan on vacation, and, with all that Wisconsin has invested in Uthoff’s development, Ryan has a right to expect a conversation with him. In many ways, Bo Ryan is like a spouse who has been asked for a divorce out of the blue; maybe didn’t even realize that Uthoff didn’t like it at Wisconsin. So he feels betrayed, but going on a popular national radio isn’t exactly keeping it “in house”.

The Divorcing Parties

But Ryan convinced Uthoff to come to Wisconsin. In his book A March to Madness, John Feinstein chronicled how Mike Krzyzewski did it: he flew back with each recruit after their on-campus visit to make sure they were the kind of player who fit in at Duke, a private, exclusive school which every urban high school basketball player might not be comfortable at. As much as Bo Ryan has to go out to seal Wisconsin, it’s no good if it is to someone who doesn’t want it. Granted, Uthoff may not have realized he didn’t want until he got to Wisconsin, but still, Ryan has to read every recruit and ask himself, will this guy gel on campus?

As for the transfer process itself, it needs to have some restrictions on it. Right now, Garrett Gilbert is taking a whooping 27 credit hours (nine more than I ever took a semester) to graduate from Texas and play this fall at SMU. College basketball is frustrating enough with its one-and-done, and now transfers? In my opinion, Doc Sadler was fired at Nebraska because players transferring (and other reasons here stated), and it’s always easier to keep an old customer than to recruit a new one. Ryan said that other NCAA coaches were supporting him in his efforts to restrict Uthoff’s transfer, and of course they would. Likely most have been in a similar situation, knowing that if the loose a good player already in the program, it could be big trouble

But where Ryan becomes petty is when he blocks Uthoff from transferring to Iowa State, a school that’s isn’t going to be playing Wisconsin in the next couple of years (and where a former Wisconsin Deputy Athletic Director, Jamie Pollard, serves as AD). When Ryan says, you can’t go to Iowa State, he’s basically saying, I’m so upset at you, I’m not even going to let you play in your home state. I’m making this personal.

This is the classic divide between older people and younger people. Hey, I’m the first to admit, young people can be cocky and brash to their elders, and I have been. But young people also have more options in this society then their elders did fifty years ago, and young people know their worth these days. They won’t put up with cranky old guys who are always whining about how much better stuff was forty years ago. The old guys may not like it, but look at Mark Zuckerburg-the guy had a great idea and drive, and he absolutely earned every penny of it. If they had the options we do now, who’s to say they wouldn’t have used all of them? (Being a young man in an old man’s church)

Then there’s the desperation of the rural northern program. While Madison is a great city, there aren’t a plethora of great basketball players who want to play there in the winter. Tom Izzo was willing to consider the Cleveland Cavaliers job because he was frustrated that, after six Final Fours and a National Title, he still had a hard time convincing top recruits to come to the alma mater of Magic Johnson in central Michigan. Consider how it must be for Ryan.

But what I come back to is the point in the Mike and Mike interview where Ryan ended up playing his own defense attorney, trying to muddle the issue after he couldn’t defend himself with the facts. After Mike Golic asked him when the list of schools Uthoff could transfer to was so restrictive, Ryan went on about how it is when a team practices together every day and how Greenberg couldn’t understand because he didn’t play the game. Just what happens in a messy divorce.

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Penn State vs. Nebraska: the Game After

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 31, 2011

Before I get to today’s post, I want to say thank you again to everyone who has been reading and supporting my blog. A couple of days ago, I had one of my most views on my piece on the Penn State coaching search. Thank you.

For today’s post, I want to again return to Penn State, and reflect on the Penn State-Nebraska game that followed the week of the grand jury report and Paterno’s firing. As Nebraska fan, I took a special interest in the game, and could not have been more proud  of the sportsmanship that my team showed before and after the game. I was also pleased that Nebraska won the game although part of me wanted Nebraska to win because a week of hearing about how Penn State rose up in the face of all odds to win a game, it would have been unbearable for me to say the very least.

But as I watched the game, there was something that struck me as odd. The mood at Penn State was somber, for obvious reason: the program had exposed a have for an abuser of children, forcing the sacking the program’s icon, Joe Paterno. But I wonder as I watched the game, what does the average Joe at home think? When he watches Jay Paterno crying during a post-game interview, did they think that his whole scene at Penn State was because Paterno had lost his job, or because of the crimes that had been committed there?

Let me be clear about this: both the situations are sad and are intertwined. But the one thing I didn’t see enough of during this telecast was the ESPN-ABC announcers making that distinction and saying, the Penn State and Nebraska players came together in prayer for the victims of sexual abuse. Penn State going with a blue-out for the victims of sexual abuse. Given the regard that Joe Paterno had, I really thought that broadcast media dropped the ball in this regard; they needed to make it crystal clear that these were about the victims, not just Paterno.

Frankly, if I were a broadcast executive, I would not have shown any of the signs that said This One’s for Joe or anything that expressed support for Joe Paterno but not because I feel no sympathy for Joe Paterno. The reason I wouldn’t show the sign is, Joe Paterno, no matter how accomplished or how much he’d done for college football, had been caught in a sexual abuse scandal. If one of those victims, or really any victim of sexual abuse had been watching that game, what would they think if they saw those signs? I don’t blame the fans themselves for bringing the sign because they are fans; but if I’m the media boss, I’m not showing them on national TV.

But I understand why Jay Paterno is crying, and why Penn State fans in general are sad over his firing. Paterno’s moral image was forever ruined, and it left Nittany Lion nation and college football fans questioning his leadership. Beyond Sandusky’s crimes and his victims, it was a terrible day for college football. But at least for a few moments on the field, we could all see a new start coming.

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Worst Date You’ve Ever Been On?

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 15, 2011

I should probably preface this post with the statement that I’ve had a glass of wine and am a bit tipsy, but what’s the point of having a blog if you never say anything embarrassing about yourself on it?

This post is for all you ladies out there who have been out on a bad date. I know many of you have your share of bad-date-horror-stories, but I know that none of them can be that bad, because you haven’t been on a date me. I know I’m about to hear stories of other guys who conveniently forgot their wallets or who got sidetracked by the game. But ladies, if you went out with me, here’s what you find out

I live in my parents house. (Sure most of you would leave now).

I don’t make a lot of money or have huge financial goals.

I don’t want to have children.

I don’t care about house cleaning or the war on clutter.

I’m short and very average looking (guess you would know this already but it still doesn’t help.)

I have issues with my parents.

I have no clue what to do with my future.

I watch 12 hours of college football on Saturdays in the fall,  not counting weekday or NFL games.

I love ESPN.

There you have it, ladies. I’m not proud of all of it, but I have no problem letting it hang out there, and I sincerely hope you remember, if you happen to find yourself on a bad date, that it really can be much work #NotMarriageMaterial

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Boeheim’s PTI Gripping: College Basketball getting dragged along in Conference

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 14, 2011

Earlier this year, Jim Boeheim interviewed on PTI, wasting a Five Good Minutes segment during football season to express his mild dissent on Syracuse’s move from the Big East to the ACC. This is not the first that PTI has allowed Boeheim to go on a personal crusade in their interview segment: a few years ago when Syracuse was one of the last teams to left out of the NCAA tournament, Boeheim was allowed on the post-selction Monday to whrine about his team missing out on a thirteen seed. All those Syracuse connections at ESPN sure pay off, don’t they? So Boeheim went on ESPN’s most visible platform and whined about football and money driving the college athleic bus, loosing rivals like Georgetown and St. John, and how he’s only okay with Syracuse’s leaving the Big East because they are going to a basketball-first conference.

This is the attitude of college basketball, or at least some of it: let’s just begrudgingly go along with conference realignment because we have to. It is a network of good ‘ole boys, where even Bob Knight, whose boorish behavior got him fired at the school where he was a legend, could still get an under-the-radar, major conference job at Texas Tech. And every Friday after NCAA selections, the coaches of the last five teams out blame the selection committee for changing this criteria or that criteria. Meanwhile, you never hear a peep of college football teams who go .500 and don’t get invited to bowls. Even current Miami football coach Al Golden didn’t make a scene when his 8-4 Temple Owls didn’t get a bowl invite last year

But back to college basketball: Bill Self and Jim Boeheim both have the same point of view, and to a degree, it’s valid: they don’t like being the top athletic figure at their respective schools and then being dragged into conferences in moves that aren’t driven by their sport. But this is the way college athletics are these days: football schools and basketball schools aren’t equal. And while Boeheim acknowledges that the moves are about “football and money”, he doesn’t go into how an unsuccessful football program can burden an athletic department. If an athletic department has a bad basketball program, no one cares because it’s not a financial drain. But a bad football program is, and even a successful basketball coach like Boeheim can’t make that difference up.

In many ways, Boeheim’s like a guy who works at a farm seed company and sells forages. No matter how much alfalfa and red clover he sells, he’s never going to make as much as the guy who sells money-making crops like corn or soybeans, and thus he won’t be as influential in the future direction of the company. Is that the best thing? Perhaps not, but it is what it is. At least Boeheim was able to go to a conference that cares about basketball first, and he should learn something from the ACC’s approach: it is a basketball conference whose leadership told its members they had to care about football. The ACC added Florida State into the ACC in the early ninet. John Feinstein wrote in book A March to Madness that all of the basketball coaches in ACC questioned why the league needed Florida State, even though privately they knew why. Because the ACC continued to care about football, they now have a lucrative football championship game, a secure TV contract, and most importantly, a $20 million exit fee. Hence, secure future.

And as a Nebraska fan though, I should thank Boeheim for not encouraging Syracuse to seek membership in the Big 10. With Syracuse’s position in New York, ties to Penn State as a rival and to ESPN, they could have been a more enticing fit for the Big 10 if Boeheim had pushed for it. Indeed, Syracuse was the leaked list of five teams that the Big 10 originally wanted for a sixteen team conference, and I wonder how Tom Izzo, Thad Matta, and Bo Ryan would feel if Jim Boeheim came out and said point blank that he didn’t feel Big 10 basketball was up to Syracuse’s standard.

In the final assessment, I do feel bad for college basketball in some regards. Conference realignment is solely football-driven, and it may not be the best thing for major universities and conferences to have all their eggs in one sports basket (see the Big East). But ultimately, football has to drive now the bus because of its cost, and no matter how great Jim Boeheim has been for Syracuse, he can’t be the one making the decision of which conference Syracuse plays in., something he openly admits.  And when that decision is made, I would look better if he came out more fully supportive in the way his university is going because it will be around long after he’s gone.

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