Cognitive Thinking, Like Elongated Deliveries, Is Not The University Of Florida’s Concern
Mar 10th
During the Senior Bowl week we were all treated to story after story regarding Tim Tebow’s elongated throwing motion and lack of preparation for the NFL game. Each of those stories was met with a firm rebuttal by the Gator journos across the land.
The defense of the throwing motion and lack of preparation for Sunday football centered on two things.
First, Tebow’s defenders would assert his record at Florida and the Heisman Trophy. No doubt, the kid is a winner, both on and off the field.
Second, Gator scribes would point out it is not Urban Meyer’s job to prepare Tebow for Sundays. Urban’s only requirement is to win on Saturday. Fair enough.
I respect Tim Tebow. Many in his camp attempted to persuade him to skip the Senior Bowl. In deed, they tried to get him to skip the NFL combine. Tebow, to his credit, was having no part of hiding.
He showed up in Mobile, fumbled snaps and slowly released the ball. If nothing else, he showed courage. Following the Senior Bowl he was asked if he still planned to attend the combine. Yes, was his answer. Will you throw? Yes.
Off to Nashville he went to get “schooled” on the ways of an NFL quarterback. Every report was things were going fantastic. The elongated delivery had been tamed. He was going to show the world.
Apparently the elongated delivery flared up’ This time Tebow listened to his handlers and did not participate in throwing drills. He would participate in everything else.
Mistake!
After 4 years of classes and a degree from the University of Florida, the Wonderlic test surely would not be Superman’s second dose of kryptonite, would it?
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow got only 22 of 50 questions correct. Notre Dame’s Jimmy Clausen was only one answer better, with a 23.
Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford aced the thing (relatively speaking), getting 36 out of 50 right.
I can only imagine how his score would have suffered had he left early like Matthew Stafford or Sam Bradford.
Personally, I can’t wait for the spin that is surely coming from Mike Bianchi, Pat Dooley, Matt Hayes, and Greg Doyel. Dennis Dodd is surely to let us know this is not Urban Meyer’s fault. But it is the orange clad Gators I most want to hear from.
It should be fun!
All You Need to Know About Remerton
Mar 8th
Zach Mettenberger has put Remerton, Georgia on the Dawgnation’s map.
Just where is Remerton and what in the the world was Zach Mettenberger doing there?
Remerton was once a cotton mill town, a bona fide company town.. It is landlocked by Valdosta. When the cotton mill closed the town had no tax base. The solution was to re-create Remerton as a night-life district. A shanty-town French Quarter, if you will.
The plan made sense, after all, Valdosta State with it’s thousands of thirsty college students is within walking distance. A match made in, er, somewhere. Until recently, the bars were allowed to stay open until 5 in the morning. There is little besides bars in Remerton.
The bars in Remerton will accept old lottery tickets as ID as long as one of the numbers is above 21. I have no doubt many a short lived disastrous relationship was spawned in the drunken confines of Remerton.
Many a UGA student has a high school friend that attends Valdosta State. VSU is a nice stop-over on your way to Florida for Spring Break. Lots of drunk co-eds make it a target r0ch environment for an aspiring quarterback at UGA.
Driving in and around Remerton at night is a challenging proposition. In addition to the ever-present members of law enforcement, drivers must stay aware of the drunken students walking, sometimes falling, along side the road.
With the demolishing of Buckhead’s village, I believe it is safe to say no square mile of Georgia has as many bars as does Remerton. I don’t even think Remerton has a gas station.
There is only one reason to go to Remerton, and is you are under 21, you better mind your p’s and q’s, or you too could end up like Zach Mettenberger.
BUI and the Oscars, bleh
Mar 8th
I will admit, while I have purchased many movie tickets over the years, I have actually attended very few. My kids, as I when I was their age, attend the cinema regularly. Frankly, I have no desire to sit in a filthy theatre and have my viewing experience compromised by the other patrons.
I also am not one for returning rented DVDs or waiting on my selections to come up on Netflix. Still, I like to watch movies and the trusty interwebs does a good job of delivering most new releases in a timely manner. This also allows me to withhold one member of the viewing public’s hard earned coin from the left-wing of the American body politic.
Bernie does a great job of explaining one of my problems with Hollywood. From my perspective, there are two other issues that rub me even worse.
First, I have no problem with those who live in the reality of Hollywood stardom exercising their right to free speech and inserting their brand of social utopia into American politics. It is their right. My problem is with the brain-dead drones being produced by our education system that actually value Hollywood’s civic ideals.
How utterly depressing and discouraging?
Second, with all the demagoguery and class warfare being echoed from the left, how is it that Hollywood gets a free pass? Wall Street and the Insurance and Energy industries have long been under attack for “obscene” profits. Losses are obscene, not profits. Even if we are to agree, why wouldn’t we extend this label of “obscene” to all enterprises that fit the bill?
There are two financial metrics i believe to be germane to this discussion, profit margin and revenue per employee. Energy and Insurance firms operate on the slimmest of margins, usually less than 2.5%. Nothing obscene about that. It is called volume!
The financial industry may be a different story, but the old risk/reward paradigm SHOULD be paramount to that equation. The Wall Street obscenity is a product of their owning congress.
If we are going to buy into the demagoguery, let’s look at revenue per employee. How many lasting jobs, jobs that allow mortgage and tuition payments, has James Cameron created while pocketing his billions?
I contend if greed really is bad, the Hollywood left should be the target #2 of populist outrage, right behind the District of Columbia, not the job creating engines of traditional America.
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