Its been one week...

and I still hate the BCS. The Badgers have risen through the ranks, but it is going to be a mess by the end of the year. At least two teams in front of the Badgers are guaranteed a loss, with a third team very likely. With that behind me, on to a few random thoughts:

1. Arkansas' Darren McFadden is not the best college football player this year.... he is quite possibly the best football player I have ever seen. I can not recall (even Reggie Bush last year, or Charles Woodson at Michigan) any player ever causing a coach to look the way Fulmer looked near the end of the first half. He looked like a basketball coach, coaching against a guy who you knew was going to get the ball, and you knew there was no way to stop. Along these lines, kudos to the Arkansas coaches who devised a way to make 100% sure McFadden gets the football, namely cut out the QB. Why hand off when you can snap the ball directly to the best player in the country?

2. The coaching situations at the two Wisconsin institutions (Packers and Badgers) are locked up and in good shape for awhile. Beilema has to demonstrate that he can recruit, but outside of that I have really no doubts about either coach. Winning in Iowa with a back-up QB and never abandoning the run even when we were not getting huge bursts...brilliant. I have also learned almost everything I need to know about McCarthy in Green Bay during the last two Sundays. In our loss to the Bills McCarthy made a questionable call that Favre turned into an interception that mostly cost us the game. After the game McCarthy took full responsibility and did not throw any of his players under the bus, but most importantly all of the offensive player pulled the same move and refused to throw their coach under the bus. After three years of watching the exact opposite of this happening, I have been very pleased. Then, he followed that up with a thoroughly unexpected win that has helped the Pack match our win total from last year. A win against the Vikings in the Metrodome is a huge bonus.

3. In a non-sports related note, I want to reccomend this blog, one of my friends who is an aboslutely genius web-designer if you ever need one. Also it turns out he is quite a gifted writer and social critic. Good fun.

peace