Basketball.

So, Zou Crew orientation is tonight, and the Black and Gold scrimmage is tomorrow night. I am so pumped. I understand that the football team is great right now, but this basketball team is going to be very fun to watch. We lost 3 major players in Zaire Taylor, JT Tiller, and Keith Ramsey. Though we bring back the bulk of our scoring with Kimmie English, Marcus Denmon, and Justin Safford. We have returning big man Steeeeve Moore who has come back this season in better shape and is ready to straight ball. Then when you add one of the best recruiting classes in the country with PG Phil Pressey, JuCo transfer F Riccardo Ratliffe, and then top 15 recruit Tony Mitchell once he joins the team (hopefully) in January. This team is very underrated, getting voted 5th in the preseason Big XII poll. Expect this team to be much better than that, they are very solid and have alot of experience. There will be plenty of analysis and excitement about this team on my blog as the season goes on, but their is a ton of excitement on campus this week!

Flipping sports, I am so frustrated on how biased ESPN has been this football season. Lets start out with the poll they use on their bottomline and in promos. They ALWAYS used the AP poll until this season when suddenly the BCS matters so much more to them because they own tv rights, its a minor point but its annoying. Secondly, the talking heads will say something about Missouri and they say  "Who have they played" WE BEAT F***ING OKLAHOMA! they were freaking number 1 and they still question us saying "they obviously weren't a number 1 team" if they aren't a number one team, why did you advertise them as such. We beat A&M and OU but they blow those wins off because wait a second those teams lost to Missouri...they cant be that good! Then on the BCS show Sunday night Kirk Herbstreit said “If Missouri is a great team by beating Oklahoma, Boise State would handle Missouri”. What? This man was praising how good Oklahoma was a week ago, now that they have lost to Missouri they are terrible. This same man was asking who Missouri has played, but does he ask himself who Boise State has played?  They beat Virginia Tech, they lost to a FCS school. For some bazaar reason he wants to ignore strength of schedule for a non BCS school because they don't have a choice and they are actually a good team...but on the flip side, we knocked off ESPNs number 1 team and he will not give us respect. All we can do is win to get respect but ESPN only wants traditional teams and non BCS schools to be good, they will try their hardest to make it that way. I really feel we are on the road of being screwed in the BCS 2007 style, I hope that doesn't happen. It just feels like it could happen.

Its a Great Time to Be a Tiger.
MIZ-ZOU
Shuck Nebraska!