Roy, The Irish And The Refs

Roy Williams got the goods today that the biopsy taken on his kidney last week was not cancerous.  Praise the Lord for that good news.  I don't care who you pull for  but the way you feel about people has to stop when the game is over and worry about someones life.  I don't care who you pull for while the game is on everyone on the other side are bums.  After the game when reality sets in life doesn't rotate around a ball game but the way we treat people every day.

Roy Williams has been a great coach at Carolina and every where else he has ever been.  He has been good for the ACC and in that way alone he has been good for every team that Carolina plays.  He has not been good because he wins National Championships but the way he represents the University, The ACC any anyone who calls themselves of fan of any ACC school.  Next week they will check out his other kidney to make sure he is clear there too.

Notre Dame sent a letter of intentions to the University of Michigan that they will discontinue their football series in three years.  This is a result that ND has to make room for five ACC football games  in the future as part of the arrangement to join the ACC.  They will still need to trim back with some others.  They have traditional games with Southern Cal, Stanford, Navy, Michigan St and Purdue. Somebody else needs to be trimmed and who is it going to be.

I don't know whether you have ever heard the story about why ND plays Navy every year and for the most part pound them every single time.  The story goes that when the war started in the 1940's Notre Dame had lost so many students that they were on the verge of closing their doors when the U S Navy picked Notre Dame and other schools including Carolina to have Naval Officer Training on campus.  Notre Dame was able to stay afloat as a University because of that and out of gratitude to the Navy have played the Naval Academy ever since.  It will disappoint me greatly if they drop the Navy.

Looks like the refs in last night's NFL game really blew one last night or did they?  You know the NFL has this stupid rule that you must possess the ball all the way to the ground and the Green Bay defender clearly had the ball five feet from the ground.  The Seattle receiver after knocking a defender out of the way got his share of the ball on the way  to the ground and by rule the receiver wins ties.

I have heard one ref signaled TD while the other incomplete.  I saw a TD by one official and the other signalling to stop the clock.  What I have not heard one person say is this.  Is the replay official a part timer or is it the regular replay man from the NFL in the replay booth.  If the officials were dead wrong the replay man could of changed the call but he didn't. 

Don't give me this refs are killing the game.  Remember when San Diego lost a game when the ref ruled an incomplete pass when it was a fumble but since he had rule incomplete pass it could not be changed.  Last night after the game ESPN's Sports Center had the highest ratings in 17 years of Sports Centers.  So what do you think ESPN has done all day but show that replay 7,984 times because you are watching.  Stupid calls are great for the game because ratings go through the roof.