Summer's over

The fall is the best time of the year anyways. Football season is upon us once again with college opening up tomorrow with a handful of games, most notably #16 Oregon at #14 Boise St. While the first weekend generally has some intriguing match-ups, it also has defending champion and #1 Florida welcoming Charleston Southern into the Swamp for what will undoubtedly be a one-sided affair. Look, I am all for Florida opening with a cupcake because they will face plenty of challenges later in the season playing in the SEC. But Charleston Southern? They are 73 point underdogs. Obviously you take the under.

Take a look at #11 LSU, they travel to Washington to take on the Huskies. While they were abysmal last year, they are still a FBS school playing in a BCS conference. At least the folks at LSU are trying to test themselves instead of feasting on some tiny opponent from South Carolina.

As the season begins, there is not shortage of headlines. Greg Paulus leaves Duke to become the QB for Syracuse. (Something tells me he's not going to matter much). Oklahoma St. TE Jamal Mosley left after a protective order was filed against him. (He was slated to be the starter but apparently couldn't handle johnny law in his grill?) Finally, Rich Rodriguez apparently over did it with some of the off-season workouts. Okay, so I understand that they restrict these workouts for a reason, but what is the reason? I mean for the most part this training occurs during the summer when school for most is not in session. So what gives? Are these restrictions in place so the kids can't be taught new plays, formations, etc.? Or are they there so the kids aren't physically exhausted by the first week of September? Either way, they don't seem to make sense. The players will learn the formations and plays anyway (spring practice anyone?) and if a coach wants to run them til exhaustion he's only hurting his own cause. The rules just don't make sense and all they seem to do is encourage parents to bitch, which they do enough of anyway.