To the Future!

This post is simply so I will keep my promise that I have made with myself to update my blog on a more regular basis.

Lately I've been a little bit more busy than I thought I was going to be (but, by no means am I "busy") so I haven't had nearly as many good things to say about music, and life in general, that I wanted.

So, from this day forth I will climb out onto the "whatever comes to mind" branch more often and expand the range of topics that are covered. I'm hoping to get one or two updates in a week, if not more, so I figured I would give my family and the two other people that read this blog regularly a little heads up.

For today I just want to simply make a comment about this college football season.

I have been watching with eager eyes the developments of this 2009 season in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and I have come to an important realization: Parity in the sport is good for the sport. I believe this also rings true with the other sports as well.

Some people live in a fantasy world where the team that they love is going to go undefeated every year, and that every team that they don't like won't win a single game. I don't consider myself one of those people. In fact, I'm the opposite. I suppose you could call me a hometown pessimist. I fully expect every team that I love to tease me all year with a few flashes of brilliance and the potential to give me the championship that I so rightly deserve to experience, then when it comes time to win the big one, I will, inevitably, be let down. I suppose this is a direct result of being an Ohio State Buckeyes fan which has continually teased me for the past 6 years.

But, I do enjoy the parity nonetheless. I would rather watch two different teams play in the BCS National Championship game every year than expecting Florida to play someone every year. Aside from the travesty it is that the BCS actually exists, I think that this college football season could be one of the most exciting that we've seen in a long time.

Oklahoma is a team that is #19 in the nation with 2 losses that has the potential to win the National Championship and beat Texas two Saturdays from now with Sam Bradford returning to form.

Ohio State is a team that has one of the top defenses in the nation but is held back by the incompetent offensive play-calling, but with a little nudge in the right direction also has the potential to win the National Championship.

I could go on about the Houston Cougars and Case Keenum who, I think, absolutely deserve a shot at the title if they go undefeated, but I won't harp on the incompetence of the BCS. The same can be said for the Cincinnati Bearcats led by Tony Pike.

The point being that parity is good. It doesn't matter that I'm going to be disappointed by uber-conservative play-calling and outstanding defense, because the bowl games will be fun to watch. They'll be competitive. They'll be the equivalent of what happened in the NFL when Tom Brady exited his celestial orbit and his knee was destroyed along with the dominance of the Patriots (fortunately for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts).

And that, viewers of the best sport to watch in stunning High Definition, is what sports and competition is all about.