Talk Hawkeyes

These are the headlines ripped straight from the NCAA Football on Yahoo! Sports on July 24th, 2008.  You might notice some Iowa news there but I’ll talk about that one last.

• Size doesn’t matter for Big 12 QBs - I’m very happy to hear that the Big 12 QBs have learned to be comfortable with their size and work with what God gave them.  Openly talking about these issues should help all the fans who have always been uncomfortable with their own size.
• Sun Belt signs with 3 bowl games - kinda. They get first dibs for the St. Petersburg Bowl, the Papajohns.com Bowl and the PetroSun Independence Bowl as long as the conferences that are not currently committed to those bowls are not able to qualify enough teams for the post season.  I always feel like I should be getting paid some kind of commission everytime I say these bowl names anymore with all of the product tie ins with their names.
• Miles faces questions about Alabama joke - He made fun of Alabama for losing to both LSU and Louisiana Monroe last year.  Good for him and who cares.  I made fun of Michigan for losing to Appalachian State and Iowa for loosing to all kinds of teams last year.  Half the teams win a game and the other half get made fun of.
• Appalachian’s Edwards OK with flying now - The Appalachian State QB is afraid of flying but managed to survive the flight to beat Michigan (Ha ha) and is now heading to LSU to try another upset.  If that happens, I promise to make fun of Miles and LSU.  On a sidenote, have the players in the former Div 1-AA always been eligible for the Heisman?  How about Div 2 and 3?
• UCLA RB Ramirez ineligible for season - I’m not even going to talk about it because the Pac 10 gets way to much time in the media spotlight.
• Vols’ Fulmer denies being subpoenaed - Seems like Fulmer doesn’t want to talk to the legal system about some sketchy boosters and is trying to dodge receiving the paperwork.  In this day and age, shouldn’t the lawyers just give it to the University Complaince Office and they could just drop it in Fulmer’s inbox.
• Iowa Sexual Assault Case Reopened - This one pisses me off.  The school needs to do whatever they are supposed to do to let the legal system do what they have to do.  Anything less than that is inexcusable.  But, I’m sure the school officials are greatly limited in what they can say about the details so I will wait until it is all sorted out and if anybody at Iowa knowingly did something wrong, I want them gone.  Plus, I want Hawkeye news about how great our players are or how easy our schedule is or how bad the restroom situation is at the stadium.  I’m tired of legal stuff.  The program needs to get its act in order because the problems just seem to get bigger and bigger since Beutjer got beat up for now paying his share of the cable bill.