Welcome to the “Fun House”

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Ahh, we made it!  Week one of college football has come and gone, and I for one am so happy that I can flip through the sports channels to find something other than a couple of steroid-juiced major league baseball teams deadlocked in a 1-1 tie in the fourth inning of a dreadfully boring baseball game. I like summer just as well as the next guy, but I love the autumn season and all that accompanies it with regard to sports.

Week one is usually the same story.  Inferior teams jam the non-con schedules for all the big name programs, and nine times out of ten, the more talented, stronger, better football team comes out on top and begins padding their records.  Occasionally, a big time program will let one slip away and it’s usually the week’s big story.  Usually, those slip up games are over-analyzed and printed until you can barely stand to stomach another article on the topic, and I hate that.  See Texas A&M, Pittsburg, and Virginia Tech this year.  But, at the risk of joining the very thing I hate, I must comment on the storied Michigan football program and their stellar start to this year’s football season.

WTF!  Are you kidding me?  Did they not learn their lesson last year?  I think if you get out your Webster’s and look up the Photo: Cherie0627 (FlickrCC)definition of “Embarrassment”, there is probably a picture of the Wolverines just after their loss to Appalachian St.  This year, Michigan hired the right coach to get things off on the right foot and make sure that never happens again.  Four million dollars later, Rich Rodriguez and his Wolverines suffer a season opening loss to Utah at the Big House, or I should say the “Fun House” when you consider the circus that is their home openers as of late.

Wow, money well spent boys.  True, Utah is a D-I football team and probably a pretty good one at that, but this is the almighty Michigan.  I’ve got to tell you there is a very noticeable shift in powers in college football, or at the very least true evidence of that old cliché-ish word “parity”.  And, it is very obvious that Michigan is not on the favorable end of that shift.

Note to the KU scheduler…Get on the home opener schedule at Michigan.  It will certainly improve your SOS and get those cupcake schedule naysayers and media jerks off your back.  And, if the last couple of years are any indication; it looks like a sure win.  Who wouldn’t want to celebrate that victory at the Big “Fun” House?  Just ask Appy St and Utah!  It’s a no-brainer!

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