At the extreme risk of turning Jim’s eloquent sports commentary into a political issue, I have to reply to your recent comment. I couldn’t agree with you more. Nearly every politician in DC, Dem and Rep are nothing short of slime balls. Here’s what our lovely elected officials have done for us recently: Took away our free airwaves under the guise of emergency bands needed (we all know that they will sell them to private bidders for the highest bid possible). Now, even with the converter boxes, in the rooms where we don’t have satellite, we can’t get the Roanoke or Lynchburg stations. We get gobs from NC and WV, but who gives a s…. about them. Another thing Big Uncle did for our elderly citizens on S.S was to tie their benefits to the CPI so that when inflation went up, their checks would go up. Then, when these same congress persons didn’t like what the CPI was doing, they quietly removed energy, food and medical costs from the CPI. Sweet huh? The three things we all use daily are no longer included in the CPI. No wonder we have such apparent small inflation. Now, we are supposed to trust these same scum dwellers to handle our medical care. Oh yeah, I can really go for that. On a recent drs visit to see how the old BP was maintaining my dr informed me that in the so’called stimulus bill there was included a slid-in item regarding senior citizen health care, called something to the effect of a cost/benefit evaluation. Long and short, if a person is over some age (I’m not sure if 60 or 75) the powers will evaluate the cost relative to the return of the older person being made well. If not reasonable, the person will receive no treatment. Older person dies – end of story. I haven’t confirmed this, but did hear it from 2 separate sources. About 20 years ago, I predicted that when the baby boom generation began reaching the 60s, the gov’t would enact some form of legalized, govt sponsored geriatric mass genocide to control the huge burden that would definitely hurt the gov’t. Looks like my prediction might be correct. All in all, just another day on capital hill for the gang of slime balls.

What I don’t understand is why the Mouse is throwing all that money to the SEC? I understand exactly why the SEC would get a better contract than say the ACC. The SEC, in any given year can provide more top notch contest than the ACC can ever think about.

That said, the SEC can’t provide enough top shelf contests to justify the money the Mouse is throwing their way. No one, and I mean no one, outside of Mississippi really cares about Ole Miss and Miss. State.

That’s the only part of all the money that I don’t understand.

As for Congress, don’t get me started. Every politician is good for nothing. The last thing it should be doing is conducting hearing on college football. After those slim balls fixes the really important stuff that confronts this country, then they can turn their attention to stuff like collegiate athletics.