This 80 year old man on crutches out-coached our great Leader (again). Paterno broke his shinbone and tore two ligaments in his left knee in a sideline collision during a loss at Wisconsin on Nov. 4. Today, JoePa showed old Phil Fulmer that good coaching overcomes mediocre coaching and great athletes almost every time. This is like the third time that old JoePa has taken our Big Battle Captain Phil to the woodshed and each time it seems that Phil never really gets it.

It was nut wrenching to watch Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama (and hopefully if there is a God, Florida will lose too!!!) unsuccessfully defend the SEC’s reputation as the “Best Conference”, and then to hear Penn State Running Back Tony Hunt question Tennessee’s toughness. “They were not physical enough to stop us. We ran the same play over and over…” That my friends is an off season challenge. Fired up, focused, and prepared!! ( I will order it right after I blog this fiasco)

Overlooked in all of this mess is the odd fact the game was officiated by a Big East Crew. The speed of the game was just to much for the officials both physically and mentally. Why were these nerds invited to the prom? Who invited them? Was this like one of those double dates that the wingman has to kiss the fat chick? Anyone that has been watching Big Boy Football for any period of time knows that the Big East Conference will never be associated with real Big Boy Football like the SEC and the Big 10 Conferences. Frankly, both teams were fortunate to overcome all of the indecisive calls, clock mismanagement and frequent play reviews that this undermanned and outwitted crew needed to make the correct calls. It appeared to me that the Zebras were physically out of shape to keep up with the speed of these schools from real football conferences. The bottomline is that a Big East Officiating Crew had no business officiating this game, I believe that our great Battle Captain (Phil Fulmer) has sufficient grounds to protest.

Tennessee Message Boards are in full meltdown mode. If I were not a Vol Fan, I would be laughing my ass off at the subject lines. Well, I am laughing my ass off anyway. The threads are moving so fast that is difficult to gauge the rage and discontent of a raucous spoiled fan-base that has forgotten that last year, the Vols did not even get to a bowl. Many threads want to fire Fulmer, various assistant coaches, slam players that made errors, and lament the potential recruits lost (Chris Donald, yes you were mentioned).

Sadly the football season is ending soon. Some of the LWS team really like Basketball, but basketball is not the same as football. We have been very successful in our first year, we have been approached by another successful blog that wants us to merge with them. We are considering their offer. If not, we will find things to write about and people to make poke fun at.