Fri May 08, 2009 7:31 pm EDT
Weekend Out: J.C. Watts knows where his bread is buttered
J.C. Watts knows from BCS bowls, the Orange Bowl in particular, since Oklahoma ended its season in Miami every year Watts was in school there. He quarterbacked a couple O.B. victories himself, both over Florida State, including the dramatic finish in 1981 that earned the Sooners a few obscure computer votes as the national champion over "consensus" No. 1 Georgia:
Of course, Watts is probably better known today as the four-term Oklahoma representative who left Congress in 2002 to do what all politicians are born to do: Lobby. Thursday, we learned about one of J.C. Watts Companies' most valued clients, the Bowl Championship Series, which has paid Watts' firm $260,000 over the last five years to "help the BCS navigate through" a steady stream of Congressional pressure. (Players, of course, get nothing, except the minor name-recognition that could land them a lucrative political career down the line.) Either Watts is really earning his keep this year against the snowballing anti-BCS rhetoric on Capitol Hill, or his efforts have fallen on deaf ears as opposition to the Series has turned into a hot-button issue.
I guess there's not much you can do when the entire state of Utah and most of Texas has your client in the crosshairs -- except, maybe, get out of that wretched city and run for governor back home. Watts hasn't decided yet, but you can tell he's serious, because he's already covering all his bases:
"Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma," Watts jokes. "It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa."
Quick, name the head coach at Tulsa.* I can almost see Watts running back to the reporter after giving him the Oklahoma/Oklahoma State and shouting "Tulsa! Write in Tulsa too!" but I'm sure no politician worth his salt would forget the main university of the second-largest city in his state the first time. (What about Southwest Oklahoma State, J.C.? Not courting the Bulldog vote, I see.)
Try not to run into any politicians this weekend, and please, tell your mother you love her.
* - If you said Todd Graham was the head coach of Tulsa, congratulations.
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I'm sure Watts is smart enough not to wander into Michigan and enthrall the Blue faithful to cheer for those "Buckeyes" during a campaign tour.
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seriously, here's what watts had to say about republicans, while he was weighing his options on the election last year,
"the former oklahoma congressman criticized the republican party for neglecting the black community. black republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them.
"and obama highlights that even more," watts said, adding that he expects obama to take on issues such as poverty and urban policy. "republicans often seem indifferent to those things."
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The Tulsa job certainly pays better . . .
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The BCS just needs to publish its criteria for determining where teams are ranked on how their seasons have evolved on a weekly basis. I hope you folks understand and study the previous sentence.
Look at college basketball, or most Super Bowls, especially when my Steelers won the Super Bowl after winning, what, 9 regular season games? They were really the best team from week 1 through week 19? Of course not. They just got hot at the right time. That doesn't necessarily make them the best team of that year.
Giants-Patriots are an even better example. Sure the G-Men won the big game, but overall, they SPLIT the two games they played that year. New England beat them in New Jersey. The Patriots lost once that year, to a team they beat earlier. And I'm positive the Patriots beat teams who beat the Giants. They had to have!
Much like you are not evaluated by simply your final exam, the BCS takes other things, necessary things, to determine what team is having a better year than another. Where did this team lose? To whom? By how much? And what did that team do that year?
At the end of the day, the BCS gets is right more than they do wrong...
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FYI - Big plastic bulldog mascot is named Brady
FYI X2 - Real bulldog mascot is named Duke and is apparently allergic to grass. He has his own cart to carry him around at FB games
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Plastic Bulldog be Brandy ..... I couldn't let that false information remain floating around the internets
GO DAWGS!
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