Mighty's Sunday Thoughts

Well its a random Sunday so here's some random bits of news (not as random as clamato and budweiser...nothing is)

NBA Draft
The general word on the street is this draft might be one of the worst in years. Blake Griffin was supposed to be the guaranteed super-star till it became apparent the Clippers were infecting him with their ineptitude. The draft is point guard heavy from international sensations (Rick Rubio) to big on stats small on size (Ty Lawson) to the media darling (Stephen Curry). All have various hang ups and glitches. The one thing I think the NBA Draft could show is how how much of dire financial straights teams are in. If there are massive clearance sales, either via trades or selling draft picks (draft picks can be purchased for up to $3 million), then it could give hints at the free agent market (starting the following week) and trade market in 09-10.

College Football
One of the more debated pieces going around the blogosphere these days is a WSJ that notes offensive-line experience can predict college football success. Not perfectly (as theres always other factors and stochasticity) but enough that its raised a few eyebows. Four teams jump to mind. Notre Dame offensive line experience (and their cupcake schedule) would predict big things for Weis. Conversely Penn State, the favorite to the win the Big 10, is looking shaky. The most interesting test might come September 5th as Alabama and Virginia Tech go head to head in Atlanta. V-Tech is one of the most experienced lines (100 starts) and Alabama one of the least (50) with it being early enough in the year that experience should very much matter. A V-Tech win over an SEC team (let alone Alabama) could shape the mythical BCS Championship hunt.

Pro Football
Honestly outside of being born into the mafia or have a yakuza tattoo is there a better predictor for being arrested than being an NFL wide receiver? Those that aren't being arrested are invariably doing something that most 5 year old could tell you is a bad idea. In today's bad idea category Chad OchoCrappo is said to be living with Carson Palmer . Now I'm all for Palmer suffering, given his USC ties, but think of Palmer's kids! Would you want Uncle Chad teaching your kids anything? I shudder to think at the damage he could have on the youth of America.