I will not have a show for the next two weeks. I’ll still tweet a lot but by and large, I won’t do too much writing or audio. Plus we may be changing the show…..more on that below.
Speaking of shows - here’s this one.
So lots to go over and of course, the BCS National Kind of Complete Championship On Crappy Turf ended post show.
That title tells you all I think about the general BCS set-up. But don’t take that as me hating on Auburn. They played a very good defensive game, with DT Nick Fairley blowing up the Duck offensive line repeatedly.
The Oregon Oline looked so awful last night I had to be reminded they had only allowed seven sacks all season. Auburn blew them off the ball all night and constantly cracked the middle and ate up many run plays.
Other thoughts: The game did not live up to the hype, not remotely. Cam Newton was shaky for most of the night, coming alive off and on but leaving a ton of points on the field. Ditto the Ducks offense.
Although Newton threw an absolutely sick juke on an Oregon defender which made me think of a football-style Jedi Mind Trick - ‘THIS IS NOT THE HEISMAN WINNER YOU ARE LOOKING FOR’.
He juked the guy out of his shorts from seven yards away. DAMN.
The field was atrocious. How do you let the grass surface be THAT bad for a National Championship game. Embarassing.
That’s all I have on that. Much has already been said. If you need more Tiger Talk, check out the War Blogle. Good Auburn stuff there.
Before I go further, as it says up top I am out of pocket from about Thursday until Tuesday of next week and then gone pretty much the whole week of the Senior Bowl (from 1/24-1/27 specifically).
Beyond that - and I talk about this on the show - there are some big changes coming to the show, Blogtalkradio.com and the Fantasy Sports Channel.
BTR is going at least partially for-pay. What that means is, either hosts pay anywhere from $30-100 a month for hour long (and longer shows) and hosting or you are limited to a half hour.
This has, frankly, been a long time in coming. You can’t host a ton of content for free forever and while I have no clue how much they make via ad revenue and paid shows, at some point you have to stop giving it away for free.
However, I don’t see where 30 or 40 bucks a month is something that seems likely for me. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t (I can’t seem to get a copy of a report for where my traffic comes from) but right now, it isn’t.
I have a ton of options to look at though, so this break is a good one, timing-wise. When I come back for a show on the 31st, I should have a clearer picture of what I want to do. I’ll keep the 30 minute shows going for a while, if just to let you know where longer shows will be.
That’s it. So we’ll still be around, just not sure in what form or how.
Let’s move on, shall we? There is, after all, football to discuss.
On the show we talk about the game as it’s in progress and touch on several other points.
We start talking some draft to prep for my trip as credentialed media at the Senior Bowl practices. We talk about some of the Pitt Panthers leaving for the NFL, why Andrew Luck isn’t categorically insane for staying at Stanford, and rant in general about the BCS set-up. I also go into my master plan for shifting rankings IN GAME - TCU totally would have taken over for Oregon at least once last night.
We also recap the NFL weekend and talk a little about next weekend. Jets/Indy, NO/Seattle, GB/PHI and BAL/KC all get their due.
That’s it for now - see you on teh twitters and see you when I emerge from New Orleans!
