I'll Survive Without Clay, and Bucky Will Too

John Clay is following the example of the immortal P.J. Hill and leaving early for the NFL despite the fact that he will not be picked anywhere near high enough to make most players traditionally want to leave. Clay is a lot better than P.J. Hill ever was, so I'm not going to say I am HAPPY he is leaving like I was when Hill left. And I don't blame Clay, because his stock is probably not going to get higher (in fact, he should've left last year). I guess my point in this rambling, incoherent post, is that Clay was only arguably the best RB on the team, and more likely part of a 3 headed monster with Ball and White. While 3 headed monsters are nice, they can get frustrating because Brett is more likely to not play the hot hand in order to give someone their share of the carries, which may not work out in the Badgers' best interest. Bucky will be fine, especially since there are two good freshman coming too. We will miss J.J. Watt a whole lot more.

Clay will stick in the league for quite a while if he can stay healthy. If P.J. Hill and DeShawn Wynn can play, Clay can. But he's probably not a starting back. But who knows? I never thought Ryan Grant was good until he got hurt and I had to watch Brandon Jackson play.

Best of Times/Worst of Times

I just wanted to follow up that fucking spectacular Tebow post, with a few thoughts about the greatest human being on the planet. This shit is getting to proportions that we haven't seen since a certain former Green Bay Packers quarterback. I hear the following comments by Thom Brenneman on the game Thursday night (not word for word exact). Referred to Tebow as "The unquestioned greatest leader in college football today." Said, "Tim Tebow is just a fantastic human being. If you get 20 minutes to spend with Tim Tebow, your life will never be the same."/Puked in my mouth.

Random NFL picks:

Last week: 3-1

Ten (-3), Car (-9 1/2), NYG (-4), Pit (-6)

I'm actually going to get to watch!

On one hand, P.J. Hill is a retard for going into the NFL. On the other hand I am ecstatic that he is leaving so he can stop poaching unwarranted carries from John Clay and Zach Brown (along with whatever terrific freshman running back is incoming). He has been getting carries based only on his performance as a freshman, which leads me to another shocking discovery. HE IS ONLY A JUNIOR?????? Holy fucking shit. Next year, we are naming the all-guys we feel like have been in college football for at least ten years team, the P.J. Hill All-Stars. I mean, he played alongside Ron Dayne in the Rose Bowl in 1999 didn't he? Anyway, he is slow, injury prone and fat, will be about a 7th round pick, and be bagging groceries next year.

Finally, the wife and I went to local Native American gambling establishment last night with my wife's sister and her husband. The wife and I bellied up to the $5 blackjack tables with $25 each. My sister in-law and husband were too intimidated and "didn't know how to play". (????) I haven't been to the casino in GB since I was 18 and they changed the age to 21 about a month later. I think what struck me the most was that it smelled of cigarettes worse than any place I've ever been in my life, and everyone there was old, poor or Asian. Strange experience. Anyway, I turned my $25 into $60 in about an hour. Cash money.