Golden 5 +1 for this week

Golden 5 +1 for this week

Miami+1 @Virginia

Kent State-5 @Miami (Ohio)

UNLV-2 @Colorado State

San Jose State-20.5 @New Mexico State

Air Force @San Diego State -7

Kansas @Texas Tech -24

Since the beginning of the season I am 37-20 for a 64.9 % against the spread. Good luck and make some money.

 

Bill Smith is a former coach of several semi-pro teams, has officiated both football and basketball, done color on radio for college football and basketball and has scouted talent. He edits https://fryingpansports.com/. He has also published several novels on and a non-fiction work at https://www.merriam-press.com/. He edits .

 

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 Super Agent JR Richert joins us to talk about the new NFL CBA and free agency.

Tim Belik, Buckeye and Browns Beat Writer for the Loraine Morning Journal joins us to preview the Bucks game against Kansas.

Dave Kay, basketball writer for waterfootball.com joins us to talk about how the NCAA tournament has changed the 2012 NBA Draft.

Samantha Bunten joins us to talk about the Indians, Browns and Cavs.  Maybe she can explain why the team has looked at 78 year old Vlad “the impaler” Guerrero.

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Bill Smith is a former coach of several semi-pro teams, has officiated both football and basketball, done color on radio for college football and basketball and has scouted talent. He edits https://fryingpansports.com and was a senior writer for .  He has also published several novels on and a non-fiction work at http://www.merriam-press.com/.

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Texas A&M Women NCAA Basketball

Texas A&M beat Notre Dame 76-70 in the women’s NCAA Championship game. For fans of the game it was one of the years most exciting, riveting, games of the season.

Watching the game it is hard to believe that just 50 short years ago Texas A&M did not even allow women to attend school. They were among the last schools to fully integrate classes and go co-ed. The women’s basketball players this week laid to rest any lingering doubts (were there any?) that this might have not have been a good thing. Compared with the men’s NCAA Championship game played just a day earlier the women’s game was near non-stop action. The two teams, each sporting a can-do attitude and undying belief they were the rightful champions this year, fought tooth and nail to outdo the other. They exchange baskets, taunts and amazing comebacks throughout the game.

Texas A&M star player Danielle Adams scored 30 points, 22 of them in the second half to put her team head and shoulders above the Irish. Adams is the Aggie’s All-American. She was a junior college transfer who underwent a near complete physical transformation to become the superstar we all saw on the … Read more at FryingPanSports

At least we can be thankful that the polls don’t determine the college basketball champion.

BCS Every Game Counts

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The people that voted a 3 loss Texas team #2 over the previously unanimous #1 Ohio State team should lose their votes and be banished to watching the Golf Channel and listening to karaoke for eternity.

I don’t really have a problem with moving a 1 loss Kansas team over OSU despite the fact that they are not nearly as good a team as the Bucks. Kansas proved that by promptly losing to unranked 9 loss Kansas State. K State won for only the 2nd time since Moses was a young boy.

But what were the voters thinking by putting a 3 loss Texas team #2? Maybe the question should be are the voters capable of thought?

Texas lost at home to #4 Pitt then to an unranked USC on their floor. On Jan. 8th they lost at home again to #9 UConn. My question is this. How would you feel if like the joke of a “system” like the BcS decided the NCAA Basketball Champion?

The champion will be decided on the field just like every national college championship for every sport except BcS division football. But it will be interesting to see how the pin head voters pick … Read more at FryingPanSports

At least we can be thankful that the poles don’t determine the college basketball champion.

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The people that voted a 3 loss Texas team #2 over the previously unanimous #1 Ohio State team should lose their votes and be banished to watching the Golf Channel and listening to karaoke for eternity.

I don’t really have a problem with moving a 1 loss Kansas team over OSU despite the fact that they are not nearly as good a team as the Bucks. Kansas proved that by promptly losing to unranked 9 loss Kansas State. K State won for only the 2nd time since Moses was a young boy.

But what were the voters thinking by putting a 3 loss Texas team #2? Maybe the question should be are the voters capable of thought?

Texas lost at home to #4 Pitt then to an unranked USC on their floor. On Jan. 8th they lost at home again to #9 UConn. My question is this. How would you feel if like the joke of a “system” like the BcS decided the NCAA Basketball Champion?

The champion will be decided on the field just like every national college championship for every sport except BcS division football. But it will be interesting to see how the pin head voters pick … Read more at FryingPanSports

The DOE complains about graduation rates in College Basketball

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This week US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan suggested that the NCAA should ban teams from the NCAA Tournament that do not maintain a minimum graduation rate for their players. WHAT?????

Don’t forget that this pinhead is the guy that was so effective as the CEO of the Chicago Public School System he was named to his current post by Obama. Forget the fact that the Chicago public schools are at the very bottom of the heap nationwide in graduation rates and standardized test scores. What it does rank at the top of the nation in is in-school violence, teen age pregnancy and dropouts. I guess he is just another “do as I say not as I do” guy in Washington.

But beyond the fact that the speaker is totally incompetent to say anything about graduation rates, there are other factors over which the NCAA and individual colleges have little or no control.

Prior to the NBA requiring that a player be 1 year out of school before applying for the NBA draft, those players (often between 20 and 40 a year) would go from high school directly into the pros. Now, those players go to college for 1 … Read more at FryingPanSports