Fred Folsom For Sale

Frontier Stadium at Folsom Field, ah, that has a nice ring to it.

(Jim, Joe, Jay & Gary don't like it one bit.)

Yes that's right, the University of Colorado is talking about selling the naming rights of Folsom Field to more than one company. They are proposing to sell the naming rights of the football stadium for $1 million dollars over the next 10 to 20 years.

And I can't help but think what’s coming next...

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This ploy is just another bad sign of the progression of the athletic department and its affiliates. CU is already receiving more money in the television bundle with the new conference. But instead it’s trying to cover their tracks of bad mistakes rather than look toward the future and plan something that could benefit the Buffs.

THIS ISN'T SO HARD

ESPN’s March Madness guru Joe Lunardi teaches a class at St. Johns University called (and I couldn’t make this up) Bracketology 101. All the protégés learn the ways of ‘The Bracket’ in hope of one day beating their receptionists in the $4 buy-in office pool. (While they will base their selections on FG% and PPG, their receptionists make them with colors, mascots and point guard handsomeness in mind; yet it’s usually a pretty even matchup.)

But this year, even without the receptionist to brag to, I sit atop the mountain of sports geek’s brackets in the 99.9^th percentile on ESPN.com.

Have I figured out the secret code to college basketball? Am I the next Schwab? Can Dr. Pure continue to pull these names out of a hat only to gain untold amounts of pride? Or will I fall from grace? Will my bracket dismantle much like my little cousins at a Chucky Cheese birthday party (especially Elizabeth)?

Oh, you’ll never know.

Pop

Surprised. Yes.

Shocked. Eh. Like my sweet asthmatic grandma’s 70^th birthday party, I wasn’t blown away.

The Buffs played as well as anyone could have asked coming down the stretch and into the conference tourney. But you cannot refute their ‘body of work’ lacked something that could, and ultimately did, end the hope of going to the Big Dance.

Colorado has the right to be upset that Michigan State, UAB, VCU, Clemson and USC all made the tournament over them. But NOT at the selection committee that chose them.

Wins, identical. Record, identical. RPI, identical. SOS, identical.

The committee has stacks upon stacks of resumes synonymous with each other. And you can’t be in that group of teams and feel comfortable about it, because there’s only so many holes to fill until… Pop.

Passed With Flying Colors

This feels like kindergarten all over again. Stay within the lines and you get a pat on the back, then you don’t get noticed. Go outside the lines, drop faster than Newton (Isaac Newton, not Cam Newton… but that could be clever unintentional irony) ever thought possible. And create a Mona Lisa on your own and… not get picked on the first day of the NFL Draft?

That’s exactly what’s happening to Alabama QB Greg McElroy.

("Yes sir, I pulled an all-nighter".... dirce

In one of the many ridiculous tasks the NFL owners ask of incoming rookies is take the dreaded Wonderlic Test. The exam is supposed to assess a player’s aptitude, and is a common tool used in boardrooms… not huddles. And what did the Crimson Tide senior, 2 year starter at one of the most prestigious havens of collegiate football in the country, National Champion do….

Ace it, 48 out of 50 to be exact.

And now he’s projected to go in the 5^th round. That just makes all this stuff that is going on under the roof of Lucas Oil Stadium about as relevant as VH1 Sunday morning programming.

This is the same as if someone ran a slow 2.5 second 40-yard-dash. He would already have a $50 million dollar Nike contract and Ron Rivera (Carolina Panthers head coach) would be babysitting the kid over the summer. No lie.

Mr. McElroy’s score is DOUBLE the average on the test. And the last player to get a grade that high is also Crimson, but only Crimson. Harvard’s Ryan Fitzpatrick scored a 48 as well.

So as you watch unlimited streaming of the NFL Combine on NFL.com presented by the NFL please take the results with a grain of salt. (Unless it’s Stephen Paea, then disregard this whole post.)