Let’s listen in as a couple of cuzzins rap about the world of sports.
CUZ: “You hear ‘bout that Kevin Durant fellow? All that money?” BECUZ: “Is that the same dude that five or six years ago trashed LeBron for leaving Cleveland and going to Miami for a bunch of money? Is he the same guy that says he is going to the Warriors because he’s ‘at a point in my life where it is important to find an opportunity that encourages my evolution as a man’? CUZ: “Yeah, that’s him. Sounds like some kind of sissy talk to me. I bet it’s more about the $54.3 million clams than any “evolution as a man” thing!” BECUZ: “Folks in Oklahoma ain’t gonna like that. Oh well, it’s almost football season. That’s all that really matters down there.
CUZ:”How the heck is the Big 12 Conference gonna have a Championship game in football? There’s only ten of them playing and they done already gonna play each other during the season.” BECUZ: “Anything’s possible, especially when it comes to money. Heck, just look at Bill and Hillary! Next thing you know they will be having a playoff game for the two last place teams.” CUZ: “If you ask me, and they didn’t, they’s getting ready to get some more teams so they can really call themselves the Big 12. Otherwise they should be the Big 10, but then, I guess that’s already taken.” BECUZ: “Look, these things don’t always make sense. Otherwise, why would West Virginia be in the same conference with Texas Tech?” CUZ: “I hear you, and they talkin’ about that BYU. That’s even further away!”
CUZ: “Didja hear that those folks at Great Bend High School hired Lyles Lashley to coach crosss country and track?” BECUZ: Yep. He’s a dandy! A while back he coached in Larned and did a great job and he’s been good at Barton County too.” CUZ: No doubt the guy knows running. Look out WAC, the Black Panther running programs are on the prowl!”
CUZ: “Last year the NCAA didn’t have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill up their waay-too many-bowls so they came up with a rule that would let 5-7 teams, teams with losing records go to a bowl as long as their Academic Progress Rate scores were high. BECUZ: “Sounds like a long way around the mountain to say there’s too many bowls! CUZ: “That ain’t all. They’re gonna do it again this year! That’s probably because all three exempted 5-7 teams last year ended up winning their bowls. BECUZ: Well, that just tells me that there were a lot of poor 6-6 teams that got into a bowl too. CUZ: “Do you think there is a chance then that the Kansas Jayhawks might get in a Bowl game? I’d kinda like to see that. BECUZ: “If David Beaty wins five games at Kansas this year KU fans will build him his very own bowl game! Call it the Beaty Buster Bowl! He’ll be as famous as Bill Self!”
CUZ: “Whatcha think about that Bill Snyder? Is he gonna coach forever?” BECUZ: “He already has! CUZ: “No, you know what I mean. Is this his last year? Is he going to coach next year or are they going to make his son the coach?” BECUZ: “I don’t know but I heard that they are digging and blasting in the Flint Hills rock around Manhattan and they are going to make one of those things like Mt. Rushmore only with his face on it!” CUZ: “None of the so-called experts think this Wildcat football team will do much. That’s when Snyder-coached football teams have been the most dangerous.” BECUZ: “Heck, if all it takes is a 5-7 record to get in a bowl, you can bet your K-State Purple that Snyder will get them there!” CUZ: “Right you are. Remember, since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak!”
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