Caught Sleepin'

"Teach me how to Gabby, teach, teach me how to Gabby!"

Back in the day when boyz would play pick up games in the backyard the rules were the same I don’t care where you grew up. “If we play at your crib today we’re playing at my crib tomorrow.” That joint was written in stone and to challenge it would be blasphemous. Those were the good ole days. You would play all over the neighborhood going from house to house because boyz couldn’t stand to lose. They knew they had a better shot at winning at the crib because they knew all of the soft spots or where the ground dipped etc. in their backyard. “When I get you to my spot I know I can beat you!”

Finally the forever false flagging Boise State Broncos showed up at somebody else’s crib to play when they visited Michigan State on Friday night. It wasn’t on a neutral field like they always seem to negotiate. They ran out of the tunnel in East Lansing and got beat 17-13. Real talk, Michigan State should have put 40 points on the board but they kept trying to give that joint away. Any time you turn the ball over 4 times you’re supposed to take and “L.” However, Boise State either wasn’t good enough or the crowd intimidated them enough not to walk out of the joint with a win. It’s like going to the pool hall and being able to beat the  neighborhood hustler but too afraid to walk out of the joint with his money. That was Boise on Friday bruh.

They made Le’Veon Bell look like Barry Sanders, Walter Payton and Gayle Sayers all wrapped in one out there. For a minute he pulled a Gabby Douglas when he hurdled the corner diving in for the tackle. I was waiting for him to get on the balance beam because he had already done everything else. Had toted the rock  44 times for 210 yards and 2 touchdowns. He's officially the BMOC (Big Man On Campus) bruh! 

I’m just glad that I don’t have to listen to jock swinging Kirk Herbstreit this year saying, “I’ll take Boise State on a neutral field against anybody in the country. What? Kirk, the last time I checked big time programs always play home and away schedules against big time non-conference opponents. For example, Texas/Ohio State, Florida State/Oklahoma, Miami/Ohio State, USC/Arkansas, and Michigan/Notre Dame just to name a few over the last few years.

I’m not even going to get into the conference schedules that the BCS schools have to play week end and week out. Remember during the 2010 season when #1 Alabama went on the road to South Carolina and got beat. The following week #1 Ohio State went to Wisconsin and lost. Then #1 Oklahoma traveled to Mizzou only to get upset. They didn’t play in neighboring cities or states. They played those games on the other guy’s campus in hostile environments. In other words, they played them at the crib in the pool hall!

A couple of years ago Boise State played Va. Tech in DC, Maryland not in Blacksburg, Va. Then last year they played Georgia in Atlanta. Those are neutral sites and it doesn’t matter how you look at it. I don’t care if the majority of people there were Hokie or Bulldog fans. Playing at a different venue is a road game to the players. If you’ve got to get on a plane, stay in a different hotel, eat at a different restaurant and take a different route to a stadium that isn’t yours, it’s a road game regardless if 70 to 80% of the folks there are cheering for you. It’s called breaking routine! Whether you realize it or not it makes a difference to the players!

So I’m glad order has been restored and I don’t have to listen to the foolishness of Herbstreit riding hard for some cats that have been doing it with smoke and mirrors for years. Every time they would play a major opponent they’ve had either all summer to prepare for them or they’ve got 6 weeks to prepare for the bowl game. Anybody can win games like that bruh. We saw Utah beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl a few years ago. That wouldn’t have happened if they had been playing the week before or the week after against the same caliber opponents. Anybody can win the bowl game bruh. You never know which team is going to show up.

 Lastly, when Boise State does play someone during he regular season they usually take the following week off to recoup just like they will do next week following this Michigan State game. Their football administration department has been extremely smart over the years but they finally got caught sleepin’. They agreed to play Michigan State at the crib because they thought that they were better than they were or they thought that the Spartans were some straight up Mark's and would just roll over. They could have won that joint if they would have stuck to their usual recipe and played in Detroit on a neutral field. 

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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