Held Hostage

"I'm so mad I gotta take it out on somebody bruh!"

Thomas Jefferson once said, “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Albert Einstein gave it to us like this, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” The old playa's standing in front of the liquor store in the hood broke it down like geniuses when they said this, “You only gotta see the game once to be able to recognize it forever.”

Last week before the BCS rankings came out I felt like I was trapped in the club with no way out and boyz were beefin’ at the door. You know it’s about to pop off because the duns that were arguing are straight up gangsta’s and have been known to shoot up the joint. Because they’re gettin’ it in at the door everybody has to hunker down and watch it. You know where it’s going but you can’t do anything about it because it's only one way in and one way out. That’s why I wrote the Hot Joint entitled, "The Dull Fix" because you could see the media trying to position the SEC right back to the top of the rankings. So dull bruh! 

Now like I’ve been saying all year, Alabama is the real deal and should be at the top of the pile even though they’ve got one of the weakest schedules in the country. I’m cool with that because they’ve got crazy talent and they’re coached by the best cat in the business. But how does Florida, who was ranked #24 just 5 weeks ago move all the way up to #2 in the initial BCS rankings?

Now I’m accustomed to seeing boyz getting car jacked and even robbed in the middle of the street in broad daylight because where I grew up it was common place. I’ve seen families go to funerals only to come back home and find the whole house gutted. Boyz realized that the entire family and all affiliations where at the funeral and would be gone for a while so they backed a U-haul up and took everything. 

That’s what happened to Oregon, Kansas State and Notre Dame last night, playa. Now the powers that be keep trying to tell us that the computers loved Florida but somebody put the info in the joint. Don’t tell me that the computers love them more when they were barely in the Top 25 just a few weeks ago! They barely got out of College Station in their underwear and Texas A&M has always been a middle of the road Big 12 team. They didn't just get good over night because they're in the SEC! Also the Gators only beat the same LSU team that struggled to beat Gene Chizik's Auburn and dull Towson. They've played nobody else at this point bruh! They love them more because of the SEC logo on the back of the helmet. That's REAL TALK! 

Now will Florida play a tough schedule? Absolutely! They still have South Carolina, Georgia and Florida State then possibly an SEC title game. If they keep winning they should be ranked #1 because of strength of schedule and not Alabama! But in week 7 they shouldn't because you can't spend money before the checks show up bruh! 

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If Alabama wasn’t located in Tuscaloosa they’d be ranked 10th with that dull schedule they're playing. What’s killing me is that guys like Kirk Herbstreit, with millions of viewers, keep saying that a one loss SEC team gets in regardless. So if boyz keep bottle necking the SEC and force feeding it to us, you’re right. 

I know the Joe's up in Oregon are hot this morning. The Parliament Funkadelic, as I so affectionately call them because of their hot uniforms, have been putting in work all season and for what? Notre Dame has done the same thing and as much as I dislike them I can't hate on their success at this point in the season. Cats were already trying to put South Carolina at #2 last week. I heard on multiple national radio shows that the Gamecocks would be #2 if they beat LSU in Death Valley. "The Dull Fix" has been in for weeks! 

Why can’t a one loss Big 12 or PAC 12 team get in if that's the case? Oregon will possibly have to play USC twice but that ain't good enough! They’re playing a tougher schedule that Alabama is playing? That schedule is so dull that if you put that joint in a flash light you’d still walk into the wall and break your nose. Now like I keep saying, if the SEC has the top two teams standing after all of the smoke has cleared, then it is what it is! Just don’t start arguing and blocking the only way out of the joint and hold me hostage for the rest of the season. 

Holla At Ya Boy! 

Jay Graves

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