Hump Day Ramblings......

Don't know her name....don't know who she is.....but....what a hump.

Anyway....it's another Wednesday ...at least in our hemisphere, and with every hump day, we have our mid-week ramblings...

Seems former Georgia running back extraordinaire Herschel Walker wants a piece of South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier. In Terence Moore's AJC column this morning , Mr. Moore sheds light on an interview he had with Herschel and the response of the remark made by Spurrier in regards to the Bulldog now famous team mass celebration against the Florida Gators 2 weeks ago. Spurrier said he would have sent one of his third stringers into that Dog pile to create a fight. As a result, Spurrier said the Gators would have prospered in the long run since the SEC would have delivered a slew of suspensions to Georgia players.

Walkers' reply :

"Well, you know, is that not insulting? That's totally insulting for a coach of his stature to say something so stupid. So my question I say to him is, if he's got that much guts, why don't he step in a ring against me? You don't say something that silly, because you're going to get somebody hurt. Georgia was punished, because that's a penalty. They didn't go out to hurt anyone. [Spurrier] talks about hurting somebody. How much guts do you have? Step in a ring with me, and then we'll see."

Gentlemen.....can we all just get along?

Today .....November 14th.....it was 77 degrees here in the metro Atlanta area....we have had no rain this month....the drought continues. Now we have been invaded and plagued by ladybugs......they're here in the thousands.....just swarming around....supposedly it is bad luck to kill a ladybug...but these things are sure a heck of a nuisance.

Biggest turn off for me this time of year? College football bowl predictions......who cares what you... or ESPN.... or any of the pundits think? Why can't we all just sit back and wait? Who needs all the speculation.

And......finally....I'm getting just a little bit tired of these gas prices....They are just over $3.00 per gallon here......and there is no election slated for at least 12 months .....so who knows how high they may go.

Gamecocks get no Love........

Great match-up tonight deep down in the SEC. Kentucky meets South Carolina in a game that....dare I say....is for sole possession of 1st place in the SEC East. The 'cats (ranked 8th) take on the 11th ranked Gamecocks at Williams-Brice Stadium in a nationally televised game on ESPN.

Interesting facts: Steve Spurrier is 14-o versus Kentucky.

Last meeting: USC won 24-17 in Lexington.

Carolina leads the all-time series 11-6-1.

Whats bazaar is South Carolina is ranked 11th in the AP writers poll, but 18th in the coaches poll. Could it be that the "ole ball coach" has alienated some of his peers? It's rare to have a 7 position difference between the polls. At any rate, the Cocks are a 31/2 point favorite in a game that won't have all that offense every body's been talking about. Sure, Andre Woodson is having a career year, but check out the level of competition he has faced: Eastern Kentucky, Kent State, and Florida Atlantic are controlled scrimmages. Louisville's defense sucks.......see Middle Tenn St. Which gives Woodson one quality win, the 42-29 defeat of Arkansas in which the 'Cats trailed 29-21 before scoring 21 unanswered points in the last 8 minutes of the game. USC's defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix is great at devising schemes aimed at stopping potent offensive teams. The Gamecocks are relying on red shirt freshman Chris Smelley to lead Spurriers' offense. His numbers weren't great last week against an aggressive Mississippi State defense, but he did not make mistakes.....mental or physical. I like the 'Cocks to cover.....USC 26-21.