Bohls Banality

By the way, Bohls ranked ECU #2 in the country on his AP ballot back on September 8th after they beat Virginia Tech and West Virginia.
 
ECU then struggled with Tulane, lost to a 2-3 NC State, and were blown out by Houston yesterday. U of H had 621 yards of offense.
 
That’s just solid.

I wonder if Kirk wouldn’t benefit from the Print Media equivalent of Muschamp…. you know… someone to get in his face and tell him he’s a little short ##$% and to get off his #$% and provide the reader with something original for a change? Maybe he could scratch his ear with a pen or something and bleed on his keyboard.

Insightful Kirk Bohls observations that didn’t make the cut due to space limitations…

11. That Erin Andrews sure is good looking.

12. There are lots more seats at DKR Texas Memorial Stadium this year than there have been in the past.

13. Bill Murray was on the Longhorn sidelines yesterday, but the coaches kept it a secret.

14. Don’t look now, but Michigan may not be all that good this year. Ditto West Virginia. I wonder if there’s a common thread here?

15. I’m told that Mack Brown has only won one conference championship in his head coaching career, and that was at some point in the last 5 years or so.

Wasn’t the Bama-Clemson game at the Georgia dome?

Okay Scip, go easy on the old fart. At least all the people that matter knows that you are heads and shoulders the sports beat writer than than old, useless hag, even if you pocket book may not know of this. Oh, I suspect, that while the good for nothing, vomit puking old farts like Bohls definitely are not helping the traditional media, the probable cause for its decline can’t be pinned entirely on such incompetent, boring, and gutless writers. Probably there are two large movements going on right now, from my perspective (which ain’t worth a shat). There is probably a very small group that has grown much too sophisiticated for the generalities, pseudo-logic, lack of specifics, and the driven-agendas that forms the backbone of any traditional media format (and I do wonder about this, but I do think a small group such as this is and has been forming).

On the other side of the coin, a much, much larger group has been forming for whom, contrary to your opinion, the lowest common denominator of the traditional media is actually much too high, as hard as that maybe for some to believe. For this group, from what I can tell, they seem to be only able to communicate at a level of “LCD” which is actually much lower than that of the TM. As a result, the TM is sort of caught and declining in this vast divide between these two rapidly forming groups, both of whom either have no desire or ability to relate to the TM. So another form of media will have to be developed to address the mind numbing and informational needs of both these groups, who will probably end up forming what we will call the next generation.

Scip, you’re being too hard on the man.

To maintain this level of insight over ten discrete observations—never wavering an inch from the level he has fought hard to reach—is to earn our acknowledgment.

Also, actually, from what I can tell, the points Bohls made weren’t too bad, especially considering his usual shabby and shatty
standards.

As of right now, who can say that Bama is not the best team in college football right now. Now I did not say the best looking team, but the best team. OU is probably better than them in the style department, but probably not better on the field. Bama just squashed a very good Georgia squad at home in front of 90,000 fans. The key to that team is that Cody fellow. With that landslide of a man clogging the middle for Bama, what team could run on them right now? And I do not care how good that other teams O-line may be. Right now, that fellow may just be the best player in college football or, at least, he is the most significant. If no team can run on Bama this year, I don’t see how anyone is going to beat them, not unless their sorry O just gives the game away.

The rest of his stuff isn’t exactly earth shattering either, but it is also not too out there. The bit about Carroll is probably wrong. Yea, I don’t see him going anywhere either. But then I also do not see USC football dominating the college football landscape as it has these past few years. If anything, they simply will not be allowed to. It is not in the interest of college football for USC to be that dominating anymore. This experiment has been done and it has not been all that successful. The time for them being the media darlings is coming to an end and another team will take their place. College football, if nothing else, will see to that.

The only difference between Bohls and John Rohde of the Daily Oklahoman is that Rohde’s head is so far up Bob Stoops’ ass that he usually writes his column with the pen in his teeth, like a man with no arms.

“Wasn’t the Bama-Clemson game at the Georgia dome?”

Yes. Not good support for a No. 1 thought.

The biggest reasons the traditional media are in trouble:
1. Internet media production/distribution costs are way lower than tranditional media production/distribution costs
2. Craigs List and other internet advertising are cutting deeply into traditional media advertising
3. Traditional media is not interactive
4. Internet media features so many sites that sites can cater to a smaller, more select audience (eg: the S&M flavor of Barking Carnival).

I love the overrated comment. I’ve come very, very close to being punched in the nose whilst trying to explain to inebriated fans that screaming overrated at your opponent when you are defeating them is tantamount to kicking yourself in the junk.

“The Austin American Statesman’s Kirk Bohls doesn’t give as generously to the blogging world as Bill Little, but he gives what he has.”

Ouch! It’s been my misfortune to have read Bohls since he wrote for The Daily Texan, which makes me an old fart. His writing is every bit as pedestrian today as it was in the early 70s.

I’m getting a little testy reading this post.

Jesus. Kirk Bohls = Jackie Harvey?