Mike Flynt had one regret in his life. Not finishing his college football career.

After a few beers one night with friends they got onto the subject of regrets, and Flynt mentioned being kicked off the Sul Ross State University football team before his senior year. One of his friends told him to do something about it.

So Flynt, re-enrolled at Sul Ross State in Austin TX, started practicing with the team and he has made the roster for the Division III football team. His position is yet to be determined by his coach, Steve Wright, who is 8 years younger than Flynt. Flynt in fact has two kids who are older than most of his teammates and his youngest child just entered the University of Tennessee.

Flynt, a former college linebacker, was a long time strength and conditioning coach at Texas A&M, Nebraska and Oregon has spent the last several yeas promoting the Powerbase training system he invented. But now 37-years removed from his last action the 5-foot-1o, 200 pound Flynt is back on the girdiron.

He is expected to go into the books as the oldest player in NCAA Football history.

Forget what everyone has said about Florida not deserving to be in the BCS Championship game. They came, they conquered, and they proved to all the naysayers that they deserved to be there.

OSU fans left early in the 4th quarter when Florida took the lead 41-14. If they were UCONN fans, they would have been gone by halftime.

Technorati: BCS Championship Game, Florida Gators, The Ohio State Buckeyes, UCONN Huskies

Congratulations to Sue for winning the first annual Random Thoughts Bowl Contest. Sue came on strong at the end as Mark Burney struggled with some picks in the middle. A big thank you to everyone for participating this year. For Sue, what does she win, she wins a guest post here at Random Thoughts. I am sure we all look forward to what she has to say. So again congratulations again to Sue and thank you to everyone for playing.

Eight games have been affected by the spreads.

Oregon State beat Missouri 39-38 but they didn’t cover the spread (-3.5)

Texas Tech beat Minnesota 44-41 but they didn’t cover the spread (-6.5)

Boston College beat Navy 25-24 but they didn’t cover the spread (-6)

Texas beat Iowa 26-24 but they didn’t cover the spread (-11)

Miami beat Nevada 21-20 but they didn’t cover the spread (-3)

Auburn beat Nebraska 17-14. Auburn was giving 3 points. The game is a push. Will go down as a tie.

West Virginia beat Georgia Tech 38-35 but they didn’t cover the spread (-7)

Cincinnati beat Western Michigan but they didn’t cover the spread (-8)

• 1. Sue: 19-12-1
• 2. Mark B: 17-14-1
• 3. Liang: 16-15-1
• 4. Ladd: 15-16-1
• 5. Mel: 14-17-1
• 5. Scott: 14-17-1
• 7. Keith: 13-18-1
• 8. Ian: 7-24-1
• 8. Marc: 7-24-1

I think after this I am getting out of the predicting sports business. I wasn’t good with my baseball predictions and as you can see I am not faring well here at all. Oh well. Looks like the winner will definitely be doing a guest post.

To see the picks, go here.

Here is the 2006-2007 Bowl Schedule. Go down to the comments section and get your picks in. Rules and spreads are posted in the comments section. The winner will write a guest post on anything they want.
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Technorati: BCS National Championship, The Ohio State Buckeyes, Florida Gators

Just months after saying he was committed to the Louisville Cardinals football program, ESPN is reporting that Head Coach Bobby Petrino is leaving to be the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. The deal is rumored to be for 5 years $24 million dollars. This comes on the heels of Petrino signing a 10 year $25 million dollar contract with the Louisville Cardinals.

This is what Petrino had to say back in August:

“I can’t tell you how happy I am with the commitment and the confidence that Tom Jurich has in me and the university has in me. I also wanted to make sure that everyone understood, I know I’ve said it, that this is where my family wants to be. This is where I want to be. I want everyone to really believe it.”

Now it is January 7th and he has pulled a Nick Saban. He lied to the media and his players and the University. If you’re gonna be in it for the long haul, that doesn’t mean you run to the NFL for more money or in the case of Nick Saban, run back to the college ranks.

Petrino had led the Louisville Cardinals to 12-1 season that ended with a victory in the Orange Bowl over Wake Forest. His overall record at Louisville was 41-9 and took Louisville to the top of the Big East every year and also nationally. Good riddance to another man who can’t keep his word.

Technorati: Louisville Cardinals, Atlanta Falcon, Bobby Petrino, Nick Saban, Orange Bowl

Thirteen days ago, Nick Saban announced there was no way that he was going to the University of Alabama to coach. Well today is January 3rd and Nick Saban is leaving the Miami Dolphins to coach said University of Alabama.

To me, he is yesterday’s Jimmy Johnson, who left the University of Miami in the middle of the night to go coach the Dallas Cowboys. Although to me if someone offered me $35 million dollars guaranteed, I’d probably go take the job too.

Saban had been a successful college coach before going to Miami. In Miami, he was unable to lead the team to the playoffs. This could be one of the many reasons why he departed Miami for the green Crimson of Alabama.
Technorati: Nick Saban, Alabama Crimson Tide, Miami Dolphins

In case you didn’t stay up past midnight last night because you had to go to work today or something else like that, you missed the great ending in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl last night. Enjoy.

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Technorati: Fiesta Bowl, Boise State Broncos, Oklahoma Sooners