Radical Realignment 2007: W.A.C.

I just got home from a horrid day at work where we all found out that we're probably losing our jobs.

To fire up the PC and eventually hit your site and see a giant-ass picture of my goofy grille up on your site is too trippy.  I had no idea that a pic of me that big was on the internets - scary.  For some reason it made me actually laugh out loud and was exactly what I needed - a perfectly timed moment of levity.  Even made me go through the hassle of resetting my password to your site so I could say thanks for the laugh.

But anyhow, as wacky as Cali is, a healthy dose of normalcy could only be a good thing, so get on out here.  You should definitely get out here at some point, if for no other reason than to take the family to Yosemite, the most beautiful place that I have personally been in these United States.

If you make it out to SF sometime, the 1st beer is on me.

At least come out West on Sept. 20, 2008 for ASU-UGA.  I'm hoping that many of the Dawg Bloggers will make the trip.

Finally, a comment to what you are actually talking about:  In my humble opinion, a radical realignment should be into conferences with 12 not 10 teams.  That way every conference can play a conference championship game and then you could have a playoff system involving said conference champions.  Or, alternately, you could have 10 team conferences and force them to play a 9 game conference schedule, thus ensuring that they all play each other.  

On 2nd thought, you probably addressed my exact point in splendid detail upon embarking on your re-alignment adventure and I just missed it.

In last year's radical realignment proposal, I went with 12-team leagues with championship games, but that drew some criticism, so, this time around, I decided to go with 10-team leagues. Since I'm not so much advocating actual realignment as I am conducting an interesting intellectual exercise, I don't quarrel with any of the constructive critiques I receive, which tend to be totally valid.

Although my travels have not been extensive, I was half-kidding about California. Granted, my 30th birthday had come and gone before I had ever set foot in a state that didn't have a star on the Confederate battle flag and, when I briefly found myself in Illinois air space while flying from Atlanta to St. Louis, I instinctively experienced the slightest twinge of what Larry McDonald must have felt when K.A.L. Flight 007 drifted into Soviet territory, so deep-seated is my distaste for the Prairie State politician whose troops burned my home town to the ground. Even so, though, I enjoyed my one true trek outside the South (to Montana) and my sister-in-law is in San Diego, so we'd like the chance to visit the Golden State while she's still in that area.

Let me get back to you on the 2008 Arizona State game, which I would love to attend. In the meantime, the next time you're back in the Peach State, drop me a line and we'll make sure to cross paths.

That was a great call on Tuesday, by the way. We'll keep you in our thoughts and prayers regarding your job situation. Be safe.

Thanks, man - I'll be fine, it's the nature of contracted IT work in corporate America.  It was mainly the nature of how the whole thing went down that was so draining.  If they throw us out onto the street I'll find another gig; it'll be a mondo pain in the arse but I'll be fine.  Save your thoughts & prayers for people like Rodney at Tider Insider who are dealing with real tragedy in their life.

Duke losing in the first round pretty much made up for it anyway.  Beautiful, that.

San Diego is great, and the greatest weather pretty much anywhere.  You know those great spring days in GA before the humidity sets in and it's in the 70s?  Yeah, San Diego has that day about 330 times a year.

Tempe 1008, Boulder 2010, Eugene 2014 - make it happen man.  And here's hoping Damon Evans keeps scheduling the Dawgs out West. Cal-Georgia @ Berkeley or Tree-UGA in Palo Alto please...