I’m starting this week’s non-legal report giving kudos to Alan Lange, author of Kings of Tort and formerly of Ya’ll Politics. 
While walking in Fondren at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, I came across Lange and a bunch of JPD Officers who had a suspect in a patrol car. Lange had single-handedly apprehended a burglary suspect who had been spotted in Fondren several times in the past week. The suspect had stolen items on him at the time. Good job to Lange for helping clean up the neighborhood.
My focus on college football is waning with the NFL season underway. With the New Orleans Saints emergence as an NFL power I have become a bigger fan of the pro game than college. The quality of play in the NFL is far superior. Except for the Saints’ defense, which sucks.
The NFL passing game, in particular, is amazing. Plus, NFL games are usually played in 3 hours. In SEC games it seems like Tim Brando is turning it back over to Verne Lundquist for the second half at the 3 hour mark. Four hours is just too long for a football game.
The NFL also has the added feature of not having recruiting. I would give 2 pieces of advice to to college football fans to improve their lives (or at least look less weird):
- don’t follow recruiting.
- never read the message boards.
Grown adults going crazy about where some kid is going to college is dumb. Even the ones who follow recruiting know this. More importantly, the correlation between signing individual players and recruiting success is murky. I quit following recruiting a good 10 years ago when I realized that the kids who generated the most excitement in recruiting rarely turned out to be the best players. Even worse, they often never played a down.
Schools have to recruit well to win. But that’s done with good recruiting classes year after year. Ole Miss is not going to win a national championship just because they sign Billy Bob Barnett from Yazoo City.
Message boards are a different matter. Message boards are for losers. I’m convinced that much of the material on message boards is complete fiction. And people believe it.
It always starts off with stuff like this fictitious post from someone who goes by the name NorthJaxReb: “I’ve got a friend whose cousin works in the Georgia A.D.’s office, and she says that Dan Mullen taking the Georgia job is a done deal.” Crap like this almost never turns out to be true.
Do yourself a favor. Never read a message board. You’ll thank me once you break your addiction.
Finally, I’m tired of reading headlines like the one from this article: SEC Officials Hire Lawyers Amid Ethics Scrutiny. Every time I see headlines like this I get my hopes up that what every non-Bama SEC fan knows to be true will finally be exposed: the Refs cheat in favor of Bama. But no, it always has to do with some crooked Wall Street shenanigans. Who cares?