Campus Confidential

Hey all, sorry I couldn't get this up today. With the sudden death of Cory Lidle, I was bogged down all day. My thoughts are with his family, the family of the passenger in the plane and all of those unfortunately touched by this.

I will put together my Heisman Watch on the ferry ride to Boston tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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Update: 2:32 p.m., Friday Okay. It's now Friday and I'm waiting for the ferry BACK to Long Island. Below I posted what I could come up with on the ferry to Connecticut yesterday but could not post because the wireless did not work on the boat. I'll get a preview up tonight, but after yesterday, I'm done making guarantees. So, here it is, as is...And, Virginia Tech's offense is really, really bad. I witnessed it from the sidelines last night, yikes.

Technology is almost there. I’m currently cruising across the Long Island Sound right now on what I was told I must call “the boat with cars on it” and not a ferry.

I’m in one of these wifi “hot spots” … but it’s not so hot. It’s more like, room temperature. Well, at this point, it’s cold. When we were still docked, it was nice, I was writing emails, IMing people, researching stats, getting directions to Boston,etc.

I go down to my car, lose my connection and now I can’t get it back. Like I said, technology wants to be 100%, it just can’t be. It’s like Duante Culpepper telling Nick Saban he’s ready to roll when he’s not.

Okay, college football. I decided that Calvin Johnson is not a Top 5 Heisman candidate. I am going to use Desmond Howard as my point of reference considering he was only one of two wide receivers to win the award. Howard put up 23 touchdowns in 1991. Enough said.

Here are the guys, in order:

Adrian Peterson, Oklahoma
Running back, Junior
Take this into account: Texas likely focused the majority of its defensive efforts on Peterson, and he still had a solid game. A three- or four-touchdown performance would have all but locked it up for him, but he didn’t hurt his chances by any means.

Troy Smith, Ohio State
Quarterback, Senior
Bowling Green was a stat padding game for Smith, and that’s exactly what he did. Each passing day brings Smith one step closer to his big Heisman stage with Michigan in November.

Garrett Wolfe, Northern Illinois
Running back, Senior
I would love to see this guy play live. I couldn’t imagine trying to make an open-field tackle on him. Something tells me it would be tough.

Brady Quinn, Notre Dame
Quarterback, Senior
He needs to do more, more, more and his opportunities are dwindling, dwindling, dwindling.

Ray Rice, Rutgers
Running back, Sophomore
Just a couple of a weeks ago, he was my guy who was making moves (can’t do that today because I can’t get stats) and now he’s in the Top 5. If he keeps putting up 3 TDs a game, he’s going to end up with monster numbers and you’re gonna be like “where’d this guy come from” and I’ll be like “he was making moves in Week 5, but you didn’t care.”

Alright, I can’t do my guys making moves or my defensive bruisers. This baseball stuff will all be over soon and we can go back to the way it was. I want it to be like it was in the beginning. (I could write soap operas, right?)

Tomorrow evening I’ll bring the pain with my weekend preview.

For now, it’s go time for me.