Adam’s Two Cents

October 27, 2009

Starting in November…

Filed under: The Show — admin @ 1:35 pm

There are big changes coming to The Cheap Seats in November. First the show is expanding to 3 hours a day instead of the current 2 hour format. In that third hour Adam’s brother Aaron Evarts will join the show daily and talk about the big hitting topics of the day.

Also coming in November, local-New Mexico sportscaster David Jubb will join the show from time to time to share his insights and opinions on sports. David is co-host of The Sports Bar in Albuquerque, NM on 610 The Sports Animal.

Plus, we’ll be having more guests on the program. Insiders into every sport, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, golf, auto racing. If it makes headlines we’re going to talk to those covering the sport.

Adam will also begin to post blogs on the show page blogtalkradio.com/cheapseats. We’ll also start taking callers beginning in November. If you have an opinion on a matter, or need to get something off your chest or have a question for the guys you can now call in and be part of the interaction.

Join us starting in November, as the Cheap Seats program turns up the wick on sports radio.

October 25, 2009

My New Top 25

Filed under: College Football — admin @ 7:43 pm

My new Top 25, thru October 24th:

#1 Florida -Still rolling towards Atlanta

#2 Texas -McCoy is now the Heisman front runner

#3 Boise State -They just need to keep winning impressively

#4 Alabama -Ugly, but still a win

#5 USC -Offense looks good, defense is a little suspect

#6 Penn State -This years loss to Iowa is proving more costly

#7 Georgia Tech -ACC Title Bound

#8 LSU -Destiny is in own hands

#9 Pittsburgh -Still have Cincy and West Virginia left

#10 West Virginia -Noel Devine for Heisman

#11 Oklahoma State -They’re the last test for Texas

#12 Virginia Tech -What better than to stay at home, and watch others lose

#13 Houston -Casey Keenum might make the best pro quarterback out of the whole nation

#14 TCU -Talk about statement wins

#15 Cincinnati -They’ll be in good hands once Pike goes to the NFL

#16 Iowa -Lucky..Lucky…Lucky, but they’ll take it

#17 Oklahoma -The best 3-loss team in recent memory

#18 Utah -Destiny is still in own hands

#19 Oregon -See Utah

#20 Central Michigan -MAC Title bound

#21 Ohio State -Nice rebound

#22 BYU -Las Vegas Bowl in future

#23 Arizona -Mike Stoops is cooling his own seat

#24 South Carolina -The Ol’ Ball Coach’s team is decent

#25 Notre Dame -Should be 6-2 after next week

Right Outside:

#26 Kansas State -What a year the Wildcats are having

#27 Navy -The stand a good chance to take down Notre Dame

#28 Temple -Wait, Temple challenging for a Conference Title in football? It’s true

#29 California -They have fallen off the map

#30 Ole Miss -A disappointing early season is giving way to a decent finish

October 20, 2009

Jim Zorn needs to be fired

Filed under: Pro Football — admin @ 3:33 pm

Jim Zorn needs to be let go in Washington as the head coach. Some people might think that Zorn isn’t the only problem with the Redskins. While that might be some of the case, the biggest problem with the Redskins is Zorn himself, more than anyone else.

The Redskins have not scored over 30 since Zorn took over, and this season they haven’t scored more than 17 points, and they are 2-4 with the NFL’s easiest schedule. That ineption has fallen on Zorn, because up until this week he had been the play caller on offense.

Sunday against the Chiefs, the Redskins showed no intensity, no spark whatsoever. That, too, is the responsibility of the head coach to fire his troops up, and if he is unable to do so, then not only will the team likely lose, but then it shows the lack of tangibles that are a subtle requirement to be a head coach in any level of sport.

Zorn was brought in because of the job he did in Seattle as the offensive coordinator. Instead of installing an offense that produces, he has installed the prevent offense, where the offense does what it can to not score. That, and the inability to motivate his players are the two top reasons as to why Zorn needs to be ousted.

My New Top 25

Filed under: College Football — admin @ 10:32 am

My new Top 25, thru week 7:
#1 Florida -They looked like they were looking past Arkansas
#2 Texas -The tough part of the season is over
#3 Boise State -Same as Texas
#4 Alabama -LSU stands between them and the SEC Title game
#5 USC -Jimmy Who?
#6 Penn State -Getting better and better
#7 Georgia Tech -Power shift in the ACC?
#8 LSU -Destiny is in their hands
#9 Pittsburgh -Same as LSU
#10 BYU -They could beat FSU now
#11 West Virginia -Big East Sleeper
#12 Virginia Tech -I don’t think they are as bad as they looked Saturday
#13 Oklahoma State -They need Dez Bryant back to contend
#14 Houston -The UTEP game was unfortunate, aside from that they beat 2 good Big 12 teams
#15 TCU -Good road wins against Clemson, and Virginia still might not be good enough
#16 Cincinnati -The road thru the Big East will be tough
#17 Iowa -The Hawkeyes need not look past Michigan State
#18 Oklahoma -They are 3-3, but have lost by a combined 5 points
#19 Utah -Good, just over hyped this season
#20 Miami-FL -They need to win a road ACC game outside the state of Florida
#21 Oregon -They’re the only team left that can beat USC in the Pac 10
#22 Central Michigan -Dan LeFevour for Heisman
#23 Nebraska -I doubt they’ll ever be the black shirts again
#24 Idaho -Some how some way they keep winning
#25 Texas Tech -Being a backup is all that bad
Right Outside
#26 Ohio State -You don’t lose to a 1-win team and deserve to be in the Top 25 if you’re Ohio State period!
#27 Notre Dame -They showed that the will fight
#28 Michigan -Does it make you Wolverine fans feel good by hanging 63 on Deleware State?
#29 Kansas -I’m not ready to give up on them after Saturday
#30 Arizona -Getting better little by little

October 13, 2009

Krebs shows inability to discipline

Filed under: College Football — admin @ 12:57 pm

When one is egotistical, and working in a job that is considered by most to be in the limelight, such as that of Paul Krebs, I am under the belief that they are setting themselves up for failure. No, I’m not saying that Paul Krebs is a failure, however, the way he handled the Mike Locksley punching his assistant case was a disaster that could’ve been easily taken care of by Krebs, but instead had to be taken care of by the University of New Mexico’s Human Resource Department.

Krebs for some reason, egotistical objectives more than likely, decided that a verbal reprimand, and a follow-up letter put into Locksley’s file was going to make the situation better. Instead it gave an appearance of Krebs trying to sweep the problem under the rug, rather than dealing with it. Fans assumptions ran wild with the idea of Krebs not wanting to take some sort of heat from fans to the assumption that maybe he’d made a mistake by hiring Locksley. Now, I don’t believe that Locksley should be fired, and the bottom line as to why people are calling for his head has more to do with the 0-6 start, than the incident that took place between he and Gerald.

Krebs would have been better suspending Locksley himself instead of allowing the Human Resources Department to take matters into their own hands. He very well could’ve suspended him for the game at Texas Tech. Yet, he failed to do that. Paul Krebs has done excellent in his work prior to this incident. He had a chance to take care of the situation himself before it got to a hapless problem where someone else had to step in, that shows me that Krebs doesn’t have the skills to properly discipline the people whom he employs.

In the end, Locksley got what was right, a one game suspension, however it was the wrong person who suspended him. Hopefully, Krebs learned from this, and realizes that sweeping things under the rug is not going to make Lobo fans happy at all.

October 11, 2009

My New Top 25

Filed under: College Football — admin @ 10:51 am

My new Top 25 thru Week 6, last week’s ranking in parentheses:

#1 Florida (1)

#2 Texas (2)

#3 Boise State (3)

#4 Alabama (5)

#5 Virginia Tech (6)

#6 USC (7)

#7 Ohio State (8)

#8 Penn State (9)

#9 Georgia Tech (10)

#10 LSU (4)

#11 Kansas (11)

#12 Pittsburgh (12)

#13 BYU (13)

#14 West Virginia (14)

#15 Oklahoma (17)

#16 Notre Dame (18)

#17 Oklahoma State (19)

#18 Nebraska (20)

#19 Houston (21)

#20 TCU (22)

#21 Cincinnati (23)

#22 Iowa (24)

#23 Missouri (16)

#24 Utah (25)

#25 South Florida (26)

Right Outside

#26 Miami-FL (NR)

#27 Oregon (NR)

#28 Central Michigan (NR)

#29 Rutgers (NR)

#30 Wake Forest (NR)

October 8, 2009

Dear Nascar,

Filed under: nascar — admin @ 9:10 am

Hey NASCAR, maybe you should mull this idea for the Nationwide Series. Any “Cup Regular” whom starts in a Nationwide Series race has to start from the rear of the field. The procedure would make for must see TV, as guys like Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Kevin Harvick etc..must “earn” their finishing position in the race. Also, it would provide the Nationwide regulars, guys like Kenny Wallace, Trevor Bayne, Mike Bliss etc..much needed TV time and exposer for their cars and sponsors by running upfront for the beginning of the race.

You may think hogwash over the entire idea, but let’s face it the Cup guys sell tickets for the Nationwide races by being in them. They do take away points and starting spots away from very few of the other competitors, but they would still keep those valuable points away from those competitors even if you didn’t award points for the Cup regulars. You can’t force them to not race because you wouldn’t be able to draw the fans into the Nationwide races like you do now.

Most of the Cup regulars that compete in the Nationwide Series events are usually in far superior equipment than are those of just regular Nationwide teams, so while starting at the back might seem like a disadvantage, the Cup guys can make it up. We’ve already seen it time and again where the Cup guys have someone else qualify the car, and then come rocketing up from the back to still steal the show, like Carl Edwards at ORP, and again at Milwaukee.

With the Cup guys battling from the back, and the Nationwide guys getting much needed air time on TV and radio, hence, no more boring races. Of course there could always be tweaks to the keynote, this is just an idea to maybe draw more attention back to the Nationwide Series.

October 6, 2009

Week 5 CFB Recap

Filed under: College Football — admin @ 1:32 pm

What did we learn from week 5 in College Football? Well for starters, even with the advancement in how games are officiated, we learned that referees still make mistakes, and conferences still come out and say that officials make bad calls, to the despise of the teams whom the calls go against.

We also learned that Cal, not only isn’t worthy of a Top 10 ranking, but they’re not even worthy of a Top 25 ranking. I’m sorry Bear fans but you can’t be one of the “best 25″ teams in the country and get beat 72-6 combined in two weeks. The teams who get beat by those margins are usually the bottom feeder’s of the FBS. Jahvid Best can also kiss the Heisman dinner goodbye.

The next thing we learned is that Miami-FL can play well at home, it’s the going on the road part that has me scared. Honestly, in the games they played at home, even the one they played on the road but in the state of Florida, they looked comfortable. While when they left the state of Florida, they looked like a bottom of the pack ACC team. Are the ‘Canes worthy of a Top 10 ranking? I say not yet, win a road game outside the state of Florida and then we’ll talk.

I learned an interesting thing Saturday afternoon that had hardly any implecations on the National scene, and that is Mike Leach has no respect for other teams. This may sound like a Lobo fan crying, but at the same time Red Raider fans would be crying if a team pulled what Leach did on Saturday. While leading 42-28 with under 30 seconds left and the ball just been returned on an onside kick to the Lobos 1-yard line by Texas Tech, Leach decides not to take a knee, but rather punch it in one more time. What are you proving Coach Leach? You’ve already won the game. But as I know in College Football karma does catch up with teams, and it will with Texas Tech no doubt.

Finally we learned some interesting things from the Big 10. First, Rich Rodriguez still can’t win a road game in Michigan, and things don’t get easier as the Wolverines go to Iowa this Saturday. This is a definite problem for Michigan, if you can’t win road games, you’ll be settling for Alamo Bowl’s which is a disgrace by Michigan standards. Finally, Iowa plays down to their opponents. Can you believe that when we look back at the 2009 season, and a possibility of a Big 10 Championship for the Hawkeyes, one is going to be having a difficult time believing that Iowa’s two toughest tests came against the two opponents in which they should’ve had an easy time against. Northern Iowa and Arkansas State lost to the Hawkeyes by a combined four points. Basically one play in each game, talk about embarrasing had they lost those. Which just goes to show you that while Iowa might be good, I don’t think they’ve earned that number 12 ranking.

October 5, 2009

On second thought, the Browns might not be that bad.

Filed under: Pro Football — admin @ 1:36 pm

Ok, I know that alot of fans, and experts think that the Cleveland Browns have a long way to go, but take what we learned from Sunday, the Browns aren’t that far off only if they implement what they learned. We learned easily that Jerome Harrison can be used as the number one back in Cleveland over Jamal Lewis, we also learned that Derek Anderson is the better quarterback, and lastly that there is someone other than Braylon Edwards that can catch a football.

The Browns first need to come to the realization that Jamal Lewis is just not a number one back anymore. He needs to be used much like the Steelers used Jerome Bettis late in his career. You can lean on him a little, but don’t expect too much from him. Jerome Harrison is Cleveland’s “Willie Parker” sort of speak. The Steelers used Parker to carry much of the load, while relying on Bettis for short yardage situations. The Browns need to have Jerome Harrison carry much of the load, while relying on Lewis in short yardage, and other plays in which he could be used to exploit the defense, not on every down however. Harrison’s 121-yard performance has proven that he is ready to take over the top back position.

Derek Anderson came through, again. He went 10-5 as a starter his rookie season, to me, that was justification enough to dump Brady Quinn and build around Anderson. Instead the Browns were so ponderous of what Quinn could bring to them that they gave him a shot and the plan blew up in their face. Now, Anderson proved himself again on Sunday, leading the Browns to four scoring drives, four, Brady Quinn in the three previous games delivered five scoring drives. Anderson almost accomlished that in one game. Anderson looked sharp as well, he did not drop snaps, and looked to more than Braylon Edwards as a target in the passing game. The Browns need to trade Quinn plain and simple. Another thing that’s plain and simple, Derek Anderson has earned the number one spot again.

Finally we learned there is someone else whom the Browns can rely on in the passing game besides Braylon Edwards, enter Mohamed Massaquoi. Anderson targeted Massaquoi 13 times in Sunday’s game, and connecting with him eight times for 148 yards. They do, however, need to get Edwards the ball. Figure it out, run a reverse, do something to keep him involved in the offense, so that both Edwards and Massaquoi become headaches for the defense, who right now are just worrying about Edwards. Massaquoi showed his worth without a doubt on Sunday, and could very well become a great second receiver for the Browns.

So ultimately the Browns offense is not as inept as first thought. Alot of detractors will say it was just one game, but every team’s rebuilding effort has to start somewhere, for the Browns that started with Sunday’s game, let’s just see if the people in charge learned that as well, and continue with what worked on Sunday.

October 4, 2009

My New Top 25 Poll

Filed under: College Football — admin @ 7:24 pm

My new Top 25 thru week 5, last week’s ranking in parentheses:

#1 Florida (1)

#2 Texas (2)

#3 Boise State (3)

#4 LSU (4)

#5 Alabama (5)

#6 Virginia Tech (7)

#7 USC (8)

#8 Ohio State (9)

#9 Penn State (11)

#10 Georgia Tech (12)

#11 Kansas (13)

#12 Pittsburgh (14)

#13 BYU (15)

#14 West Virginia (16)

#15 Ole Miss (17)

#16 Missouri (18)

#17 Oklahoma (6)

#18 Notre Dame (19)

#19 Oklahoma State (20)

#20 Nebraska (21)

#21 Houston (10)

#22 TCU (23)

#23 Cincinnati (24)

#24 Iowa (25)

#25 Utah (26)

Right Outside

#26 Michigan (22)

#27 South Florida (30)

#28 Auburn (NR)

#29 Wisconsin (NR)

#30 Stanford (NR)

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