BCS Championship Game

I know this will sound blasphemous but as many of you know I am on the record as being a "playoff guy" for college football. But with each passing year I become more interested with the idea of the "season being the playoff".

Now, don't jump off the cliff yet. I do think that there are some "MAJOR" revisions that need to be made to the system, but I am slowly being converted. The big change needs to include all conference champions as potential participants in the championship game. This year for example what happens if Boise St and TCU both run the table, and neither gets in the Championship game?????

How that is fixed I am not sure. I think the season needs to be limited to 12 games, with a requirement that teams considered for a "BCS game must play division 1 teams only. That would create some more non-conference games with actual meaning, as opposed to Florida once again playing FIU, FAU, and the Citadel every year.

Speaking of Florida why is the SEC Champ already slated to play in the big game? What happended to Iowa, Boise St. Cincinnati, and TCU? They are all still undefeated. Let's at least let the games play out before we pick the final game. c'mon!!!!!

If you are scoring at home.............

Put a basehit next to the - Pass 4-8 Generalist Test Line!!!! It feels great. I even pumped my fist a few times like Tiger does at the Masters. It only lasted a few minutes though before my mind raced ahead to getting a job now. I have been busy making photocopies of transcripts, resumes, and reference letters, but hopefully it will all pay off in the fall.

Anyways, I wanted to update everyone on the news.
ben

The TEST

Well, tomorrow is the big day. For those of you who don't know; tomorrow I am taking the 4th through 8th grade Generalist test, which will hopefully allow me to get a job teaching Math, Reading, English, Social Studies, or Science in one of those 5 grades. I have spent the last month stuffing my brain with all that stuff from the show "Smarter than a 5th grader" and I think I might be ready.

I guess I'll sleep on it, and let all of you know how I do. Wish me luck!!!!

For me the Madness is over!

Every year after the Kansas Jayhawks lose in the tournament I go through some kind of shock, waking up days or weeks later to realize that some other team (probably North Carolina this year) has won what we affectionately call March Madness. Although the shock came again it seemed to be easier this year. Maybe because of the championship last year, or maybe because the young Jayhawks overachieved anyways. Or maybe I am just ready for the NBA Playoffs. I think my Blazers will finally be back in the post-season ceremony. They might even have a winnable (is that even a word?) first round match-up.

Anywyas, I don't want to get into a mushy, detailed review of the last year, but as many of you know it has been a difficult year for the Fillmore family in Texas. We love Texas, don't get that confused, it has been great to see the sunshine on multiple days in a row, and to see the temperature guage hit 70 in the month of December. Instead I just want to say that I have grown and learned a lot throughout the last year. I have many blessings and I hope that all of you can enjoy each day for what it is and understand that we are all each uniquely and truly blessed.

I just started a week and a half ago as a special education aide at a middle school here in Killeen. It has been both fun but demanding at the same time. I work with kids that have a documented educational plan. For most of them this simply means that they don't learn as quickly and easily as others. It has been an eye-opener for me. I enjoy the stability and comfort of being at the same job every day, as opposed to working as a substitute. And I enjoy working and getting to know the kids more closely. I learn something new every day, and I am excited to be able to have my own classroom and challenges next year (maybe that will change once it actually happens). I am scheduled to take a test this Saturday that will allow me to get a job between the 4th and 8th grades teaching math, science, social studies, or language arts. So wish me luck on that.

Anyways I am going to try and update this more often, and share more about everything going on down under (isn't Texas like the Australia of the US). I hope all of you are well, and for Landon sorry about the 125 to 104 smack-down thumping the Blazers handed, I mean delivered to the Jazz the other night. I hope you are still my friend, becuase, Dude!!!, your friendship dues need to be paid again.!!!!!!

Ben

Coaching Debut = A Win !!!!

So I was really nervous- yes even for 6-8 year olds. But I made it through the game, and my team came up with a 14-10 win. It was awesome. The kids did really good. We had a lot of turnovers, but it was still fun. I think most of the boys would say they enjoyed everything but their mandatory 1 quarter sit on the bench. Anyways, later that day we had a 6-6 tie. All the boys were tire as they all playeed in 2 games that day. After the first overtime went scoreless, we went to a sudden death overtime, like NFL football, the first team to score wins. With about :30 to go one of my players (who also hadn't scored yet) made a 8 foot jumper to win the game. But the ref wiped it out because the youngster took 6 steps to line up the shot. (He really did take 6 steps too). Anyways it was a lot of fun, and we gave the ref a lot of crap afterwards in good jest. I look forward to our next game on Friday.


I have spent several days recently at the library preparing for my comprehensive history exam to become a teacher. A few days ago as I was gathering my study materials to enter the library, I saw two cars back out at the same time, and rear-end each other. Both people got out, and assessed the damage, since they were going a combine 7 MPH they both shook there heads at the other person and left. Seconds later, I noticed a red pick-up truck rolling slowly out of its parking space. It had nobody inside, and rolled across the parking lot and smashed into an SUV. It was pretty funny, seconds later a chubby guy sprinted out of the library door, jumped in his truck, and re-parked. He glanced at the SUV, that had a small dent in the bumper, and then went back inside. I thought it was pretty funny.

Later.