Home School Fans Episode 11 - Week 11: Indiana Shows Life

    Well, a bit of the wind of my enthusiastic sails blew away by October 22, and subsequently, when BYU was proving that it was severely challenged as a good team, and Indiana, too. It has been harder to stay motivated and write about the teams, but this last Saturday was not that bad. My main teams won.

    But first, to start with arguably the most important thing, which is life and death, we will go with the tragic-touched Virginia Cavaliers.

    Virginia Deaths and Cancellation of Season

    The shooter was Chris Darnell Jones, a former player who went to Charlottesville in 2018, but apparently was no longer on the team. After a bus trip to D.C., he took a weapon and shot three fellow classmates dead and injured two more. Not a lot of reasons that we know of. You may know my take: which is that cannabis or THC or some chemical is pushing a lot of triggers to make guys like this, killers. Active shooters, psychopaths, all of them. The high school shooters, like Salvador Ramos in Uvalde, Texas, and on and on. UVA cancelled its last two games and finished a very disappointing 3-7. Cannabis, pot. Killing us one shooter at a time.

    Very sorry for them and the loss of the three young men, who by all appearances and reports were outstanding guys. A huge loss, which definitely transcends the game of football. I hope they can recover and come back better next year, and all those involved can heal and improve from this terrible event.

    RIP Wahoo players. Very sad way to end this football season.

    And I do have to add, I am increasingly convinced that THC or cannabis is affecting all these crazy shootings and murders. I try to bring this up with many people. It is a common thread in all the killers, I am sure of it. And CBSSports has them rated at: 95 out of 131. They played hard, lost some close fought battles, but in the end real life took over, and it will be a longer, sadder, winter, for sure.

    God bless the Wahoos.

    Indiana! What a plucky, lucky win!

    Whoo. Whoo boy. Whew!

    IU pulls off a semi-miracle comeback (down by 17 at the half; they have not won in such a fashion of such a deficit since 2003. 0-38 against such circumstances. Even with some good years when the Hoosiers made it to bowl games. They never had such a comeback in 19 years, since last Saturday.

    It required some major momentum swings, some incredible plays like the TD kickoff return by Jaylin Lucas, and an easy missed close FG by Michigan State as regulation time ended.

    The first and only Over Time got better and it was snowing in East Lansing. And IU scored and won by 8. The Spartans were having an okay year, was 5-5 and trying to be bowl eligible. They need to win their last game now. IU, even with a win tomorrow against Purdue, who is bowl eligible, would only finish 5-7, with perhaps a little bit of a chance of a bowl, because some have predicted that two FBS 5-7 college squads will go bowling.

    What else to say? IU has a lot of injuries, but played well enough. Dexter Williams seems to be the QB for the Hoosiers, for the present and the future. He makes it a better offense, for sure. Despite all the hurt receivers and other defensive guys, we may be able to beat Purdue. We shall see.

    Utes Lose to Ducks, but Still the best of my Seven

    Utah loses a rather close one to the Oregon Ducks, who earlier crushed my BYU Cougars, showing the world that the Cougars were not what we thought they were, or what they would be. Utah is like top 12. (Okay, officially #14 in the CBS poll). It was a late game and I think that I went to sleep early, before it ended. That is good on me, as it is good to sleep and not watch more than 6 or 10 or more hours of college football on a given Saturday. We also watched some movies or a show as a family, so that is good on me. Way to go, dad.

    Sorry Utes, better luck next year.

    Will publish now. Part II next.

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