When Billy Joel got....Middle Aged

A reliable source tells us that the college football National Championship was last night. Congratulations Georgia Bulldogs. Wow, another national champ from the Southeast Athletic Conference. Seriously, over the last decade the champs have all been SEC + Ohio State. 

Foreign readers, don't trust nobody from the lowdown, dirty, no-good SEC. Think of a Futball team that cheats, gets away with cheating, and then brags about cheating after defeating you 3-nil, all while the authorities let them get away with it.* Those lying bastards in the SEC would sellout their own mothers to win a football game. 

Student athletes...sure.

For those who don't know, college football isn't very big in the Northeast, except for Notre Dameb. But that's because of all the Irish. New Jersey has Rutgers...no mocking now, and it's totally a thing here. Rutgers has been pretending to be a serious college football program for 20 years now. They're in The Big Ten with Mrs. Stroock's own Penn State. She and her sisters think Rutgers should be kicked out of the conference. 

Moving on...

For a decade Billy Joel churned out melodic albums with piano centered songs. This blog believes the man peeked with 1983's An Innocent Man, which is a homage to the Do-Wop and Motown of the 50's and 60's. The videos are so much fun. 

Then we come to 1986's The Bridge. Here's the big track, A Matter of Trust. This a guitar power chord song and the video is channeling The Beatles. Alert viewers will see Ringo and Paul, which is kind of cool. Still, A Matter of Trust is unmemorable. What happened? Watch the video again. Also appearing are Billy Joel's mega-hot fashion model wife and baby daughter. That's what happened. Also, this is the go-go 80's not the manic depressive 70's, which we will discuss tomorrow. 

Hot Air reports future House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will kick several Dems off their committees. These include the usual suspects, compromised Eric Swalwell, Mogadishu's own, etc. But Hot Air points out that McCarthy is merely kicking them off some committees, not banning them from committee service en toto. We agree with Hot Air's analysis. Still, McCarthy is making progress, no? Colonel Schlichter, who is always right, likes to tell Dems that they're gonna hate the new rules. Stroock's Books goes even further, and calls on the House to expel Swalwell and Omar. Escalate, GOP. 

*Argentina? Italy? You tell me.

12-9-19 In New Jersey

New old Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano promises to recruit heavily from New Jersey high schools:

While speaking to folks on the sideline, including current Rutgers wide receiver Bo Melton and NJ.com, Schiano never took his eyes off the field. “We will always target New Jersey players first and foremost,” Schiano said. "Whether you’re ranked No. 1 or anywhere else, you always want the best players. That’s what we’re trying to do right now.“Excellent,” Schiano added when asked about the talent level of New Jersey football. “New Jersey football remains some of the best anywhere. The players and people we have met so far have been exceptional.”

Of course college football sensation and current NY Giants star Saquan Barkley is from Newark but went to Penn State, a Rutgers Big Ten rival and serious football program which manages to graduate players and remain scandal free.*

We wish Schiano luck.

*Except for letting pedophile ex-coaches run wild on campus.

12/4/19 in New Jersey

Greg Schiano is back!

[Who?-Ed]

Schiano coached the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in the 2000's when they were kinda sorta respectable.  For a generation they've been pretending to be a big-time college football program and even recently joined the Big-10. This is a very serious college football conference that includes powerhouse Ohio State, and Mrs. Stroock's own Penn State.

Rutgers has since become a laughingstock.

When Mrs. Stroock and her sisters went to a Penn State-Rutgers game last year they saw someone with a sign reading, 'Kick Rutgers out of the Big Ten!'

Quite right.

Rutgers is the University of New Jersey. People wear Rutgers gear. They even go to the games. *Shrugs* It's something to do on a Saturday. But College Football US New Jersey ain't.

Wither Rutgers

One of this blog's Confederate readers noted that yesterday began the college football season. He and I will always have a special bond becuase he likes Ole Miss and my man Eli Manning* went to Ole Miss.

One of the quirks of the Northeast is that it's not really good college football country, with one notable exception being the Irish and Notre Dame. But really we have no college football loyalties.

We married a Penn State girl (actually Mrs. Stroock went to UD but her parents went to and met at Penn State. She grew up with a cat named Nittany after the Penn State Nittany Lions.) Her lions crushed Idaho yesterday 79-7. Hope the network TV money was worth the humiliation, Idaho. 

Such is the way of college football were the top 25 or so teams beat and wail on the weaklings.

Here in New Jersey we have Rutgers (New Jersey U) which has pretended to be a top football program for 20 years. They even joined a serious conference, the Big Ten, home to Penn State. Go ahead and laugh, we do. People do go to the games, but its more of a 'thing to do on a Saturday' than actual rabid fandom. We're about 20 minutes from campus. 

When Penn State comes to town every other year Mrs. Stroock and her sisters go to the games. Last year when the Nittany lions annihilated the Scarlet Nights someone was spotted with a sign calling for the expulsion of Rutgers from that proud conference.

*Brother of the less successful Peyton Manning. Eli is 2-0 is the Super Bowl while Peyton is 2-2.

6-25-19 in New Jersey

University chancellors gonna university chancellor:

Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor has apologized after watching a police camera video of herself yelling at campus officers who asked her to remain at the scene of a minor traffic incident involving her car and driver.

Cantor, the former president of Syracuse University, shouted “I’m the chancellor!” and “If I miss my plane you folks are in trouble!” at Rutgers-Newark police officers investigating the fender bender in March, according to police body camera footage.

She seems nice.

We're reminded of our own conflict with Raritan Valley Community College, Part II and Part III.

We told those bastards that we'd publish a half dozen novels, eighty magazine articles, and bring a lot of unique value to RVCC. The incompetent marshmallow of a department head accused us of saying, 'Do you know who I am?' 

Those crap-weasels fucked with the wrong author. We went to enormous trouble to exercise some literary revenge.