e-mail from Turner Gill

A number of times, I've sent emails to different members of the athletic department and coaching staffs of teams to wish them luck on their upcoming National Championship game. For the first time, I got a response.

Turner Gill, head coach of the Buffalo Bulls, responded back "Hello Ron, Thank you for the kind words & the interesting way of looking at our upcoming Missouri game."

Okay, it's got his name after the quote, although it was sent from his administrative assistant, so I guess I don't know for sure if it was really him responding or not or just a courtesy response. But still, it was pretty cool.

Okay, I have to say, for me the ultimate satisfaction to having this website would be if some coach were ever to use the fact that his team's playing for the National Championship as part of getting his guys pumped up for a game. A team like Buffalo or Nevada would have been perfect for that kinda thing.

If it weren't for the fact that Lou Holtz giving his pre-game speech of the week is getting really really really old, really really really fast... I'd break into my own pre-game speech about now. But it's been done, and done too often now to the point it's kinda ruined it all for everyone else. But to be able to say 'Men, no one's giving us a chance here. No one has ever heard of us, and most of the world still thinks we're a Division 3 team, but here is our chance for glory. Today, we play for the National Championship!'

Okay, I guess I did break out into a bit of the coach speech thing... sorry.

But where it would be cool is, someday there will be that big upset where a team like Buffalo will win their match. And the next week, they play Central Michigan. Okay, if I want world recognition of the whole Heavyweight Football concept, Central Michigan playing Buffalo for the title is NOT the way to get it. But since I don't care if anyone takes it seriously, that's okay. Can you imagine Butch Jones, head coach of Central Michigan, telling his team they're playing for the National Championship? THAT is the fun and the whimsy that makes doing this site so enjoyable for me.