If there one affair everybody knows about school football, it that no one really anything. For Tulanes sake, lets hope thats the case.

After outlay my Saturday after lunch sifting through the attire of college football preview magazines, my thoughts about the upcoming time of year from optimistically intriguing to complete grim.

Each shiny page steadfast to the Green Wave seemed bleaker than the next. Every periodical chocked full of cellar-dweller talk.

Lindys slotted the Wave in at a cool 97th in the country. Sporting News foreseen a fifth circumstance texture in Conference USAs six-team Western Division.

But no one bashed them moderately like Athlon. Their unpleasantness toward the Wave rivaled that of a -up LSU fan. The gruesome news went a little something like this:

Predicted high: 0-8 with three it could be games. Predicted standing: 111 complete, last in C-USA. Predicted rank by position (in 12-team C-USA): quarterback – 11, running back – 11, – 10, bellicose line – 9, defensive line – 12, linebackers – 6, tributary – 12.

Thats lovely promising objects. And thats just the graphics. The text in each of the is equally cruel.

Although each of them are realistically the same, in that its languidly produced with information, it zero insight just a wordy look across the roster with the word potential throughout.

Yes, we know departed superior Matt Forte was a major part of last years onslaught. Oh, and we know there is a quarterback publication. And yes, the extraordinary inconsistency a year ago is alarming.

As I read the repeated bunkum for the third time, my bleakness mysteriously began to wash away.

Why? I had a eye opener.

The folks who put these preview self-possessed arent . They arent even . They arent even all that educated on the product.

They are just trying to sell magazines. And university football fans will read anything. Especially in June.

If you dont judge me, go portable to some of the message boards in our Rivals network. Any chat bullpen draws crowds to their keyboards.

The same populace who predict Tulane to go 0-8-3* this season, select Louisville as a state-run entitlement runner. The Cardinals went 6-6.

Three eons ago, The Sporting News Tennessee its top level in the country. The Volunteers finished 5-6, absent a bowl for the key time in over 20 a month of Sundays.

We all have off pat 1998, when LSU was propped up meticulously at No. 3 by Sports Illustrated but went on to win all of games that period. How did preseason also-ran Tulane finale that year?

Oh yeah, 12-0.

And thats just off the top of my head.

These make because it sells, not because they actually know anything. Ive put unruffled a top 25 for a rag before, would you like to know the closet of the production date?

There are two : What bowl game did they play in last year? How many are returning?

Abracadabra! A top-25 featuring final three-win Notre Dame in the top 10.

So, Tulane lost its biggest name to graduation and didnt play in a bowl game last year. Thats the preseason death sound. It was obvious they were going to get bashed by the rags.

But does it mean anything? Well find out in a few months.

For now, dont nuisance caring about what they think.

Posted on June 29th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: College football news, NCAA college football