Lane Kiffin is funny. He’s funny because he is so god a manipulating the media. He gets free media coverage better than any other coach in college football. Yesterday Lane Kiffin offered a scholarship to a 13 year old. Here’s the article from ESPN if you want to read it. The best part about all of this is that ESPN and just about every other major news source picked it up and will talk about it and discuss it for the next 2-3 days. That means Lane Kiffin and USC will be repeated at least a million more times in the next 2-3 days. Kiffin is brilliant. College football is over right now, but everyone is talking about USC. They aren’t talking about the signings that they made, no they are talking about the fact that Kiffin signed a 13 year old.
For Kiffin though it doesn’t really matter, in the end offering a scholarship and giving an actual scholarship are two different things. If the kid turns out to be the real deal, then USC will have the first shot at him. If he doesn’t then it is easy for USC to walk away and just say they thought it was in good fun. Kiffin may not be liked by many, but you have to respect the fact that he is better than Mike Kryzewski of Duke at getting free publicity.
You have to feel for a guy like Tim Tebow. Actually I guess i’s more like we should be praying for him and his boldness for standing up for what he believes in. If you don’t know what I am talking about then you probably have not been reading the news as of late. Tebow is set to be in a Super Bowl ad where him and his mother talk about his birth. Long story short, Tebow’s mother was told by her doctor to have an abortion because the child (Tim) was most likely not going to make it because of how sick his mother was. Needless to say he did make it and went on to be one of the greatest college football players of all time and possibly one of the most influential individuals in the U.S. over the past 2-3 years. Well, here is the latest from the “debate”.
It will be interesting to see what transpires over the next few days. There has been more talk about this commercial than there has of the game, which is fine by me. I hope that they tie (even though that is not possible for all of you non-sport people).
Good post from Jon Acuff over at Stuff Christians Like. Jon talks about smoking and what our view is as Christians. My question is simply this, should it matter whether you are a Christian or not? To me it doesn’t matter if you are a Christian or not. Smoking is smoking and whether you want to come to grips with reality, IT’S NOT GOOD FOR YOU! Then again I had a college professor who always said, “Knowledge in and of itself does not change behavior”. My how true this is. Here is the link to the blog post at Stuff Christians Like.
