Rodent Regatta

Doesn’t it just warm your heart to see kids playing football together?

This piece makes me wonder about whether they’ve found the right guy.

He had to know the opportunity was coming. Assuming an offer was made on Friday, what are the factors that must be reviewed to come up with a decision.

Is the NFL job on ”auto-pilot?” Is the college job too much work? When I was considering some candidates, Croom looked like a perfect fit.

With Stoops now headed to Arizona, Jimbo Fisher (apparently) staying put in Baton Rouge and no other names mentioned, we’ll have to see how Arizona’s turnaround compares to Mississippi State’s. So, in November or December of 2003, both schools change coaches after several consecutive losing seasons. How will they compare in 12, 24 and 36 months?

Everybody knows that you really shouldn’t decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Doesn’t everybody know this? Isn’t that a rule or something?

If not, it ought to be. There should also be a rule about not having Halloween costumes and Christmas decorations on display in a store at the same time.

Anyhow, with impeccable timing LilacRose brings on the Christmas decor.

As State fans despair, Mississippi State is now faced with the withdrawal of one of the (supposed) leading candidates to be the next football coach. Now, everybody seems focused on this guy.

This football program needs a strong leader. It needs a disciplinarian. It needs someone who knows how to instill resilience. The challenge is enormous.

The tenth annual ranking of the nation’s safest and most dangerous cities is now out and in the news. Morgan Quitno Press in Lawrence, Kansas does the study and announces the awards.

Here’s how:

The Morgan Quitno Safest City Award is based on a citys rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. All cities of 75,000+ populations that reported crime data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings. Final 2002 statistics, released by the FBI on October 27, 2003, were used to determine the rankings.

You’ll find the top and bottom 25 overall winners/losers in this list.

Highlights:

• Memphis is #11 of 350 cities when it comes to most dangerous
• Memphis is #4 on the most dangerous list when looking at cities above 500,000 in population
• San Jose, Austin, Portland and Seattle rank in the top 10 safest big cities
• In a sure sign of measurement weirdness, Memphis did not make any of the 281 spots on the most dangerous metro area list. Strange! In 2002 the metro area was #1 on the list of the most dangerous.