THE HOT ONE

"I'm burning up out here bruh!"

There is an old English colloquialism that says, “I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.” When a person uses it they are simply saying that there are two forces restricting one’s movement. They are unable for some reason to do something that they would like to do, such as act or not act in a certain way. The OG’s on the block  just said it like this, “Man its tight out here bruh and I can’t make a move right now.”

Well homeboy, it works the same way in the world of college football coaching. Normally schools will make a coaching change right after the last ball game which is usually at the end of November or the first week in December. It has to be done at that moment because recruiting season kicks into full gear during this time because National Signing Day is the first week of February. So they have to cut ties with the old coach and make a move on a new cat ASAP.

Here’s the problem big dawg! The hot coaching candidate is HOT because he’s winning. So more than likely his team is still playing for something like a conference championship or a big time bowl game. Louisville’s Charlie Strong is one of the hottest coaches in the country and everybody is chasing him at this point.

However, his Cardinals were playing in the Big East Championship game last night which they eventually won 20-17 over Rutgers. However, Auburn has a coaching vacancy and they interviewed him this week. The media got a hold of it and asked ole boy if he had in fact interviewed for the job. He vehemently denied it like he was supposed to do and everybody acted a fool because he lied about it. I mean, what was he supposed to do bruh? Say yes while he’s preparing his team to win a conference championship?

On some real talk, would you tell your boss that you just interviewed for another job if he asks you? Not a chance homeboy! So why would you expect Charlie Strong to be any different. He has a job just like you do.

 The timing is just bad because Auburn or schools like it can’t wait until after Louisville’s BCS Bowl game is over to interview Strong because they would miss out on all of their recruiting because signing date is in February. It is what it is.

 Remember when boyz at Cincinnati were fired up at Brian Kelly for bouncing to go to Notre Dame right before their BCS Bowl appearance in December of 2009? They were 12-0 heading to the Sugar Bowl to play Florida with the highest ranking and best record in school history and Kelly got the nod from Notre Dame and dipped. When the opportunity presents itself you gotta take it. They weren’t going to wait until he finished playing in the Sugar Bowl to hire him. They would have just moved on because they needed a new coach for a reason.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If LSU weren’t about to play for a national title in 2007 Les Miles would be coaching in Ann Arbor right now! Remember when Lloyd Carr retired and the Wolverines were looking for his replacement? You better believe that they hollered at Les because he’s a Michigan man. It was all over the news and ole Les was playing with that rock that I told you about earlier. However, he couldn’t walk away from LSU because they were about to play for a national championship. He was too close to the prize to leave but if they were just playing in a BCS Bowl he’d be singing the Victors in the Big House right now. Timing bruh!!

Remember when the Miami Dolphins’ fan base was upset with Nick Saban for lying about not going to Alabama and then going anyway? It’s the nature of the beast and there’s no good way to do it. You can’t be honest with your present employer about interviewing. Take your heart out of it and look at it for what it is.

So all of you Louisville fans out there don’t trip when Charlie Strong packs up the joint next week and goes south because he will! It’s like breaking up with the chick that’s been good to you but she really wasn’t the ONE but the woman of your dreams is finally available and now she wants you. Now there is no guarantee that it’ll work out but you gotta give it a shot. Otherwise, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life because you can always step back down. In the movie "A Bronx Tale" Sonny told the young boy, "C", "You're only allowed 3 great women in your lifetime." Well, in coaching you're only allowed ONE major opportunity if you're lucky! WEll...maybe two if you're Nick Saban.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Championship Week! 

1) PAC 12 Championship Game

#16 UCLA vs. #8 Stanford

2) ACC Championship Game

#13 Florida State vs. Georgia Tech

3) Big Ten Championship Game

#12 Nebraska vs. Wisconsin

4) SEC Championship Game

#2 Alabama vs. #3 Georgia

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Jay Graves 

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Keepin' It 100!

"Big Momma said there would be days like this!"

Oscar Wilde the famous London playwright of the early 1890’s once wrote, “I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.” Abraham Lincoln spoke like a real G when he said, “These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”

The more things have changed in this country the more things remain the same. Sure, African Americans have made tremendous strides in this country. We even have an black president that is in his second term for crying out loud. For that reason most people think that racism simply jumped on a first class flight and left the country.

Well homeboy the table of opportunity doesn’t always get prepared to feed everybody and especially African-American college football coaches. The hiring numbers over the years have been staggering to say the least. By 1994 there were only 4 black head coaches out of 120 jobs at the FBS level. In 2002 the numbers exploded to an unbelievable… 4! I will say that by the start of the 2012 season there were 15 black coaches walking the sidelines on major college campuses. That number just took a hit on Sunday with Joker Phillips at Kentucky and Jon Embree at Colorado being shown the door.

Now Embree was fired in only his second season after going 1-11! Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Not only did ole boy go 1-11 but he didn’t win a home game all season. That’s something that hasn’t been done at Colorado since 1920! He also lost by an average of 48-17 this season! It’s hard to defend that homeboy so I won't even try just like my man Stephen A. said on Sports Center yesterday!

However, the problem that I’ve got is that his predecessor, Dan Hawkins, had 5 losing seasons before he was fired. Now I wouldn’t trip if standard protocol said to fire a cat in year 2 if he can’t win. But you can’t run a dun out of town in his second year and the cat before him had a chance to parlay losing for 5 years! At least put Embee on the hot seat and run him out in year 3!

What people don’t realize is that being able to win at the college level is all about being able to recruit. So in just his second year he hasn’t had time to bring enough of his recruits in to run his system etc.  He’s only had a year and a half of recruiting to do and let’s keep it real, its Colorado bruh! Whoever coaches there is gonna lose, black or white!

Sure, guys like Bob Stoops won a national title in year two but he was at Oklahoma. They grow talent there bruh! You can’t expect a guy to win at a perennial loser and especially in two years. Let’s keep it 100! The best you’re going to do at Colorado is 6 or 7 wins on a great year especially if you aren’t cheating. That’s real talk! Joker Phillips didn’t have a chance at Kentucky! Vince "Freaking" Lombardi couldn’t win there playa! They just hired Florida's State's D coordinator and Bob's brother, Mike Stoops, and he's gonna lose at Kentucky too! Why? Because it's Kentucky! However, he'll get another job after the smoke clears!

What was so crazy to me was that during his press conference Embree made the comment that black coaches don’t get second chances. Which is 100% correct but in my opinion, that’s not for him to say. You can’t be the dun getting fired for losing and calling out the problem. That’s for somebody on the outside to start screaming because it comes across better from an outside party.

You can’t be 1-11 and hollering that boyz are being unfair or that they'll potentially be unfair to you! You just stay on the grind and let organizations like the Black Coaches Association or folks with a big microphone scream about it. We don't need you to get distracted seeing that you have the potential to be 1-11 bruh.

That’s like some cat getting walked out of Wal-mart in hand cuffs for shop lifting and hollering they racially profiled me. When all the time he had a play station in his coat!  He sounds like Smokey in the movie Friday when they asked him, “Man how you gone sell weed when you smoke weed?” "THAT’S MY ONLY PROBLEM!" How you gone trip on boyz letting you got when you got drug by Sacramento State at the crib!

Now what he said was spot on in his assessment but somebody else has to say it! In the history of college football there been only one African-American head coach to get fired and find another job at the FBS level and that was Ty Willingham. Outrageous!! He was fired at Notre Dame and was then hired at Washington. That’s mind blowing bruh considering that more than 70% of the players look like him!

The sad reality is that it is still very unfair and people try to act like brothers are just making things up. However, when Gene Chizik was hired at Auburn he was 5-7 at Iowa State the year before. His overall record with the Cyclones was 5-19 but he was hired over Turner Gill who had just won the conference title at Buffalo!

 Sure, ole dull Gene won a national title two years later but do you think it was because he learned how to coach or was it the stud at quarterback he landed for one year? He still can’t coach and that was proven when Cam left for the NFL. Unfortunately, guys like Joker Phillips, Turner Gill or Jon Embree don’t get the opportunity to redeem themselves like Gene Chizik or Mike Price did down at UTEP even after the stripper scandal at Alabama. I bet ole motorcycle crashing wife cheating playboy Bobby Petrino get’s a job before Christmas. In my Puffy voice, “It real in the field playboy!”

 That’s why I  love Big Momma because she gave it us raw when she said, “Life is hard but it’s fair even when it ain’t! Just do your best and let God will do the rest because it’ll make you a stronger person!” I hear you grandma but that doesn’t mean we gotta like it!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Just Some Real Talk Bruh!

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Jay Graves 

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The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Wrap Up: Week 13!

Week 13 Wrap Up! 

Rivalry Week

1)"The Game " #19 Michigan 21 vs. Ohio State 26

2) Georgia Tech 10 vs. #3 Georgia 42

3) #5 Oregon(Parliament Funkadelic) 48 vs. #15 Oregon State 24

4) #4 Florida 37 vs. #10 Florida State 26

5) #1 Notre Dame 22 vs. USC 13

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Jay Graves

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The Heisman Hustle

"I'm telling you right now bruh! On my momma, I'm not gettin' in the car with Manti Te'o!"

Either Ben Franklin grew up in the hood or the old playa’s from the vacant lot next to the liquor store did a lot of reading because they both used to say, “Believe none of what you hear and half of what your see.” Growing up in the hood has certain built in advantages. The most important of those is the instinct of being able to see a hustle coming a mile away.

The dull media is trying their best to rob Johnny Football of the Heisman and give it to Manti Te’o instead!  Sure, Te’o plays for the #1 team in the country and the most storied program of all-time. He’s the defensive leader and team captain but that’s about the size of it homeboy. Sure, he has a great inspirational story for us all because he’s played through the death of both his grandmother and girlfriend on the same day. For that, he should be commended. However, he shouldn’t win the Heisman because his grandma and girl died.

 Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Cats from the hood have been playing through murders, drug addictions and imprisonments of family members for years and they haven't won any Heisman trophies because of it! So don't try to give Manti Te'o the joint because of family tragedy. Johnny Football is running circles around boyz and deserves to win it because he is the most OUTSTANDING player in the country!

First of all, in order to win the Heisman as a defensive player you’ve got to play more than one position bruh. The only cat to ever win it playing defense was Charles Woodson from Michigan and he did everything at the Big House but write the Michigan fight song. Not only did he have 120 tackles and 8 picks, he seemingly never left the field either. He had 28 yards passing, 193 yards rushing, 238 yards receiving, 301 yards in punt returns, 4 TD’s and he seemingly won the National Championship by himself! Clearly I'm being facetious but you get my point!

 Manti Te’o only plays linebacker and he’s not even close to being in the top 10 all-time in tackles in a single season. Lawrence Flugence from Texas Tech is #1 all-time in a single season in 2002 with 193. The cat that’s 10th all-time, Rodney Thomas from Clemson in 2002, had 167! Manti Te’o only has 103 and 7 picks! His numbers are worse this year than they were last year because he had 128 tackles then and most folks had never even heard of the guy. Not that he has to be in the top 10 in tackles to be considered but he only plays one position! So clearly he has to do more than be a middle of the road linebacker relative to great players to be in the discussion in the first place!

He coudn’t hold Dick Butkus(Illinois), Brian Bozworth(Oklahoma), Chris Spielman(Ohio State) or Mike Singletary’s(Baylor) helmets let alone the Heisman Trophy. Give him all the defensive national awards you want to but don't disrespect the Heisman by even talking about this cat. On some real talk, he's not even the best linebacker in the country! Ole boy from Ohio State, Ryan Shazier, is a far better player with only 5 fewer tackles. 

Johnny Football has better single season numbers than both Tim Tebow 4181 and Cam Newton 4327 when they won it. This dun has 4600 yards and 43 TD’s playing against better competition(LSU, Florida & Alabama)! Not to mention that he drilled then #1 Alabama at the crib. Nobody is even close to this kid and you can throw the media driven dumb argument that he’s a freshman out of the window. That’s the same excuse that robbed Adrian Peterson of the joint in 2004 when he rushed for 1925 yards.  

All I’m saying is, don’t try to manufacture another Heisman trophy winner at Notre Dame like they did in 1987 when boyz handed the joint over to Tim Brown on career achievement! Check this out bruh! He won the Heisman Trophy as a wide receiver with only 39 catches! C'mon homeboy! Everybody that was alive to see it knows that Don McPherson from Syracuse got robbed in a dark alley with a butter knife by some cat in a Notre Dame letterman jacket. Brown had an awesome career but in ’87 McPherson was clearly the most OUTSTANDING player in the country but the Notre Dame mystique pulled the votes Brown's way.

Although I sympathize with Te’o for the loss of his mom and girlfriend that doesn’t justify him winning the most coveted award in sports and the media ought to be ashamed of themselves for even pushing it. Unless ole boy is running and catching the rock, tackling everything moving, returning punts and kickoffs, dressing the freaking Leprechaun, putting the gold paint on the helmets, changing Touchdown Jesus' clothes at halftime and skateboarding on the Golden Dome he doesn't deserve to win the Heisman! Now you can stop me when I start lyin’ bruh!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Let's Ride!

"We got ya back bruh!"

Three years ago Brian Kelly showed up in South Bend pushin’ a clean but simple 4 door Sedan bumpin’ the Victory March every morning on his way to work. As the students slept you could hear the wacky coach role by with the “Echoes” playing in the background. He was just another coach promising boyz a resurrection of the program. Yeah homeboy, we’ve seen this movie before! Bob Davie, Ty Willingham and ole Charlie came through The Bend with that foolishness too. You’ll be gone in a few years too and at least folks can sleep in again.

Fast forward to 2012! After the Stanford game ole B. Kelly, as he’s now known in the hood, pulled up in a Range Rover Supercharged joint with the Echoes on full blast! After dusting off BYU at the crib it was time to go to Norman and holla at the Sooners! After beating the doors off of Oklahoma at the crib where they were 69-4 going into that game, Ole B. pulled back up on the yard in the gold Bentley Phantom with the Echoes wide awake! He had Knute Rockne riding shotgun with Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian and Dan Devine in the back seat. They had Lou sitting on the hood to keep him from spitting on the seats. Those joints are hand made you know how that is homie.

Instead of playing that joint on the car's sound system he woke the freaking band up every morning and now they’re marching behind the ride. The Leprechuan is following right behind them in a Blue and Gold Maserati with the “Gipper”, ND's first All-American, hollering at the girls out of the window. Even though they were 9-0 with probably the best defense in the country you still had boyz standing in the background hatin’! Not me playa, I became a believer when they came through and destroyed my Sooners!

So the last thing they had to do was show up in LA and put that thang on USC and they would be playing for a national title again! Something that the Fighting Irish hadn’t done since 1988! Well homeboy, they went out to the Coliseum and went to work on the Trojans 22-13! Now all of the haters can hate but the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are no longer delusional! THEY ARE BACK and ole B has so much street credibility that the hustlers have given him a lifetime ghetto pass. Just don't pull a Coach K and never come to the hood to recruit! Otherwise, they'll take that joint back.

Relevant again!

It’s serious business now! Next stop is South Beach and because B is getting so much love everybody wants to ride! So the only thing left to do is wake up Noah and tell him to load up the Ark! Bring everything with you to Miami because the boyz are gonna need to be inspired! Bring all 857 wins(3rd all-time), grab the 11 national championships and call up the 7 Heisman’s and let them know that it’s about to go down! The players need to see Angelo Bertelli ’43, Jonny Lujack ’47, Leon Hart ’49, Johnny Lattner ’53, Paul Hornung ’56, John Huarte ’64 and Tim Brown ’87! Rally the troops and make sure the Four Horsemen are on board too!  I need you to even peal Touchdown Jesus off of the side of the administration building and bring him too. Don't even trip, just stand stand him up in the sunroof of the Ark all the way to Miami so that these cats know that ND is coming to put up mad points and win their 12th national title! It doesn’t get any bigger than this and they gotta have all hands on deck! Call Rocket Ishmail, Todd Lyght, Jerome Bettus, Rickey Waters and Tony Rice and tell them to get the party started in South Beach because I know they're still connected to the streets!

I can hear B pulling into the football facility this morning after a great win in LA last night but he’s not bumpin’ the Victory March though! He’s got Biggie riding shotgun playing that Juicy, “If you don’t know now you know!” Now I'm a diehard OU Sooner fan from the old school and I was taught that you gotta pull for the team that beats you. So like all the real G's in the hood would say, "Let's Ride!" Go Irish!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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THE TRUTH SERUM

"$#%!!!! How you gone tell me what I can't do, homeboy!"

George Orwell once said, “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” The older sisters in the church used to say, “Baby, just tell the truth and shame the devil!” The only reason that you keep up with Ya Boy is because Ima keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Like Big Momma used to say, “Ima tell it like is sho nuff T.I.S.!”

For years I’ve been blasting the University of Notre Dame for being the most delusional program in sports. You’ve heard my rants on sports radio shows, read the Hot Joints or both! “Notre Dame is no longer your father’s Notre Dame!” As much as it sickens me to say, Brian Kelly should be the Coach of the Year and the Coach of the freaking Decade!  He’s done what most people and including Ya Boy, ten fold, thought could never be done again. He’s resurrected Notre Dame from the ashes and has these boyz sitting on top of the college football world again! Ranked #1 going into the final game of the season against dull USC without Matt Barkley, I might add!

For years I’ve said, “Either you want the NBC contract and keep all of the money or you want to play in a BCS bowl and possibly the national title game. You can’t have both. You need to join a conference because it would be much easier that way!" Wrong! “By continuing to be an independent you put your team at a constant disadvantage because if by chance they lose just one game (and God forbid it’s an early loss), they have absolutely nothing to play for the rest of the season. It’s either all or nothing at Notre Dame and how do you sell that to an 18 year old recruit?” Win games! How do you do that? Coach the hell out of your players like Brain Kelly did!

“The Fighting Irish wants to be an academic powerhouse and a football powerhouse at the same time. You can’t be both unless you decide to move into the Ivy League.” Wrong! “ND can’t get the players that the state schools have access too. When you look at the top 150 recruits in the country, the Irish can only talk to about 30 of them because of the academic requirements. Other schools like Florida State, Alabama, Oklahoma, LSU, Ohio St etc can talk to all of them and will sign maybe 12 or 13 of them every year. Now what happens when ND shows up to play one of them and they’ve got 60(12x5 yrs of recruiting for example) of the best players in the country and the Irish only have 3?” Beat the doors off of Oklahoma in Norman 30-13!

“A player coming out of high school now is 17 or 18 years old and wasn’t even born when you won your last title in 1988. How can you compete on the recruiting trail?” They couldn’t compete! However, they got players that bought into the Notre Dame mystique, Touchdown Jesus etc and simply went out and won 11 games this year! Now he can compete on the recruiting trail for years to come homeboy!

I also said, “The Fighting Irish have to be able to recruit the elite (top 150) African-American athlete. They thought that Paul Hornung (ND 1956 Heisman Trophy winner) was some crazy old dude a few years ago when he told them the same thing.” They still don’t have all of those guys but the studs that they do have want to play for Brian Kelly. Now they look like the elite Joe's that he couldn't sign! So did he or didn't he sign them? I think he may have, pimpin'! Don't fool yourself with that! The Notre Dame defense had 37 SEC scholarship offers. So these boyz can play!

“In order to win, you’ve got to go where the best players are, and that’s down South or out West to California and boyz from warm weather climates aren't coming to South Bend.” Well, he retained one of the best linebackers in the country in Manti Te’o, who’s from Hawaii, although Charlie Weis recruited him. Then he went down to South Carolina bumpin' that Do or Die, "Do You Wanna Ride" and swooped up Everett Golson. He just told him that all snow is, is frozen rain and they make coats for that bruh! Come on up here and we’ll make sure Big Momma see’s you on TV every week! Remember that NBC contract that I told you that they couldn't have and win too? Yeah that joint came in handy! ESPN/ABC has taken care of the all of the rest of the road games for them! So Big Momma didn't have to leave to crib to see her baby play!

Win or lose this week Brain Kelly has done more than Lou Holtz post 1988, Bob Davie, Ty Willingham, dull Charlie Weis or any other coach in America could even have imagined doing under those circumstances. If he doesn’t win the Coach of the Year its HIGHWAY ROBBERY!  Brian Kelly and that freaking Leprechaun that stole our Sooner Schooner made me write this joint against my will by winning 11 games this year. They forced me to drink the TRUTH SERUM bruh! So if you will excuse me, I have to throw up!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Blood Wars

"This isn't a rivalry bruh! It's just business!"

I keep hearing people talking about rivalry games in the NFL like Packers/Bears, Steelers/Ravens or even the Cowboys/Redskins and when I do, I simply laugh! You can't use the term "rivalry" when talking about games in the NFL because the players aren't as emotionally involved as the fans. Sure, they want to win but it wouldn't matter who they were playing for.  True rivalries only exist at the college level. Professional athletes don't play rivalry games because they didn't choose to play for their particular team, they were drafted. At any given time they can be traded to the opposing team and it wouldn't make a difference to them as long as the money is right.

The fans are the only one's that would look at the game as being a rivalry like the Bears/Packers match up or today's the Cowboys/Redskins game. Yeah... it's a divisional game but it's far from being a rivalry. In order for a game to fall under the tag "rivalry" the players have to be emotionally involved. Let me break it down bruh.

  A true rivalry is born out of years tradition and strong hate for the opposing team. There are years of  history tied to them and the story behind why the game is played is usually bigger than the game itself. Most of these games have been played for nearly 100 years and the story lines have existed for much longer.

 "The Game", Ohio State vs Michigan is one of the greatest rivalries of all-time.  History tells us that in 1835 and 1836 the state of Ohio and Michigan territory were involved in a bloody border dispute called the War of Toledo. Many say that the football game is a modern version of this war. This game more often than not will determine the Big Ten Championship and a trip to the beloved Rose Bowl. Now more importantly, the kids playing in this game have dreamed of putting on those uniforms their entire lives. They have a true passion for their respective teams and a hate for the opposing team. I can understand why the Buckeye fans hate Michigan because two out the three Michigan Heisman Trophy winners have come from the state of Ohio; Desmond Howard (Cleveland), Charles Woodson (Fremont).

Another example of a great rivalry would be the Red River Shootout or Rivalry as they call it now, the Oklahoma/Texas game. There is bad blood for various reasons but the most important is the fact that Oklahoma keeps coming over the border(The Red River) and stealing great Texas players. The Oklahoma roster is full of players from Texas. More than 50% of the OU roster consists of kids from Texas. Not everybody from Texas likes the Longhorns bruh! However,  not a single player on the Texas roster is from Oklahoma because all kids from the Sooner state love the crimson and cream except for dull Jeremy Shockey who went to Miami. Lol! Can't blame him the U was hot when he went down there.

  The game has been played in Dallas every year since 1900 where it's exactly 300 miles from each campus. The tickets for the game are split down the middle of the field at the 50 yard line in the Cotton Bowl, burnt Orange going south and Crimson going north. The Texas folks often refer to OU as the University of Texas at Norman because they have so many players from the Lone Star state. Many of the OU legends and All-American’s have grown up in the state of Texas; Billy Sims(Hooks), Adrian Peterson(Palestine), Brian Bosworth(Irving), Greg Pruitt(Houston), Ricky Dickson(Dallas) just to name a few.

The kids playing in these games have chosen to attend these universities for the sole purpose of playing in games like these. They weren't drafted,  they chose to go play for these teams, so it means more to them. The guy playing for the Bears could easily be from New Orleans and could care less about Chicago or the so-called rivalry. He doesn't even live in Chicago because he goes home after the season is over.  However, if a kid is playing for Alabama more than likely he can't stand Auburn and has felt that way his entire life. No way would a kid playing at Miami think about transferring to Florida State. That would be blasphemous!

So when I hear people trying to call the Colts/Patriots game a rivalry, I laugh because Adam Venatieri has played for both teams. It's the NFL and when the rivalry is something that only the fans participate in, it's just a game. In order for it to qualify as a legitimate rivalry the players have to care more than the fans do and they simply don't.
  
Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Week 13 Preview

The Rivalry Games

There's no such thing as an NFL Rivalry Game Bruh! Watch the video to find out why!

1) "The Game" #19 Michigan 8-3 vs. Ohio State 11-0

2) Georgia Tech 6-5 vs. #3 Georgia 10-1

3) #5 Oregon (Parliament Funkadelic) 10-1 vs. #15 Oregon State 8-2

4) #4 Florida 10-1 vs. #10 Florida State 10-1

5) #1 Notre Dame 11-0 vs. USC 7-4

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Jay Graves 

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International Playa

"I wanna make money off of my race but I don't wanna be criticized by it!"

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Henry David Thoreau broke us down like this, “If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.” Big Momma standing in the door with her rag and old dirty house coat just said, “Sometimes you just need to shut up!”

Maybe Jeremy Lin never listened to his Big Momma or his nai nai, as she would be called in Chinese, but he should have. In a recent interview with Yahoo Sports! This dun said that he felt race was involved when asked about the criticism he’s getting because of his struggles on the court thus far this season. He also feels like he’s had to justify his 3 year $25 million contract along with his heritage.

What? Say that out loud 3 time’s bruh and tell me if that sounds as dumb as it did when you read it?  Lin is getting slammed because he’s not good not because he’s of Asian descent! However, on some real talk; the only reason Jeremy Lin has a 3 year $25 million contract is because of his race!! If his name was Jerome Lindsey he’d still be coming off of the bench in New York because he wouldn’t have become an international phenomenon if he were a black or white player. Why? Because there wouldn't have been anything special or unusual about the story.

That fact that he is of Asian descent made him the most popular player in the world during the two weeks in February that he came out of nowhere. He became an international superstar because he was the first player of Chinese or more specifically Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, not because he could ball.  Sure, folks were gassed up because this kid was getting it in but “Linsanity” became a world wide brand because of his race!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Jerome Lindsey would have been another cat in the NBA that would have gotten some love for coming off of the bench and helping the team in Mello’s absence and he would have sat back down when Mello came back. End of story.

So if you’re going to eat up the spotlight because of your race on the front end. You’ve got to deal with the criticism on the back end bruh! I say, be cool with the fact that you parlayed your race into a 3 year $25 million contract, a shoe deal,  multiple major endorsements and when the joint is up, take the money and your Harvard degree and bounce! Think about it, not too many cats can make that type of bread for essentially doing two weeks of work and becoming an international brand.

 I didn’t even mention the co-licensing deal that he has with Nike and Harvard. The deal will be an economic and brand building opportunity for Harvard in China! Almost 18% of the 6,657 undergraduates at Harvard are of Asian descent! So he is using his race to make money and that’s a straight up gangsta move! Folks are gonna hate anyway.

Why not get paid in the process but don't complain when boyz bring it up because your RACE is what’s feeding you homeboy! Be a G about it and take it in stride because the money is green and you've got it! Don’t ever forget that RACE is the reason you became an international player in the first place, Playa!

Folks are so afraid to discuss race in this country but our diversity is what makes it so great. Wouldn't it be boring and bland if everybody were the same around this piece? I'm always blown away when I hear people say that I don't see color! Ralph Ellison said it best in his 1952 novel, The Invisible Man, "To say that you don't see color is to say that you don't see me." So race is always on the table bruh, embrace it and everything that comes with it. Just don't be disrespectful about it!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Wrap Up: Week 12!

Week 12(Video)

1) #1 Kansas State 24 vs. Baylor 52

2) #13 Stanford 17 vs. #2 Oregon 14

3) The SEC Takes a Dull Smoke Break! 

4) #18 USC 28 vs. #17 UCLA 38

Holla At Ya Boy! 

Jay Graves

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THE Epiphany

"Don't trip young fella! It'll slow down and get much easier! Trust me!"

The famous London playwright Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Dale Carnegie gave it to us like this, “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” The old jick standing in front of Mr. Willy’s liquor store in the ghetto just kept it real when he said, “Don’t grow up to be like me young brother. I was cool with making mistaking and I’m still making them. You got 42 cents on this drink?”

In order to become great you’ve got to be able to overcome mistakes and learn from them. Andrew Luck learned a valuable lesson in Foxboro on Sunday. He learned that he’s officially playing in the NFL against defensive backs that make a living covering wide receivers. It's their job to make sure that he doesn’t have success throwing into their neighborhood. So you can't throw it around all Willy Nilly because you’re Andrew Luck! This ain't college football bruh it's the NFL!

The Patriots blew the Colts out 59-24 and from the surface you would think that it was a complete carjacking. However, that wasn’t the case at all. The Colts had more 1st downs (28-25), ran more plays(75-60), had more total yards(448-446), only 2 fewer passing yards(329-331), more rushing yards(119-115), less penalties(1-5 to 4-70) and a greater time of possession 32:55 vs. 27:05! The difference was in turnovers, 3 vs. 0!

For a rookie quarterback mistakes like that are expected! However, they are fixable and that game will be the turning point in the career of Andrew Luck! Once this kid understands that he has to respect the skillz of these boyz grazing out here in the secondary he’ll become a great player.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! To go into Foxboro and put up the stats that he did is still impressive. Keep in mind that he’s still trying to get his feet wet and that the game is still moving a 100mph for him. It may not have looked that way through the first 9 games but he’s still a rookie.  Give him time bruh!

In order to become successful you have to experience some setbacks. Every successful person has a story to tell if you’re willing to listen. Nobody just shows up and becomes the man or the woman without failing first. It’s called wisdom for a reason homeboy! How would Luck ever realize that he can’t throw the ball in there without getting it taken away if some cats hadn’t ripped him first and made him look bad on national TV?

How would I have ever known that I NEEDED to put a lock on my gym locker in elementary school until I showed up for gym one day and my joint was swinging in the wind? You’re always forced to have THE epiphany when things go bad! You better believe not only did I put a lock on my joint but I beat the brakes off of the first cat that I thought stole my shoes! So if he didn’t steal them he made sure that whoever did take them got a beat down too and boyz were put on notice. You better believe that my joints showed back up too. Epiphany!!!

So don’t ride Andrew Luck too hard this week! He’s just looking for his sneakers and once he finds them he’ll be ready to role again! Mistakes are a part of development and unfortunately we all get to see his on national television.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

Hoods, Sets & the Truth

"Thanks for saving us from ourselves bruh! We knew we weren't ready!"

Alexander Dumas once said, “All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.” Ralph Waldo Emerson gave us this, “Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.” However, Julius Caesar was a G when he broke down, “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”

I’ve been telling you boyz for weeks not to freak out because the top 4 teams were undefeated like the dull media does every year. Sit in the cut and be patient! As much as clowns hate the BCS it always gets it right!! The two best teams in the country have ALWAYS played for the title and this year will be no different. Well… in 2004 USC and Oklahoma were #1 & #2 for most of the season and remained unbeaten. Auburn came out of nowhere, didn’t lose a game and didn’t get in. But USC was a juggernaut with Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush & Co. so it wouldn’t have mattered if they played them or the Sooners. The only reason that we went to the BCS in the first place was to finally get #1 to play #2 for all of the marbles. In the past, because of bowl contracts with conferences, the two best teams never squared off. Now they do!!!

What have I been telling you every week bruh? “The playoffs started week 1!” That’s what makes college football so exciting! There was no way 4 teams were going to pull into the station undefeated because it never happens because everybody can’t handle the pressure. Last week we saw Alabama, who is the best team in the country, fall asleep at the wheel and allow Johnny Manziel to become the front runner in the Heisman race. All week folks have been freaking out because of the possibility that Notre Dame could get left out even if they ran the table. Patience people!!! It’s college football!

When I saw Kansas State move up to #1 last week I knew that it was a death sentence because Kansas State is Kansas State! They got the doors blown off of them by Baylor 52-24 not because the Bears were that much better. They got blown out because they were Kansas State! There is a reason why boyz are playing in Manhattan bruh!

They’ve been winning games but they aren’t accustomed to having the spotlight on them like that. At some point the pot was gonna boil over! They aren’t the same kids that play at Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, Oklahoma etc. They aren’t the 5 star guys that have lived in the bubble their entire lives, dated the baddest chicks and see the national media on campus every week.

 Naw, they’re the duns that got offered by Iowa State, Sam Houston State, North Texas and Kansas State. So they picked the best of the lot. When the target was put on their backs they got attention that they weren’t ready to handle. Boyz knocking on their dorm room doors all week tellin’ ‘em how good they are. They’re hollerin’ at women that they’ve never even known were on campus. Cats walking to class in a fog thinking about being the #1 team in the country and not preparing to play like it and forgot all about dull Baylor!

Let me say it again bruh! “The playoffs started week 1!” You can’t afford to fall asleep at the wheel down the stretch. Ole Stanford went out to Eugene and got with the Parliament Funkadelic 17-14 in OT in an Instant Classic. Cats can’t blame the loss on the injury bug that has plagued the Oregon defense all year because they only gave up 17 points.

So Notre Dame moves up to #1 and guess what? The Alabama Crimson Tide will position themselves at #2 for at least the next 2 weeks! In my opinion they shouldn’t be #2 because of the dull schedule they've played. Y'all know they took a smoke break yesterday and beat up on ole dull Western Carolina 49-0! SMH! If anybody should be in the 2 spot it should be Mark Richt’s Georgia because they’ve played a gantlet of a schedule! However, it’s cool because they still have to play each other for the SEC title game in the “A.” So again, things will sort themselves out!

 In 2014 Oregon and K State would at least have gotten a chance to redeem themselves in the 4 team playoff right? Wrong, cuz boyz are still voting on the top 4 and the dull media will bounce both of them out of the top 4 then just like they will today! So to use the word playoff is still all smoke and mirrors! It's all about the bread homeboy! You can't have a legitimate playoff when there are 120 teams the FBS! This ain't basketball where boyz can play 3 games in a week. So you gotta still vote on who gets in and the powers that be will still be pulling the trigger! The same dull powers that are about to rob Johnny Football of the Heisman and give it Manti Te'o because he plays at Notre Dame and is a great story!

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever, comes 1st! Cats from the hood have been playing through murders, drug addictions and imprisonments of family members for years and they haven't won Heisman trophies because of it! So don't try to give Te'o the joint because of family tragedy. Johnny Football is running circles around boyz and deserves to win it because he is the most OUTSTANDING player in the country!

So it's just gonna be a money grab that the players still don't get to see, smell or touch so you can leave all the semantics out! Adding games won't change the outcome it just puts more bread into greedy cats pockets! The best 2 teams will always play in the title game and if they happen to be from the SEC more often than not, then it is was it is. Again, that doesn't mean that the entire conference from top to bottom is good. It means that the top 3 or 4 teams are better than everybody else until proven otherwise.

So kick your feet up and enjoy it because it doesn’t get any better than this homeboy! If you love suspense, drama and heartache, college football is your drug of choice and I'm ya Pusha Man! Because all I wanna see is #1 play #2 and it doesn’t matter to me what hood they're from or what set they throw up! Just give me the two best teams and I’m cool! So when y’all finish sorting it out I’ll be right here!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

 

Pass the Mic

"Come on in here! You was where?"

John Ruskin, the 1800’s English art critic once said, “The essence of lying is in deception, not words.” The Swedish-born American philosopher Sissela Bok gave it to us like this, “While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.” Big Momma was just raw with it when she said, “Don’t come up in here with all that lying! Ima ask you once then Ima take my shoe off!”

So however you get down, a lie is a lie homeboy! On Monday Texas A&M freshman wide receiver, Thomas Johnson, a native of Dallas, came up missing around 5pm. The entire university community as well as the nation was stunned to learn that the kid was missing. His family and friends were worried sick about his well being and you know his mother had to have been a nervous wreck. Not only was the A&M Police Department on the case but the Texas Rangers were desperately looking for him too.

On Thursday morning around 2:30 am Johnson was found unharmed and safe in Dallas! Now that is all that the authorities and Texas A&M are willing to tell us but you know I’ve got to give you my opinion straight with no chaser!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! First things first, unless a boy has you tied up in a basement with a gun to your head, some cat has over powered you and taken you against your will or you suffer from some sort of mental illness you’re not missing! Boyz just don’t know where you are!

Secondly, if you’re from Dallas and the police find you in DALLAS at 2:30 in the morning you were more than likely on some foolishness. Point blank! There are only three reasons that a boy would come up missing! Either you’ve got a mental disorder, you’re smoking or it’s a chick involved. We’ll wait to see if they have to evaluate him mentally but you can rule out smoking like that because he’s only 18 and is still a big time college football player. Boyz that young wouldn’t be gone this early in life and it would show up in all of the testing that they do on campus if he was, i.e. the Honey Badger.

 So it smells like some, “I went to see my girl at the crib” type joint or “I hit the freshman wall and I went to see my girl at the crib.” It happens bruh but don’t put folks through that foolishness of being worried about you only to find out that you’re at the crib somewhere laid up! Now Big Momma is really gonna take her shoe off. Not to mention all the coaches that has gotten in line to blast you after Madea finishes working you over.

The fact that nobody knew where he was has pretty much killed any momentum that the Aggie football team had in preparing for a ball game this week and rightfully so. The player’s health and well-being should always be the top priority. However, when Madea and the coaching staff find out that you’re on some foolishness it’s on and poppin’!

Can you imagine how many curse words this dun has heard in the past 24 hours directed at him? It was like, “Baby, I’m glad you’re OK! Are you sure you’re OK?” Then Big Momma cursed up one side of him and slid down the other only to pass the mic to Madea, Aunt Ruthie, Uncle Willie, Coach Sumlin and the rest of the coaching staff. Boyz were freestylin’ a capella. Well...you know somebody hit up the beat box listening from outside.

 Then they found the clown that he told that he was going to the crib and gave him the business too. Because you know boyz don’t make a move without somebody knowing what’s up. You know he's been hollerin' at boyz telling them that he's tired of football, school is gettin' to be too much, I miss my girl etc! That's that freshman wall I mentioned earlier! Everybody goes through it but rarely does a cat act on it!

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the national news came on while boyz are sitting in the dorm playing video games and this dun’s picture came across the screen. Straight up panic!  “Oh Snap, call TJ and let him know they got him on TV.”

Folks wouldn’t have been mad if he would have snuck to the crib to see his girl on Monday night, chilled Tuesday morning missing class and been back on the yard for practice that afternoon! It happens bruh! All jokes aside, I hope the kid learns a valuable lesson from all of this. Most importantly, have your girl just come hang out with you instead of going to the crib and worrying the crap out of everybody. Now who's got bail money for Big Momma & Coach Sumlin this morning?

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport
All of the above is strictly my opinion!  

"Bad Boy For Life"

"Take your time homeboy! I'll be still sitting here when you've had enough!" 

Mark Twain once said, “You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do.” Thomas Jefferson broke it down like this, “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.” Hood protocol says, “If you got something to say, say it to my face! Otherwise, keep my name out ya mouth!”

Earlier this week the New York Jets again proved that they were a complete train wreck in the locker room and why they keep losing when some straight up busters went to the media to talk about Tim Tebow. I told boyz back during training camp that this team wasn’t going to win 8 games because they had too many problems internally to be successful. They have too many cats taking sides and displaying them publicly. All locker rooms have sets but it stays in house.

Earlier this week several unnamed players were critical of Tebow’s ability to play quarterback. One dun told the New York Daily News that he was “terrible.” Another clown who shall also remain nameless told ESPNNewYork.com that they had no choice but to stick with Sanchez because “we have no other viable option.”

Now these cats are 3-6 still ridin’ with a quarterback that keeps running the car into the guard rail and ejecting boyz. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Why not play Tebow bruh? All of the talking heads keep trying to tell us that Tebow can’t play quarterback in the NFL because he can’t throw the football like we’re all blind and deaf.

I don’t know about you but I remember seeing a Denver Bronco team that was dull last year sitting at 1-4 when Tebow showed up and won 8 of 9, taking them to the playoffs and even beating the highly favored Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime! Even if you didn’t see it you heard about it. Now you can say that it was the defense all day long but was it not the same defense that they had when they were 1-4? Stop it! Just stop it! At least John Fox was smart enough to put him on the field and get what he could out of him. The Jets are complete idiots for signing him and not using him.

Tebow may be a wreck at throwing the football but one thing I do know is that he’s a winner and has the “It” factor. If you’re 3-6 you may as well play the guy. In my Herm Edwards voice, “YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME, HELLO!” Don’t sell me that garbage that you have to be able to throw the football to win in the NFL because I can show you 24 quarterbacks right now that didn’t make the playoffs last year and won’t again this year that can throw it all over the field. Let’s start with Cam Newton who was the rookie of the year and set every record you could think of last year.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I don't care if he pushes the ball up and down the field with his nose! If he can help you win football games you gotta play him. You'll never know unless you put him on the freaking field.

You’re trying to sell me a vacuum cleaner and I’ve got hard wood floors! Why bring the guy in if you’re not going to use him? You’re paying him $1.9 million to run down the field on the punt team and you’re sticking with Sanchez that can’t even blow his nose right now? If nothing else, Tebow will breathe some new life into the stadium and the locker room because he’s a grinder. He works harder than anybody on the roster. You’re losing for a reason homeboy!

Let's keep it all the way 100 again bruh! There is only one team in New York and that's Giants. So the Jets will always be the side piece! They're the joint that boyz mess around with when thing aren't going right at the crib. So don't give me the "They can't win a Super Bowl with Tebow" line because they couldn't win a Super Bowl with Joe Montana in his prime!! They're freaking Jets for crying out loud!

Sticking with Sanchez is like bungee jumping with dental floss or getting into a Bugatti on the autobahn with Stevie Wonder behind the wheel. You’re gonna keep crashing! You’re bleeding and you keep cutting yourself. You’re in a hole and you keep digging! You’re getting beat down in the projects by the rival set and you keep throwing up gang signs bruh! At some point you’ve got to stop the madness and play the guy! Of course, I can hear Tebow pulling up bumpin' that P. Diddy Bad Boy For Life, "WE AIN'T GO-IN' NOWHERE!"

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

 

The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Preview: Week 12!

Week 12 Preview:

1)The SEC Takes a Smoke Break!
2) #12 Oklahoma vs. West Virginia
3) #18 USC vs. #17 UCLA
4) #13 Stanford vs. #2 Oregon (Parliament Funkadelic)

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

No Harm No Foul!

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!"

Now that the college basketball season has jumped off the never ending debate does too! Who will be this year's One & Done freshman phenom that doesn't NEED to go to class? Last year I wrote a Hot Joint entitled "Class? What Class?" where I laid out instructions for former Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis and kids just like him not to waste their time in class in the spring semester if I were their dad. Not only that, don't worry about getting grades in the fall semester either. Just take those joints pass/fail!  My reasoning for those instructions were because Davis was going to be a lottery pick in June's NBA if he was still alive on draft day. Not just a lottery pick, he was going be the #1 pick in the draft homeboy according to all of the experts in the business in which he turned out to be.

So if you know that your profession is going to be basketball in a matter of months then it only makes sense to be prepared for the interview every night. This argument doesn't apply to the kid that's just on scholarship bruh! It only applies to the 5 or 6 kids in the world that have already been identified by the experts.

The NBA rule that forces these kids to even go to school is a joke. Derrick Rose had no intention of going to class when he went to Memphis. So therefore, he was forced to cheat on the SAT to get into the joint and as a result Memphis ended up having to forfeit all of the games that they won in route to the National Title Game in 2008, his only year in school. Now I'm not in favor of a kid cheating at all but he was backed into a corner and it was fight or flight! You already know once he got there he had some girl doing his work for him that first semester and he never even saw a class in the spring. So why not give that scholarship to a kid that really wants or needs to go to school?

People that are phenoms don't need to finish college! Bill Gates figured out that after three years of college that he didn't need it. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple and the inventor of the IPhone that you're probably reading this joint on dropped out of school too. Neither Venus or Serena even enrolled. Beyonce' nor Justin Bieber even thought about it. I hear you saying, "Man their talents are 1 in a million so they could afford not to go to school!" My point exactly!

The "One and Done" athlete falls into that same category. The only difference is that the NBA contracts are guaranteed. That's why it makes even more sense to go pro ASAP if you are one of those guys! They don't need to waste time taking classes because the world says that they should. Why do we continue to lie to our kids by saying that EVERYONE NEEDS to go to college? If everybody went to college we wouldn't have plumbers, electricians, carpenters, barbers, beauticians, mechanics, brick masons etc. We wouldn't have construction workers or most importantly we wouldn't have a military to keep us safe if everyone went to college.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes first! After about eight grade kids shouldn't be forced to take all of the same courses in order to graduate from high school either. Why does a kid need to take biology or chemistry if they aren't interested in a field that requires a science background. They'll realize by middle school whether or not they like science. I agree that they need to be exposed to everything but that's why they go to elementary & middle school bruh.  For that matter, why are they even teaching kids to write in cursive any more. Other than teaching them how to write their names it's a complete waste of time! Some school districts have already begun to phase it out. I call on doctors daily that just make their mark on prescription pads that you can't figure out what it is. I write my name everyday and you can't recognize anything but the J. So what are we talking about bruh? I believe that everyone should have to take a key boarding class because it's necessary now that everything is computerized.

 Remember when you were forced to learn all of the state capitals in 4th grade? That was a complete waste of time! If you need to know that information you can just look it up. Why do you need to know what the capital of Vermont is? Henry Ford once said, "I don't need to know everything but for the things that I don't know I can just ask some one!" Therefore, every kid needs to learn how to use search engines.

Let's say that everyone did go to college. All we'd be doing is resetting the scale! The guy that is the janitor would still make less money than the guy in sales or in management. The doctor and lawyer would still make more money than the social worker or teacher etc. So why run a game on folks and tell them that college is mandatory when it's only necessary for certain careers?

If institutions of higher learning really wanted to  help these "One and Done's" they would put together a curriculum that would be specific to them since they're only going to be there for a year anyway. The NFL and NBA both hold rookie symposiums right after their respective drafts that teach these kids how to adjust to being a professional athlete. They teach them how to handle their money and how to look out for shady characters as well. They even go as far as teaching them how to stay away from certain types of women and how not to get caught up with multiple baby momma's etc.  Why not offer those types of classes and make them mandatory for your elite athletes on campus. Of course, the regular students could take them as well but the "One and Done" kid would have first dibs on them.

Guys like Anthony Davis have done more for schools like Kentucky in the one year that he was there than the kid that stays four years and graduates. Why? Because he's bring massive exposure to the university that is unmatched. When a school makes a run to the national title the following year freshman enrollment is typically up by 30% which generates even more revenue. Not to mention the millions of dollars in revenue that the school brings in for even being in the NCAA tournament as well as all of the ancillary products sold in the bookstore. Did I mention all of the licensed merchandise sold nationwide like his jersey that he doesn't get squat for.We haven't even begun to discuss all of the bread that the boosters are throwing around because boyz are winning. So if the kid is smart enough to use the school at the same time he's being used by them, then I say no harm no foul! Don't feel sorry for Memphis because they made a fortune off of Derrick Rose and to this day they're still getting paid off of his name. Like I always say, "Stop me when I start lyin' bruh!"

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

Ego Trippin'

"Yeah bruh, I did come at these boyz sideways didn't I?"

Obviously I clowned the Lakers yesterday in the Hot Joint entitled "Hypnotized" for chasing Phil and forgetting about why they broke up with him in the first place.  Boyz got a kick out of it but it was some real talk. Twenty four hours later now Phil is acting like the victim! “I was told that it was my decision to make by Monday!” Bruh, it's never your decision to make unless you own the team!

He’s acting like the woman that told a boy that she wanted the world or bus and now that he’s walked away and swooped up the chick that didn’t ask for so much she’s upset and back tracking on her previous demands. “I didn’t say that I wanted all of that!” The Lakers and the Boston Celtics have won more than 50% of all of the NBA titles in the history of the game. The Lakers aren’t going to let a boy just take over the joint with idiotic demands even though they did play themselves by firing Mike Brown prematurely.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If you owned a company and some cat you were interviewing made it known that he not only wanted serious bread but he wanted significant say in all personnel decisions along with naming the replacement manager and he was going to tell you what days he was going work. You would have been arrested for jumping on him in the interview. This dun just told you that you were going to pay HIM to take over YOUR company. How much sense does that make?

You have to respect the fact that Phil has 11 championships to his credit but he doesn’t own the team and the fact that they didn’t hire him was a power move and ego trip on the Lakers part and you can’t blame them for that. Now they hired the wrong cat in D’Antoni but it is what it is.

What did Phil really think they were going to do? Did he really think that he could coach from the crib on road games? Was he going to tell his assistant coaches to keep their cell phones on and I’ll call you on timeouts? How stupid does that sound bruh? At least JoePa sat in the press box, had a Diet Coke and listened to the other coaches make decisions. This dude is talking about sitting at the crib and still being the head coach!

Yeah, I know that Jerry Buss has given the reigns to his son Jim and he’s a rogue cat right now just like Steinbrenner’s son with the Yankees but they’re still in charge like it or not. I will admit that they aren’t handling business like their fathers did but that’s even more of a reason as to why they aren’t going to be punk’d. They feel like they’re entitled because of who their fathers are/were. So on GP you know that you can’t come at them sideways and Phil did just that even with 11 titles under his belt! Unfortunately, egos and money run the world bruh and there is no getting around that.

So unless you've got the biggest wallet and an ego to match you can't jump off of the deep end with demands because billionaires will lose money on purpose just to make a point. Ask ole Jerry Jones if I'm lyin'! Just because you’re the best at what you do doesn’t mean that you can ask for some foolishness in the interview because the ego monster on the other side of the table WILL come out, put his clown shoes on too and everybody loses.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

"Hypnotized"

"Yeah bruh I know, I'm in waaaay over my head!"

Every now and then a boy will completely make a fool out of himself. He’s got a new girlfriend that he’s been with for just about a year and they’re still working the kinks out like most relationships in the early stages. All of a sudden he goes to the club and see’s the ex-girlfriend looking like a straight up dime. So he spends the rest of the night dancing and flirting with her. She’s got him gassed up so bad that he runs home and breaks up with his girl on a might be. Only to find out that the ex wasn’t really interested in the first place. She was just out on the town and enjoying all of the attention.

Well that’s what the Lakers did over the weekend bruh!  They fired Mike Brown thinking that they could get back with Phil only to play themselves and end up having to move in with Mike D’Antoni that wasn’t any better than Mike Brown. I guess the name Mike was good enough. At least that way they don't screw up and call the new woman the wrong name. D’Antoni was the chick at the club that he bumped into a couple of times but never really saw, even though she was trying to get his attention all along. They ended up like ole boy in Harlem Nights when he called the crib after hooking up with Sunshine, "Put ya momma on the phone! Hey baby I ain't never comin' home again!"

They ran into Phil at the club and his resume was looking so good to them that they started flirting. You know how the ex always looks better to you when you aren’t with her anymore. When she moves on the dance floor you get hypnotized primarily because you remember how things used to be. Phil started giving them some rhythm and even sat down and had a few drinks. They started reminiscing about old times and all of the fun they had and ole Jerry & Jim Buss started thinking, “Man I could get back with that and it’s on and poppin’! It’ll be just like old times.”

That’s how boyz think because they’re only looking at how fine she is. They forget all about why they broke up with her in the first place. She became way too demanding because she had options. All you started hearing was that Beyonce’ “To the left” joint playing when she would pull up. Phil was the same way bruh! The Lakers broke up with him in the first place because he wanted too much bread and knew he had the resume to ask for it!

That dun was so cocky about it that he answered the door butt naked with a Merlot in one hand and a Black & Mild in the other and broke down his demands! "For starters, if you want me to even get dressed it's gonna cost you homeboy!"

He was looking for $12 million when they parted ways at the end of the 2011 season. So is it surprising that he was essentially asking for the whole joint to come back? He wanted anywhere from $10-$15 million per year, significant say on all personnel decisions as well as his eventual replacement along with the ability to skip selected road games. In other words he wanted the barn on his terms and he was going to tell them if he was going to travel or not to certain games. Who does that bruh? Sounds like Beyonce‘s been singing in his ear to me! He's been bumpin' the whole album coming at them with that foolishness but that's what cosmetic 10's do! That's why nobody marries them but the rich and famous because they can afford to! You just hang out with them for as long as you can until their next option comes along. Always keep this in mind, dimes are always looking for a better deal bruh! So don't play yourself chasing her and that's what the Lakers did because Phil doesn't NEED the bread but he'll ask for it anyway! That's real talk!!

Now these boyz are stuck with the chick that they’ve walked past every night at the club and never paid attention to. D’Antoni is 388-339 with a .533 winning percentage and is the same dun that quit on the Knicks last year after going 18-24. Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! He had a difficult time trying to manage the egos of Mello and Amar’e. If he couldn’t handle those cats how in the world is he going to handle the egos of Kobe, Dwight,  a clown named Metta World Peace and the fact that they aren't even the best team in LA? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Outside of the Yankees, the Lakers are the best run franchise in professional sports and they usually make solid decisions but they completely dropped the ball on this one bruh! I guess that can happen when you run into a beast with 11 titles under his belt and you’re sitting here at 1-4 when you pull the trigger on Mike Brown.

It would have made sense to holla at Brian Shaw in the first place! He already knows the triangle, LA, all of the players and he's a Laker!

However, boyz got greedy and went after the 10 instead of the 8.5 standing next to her cuz the baddest chick is always gonna come at you sideways unless you've got the bread to deal with her!

All they heard was that Biggie coming from Phil’s truck when he pulled up, “I’m going, going back, back to Cali, Cali’ and they thought he was talking about them. Yeah! Good luck with that pimpin' and stop me when I start lyin' bruh!

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Jay Graves
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The Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Wrap Up: Week 11!

College Football is the greatest game on the planet because the playoffs started week 1!

1) #15 Texas A&M 29  vs. #1 Alabama 24
2) #11 Oregon State 23 vs. #14 Stanford 27
3) #5 Georgia 38 vs. Auburn 0
4)  #21 Miss State 17 vs. #7 LSU 37
5) #4 Notre Dame 21  vs. Boston College 6

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Jay Graves
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Carjacked!!

"Get off me homeboy cuz this is Texas football!"

Sun-tzu the Chinese general and military strategist as well as Niccolo Machavelli have been given credit for first saying, “Keep your friends close and your enemies’ closer!” Let these young bugs out here in the streets tell it, Tupac was the first to say it! However, Michael Corleone made it famous in the movie “The Godfather.” Either way it should be a man law because when you’re the man boyz are always gunning for you.

Just ask ole Alabama if I’m lying bruh! They’ve been posted up in the hood for nearly two years taking boyz’ lunch money, pushin' weight out of Bryant-Denny Stadium and carjacking duns just because they could. Unfortunately, Johnny Football and Aggie Nation rolled into Tuscaloosa deep sitting on 24’s bumpin’ that Tupac & MC Breed “I Gotta Get Mine” and shocked the world by rolling the Tide 29-24!

They didn’t waste any time gettin' it in either bruh. They put 20 on it early in the first quarter and Bama played catch up for the rest of the night! All they did was come in and play Big 12 spread ‘em out football and beat them. Alabama’s front 7 was ineffective against the spread. I’ve been telling you since week 1 that their defensive secondary was suspect and that cats that could throw the football would give them problems! Just pull the tape bruh I've been keeping it real! This isn’t anything new because I’ve BEEN saying it. I thought Tennessee would get them but they had no guts. LSU finally exposed them but it took A&M to finally bring that Texas Funk in there to get ‘em.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The last cat I thought would get them was Johnny Football because when LSU pressured him he made costly mistakes and turned the ball over. He’s obviously matured since that ball game and now he’s officially the MAN in Texas!!!

What I’m trippin’ off of is how all of the media still trying to get Bama into the national title game. Bama has one of the weakest schedules in America and just because it says SEC in front of it clowns are buying it. They’ve played two games bruh and lost one of them! So how can you justify still talking about them when there are still 3 undefeated teams left?

Notre Dame, Kansas State and Oregon (Parliament Funkadelic) still have tough games to play and are still vulnerable but they're still rolling for now. Notre Dame still has to go to LA and play USC and Oregon still has #14 Stanford, who just beat #11 Oregon State on Saturday. Then the Ducks still have the Civil War against the Beavers and will have to turn around and play in the PAC 12 title game.  Boyz will have to keep their heads on a swivel to stay alive down the stretch.

I told you back in August in the Hot Joint entitled “D-Day” that college football was cyclical and that everybody has their runs and it doesn’t last forever. I explained how the SEC wouldn’t dominate the game this year even though the dull media wanted you to believe it. Don’t believe everything these clowns write or say. Look up the information for yourself. When you see 5 SEC teams in the top 10 at the beginning of the year know that 80% of that is hype.

The difference between a student and a scholar is in the research bruh! A student just absorbs the information that is given to them. A scholar takes that same information and tests the validity of it. A student believes the hype and a scholar understood early on that Bama couldn’t afford to lose a game playing a dull schedule.

You can’t play Michigan(dull), Western Kentucky(so dull), Arkansas (John L. Smith dull), Florida Atlantic(extra dull with mild sauce on the side), Ole Miss( dull as usual), Mizzou(couldn’t win the Big 12 dull), Tennessee(0-6 in the SEC dull),  Miss St.( Miss St is Miss St dull), LSU( Exposed them), Texas A&M( took their lunch money, their girl and the stash under the bed too), Western Carolina( too dull to even be playing) and Auburn( Gene Chizik dull) and lose one and expect to get in the title game.

Now if everybody else losses and Bama wins the SEC then they're back in! So the rest of these duns can’t get cocky thinking that their home free because most accidents occur within 5 miles from home. Don’t get caught sleepin’ at the light and get carjacked because boyz WILL get you if you aren't paying attention! Bama got comfortable, let the window down and stuck their arm out of it while waiting at the light and got done up!

I told you earlier this week in the Hot Joint entitled "The Fallacy" that Texas A&M has exposed the SEC this year further proving my point that the entire conference is no better than the others! (Pop the trunk on that joint to read more!) If a middle of the road or worse Big 12 team can come into the SEC with a new coach and win 8 games in it's first year, the conference as a whole is not the beast that you say it is bruh!

College football is the greatest game on the planet! Why? Because the playoffs started week 1! It’s win or go home from the word go! It doesn’t get any better than that homeboy!! Make sure you hit up my Blazin' Hot College Football Weekly Wrap Up on Monday because it's gonna be hilarious!!! Y'all know how I get it in! So let's get it in!

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Jay Graves
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Money Power Respect

"You didn't know bruh? I got wheels too!"

A little old lady once told me, “Women love money and power! Don’t ever forget that. It doesn’t matter how much money they make, you just better have some too!” The old playa’s in the barber shop playing dominoes always said, “You’ll always lose money chasing women but you’ll never lose women chasing money!” One of the best lyrics ever written in the rap game was when Biggie spit, “Black and ugly as ever, however I stay Coogi down to the socks! Rings and watch filled with rocks!” It didn’t matter how big he was or what he looked like as long as he was successful the women were gonna love him and that they did!

It works the same way in the world of sports! Ole Andrew Luck had boyz doubting him back in April when he became the heir apparent to Peyton Manning here in Indy! Fans were hot that the organization had the audacity to cut Peyton and ride with this young boy without even test driving him first, regardless of how much it was going to cost the team. How dare you make our beloved Peyton cry at a press conference and show him to the door?

Now that the Colts have started 6-3 after winning 4 straight including a huge road victory on Thursday night against Jacksonville 27-10. The fans are bumpin’ that Biggie “One More Chance” too. Now that doesn’t mean that they still don’t have love for Manning but they’re beginning to fall in love with ole Andrew quicker than expected. I told you that he was cooking, cleaning and kissing babies like a seasoned politician and he’s sown up all of the 270 electoral votes needed to be the man in Indy and it's becoming a Colts BLUE state again. I hate fake wishy washy fans but what can you do? This ain't Chicago, Pittsburgh, Oakland or Cleveland! You gotta win all of the time around here for people to support you! Sad but true!! SMH

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I bet I’ll see more man crushes for Luck this week with boyz wearing #12 joints than before! Y’all know how it makes me sick to see a grown man wearing another grown man’s jersey but at least they aren’t hatin’ on him.

I’m cool as long as they’re supporting the team and not rocking Denver Bronco #18’s! It's funny how success will change everybody’s perspective of you! Especially if you’re a guy! Women are constantly worried about how they look and what their weight is etc. Guys look in the mirror and see that they’re 25 pounds heavier and say, “Man I need to make more money!” Andrew Luck looks in the mirror and says, “Man I need to win more games!” I can see he and his teammates heading to practice next week bumpin’ that Lox “Money Power Respect” with the tinted windows slightly cracked so you only see the top of those bald heads! #ChuckStrong

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Jay Graves
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