<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">It’s a Purple and Gold Sunday 6-Packers!</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">To be the cream, you have to beat the cream!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Whoa!!!!</span>Or maybe you just need a little grass!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For the first time in the grass-eating era of LSU head coaching, the Stallion admits he was wrong on two scenarios during the Cream Talk game of the weekend!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Stallion never would have gone for it on 4th and 1 when you are behind by one and your offense has historically been atrocious, and you have one of the best FG kickers in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Stallion was proven wrong by Les “The Goat” Miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And finally, the Stallion would have never called a 47-yard pass play by a QB that appeared to be completely out of sync in his 3 series prior to that one to ice the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Again, that grass-eating successful winning coach proved the Stallion wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miles may be a goat who loves grass, but the Stallion is a crow this weekend and couldn’t be happier to bring down Satan’s boys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Satan fears the hat!!!! At least in 2010!!!</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">Speaking of fear, the Stallion cannot remember ever when the East fears the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It’s as lopsided as a see-saw ride with Lou Holtz on one end and Mark Mangino on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Let’s just say Mark Mangino equals the West in this comparison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Seriously!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spurrier has never had an easier road to an SEC championship game as he does this year and they are as up and down as any team in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Even in the Ole Ball Coach era at Florida,Spurrier had to worry about Tennessee (well sort of)!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This was the year and now it comes down to a head –to-head matchup between a Gamecock club in disarray and a Gator club that might be catching some offensive confidence in the nick of time.</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">Finally, best wishes goes out to John Bond and his large “cahonas” for speaking up on the Smiley Newton debacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In fact, the Stallion now will visit with his parish’s priest this morning to discuss a clever way to meet the community’s capital campaign goal for the building of the new church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Anyone know of a bad *** JuCo QB that the Stallion can represent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It will only cost that person’s future university athletic program about $1.7 MM to cover the balance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That will about do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Who needs legal fund raisers anyway, when you can just cheat your way to a BCS Championship?</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Now for Week 10’s rankings:
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1)</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Auburn –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>NCAA breathing down your neck like a fire breathing dragon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Will the NCAA have the “stones” to bring the War birds down to where they belong?
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>LSU – Finally put together a half that looked like a BCS contender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Arkansas – Mallett is playing better than he has played all year long which could make this month in November very interesting for Mississippi State and LSU.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">4)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alabama - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Wow how the once-mighty invincible Cream has fallen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The recipe calls for 3 and a half months of prep time before the cream separates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think McElroy had nightmares of Nevis last night.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miss. State – Am I dreaming, or will Miss. State have the same bowl-eligible record as the defending national champions Alabama in November?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Hopefully an inspired Dawgnation will come together and pull off the upset in Tuscaloosa for Nick Bell.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">6)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Florida – It’s just not the same in Gainesville, but you are where you are supposed to be in November and that’s controlling your destiny to win an SEC title!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">7)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>South Carolina – That winning feeling is starting to smell like burnt toast in Columbia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With Lattimore injured and the Carolina army looking like an average Pop Warner YMCA team at best since its upset of the Tide, Spurrier may again be considering retirement if he can’t pull off a victory against Gator nation.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">8)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Georgia – Had hope two weekends ago in the Cocktail party and that hope disappeared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Idaho State is not even the 2nd best team in Idaho!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">9)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kentucky – Joker stepping up the non-conference schedule this weekend with Charleston Southern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are no Jacksonville State though.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">10)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ole Miss – Could this be the end of the Masoli era?
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><font face="Calibri">11)</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Tennessee – Wow!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How bad is Memphis really?
</font></span><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">2)</span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Vanderbilt – Wow!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How bad is Vanderbilt really?
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Hot Boudin – LSU LSU LSU – A signature victory for the Hat that ranks right up there with the 5 4th down plays against Tebow and UF in 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Huge win, great coaching job, and another 2 years in Baton Rouge for Les. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Honorable mention goes to John Bond!
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Cold Couscous – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>South Carolina -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I feel like listening to James Taylor’s “Carolina on my mind” because they’re fall from the top is so depressing.
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Love,
Stallion</font></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">To be the cream, you have to beat the cream!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Whoa!!!!</span>Or maybe you just need a little grass!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For the first time in the grass-eating era of LSU head coaching, the Stallion admits he was wrong on two scenarios during the Cream Talk game of the weekend!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Stallion never would have gone for it on 4th and 1 when you are behind by one and your offense has historically been atrocious, and you have one of the best FG kickers in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Stallion was proven wrong by Les “The Goat” Miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And finally, the Stallion would have never called a 47-yard pass play by a QB that appeared to be completely out of sync in his 3 series prior to that one to ice the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Again, that grass-eating successful winning coach proved the Stallion wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miles may be a goat who loves grass, but the Stallion is a crow this weekend and couldn’t be happier to bring down Satan’s boys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Satan fears the hat!!!! At least in 2010!!!</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">Speaking of fear, the Stallion cannot remember ever when the East fears the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It’s as lopsided as a see-saw ride with Lou Holtz on one end and Mark Mangino on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Let’s just say Mark Mangino equals the West in this comparison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Seriously!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spurrier has never had an easier road to an SEC championship game as he does this year and they are as up and down as any team in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Even in the Ole Ball Coach era at Florida,Spurrier had to worry about Tennessee (well sort of)!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This was the year and now it comes down to a head –to-head matchup between a Gamecock club in disarray and a Gator club that might be catching some offensive confidence in the nick of time.</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">Finally, best wishes goes out to John Bond and his large “cahonas” for speaking up on the Smiley Newton debacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In fact, the Stallion now will visit with his parish’s priest this morning to discuss a clever way to meet the community’s capital campaign goal for the building of the new church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Anyone know of a bad *** JuCo QB that the Stallion can represent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It will only cost that person’s future university athletic program about $1.7 MM to cover the balance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That will about do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Who needs legal fund raisers anyway, when you can just cheat your way to a BCS Championship?</font></span></p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Now for Week 10’s rankings:
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><font face="Calibri">
1)</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Auburn –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>NCAA breathing down your neck like a fire breathing dragon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Will the NCAA have the “stones” to bring the War birds down to where they belong?
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>LSU – Finally put together a half that looked like a BCS contender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Arkansas – Mallett is playing better than he has played all year long which could make this month in November very interesting for Mississippi State and LSU.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">4)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alabama - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Wow how the once-mighty invincible Cream has fallen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The recipe calls for 3 and a half months of prep time before the cream separates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think McElroy had nightmares of Nevis last night.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miss. State – Am I dreaming, or will Miss. State have the same bowl-eligible record as the defending national champions Alabama in November?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Hopefully an inspired Dawgnation will come together and pull off the upset in Tuscaloosa for Nick Bell.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">6)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Florida – It’s just not the same in Gainesville, but you are where you are supposed to be in November and that’s controlling your destiny to win an SEC title!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">7)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>South Carolina – That winning feeling is starting to smell like burnt toast in Columbia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With Lattimore injured and the Carolina army looking like an average Pop Warner YMCA team at best since its upset of the Tide, Spurrier may again be considering retirement if he can’t pull off a victory against Gator nation.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">8)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Georgia – Had hope two weekends ago in the Cocktail party and that hope disappeared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Idaho State is not even the 2nd best team in Idaho!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">9)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kentucky – Joker stepping up the non-conference schedule this weekend with Charleston Southern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are no Jacksonville State though.
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">10)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ole Miss – Could this be the end of the Masoli era?
</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><font face="Calibri">11)</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Tennessee – Wow!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How bad is Memphis really?
</font></span><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">2)</span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Vanderbilt – Wow!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How bad is Vanderbilt really?
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Hot Boudin – LSU LSU LSU – A signature victory for the Hat that ranks right up there with the 5 4th down plays against Tebow and UF in 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Huge win, great coaching job, and another 2 years in Baton Rouge for Les. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Honorable mention goes to John Bond!
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Cold Couscous – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>South Carolina -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I feel like listening to James Taylor’s “Carolina on my mind” because they’re fall from the top is so depressing.
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Love,
Stallion</font></span></p>
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