The Big Easy

Well, today is the day before the day I leave for New Orleans, and the day before the day before the day I'll arrive in New Orleans. I can only begin to describe how excited I am. For starters I am going to be staying in a really nice hotel in the French Quarter about half a block from Bourbon Street...did I mention we arrive on New Years Eve. Aside from the obvious excitement associated with being in that environment there's the primary focus of the trip; Our Cincinnati Bearcats are playing in the BCS Sugar Bowl against the vaunted Florida Gators. For a variety of reasons this game is going to be awesome. Some major highlights are that its a great chance to win against a school way more credible than say Oregon, or watching the greatest College player in history playing in the last game of his career, or watching one of the best coaches of a generation coach in what could be his last game, or maybe Mardy Gilyard showing everyone why he was a legitimate Heisman candidate even though he was totally under the radar. I don't know what's going to happen yet, I have to think Florida has a significant advantage at almost every position. They are faster, they have more experience on the big stage, they have played better competition this year, they certainly have a more interested coaching, and maybe the biggest edge for them is the before mentioned Tim Tebow. In spite of all that I think UC does have a chance, as Brian Kelly said once "We can't match up with them every week, but we don't have to. We only have to match up with them one week, and we can do that." Hopefully we can make it happen in the Big Easy...

For now I am going to finish today at work, pack things up tonight so I'm ready, go snow tubing tonight, work again tomorrow, and then I'm off on a wild adventure.