The 2000 NCAA football season (questions no answers)

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The smell of fried chicken and biscuits

Are you ready for some college football? With only eight weeks left until the first full weekend of kickoffs, do you see light at the end of the tunnel?
Or do you see not-so-light Beano Cook blocking players from exiting the tunnel?

Is the new-look Atlantic Coast Conference the top college football league by far or just slightly?

Is Notre Dame still Notre Dame?

Has South Carolina's Dondrial Pinkins received more off-season heat than any quarterback in Palmetto State history?

And if you flip-flop Pinkins and Charlie Whitehurst, does USC go from the mid-30s in preseason college football rankings to a consensus No. 13 and Clemson from No. 13 to the mid-30s?

Is the LSU-Georgia game on Oct. 2 in Athens the game of the year?

With the combination of Tommy Bowden's creative license and Nike's ingenuity, can we expect Clemson's below-the-helmet uniforms to look something like the Denver Broncos?

Is the Sept. 4 opener at Vanderbilt the most important regular-season game for USC since Holtz was hired as head coach?

With all 11 starters back on defense and a whole summer to prepare, is resourceful Vanderbilt head coach Bobby Johnson setting a trap?

Or should the Commodores be favored?

Of "2001" and "Tiger Rag" and Lee Corso, which two sounds do you find very annoying?

MINTER'S CHILL

How will former Citadel, Maryland, Georgia Tech and NFL head coach Bobby Ross do in his comeback at Army?

Think Maryland will be ready for its opener against Northern Illinois this time after the agony of defeat in DeKalb?

Should S.C. State play one of its "home" games in Charleston every year?

Should the Big East drop Rutgers?

Should Rutgers drop football?

Will other conferences copy the Big Ten instant replay system?

Who gets to a BCS game first, Tommy Bowden or West Virginia's Rich Rodriguez, Bowden's former Clemson offensive coordinator?

With only half a stadium this season, is The Citadel's home-field advantage divided?

Will new offensive coordinator Galen Hall, the former Florida head coach, help Joe Paterno bow out a winner at Penn State this year or some season soon?

Will new defensive coordinator Carl Torbush, the former North Carolina head coach, give Texas A&M an edge in its preparation for a Sept. 18 game against Clemson?

Is there any scenario in which Holtz returns to South Carolina in 2005 following a losing season and a loss to Clemson in 2004?

How about 5-6 with home upsets of Georgia and Tennessee?

Or does the question become moot when Moe Thompson, George Gause and Marcus Lawrence make Rick Minter's blitzy defense the surprise of the SEC?

Has Texas been overrated for so long the Longhorns are underrated this year?

Per enrollment -- 1,100 -- doesn't defending Southern Conference champ Wofford have the best football program in the world?

PALMETTO BOWLING

Will the Confederate flag flap kill the Palmetto Bowl?

Or will Palmetto Bowl sponsors fight back by adding the Hunley as an official sponsor and inviting the Ole Miss Rebels as a permanent host team?

Is Central Florida, with George O'Leary as head coach and former Citadel player Lance Thompson as defensive coordinator, a sleeping giant?

Will Georgia All-American defensive end David Pollack wreak even more havoc as a senior with fellow linemen Will Thompson and Kedric Golston good enough to keep double-team blocks away?

Who do you like in the Rice-Price game - Rice and head coach Ken Hatfield vs. Texas-El Intercepted Paso and head coach Mike Price?

Is the Ohio State visit on Sept. 18 the biggest non-conference home game in N.C. State history?

Shouldn't the Southern Conference quickly add Coastal Carolina?

With four wins in his last five games in 2003, is Summerville High School and Clemson grad Ricky Bustle about to turn the corner as head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette?

Does South Beach need a warning for the invasion of Clemson fans due in Miami the weekend of Nov. 6?

Will South Carolina running back Demetris Summers thrive in a retro Holtz ball-control offense?

Can't you almost smell the fried chicken and biscuits?

Is it ever too early to start planning a tailgate menu?

The source of the story

[El Sidonio]

In answer to the Ricky Bustle question, I think the answer is yes. Think about it, third time is the charm, in any arena of life, not just football. And if the third time is coming off a late season spurt like the Ragin Cajuns had, it's gonna be good.

Lemme put it in perspective. This past year, the KC Chiefs almost went undefeated during the regular season, after two mediocre seasons. They said it was due to it being the coach's third year at the helm. Basically, the KC Chief coach had two years to rebuild the team, and get rid of the undesirable leftovers from the previous coach. Same thing with Bustle and the Cajuns? (Random thought: among the many other ways LSU has screwed us over, I find it ironic that one of the worst coaches we've ever had in our football program's history came from LSUAMBR. I bet Baldwin was undercover and being paid by LSUCK.)

That leads me to my next answer in response to the following question: "Of "2001" and "Tiger Rag" and Lee Corso, which two sounds do you find very annoying?" I honestly don't know what the hell "2001" is, and who the hell Lee Corso is. But what I do know is that anything having to do with LSU (I'll give them some dignity and use their preferred name) is VERY annoying.

God Bless.

p.s.- Y'all don't forget to email Dr. Authement and Julie Simon Dronet and keep pushin them to fight harder and faster to lose the "Lafayette" tag.

p.s.s.- email the Daily Advertiser editors Julie Metzger at: jmetzger@theadvertiser.com & Mr. Gilbert (forgot his first name) at: mgilbert@theadvertiser.com
They are the big honcho editors that make decisions regarding the whole paper. Email them and tell them to make it a policy to stop using the "Lafayette" tag. If you think about it, they are not required to use it.