I was a little quiet on here last week...taking advantage of the bye week and some time off to head with my son to the hills of Southern Ohio for a deer-hunting trip. I came back with no deer but recharged from a few days of sitting deep in the timber with nothing to disturb me but squirrels, and nothing to look at but the golden woods and the beautiful falling autumn leaves. It was heaven...no phone, blackberry, TV...not even a Columbus Dispatch.

It looked like some of the writers also had way too much time as a result of the bye week, and way too little to write about, as well. When I returned on Saturday, I read that the Teflon was wearing off Coach Tressel cause we had lost 2 games, that the Pryor situation had possibly been mishandled, and that former players were questioning the coaching. For good measure, there was a press conference which Coach politely walked out of after 5 minutes of questions on the discipline of one individual player. (Did they really think they were going to get Tressel to talk about an individual personnel situation in public and on the record.)

Of course I read and learned all of this just after watching Terrelle and Beanie scorch the turf and the Wildcats in Evanston. Apparently, those two didn't get the memo. Yep. Go figure....