Prediction Time

By: Pete Yanity News Channel 7 Sports | News Channel 7
Published: February 17, 2009 | 0 Comments | Post a Comment

I’m in the mood to make various predictions…..

I predict that the Duke basketball team will have to lose three games in a week to fall out of the national Top 10, let alone the Top 15 (they’re number nine this week despite going 0-2 this past week).

I predict that within three years, after their football team is again shipped to a bowl game in Nashville by the ACC as they watch BIG EAST teams like Cincinnati, Louisville, and South Florida play in the Orange Bowl, that the priests who run Boston College will call their athletic director Gene DeFilippo and ask: ‘now why did we leave the BIG EAST?’

I predict that Devon Downey will beat out Jodie Meeks of Kentucky for SEC Player of the Year because I think USC will win the SEC East, with two wins over Kentucky in the process, and that will be a determining factor as their numbers will be close enough to justify making the teams’ head-to-head results the tiebreaker.

I predict Greer’s dynamite scoring tandem of Chris Dean and Chandler Hash will get the Jackets to the third round of the AAA playoffs where Daniel will be just a little bit better.

I predict that Clint Bowyer will become this season’s version of Kyle Busch in the Sprint Cup Series. He’ll have a great regular season in his Richard Childress Chevy but hit a wall come the Chase for the Championship. I say this because I really sense that there’s an emotional letdown for the guy who enjoys a significant lead throughout the regular season suddenly to become even with everyone else late in the year. Just like the Daytona 500 (in most years, at least, when weather is not a factor) it’s probably best to lie back in the middle of the top 10 throughout the season and then make your push in The Chase. Someone named Jimmie Johnson has had a certain degree of success using that strategy.