SHSU Bearkats Remains At No.3 In Both Polls
by Cheval D. John
After the Bearkat football team clinching a share of the Southland Conference (SLC) title with a 52-17 beat down of Northwestern State Demons in Natchitoches last Saturday, they remain at No.3 in both the FCS Sports Network Polls and the NCAA Coaches Polls this week.
The Bearkats completed their conference schedule with a 6-1 record.
Central Arkansas clinched the SLC title the week before with a 35-14 win over the Demons at Estes Stadium in Conway, Arkansas and also finished conference play with a 6-1 record.
The Bears received the automatic bid into the NCAA FCS playoffs due to their head-to-head win over the Bearkats earlier in the season.
This marks the 22nd week that the Bearkats have been nationally ranked in the top 25 and the 19th time they have been in the top 10.
Both North Dakota State and Montana State remains at No.1 and No.2 respectively, after both teams won their matchups last week.
The Bearkats will finish their season in a non-conference matchup with Football Bowl Series (FBS) opponent Texas A&M on Saturday at Kyle Field in College Station.
The Aggies are coming off a huge 28-24 upset win over the previous No.1 University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa this past weekend.
To see the FCS rankings, click here.
What Goes Around, Comes Around
by Cheval John
Everyone were captivated by the courageous will of Notre Dame’s Manti T’eo to play through adversity.
T’eo led the Irish defense on a run toward the BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida where they eventually lost to the eventual champion, Alabama Crimson Tide.
Many gained respect for T’eo after hearing about his trial due to the death of his grandmother in September.
They were even more fascinated with the fact that he had fell in love with a girl online named Lennay Kukua, who apparently “died of leukemia within two weeks of his grandmother and how he was able to move on and play extremely well to the point that he was one of the three finalist for the Heisman Trophy.
T’eo thought that he lost the girl of his dreams.
But he and everyone was in for a rude awakening.
According to Deadspin.com, “Kennay Kekua” does not exist and that her death from leukemia was allegedly a hoax.
The report indicates that someone made up this “Kennay Kekua” and conspired with others to deceive T’eo into believing that she was real.
Jack Swarbrick, vice president and director of athletics at Notre Dame said that T’eo is the most honest person that he ever met and that the perpetrators knew that he was an easy target because of his trusting demeanor.
He called this a tragedy and that “The single most-trusting human being he’s ever met will never be able to trust in the same way again.”
The pepetrators are really the most sickening human beings on the face of this earth because they aimed at a person who lost a person that was very dear to him and used that for their twisted joke.
They were not sensitive to a guy, who is one of the most respected players in college football, but played with his feelings in order to just get a “laugh.”
In reality, the perpetrators are just a bunch of morons who think that they can do this sought of thing and get away with it.
What they don’t realize is that nothing can be hidden anymore and that they will get caught either for their “joke” and will have to suffer the consequences for their role in creating this fictious “woman.”
Like the saying goes, “What goes around, comes around.”
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