Hello everyone....
It's been awhile since I posted a blog here so I figured I'd kick off the 2007 fall with a couple...

First of all I'll start with some info about myself and my site and then I'll go into football discussions.

Shoeless Works is not shutting down nor will it be shutting down anytime soon. I will renew my site for another year in November as planned and even if I have to start over from scratch I'm going to be working hard on entertaining you as usual.

Now, the types of videos that will be released will be slightly different than before but no less entertaining. Instead of high energy Clemson football you'll get highly entertaining comedies and short films. I've already started with my original videos "The Gay Comment Card" and "Shoeless Gets a haircut" and I already have plans for new releases later in September and early October. Don't delete my bookmark just yet haha. Give me a few videos to test out first.

Shoeless Works also has an online store and it will be updated frequently. If you are interested in supporting me or showing your support and can't afford to hire me for a job... buy a button or sticker. They are cheap and every little bit helps.

Also, check out my forum. It's pretty much on the ground floor right now but we're trying to grow it. It's meant to be fun and offer a place for you to just kick back and make fun of stuff. There are pretty much no rules there either except for adult content. So if you are tired of the liberal media or the conservative anything come on over and vent about it... we won't mind.

Both my forum and online store can be found straight from my website. http://www.shoelessworks.com/blogstore/index.html


Now let me change gears some and start talking about some Football!!!

First, as always, let's talk about Clemson.

Clemson fans! I know you are excited! You think it's back to glory time again! Well, hold your horses. I'm not saying it's not going to happen but let me just remind you of ... well, every Clemson team of the last 10 or so years. The team that we see at the beginning of the season is not usually the same team we see at the end.... and that can be good or bad depending on the season. So let me offer some advice that I heard this Monday tailgating before the game.... don't make up your opinions or mood depend on one game Clemson plays.

Don't get too excited when we win and don't get too down if we lose. We are good team but I'm not sure how good just yet. The next few weeks might feed our delusions too if we aren't careful. I mean we've got LA Monroe, Furman and then NCSU.... that's not exactly a "tough stretch". But don't be surprised if we get upset in any of these either. We can't fall asleep as a team and as fans we can't just expect to win.

I personally think that this will be a pretty easy 3-0 start with no much of a struggle and then NCSU actually giving us a game but not knocking us off 4-0 but this prediction is also based on the team that I saw on Monday night. If we don't get some things fixed we will lose a game b/c of Special Teams this season and we could have trouble if we get anymore injuries (please God don't let anyone else get hurt)!

As for the rest of the season.... I'm not going there. I'll try and give a weekly or bi-weekly look at somethings but that's where I'll stop.

As for the rest of the NCAA the best advice I can give is to sit back, shut up and enjoy. There will be a set of great games every weekend and a few "who saw that coming" type upsets as well. I could get into picking the winners of every week but I think this year I'll save 20 mins and just let it happen instead. I will go ahead and pick the USC UGA game though.

UGA will win if USC plays like they showed on Saturday. USC will win if UGA expects this. I don't think UGA will just forget about Spurrier but I also expect USC to come to play as well. I don't expect a shutout this time but I am leaning towards a UGA victory at this time....

Shoeless Fearless predictions:

Clemson 42 LA Monroe 21
UGA 21 USC 17