Block-C’s favorite quarterback, Peter Lalich, of notoriety for getting kicked off the UVA football team for drinking related incidents and being a general douche, has now been kicked off the Oregon State football team for a “boating DUI.”

[Oregon State Coach] Riley said it was not necessary to let the legal process work itself out in the Lalich boating DUI case (Lalich’s arraignment is June 21) because he had all of the information he needed…

Riley has been criticized in the past for being overly-lenient with players and being more than what would be construed as being generous in terms of giving them chances.

• Clemson hosts 10-1 Western Carolina tonight at 7:30 PM. The CBS Sports preview notes that Clemson is 9-0 all time against the Catamounts. It should be a good game.
• Collegiate Baseball Newspaper released its preseason Top40. Clemson checks in at #16. Other notables include Virginia (#3), Georgia Tech (#6), Florida State (#7), Miami (#12) and North Carolina (#13). Such is life in the ACC baseball world: being a top-20 team means being a mediocre conference team.
• Kyle Parker’s future as a football player remains up in the air. As I’ve said before, I’d take the money and run if I were him. Fortunately for Clemson football fans, I’m sure most college athletes don’t think like me.

Outside the lines…

• Clemson is escalating it’s war on the squirrels. I’m not exactly sure what university the squirrels belong to, or even what sport they play, but I support this just war.

  Honestly though, they’re talking about trapping and euthanizing about 200 squirrels, and I’m wondering why they’re going to let anyone eat the goddamn things?

• Clemson’s Mayor Abernathy trots out his standard defense for everything he proposes, “If we only save one life, we’ve done our job.” No you haven’t, you dumb fuck! You’re job is not to intrude in everyone’s life to immeasurable levels to “save one life.” You don’t understand how much I hate this guy. I’d rather the mayorship be run by Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier.

  In this case the mayor is defending a proposed text messaging ban. Frankly, the fines for these things tend to be so miniscule, and the chances of being caught so small, that the bans are pretty much symbolic. But let me be very clear about one thing: STAY OFF YOUR GODDAMN PHONE IN ALL CAPACITIES WHEN YOU’RE DRIVING YOU FUCKING DIPSHITS!

  And stay off my lawn, too!

• Defense: I’ll give the defense a grade of B. They were pretty good and made a lot of big plays. There was, however, room for improvement.
• Special Teams: Also a lot of big plays on special teams. The return game was strong and we did well defending against returns. The major blights on special teams were the apir of missed field goals. I’ll grade them out at B-, mostly on account of the excellent returns.
• Offense: The offense has a lot of growing up to do. The running game was decent. But the QBs made mistakes and the receivers dropped a lot of passes. Hopefully all the cylinders are firing on Thursday night.
• Unrelated to our game, how sad is it that Virginia lost at home to William & Mary? It’s not as good as seeing Ohio State lose to Navy (shame Navy couldn’t pull off the upset), but I’m always a fan of seeing UVA get stomped on by anyone.

Bottom line: It’s much more satisfying to start the season with a win over a cupcake than to be demolished by ‘Bama at the Georgia Dome.

Lawtonfunk and I can relax because the Tigers took care of business tonight against Virginia. It always feels good to beat UVA.

The bad news was apparently the first half. The good news was the 2nd half. The final score shows a convincing 75-57 victory. The win guarantees Clemson a winning conference record for the season. That’s certainly nice. It will be nicer if the team can beat Wake Forest on Sunday.

Win some games over good teams, idiotically lose some to the basement dwellers.

Here’s what you need to know about today: It’s fricken freezing here Mr. Bigglesworth.

It’s cold, and I’m not looking forward to being cryogenically frozen while sitting around on metal bleachers for 3 hours.

I am, however, looking forward to the warm liquid goo phase of defrosting.

The Clemson-UVA game will be at noon. Not that I need a reason to drink before lunch, but this makes it slightly more acceptable.

My apologies for the conference standings being out-of-date. The reason they’re out-of-date is a matter of me being both lazy and outgoing at the same time. Being as the process requires weekly updating, the outgoing me set up a mostly automated system. That system relies on the CSTV conference standings page, which simply hasn’t been updated lately. Lazy me refuses to manually update the standings, so until CSTV (#1 in college sports, or so they claim) updates their site, I won’t update ours.

But how screwed up are the standings anyway? Every team has at least 1 conference loss, and it is almost hard to believe that any of those one-loss teams (FSU, Maryland, and Virginia) will be able to avoid dropping another league game. FSU still faces GT, BC, Clemson and Maryland. Maryland still has VT, UNC, FSU and BC. Virginia still faces Miami, Wake, Clemson and Virginia Tech. Two of the teams could finish with only 1 league loss, but I’m not willing to bet that any of the three will. That means that practically every team, minus Clemson and NC State, has a pretty decent chance of being able to win their division. That doesn’t say much for the conference this year, nor does it say much for Clemson.

Update: I gave up on CSTV and modified standings process to run off yahoo instead. The standings should be updated. However, as I say that, I still see the old version, which means that at this point I don’t have a clue what’s going on.