Sunday Rips, third act

What am I still doing up!

Crazy fool that I am, I just feel moved, as in compelled, as in have to write.

Neill Woelk of the Daily Camera and other media bees wrote about it Sunday and while I find it provocative, it is lunacy.

Thing is, I think Woelk is an All American, always brings an A-game to his columns. Definitely a favorite.

While Woelk actually thinks the time is right for a change, the Camera's Kyle Ringo merely mentions coach Dan Hawkins has thought about playing his son Cody Hawkins at quarterback.

Ringo told me earlier this season, promised in fact that there is no way the coach plays his son in a game this season, saying that he craves long-term success more than selling out for a few victories in 2006. Boss Hawkins didn't win all those games on his resume by being dumb.

Nine games into the year, the mere question of whether Hawkins might play, with backup James Cox now busted up and starter Bernard Jackson showing little improvement is pointless.

Waste a full season's worth of eligibility for three games?

Read that again, please.

For three games?

Come on, will it really matter to you if CU goes 3-9 as opposed to 1-11 when it can save a redshirt and have it make the difference between 7-4 and 8-3 or 8-3 and 9-2 in subsequent years?

Think coach Hawkins gets a lot of grief now? Try that stunt and see what happens for the next four seasons.

Ma' Hawkins might kick pops out of bed and maybe out of the house.

CU is dead in the water. It has no choice but to ride out the season with Jackson, Patrick Devenny, if necessary or throw Riar Geer or Ryan Walters in there if the sky falls.

Cody Hawkins keeps his body sidelined and if anyone thinks of putting him in, a teammate should sack him as soon as he steps foot over the sideline and the coaching staff should be immediately be brought before the Buffaloes Secret Council for discipline.

Pure madness.