First pitch

Naming a general-interest college football blog is much harder than it looks. We here at TOSW spent the better part of three months thinking of this one. So before we explain what this blog is, let's take a moment to clear up what this blog is NOT:

1) This is not a blog devoted strictly to the option. Specifically, we are not touting the virtues of Rich Rodriguez, Paul Johnson or any other latter-day option guru.

2) We are not coaches and we are not trying to sell you an instructional DVD series ala Tony Franklin. You'll find no option 101 here. (Though if you're asking, we highly recommend the reverse pivot out of the Power-I.)

3) Last, and perhaps most importantly, this is not a Nebraska Cornhusker blog run by Frank Solich apologists.

So what is this blog then? Well, for now it's just a humble foray into college football writing by two friends who have been talking, arguing and occasionally even agreeing about college football since 2000. We hope to cover the full world of college football in an intelligent, insightful and occasionally even humorous manner.

HOW we do that remains to be seen. In fact, we won't even speculate as to what form it might take. We just hope to post quality content on a frequent basis. And since most of you early readers know us personally, please help us live up to the "frequent" pledge. Feel free to give us a little pep talk every so often, lest we pollute the Internet with yet another non-updating blog.

Oh, and we never did explain the name. We're not going to lie. We love the option. We don't seriously think the wishbone is coming back (Oh, wait...), but given our relative youth, we have a healthy respect for the halcyon days of yore. And much like the dying breed who still defends the option, we're stubborn as hell. Add that to the aforementioned naming difficulty and it just seemed to fit. Besides, "Bring Back the Bowl Alliance" just didn't have the same ring to it.