I feel like Navin R. Johnson

Ok, if there is anyone actually reading this, I might need to explain who Navin R. Johnson is. He is a character from a movie called "The Jerk." I know, some of you may actually remember that movie, but it did come out in 1979 or something like that. Anyway, Steve Martin played Navin, who was this loser guy living in a gas station. He got really exicited three times in the movie. One time is was because he received a check for $250,000. I can understand that. The second was when he discovered what his "special purpose" was. Being a guy, I can understand that too. The third was when the new phonebook came out. He dashed to the phonebook and looked up his name, shouting "the new phone book is here, the new phone book is here!!!" Like I said, he was a loser living in a gas station. Uh, I am sure none of you have looked in the phonebook for your name when it came out, right? Anyway, I understood how Navin felt because the new Kansas State football depth chart came out today, and that's all I could do, run around shouting "the new depth chart is out, the new depth chart is out!!!" Want to see? Go to http://www.kstatesports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=400&KEY=&SPID=212&SPSID=4451. You can see for yourself.

Anyway, ever since it came out, I am like a loser kid in a candy store, wanting to know just where all of my previous loves have gone. Like I said before, I obsess over recruiting. And, no I can see the fruits of all that love and labor! True freshman have made the two deep, and it's wonderful. Gerard Spexarth (whose cousin I knew from grad school days at Northern Illinois) and John Hafferty both are on the offensive line. Some other surprises from the previous recruiting class showed up as well. Yamon Figurs made the first team. Mo Porter, Greg Wafford, and Tearius George made the second team. And, some other young guys are on the depth chart as well, guys like Greg Gaskins, Maurice Mack, Byron Garvin (from Pace High School in Miami, across the fence from where I got my law degree), and Logan Robinson have rewarded my obsessions with recruiting. It just seems like fruit of that labor. Like I said, it's insane. I know that. But it's my passion.

What I don't understand is that there are some fans of K-State football that don't--get this--actually obsess over the depth chart. They don't really care. They don't break it down position by position, wondering where certain players are, why others are not in the rotation, and so on.

It's simply amazing.

Oh sure, I get why the casual fan doesn't obsess.

But the true fan?

It makes no sense to me.

Now, back to a thorough examination of the linebackers.