Maybe this is silly to revisit, because maybe there really was no choice. That's to be debated. That's the argument Pat Hill makes, that last season he had to choose between two quarterbacks, Ryan Colburn and Derek Carr, and during the preseason, when it was being decided, Colburn was better.

That seems like a reasonable answer. It is difficult to argue with it, especially since the first result is that you have the best possible quarterback playing*. I'm no football expert, but the best player playing is a good thing. I think it would be fair to say that Colburn played well last year, and that fans were slightly surprised. I think the anti-Hill people were loaded and ready to blast him for such an awful decision, and they didn't really get to unload. No, Colburn wasn't perfect, but it was hard to imagine an 18-year-old Carr having a better season.

For quite a while now, I've been a proponent of only playing in one fantasy league. I think I've been trying to protect myself from myself. Because I can get competitive. I have been known to over-analyze and over-invest, shall we say, especially when it comes to something like fantasy sports.

I've actually been on a mission for a year now to qualify for the Boston Marathon, and it's become a bit of an obsession, which is fine because it's kind of one of those things you have to obsess about to accomplish. Distance running was made for OCD'ers. I have selective OCD, of course, so I can not pay the electric bill for two months or never clean my shower with minimal effort. Point is, I'm capable of getting carried away.

I'm going to sit here and blog about the Mountain West and the Western Athletic Conference because writing a column about what's going on, seems to be pointless. I've already written at least 1,000 words that you will never see because the story is changing so quickly. Literally, I just heard an update behind me about a source confirming something that would completely change my column again. The new age of media and communication make it hard to keep up.

Let's recap what's happened, for those of you who don't have time to sit around all day like me and follow this stuff online. And remember, this is all from today ...

[Update: The thing I heard from behind me is now online ... Fresno State has accepted an offer to join the Mountain West Conference in 2011.]

What happened doesn't necessarily change my column from Sunday. I still think Nick Watney, the former Fresno State golfer, will become one of the best known players in the world. Top 10. Famous. In spite of his shy personality. He'll be one of the guys that gets discussed before most majors. I think he'll win at least two.

(This is Associated Press photo is of Devan Cunningham (on the right) and Fresno State coach Pat Hill after the 2009 Illinois game. You know what happened and why they look so happy. More on that at the end of this blog.)

It is easy to get caught up in superlatives, even if they are exaggerations. Something is always the greatest or the worst of all time. For some reason -- maybe this is TV or our never-ending need to rank things, or just the nature of hype -- it feels like we need to quantify everything and it doesn't get a lot easier than worst or best.

It is difficult to ignore the quality Fresno State schedule this season, and it really might be the best in school history if you're a Bulldogs fan. There are other good choices, though. For instance, in 2007, Fresno State played Oregon, Texas A&M and Kansas State. In 2006, the Bulldogs played Oregon, Washington and LSU, and both Hawaii and Boise State had excellent teams that season. The year before was Oregon and the infamous USC game, which it turns out Fresno State did not lose after all, the game Reggie Bush won pretty much all by himself, and then most definitely lost all by himself.

Something light and fun on the blog today. This video was taken at Franklin Rogers Park in Mankato, Minn., home of the Mankato Moon Dogs. It's a Northwoods League team, and if you haven't heard of the Northwoods League, it's a summer wood-bat league for college players, exactly like the Cape Cod League except that it's in the upper Midwest and you've heard of the Cape Cod League.

While watching the Giants-Dodgers game last night with some friends, I noticed Barry Zito. Probably everyone who watched the game noticed Barry Zito. I'd seen him react pretty drastically a few games back when Bruce Bochy pulled him out of the game with two outs in the fifth inning.

He cursed and yelled as he left the mound, and it was obvious he was mad that he was being pulled with a big lead, one out away from getting a win. It would be fair to say he was pitcher pretty terribly at the time.

I'm big into eavesdropping, and there are a couple thoughts I've been hearing in coffee shops around Fresno. And to a certain degree, I think they are both incorrect.

The first is that coach Pat Hill took a paycut to help the community and the Fresno State athletic department. That thought is being promoted, of course, by Pat Hill, who implied he was taking a paycut to help the community and athletic department when he told Bee reporter Daniel Lyght that he's taking a paycut to help the community and athletic department.

This will be super-duper interesting to the seven of you still paying attention to the Tour de France now that Lance Armstrong has crashed more times than a drunken unicyclist at a tack convention, and was last seen riding 5 minutes behind the pack on a beach cruiser.

This morning there was controversy at the Tour. To bring you up to the moment, there are really only two men in contention this year, Alberto Contador, the man who was Armstrong's teammate last year when they pretty openly couldn't stand each other, and Andy Schleck, the undisputed World's Skinniest Man. OK, that's my title for him. Schleck is a great climber. So is Cantador, but he's also a great time trialist, so Schleck needs to get a decent lead on the current climbs to hold off Contador's charge in the upcoming time trial.

I don't know Contador's full story, but he certainly seems to be confident. Really, really confident. He seems to be vastly admired, but not necessarily the most beloved figure. I would call him the Alex Rodriguez of cycling, which I just did on purpose so I could make the following random connection. This morning, Schleck's chain came off. This happened when they were nearing the end of Stage 15, and riding together as they often have during this Tour. On a climb, Schleck started to charge and it looked like he might have gotten enough of a gap to pull away, and then his chain failed, or dislodged, or something. When this happened when you were 5, the loose chain would get caught in the spoke and toss you about 16 yards onto your head. But Schleck pulled over and started fixing the problem.

Word in the last 10 minutes from Western Athletic Conference headquarters is that it will not be expanding until at least July 1, 2012. That means that when Boise State leaves for the Mountain West Conference after the 2010-2011 season, the WAC will be an eight-team conference. And that means Fresno State football will have only seven conference games for the 2011 football season.

Here is the statement ...

"The WAC and its eight member schools remain well positioned for the future," said WAC commissioner Karl Benson. "Over the past few weeks, the WAC's Board of Directors and athletics directors have explored several membership options. We believe it is in the best interest of the WAC to operate as an eight-team league for the 2011-12 season. We will now take several months to 'drill down' on the various membership options before making any decisions that would impact the 2012-13 season."