Saturday, October 17, 2009
Texas 0 OU 6
we've hurt bradford. we just hurt Trent Williams. Demarco murray is limping. And they are still winning. we can't get anyone open on the pass, and the run is going nowhere. Still, OU can't score in the redzone. Horns should wake up in the 2nd half, btu for now McCoy looks like (gulp) Chris Simms circa 2002.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Whatever happened to good commentators?
Watching some classic UT football today, I began to wonder whatever happened to good play by play commentators. UT vs Washington in 2001 featured Mike Tirico on play by play with Kurt Herbstreet and Lee Corso on color. Greatness.
Dear Musberger,
Take note - Tirico is the best there is.
Dear Musberger,
Take note - Tirico is the best there is.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
High School Football
Just flipping through the channels (thank you God for DirecTv) and found a Duncanville vs. Cedar Hill high school football game. Thought I heard Craig Way calling the game, and realized I was right - he's in Dallas for the Texas OU game. Just giving a heads up for all the UT fans out there, if you wanted a preview for "Say goodnight to this one!"
Cinci vs. South Florida
936PM
South Florida has cut the lead to 7 against Cinci. The commentators are already talking about either of these teams finishing undefeated and playing for the BCS Championship. Vomit.
Also - the white pants on USF are much better than their normal golds. For Cinci - like Texas Tech, I'd recommend you NOT wear video game looking costumes if you want to be taken seriously. Seriously - are those "bearkat" claws on their pants????
944PM
Jessie Palmer's favorite phrase is "pound the ball". Not pound the football, just pound the ball. Creepy. Just like his hair's inability to move...
947PM
I want Jerome Murphy on my football team. Great tackle on the screen, and awesome one on one deep coverage. He's number 10 for South Florida - very nice.
951PM
Awesome. Every time a player doesn't catch a ball on offense, we get a flag. New offense for all you coordinators. Throw a 20 yard jump ball on every play - your receiver will get the call and you get 15 yards.
South Florida has cut the lead to 7 against Cinci. The commentators are already talking about either of these teams finishing undefeated and playing for the BCS Championship. Vomit.
Also - the white pants on USF are much better than their normal golds. For Cinci - like Texas Tech, I'd recommend you NOT wear video game looking costumes if you want to be taken seriously. Seriously - are those "bearkat" claws on their pants????
944PM
Jessie Palmer's favorite phrase is "pound the ball". Not pound the football, just pound the ball. Creepy. Just like his hair's inability to move...
947PM
I want Jerome Murphy on my football team. Great tackle on the screen, and awesome one on one deep coverage. He's number 10 for South Florida - very nice.
951PM
Awesome. Every time a player doesn't catch a ball on offense, we get a flag. New offense for all you coordinators. Throw a 20 yard jump ball on every play - your receiver will get the call and you get 15 yards.
A take on Rush
I love it. Rush Limbaugh lures in the media like a big ol' redfish and they bite hook, line, and sinker. It's the fall ratings season, and you can bet his nationally syndicated show got a huge hit from this week's incessant coverage of his reported attempt to buy a minority share of the St. Louis Rams.
Seriously, I doubt there was ever any real intent on becoming a football owner. Limbaugh makes too much money instigating near riots as it is. What was funny was the "main" stream media's reaction to his reported involvement. They flipped. Like he expected.
One guy from CNN went so far as to declare, "It's not fair to the black players in the league who don't want to play for a racist." He went on to whine about how players in the NFL are drafted, and, unlike other jobs, cannot select who they work for. In essence, he said, if the Rams drafted a black kid who thought Rush was a racist and who didn't feel like he should play for Limbaugh, the kid was just stuck. The CNN commentator made it sound just horrible to have to play for the NFL.
Aside from the obvious (i.e. how bad can it be to play in the NFL regardless of the circumstances? Oh wait, I forgot we were talking about the Rams), I'd like to point out to news cronies such as CNN that this concept is just not true. Players are not REQUIRED to play for the team that drafts them. They have every right to refuse to sign a contract and return to the amateur draft the next season. They are only obligated to sign with the team that drafts them that year until the team determines it will give up the rights to that player. For example, the San Francisco 49ers drafted Michael Crabtree from Texas Tech this season. He wanted more money, so he refused to sign with the team. All indications pointed to him actually sticking to his guns and re-entering the 2010 draft, until the 49ers anted up and paid the man.
The point is, the argument that players have to play for Limbaugh regardless of their personal opinion of the man is ridiculous. If he wanted to buy the team, he should have that right. Just like if the NFL owners wanted to deny him the right to purchase the team, they have that right. And just like his minority partners denied him the right to remain in the purchasing group once they realized he was in it for the attention.
Lovely how these things work themselves out.
Seriously, I doubt there was ever any real intent on becoming a football owner. Limbaugh makes too much money instigating near riots as it is. What was funny was the "main" stream media's reaction to his reported involvement. They flipped. Like he expected.
One guy from CNN went so far as to declare, "It's not fair to the black players in the league who don't want to play for a racist." He went on to whine about how players in the NFL are drafted, and, unlike other jobs, cannot select who they work for. In essence, he said, if the Rams drafted a black kid who thought Rush was a racist and who didn't feel like he should play for Limbaugh, the kid was just stuck. The CNN commentator made it sound just horrible to have to play for the NFL.
Aside from the obvious (i.e. how bad can it be to play in the NFL regardless of the circumstances? Oh wait, I forgot we were talking about the Rams), I'd like to point out to news cronies such as CNN that this concept is just not true. Players are not REQUIRED to play for the team that drafts them. They have every right to refuse to sign a contract and return to the amateur draft the next season. They are only obligated to sign with the team that drafts them that year until the team determines it will give up the rights to that player. For example, the San Francisco 49ers drafted Michael Crabtree from Texas Tech this season. He wanted more money, so he refused to sign with the team. All indications pointed to him actually sticking to his guns and re-entering the 2010 draft, until the 49ers anted up and paid the man.
The point is, the argument that players have to play for Limbaugh regardless of their personal opinion of the man is ridiculous. If he wanted to buy the team, he should have that right. Just like if the NFL owners wanted to deny him the right to purchase the team, they have that right. And just like his minority partners denied him the right to remain in the purchasing group once they realized he was in it for the attention.
Lovely how these things work themselves out.
Updates from TX OU
Heading to Dallas for Texas vs. OU this weekend. These 11am kickoffs are killer, mostly because I am not really a Bloody Mary drinker. So I guess burnt orange beer canned Bud Light with breakfast tacos it is. I plan to update continuously throughout the game - the closer it gets, the more sober I am. The bigger the blowout, the funnier the typing may be...stay tuned.
Mid Season Report
MID SEASON Report
Time to review the start of the 2009 college football season. Unlike the polls, I decided to wait until we’ve had a chance to review the results before analyzing which teams and players are leading the way through the first 7 weeks of the season. Mind you, next week we may have a slightly different view based on the large number of season changing games coming up this weekend.
First up, my Top 5 (cause honestly, who cares about the rest…)
1. Alabama – played the tougher schedule based on their win over Virginia Tech to open the season. They look the most complete at this point, but their inability to move the ball down the field on the deep pass will be their undoing against better defenses. The win at Ole Miss last weekend may be a bit overrated, considering how fast everyone’s preseason darling in Oxford has fallen.
2. Florida – I’m not sold on Tim Tebow (more on that later) but at this point, they are still undefeated, have won the biggest test on the road of any team this year, and still have those 11 returning starters on defense from the National Champions from 2008. Honestly, who doesn’t want a Florida vs Alabama SEC Championship game?
3. Texas – The questions will be answered this month with games against OU,
Missouri, and Oklahoma State. If the Horns find a running game to match their improved defense, and figure out why Colt McCoy keeps turning the ball over, they should find themselves matched up nicely to play Nebraska in the Big 12 title game with a BCS Championship birth on the line.
4. Iowa - I hate the Big 10, we all know this. However, this is an undefeated team from a legitimate conference with wins over teams from other big conferences. Granted they tried to lose to some FCS (formerly I-AA) schools a few times, but until they lose, they belong here. Assume the 3 teams above them all lose and Iowa finishes undefeated. They deserve the spot in the title game.
5. Virginia Tech – The best one loss team out there. Why? Because their loss came to the #1 team. Other than that, don’t expect much from the Hokies. Going forward, I anticipate a loss somewhere. Their win over Miami looks pretty good for now.
There are some obvious omissions here. First of all – where is USC and Ohio State? Where they belong, out of the top 10. USC beat Ohio State in Columbus (by the way, whatever happened to Ohio State not losing at home after dark?) then went to Washington and laid an egg. Conclusion? Both of these teams just aren’t that good. If their names were Notre Dame or Iowa, they’d be lagging outside the top 25.
Second – where is Cincinnatti? There has been heavy talk about the Bearkats running the table, winning the Big East, and getting a National Championship shot. Two thoughts here: 1) Based on how the BCS works, if Cinci runs the table and everyone else loses once, they absolutely HAVE to be in the title game. The Big East is still a BCS conference, and if voters refuse to acknowledge their unblemished season with a birth, the BCS would surely fall. 2) If Cinci runs the table and makes it into the BCS title game, it would be the worst thing to happen to college football since the great Auburn hosing of 2003. Cinci plays in the Big East. The weakest conference out there! The Mountain West boasts better teams than the Big East. You can rest assured BCS Conference commissioners are cheering for a loss from every team in the Big East as the season moves along (as are the head honchos at ESPN and ABC who will carry the BCS games this year).
Time to review the start of the 2009 college football season. Unlike the polls, I decided to wait until we’ve had a chance to review the results before analyzing which teams and players are leading the way through the first 7 weeks of the season. Mind you, next week we may have a slightly different view based on the large number of season changing games coming up this weekend.
First up, my Top 5 (cause honestly, who cares about the rest…)
1. Alabama – played the tougher schedule based on their win over Virginia Tech to open the season. They look the most complete at this point, but their inability to move the ball down the field on the deep pass will be their undoing against better defenses. The win at Ole Miss last weekend may be a bit overrated, considering how fast everyone’s preseason darling in Oxford has fallen.
2. Florida – I’m not sold on Tim Tebow (more on that later) but at this point, they are still undefeated, have won the biggest test on the road of any team this year, and still have those 11 returning starters on defense from the National Champions from 2008. Honestly, who doesn’t want a Florida vs Alabama SEC Championship game?
3. Texas – The questions will be answered this month with games against OU,
Missouri, and Oklahoma State. If the Horns find a running game to match their improved defense, and figure out why Colt McCoy keeps turning the ball over, they should find themselves matched up nicely to play Nebraska in the Big 12 title game with a BCS Championship birth on the line.
4. Iowa - I hate the Big 10, we all know this. However, this is an undefeated team from a legitimate conference with wins over teams from other big conferences. Granted they tried to lose to some FCS (formerly I-AA) schools a few times, but until they lose, they belong here. Assume the 3 teams above them all lose and Iowa finishes undefeated. They deserve the spot in the title game.
5. Virginia Tech – The best one loss team out there. Why? Because their loss came to the #1 team. Other than that, don’t expect much from the Hokies. Going forward, I anticipate a loss somewhere. Their win over Miami looks pretty good for now.
There are some obvious omissions here. First of all – where is USC and Ohio State? Where they belong, out of the top 10. USC beat Ohio State in Columbus (by the way, whatever happened to Ohio State not losing at home after dark?) then went to Washington and laid an egg. Conclusion? Both of these teams just aren’t that good. If their names were Notre Dame or Iowa, they’d be lagging outside the top 25.
Second – where is Cincinnatti? There has been heavy talk about the Bearkats running the table, winning the Big East, and getting a National Championship shot. Two thoughts here: 1) Based on how the BCS works, if Cinci runs the table and everyone else loses once, they absolutely HAVE to be in the title game. The Big East is still a BCS conference, and if voters refuse to acknowledge their unblemished season with a birth, the BCS would surely fall. 2) If Cinci runs the table and makes it into the BCS title game, it would be the worst thing to happen to college football since the great Auburn hosing of 2003. Cinci plays in the Big East. The weakest conference out there! The Mountain West boasts better teams than the Big East. You can rest assured BCS Conference commissioners are cheering for a loss from every team in the Big East as the season moves along (as are the head honchos at ESPN and ABC who will carry the BCS games this year).
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