Friday, January 09, 2009

Year End Wrap Up NCAA Football

Now we see what happened. Oklahoma blew their chance at a national title. No big surprise here. The Sooners have become perennial bowl game failures, going 1-5 for their last 6 and losing 3 in a row to the likes of Boise St and West Virginia. They are great in the regular season, but somehow lose focus in what some have called, the second season. They had a month to prepare for Florida and failed to put more than 14 points on the board. Sam Bradford looked lost much of the time. The pressure sunk his accuracy to average. Stoops should be fired, ha! He can't win the big one without the great Josh Heupel. Where is he selling cars now? Barry Switzer Toyota in Norman?
Florida is a great team with great coaching all the way around. Urban Meyer is a class act in my book. I hate Florida, but not as much as I did when "Ball Coach" was there. I detest any adding of the word "nation" to the end of a team mascot name. Just want to be clear that I will not allow anyone to ever use the word in regards to Shinyribs consensus #1 , The Mighty Texas Longhorns. I am a fan, but do not consider others fans as anything resembling my socio-economic or cultural-political interests. We are not a nation. The era of nation building is over, friends. It is a brave new world order. One that apparently cannot function properly. I will not get into the fact that Texas could have whipped either one those lame ass looking teams. USC obviously could have walked away with it as well. Bama had their chance to play Florida. Utah has nothing to say, really. They played no real opponents from either the PAC-10 or Big 12. They did beat Alabama, though, which is something unexpected. And, they did get a great Carl's,Jr. endorsement along with the coveted no.2 spot in the AP. Texas at 4 and USC at 3, whatever.
As for the rest of the Big-12. Texas Tech sucked it up in the Cotton Bowl of all games. Thanks Red Raiders, you really did great things with that upset. If you ever get there again, act like you've been there. Wait until the game clock is at zero before you take the field in unwarranted, tortilla fueled hysteria. Missouri ,thanks, you are a credit to the conference. Kansas, good job, you make us all look better. Oklahoma St. y'all need a gut check. You did absolutely nothing to help us this year. You couldn't beat Tech or Oklahoma. Then you lost to Oregon. How can I even look at you. Shameful. Nebraska representin B-12, awesome job Huskers. I don't want you to get too good though, so back off a little. A rising Nebraska is like a rising Germany in my book. Scares me to see images of Crouch tossing that option. I hate red and white teams running the option. The mighty Texas Longhorns won in big styles against those Sooners of the Big-10 Ohio State. When was the last time the Sooners played Ohio State? Last time was 1983. Come on Okies, schedule some real games for a change. You gots to play somebody other than Texas. I see you are going to play the Buckeyes in 2016-17. Good luck with that.
All this legislation is tacky. I hope none of my elected officials waste time trying to bring the BCS to justice. I mean I hate it, but it ain't the place of the Government to address. Just plain stupid. Great year for college football though. My favorite moment is still Texas Longhorns beating OU. That is always great. The Texas Tech game was of course my most anguishing moment. So so close. I am still kicking myself for not catching that ball. And then not knocking Crabtree out of bounds. Oh and for not staying in bounds on the last drive to run the clock. Oh if we could have that one back we would be standing over the carcass of the Florida Gators right now hoisting the crystal ball. Next year, we'll get'em. Texas-ou is gonna be a hell of a game next year, as well as Texas vs t-tech. Revenge will be sweet as pecan pie. HOOK'EM!

3 comments:

Tom B. said...

Sloppy game played by both teams...Ok had their chances but didn't protect the rock. Glad TX beat OSU, glad USC beat State Penn. My team (Pitt) looked horrible vs Oregon ST...although I'm now taking some solace in that the hoops team looks pretty good so far. Agreed on that "nation" garbage. Also, I HATE mascots unless they're real animals (e.g. Bevo, Uga, the Navy goat, etc..)I don't know what you'd need to do about Commodores and Blue Devils and Hurricanes and such. All this time I thought it was TV that was ruining college fb, but go to a game and there's more crap that goes on from bad music/stupid videos on the jumbo-trons to shameless university promotions that would be better left in the mail box than acted out on the field. I could go on... Nuff said there.
Saw you guys in October at the Elk Creek Cafe, in beautiful downtown Millheim, PA and it has garnered my vote for the musical highlight of 2008! Very cool. I've been telling Tim he's got to get you guys back, man. Y'all need to come back this spring when the fly fishing's at it's peak and the valley's more gorgeous than usual. Hell, spend a few days or even a week!

Michael Devers said...

Crap. I just put some serious coin down for 5,000 lapel pins that read "Proud Member of the Shinyribs Nation".

Campbell said...

my only comment is that 'haymaker!' is an absolutely fantastic record. i'll see you guys on the san francisco stop.

here's my short review: http://ccsbandwagon.blogspot.com/2009/01/we.html

safe travels,
chris