This should be quick.
Last night I watched what must have been the worst national title game I've seen. And, by the reaction to sports fans that I follow on twitter and facebook, I'm not alone in this observation.
Here's what I took away from it:
1) Dear SEC everyone, stop talking about how f'in great you are. If you were so good you would have destroyed the Oregon team from the weak Pac-10. Instead, what we saw, were two teams that were probably just about evenly matched play a pretty crappy football game. They both had a seemingly infinite amount of time to prepare for each other and were able to pretty much contain the other's offense.
2) Chip Kelly is insane with play calling, both good and bad. He goes from looking like a genius with huge balls on his 2 pt conversion and fake punt that both work, to, in my opinion, three to four terrible play calls in a row on the goal line.
3) Great athletes don't make great [name sport or position] players. Cam Newton is an incredible athlete but he's just an ok quarterback and that seemed obvious.
4) What was up with the field? It's the biggest game of the year and you have some turf down that guys are slipping and sliding all over? Good job Fiesta bowl.
5) It's easy to say retroactively that someone should have taken the points instead of getting stuffed on 4th and goal, but when you lose the game by 3, you gotta sort of wonder what Chip Kelly was thinking? I know you run a razzle dazzle offense with like 80,000 option reads and all, but you're really going to just leave points on the field because you think you can score 50 in the second half?
6) Farley, the DT for Auburn should have been the MVP.
7) Oregon's socks were ridiculous. Their helmets were worse. I sort of love that they have absolutely no desire to conform to any of the norms about a uniform. It's obviously that Nike is a big fan of that fact as well.
8) TCU would have beat either of those teams.
9) So would Wisconsin.
2 comments:
1. SEC dominance comes from 5 straight National Titles beating the Big 10, Big 12 and PAC 10. SEC dominance is in part measured by defense, not by scoring 50 points a game. The way Oregon was swamped by the defense is nothing less than dominance.
2. The man leading the dominance spells his name Fairley.
3. If Newton wasn't such a good QB, then why are his TD stats the 2nd best in College history including 2,800 yds and 30 TDs this year...in the SEC?
Pt 1: In order to agree with you I'd have to agree that the BCS system put the two best teams in the country into that game. I don't. As I said, I think TCU would have beaten either team. So, 5 straight national titles just means they won the bowl game from a computer selected match up.
Also, along that note, while Alabama won the 2010 Championship I think everyone agrees that it was a bit watered down without Colt McCoy. Sure, injuries happen in football and all sports. But if you really want to say you're the best, then I think you need to have beaten the best, at their best. You can still take a trophy home, but the amount of bragging that comes away from it has to be diminished at least a bit.
Pt 2: Fine. Fairley. Who cares.
Pt 3: There was nothing about that game that made Cam Newton look like a good QB. You can give me all the bloated college stats you want and it doesn't change my point that he's a great athlete playing in a position where stats are always bloated. There are a ton of "great college QBs" who can't play that position at the next level. Eric Crouch immediately comes to mind, but there are plenty of others and I'm sure Cam Newton will be added to that list.
Continuing, you don't get to have it both ways. If the SEC defense as an entire conference is so great, then his numbers of total offense shouldn't be so great. You don't get both.
But, in any case. Thanks for stopping by!
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