Marcus Vick is on a rampage. In trouble with the law and waving guns at seventeen year old kids. In McDonalds, no less. Star athletes get so much handed to them and often get away with so much, it sure is nice to see one go down for a change.
I wrote this post last night, with about seven minutes left in the Rose Bowl. In the original version, I wasted quite a few words mocking the tea-sips for getting beaten by a bunch of tree hugging hippie Californians and embarrassing the entire state of Texas. Seriously, what the fuck do Californians know about football? They are all too busy hugging trees, smoking dope, and electing bad actors. And the PAC-10 is a bigger joke than the number one player hater from South Korea.
After I turned off the television in disgust, the motherfucking goddamn tea-sips pulled it together to beat USC and win the national championship. It kills me that the ass clowns in Austin went 13 - 0 and won an undisputed national championship while my beloved Aggies suffered through their second losing season in three years. However, a team from Texas losing to a bunch of tree hugging hippies would have been even worse.
Last Saturday, I saw two excellent college football games that went down to the wire. One was an upset and the other was a favored team going into a hostile stadium and beating a program with a great winning tradition.
In the interest of full disclosure, I hate every single football program in the state of Florida. Therefore, it was with great pleasure that I watched a surprising Georgia Tech defense hold on to defeat Miami. After a rather boring defensive struggle, in the last few minutes Hurricanes quarterback Kyle Wright was pressured and threw into coverage. A predictable interception by Georgia Tech’s Dennis Davis ended the game. A great game, but not nearly as good as Ohio State versus Michigan. As an aside, Texas A&M should consider hiring Jon Tenuta after they fire Carl Torbush.
This was a classic rivalry game. The score remained close throughout the game with the teams swapping the lead. On the Buckeye’s final drive Michigan’s number 45 missed tackling a scrambling Troy Smith, who then threw into coverage, and Anthony Gonzalez made a superlative leaping catch for the first down. On the next play, Antonio Pittman ran to the left side for the game winning touchdown.
Recently, Notre Dame has come under fire for firing their head football coach. A bunch of retarded morons have been quick to scream racism, based on the fact that he was one of the few Notre Dame coaches to be canned before the expiration of his contract.
Newsflash: we are not living in 1950 anymore and the Notre Dame program is not what it once was. Notre Dame no longer has the luxury of letting mediocre coaches finish out their contract if they want to remain an elite football school. Had the school allowed Willingham to finish out his contract, they would most certainly be up the proverbial creek in a leaky boat without a paddle because of his poor recruiting. It may already be too late, as the most of the good candidates have already been snapped up. Steve Spurrier is coaching South Carolina, Urban Meyer chose sunny Florida over sub-zero South Bend, and Bobby Petrino and Jeff Tedford are staying at Louisville and Cal, respectively.
I hate to break this to all the conspiracy theorists out there, but Notre Dame did what they had to do. Plain and simple, Tyrone Willingham sucked as a coach. His teams did not implode in November on a regular basis because he was black; they collapsed because he was outcoached.
Simply compiling a winning record is not good enough for an elite program. Willingham is not the only coach with a winning record who has been fired recently. Last year, Nebraska fired Frank Solich after he went 9 and 3. Florida fired Ron Zook in the middle of the season after an embarrassing loss to the worst team in the SEC Mississippi State. As Vince Lombardi once said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
Oklahoma should be number one in both polls after the impressive beatdown they gave Colorado. Granted, the Big XII North was pretty weak this year, but any of those teams* could have gone 10 - 1 in the pathetic PAC 10 or the hopelessly hamstrung Big East. The winner of the Big East and the PAC 10 should fight it out in the Toilet Bowl, as neither conference deserves an automatic BCS bid. The PAC 10 is so pathetic that both number 1 USC and number 4 California barely beat unranked teams in their final games, while Oklahoma destroyed Colorado.
Give me a fucking break, USC in no way, shape, or form deserves to play for the national championship. Oklahoma and Auburn** should be playing in the Orange Bowl*** for the national championship.
By the way, the douchebags at AP might want to rethink voting Gary Barnett as Big XII coach of the year. Ever heard of a guy named Bob Stoops? Or Mack Brown? Or Dennis Franchione? Wankers.
* Except for Nebraska, which was saddled with Bill Callahan, the worst coach ever.
** Full disclosure: I hate Auburn. In fact, I think the entire state of Alabama should be bulldozed into the Gulf of Mexico so that Atlanta could have a beach within reasonable driving distance. The trailer mobile home park residents that make up the population of the state could easily be relocated to an appropriate state, such as Oklahoma. Since their homes are mobile and all.
*** Until FedEx starts showing us some love, and by love we mean assloads of cold hard cash, we will be referring to it as the Orange Bowl here on Prizzo Skeezy.