The Dawgs Ramblings

Thoughts on the National Title Game

We need a boycott. We need a boycott that hits Fox hard. It is absurd that the national title game was on January 8th. I spend every Saturday in the fall watching college football so I am as involved as it gets in the beauty that is college football but even I was not enthusiastic about last night's game. My anticipation had waned to the point where if they canceled the game I would not have cared. Of course, since they did not stop the game, I watched or at least flipped channels as Ohio State got flat out embarrased. Lets get this game back where it belongs, on January 1st. Since I slept through the class on passive resistance in college any ideas as to how to proceed would be great.

Lets get back to the whooping that occurred last night. In retrospect why was this surprising? Outside of Michigan, who did the Buckeyes play? Texas was rebuilding this year so that does not count and Wisconsin was not on their schedule so they really did not play anyone else. The rest of the Big 10 was pretty pathetic to say the least. The Buckeyes lack of experience finally caught up to them on defense and without Ginn, they had no chance on offense. Florida was fast but I think Ohio St. had speed on their roster but could not use it as they were out of position the whole night. The BCS should be tweaked again. This time they have to take into account the SEC as the premier conference. Auburn being left out a couple of years ago makes continues to look worse. After watching all the bowls, I have to conclude that the next best team was LSU and they would have beaten Florida in Gainesville if they could have just held on to the ball. The even more scary thing is that the Florida program is only going to get better. Florida was athletic but they have had better athletes in the past than this year's team. When Urban gets those guys back its going to be theirs to lose. The only thing that may keep them from being a dynasty is the SEC itself where road games can lead to losses against teams that you may be better than.

Fox Sports as a whole just needs to go to . I do not know the announcers and they just end up pissing me off. The guys on Fox are second rate for the very fact that they work at Fox. If you could, wouldnt you work somewhere else if your job is to do college athletics. As one friend wrote me ,"Charles Davis needs to be banned from commentating on games. He spoke after every single play and claimed to have forseen the Florida blowout when Thom Brenneman asked the rhetorical question before the half - "did anyone see this coming?" Davis said "Not to this extent, but..." Shut up!" - Great call

USC has to be your leader in the clubhouse for next year. Florida and LSU have to break in new QB's so that may cost them a little. Tim Tebow may have to throw some instead of diving forward and jumping up in the air after every three yard run. Did everyone see that little Simms has decommitted from Louisville. He bolted hours after Petrino. Its safe to say he was going to Louisville strictly for Petrino's offensive skills and not for any collegiate experience. He may be just a name recruit but expect BC and Rutgers to be vying for his services.

posted by oceanjay @ 3:07 PM