My Take
Just my opinion of the week that was and a general opinion of the going ons in football.
*A topic on many of our minds has been the crappy times for home kickoffs this year. It makes it worse to see both of Georgia's road games to this point be at night. Looking back at the recent past, this is nothing new. Prior to last year, there was not a night game in Sanford stadium since Eli Manning came to town in 2002. The tech game has been at night in Atlanta two of the past three times we have played there. Almost always 3:30 over here. We played at Arkansas at night two years ago but came back and played them between the hedges at 12:30. Colorado was a shoe in for an early evening or night game but the Buffaloes just happen to have the worst start to any season in program history. Miss. St. and Vandy were both night games last year. What do you think the chances are for that this year? The point is, Georgia's either cathing some bad luck with scheduling or Mr. Adams has more pull than he should. It hurts us but more importantly it hurts national recruiting. However, we can't controll it and I choose not to think or worry about it anymore than I already have so that I can try to fully enjoy my college football season. Because it takes so long to get here, yet goes by so fast.
*The struggles of the ACC continue. Boston College beats BYU in OT. North Carolina storms back in the 4th Quarter to defeat Furman. Miami gets obused by Louisville. Maryland had a better chance of Friegen not eating for a week. The Wolfpack got drilled by Southern Miss and Virginia lost to Western Michigan. Its officially a lacrosse and soccer conference.
*Valdosta Highschool is not the Valdosta of old. The winningest program in the country has some of the nicest facilities and is the closest thing to a college program that I've ever seen in highschool. They will continue to be strong and win but will never get back to the point of being"Valdosta". The main reason: they are the 2nd best team in their city. Lowndes is the new "Valdosta".
*Miami and Florida St. are just not good teams right now. Coker is gone and the sooner Bowden is done the sooner Florida St. has a chance to return to the dominant level they once played at.
* Who is scheduling games for Beach Hich(@Brantley Co., @Charlton Co., @Warner Robins)?
* Southern Miss and UAB need to take the place of Ole Miss and Mississippi St. as members of the SEC.
*Mississippi St., Duke, Illinios, and Temple need to drop football and form a pretty nice basketball playing conference.
* No matter what their records may be(especially with Brohm being hurt), the West Virginia vs. Louisville matchup will be by far the most exciting football game of the year.
Finally-- The Oklahoma/Oregon onside-kick ruling was one of the worst in all of sports history. If Oklahoma goes on to win every game or even miss out on a BCS bowl because of this call, it will go right along side the 1990 5-down game involving Colorado the year they won the National Championship. Not many people share this opinion with me but I don't like Video review in college football. I think it takes the naturalness out of the game and have yet to see a successful system at any level. College football was fine before it, I think it would be just fine after it.
*A topic on many of our minds has been the crappy times for home kickoffs this year. It makes it worse to see both of Georgia's road games to this point be at night. Looking back at the recent past, this is nothing new. Prior to last year, there was not a night game in Sanford stadium since Eli Manning came to town in 2002. The tech game has been at night in Atlanta two of the past three times we have played there. Almost always 3:30 over here. We played at Arkansas at night two years ago but came back and played them between the hedges at 12:30. Colorado was a shoe in for an early evening or night game but the Buffaloes just happen to have the worst start to any season in program history. Miss. St. and Vandy were both night games last year. What do you think the chances are for that this year? The point is, Georgia's either cathing some bad luck with scheduling or Mr. Adams has more pull than he should. It hurts us but more importantly it hurts national recruiting. However, we can't controll it and I choose not to think or worry about it anymore than I already have so that I can try to fully enjoy my college football season. Because it takes so long to get here, yet goes by so fast.
*The struggles of the ACC continue. Boston College beats BYU in OT. North Carolina storms back in the 4th Quarter to defeat Furman. Miami gets obused by Louisville. Maryland had a better chance of Friegen not eating for a week. The Wolfpack got drilled by Southern Miss and Virginia lost to Western Michigan. Its officially a lacrosse and soccer conference.
*Valdosta Highschool is not the Valdosta of old. The winningest program in the country has some of the nicest facilities and is the closest thing to a college program that I've ever seen in highschool. They will continue to be strong and win but will never get back to the point of being"Valdosta". The main reason: they are the 2nd best team in their city. Lowndes is the new "Valdosta".
*Miami and Florida St. are just not good teams right now. Coker is gone and the sooner Bowden is done the sooner Florida St. has a chance to return to the dominant level they once played at.
* Who is scheduling games for Beach Hich(@Brantley Co., @Charlton Co., @Warner Robins)?
* Southern Miss and UAB need to take the place of Ole Miss and Mississippi St. as members of the SEC.
*Mississippi St., Duke, Illinios, and Temple need to drop football and form a pretty nice basketball playing conference.
* No matter what their records may be(especially with Brohm being hurt), the West Virginia vs. Louisville matchup will be by far the most exciting football game of the year.
Finally-- The Oklahoma/Oregon onside-kick ruling was one of the worst in all of sports history. If Oklahoma goes on to win every game or even miss out on a BCS bowl because of this call, it will go right along side the 1990 5-down game involving Colorado the year they won the National Championship. Not many people share this opinion with me but I don't like Video review in college football. I think it takes the naturalness out of the game and have yet to see a successful system at any level. College football was fine before it, I think it would be just fine after it.
posted by JJBA | 7:52 PM
2 Comments:
I don't think instant replay should be used at any level in any sport except for maybe golf so they can tell whether the high score or low score is better for that day.
Oh golf my ass
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