We remain astonished that after a weekend when USC, the team o’ the decade and A plus rated stock of all stocks in college football, took one of those epochal losses marking the beginning of somethng and the end of something else, that we spent most of today talking about eye-poking. The real news this weekend was the end of the automatic Pete Carroll credit line, the moment when the USC Trojans experienced the Osborne/Solich downshift. (Or in terms more geographically proximate, the Spurrier 92-97/Spurrier post-’97 shift.)
We’ll have to talk more about that tomorrow. In the meantime, after a heated Monday, let’s just all put on some Night Ranger and have some Champale. No coincidence in the song choice. Nope. Not a bit. #lyingassoff
The prospective mistress of choice, seen two seasons ago in a fantasy sequence.
Steve Kragthorpe is doomed, doomed, doomed, but if the true test of a man is his gallows humor, then Kragthrope has something to rely on in the shadow of certain firing. He opened his press conference like this today:
“Sorry I’m late. I was actually on the phone with Jon Gruden. He wanted to know how tall Will Stein was.”
Well done, Coach Ignominious Verb. (HT: Big EZ via Card Chronicle.) If Gruden does come to coach Louisville after Kragthorpe’s inevitable firing, the Cardinals can look forward to such evaluations of their performance as this:
–”You’re a player!”
–”That’s a football player!”
–”Play occurred!”
–”He reached out and caught the football. That’s a real football play!”
–”Declarative sentence of no analytical value.”
He would be missed in the broadcast booth like the citizens of London miss dear old cholera.
We’re still Alphabeticalizing, but this needs mentioning: Spikes has been suspended for the first half of the Vandy game by Meyer. Commence overreaction in both directions, please.
Urban Meyer promised to have a very serious talk with Brandon Spikes re: his attempted eye-gouging of Washaun Ealey in the pile, meaning someone’s getting extra tiger meat on his plate at the training table this week. (Tiger meat: low in fat, high in protein and rage hormone, and great for lustrous beard growth.) There is no excuse for poking someone in the eyes, but there is context: Spikes got poked nastily in the eye in the first half, and Tim Tebow got a good gallon of saline blasted in his eye on the sidelines after something ended up in his eye earlier in the game. Chippiness was rampant on Saturday, and sometimes when you knock of a molecule of restraint off chippy, you get “maim-y.”
Texas couldn’t beat Alabama because there’s no Crimson Tide quarterback to knock out of the game. The BCS standings have Texas jumping Alabama right now in a meaningless one spot hop after their victory over Oklahoma State. It is meaningless because a.) Alabama and Florida would straighten out any nonsense in the top three in the SECCG, and b.) because no one wants a Florida/Alabama rematch for a national title game no matter how the computers rank things after a close SECCG. Craig James does have a point, though, when he says Texas is a more complete team. You should write down the date today, because Craig James had a point.
He can’t even park without destroying his blockers. Ndamukong Suh bounced off three cars on a cramped Lincoln street after Nebraska’s 20-10 victory over Baylor, damaging them and earning a negligent driving ticket for his efforts. Suh was going 25 mph or so in a 2003 Range Rover at the time and swerved to miss a “small cat or dog,” but the owners of the vehicles were said to be thankful Suh mitigated the damage by stepping into a car first. If he’d been running at full speed and bounced off the cars themselves, they would be total losses, most likely.
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