Tebow, Tacos and Texas . . .
Some musings while pondering my bowl picks…
Tim Tebow’s televised crying after losing the SEC championship to Alabama shows how the excessive media idolatry of Tebow the last three years is so ridiculous. It is also no wonder how our star athletes can get their priorities out of whack.
Tebow is a fine player and may be an all around good guy. But his emotional display after the loss was as childish as his long-time ranting and raving to team mates when he was winning. Some found that endearing. Most of us got worn thin from it all.
There on Saturday was big star Tim Tebow crying like a baby. His teammates were caressing him and consoling him. Didn’t they play the game too? Oh, I forgot, this is and always has been about the Tebow “dynasty”– not about Urban Meyer or the rest of the Florida Gators.
Tebows attention (what will ESPN Gameday do their weekly feature on now?) has been surpassed only by the histrionic fans’ worship of him. That has no equal in college football history.
What can one say when a state university places a plaque on campus of a current college player’s locker room speech – and the school and alums think that is OK?
Oh well. I had no idea Superman could cry. Or that Nick Saban was really Lex Luther.
The Sooners are off to the Sun Bowl and we’re trying to decide if Tacos in El Paso are worth making the trip. We haven’t missed a bowl game since Bob Stoops landed in Norman, but given the last three bowl games our friends are yelling “jinx” and discouraging any further bowl plans.Meh.Bigger question is, will Stanford alum Tiger Woods show up for the game? Look out El Paso fire hydrants (and women)!
I would like to blame Mack Brown for poor clock management that almost cost the Longhorns their shot at a national championship. With Texas already in field goal range the Longhorns had to rely upon a video review to keep the game clock from expiring before they had a chance to boot the game winning field goal against Nebraska in Saturday’s Big 12 championship at Jerry’s World.But I can’t blame Mack. This one was on Colt McCoy.Apparently Colt wasn’t hearing the screams of “What are you doing!” from Mack and fans of all allegiances who were watching from living rooms around the country as the clock ticked down and he was scrambling around seemingly oblivious to the time of day. When he chucked the ball out of bounds the game clock ran down to zero.
Colt just about blew it. Fortunately for him, the officials put one second on the clock. UT kicked the FG to win. But the Texas Longhorn lost my Heisman vote (OK, I don’t really have one, but I can fantasize) on that one play. Of course his average play this year wasn’t much help, but I was prepared to give him my vote for his Heisman career until he lost his mind under pressure.
And, when one examines McCoy’s play against tough defenses, the Heisman-or-not picture is even more clear. Here are McCoy’s stats against the only two tough defenses he’s played in 2009:
Against Oklahoma: 21 of 38 for only 127 yards passing, 1 TD and 1 INT.
Against Nebraska: 20 of 36 for 184 yards, no Tds and 3 INTs.
Sorry, Colt, that does not equal Heisman.
— Mike