Too Much to Ask
Last night I was witness to one of the most disheartening losses of my sports fan life. My alma mater, the mighty Bowling Green Falcons, lost to those thugs from Toledo 49-41. We were up 27-7 at halftime. That's a 20 point lead, 20! And it was all gone and we were down be 8 by the end of the 3rd quarter. I have to blame this loss squarely on the shoulders of our defense. I mean honestly, if you score 41 points you should win the game. Our D gave up 28 in the 3rd quarter and couldn't stop UT on a 4th and 2 that would have given us the ball back down by 8 with 2 minutes to play.
The offense was great. Omar Jacobs threw for over 400 yards and 4 tds, and no picks. That means for the regular season (let's hope there's a bowl season) he threw 36 tds and 3 picks. That's a 12 to 1 ratio. And this kid is a sophomore. Its a crime that he's not a finalist for the Davey O'Brien Award. PJ Pope ran for 98 and had 10 catches for 134 and 2 scores. He did everything that the best RB in the MAC should do to help his team win. It's too bad he couldn't play defense. It really was ridiculous. How many times has it happened in NCAA history that you have a qb throw for over 400 yards, 3 receivers over 90 yards, and a tailback over 95 yards and still lose the game? If you have any defense at all it shouldn't happen. Obviously some UT fraternity guys jumped out D at halftime, tied them up and dropped them in the ghetto and then put on their jersey's and mascarated as our D in the 2nd half. What a joke.
I guess it was just too much to ask for my teams to go 3-0 in big rivalry games. And this did happen the last time we went to the Glass Bowl in 2002, but it wasn't quite this drastic. BG was up 24-21 at half and lost 42-24. For some reason it seems that Fat Tom Amsteutz is a great halftime adjuster despite his turkey neck.
So now the Falcon nation holds our collective breath to see if we get a bowl at 8-3. If not, it will be the 3rd time in 4 years that we get bypassed. And all 4 seasons we had 8 wins or more. BG has 36 wins in the last 4 years and to this point have 1 bowl bid to show for it. No other team in the nation can make that claim. Its not hard to understand why Urban Meyer jumped at the chance to get out of the MAC.
But now that my stress game is out of the way for this week, I am looking forward to the greatest football weekend of the year, yes, Thanksgiving. Food and football, I don't know if it gets any better. And the football weekend is 4 days long. 4 days of football. College and pro, God what a great country. I'm looking forward to gorging myself Thursday then falling asleep while Peyton Manning throws 6 tds against the Lions. Then I'll wake up in time to watch part of the Bears and Boys, and I'll probably even watch most of the Backyard Brawl. Pitt and WVU don't get the credit they should for being a great rivalry. You're talking about a part of the country where football is life. Pittsburgh is a blue collar, nose to the grind stone kind of town that fell in love with football the first time it was played. And when you talk about WVU football you're talking about one of only two thing in the state of West Virginia. The other being Marshall football. There's a reason that these teams sell out every game and why Bowls jump all over them; because there's nothing else to do in that state.
Do you know what one of the greatest ways to break up a work day is? Go to 7-11 and get a Slurpee. It just makes the rest of the day great. And if you're not mixing your Slurpee flavors you're missing the boat.
I know that I have ranted in the past about the Browns inemptitude during the draft, but it must be something about Cleveland teams because the Cavs haven't been much better. Since Jim Paxson has taken over the team we have had some bad picks. BAD. Diop, Mihm, and Wagner just to name a few. About the only one he got right was LeBron and that's because that was put on a silver platter right in front of him. This is the same organization that during one draft (1986) picked Brad Daugherty (Cavs all-time scoring leader), Mark Price (NBA career free throw % leader), and Ron Harper (4 or 5 time NBA champ). What the hell happened?
I work for the Washington Nationals. And over the last 2 years I really got the feeling that the Expos were the red headed stepkids of MLB. You know, everybody laughs and makes fun of us and we get overlooked for everything. Its why I coined the phrase "You start talkin' bad about the 'Spos, I'm gonna start throwin' blows." But the royal screw job came this year to probably the nicest guy on the team. Mike Matheny won the Catchers Gold Glove this year for the NL. That's great, he's a very good defensive catcher, but in my opinion he won it on reputation. Brian Schneider should have won that award. He was the only regular catcher in the majors to throw out 50% of baserunners (no one else was even close), he made 2 errors (to Matheny's 1), and had 4 passed balls (to Matheny's 2). Oh, and by the way he started 15 more games than Matheny, caught 137 more innings, had 74 more chances, recorded 72 more putouts, and was in on 6 more double plays. And he had to do this becuase our backup catcher was a bum. Ask any ML catcher if 137 innings is a lot, and what kind of wear that puts on your body. Going into August Schneider hadn't made an error. Obviously the two he made in the last 2 months were from fatigue. Yet he still only made 2! Hey Rawlings, open your eyes. Maybe they'll get it right next year when Schneider's playing in that media frenzy that will be DC.
And finally, I'm glad that Grant Hill is back playing well in the NBA. He's the kind of classy guy that this league full of show boaters and maniacs needs. You can definitely tell his father has had a big impact on him. Calvin Hill was always a gritty, hard working, class act in his days in the NFL. And any guy that was part of the Kardiac Kids I have to love. So keep on keepin' on Grant. And if he does, watch out for the Magic.
That's it...have a happy Turkey Day.
The offense was great. Omar Jacobs threw for over 400 yards and 4 tds, and no picks. That means for the regular season (let's hope there's a bowl season) he threw 36 tds and 3 picks. That's a 12 to 1 ratio. And this kid is a sophomore. Its a crime that he's not a finalist for the Davey O'Brien Award. PJ Pope ran for 98 and had 10 catches for 134 and 2 scores. He did everything that the best RB in the MAC should do to help his team win. It's too bad he couldn't play defense. It really was ridiculous. How many times has it happened in NCAA history that you have a qb throw for over 400 yards, 3 receivers over 90 yards, and a tailback over 95 yards and still lose the game? If you have any defense at all it shouldn't happen. Obviously some UT fraternity guys jumped out D at halftime, tied them up and dropped them in the ghetto and then put on their jersey's and mascarated as our D in the 2nd half. What a joke.
I guess it was just too much to ask for my teams to go 3-0 in big rivalry games. And this did happen the last time we went to the Glass Bowl in 2002, but it wasn't quite this drastic. BG was up 24-21 at half and lost 42-24. For some reason it seems that Fat Tom Amsteutz is a great halftime adjuster despite his turkey neck.
So now the Falcon nation holds our collective breath to see if we get a bowl at 8-3. If not, it will be the 3rd time in 4 years that we get bypassed. And all 4 seasons we had 8 wins or more. BG has 36 wins in the last 4 years and to this point have 1 bowl bid to show for it. No other team in the nation can make that claim. Its not hard to understand why Urban Meyer jumped at the chance to get out of the MAC.
But now that my stress game is out of the way for this week, I am looking forward to the greatest football weekend of the year, yes, Thanksgiving. Food and football, I don't know if it gets any better. And the football weekend is 4 days long. 4 days of football. College and pro, God what a great country. I'm looking forward to gorging myself Thursday then falling asleep while Peyton Manning throws 6 tds against the Lions. Then I'll wake up in time to watch part of the Bears and Boys, and I'll probably even watch most of the Backyard Brawl. Pitt and WVU don't get the credit they should for being a great rivalry. You're talking about a part of the country where football is life. Pittsburgh is a blue collar, nose to the grind stone kind of town that fell in love with football the first time it was played. And when you talk about WVU football you're talking about one of only two thing in the state of West Virginia. The other being Marshall football. There's a reason that these teams sell out every game and why Bowls jump all over them; because there's nothing else to do in that state.
Do you know what one of the greatest ways to break up a work day is? Go to 7-11 and get a Slurpee. It just makes the rest of the day great. And if you're not mixing your Slurpee flavors you're missing the boat.
I know that I have ranted in the past about the Browns inemptitude during the draft, but it must be something about Cleveland teams because the Cavs haven't been much better. Since Jim Paxson has taken over the team we have had some bad picks. BAD. Diop, Mihm, and Wagner just to name a few. About the only one he got right was LeBron and that's because that was put on a silver platter right in front of him. This is the same organization that during one draft (1986) picked Brad Daugherty (Cavs all-time scoring leader), Mark Price (NBA career free throw % leader), and Ron Harper (4 or 5 time NBA champ). What the hell happened?
I work for the Washington Nationals. And over the last 2 years I really got the feeling that the Expos were the red headed stepkids of MLB. You know, everybody laughs and makes fun of us and we get overlooked for everything. Its why I coined the phrase "You start talkin' bad about the 'Spos, I'm gonna start throwin' blows." But the royal screw job came this year to probably the nicest guy on the team. Mike Matheny won the Catchers Gold Glove this year for the NL. That's great, he's a very good defensive catcher, but in my opinion he won it on reputation. Brian Schneider should have won that award. He was the only regular catcher in the majors to throw out 50% of baserunners (no one else was even close), he made 2 errors (to Matheny's 1), and had 4 passed balls (to Matheny's 2). Oh, and by the way he started 15 more games than Matheny, caught 137 more innings, had 74 more chances, recorded 72 more putouts, and was in on 6 more double plays. And he had to do this becuase our backup catcher was a bum. Ask any ML catcher if 137 innings is a lot, and what kind of wear that puts on your body. Going into August Schneider hadn't made an error. Obviously the two he made in the last 2 months were from fatigue. Yet he still only made 2! Hey Rawlings, open your eyes. Maybe they'll get it right next year when Schneider's playing in that media frenzy that will be DC.
And finally, I'm glad that Grant Hill is back playing well in the NBA. He's the kind of classy guy that this league full of show boaters and maniacs needs. You can definitely tell his father has had a big impact on him. Calvin Hill was always a gritty, hard working, class act in his days in the NFL. And any guy that was part of the Kardiac Kids I have to love. So keep on keepin' on Grant. And if he does, watch out for the Magic.
That's it...have a happy Turkey Day.
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