Frustration is Mounting...

by Mulliganville on Jan 9, 2009 7:54 AM CST Comment 16 comments

Kudos to Chris Fowler for actually speaking the truth...Herbstreet had the chance to make some sense of it, and chose not to. Corso, one line as always, and misguided this time. Nothing was solved last night.

I feel like the 2008 College Football season is a novel that never ended...the author just stopped writing...ceasing to finish the story, or offer a climax, and sum up lessons learned for the book's main characters. For those of us who do not read: It is as if we are in the final scene of a very tense movie action sequence...the main character is involved in a struggle with the enemy, and without the viewer knowing what happened in the final chase, struggle, shoot-out............they decide to roll the credits. The audience looks around at each other and feels like they were robbed of CLOSURE. How does it end?

The main characters: FL, UT, USC, and Utah.

The authors: BCS Honks

The Critics: touting the party line so as to do their best to convince the rest of of us THEY know best (this would be your sportswriters/analysts who think a playoff is not necessary).

Chris Fowler: "You cannot tell me in your heart of hearts that you know that FL would beat USC or UT or Utah." -- Brilliant sir...and thank you.

The most poignant aspect of UT offering FL a better matchup over OU is the mobility of Colt McCoy. Bradford is one dimensional...a prolific passer well suited for the NFL style offenses. FL matched up with OU one on one...the only other team that could do that was the Horns. We know how that ended. UT is the best team in the Big XII as noted by their top final ranking in conference. But this is one longhorn who is still frustrated. There will be no true national champion this season in my book. I am not sure if UT would beat the likes of FL or USC...but it would be phenomenal to see how is plays out, rather than how it votes out.

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10 points

Texas beat ou by 10 on a neutral field, and Florida beat ou by 10 on a neutral field. It’s crazy!

by Longhorns84 on Jan 9, 2009 8:06 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

i’d say it was a home game for florida. they didn’t have to go anywhere to play the title game

What the Bowen giveth Horry taketh away. --LatinD (2008 Playoffs Round 2, Game 1)

the Spurs do not defeat you so much as they grind you into tiny shards of psychological wreckage.
-the Denver Post

by Hamer_SpursFan on Jan 9, 2009 8:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Miss North Carolina says:

US Americans are better because we have more maps!

by horndude on Jan 9, 2009 10:39 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Neutral Field for Gators?

by realmccoy on Jan 9, 2009 10:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

bradford can helicopter flip, suck on it

by abcdmetrius on Jan 9, 2009 9:13 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I am suprised OU is not the National Champion.

I still think OU is the better team, after all, if we learned anything this year it is that a 10 point win over OU is meaningless.

by billb on Jan 9, 2009 9:40 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

brillant!!!

maybe that writer for the NY Times can start a campaign for his home boys to get the Title despite losing by 10!!! I love it.

by longhornJ on Jan 9, 2009 12:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Lee Corso and Mark May were sickening

They were 100% positive based on their arrogant attitude that USC is by far the best team in the country and would’ve beaten Florida, OU, UT, and Utah because of their great defense.

by goingforthecorner on Jan 9, 2009 11:44 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

yeah and FL's defense was supposed to be awesome too...

They stuffed OU on two telegraphed run plays on 4th down, but outside of that I think OU handled the ‘fastest Defense in the world’ pretty well…which to me says UT could have easily put up more points than OU. Of cousre our Def would have given up more as well, but we would have shut down ‘Superman’ as a runner I know that much for sure, and then who knows what would have happened after making him one dimensional?

by longhornJ on Jan 9, 2009 12:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Lou Holtz

Holtz was the idiot that made that statement, and it was far from the first time this season that he has gone against Texas. Mark May is the largest reason why ESPN felicitates USC more than any other school. Corso even yesterday was saying that one of the things that he felt wrong about this season was that OU was voted over Texas even after we won in Dallas.

by 10isgod on Jan 9, 2009 12:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Van Pelt

If anyone listens to Scott Van Pelt on the radio or saw him late last night on sportscenter, he has been very adamant that we need a playoff in college football. Last night he was pissed and commented on how FCS or Div. 1 – 2A can have a playoff and yet FBS is still using the old bowl system.

by 10isgod on Jan 9, 2009 12:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Coulda, woulda, shoulda

I believe our Horns could take anybody, but we just won’t get that chance. I’m sure honest Gator fans, although happy with their championship, would not presume to guarantee domination over USC, Florida, and Utah. Who knows what would happen (of the three, I actually think USC would be the toughest matchup for us). Unfortunately, we as CFB fans are denied the experience of watching the great playoff these teams would provide. We just have to congratulate Florida on their great season and move on.

by TheElusiveShadow on Jan 9, 2009 4:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

slight error...

I’m sure honest Gator fans, although happy with their championship, would not presume to guarantee domination over USC, Florida, and Utah.

The Gators don’t have dominance over FLORIDA?

by vy til i die on Jan 9, 2009 6:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Haha, good catch

Texas, I mean.

by TheElusiveShadow on Jan 9, 2009 7:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I get the feeling many people think USC would be our toughest matchup

But I also think that sentiment has a lot to do with how they ended their season and mopped up PSU in their bowl. OU effectively did the same thing and the voters bought it. For that matter UF did it too. The voters and the media remember the last few things they’ve seen that week and the rest fades quickly. I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone here that. I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that USC, or UF or anyone else would be our toughest matchup, because each matchup would be different (strengths v. weaknesses). I know I’m not bringing anything new here when I say we’ll never know how those matchups would shake out until they are played on the field. Texas would prepare differently for USC than they would for UF or OSU or Utah or Bama… I don’t think it proper justice to say a team performed in such and such a way against this opponent and then assume they’d have the same effect on the next team on the list. It’s certainly not fair to say that, we barely beat OSU, who got crushed by USC, so we’d probably get beaten by USC. For one, OSU is completely different now from 3 months ago, AND I firmly believe that a given team plays up or down to their opponent most of the time. If UT knew they were facing the “vaunted” SC defense, I’m pretty sure they would have played like it, instead of coming out flat against an unwanted OSU, no offense to them.

by UT92 on Jan 9, 2009 7:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Cardiackids

I’m suprised nobody in the media has ever nicknamed our Longhorns team yet. If it was up to me I would name them the Cardiackids! Regardless of what the score is and how far were down by year in and year out since Vince Young we have almost always found a way to come back and win games. Now I don’t have time to come up with a big list but here are some important games to remember. Oklahoma, USC, Michigan, Ohio State. I wish we could of added Texas Tech on that list but it was poor clock management

by kcmorse on Jan 9, 2009 9:40 PM CST reply actions 0 recs