Tough break for Hawaii, who has a fine program and does some nice things – they just got booked way way WAY above their weight class. Really, this was Georgia’s only option. If you lose, disaster – and if you win, you were supposed to. All you can do is pour it on and try to destroy your opponent. It’s not fair, it’s not right, but the way the system is constituted, it’s all you’ve got. Once we have a playoff and take human selectors out of the system, we can afford things like sportsmanship again. And after Arkansas and Florida took a dump today (Heisman curse? Anyone?), Georgia pretty much has to put it down HARD for the SEC. And even so, they have some kid at QB who apparently has his age on his jersey…
Meanwhile, the audio is shot on this broadcast, the announcers are godawful, the production values are mediocre at best – FOX doesn’t show a lick of college football until January 1. That they have all the BCS games but one is one more proof of the blight that is the BCS. Either have a playoff or blow it all up and go back to a truly mythical national championship, which I think would make everyone happier.
OBTW – the SEC put 4 teams on TV today. If the Pac-10 is sincerely happy with their bowl contracts, then their commissioner should be staked out on a fire ant mound.
The thing that bugged me the most in the run-up to the game is that everyone was talking about how big a dream this was for the Hawai’i players. How this was the great culmination of their hard work over the last whatever number of years.
Yeah, that’s great and all, but what about our guys? What about our seniors? The ones who have busted their collective posteriors for four or five years only to come to their last college game and have it be a joke because old white men in smoke-filled rooms decided that lining their pockets with a few extra bucks is far better than a classic matchup (USC-UGA) that would have created lasting memories for everyone involved.
Instead we have a game that takes 4 1/2 hours to play (meaning it wasn’t over ’til after 1 a.m. back home in Athens) with announcers that wouldn’t know a college football game if it hit them in the face (how I longed for Verne and his Soulja-boy’in old white man ways) that everyone’s forgotten as soon as the game starts tonight.
A travesty indeed. Just glad our guys could go out on a high note.