Posted on 12/13/2020 6:46:36 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
As college football limped toward the finish of its fraught 2020 regular season, it was fitting its final full-slate Saturday was saved by a guy throwing a shoe.
And for a team with a leading Heisman Trophy contender in quarterback Kyle Trask, it was ironic the season's biggest throw came from cornerback Marco Wilson.
It all was a perfect example of the universe's cyclical nature: the defending champs (what's left of them, anyway) pulling off the season's most stunning win.
Little has made sense in this wild spin around the sun we call 2020, and so it was that LSU's dramatic upset of Florida on Saturday served as the ideal conclusion: a perplexing, thrilling, delightfully ridiculous game capped by the most hilariously irresponsible penalty since Elijah Moore lifted his leg in the end zone in last season's Egg Bowl.
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I thought the post was about the kicker who needs a separate locker room.
I knew the Gators were overrated.
lsu finally changed QBs....they’ve been playing much better since.
This is the first time in 34 years that we didn’t see a single college football game.
Though this time it was by choice.
It was a shame this wasn’t viewable off-the-air in Florida last night. Locked up by espn.
It was a bummer not to have OSU / Mich and Purdue / Indiana.
I must admit that I find that whole “sit out the end of the season to protect your NFL career” thing to be both prudent and comical. It’s an inevitable consequence of combining big-money pro sports with the NCAA farce of “student athletes” who generate huge piles of revenue for Division I schools but aren’t allowed to be compensated accordingly.
Also I would point out I haven’t watched a single game this year.
And the shoe-throwing moron is a part of the reason why.
I sometimes wonder how each sport has evolved, and how players are developed.
For example, baseball runs its own farm system. Top high school players often do not go to college, but instead, go right into the minor leagues of baseball, to develop and gain experience to make it to the major leagues someday. But in football and basketball, the top high school players go to college, and develop and gain experience in the college game, in the hopes of making it to the NFL or NBA someday.
I think hockey runs its own farm teams as well, don’t they?
“And the shoe-throwing moron is a part of the reason why.”
But then there are players like Jalen Hurts, that guy is one class act. Being benched as the starting QB with a 20+ - 2 record, sat in quiet supporting his team, then came off the bench to be a hero. Reminder to myself, get a Bama #2 shirt with Hurts name, never cared to have a player’s jersey before.
I like to think of the NCAA as being semi pro football.
It is a bummer but the good news is that it prevented Michigan from getting another ass whipping.....
As a Buckeye fan, I am of the age where observing the traditions of college football is more important than the wins and losses. The Bucks and the Skunk Weasels playing without fans in the stands would have been meaningless.
I’m somewhat of an OSU fan (Gene Smith went to my hs in Cleveland) but hard to believe what a disaster Harbaugh has been at Michigan.
I would have enjoyed it just to see all the tv shots of pain on Harbaugh’s face. And they though RichRod was a fail.
Instead of watching the game, I’m in D.C. for the rally to stop the steal. This country needs new priorities.
1. In baseball and hockey, there were professional sports teams around for years before the modern versions of the NHL and Major League Baseball were established. It was almost inevitable that some of these would continue functioning as “minor leagues” even after the major leagues were established.
2. Football and basketball were different because of an unusual historical fact in the development of these sports. Up until somewhere around the post-WW2 years, college football and basketball were actually more popular than the pro leagues. There was never a network of small professional leagues for these sports because a normal “career” for these athletes involved a college scholarship, a couple of years in collegiate sports, and then moving on to something else for a career.
Thanks for going.
I thought about it but it was a 10 hour drive.
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