Surveying the Damage
Looking around the internet to check on the pulse of the post-Fiesta Bowl coverage…
Elevenwarriors.com is one of the few Buckeye sites that have surfaced following the loss. The summary is accurate and concurs with several points I made in the wee hours last night. Around the Oval and Buckeyecommentary are quiet for now, perhaps still in the fetal position as I was for the first 45 minutes after the game.
The national coverage is all over the map. In the post-game festivities, Mack Brown stated that the Longhorns are the #1 team in the country (why not, everybody else is shouting the same thing thanks to the BCS). The Dallas News, among others are poo-pooing this quickly putting UT somewhere between 3 & 5. Pete Thamel in the New York Times thinks the Big XII bowl performance thus far is a harbinger of bad things to come in the national championship game Thursday night. The Kansas City Star shares in the indictment of the Big XII.
Odeen Domingo in the Arizona Republic has a great article on Todd Boeckman and his performance last night. Props again to Boeckman and props to Domingo for a great piece.
Randy Hill at Foxsports.com points out that the game was really lose, lose. Mike Freeman at CBSsports.com echoes the lose,lose sentiments and takes it a couple dozen steps further by trashing the Buckeyes. Not a shocker that the SEC mouthpiece CBS is spewing hate, but here are a few of his gems:
“Congratulations, Texas. You won. You beat a tortoise-slow Ohio State team with its overrated coach who can no longer win a big postseason game. Nice work.”
“This was a lucky 24-21 Fiesta Bowl win over an average team whose claim to fame now is beating Michigan. Whoop-de-damn-do. Everyone beats Michigan.”
“He (McCoy) should have put up 600 yards and five touchdowns against this mediocre Buckeyes defense.”
“Florida would’ve destroyed this Ohio State team (been there, done that) and Oklahoma would have as well. Utah would’ve spanked them, too. The Buckeyes just aren’t that good.”
Longhorn nation is rightfully giddy, and the manlove for Colt McCoy and Quan Cosby is in full effect (again, rightfully so).
On the lighter side of things, Dr. Saturday points out the ridiculousness of what conference commissioners say, this time from Big Ten Commish Jim Delaney.
EDSBS and Busted Coverage both commented on what I laughed at while watching the broadcast last night- the best mullet on TV in quite awhile (outside of hockey of course, not that hockey is still on any version of standard television programming). Mega props though for getting in three exceptional mullet phrases in one paragraph- my personal favorite of his is “WWF Sex Cowl”. Good work sir.
EDSBS also had a nice bit about Mack Brown’s “I’m the king of the world” speech during the Fiesta fiesta. And in answer to the paranthetical final paragraph, Buckeye nation is also fully tired from “Tressel fatigue”.
Finally, in one of the few redeeming moments of the overall Fox broadcast, and the only reason I didn’t throw a size 10 1/2 through my 47″ Vizio for the repeated and evermore obligatory shots of Colt McCoy’s parents, was the presence of McCoy’s girlfriend Rachel Glandorf. Busted Coverage picked up on this as well and put in their two cents. We agree she’s Jessica Simpson-esque, but several clicks better; we presume she’s got fewer Hollywood/athlete Mimbo miles on her and statistically, the odds say she has to be at least slightly smarter than Simpson. Colt, watch your back for Nick Lachey.
You’re welcome.
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