Sunday, September 20, 2009
View From Bennett Avenue
We here at Sunday Morning Quarterbacks long for the days when conference races meant more than they do today. Wanting to convert the college football season into a facsimile of the NFL, television media outlets treat games as a preliminary to the post-season. Who will make the BCS games? Who will be the BCS Buster? And on and on. BYU and Utah lost yesterday and so they will be ignored this season despite what promises to be an excellent Mountain West race. Good conference match-ups between teams that will not play in January are rarely spoken about. And as Pete Carroll learned yet again, going on the road in your conference is dangerous no matter who you are playing. But, do not worry. We will cover the conference races every Sunday, beginning tonight.
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College football rivalries are fantastic and yet the NCAA and the media seem to be doing everything they can to destroy them with the vision of the matchup of 1 vs 2 at the end of the year as the end all. Going on the road in any conference is brutal, Pete Carroll said that exact thing when interviewed at half by the sideline reporter (whoever she was). Yet Mark May, talking dumbhead Jesse Palmer the College Game Day folks and many other so called experts fail to mention this leading up to games. They prefer to focus on the same claptrap of the BCS game or the most popular topic of the moment (i.e. Texas/OU at the start of the year until Bradford got hurt and BYU won the game). Let the teams play and let each week unfold as is and there will always be plenty of excitement. Have we bee disappointed by a lack of excitement or storylines after the first 3 weeks of the year. Enough of my ramble. Thanks you for the venue, keep it up
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