Big Ten Bowl Review: Champs Sports

Let's take a ride around the MSM's Big Four to see what they have to say about the Big Ten's bowl debut last night: (I'll try to do this for every day the Big Ten plays a bowl)

• If the win over Miami is any indicator of what the Badgers are capable of, Wisconsin could be at the top of the Big Ten when 2010 ends, writes Andy Staples at SI.com and Adam Rittenberg at ESPN.com.

• SportingNews' Matt Hayes is confused: how could a speedy southern team actually lose to a slow northern team? Something must have been seriously wrong with Miami last night, according to Hayes; because you know, there's no way Wisconsin might actually have been a better team than the 'Canes.

• Of course, anyone with half a brain could see that Wisconsin not only came into the game better prepared, but was in fact the better overall team on the field, writes Rittenberg. Even Heather Dinich had to agree.

• I don't know why I even go to CBSSports.com. All we got on this game was the wire story and a bunch of message board whack jobs. Dennis Dodd must be waiting until all the Big Ten bowls are played, then he can pick out the few losses to argue that the Big Ten should drop football and the SEC should just become the NFC Southeast.

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Another pathetic "Linebacker U" claim

◊ I don't feel like fighting this battle again. It's worn out; the "expert" who wrote the article is just trying to increase hits. Maybe it's because no one will read otherwise. Here's a couple reasons why Penn State will always be the only "Linebacker U":

But first, an introduction by the Poz himself:



How about this little doozy, 9 seconds in:



Oh yeah, and PSU's resident two-time All-American, NFL Rookie of the Year, and three-time Pro-Bowler: (he deserves two clips)




But of course, we cannot ever forget the fellas who started it all (check out the hit at 0:13):



As I said above, I've already argued about this topic... more than once.

USC is not Linebacker U (2009)

Tennessee is not Linebacker U (2008)

Here's the original article's address. No. I'm not going to hyperlink to it, because I'm not going to give ESPN the satisfaction of the traffic from Zombie Nation.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft09/insider/columns/story?id=4014653

Just so you're prepared to vomit (go get the trash can), the "expert" basically trashes Penn State's linebacker history, while making a pathetic attempt to prove that USC now owns the title, with –– get ready –– the Miami Hurricanes and Ohio State Buckeyes as the next two in line. You may now blow chunks.

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I thought the option was dead

I'm watching Georgia Tech gash Miami with its kooky, out-dated wishbone attack. I'm sorry, but this gets me ticked, almost more than hearing people refer to the "single-wing" as the "wild-cat" offense. It's the freaking single-wing, assholes. Just like Paul Johnson's wishbone offense can't work in a BCS conference. Bull. Everyone knows that if an offense goes out of style, you can bet your bottom that some coach, ten years later, will bring it back. All the opposing teams won't know how to defend it, and that coach will look like a genius. It's just the natural cycle of college football. A fun one, too!

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