College football 2024

The guy obviously has talent...or the team around him simply sucks and he's carrying the whole weight of the team. I did find it very interesting, however that the "best RB in college football" barely made it out of the locker room for the second half before evidence of poor conditioning (or a bad hangover) nearly took him out of the game. Happy to see he powered through, though...sincerely. I remember a high-stakes game several years ago where the star QB took an apparent shoulder injury in the first quarter never to be heard from again.
 
First round sucked, but this round has had some good games, and all 4 teams belong in the semi.
 
There's never a reason to be a fan of Notre Dame. That said, you won't find any OU or TX fans "rooting for the SEC" regardless of which team is in it. We used to laugh so much about how many SEC teams would try to apply the transitive property of a Bama/GA/LSU national championship to their struggling SEC team.
 
I was thinking something similar when Coach Sark said a few days ago that ASU should be treated with so much respect because they won the Big 12 in such a short amount of time. Well, yeah...when every good team in the Big 12 all leave it makes it quite a bit easier. :)

By the way, Sooner if you haven't found him yet look up alostrich on YouTube. He does a weekly SEC roll-call that is absolutely hilarious.
 
KE5BM said:
The guy obviously has talent...or the team around him simply sucks and he's carrying the whole weight of the team. I did find it very interesting, however that the "best RB in college football" barely made it out of the locker room for the second half before evidence of poor conditioning (or a bad hangover) nearly took him out of the game. Happy to see he powered through, though...sincerely. I remember a high-stakes game several years ago where the star QB took an apparent shoulder injury in the first quarter never to be heard from again.
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Bob Noel said:
(I also don't have skin in the game)

Maybe skattebo should have had the conditioning to be able to play a full 60 minutes... I thought it was "interesting" for the announcers to comment on him never having played a 4th quarter snap all season.

But there are a lot of would-of, could-of, should-of to go around.
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I just assumed (we all know what happens when you do that) that he was sick. I never heard them say WHY he was puking, just thought he was fighting a bug of some sort. The way he ran over my Cyclones, I assumed (yeah... again) he had unlimited reserves.
 
KE5BM said:
I was thinking something similar when Coach Sark said a few days ago that ASU should be treated with so much respect because they won the Big 12 in such a short amount of time. Well, yeah...when every good team in the Big 12 all leave it makes it quite a bit easier. :)

By the way, Sooner if you haven't found him yet look up alostrich on YouTube. He does a weekly SEC roll-call that is absolutely hilarious.
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The SEC Roll Call and SEC Shorts are both pretty hilarious. I was watching some of those even before OU/TX joined the clan. I still can't believe Okie Lite fell off so hard in the first year they didn't have to play OU/TX, it should have been their year to finally win an outright Big XII championship.
 
CJones said:
I just assumed (we all know what happens when you do that) that he was sick. I never heard them say WHY he was puking, just thought he was fighting a bug of some sort. The way he ran over my Cyclones, I assumed (yeah... again) he had unlimited reserves.
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At one point in the second quarter, Skattebo complained to the OC, line, and bench that he was just one guy and couldn’t do his job and everyone else’s, too.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he ran out of juice; this is likely the first game in his career he played against a top-ranked defense where everyone was focused on him.
Here’s his take on it:
Skattebo did throw up during the matchup but said it was from chugging water and Powerade on the sideline too quickly.

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TCABM said:
At one point in the second quarter, Skattebo complained to the OC, line, and bench that he was just one guy and couldn’t do his job and everyone else’s, too.
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not exactly the best way to inspire teammates.
 
TCABM said:
At one point in the second quarter, Skattebo complained to the OC, line, and bench that he was just one guy and couldn’t do his job and everyone else’s, too.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he ran out of juice; this is likely the first game in his career he played against a top-ranked defense where everyone was focused on him.
Here’s his take on it:
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Ahh.. "chugging water and powerade too fast". Sigh..

I never put his name in the 'modest' column, and yeah - could be that he just doesn't know how to operate on a team when he can't do everything on his own. Will be interesting to see where he lands in the draft after GMs and coaches get to have sit-down interviews with him.
 
I may be wrong as just a casual observer of the game, but seems to me that every time we get a player like Skattebo this is what happens. They were the star in high school, get picked up on a mediocre to good college team where again they're the star and it's not until a championship game or even the NFL that they finally get on a team where everybody is good in their own position. All of a sudden you ain't the big fish anymore. Ol' Johnny "Football" Manziel immediately comes to mind. I once had a short argument with a coworker of mine who was an Aggie fan when Johnny was considering entering the draft as a Junior. I told him that's stupid and Manziel is not ready. He will get his butt handed to him. "He's only the best QB in college football!" my coworker said. "Yes, in COLLEGE football." Turns out I was right. Barely a year with the Browns and he's off to semi-pro oblivion. Colt McCoy, RGIII, and Tim Tebow come to mind just in the QB category. Don't get me wrong, I like all 3 of them but their high school/college talent did them no favors in the NFL.
 
KE5BM said:
I may be wrong as just a casual observer of the game, but seems to me that every time we get a player like Skattebo this is what happens. They were the star in high school, get picked up on a mediocre to good college team where again they're the star and it's not until a championship game or even the NFL that they finally get on a team where everybody is good in their own position. All of a sudden you ain't the big fish anymore. Ol' Johnny "Football" Manziel immediately comes to mind. I once had a short argument with a coworker of mine who was an Aggie fan when Johnny was considering entering the draft as a Junior. I told him that's stupid and Manziel is not ready. He will get his butt handed to him. "He's only the best QB in college football!" my coworker said. "Yes, in COLLEGE football." Turns out I was right. Barely a year with the Browns and he's off to semi-pro oblivion. Colt McCoy, RGIII, and Tim Tebow come to mind just in the QB category. Don't get me wrong, I like all 3 of them but their high school/college talent did them no favors in the NFL.
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Dwayne Haskins, Terrell Pryor to name a few others.
 
KE5BM said:
I may be wrong as just a casual observer of the game, but seems to me that every time we get a player like Skattebo this is what happens. They were the star in high school, get picked up on a mediocre to good college team where again they're the star and it's not until a championship game or even the NFL that they finally get on a team where everybody is good in their own position. All of a sudden you ain't the big fish anymore. Ol' Johnny "Football" Manziel immediately comes to mind. I once had a short argument with a coworker of mine who was an Aggie fan when Johnny was considering entering the draft as a Junior. I told him that's stupid and Manziel is not ready. He will get his butt handed to him. "He's only the best QB in college football!" my coworker said. "Yes, in COLLEGE football." Turns out I was right. Barely a year with the Browns and he's off to semi-pro oblivion. Colt McCoy, RGIII, and Tim Tebow come to mind just in the QB category. Don't get me wrong, I like all 3 of them but their high school/college talent did them no favors in the NFL.
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It's a COMPLETELY different level, but over the past 6-7 years I have seen (coached and reff'ed youth rec league baseball and basketball) a handful of players that had skills that were beyond their age group. It is REALLY hard to convince them to focus on sharpening their weaker skills while they can lean on their stronger skills. All they want to do is showcase how they can take anyone on the court to the hole without any worries at all. Then, inevitably, they run up onto their 'above average' peer and they get shutdown miserably and shrivel away to nothing.

I have a kid right now on my 5/6 grade basketball team that can pretty much score on a whim, but right now it alienates the rest of the team and is doing nothing to prepare him for games when his shot is 'off' or he runs into an actual defense. I challenged him yesterday to see if he can get more assists than points and after a few failed attempts, he started arguing with me that the offense was bad..... a 12 y/o arguing with me - having played hundreds of games in high school followed by hundreds more games in college, not to mention the practices and camps I attended with multiple HoF coaches over those years. Yeah.. He burned a lot of bridges yesterday. Sad, too, he could be a pretty good player in the future. No idea what his parents are telling him at home...

Every end-of-season speech I've given the past 5 or so years, I have challenged the kids to "always be coachable", whether in athletics or regular life, be coachable. So much lost talent (not just athletics) in the world because people refuse to be coachable.
 
Jeanty looked great all season, until he ran into a good run defense. Then he looked average.
 
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