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.
 
I didn’t hear the SEC chant lol.
 
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.
 
CJones said:
No idea what his parents are telling him at home...
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There it is. The fallacy of youth sports in this nation today. A bunch of Uncle Ricos living vicariously through their children to the detriment of both.
 
ND - PSU was a hell of a game. Some of the first round games were lame, but the payoff is the final four matchups are legit. Looking forward to tomorrow.
 
CJones said:
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.
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I like this.
 
Ewers literally threw that game away. Not just in the 4th quarter, either. I wish he would play half as hard as the defense does.

Championship game will likely be an instant classic and I'm looking forward to it.
 
Good game. Not what I hoped for, but Ohio State played great and deserved the win. The championship should be fun.
 
Ed Haywood said:
First round sucked, but this round has had some good games, and all 4 teams belong in the semi.
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This is the problem with seeding some conference winners in high though they weren't really that good.

But some of the games were quite good. Couldn't ask for something more exciting than the ASU-Texas game.

I doubt the ND-OSU is going to be interesting at all.
 
flyingron said:
This is the problem with seeding some conference winners in high though they weren't really that good.
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I imagine they'll fine tune their approach in the future. For the first year, I'd say the results were good. They captured some of the magic of March Madness. And nobody should have any issues with the final 4 being undeserving.

My only complaint is that they can't call an audible and play the Championship somewhere within driving distance of South Bend and Columbus. Perhaps Indianapolis? That would truly capture the best of college football and be a tailgate for the ages.
 
TCABM said:
Good bye and good riddance.
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Ewers looked like Milroe from Alabama - he had zero feel for pressure coming or how to react to it. I can't imagine being a UT fan and seeing the scenario with the "must have" 4th and 2 and they say "put the backup QB in for the best chance to make it". Ha

Pretty cool storyline that his former OSU roommate was the one with the final sack and scoop-6.
 
CJones said:
Ewers looked like Milroe from Alabama - he had zero feel for pressure coming or how to react to it….
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That’s been the norm since he got injured early in the season. I think it’s a mental block.
 
Well, the new playoff format is certainly a step in the right direction. For consideration, here are the champions for the last several years:

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This year we actually have a championship game without 'bama and without U(sic)GA. I deem that to be progress.
 
To be fair, 'Bama is barely even the shed snake skin of its former self since Coach Sabin retired. UGA has been somewhere between over-rated and exceptional for the last couple years. The current system is still better than the BCS was but there's still so much subjective bias in the rankings and I don't know how you fix that with the number of teams in Div 1 football.


CJones said:
Ewers looked like Milroe from Alabama - he had zero feel for pressure coming or how to react to it. I can't imagine being a UT fan and seeing the scenario with the "must have" 4th and 2 and they say "put the backup QB in for the best chance to make it". Ha
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On one hand it was painful but on the other hand, most of us saw that and were screaming "it's about freaking time!" and then you never saw him again. What's really concerning about that is it would seem Coach Sark knows damn well that Ewers won't move so in order to make a QB run play work he had to put in the freshman. I'm really excited to see how Manning plays once he's polished a bit. He's already really good but evidenced by that one play, he's still got a little to learn. Then again, he's pulled UT out of a couple Ewers jams this year so I don't really understand why he didn't get more play time in the post season. Especially against OSU where it could be argued Ewers didn't give 100% against his former team.
 
I felt a little redemption yesterday after the Houston Texans managed to make it past the Wild Card round. I don't typically watch NFL for a number of reasons...mainly because of how penalties are assessed, the fact they can't define a "catch" even today. But yesterday, there was nothing else to watch so I turned it on to see how they were doing. Turned out to be a really good game with a good flow that I feel has been missing in pro ball for a while.

Houston has never won the Division...looking forward to next week.
 
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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Rg3 was badly injured (due to the idiot shanahan sending him out there injured) so I wouldn’t include him

I don’t remember anyone thinking Tebow had nfl arm talent though he did manage to win a playoff game lol at Pittsburgh
 
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