Really?

30 April, 2008

Article on sportingnews.com lists 5 college football teams on the rise and 5 on the fall. It would be a great, (sports)newsworthy list 2 years ago!

Up: Ohio State, Clemson, Texas, Illinois, Nebraska

Ohio State: We heard the same thing last year: The team has never been in better shape, never been more focused -- despite a championship game meltdown. It helps that super quarterback recruit Terrelle Pryor will give the offense a Tebow-like jolt in the fall -- and loosen up what could be a tight atmosphere.

Down: Michigan, UCF, Iowa, South Carolina, Florida State

Michigan: No quarterback emerged to run new coach Rich Rodriguez's spread option offense, which means incoming freshman Justin Feagin is in deep. Three projected starting linemen left school, the team is thin at receiver, and the defense just isn't that good. And you thought Rodriguez's legal dance with West Virginia was an issue.

i mean, really?

let's break this down...

Up list-

When in the last decade and a half HAVEN'T Ohio State and Texas been good? So how can they be on their way up? Clemson, obvious pick, they won like 10 games last year! And I think we all heard more than enough about Juice Williams at Illinois before last season, that putting them on the rise now is just stupid.

Down list-

Michigan, going into last season had a Quarterback, 3 Offensive Linemen, a Running Back, a Wideout, a Safety, a Linebacker and a number of coaches expected to leave after the season... shouldn't they have been on the down list back then? Now, THEY'VE BEEN DOWN! And they'll still go into the last 3 games of the season with a chance to win the big 10.

About the other schools: can UCF really go down? They never even had one full good season, they had a good 4 games. Iowa... if by down you mean 5th in the big ten instead of 4th I guess they count. South Carolina: again, you need to be up at some point to be falling! And FSU has been bad for 5 years!

Maybe I should be a sportswriter, I know I could make a better list than this!

For example:

Up: Central Michigan- won a bad conference, but convincingly, has a star in the making QB, lost pretty much no one to graduation, actually kept a coach, should have beaten a big ten team in their bowl game

Down: Oregon (just kidding, that should be on the other guys list since its so obvious and pointless) But you get the point... Sportswriters, you have the best job in the world, don't be lazy about it.