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The Hybrid: Chainsaws, Athetlic Potential, Death Row Storiesby Bobby Loesch on October 28, 2010 at 7:08AM
Cam Newton: Cam Newton. Just look at this random scramble (via Doc Saturday). Well, not random -- it's significant, as he scored a touchdown. But just look at this run. Like, right now. "A young man fulfilling his athletic potential..." Watching Newton play football is watching something gorgeous. This is what separates college football from college basketball. With hoops, the NBA pwns college easy when it comes to in-game action (factor out the tournament). With the NFL, the hits might be bigger, and the players might be better, but the NFL's defenders are too good to let mobile QBs tear the fucking roof off the non-roofed outdoor stadiums they play in. But that defensive deficiency plays to college football's advantage. I'm not saying Newton couldn't do some of the stuff he does in the SEC against pro competition, but, as a whole, college football offenses very much benefit from facing slower defenses. It translates on the scoreboards as well as the field. And in the year of the mobile quarterback resurgence, Cam Newton is the champion of this cause. He is very much the man. Earlier this week, Clay Travis talked Newton (emphasis mine): ...The Heisman is a foregone conclusion and now I'm wondering this: what could he get away with on Auburn's campus now? For instance, if he got a chainsaw and just started cutting people's cars in half like the scene from Any Given Sunday, don't you picture an entire crowd of Auburn fans cheering him? The cops would show up and pour more gasoline in his chainsaw. The people whose cars got cut in half by Newton would put the cars on eBay and sell them for more than they were worth beforehand.He is so right. You look at the way Newton carries himself, and it's hard not to think the same thing. In all actuality, Newton isn't anywhere near Tebow status yet, but it feels like he's surpassed Tebow in some definitive way that can't totally be explained. Maybe it's just because he's unarguably cooler. Who truly knows? Travis goes on... I wondered about this when I saw Newton celebrating in the Jordan-Hare crowd with 15 seconds left on the game clock. Have you ever seen anyone do this before, start walking along the ramparts of the stadium and leading cheers before the clock even finished counting down? This was Cam's, "I'm Cam Netwon, bitch," moment.The legend continues. Oregon and Auburn are seriously the coolest: We'll cover this below in the bandwagon. Iowa State: ROMPS Texas. It wasn't even close*! * - It was somewhat close Nothing but props go to the 'Clones this week. I may have made fun of them a bit in last week's Hybrid, but honestly, there isn't a bigger Iowa fan who loves Iowa State more than me. I wish them nothing but the best. And ideally, they'll win a national title sometime in the next 60 years. THE HYBRID Quick, Selective Hits On The BCS Top 251. Auburn: Title or bust. Heisman or bust. Who knows which order. It's whatever. 2. Oregon: So may points. 3. Boise State: I don't know why everyone is playing the whole "what does Boise have to do to get ranked No. 1?!" card. We all know they're a talented team, and we all should know that regardless of their talent or wins thus far, their schedule is always going to be a major hurdle in making the national title game. The season's still early, but they are by no means a lock to get shut out of the national title game. It's not inconceivable, but people who are still surprised by this crap at this point need to study up on BCS history. 4. TCU: They're right up there with Boise State in every way, yet it feels like their season is college football's dirty little secret. We'll see what happens if they takeout Utah. 5. Michigan State: If they aren't Ohio State 2002, I don't know who is. What a stupid, stupid win last week. 6. Missouri: How good, truly, is Mizzou? I don't know, let's just move on. 7. Alabama: Gross. They better not sneak into the title game. 8. Utah 9. Oklahoma: Oklahoma and Ohio State seem to validate their respective haters every damn year. Maybe the No. 1 ranking was a little fluffy for this team, but to go out like that? A damn shame. 10. Wisconsin: I will not make fun of Wisconsin for the rest of the season. And it's killing me. 11. Ohio State 12. LSU: "If we had Cam Newton, he'd be our third quarterback," Les Miles. As with about everything he does, that makes me laugh/happy and sort of hate him. The quote is taken out of context, unfortunately. 13. Stanford 14. Nebraska: Another kill on the horizon this week? 15. Arizona 16. Florida State: Just found out they're favored in every game for the rest of the season. I'm mostly disgusted by this development. What if they somehow find their way into the Top 10? How shameful. 17. Oklahoma State 18. Iowa: I guess when you miss an extra point and fail to defend a fake punt play (all at home), you very much deserve not to win. 19. Arkansas 20. South Carolina 21. Mississippi State 22. Miami (FL): AW, WHAT UP?  23. Virginia Tech 24. Nevada 25. Baylor Any Sweet Games This Weekend? Michigan State (5) at Iowa (18): I would just be so stunned if Iowa lost this game, and I'd like to think I'm not biased for Iowa. If anything, I feel biased against Iowa, most of the time. But Iowa is at home, and Michigan State nearly lost to Northwestern last week. Michigan State's strength (and problem) is they're not bad at anything, but they're not great at anything, either. Every aspect of their offense and defense is just plain solid. Sometimes, you need to be great in college football. This is going to catch up with them at some point. Missouri (6) at Nebraska (14): Is it a foregone conclusion Missouri loses this game? Because... what happens if they win? Auburn (1) at Mississippi: No. 1 on the road. Oregon (2) at USC: Game of the week. I don't care about ranked vs. ranked. This is a completely outstanding (offensive-wise) Oregon team facing Lane Kiffin and his talent and two point conversions. Oregon routing USC will not make this a bad game, it will only stamp down their Pac 10 dominance -- especially factoring in the points they put up against SC last year. College Football Bandwagon Every
year, once my actual favorite teams have been eliminated from the national
title picture (by, you know, losing just one game), my buddy Ryan and I
create what we call the "College Football Bandwagon" which mostly
consists of a list of all the undefeated BCS conference teams minus
Notre Dame (and sometimes others). The goal of the CFB is to fake feel good about
yourself when your "team" makes the national title game. Plus it gives you invested fake rooting interests. College Football Bandwagon 2010 Last week's bandwagon: Oklahoma, Oregon, Boise State, Auburn, TCU, Well, Oklahoma immediately bit the dust. They lasted one week at No. 1. Sad. But the show must go on. Oh, Okie State lost, too. The good news? Our hater team LSU peaced out as well. So... This week's bandwagon: Auburn, Oregon, Boise State, TCU, Michigan State, Utah, Missouri Ryan still says he's only rooting for Auburn and Oregon, so I chose to ignore him and leave all the cool teams up their anyway. As for the team we're turning against? SPARTY, come on down. Come on, Michigan State kinda blows. You know you don't want them to even sniff the title game. That'd be a travesty. Ryan, do you co-sign?: "Yeah MSU, I hate Alissa." Alissa is his girlfriend who went there. Updated bandwagon: Auburn, Oregon, Boise State, TCU, What I'd really want to see more than anything -- and Ryan's on board, too -- is an Auburn and Oregon national title game. You want to talk about deserving? Auburn was famously snubbed from the USC-Oklahoma title game where USC killed OU so badly that the Sooners were laughing and making jokes on the sideline in the third quarter because the game was that decided. How stupid. Oregon is equally deserving. They probably could have won the national title back in that 2007 season when Dennis Dixon was becoming a spread monster before his knee decided no one could have fun anymore. Seeing him aggravate his already torn ACL against Arizona -- without getting hit or anything -- was so painful to watch. It was, like, out of a sad sports movie. Plus, they suspended cool LeGarrette Blount for a really, really long time after he jacked that dude in the face (just because white people were upset), and they kicked incumbent starting QB Jeremiah Masoli off their team in the off-season because they'd had enough of his shenanigans. The karma is on their side. So yeah: both teams cool, both teams spread, both teams deserving. Big Ten Rant Oh, Northwestern, why are you so stupid? Do you try to lose games you're supposed to win? And why do you beat teams that are so, so much better than you (Iowa, Iowa, IOWA)? Nothing you do ever makes sense. Tim Tebow Pro Check-In Last Week... Raiders 59, Broncos 14: The Broncos suffered a beatdown for the ages last week. Despite the game being decided almost as early as the first quarter, Tebow did not have a stat in the game. This is extremely discouraging for our messiah. I mean, that's really bad. Why wouldn't McDaniels at least throw TT in during garbage time? This should seriously almost count as two failures. But fair's fair, so he'll just get one. Cue up my Tim Tebow failure pic.  Sadness again. Season Standings SUCCESSES: 1 FAILURES: 6 Next week: Broncos vs. Niners... Singletary makes Tebow look extremely likable. What They Said -- A Take On Others' CFB Takes - I don't know what it is about me (probably the general weirndess), but I love me a good death row "last words" story. That's why this story about the executed guy saying "Boomer Sooner" as his last words was totally great. That's not to say the story doesn't get totally tainted once you see his picture.  Not exactly a looker.The Dagger got all over this story, saying it's not exactly Oklahoma's proudest moment:
Yeah yeah, not exactly great press for the university, but you totally know there were some drunk freshmen in a dorm reading this story, getting fired up, and screaming "AW HELL YEAH, BOOMER FUCKIN' SOONER!!!!" and high fiving and such. This had to have happened. Random Picture I Came Across While Googling Stuff For This Post  Wrapping It Up... It's a bit of a laid back week, but there's still some potential for significant things to happen. Bobby Loesch is the assistant editor of Tremendous Upside Potential. He can be reached at bobbyloesch [at] gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @bobbystompy. |
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"there isn't a bigger Iowa fan who loves Iowa State more than me"
ahem...
Aight, we're equal.
You can't love Iowa State and be an Iowa fan. If you choose not to hate them that's ok.......i guess.
Top 10 favorite team for sure. I'm not sure what "love" actually means when I say it. So maybe not love, but I'd certainly root them to win the national title game against 95%+ other programs.
Surprised to see nothing about the Notre Dame practice field death. That entire staff should be sent packing for allowing such a needless tragedy to occur.
OSHA regulations require that a so called "competent person" be on sight and in charge during the use of equipment such as a scissors lift. The competent person is one who has been trained and certified in the use of the equipment and tools are being used on the job site. And make no mistake about it, that practice field is a job site, and the coaches / trainers working there are paid big money to do their jobs. Obviously, nobody on the Notre Dame staff deems themselves competent, as no one has stepped forward as of yet to claim responsibility.
In the end there will be a lot of gutless finger pointing, and no one of consequence will be held responsible for sending that kid up on the lift, or allowing him to remain there in unsafe conditions. A groundskeeper or towel boy will take the rap for Swarbrick, Kelly and his staff, because ND has too much invested in their positions to sacrifice any of them at the altar of responsibility.
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