in other news, looks like illinois was sacrificed by the ncaa to get a good tv matchup against loyola. not that they shouldn’t have won, but still. biggest winner from having this matchup is cbs.
a game that matters in the third largest market in america is better.
yeah, but i don’t think that was for seemingly cynical reasons. now, when that undefeated wichita st team got kentucky in the round of 32? that felt like a setup for tv.
in '09, my mom was getting herself a new car, and i talked her into passing her '96 ac 3.2 down to me. was gonna be better than anything i could afford, even if it was old.
one day, i took the 3.2 to the dealer for repairs. now...
they gave me a loaner while they were working on the car. brand new tl. it may as well have been the batmobile to me. i'd never driven a ride that clean ever.
for some reason, the repairs took longer than expected, but were done in a window where i couldn't pick it up that day.
andrew luck. stafford avoided it, too, but mostly because he had no competition as qb1 in his draft. we also didn't *really* pick leinart apart. nor eli manning. i'm talking pre-draft, to be clear.
not really. plenty of white qb's get their games picked apart. how much of it you see in public discourse has to do with the narratives surrounding a draft. how much competition he faces. stuff like that.
fwiw, someone brought this up in conversation with me a couple of weeks ago.
BUT...what that person -- who's quite informed -- said was this was a function of the ohio st offense. sticking with no. 1, waiting for the receiver to decide which option to take on the route.
the other question on something like this with fields is how well one reasonably expects a third-year college player to "scan the field" and how much that can be improved. few of those dudes are getting to their third read in college.