Sunday, November 26, 2006

I hate USC

And I will be very, very upset if they make it to the National Championship game.

I know everyone is saying that yesterday's shakeups are pushing Michigan into the game, but USC has managed to stay in the top 5 all season based purely on last year's performance, so I'm not buying it.

And how about those Mountaineers? Amazing how every year we're force-fed information about how the Big East is underrated, etc, etc and yet every year they manage to self-destruct just when everyone is starting to give them some attention.

I saw a couple of South Florida games this season (hey, it's the only football on on Tuesday night!)

Look, I'm sure it's hard getting cred when you're not in a major conference. But I'm quite sick of how the Big East watch starts earlier and earlier every season. Let's talk about good teams, but let's not go overboard. Talking about how great a team is, any team, really, in week 6 is just asking for trouble.

Just to play devil's advocate, however, if this season has shown us anything, it's that the Big East deserves the cred a hell of a lot more than the Pac-10 does.

I cannot understand how we continually act as though the Pac-10 is a legitimately competitive conference. Is there any team "big name" in the country that wouldn't have done what USC has done with the kind of conference opponents they meet? How hard is it to run the table in the Pac-10? The competition there is just sub-par.

All season, the SEC-ers have been complaining about how tough their conference is and that they have beat themselves in terms of a National Championship bid because everybody has losses.

Couldn't the exact same argument be made in favor of the Big East? The top teams all beat each other, taking them out of NC consideration.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amazingly inept view. If you had said u didn't like them because of their record or because of their team colors, that's one thing. Although sports radio likes to play the "our conference is better than yours" the fact is there are good teams and bad teams in every conference. If you'd like to measure a team, look at their non-conference schedule. I'll give USC credit, they are not afraid of scheduling the big boys - Arkansas (SEC title contender), Nebraska (Big12 title contender), and Notre Dame. Ohio State versus Texas? That's the non-conference stuff we like to see. If you're too scared to schedule tough, don't complain when you get no love in the polls. See Wisconsin as an example this year.

6:08 PM
Nicole said...

I wouldn't say Wisconsin is too scared to schedule tough non-conference. This season we had Oregon State on the schedule, but they backed out "for financial considerations." This is the Oregon State team that beat USC earlier in the season.

We also had Bowling Green, who last year was a strong mid-major.

The problem with football is that schedules are made so far in advance and that it's impossible to tell what kind of teams you'll be playing. Who knew that the Big Ten would be so utterly sucky this year.

As for USC, I just don't like them. I don't like the cred they get for betting crappy teams. I hated Matt Leinart and I think they were way overrated this year. But that wasn't really the point of this post, you just kind of latched on to that.

7:41 PM
Anonymous said...

Year after year, I HATE USC! I don't know if it is the fans, the coach, the whole team, they just continue to be overrated and whine bags. The big 12 plays a tougher conference, gets less press and fields better teams. By the way it is all of them, the fans, the team and the coach that i hate. Sooner Stan

7:20 PM

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