As spring practices wrap-up we're starting to see more substantive features popping up in the mainstream media. Nebraska got one in SI the other day but I thought we'd take a break from Cornhusker talk and take a look at other stories happening around the country that piqued my interest as a Nebraska fan.
Sure, there are Red-White game rosters to digest and we're still curiously waiting for someone in the Nebraska MSM to address the Bo/Daily Nebraskan tiff but meanwhile in...
ATLANTA -- Paul Johnson is answering questions about the relevance of the triple option. Is there any team that Nebraska fans will watch with more interest than Georgia Tech this season? I'm just glad we've got a coach that we're all, mostly, excited about because if Johnson had even a modicum of success at GT while Callahan was still the coach I think the state would have officially imploded. Still, this will be an interesting experiment in modern-day, major college football.
STILLWATER -- It took a while but we're finally getting Bobby Reid's side of the story regarding Mike Gundy's infamous "I'm a man" rant. I felt like the "feeding the kid chicken" angle was bullshit back when the article was written and this does nothing to change that feeling. Still, Reid's assertion that Gundy's rant "basically ended my life" is just a tad overwrought. His life isn't over. In fact, his career isn't even over. Reid will suit up this season for Texas Southern University in a move eerily reminiscent of Smash Williams fall from grace at the makeshift end of the never-to-be-ended second season of Friday Night Lights.
TUSCALOOSA -- Paul Finebaum, the noted button-pusher of a columnist that he is, asks if Nick Saban has become bigger than Bear Bryant. No, really, he does. Problem is he doesn't do much to answer the question except for offer some stellar spring game attendance figures. You know why Bryant didn't draw as many people to his spring games? Because there was nothing to see, no questions to answer. 'Bama was gonna be good again, don't you worry about it. Call me when Saban shows up in a Drive-By Truckers song, then I'll entertain this question.
4.16.2008
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Maybe I being too judgemental, or reading into something that does not exist. It just seems Bobby Reid's side of the story supports the storyline that he was not mentally or emotionally strong enough to handle the QB position. I understand that he became a lighting rod for jokes etc...but his attitude of laying down and playing the pity angel from the get-go was very revealing.
I followed your link to the Bobby Reid story and happened upon a link at ESPN requesting essays in a search for "TitleTown USA" contest. Maybe you've seen it, maybe that interests you, maybe not...either way I enjoy your writing and would be interested in your thoughts on the matter, with specific reference to Lincoln of course...submitted or not.
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