Outback blowback

There is a ruckus being raised (or referenced) over at NashvilleisTalking.com (here) concerning perceived bias in the coverage of the UTvPSU game yesterday.

I did think it was pretty stupid to have a former PSU nat'l champ winning QB announce the game--you'd have to be almost superhuman to be unbiased in that position, but the images of JoPa were fascinating . . . isn't it about time to hang it up when from all appearances your presence is unnecessary during a bowl game? The guy seemed to be talking to himself throughout the game.

And one shot of UT Coach Phillip Fulmer that I would rather not have seen was when he was blowing his top (which I welcome, frankly) over Jonathan Hefney's (SP) faircatch of a punt on the five yard line (read: STUPID play) and Hefney strolled right past Fulmer, apparently ignoring him as Fulmer bumped into another Vol player and Hefney kept strolling.

THAT attitude by Hefney (which was condoned by Fulmer, it appears) is why Fulmer has a 7-7 record in bowl games and why his teams always play down to their opposition. They rely on emotion--not discipline and in winning, they often squeek by on superior talent (ref. the graphic I saw recently that showed UT as third (?) on the list of former players in the NFL). Fulmer's boys will be boys attitude may help him recruit, but it hamstrings the team on the field.

There; that's about all I need to say about our humiliating loss in the Outback Bowl.