CUPCAKES AND CREAM PUFFS
Joe Butler of Metro Index Scouting has some thoughts on college cupcakes and cream puffs.
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Date: September 6, 2010
Categories: Sports
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Bobzilla
in September 6th, 2010 @ 10:55The beauty of a major college football program scheduling a mid-major is that the mid-major is being given a chance of a lifetime: To knock off a so-called super power. Mid-majors should embrace such opportunities.
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JohnSteigerwald
in September 6th, 2010 @ 11:41For every App. St. upset of Michigan there are fifty 48-3 blowouts. Usually those kids are getting the opportunity to prove that they don’t belong on the same field as the big boys.
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victor surma
in September 6th, 2010 @ 13:02Agree 100% John. Getting shellacked like that has to damage their ego & confidence. Maybe it would be better if they just dreamt about beating a major school instead of the reality. What a shame that it has come to this.
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JohnSteigerwald
in September 6th, 2010 @ 14:53I’ve never understood why a kid at Charleston Southern is lucky to take part in a 75-0 loss to Fla. in front of 100,000 people.
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Bobzilla
in September 6th, 2010 @ 15:48Years ago, when I was a sportswriter assigned to cover a small, rural high school, that high school had a rather ambitious head football coach. Every season he’d schedule Erie Strong Vincent in the season opener, and every year, ESV would beat his teams, 45-0.
It wasn’t until about the sixth year, when his team finally pulled off the monumental upset. That win propelled his team to the PIAA playoffs and into Western semifinals, where his team nearly pulled off another major upset.
That coach’s philosophy was that in order to get better, teams must play “up” in competition. And that victory over ESV is still being talked about 15 years later.
Think the kids who played in that game don’t have something to tell their own kids? Without having had that opportunity, those fond memories couldn’t be shared today… and beyond.
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JohnSteigerwald
in September 6th, 2010 @ 20:23As I said, for eveey upset there are fifty 45-0 blowouts.
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Joe Butler
in September 6th, 2010 @ 16:57I agree with your and Victor’s assessment, but it is about the guarantee for the school and not the player’s ego. How about last Saturday when 1A New Mexico got hammered by 1A Oregon 72 to 0. There is no excuse for that.
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Bobzilla
in September 6th, 2010 @ 14:41I absolutely agree.
But if a mid-major beating a major were easy, it wouldn’t be so newsworthy or exciting as it is. I do believe that small schools are beating the big schools more often now than ever before.
It wasn’t so long ago that even Division-I Rutgers and Temple couldn’t beat anyone in football…
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Joe Butler
in September 6th, 2010 @ 16:54the 1AA are beating and competing with the 1A more often is due to the fact there is good coaching at 1AA and more and more 1A players are transferring to 1AA because they are eligible to play right away if they have 2 or more years eligibility. Good analysis Bobzilla.