Thoughts after the game
I made the decision way back at the beginning that I was going to use the color scheme of the existing national champion for my website. I have to admit, I hope that Texas doesn't keep this title for too terribly long (although it's a long, long time until August). I'm not sure how much burnt orange I can take.
Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns!!! What a game. For once, a football game of that nature lived up to the hype. Unless you want to get cynical and ask whatever happened to the idea that defense wins championships?
I read one column this morning where the writer started out commenting something like 'Greatest team ever? Yeah, and that that greatest team was Vince Young.' Clever, but hey, let's not go overboard. Vince Young played an incredible game, especially in the last 6 minutes, but I think all the swooning over his performance does a terrible disservice to the rest of the Texas team. Would they be so gaga over Vince Young if his receivers hadn't done such a great job of getting open? I'm not sure they'd be proclaiming him the greatest player that ever lived if the rest of his team hadn't done such a good job picking up blitzes. Now, I'll have to say, there is something about the man where I don't know what it is, it seemed like all he had to do was look at a defender and the defender is diving one way and vince is running the other. But Vince couldn't make those open field moves like that if his offensive line hadn't pushed the defense back 5 yards about every time he touched the ball. It was an awesome effort by a great TEAM, and no one man is the team.
Which is not to say it wasn't a great performance. I'm just saying don't forget that there were 10 other guys on the team that contributed.
That said, we found out who really should have been the Heisman. When the chips were down, he came through. That other guy didn't.
It's an interesting situation for me. I'm not a big Texas fan. But I'll take a Texas win over all this 'the greatest team ever' hype that's been going on.
It's interesting how the performance of an individual player is always more likely to be heralded as one of the 'best ever' when it's in a close game. But when someone is so totally dominant that there's no chance of the other team to be close, it's always ho-hum
Can't wait til the end of August.......
Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns!!! What a game. For once, a football game of that nature lived up to the hype. Unless you want to get cynical and ask whatever happened to the idea that defense wins championships?
I read one column this morning where the writer started out commenting something like 'Greatest team ever? Yeah, and that that greatest team was Vince Young.' Clever, but hey, let's not go overboard. Vince Young played an incredible game, especially in the last 6 minutes, but I think all the swooning over his performance does a terrible disservice to the rest of the Texas team. Would they be so gaga over Vince Young if his receivers hadn't done such a great job of getting open? I'm not sure they'd be proclaiming him the greatest player that ever lived if the rest of his team hadn't done such a good job picking up blitzes. Now, I'll have to say, there is something about the man where I don't know what it is, it seemed like all he had to do was look at a defender and the defender is diving one way and vince is running the other. But Vince couldn't make those open field moves like that if his offensive line hadn't pushed the defense back 5 yards about every time he touched the ball. It was an awesome effort by a great TEAM, and no one man is the team.
Which is not to say it wasn't a great performance. I'm just saying don't forget that there were 10 other guys on the team that contributed.
That said, we found out who really should have been the Heisman. When the chips were down, he came through. That other guy didn't.
It's an interesting situation for me. I'm not a big Texas fan. But I'll take a Texas win over all this 'the greatest team ever' hype that's been going on.
It's interesting how the performance of an individual player is always more likely to be heralded as one of the 'best ever' when it's in a close game. But when someone is so totally dominant that there's no chance of the other team to be close, it's always ho-hum
Can't wait til the end of August.......
posted by Ron @ 7:09 AM
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You're absolutely right -- this was a TEAM victory.
One thing that was lost in the aftermath of the game was the Texas defense. With all the talk about how USC couldn't stop Vince Young and the Longhorns, it was quickly forgotten that the Trojans scored touchdowns (on long drives) on each of their first four possessions of the second half. So you've got a Texas defense that's on the field, obviously tired from being dominated for twenty-eight minutes, and somehow they come up huge on that final fourth down with their season on the line.
Yes, Young was amazing, and I can't say I was surprized at all when he waltzed into the endzone with the game-winning score, but he wouldn't have had the chance without that defensive stand.
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