[NU Sports] Note to the Buckeye Band

[Jeff Beamsley]

It was a pretty embarrassing end of the season for both Michigan and OSU.  

People were ready to accept that Carr got out coached by Carroll.  They were
also ready to accept that Carr got out PR'd by Meyer.  Admitting that "walk
on water" Tressel got out coached by Meyer, however, is a much tougher pill
to swallow.

But sometimes the truth is painful for those who prefer the comfort of their
delusions.

My youth in Nebraska was filled with disappointments as our hefty
cold-weather huskers attempted to overcome our state's sense of inferiority
by proving that we at least knew how to play football.  Our kids got whupped
year after year by smaller quicker warm-weather teams coming from much more
glamorous parts of the country.  This game had a very similar flavor.  

Jeff




-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:24 AM
To: Jim Leonard; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Note to the Buckeye Band

> On the off chance that your 'unsinkable' team is getting its butt 
> kicked, you might not want to play music from 'Titanic' at halftime. 
> It reminded me of

I was laughing and thinking the same thing! That's almost too easy -- I
wonder if any writers at the game will pick up on it for the stories
tomorrow. Sheesh.

Oh well, it'd have been nice for Big Ten pride, but you can never be too sad
to have OSU lose a game.:)

I remember a few years back when the Big Ten didn't have a basketball
tournament and the teams were having a dry stretch in the NCAAs and the call
was that the league needed a tourney to "better prepare" teams for March
Madness (total hogwash, as Clem Haskins showed in the year before the
tourney began that all you needed were a few creative tutors :) ) ... now
we'll have to see if the long layoff discussion after the complete eggs laid
by OSU and Michigan (along with the BCS leapfrog game) will lead the Big Ten
to perhaps schedule games later in the season ... or at least take the Pac
10 route and move one or two key games back a couple weeks to give the
league exposure and keep teams "fresh."

Tomorrow we all start at 0-0 again and hope can spring eternal for
purple-clad enthusiasts. I'd love to see "Phitz in Phoenix" next year ... or
even better!

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!

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