Cobs of the Week: Texas, Michigan State, Ed Cunningham, and Mike DeArmond!
by Husker Mike on Nov 2, 2010 11:30 AM CDT
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PrintEeek. We let another weekend slip away without our "Cobs of the Week" nominations! Maybe we should nominate ourselves. Each week, we list the worst of college football as candidates for the Cob. Almost always, it's usually something on the field, but this week, a couple of members of their media engaged their mouth before engaging their brains and join the parade.
Texas
Yes, they're a repeat nominee. But they're 4-4 this season and have lost three straight home games to UCLA, Iowa State, and Baylor. That's right. Baylor. Baylor is bowl eligible, and Texas is not. (And right now, doesn't look like they'll get there either) It's a team in disarray.
Ed Cunningham
Gary Pinkel and David Yost
Ah yes, the Pinkel Factor. One week after unveiling an inside running game that could exploit the Huskers' 79th ranked rushing defense, Missouri's brain trust decides to open the game with a 5 wide receiver/no back set on the opening series, and continues with the same approach for the rest of the first quarter. In hindsight, he says the Tigers should have run the ball more. You think?
Mike DeArmond
Last year, he called the idea that Nebraska could win the Big XII North was "abso-tooting-lutely nuts". This summer, he didn't know last Saturday's game was in Lincoln when he predicted Missouri to win the Big XII North. Then last week, he announced that Nebraska fans are like Kansas basketball and St. Louis Cardinal fans; they're all inbred. Yep, that's right. The guy from the state that brings us the Baldknobbers calling OTHERS inbred. SportsByBrooks pretty much nails him.
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hmmmmmmmmmmm
Ed Cunningham or Gary Pink and David Yost……
still undecided…..
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I went for Cunningham. Calling our program dirty in more words than that is uncalled for especially without referencing the rules he believes are broken.
Can’t vote for Pinkel because we beat them; they did not beat themselves.
Would vote for DeArmond if he had more pull nationally, but alas for him, he is JUST a KC Star “writer” who is a miserable, little (wo)man.
Texas losing sucks for us, but we can’t blame them…..we are the ones who blew it.
Cunningham
for sure! Pinkel and Yost didn’t allow the Huskers to score 24 in the first quarter. That honor belongs to that tough Kitty defense.
Texas, not up against the other candidates. The are who we thought they were…
Mike DeArmond, trying his best to get noticed is a close second. But look at the guy, c’mon, can anyone take a guy that looks like that seriously? The guy obviously has a learning disability (much like Gabbert, 3-3= 1); it’s just the way he was born..
Tough Call
Either Cunningham or DeArmond. I decided to vote Cunningham. The “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” guys on 1620 the Zone took care of DeArmond referring to him as a “drunken old man.” Can’t remember if it was Kevin or Mike’L that got loose with that blast.
"No 00:01 Chances!!"
Franklin got my vote
For two straight weeks of over-the-top absurd commentary. D’Armond I just feel sorry for — in a dead industry, and not even trying very hard to be relevant or well-informed. I just re-read that July 09 column to which you linked where he ridiculed the notion of NU winning the Big XII North…very, very funny. It’s just amazing that even though his entire job is covering college football he is so clueless as to not know basic facts like where the NU-MU game is being played.
I went with Cunningham, also.
And what’s with his vocal inflections? He sounds like he’s about to burst into tears half the time, and the other half he sounds like he’s predicting the end of the world.
I watched the videos of Mike DeArmond. Poor man…looks like he’s had one-million too many drinks in his life.
Has anyone heard who’s calling the game on ABC this week? If it’s Franklin-Cunningham for the third week in a row….
It's not Franklin-Cunningham, thank God
Can’t remember everyone on the team, but the color guy is Chris Spielman.
by Cheeseandcorn on Nov 2, 2010 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Chris Spielman...
doesn’t sound like a “colored guy” name.
There, I did it. My insensitive, politically incorrect racial joke of the year. =)
Spielman
Will not bash Nebraska for “illegal” hits. He made a career out them in college and the NFL.
@GochFaceKiller on Twitter
by Screwface on Nov 2, 2010 3:22 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Cunningham, for sure.
1. If it doesn’t draw a flag, it isn’t illegal, genius.
2. The super-slo-mo replay you’ve got in the booth doesn’t show you what happened on the field in the speed it occurred. Watching a game from the press box doesn’t elevate your viewpoint, moral or otherwise.
3. I love Ron Franklin, but Cunningham has ruined two broadcasts in a row – now I’m forced to want someone else simply because they’ll be the not-Cunningham team.
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Yes, Franklin is good,
But I wish he had the guts to call out Cunningham on some of his over the top comments.
Cunningham
When did he become an expert on what should or should not be called.
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