Cob Of The Week: Missouri, Iowa, The Great Play Clock Debate and Jake Locker
by Jon Johnston on Sep 21, 2010 7:44 PM CDT
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PrintLate again, as usual, but the Cob of the Week nominations are here at last!
There was a lot of suck going on across America, but as picked by CN Authors, these are the suckiest of the sucky.
Missouri
Yeah they won, but c'mon. The Tigers needed a 68 yard touchdown pass in the final minute of the game to regain the lead over San Diego State. The Tigers defense gave up two long (93, 75) touchdown runs to Ronnie Hillman...which raises the question: is Hillman the second coming of Marshall Faulk, or are the Tigers seriously overrated?
Iowa
On one hand, Mike Stoops looked like a spoiled little brat, blowing a gasket after every call that didn't go his way. On the other, Kirk Ferentz solved his teams lack of intensity by chewing his gum. Come on Kirk, would it kill ya to show a little fire once in a while? They're starting to look like the Cubs of college football, finding a way to screw up championship hopes on a regular basis.
What a letdown for Hawk fans.
The Notre Dame - Michigan State Great Play Clock Debate
Not too long after the most excellent fake field goal resulted in Michigan State's win over Notre Dame, the wheels of the internets started churning. The play clock ran out! The play should have never happened! It should be reviewable! (shouldn't everything?) Fraud! Corruption! Turns out that the play clock expired within 1/5 of a second of the ball being snapped, but that's beside the point.
The point is - if you're a Notre Dame fan and you're seriously complaining about losing to Michigan State on a perfectly executed fake field goal, it ought to tell you just how far your might program has fallen. In other words, suck it up and take it like a man, Domers.
And God bless modern technology for making everything second-guessable. Wait, is that another nomination, like a two-fer?
Story line: Top NFL quarterback draft prospect to show off talents against big-name program from the midwest who's missing their top (mutant) defensive lineman from last season's defense. NFL quarterback prospect should have a field day, right?
If you call going four-for-20 for 71 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions a field day, then, yeah, you'd be right. There's falling flat, and then there's not bothering to show up. Take your pick, but Locker did one of them Saturday, and in doing so, his NFL draft stock dropped, potentially costing him millions of dollars. Anyone else lose millions Saturday?
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As did Iowa.
Ours was a few decades more recent, though.
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---Norm Parker
Missouri
Missouri. Bunch of pretenders down in Columbia. But then again, if they really aren’t that good, maybe they aren’t eligible for the cob.
I’ll start hating Iowa next year. Right now they can still be little brother.
Any day Notre Dame loses is a good day.
If the secondary covers properly and you take out the TD pass Locker got, his final stats are 3/20 26 yards and 2 INT. Washington’s only chance against us was to run it up the gut and that means less action for Locker.
Tough call
I voted for the mighty Locker, but..
Iowa’s offensive line looked like a bunch of middle schoolers at the end of the game. They let Arizona get something like four sacks in a row when the game was on the line. A sack got wiped out by a penalty… and then they let Arizona run right through the line again.
I’ve got a lot of family that are Iowa fans.. but.. ouch.
Thank you
for pointing the sack streak out….. you’re right, it was brutal for Stanzi there for a bit.
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by Jon Johnston on Sep 21, 2010 9:25 PM CDT up reply actions
I voted The Great Play Clock Debate
Because it’s patently absurd. People of South Bend: Do you not understand that in order to call a delay-of-game penalty, a referee has to see 00 on the play clock, look to the field, locate the ball, see the ball not having been snapped, and then blow the whistle. That’s physically impossible to do in 1/5 of a second.
Plays are started fractions of a second after the play clock expires all the time, because it’s perfectly within the rules. Get over yourselves, pansies.
/end soapbox
Agreed.
It’s the same as Husker fans implying the fix was on vs. Texas last year. The play was correctly interpreted in the moment and we bear the misfortune of coming out on the losing end because of it. Even the slightest bit of offensive life makes that final play meaningless, anyway. Ditto for ND.
"...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
Yup
That’s the reason I wasn’t too upset with that call at the time. (I was far more upset with the two bogus pass-interference penalties on NU in the second half that changed the complexion of the game.) But the 0:01 call still sticks in my craw a bit because I can’t shake the suspicion that if the shoe were on the other foot, there’s no way that second would have been put back on the clock to give Nebraska a shot to win.
(And of course, since that’s a hypotheticalsituation, it can never be proven wrong. They’ll never take my irrational suspicions away from me!)
by Cheeseandcorn on Sep 22, 2010 10:55 AM CDT up reply actions
I actually don't have a huge problem with ND's whining over the play clock
Don’t get me wrong, I loath Notre Dame and was on my feet dancing when the fake was successfully pulled off, but I think we’d all be a little pissed too if we lost a game like that.
As for the actual vote, I had Locker just BARELY edging out Mizzou. At first I was leaning Mizzou because they deserved to lose against a team they should’ve beaten by 40, and Locker WAS playing our defense. But 4 for 20 is just dreadful. Locker “wins.”
"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne
I can't do it
I can never vote against Mizzou for cob of the week. They suck so bad I just can’t pass it up.
on top of that
Mizzou shouldn’t have won the game…..
http://www.mwcconnection.com/2010/9/22/1703578/sdsu-received-official
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have to go with mizzou
I hate them so much so its not to hard. Plus we should be thankful that we don’t have to give the cob to the buffs for the umpteenth time.
I was just sad that we couldn't get CU in to mix again
Come on Cu we expect so much more less of you.
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Easy on Jake Locker, now.
He seems like a good kid. Also, wouldn’t we as Husker fans like to think that it’s not that he’s an overrated QB, but that Nebraska’s D is just that unstoppable? I mean really, he’s just one more QB in a long line of QBs who’ve been made to look like fools when playing Nebraska. Look no further than Nick Foles, who after getting blanked by Suh and crew, is now leading his team to upsets over the likes of Iowa.
Ideally, Locker will rebound and help his team knock off USC in a couple weeks. THAT would be the best case scenario for Washington and Nebraska.
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