Cob Of the Week: Cy's Broken Arm, Tulsa AD Bubba Cunningham, Matt Millen, and KU's Defense
by Jon Johnston on Sep 20, 2011 12:42 PM CDT
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PrintNot sure what games you watched last weekend, but there were some pretty unstellar performances in the early match-ups, particularly amongst the teams in our new conference.
Penn State had to rally late (really late) to keep from losing to Temple for the first time since 1941, while Iowa had to come back against a below average Pitt team. Watching Penn State's offense is like watching someone go through a Chinese water torture only to discover you're looking in the mirror and there's no way to change the channel. At least Iowa gave us a decent fourth quarter.
After the jump are this week's nominees, and of course, the poll.
My only nomination would be Tulsa Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham, who made the decision to resume pregame warmups just prior to midnight so the Oklahoma State - Tulsa game kicked off around 12:15 am. It ended at 3:32 am locally. Even college football fans in Honolulu didn't want to stay up to watch the game. When it became clear that the parade of storms wasn't going to end anytime soon, just send the players and fans away for the night and bring everybody back on a beautiful Sunday afternoon after a good night's sleep.
Aaron:
Aaron nominates UConn fans, for allegedly being responsible for breaking the arm of the guy who wears the Iowa State "Cy" mascot costume:
Iowa State student Zane Brugenhemke, who identified himself on his Facebook page as the mascot who was injured, said he was pushed by some UConn fans.
"Fan pushed me out of the stands ... eight foot drop onto concrete," Brugenhemke wrote on Facebook, adding that he fractured his left ulna and radius. He said he's scheduled to have surgery Sunday.
JLew:
I vote Millen for his crimes against football. First the Lions, and now his announcing. Was Washington QB Keith Price his son? Did he long to have romantic relations with him? At least that would explain the slobbering over Price Millen did during the game. Add to this his complete breakdown of how Washington was going to make their comeback down 38 to 51 with 2:51 remaining and he deserves my Cob of the Week.
Jon Johnston:
I thought about nominating Penn State for their atrocious offense, and Iowa for having to come back against Pitt, but unfortunately, the real bad performance of last week is a pretty easy choice. It goes to Turner Gill's Kansas Jayhawk team, specifically the defense, for giving up 768 total yards to Georgia Tech. To make matters worse, Gill's team allowed Georgia Tech to set a new NCAA record for average per carry, as the Jayhawks gave up 604 yards on 50 attempts, allowing for a 12.1 yard per carry average.
Looking at the box score, Georgia Tech's rushers had longs of 95, 63, 35, 21, 30, 36, and 28 yards. 12 players carried the ball. What - did they play a team manager or two?
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If you'll make that a tandem of Sean McDonough and Matt Millen for the Cob...
I’ll heartily endorse that one. Worst announcing crew in college football today…even worse than everybody at FSN.
Have to vote for UConn fans.
Stupid is stupid, and that is displayed by three of the nominees. But to physically attack a fellow human being who had no impact on the outcome of UConn’s miserable perfomance is absurd. Drunk, or not drunk, there’s no excuse for that. Despite being a Cy-clown, the mascot has a heart of gold for not pressing charges. I personally would want sweet revenge on those idiots.
I think...
This is the closest cob voting to date!
I went with the Tulsa AD, how stupid. I almost went for the UCONN fans though because that’s just terrible.
Well for your list
You have to choose the so called fans who broke the guys arm. For me though the Um ref for the Washington game. Those calls were as bad we had last year. If they happened to us we would be bitching for good reason. But since they went our way not so much. So I nominate the refs and us for not being so upset.
by huskermic on Sep 20, 2011 1:59 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
All superb choices
I wish I could just vote for all 4. I went with Millen because he reminds me of my old baseball coach. Two years in a row we went 1-19 on the season. Both years that 1 win came the week that my coach was on vacation. Coincidence? I think not. Strangely, ever since Millen left Detroit they have been on the upswing and now just a couple years later they are legitimate playoff contenders.
There's conflicting reports
on exactly how the Cyclone mascot was injured. A UConn spokeman said the police interviewed the costumed fellow and “it was determined that the injuries were caused when the student…tripped down the stairs. These facts were confirmed by the student mascot in an interview with police.” Later, the mascot claimed on Facebook he was shoved and fell 8 feet, causing the the injury.
Okay, Cy, which was it? Too many questions to pick that one.
I, like huskermic, wish you would have given us the option of voting for the Big Ten refs at the UW game…a comedy of errors, delayed calls, confusing the offense for the defense, and on and on. I was hoping we had left incompetent officials in the dust of the Big XII,
They're 18 to 22...how perfect were you at that age?
The Power of Red begins with the Passion of Walk-Ons.
I feel for Turner and all...
but wow… I don’t think I’ve gotten that many rushing yards on any football video game. I watched a little bit of that game and it was ugly. I kind of wished we were playing them. It would definitely give us confidence offensively.
Always check the words with the red squiggly line. They mean you probably screwed up.
I went with Millen
With KU as a close runner up.
I just can’t stand the parade of dbag anti-Nebraska announcers ESPN/ABC forces us to watch. We’ve got Herbstreit having a cow over the completely uncontroversial vote that put the 95 Huskers as the best team ever, Gary Danielson talking about how it would be a travesty if NU made it to the title game in 2001, Cunningham wanting to flag/eject NU defenders after every other series for hitting too hard, and now this. Sigh.
"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne
Is Price still smiling?
I HOPE HE’S STILL SMILING.
/would’ve voted for Dan Beebe and his “leadership” abilities.
"I did dumb things." - Tim Beck, Nebraska's new OC
by Salt Creek and Stadium on Sep 20, 2011 4:02 PM CDT reply actions
It's sad
that the game on Saturday is on Versus and will most likely have better announcers than the one that was on ABC.
It's time for football. GO BIG RED!!
voted
For uconn but effing Millen almost won out in my mind.
by JimmytheRed on Sep 20, 2011 6:18 PM CDT via iPhone app reply actions
I honestly thought
that the disaster also known as Kansas’ defense was going to be the runaway winner. I’d even jokingly messaged Jon on Saturday asking if he’d just like to give the KU crew the award by default this week and spare the vote.
but giving honest thought to the nominees, I have to vote for UConn. There’s incompetence, and then there’s just being a complete tool, and the responsible Huskies parties were the latter (and several other things I won’t print here out of respect for the posting guidelines…but most of you can imagine them since you’ve muttered them about Texas within the past several months,…)
Turner, you got a break this time. Better fix that mess in a hurry, because I doubt my Cob-voting finger is as forgiving the next time around.
by ManAgainstWorld on Sep 20, 2011 8:27 PM CDT reply actions
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