Okay, anyone read this yet?
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls05/news/story?id=2267500
What a JOKE. It's one thing to list facts on why a team will win (like the pro-texas guy does) but the pro-USC guy should have never gotten a journalism job. Seriously, the article is to compare the teams and why one or the other will win. The guy who says USC will win has the following points (paraphrased):
1: USC has a better fight song and mascot
Yea, ok, cuz last time I checked the mascots and the band played the game...............
2: USC has the better offensive line because they have one all american and THREE all conference players (one being the all american guy) and have had 141 collective starts and only allowed 15 sacks this season and Texas only has one all american and has 150 colective starts and only allowed 14 sacks this year.
So lemme get this straight, because Texas doesn't have 2 all CONFERENCE players and their line has nine MORE collective games played together and they have allowed one LESS sack this year than USC's line that makes USC's line better? :shakeno:
3: LenDale, Jarret, Smith and Byrd would all be superstars if not in the shadows of Leinart and Bush and Byrd hasn't caught a TD since the Orange Bowl last year "so he's due."
OK, the rest of them being stars and in Bush and Leinart's shadow is the ONLY valid point so far but all of the sudden Byrd is a threat because he hasn't caught a TD since this time LAST YEAR and "he's due"? Seriously, does this guy even know about sports?
4: Texas has Matthew McConaughey and USC has Will Ferrell so USC will win because Will is funny and chicks like funny, and USC has "song girls" and Texas doesn't.
Again, the celebrities and "song girls" don't play the game so that's a freakin moot point.
Those are the first 4 (20-17) of his top 20 reasons USC will win. I haven't even gotten to reasons 16-1 yet. It is clear this guy is reaching and has no clue about actually analyzing football, unless somehow he comes up with amazing statistical analysis on the next pages. The sad part is, it's USC, all he would have to do to "sound" like he knows anything about football is recite their offensive stats or their win-streak or their players awards/acheivements and anyone reading it would think he was legit, but he can't even do that, he has to talk about USC's mascot being fast and Texas' being a big slow, well, Longhorn, what a douche.