I was in a lousy mood because of the Capital One Bowl debacle so I decided to cheer myself up by reading the Rose Bowl game thread over at Illiniboard.com. Boy those moRons didn't disappoint. I just went over there though to copy and paste some of the best (worst) of it but they deleted it. Damn. The general sentiments fell into these categories:
It was a great season anyway. Indicative of course of the low expectations these losers have. Florida has the same record and bowl loss too and literally sick to my stomach. These guys got embarrassed in a game that had the entire Disney/ABC/ESPN hype machine all over it and they are satisfied.
Mike Locksley is the problem. Yeah, it's the offensive coordinator, not the man that hired him and has the power to overrule him.
USC has no class. When you start to get your ass kicked, all of a sudden the comportment of the other team takes on a whole new dimension. Their celebrations suddenly make them "douchebags".
USC got all the breaks. Luck plays a part in football, but USC brought their rabbits foot, four-leaf clover and a magic leprechaun with them to the game and that's why they won 49-17.
Fortunately they still have a "post game thread" up and I was able to grab these beauties:
There are 3 Reasons We Lost TodayGod help them. The Zookification of anything = being fucked up beyond recognition. This guy is going to be lamenting the loss of the Turner veterans (6 on defense and 4 on the offensive line and their star running back was verbally committed to Illinois before Turner was fired).
1. The "Script" of plays at the beginning of the game that brilliantly avoided Rashard and orchestrated our quick 14-0 hole.
2. Luck. Every single ball bounced USC's way tonight.
3. The fact that every Ron Turner recruited upperclassman was physically overmatched.
These are fixable problems. The Zookification of our program has just begun.
The dumbest thinking was on display when discussing whether or not the Rose Bowl made a mistake in selecting Illinois. One guy thinks Jim Delaney did Illinois a favor:
Anybody think.....First of all Illinois was rightly or wrongly the second highest ranked Big 10 team in the BCS standings. No other Big 10 team was eligible to play in a BCS bowl based on their ranking. Since bowl revenues are shared by all teams in the conference, there was no way Delany was going to miss out on a Big 10 paycheck of more than $17 Million.
Jim Delaney might feel like he did us a favor getting us in and then we turned around and screwed him? Fat Chance the Rose Bowl ever listens to the Big Ten again about the "Big Ten / Pac-10 rivalry"
When a rational poster commented that the Rose Bowl is laughing all the way to the bank another idiot pipes up with this gem:
until the ratings come in then they better get a better matchup for 2009 or they're gonna have another year of lower ad revenuesWhile the folks that run the Rose Bowl prefer to have a highly rated game, they know that this year's game has no influence on the ratings of next year's games. And the fact is that the ad space in these games is pre-sold well in advance. Believe me, the rates that ABC will command for next year's game will not be affected by this year's ratings one bit.
