no, i'd never cheered an injured player... but ingram played with hurt ribs and a hamstring problem, surely colt coulda continued... just sayin
McElroy for some reason seemed to take a step back for this game. His last 3-4 games of the year he played exceptional, but for this game he seemed to go back to mid-season form where he seemed tentative and unsure of himself. Now, that may be a testament to Texas' defense, but given what he did against other top notch defenses I'd say it was more on him than Texas.
mcelroy won't make the draft, if he does he'll probably end up in chicago, they hate QB's there anyway...
From what I understand it wasn't about pain. His arm went numb, I doubt he could have even thrown a ball at all, let alone with any accuracy. I'd have to believe that the kid would have been out there, if there was ANY way possible.
Please don't take what I am about to say literally like I want to do that to you, just an example. Seven, pretend you were a singer, a world class opera singer. Now you and I get into an argument prior to one of your signing engagements. I strike you in your mouth and you slightly fracture your jaw and loose some teeth. Right away a doctor administers you some pain killers and you don't feel any pain. Your lip and jaw begins to swell, yet you feel no pain. Are you ready to perform on stage at a world class level, or a national class level, a city class level...at what level do you think you could perform even though you did not feel pain?
Remember, if Bradford does not get hurt Texas would probably have been at home anyway. Kind of ironic to me that they are talking about this on other forums but the same thing happened to Oklahoma when they played each other. That is my point, you want the other teams stars out of the game period. As long as it is clean, the objective of football is to hit the other man harder than he hits you...sometimes people get hurt. Caleb, I would not cheer an injury...but hell yeah I cheered when the announced he was not coming back. Same would have been done if any of our big guns could not continue. I think Colt is a very good representative of a human being, sportsman and the U of Texas, but he did not even try to throw the rock on the sideline to see what could happen.
I hear you Michael and I agree with trying to take out the other teams players with legal, hard hits. But this explains McCoy and him not coming back..... http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-texasqbs010810&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
When I played sports, I always wanted the other teams best players to be playing. I always wanted the other teams best effort. I am sure most of the Alabama players wished that McCoy had been able to play the entire game. Read the article I linked. He tried throwing a 7 yard pass to his Dad multiple times in the locker room, but couldn't even do that.
Just saw on ESPNEWS that McElroy played with broken ribs. That could explain his lack of involvement in the offense. Before everyone starts bashing to McCoy for not playing while McElroy did, QB's play with broken ribs often that people realize. Colt simply could not throw a football. He is a quarterback. They throw the football. He could not. He did not play. Does 'Bama repeat??
While the game ended up getting closer than I expected it to get, I'm going to throw out the notion that perhaps Alabama let up a bit after halftime due to their lead, and got a bit content. It's a shame that McCoy got hurt and was unable to play, but I'm still pretty confident that the best team ended up winning.
Thanks for the link, I was unaware of that. I also agree you want to compete against the best, but there is a reason you don't pull up when you get a blind side lick on Peyton manning, the intent is not to injure...but if he does not get up so be it, your odds of victory just went up a 100% and that is why you play at this level...to win.
Okay, am I the ONLY person that saw some HORRIBLE pass interfenance calls that were called against Texas and not called against Alabama..... yeah, Alabama won, Texas didn't... I could care less.... I'm a Notre Dame fan (kind of embarrasing) but this was possibly the worst BCS championship game I have saw in along time.... the "stars" who you care to watch are falling left and right, and TERRIBLE calls on the officials... not exactly what I had envisioned or wanted to see from the game. I am not making excuses for Texas, like I said, I'm actually hate both teams... Saban is a d-bag and Texas is overated, but from what I saw, it didn't seem like great officiating.
Yeah aside from everything else it was just a weird game to watch. Like BM said you have stars on sidelines, people playing with broken ribs and other injuries (except pretty boy Mccoy), bad officiating, etc..... Not only that but I think the coaching sucked. What the hell was Saban doing? Goofy kickoffs bouncing off people, fake punts that look like a high school play, shovel pass that gets picked lol. I don't know it was just a different feeling game watching it.
If you look back at several of the Championship games they were that way. I do not like Ohio State at all, but there is no way they were "slow" compared to the teams they lost to, and fast compared to the Miami team they beat. Ohio State puts burners in the NFL year in and year out. The problem is the LONG break that keeps getting longer. Even if you have a conf championship game you still have a long long layoff, giving coaches time to over anyalize the other team and do chit like Saban did with the punt. You also give the teams plenty of time to get fat and rusty. I like the BCS this year and think they got it right:D, but if you want the best football you can get, you start with number 4 vs 1, and 2 vs 3 the week after the conf championship games, then 2 weeks later on new years you have your national championship game and all the BCS locations can remain the same, just rotate the final game like they do now. That Alabama team the played Thurs was not even close to the red hot team we saw in Atlanta. But in the end the beauty of College football is discussions just like this every year.
