At the risk of being unoriginal and to quote the great Ron Burgundy, “That escalated quickly.” From literally the opening play of the game (a Lamarcus Joyner-forced fumble by Clemson Wide Receiver Stanton Seckinger), Florida State showed who the dominant…
Author: Chris O'Brian
Good, Bad and Ugly (“Don’t let the door hit ya” Edition)
The reality of Maryland’s move to the Big 10 is it’s a really great move for them. They’ll make gobs of money. They’ll play bigger programs and probably be on TV more. And on and on. However, after yesterday, the…
Good, Bad and Ugly (Take the money and run edition)
Yesterday was frustrating. Frustrating to watch. Frustrating to hear. Frustrating to experience. The game wasn’t really in doubt. But the allowance of a team that allowed USC’s porous defense to keep it to 7 total points; the allowance of a team with…
Good, Bad and Ugly (Cats Don’t Like Water Edition)
These types of games are hard. Not physically, necessarily. But more mentally and emotionally. Mentally , it’s hard to really analyze them much. Everything that wasn’t 100% dominating is considered very bad. Everything that was as dominating as expected can’t necessarily…
Good, Bad and Ugly (The Wolf Dead Edition)
Wolfpacks are some of the most cunning, deadly groupings of animals on this planet. Watch any nature show and you can marvel in the teamwork, guile , strategy and tenacity that wolves place into killing prey. And while it seemed…
Good, Bad and Ugly (Panther mauling edition)
Football, glorious football. Like a beautiful Autumn butterfly emerging from the Summer cacoon of sport death, we finally got to see our ‘Noles in action. And holy majoley did we see some action. LilburnNole asked me if I’d keep writing…