2010's Sugar Bowl Without Tim Tebow For More On Tim Tebow...Click Below! Through My Eyes Nathan Whitaker Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, Young Reader's Edition Tim Tebow "Tebow Time": The Biography of Tim Tebow Brody Anderson Growing Up Colt: A Father, a Son, a Life in Football Colt McCoy The Cincinnati Bearcats will play the Florida Gators in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Tim Tebow has recently stated that this year's team has already fallen short of their goals. He lost the Heisman trophy competition this year, and I can't picture him caring too much about this game. Sure it is a BCS bowl game, and they are up against and undefeated Cincinnati team, but Cincinnati has much more to prove than the Gators. Sure, Cincinnati has a better record, and a higher seed, but they are still the underdog because the coaches, fans, and press still want to see if the Bearcats can prove themselves against a "real" opponent. On paper, the Gators should win this game, but that is why the games need to be played out. The New England Patriots had a much more superior football team a couple years ago, but that Super Bowl had to be played out, and as it turned out, the New York Giants handed it to them. But that was on a larger setting, perhaps the largest sports setting in the world. This game reminds me of something like Duke or North Carolina, starting the year off with high hopes, settling for the NIT tournament. And even if they win, like Jim Rome says, " Congratulations, you're the 65th best team in college basketball this year." I've said before that while the BCS system is not perfect, I still feel that at the end of the season, after all the bowl games have been played, when everyone's New Years Eve buzz has subsided, and we all start to forget the holidays and focus on the new year, if there are two or more teams that have not been beaten, they need to keep playing until there is only one team left without a loss. What other sport has an undefeated team that is not crowned the champion, or who does not even get a chance to play for the championship. Cincinnati will undoubtedly get fired up for the game due to a number of reasons. To keep their perfect season in tact, to show their "coach" that they were able to win without him, and to then challenge the winner of the Texas vs. Alabama Rose Bowl winner to a one game show down; a game which they would surely lose, but a game they know will never be played. How about Brian Kelley for a minute. What an idiot that guy is. Sure, all of us in our professions would no doubt leave our current job for more money, a bigger challenge and all of that, but I'm sure Notre Dame would have let him coach the in the Sugar Bowl if he wanted to. He leads his team to a perfect season and the just leaves them
out to dry. I'm wondering how he will be able to recruit at Notre Dame? I mean, if it was a school that was actually decent in football in say, the last 20 years, I think then the program in itself can do the recruiting. But Notre Dame football has been horrid, they need to get out of that Independent league and join an actual league. I'm picturing him going to recruits' homes, and the recruits and the parents just laughing at the guy. I'm sure he said all this great stuff to his Bearcat recruits too a few years ago. Again, not to knock him for taking a better job offer, but the fact that he isn't coaching in the Sugar Bowl just shows that, to me, he didn't give a damn about his players at all. I can see leaving for more money, better benefits, a larger stage, a dream job, a bigger challenge, but what he did by just walking out on his team... I am predicting a 500 season next year for the Irish, and I hope that it's a lot worse than that. If the Bearcats fall behind two digits early on, I think they're done. With no one in charge of the team, they will all start wanting to call the shots and be the hero, and I think they will fall apart. If they can go into halftime with a lead or down by 7 or 8, I think they will still make a game of it. I hope they can pull it off, if not for anything else than just to prove the BCS system is a joke and needs revamping, but I think, although Tebow isn't getting to play for the big game, he still wants to go out with a bang. Plus the Gators have an advantage in coaching, Urban Meyer against, umm, nobody. And a final thought: Even though Notre Dame had a horrible season, why not play in a bowl game, I'm sure someone would have invited them. Even if it was the 99 Cent Store Toilet Bowl Game, the thing is, they would have had a month or so of practices for their new coach Kelly to observe what he will be working with, even though it is not much. Good luck to the Bearcats, I hope the end of this season shows us three undefeated teams, that will show the ol' BCS. Buddy Foxx brings a unique style to sports writing. Although very opinionated and it's true he likes to add his own twist (some call it spin) to his articles, he is always well informed on his topic. Next time you are in a conversation about sports, be sure to quote him from one of his articles, you'll definitely be adding to that discussion. Bud Foxx played sports all through high school and college. In High school he was captain of his cross country and track team, played varsity baseball and hockey. In college he again played varsity hockey for 1 year, varsity baseball for 4 years and ran cross-country and track for 4 years, 2 of which he was captain. For More On Tim Tebow...Click Below! Through My Eyes Nathan Whitaker Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, Young Reader's Edition Tim Tebow "Tebow Time": The Biography of Tim Tebow Brody Anderson Growing Up Colt: A Father, a Son, a Life in Football Colt McCoy