Some Cheese for Moffett's Whine?

What pairs well with the crushing disillusionment of realizing you suck at football? Why, complaints that your football coach cursed at you!

The Orlando Sentinel has published an article setting forth former Knights QB Steven Moffet's complaints against Coach George O'Leary. Apparently, this football coach cursed at an underperforming player! Oh, no! Someone speak to the press...a year after the fact! What does Moffett say O'Leary yelled at him? Here we go:

"[O'Leary] said I was worth [expletive] . . ."
"You stupid [expletive] idiot."

Oh, no! Mr. Moffett, please circle which of the above statements is not true.

I'm waiting.
Still waiting.
Give it some time.
Ok?
Ok.

Moffett was worth a whole heap of [expletive] and his on-field performance definitively showed him to be a stupid [expletive] idiot. The Sentinel article implies that George O'Leary is the one who destroyed Moffett's career:

"For a coach, there is a fine line between motivation and intimidation. One pushes you into excellence. The other pushes you into despair."

Frankly, I for one wish O'Leary had cursed him even more. God knows I spent enough time in the Citrus Bowl doing just that. Fact: Steven Moffett is a football failure. The Orlando Sentinel writes wistfully of the offers he turned down from "Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Southern Mississippi" for an opportunity to blossom at UCF.

Listen. Steven Moffett was not going to blossom anywhere. And if a little [expletive] was going to keep him from blossoming? Then he was pursuing the wrong career altogether. What is he doing with his life now? "He plays for the AFL 2 Daytona Thunderbirds and is an assistant coach at Winter Park."

The AFL 2 Daytona Thunderbirds? Holy [expletive]! Clearly, his professional failure is Coach O'Leary, the bad, evil, nasty coach who, of all things, curses at players! If not for these mean spirited words, I am sure he would be winning Super Bowls. Probably winning them singlehandedly.

Yes, O'Leary is one cantankerous dude. Is he coarse? No kidding. We remember a frat brother of ours who introduced himself to O'Leary (an alumnus of our fraternity). Coach's reply? "Well what the fuck do you want me to do about it?" Yes, George O'Leary is abrasive. Does that make him responsible for Moffett's failure? No. Does it make him a bad coach? No. He's done more with a historically underwhelming program than anyone else.

If you can't take the heat...uh, maybe you shouldn't play football at this level.

Rant: The Rose Bowl is Terrible This Year

It will all too soon be time for the most overrated game of the year, the Rose Bowl. ESPN would like to remind you of this fact, every couple of minutes.

ESPN would also like to remind you that this is a "classic" Rose Bowl game, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team. Were you aware that this is a classic Rose Bowl game, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team? I was, in fact, aware that this is a classic Rose Bowl game, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team.

In so often reminding viewers that this is a classic Rose Bowl game, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team, ESPN seems to be acknowledging that this is a match-up no one wants to see. USC is an obvious choice, of course, being Pac-10 co-champion, sharing that honor with an anemic Arizona State team. The match-up everyone wants to see would have been USC versus Georgia. Those are the teams that, we're also frequently reminded by ESPN, "are playing the best football right now."

By the way, were you aware that this is a classic Rose Bowl game, featuring Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team?

Instead of a genuinely exciting Rose Bowl, we have the classic Rose Bowl pap, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team. Of course, this would be the 9-3 Fighting Zooks. Isn't that exciting? While earlier in the season anyone could (and Stanford and Oregon did) beat USC, this is no longer the case. The Zooks are not going to break the Trojans anytime soon. This classic Rose Bowl game, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team should be a brutal drubbing.

Of course, this game is being crammed down our throats because of ESPN's tremendous Pac-10 and Big Ten bias. ESPN has the contract to broadcast the games from both conferences, and so it behooves the network to pump up any game its show ponies play in.

But that's a rant for another day. In the mean time, enjoy your classic Rose Bowl game, featuring a Pac-10 team versus a Big Ten team.

Which no one wants to see.