Re: Boston College, Hokiefan5 writes…”They execute well but I haven’t been overly impressed in any win so far.” Bingo that, as it is now officially time to welcome all of you to the land of D-1 football middleocrity!
middleocrity: (b’speak, circa 1985) a quality that lacks dominance in either direction; to be the mean, median or mode, all at the same time; an 88 round of golf, the girl who’s really only a 5.5 on a 1 to 10 scale, but it’s the end of the nite; the absence of distinguish
Middleocrity is the term I invented to describe the 8-8 free-for-all that Pete Rozelle
created in the National Football League. Maybe you ended up with one very good team, two if you are really lucky, but no true domination to be found. This occurred after Commissioner Rozelle switched over to the 1978 reverse scheduling format, whereby the best current football team plays the toughest schedule next year, and vice-versa. To make matters worse, Pete Rozelle did not stop there, he paved the way for an expanded regular-season, the dilution of talent by expanded rosters and franchise expansion itself; All of this further conspired to aid and abet the concept of middleocrity.
Dateline: the end of October, 2007: welcome to middleocrity in D-1 college football!
After seeing the last 2-3 weekends of college football, I now regretfully know that the NFL’s middleocrity has trickled down to college football, a nonpartisan paraphrased version of Reagan’s voodo pigskin if you will. Check out the current Top-10. Not one lead dog among them. Just a lotta pretty good to very good dogs, in a deca-sized pack. For example….
- wvu is the closest to a dominate football team, as wvu has by my estimation the 1st best offense in D-1, and the 11th ranked D-1 defense. That’s pretty good. But wvu remains an incomplete pigskin squad, thanks to well below average special-teams, a soft schedule that will lack a signature win.
- Ohio State fields the best defense in D-1. Period, full-stop, end of story; as holding 6 of 8 opponents to 7 points or less says so. But can the Buckeye’s score when their run-game stalls and their below average passing attack must take over? How will their dead-last Kickoff Return squad fair when field position is at a premium in a close game?
- Since week number four, a #5, #1, #2, the replacement #2, another replacement #2, and a #3 have all been beaten.
- …and was So.Florida the worst #2 you’ve ever seen or what?!? Name a worse #2 if you can?
See what I mean? If we could blend wvu‘s offense, with Ohio State‘s defense, then
throw in say the ST’s of K.State, we could prolly conjure one actually complete Division-One championship quality football team, that is dominate because of its…well…completion. (i.e. it would have no obviously missing title quality component)
So for now we are on our way to either a low-name Championship game (Kansas vs. Hawaii anyone?) Or to a helluva a big-name log-jam at 11-1 or 12-1. In other words an Excedrin-o-thon for the B.C.S. suits, and more cannon-fodder for the D-1 play-off honks.
You now know how I view it, but tell me what you think…Fact or Fiction, today’s college football Top-10 is really yesteryears second-10??? TIA. b-st.
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