Rose Bowl

[scarlett09]

I also thought it was a well-matched game, and I had no horses in this race.

The only place they weren't well-matched was in the area of band uniforms. Wisconsin wins that one by a mile. Oregon's musicians looked like they belonged at a road construction site, and the color guard wore sleeveless polo shirts and black sweatpants. Yuck.

SS, I agree with you about the national championship game. I was more excited about Stanford-OSU (which apparently got even more dramatic after I went to bed), the Rose Bowl (which was also very good), and the upcoming WVU-Clemson game (want to see if WVU really deserves to rep the BE in a BCS game). I feel like the national championship game will be boring because of the teams' strong defenses and the fact that they already played each other this year. Between that and all of the other meaningless bowl games this year, I feel like the atmosphere is riper than ever for a national playoff system.

[Cinderella]

I always feel bad for the team that doesn't win. The ESPN sports personalities said they thought the Badgers coach may have felt pressured by the crowd to call a time out for review of an Oregon team members foot being over the line, but the rule book says it's not about the foot but the entire ball being over the line which it wasn't. Then he couldn't get the review because it wasn't an actual play. They speculated if he could get the second time out back but they didn't give it to him. In the 4th they were saying he really needed that lost timeout in the last few minutes of the game. When the fourth started we all wondered if the Badgers would tie the game and it would go into overtime. It was a really good game with the highest scoring half time in Rose Bowl history and a nail bitter until the last few minutes.

There is a local Duck fan in town getting a tribute to this Rose Bowl tattooed on his arm.

Here is that video of Chip Kelly jumping like the Lucky Charm's character clicking his heels. It grabs my attention because he is notorious for being stoic and not enjoying being in the media hot seat.

There are a couple versions on Youtube. One with the Dad recording the TV but he gets the entire fumble sequence from several different angles and then you see his kid. Another one is edited to the song "Shout". It's pretty cute too.

[corn poffi]

Hahaha wow. Holy drunken nonsense. Sorry guys, I made zero percent sense last night. Now that I have sobered up and once again come to terms that we have a sunburned pile of cow dung coaching our football team, let me make a coherent thought.

It was a great game. It was an awesome match-up that we've been dreaming about at UW for a couple years. We are just frustrated that we lost the second Rose Bowl in a row, and this loss once again included inept coaching. Coach B is notorious for poor game management. And it's not just a miscalculated time out or a questionable play call every once in a while. They players don't seem to respect him, the fans can't stand him, and his boneheadedness loses big games. It's just a shame that in games like this, the outcome COULD have been different if somebody else was leading the troops.

As for my serving it up on a platter comment, I was referring to his two third quarter timeouts. I think when coaches do dumb stuff like that, it's basically like saying, "take the win if you want it I don't know what to do with it". As for him being confused by the fans, distracted by the shiny helmets/Erin Andrews, or whatever excuse will come up next, he gets paid to coach football, not to listen to the people in the stands. There is no excuse for using that many time outs in the third quarter.

Moral of the story: it was a great game, wish coaching wouldn't have been such a factor. Oregon played a better game and deserved the win. Just leaves UW wondering what could have been...again. Oh, and don't drink and iMSN, kids!

[SoonerTexan]

Actually, that pretty coherent to me... +1 for drunken posting anytime. It should happen more often!

[Cinderella]

I'm with SoonerTexan corn poffi. I understood what you were saying too.

I was thinking how much it seems like the Badger coach isn't respected by the people there with the stories about him. I can say that here Coach Chip Kelly carries a lot of respect in the community. Even if he had lost this Rose Bowl and it was Oregon's third one not to win he would still have the respect of the community. We would have all felt bad but still proud of the team and their coach.