The Severed Cortex

Link: http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=282432348&confId=8

Awful. Absolutely awful. For a team coming off a solid year and a bowl bid, they open against much inferior competition and play like broke dick dogs instead of well, I guess Bulldogs. I shouldn't say much inferior. Derek Dooley comes from very strong football coach lineage and he has steadily improved a team that has to compete for talent against in-state school LSU. I should give coach Dooley some credit.
I have no idea why ESPN decided to broadcast this game and I certainly have no idea why it was broadcast here in the midwest. I attended a much superior game last night at the Edwards Jones dome so I didn't get to watch this game until today. Why I wanted to watch it I have no idea. Wesley Carroll was terrible, but most of the blame goes to offensive coordinator Woody McCorvey. For one series in the second half he started to call the right plays, which should consist of running Anthony Dixon between the tackles. When you have a 240 pound running back, that's the conventional wisdom. And when your opponent gears up in the box to stop that run attack, you hit them with the pass, or better yet with play action. Instead McCorvey felt the need to take their strength and try to make him run like a 200 pound tailback with 4.3 speed. That and passing on first down doomed the Bulldogs. So now a year I had high hopes for starts off with a large havana omelette. Let's hope the team can flush this and start over.