For a weekend that was technically so full of on-field and on-court Wolfpack action, you might notice that there wasn’t much blog (text or comment) activity. Not a very different story on message boards, either.
Alas, this is what you get when you play a Sun Belt also-ran in football, and three 200+ RPI teams in basketball. The results were predictable, and the action was as boring as late night programming on C-Span 2. Personally, I listened to about half of the MTSU game on the radio, and maybe 10 minutes of basketball combined (honestly, I didn’t even check those scores the next morning). I can only imagine how fun it was to see 13 combined points scored (other than by an interception return and a 1-play drive following a blocked punt) in Carter Finley on Saturday. Or to watch so many players trudge through the ESA who were even slower than Ilian Evtimov (who has multiple knee injuries to explain his lack of “quicks”). NOTE: Evtimov is a good guy to have on the team, and a gritty player – I meant this as a jab at our “classic” opponents, not IE.
It was more interesting from a general sports perspective, as Vandy miraculously ended a 22-game losing streak against Tennessee (ensuring only 6 bowl-eligible teams from the SEC), Ohio State pulled out a thriller in the Big House, Texas Tech got the winning TD as time expired (though us poor NC folks were blacked out by a stupid hockey game on FSN), Georgia Tech upset Miami, and Fresno State gave USC all they could handle. And that was just Saturday – Colts/Bengals was a nice way to wrap up the sports weekend.
Can anyone who is more of a glutton for punishment than I am estimate attendance figures for football and basketball this weekend?
