Both Navy and Air Force won big yesterday over more highly regarded opponents. Missouri being a B12 team and Houston at one time ranked as high as #12 with Case Keenum the nations top passer certainly seemed to many to be much better than the academies. But they were wrong. USAFA took the first kickoff and ran the ball down the Cougars throats, then picked off Keenum 6 times to crush their more highly regarded foe. Another Big win for a Mountain West team. Then the Navy just totally dominated Missouri, the score at half time was close but it didn't really reflect what was going on the field. Navy was totally dominating Missouri. I liked the post game comment by Gary Pinkel. After getting his ass handed to him by Navy he had the nerve to say that he thought Navy was a nice little team that ran a nice little offense. Oh is that what it was Gary? :roll: Navy wore their Marine Corps uniforms again, very sharp looking. The funny thing is that all week I had been seeing the promo's in the Houston Chronicle for the game, they all said only 1000 tickets left....well if that was true then there was a record number of no-shows as the upper decks at Reliant looked pretty bare. Last year in the Rice/Western Mich game there was a great crowd. This crowd not so much. Both Navy and Air Force belong in the final top 25. They earned it. Anybody who guffaws at those programs is just out of touch with reality. You'd better bring your A game if you play the academies in todays college football world. They aren't push overs anymore. Terry
Smaller and slower than everybody. Tougher and smarter than everybody. When you play a service team you better bring your "A" game. They do NOT make mistakes and they execute to perfection.
What do you get when you schedule 2 or 3 academies in the same season? A lot of crap from fans of programs who would never have the guts to schedule them but have no problem playing D 2 schools for a payday.
Well said... I was proud that we had Navy on our schedule this year...and yes, you are right, they are a tough row to hoe.
I had much fun with the Zoomie game the other day. Living in the South you have to contend with a lot of things. 1. Western football sucks 2. the MWC isn't even a real conference, they can't get into the BCS ergo any team FROM the MWC just sucks. 3. Oddly, they are willing to respect teams like Houston and SMU though. 4. The Academies are all the lowest of the lowest form of DI football. They shouldn't even be DI. They should be low DII (not even IAA). I don't make this **** up. I'm telling you, after a decade of interacting with people from barber shop; to coaches, to common fans around town and at games, to sports forums... you name it.. We are absolutely blessed to have the collection of SEC fans we have here and that includes Dave. So anyway, I started talking sh*t about Air Force whoppin Houston about 7 days before kickoff and was admittedly unbearable come game time. The longer that thing went on... The worse I got. I'm fairly sure I made a few grown men who aren't even really Houston fans either cry or want to punch me.. Either way, it was fun.