Ohio state 31 - Arkansas 26. Sugar Bowl Recap and Thoughts

Wow. Good game and an exciting finish. Unfortunately for Team SEC, Ohio State gets their first bowl win against an SEC team. No more 0-9 chants, how will I ever fill that void in my life.

Player of the game:
- Dane "Johnny on the Spot" Sanzenbacher. Who knew?

Most exciting play:
- Arkansas, facing a 5 point deficit, blocked the Buckeye punt with less than two minutes left in the game.

Most anticlimactic follow up to the most exciting play:
- Mallet throws a game ending interception two players after the blocked punt.

Observations:
- Terrelle Pryor's raw potential: Sky high.
- Terrelle Pryor's football fundamentals: Non-existent.
- Sloppy defense. A true clinic on how NOT to tackle.
- Those 'suspended' (I would have preferred air quotes) Buckeye players really made a difference in the outcome of the game.

Seriously, I think that Jabba the Hut has skin that is tighter and more polished than Pryor's football intangibles. Sure, he has speed and athleticism (two things you just can't coach), but the little things are just not there yet. See the fumble on his first quarter run. Tuck the ball in! And somehow, he still manages to win football games and score touchdowns. Kudos for completing at least one 5 yard out route though. At least he is improving there.

Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha. Translation: Have you now, ha, ha.

And in case you didn't know, there was another quarterback playing in this game. Ryan Mallet. That's about all I have to say on that. He played pretty well, but never really seemed to settle down, and it didn't help that is receivers weren't doing him any favors. Clutch catches are to the Arkansas wide-outs what fundamentals are to Pryor. Kryptonite.

Get ready for an off-season battle between Ohio State and the SEC about who is better. If you stumble across such an argument, you might want to make sure that you have some alcohol handy to ease the pain. That and lots of Pepto-Bismol.

Oh well, at least we know that Kellen Moore would have made all the plays the other quarterbacks didn't. The Dork Assassin (shout out to OBNUG) always tucks the ball in.

More on me

I'm really, really impatient. I can tell just by reading my first post that I got impatient writing it, and didn't give it the full attention, particularly towards the end. This happens in a lot of my writing, and I'm sure it will make a good discussion topic in the future. Sometimes, my attention to detail is so meticulous that I get sick of my own writing and give up on it. If I liked smiley-faces, I would use a sad one here.

I want to get to things like 2010 recap, 2011 resolutions and more on college football but I'd like to play around with the design so I can get this thing looking clean and polished. Pictures, too, I want to add lots and lots of pictures.

Inaugural Blog Post

This it it.

The big moment.

My first blog post.

How many one sentence paragraphs will it take to capture the suspense of this one, singular moment?

We'll be talking about a host of different things that are interesting to me and that I hope you'll find some interest too. If not than this might just be a place where I attempt to be smart and witty and you snicker behind my back, either way it will be fun. Where do I start with this first post? It is, most likely, the defining moment of a blog.

I'm sitting here watching Ohio State play Arkansas in the 2011 Sugar Bowl. College football is one of my greater interests, but unless it pertains to my favorite team, Boise State (you'll be very acquainted with them if you continue reading), I'm usually just looking for a good game.

I'm an avid writer, or at least I aspire to be. Poetry and short stories are my main interests and I aim to post some of what I write on here, and we'll talk about different writing topics.

You, my reader, will come to find that I have a lot of nerd in me and occasionally it needs to come back, so happy New Year and let's get his parted started.