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posted by LW, Thursday, October 01, 2009
So there's this guy named Tim Tebow who plays quarterback for Florida.
Last week, Florida played at Kentucky. And on one particular play, Tebow was belted from his blind side with a crushing hit that left him with a concussion.
You might have seen the hit since.
According to the SEC's account of that game on its web site, the play wasn't a big enough deal to be included on its highlight package.
The highlight package, which lasts 2:23, completely skips over Taylor Wyndham’s hit on Tebow late in the third quarter. The play happened with 4:11 left in the third quarter, and the highlight tape jumps from 12 minutes to 54 seconds in the third quarter with no mention whatsoever of Wyndham’s devastating hit and Tebow’s concussion.
At the very end of the tape, Lauren the announcer finally addresses the Tebow injury. Here is the full text:
“Tebow, after being sacked in the third quarter, was tended to briefly on the field and walked off under his own power, but he did not return to the game.”
Talk about the understatement of the year.
This is the problem when you have a conference implementing draconian measures to protect the exclusivity of its film clips, photos, etc. The SEC released a controversial media policy over the summer that placed some pretty severe limits on media that cover the SEC.
Why should you care?
Because the SEC flexed its muscle this summer, and after signing a 15-year, $2.25 billion deal with ESPN, the SEC has claimed exclusive video rights to its game footage on the internet.
The SEC’s Web site, and the Web sites of the member schools, are the only places where you can legally watch SEC video highlights. Pretty soon, the only video evidence of SEC football on the entire internet will be on SECSports.com. And the SEC is busy erasing the Tebow hit from history.
Bootleg videos are frequently uploaded onto YouTube – like this one here – but the SEC quickly shuts them down.
How the SEC can ignore/downplay a significant injury to the country’s most popular college football player is baffling and insulting. Football fans deserve better than this.
Agreed.
One good thing about Paul Finebaum is you never finish a column not knowing where he stands.
And it's fairly clear he thinks Bobby Bowden needs to hang it up.
For years, the signs have been obvious that he has lost his grip on the Florida State program. And for years, the FSU administration, fans and media have looked the other way, covering for the coach out of respect for his legendary career.
Everyone has been singing from the same hymnal, "Ole Bobby should have the right to go out on his own terms." The school even went the ridiculous route of naming offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher the "coach in waiting."
But the Good Ship Bowden has hit the iceberg. It may even be too late for Fisher to come in and repair the massive wreckage.
Also in Alabama, former Tide QB Tyler Watts goes off.
"Coach DuBose had a huge heart for his players. He wanted what was best for not only his players, but for his university," Watts said. "But he struggled as a head coach. He simply did not surround himself with good people. His assistant coaches were not good."
And on Dennis Franchione....
"Say what you will about the way he left the university, but this was one organized person," Watts said. "He and his coaching staff, over the course of the winter and the summer, would go ahead and give every player a playbook detailing exactly what was going to happen in every practice throughout the course of the fall, down to the drills.
"And somewhere mixed in there was going to be the face of Dennis Franchione, because he was all about himself and he wanted everything to be about him; goofy shirts and 'Frantastic'."
Speaking of the 'Noles, looks like their OL might not be the 1987 Redskins.
Speaking of OL, here's a look at the latest on Maryland's patchwork front.
Mark Bradley of the AJC says Paul Johnson should be worried about this week's trip to Starkvegas.
In The State, a look at Clemson's struggling receivers.
Also some interesting numbers from Paul Strelow's blog.
13 of Clemson’s 22 non-scoring, designed runs in the red zone have gone for 1 yard or less. (So, excluding only C.J. Spiller’s 1-yard TD vs. TCU and Willy Korn’s kneel-down vs. MTSU, I believe). 59 percent of the runs went for basically zilch.
7 – plays of 28 yards or longer Clemson gave up last year, through four games, using Vic Koenning’s low-risk defense (two for touchdowns)
8 — such plays Kevin Steele’s high-risk defense has surrendered in as many games (one touchdown, but excluding the GT fake field goal TD pass)
Travis Sawchik presents his weekly ACC notebook and ranks the ACC's top five receivers.
No love for Miami's wideouts?
Great quote in Travis' piece:
"The U might be back," Hokies cornerback Rashad Carmichael said, "but we never left."
In The Greenville News, Dat Boy talks about the Tigers' elevated recruiting presence in Georgia.
And in the Independent-Mail, a piece on The Poster Boy.
LW
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So there's this guy named Tim Tebow who plays quarterback for Florida.
Last week, Florida played at Kentucky. And on one particular play, Tebow was belted from his blind side with a crushing hit that left him with a concussion.
You might have seen the hit since.
According to the SEC's account of that game on its web site, the play wasn't a big enough deal to be included on its highlight package.
The highlight package, which lasts 2:23, completely skips over Taylor Wyndham’s hit on Tebow late in the third quarter. The play happened with 4:11 left in the third quarter, and the highlight tape jumps from 12 minutes to 54 seconds in the third quarter with no mention whatsoever of Wyndham’s devastating hit and Tebow’s concussion.
At the very end of the tape, Lauren the announcer finally addresses the Tebow injury. Here is the full text:
“Tebow, after being sacked in the third quarter, was tended to briefly on the field and walked off under his own power, but he did not return to the game.”
Talk about the understatement of the year.
This is the problem when you have a conference implementing draconian measures to protect the exclusivity of its film clips, photos, etc. The SEC released a controversial media policy over the summer that placed some pretty severe limits on media that cover the SEC.
Why should you care?
Because the SEC flexed its muscle this summer, and after signing a 15-year, $2.25 billion deal with ESPN, the SEC has claimed exclusive video rights to its game footage on the internet.
The SEC’s Web site, and the Web sites of the member schools, are the only places where you can legally watch SEC video highlights. Pretty soon, the only video evidence of SEC football on the entire internet will be on SECSports.com. And the SEC is busy erasing the Tebow hit from history.
Bootleg videos are frequently uploaded onto YouTube – like this one here – but the SEC quickly shuts them down.
How the SEC can ignore/downplay a significant injury to the country’s most popular college football player is baffling and insulting. Football fans deserve better than this.
Agreed.
One good thing about Paul Finebaum is you never finish a column not knowing where he stands.
And it's fairly clear he thinks Bobby Bowden needs to hang it up.
For years, the signs have been obvious that he has lost his grip on the Florida State program. And for years, the FSU administration, fans and media have looked the other way, covering for the coach out of respect for his legendary career.
Everyone has been singing from the same hymnal, "Ole Bobby should have the right to go out on his own terms." The school even went the ridiculous route of naming offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher the "coach in waiting."
But the Good Ship Bowden has hit the iceberg. It may even be too late for Fisher to come in and repair the massive wreckage.
Also in Alabama, former Tide QB Tyler Watts goes off.
"Coach DuBose had a huge heart for his players. He wanted what was best for not only his players, but for his university," Watts said. "But he struggled as a head coach. He simply did not surround himself with good people. His assistant coaches were not good."
And on Dennis Franchione....
"Say what you will about the way he left the university, but this was one organized person," Watts said. "He and his coaching staff, over the course of the winter and the summer, would go ahead and give every player a playbook detailing exactly what was going to happen in every practice throughout the course of the fall, down to the drills.
"And somewhere mixed in there was going to be the face of Dennis Franchione, because he was all about himself and he wanted everything to be about him; goofy shirts and 'Frantastic'."
Speaking of the 'Noles, looks like their OL might not be the 1987 Redskins.
Speaking of OL, here's a look at the latest on Maryland's patchwork front.
Mark Bradley of the AJC says Paul Johnson should be worried about this week's trip to Starkvegas.
In The State, a look at Clemson's struggling receivers.
Also some interesting numbers from Paul Strelow's blog.
13 of Clemson’s 22 non-scoring, designed runs in the red zone have gone for 1 yard or less. (So, excluding only C.J. Spiller’s 1-yard TD vs. TCU and Willy Korn’s kneel-down vs. MTSU, I believe). 59 percent of the runs went for basically zilch.
7 – plays of 28 yards or longer Clemson gave up last year, through four games, using Vic Koenning’s low-risk defense (two for touchdowns)
8 — such plays Kevin Steele’s high-risk defense has surrendered in as many games (one touchdown, but excluding the GT fake field goal TD pass)
Travis Sawchik presents his weekly ACC notebook and ranks the ACC's top five receivers.
No love for Miami's wideouts?
Great quote in Travis' piece:
"The U might be back," Hokies cornerback Rashad Carmichael said, "but we never left."
In The Greenville News, Dat Boy talks about the Tigers' elevated recruiting presence in Georgia.
And in the Independent-Mail, a piece on The Poster Boy.
LW
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