The Coach of the Year in the Big-12 and the country should be headman Mark Mangino. After all, the crusading Jayhawks had their record go from a mediocre six-and-six, to a national title contending 12-1 after a victory last night over a hungry and angry Virginia Tech team.
The Hokies squad...which returned a punt for a touchdown and whose defense play their tails off in an effort to supress Kansas from a coveted one-point three million bucks, fell short. We congratul;ate VA Tech for it's recovery after the worst murder by a single person (on the Blacksburg campus) in U.S. history
In light of the events...lets have a lucid idea about how Todd Reesing played...he managed the game well enough for his team to come out on top. Reesing was 20/37 for 227 yards with one touchdown and one interception in the air and one score running the ball. The key to last night's affair, however, was the Jayhawk defense. The team intercepted Sean Glennon twice and caused the Hokies problems moving the ball all night. Here's another idea: ten offensive starters return from a team that set all kinds of offensive marks for any K-U team.
From what happened last night, it's clear that Todd Reesing should have been mentioned in the same conversation as Chase Daniel, Tim Tebow, and Colt Brennan...but the Heisman Committee can only select a certain number of people anyway. The choice was to leave Colt Brennan and Todd Reesing off the Heisman balloit and allow the producers on big-name programs to compete for the honor (with the exception of Brennan).
After watching some of the matchup last night...it begs to question whether Missouri really belonged there over Kansas.
Some of the critics indicated the second team from the Big-12 should have been Missouri. I'm not sure the Tigers would have done anything against Virginia Tech because of the lack of defense Missouri has shown throughout the season until Arkansas (23.2 PPG). This is represented best by the 41 and 38 points surrendered to Oklahoma in two losses, 34 squandered versus Illinois, and 32 against Kansas State.
Ultimately...if the BCS system is kept, the statute of limitations needs to change because the best teams were not entirely represented in the games. why not go with the top 10 teams in the rankings and forget about traditional Rose Bowl matchups between the Pac-10 and Big-Ten Conferences. Is Juice Williams a better quarterback than Chase Daniel (even if he had a poor performance)? Is Rashard Mendenhall more qualified of a running back than Tony Temple?
Either way, the top ten squads should make it to a BCS game and no one else should sniff an opportunity...it's then up to the bowl committees to decide which teams battle it out.
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