Posted by _andrewbody_ on 1/2/2011 11:29:00 PM (view original):
buckeyes and wisconsin are both respectively better teams than their opponents, strictly in terms of pro talent. if osu loses again, i gotta think there's some kind of curse. mallett is a great college player in that system, but i see him as an nfl bust a la joey harrington. tcu probably doesn't have 3 players on that team that will make nfl rosters in 2011. besides those two, all of the other big ten teams in january were simply over-matched. whoever thought they'd see the day when we were the best basketball conference in the country and the laughingstock of football?
I'm a huge Badger fan, and I was at the game ... and while we certainly didn't play our best game, I'm not so sure that we're better than TCU (I know you specifically stated in terms of pro talent). I was very nervous about the game, if for no other reason than Vegas liked TCU and the general public liked us, and that's never usually a good sign. TCU is a hell of a team though, better than I gave them credit for. I just wish we had someone on the sideline who had a clue when it came to clock management.
The Big Ten has been pretty down for awhile now, and I hate to say it, but some of these other teams getting exposed takes a bit of the shine off our season.