Ham o' Bone has the definitive post on the debacle in the desert, complete with visual accompaniment. He gives due credit to the Gators but asks some pointed questions which, if answered last night, might've at least made the game competitive. Imagine this:
Sometime prior to January 8, in some quiet athletic bunker on the Gainesville campus, the following conversation took place between Urban Meyer (UM) and a naive booster(NB):So go check out Bone's post. Go for the prose but stay for the cool graphics:
NB: Coach, if you could pick the kind of defense that you would face in the national championship game, what would it be?
UM: Well, offensively our team has been up and down this season. The attacking defenses of the other SEC teams have sometimes made us look pretty ineffective.
NB: Oh yeah, those blitzing Tigers of Auburn and LSU really pounded Chris Leak.
UM: Yeah, we would like to face a soft defense, a defense where they only rush three, drop 5 or 6 defensive backs into zone coverage, and give us the underneath stuff. We could protect the quarterback and control the clock that way.
NB: In other words, a "prevent" defense.
UM: Ha. That'd be great, wouldn't it?
NB: Ha. Gators would tear that kind of defense apart.
UM: Exactly. Too bad for us, though. Ohio State doesn't play that kind of defense. They attack. They'll stack the box with 7 or 8 guys and go man to man. I don't know how we can protect Leak, but we'll do our best and hope for a couple of big plays.
The joke was on us when Ohio State decided to play into Florida's strength.
I especially like that "one useless guy" verbiage.
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