First off, I will say that as our rival, I find it fun to despise Bowling Green. I will say that I never respected Josh Harris as a good quarterback. To me, he seemed like a decent college quarterback who was working in a good system that allowed him to exploit every aspect of the position. I am telling you this so that you can put the following opinions into perspective. I think that Omar looked really good last night and he will be a great one in the future. I shudder at the thought of the Rockets facing a Jacobs led offense on your home field next year. I also shudder at the thought of the Rockets possibly facing a Jacobs led offense in the Glass Bowl two years from now. By the end of his career, he will be a great one and we'll probably see him in that line of MAC / NFL QB photos that they show during MAC football games. If I were a Falcon fan (and I thank God every day that I'm not), I would hope that the QB coaches try to mold Turner into an Omar type QB as opposed to a Harris type. BTW, another thing that I have noticed about Omar is that he remains very well composed even in hostile environments.
The comments that I heard that Coach Brandon made regarding your team after the game were uncalled for. Your team deserves much better than what Brandon gave them. For those that don't know what I'm talking about, he apparently blamed the players for the loss, namely Omar. For someone with Omar's background (first year starter) to come into the Glass Bowl with that atmosphere and do what he did, really impressed a lot of people. The BG coaches were outcoached in the second half as the Rockets were in the first half. Brandon should have publically taken the credit for the loss, not pass it off onto Omar.
I sat here all season, reading this forum and the many posts from your fans. Most BG fans discounted UT because of the big early nonconference losses. I watched every Rocket game this year and I could see the team progress. Very few of you here could see that, which is why nearly all of you expected a win. I will pose this one question for you though: if UT is truly a terrible team as discussed by many, how terrible does that make your team using transitive methods? Truth is, as I told fellow Rocket fans on our board before, during, and after the game: BG is a damn good team [as are the Rockets] and the Rockets are lucky to have come out of that game with a win. Ceteris Parabus, I believe the Falcons would have won this on another field.
I despise your team because it is fun to despise the rivals. You must have left all of the bad BG fans at home last night because all of the BG fans that I saw at the game were very respectful and polite. You were great ambassadors for your team last night. I thought about trying to meet Flipper last night, but I realized that it is not good to fraternize with the enemy.
I really wouldn't have minded actually meeting some of you such as Schadenfreude, FF90, Flipper, BGSU33, Mossmaidi, and maybe others, but oh well. Officiating seemed to be pretty bad on both sides of the ball. I was told [in the stadium] that McDougle stepped out of bounds at the end of the game. I saw Rockets and Falcons interfering when it wasn't called. I saw Antonio Malone rob a Falcon for a return and a touchdown to be called back due to forward progress. A W is a W and an L is an L, but I will again say that the coaches lost that game, not the players.
I still despise Magner though.
For the record, I never had doubted that the Rockets would win. Okay, so I didn't start feeling good about the game until about the middle of the third quarter, but it was an awesome win damnit!
I hope all of your fans that went to the game had a good trip to the Glass Bowl last night.
Good luck in whatever bowl you get. I am confident that your team will win regardless of the opponent they face.
Here is some very good reading material about the game if anyone is interested. It is written by a fellow UT fan and I think the article echoes many UT fans' opinions.
http://www.toledorocketfans.com/article ... icleID=195
Go Rockets!
