• The word according to Fox

    Facts that will get air play later today (if Fox can be believed):

    OSU: Less than 90 yards total offense for the game.
    Troy Smith, the Heisman Trophy winner: The lowest passer rating in BCS history (O.K. … so it’s not a very long history).
    Jim Tressel: Worst loss in his career as a head coach (in points differential).

    All year the Gators were know for their great defense… but I didn’t think they were THAT good.

    Sure, OSU lost their best wide receiver early in the game. But was he THAT good… that he could turn around the WHOLE team by himself? Ninety yards of offense is not a lot of offense. If OSU had 190 without their best wide-out, you could make an argument that his absence was the difference. But OSU was totally dismantled. That kind of thumpin’ does not a single player overcome.

  • All is forgiven

    I have no choice but to admit I was a Chris Leak doubter.

    But this is not a night for remembering the past. Tonight, Chris Leak proved to everyone that his numbers are not a fluke. He proved to everyone that he’s got as much mental toughness as any player on the UF football team. On the first play of the game, OSU got away with a holding penalty… and got on the board first. It was a play that easily could have stunned the Gators. It took OSU about 12 minutes (game time) to go from stunning to stunned. Quarterbacks have thrown for more yards, but Leak drove the Gators to a nearly perfect half of football on their way to the national title yesterday. (Yes folks, it’s tomorrow.)

    Despite holding several records at the University of Florida, Chris Leak played like he had something to prove… and it didn’t distract him one bit. Kudos to Chris.

    It’s always great to be a Florida Gator, but this is something else entirely.

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    Quote of the night:

    “I don’t want to call it lack of respect… but it was…. This team had 30 days to get motivated, with all the quotes in the world to do it.”
    Urban Meyer, Head Football Coach, University of Florida (referring to the pre-game media coverage)

    All right, so maybe I didn’t get the quote exactly right… but it’s close enough – and faithful to the original meaning.

  • Dripping with potential

    Anyone who’s taken a high school physics class is familiar with potential energy; which is important because potential energy is le metaphor du jour. Tonight we made a discovery in the Kauffman Household… the existence of potential irony. This form of irony has the potential to change the perception of other objects around it. For example… consider dishwashing detergent. On it’s own, dishwashing detergent is an agent of clean… of hygiene… of pristine. Now imagine a bottle of generic dishwashing detergent on a kitchen counter, with a two-year-old child skulking around the house carrying a folding chair.

    Friends, what happens when this child finds that the bottle of dishwashing detergent is within his reach when standing on the aforementioned folding chair? Would it be fair to call this “kinetic irony?”

    We here at the Kauffman Institute of Parenting will need to get back with you on that.