The Best Game I Have Seen in a While

I told a business colleague that he could call me last night if he had any questions being that I was going to have nothing to watch on TV last night. Then when he called, I didn't answer.

I totally forgot that Navy was playing last night. I love watching Navy as there is nothing better than watching one of the last teams who still run the option. Navy, though they may not be too successful these days, is the the last hope we have of old school football. Last night, we saw an old school football game.

Two teams, Navy and Pitt, traded touchdowns for the entire game...including through the first overtime. Navy's offense, which is about identical to that of the offense of the world's greatest football coach Bob Daman, encompasses a number of option looks including dive, veer, and counter options with the traps and play action passes to match. Pitt had two highly recruited freshman playing quarterback and running back: Pat Bostick and TheSean McCoy.

Joe McKnight move over. This McCoy kid is the real...deal. Apparently he will learn to carry the ball in both hands, and when he does that, he won't fumble like an idiot. Other than that, the kid can cut, has amazing vision, and his patience waiting for and setting up blocks was verteranesque. He can square up and push a pile and make the guy miss at level two. He's the best freshman skill position player I have seen this year, aside from Noel Devine.

Being the staunch patriot that I am, you've got to love the academies winning big games. Grant, most don't consider any game against Pitt a big game, sorry Dan, but prime time mid-week is a big game for teams that aren't from big time conferences...or any conference for that matter. But they do it with grit and determination. They can't recruit the athletes that major schools can, but they sure can teach them. You wonder why they can run the option to the tune of being the number one ranked rushing offense in the country? Discipline. The option is an offense of assignment more so than any other offensive style. Stopping it requires even more discipline. Discipline that Army hopes to have at the end of the year.

Oh, hey Tebow. Keep crying. You want to talk about total offense? Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada, no I don't know how to say that, but the Navy quarterback put of staggering numbers. 9-12 166 yards 2 TD's through the air accumulating a modest 246.2 passer rating alongside 25 carries for 122 yards and another TD blows the cryer out. Oh, and he's going to defend our country. Something tells me that no one wants a crying Tim Tebow on a destroyer in the Persian Gulf.

Finally, if there has ever been a time for ESPN to fire Lou Holtz, it's now. Not only could he not make up his mind about instant replay in the booth last night. Not only did we have to stare at some grin on his face while Mark May looks into the camera with the look like he's going to knock you on your rear. But how about the cut back to the booth with Holtz holding the Diet Coke can? Then, in a lightinglike manor, he placed it back on the table to the tune of the aluminum hitting the table. Yes, we heard that. The guy is an idiot. Get him out of here. Send him back to the SEC, oh wait, where Holtz couldn't hack it. So maybe we need to send him back to a team that has no conference? Navy apparently has no need for him.