ShotgunDawg
07-13-2015, 11:12 AM
This is essentially when "the media, medias"
At some point, someone said, despite Arkansas losing their three best defensive players & despite them having a completely pedestrian QB, without the capacity to score points on a consistent basis, they were going to be a pretty good team this year because they played teams close last year & pulled a few upsets AT HOME.
However, at another point, someone took "Arkansas being pretty good" and morphed it into "Arkansas is a top 10 team" without any evidence whatsoever that that is going to happen.
Let me be clear, THERE IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN PLAYING TEAMS CLOSE & WINNING.
IMO, Arkansas is the most overrated team in the SEC by the media at this point. I'm not saying that they won't be better, but saying that they are anywhere close to being a top 10, seems crazy to me considering that they will likely struggle to score points, have to replace some DUDES on defense, don't have a game changing QB, & will now not be the after thought game in which teams show up believing that Arkansas sucks.
It's just amazing how the off season momentum effects predictions without teams playing games.
In the same way that Arkansas has benefited from that irrational momentum, so has Jeremy Johnson at Auburn. After last season & Spring practice, people thought Johnson had a chance to be a good SEC QB that Auburn could win with, then, in the Summer, the media started predicting that Auburn could win the SEC West, & now we are at a point where Johnson has better Heisman odds than Dak Prescott, even though he really hasn't done anything but start a game last season against a below average Arkansas team that had no film on him.
It's not that I don't think Johnson will be a good QB, because I do think it will do a good job for Auburn, but I point this out to make a point that somehow the media creates a tidal wave of momentum that becomes completely irrational by this time during the summer. It does show you that none of these guys are free thinkers & they simply build upon or subtract upon ideas that are already out there. The same has held true for MSU, in a negative way. Following last season, people thought we could be good again this year, but as the media tidal wave has grown, now we may not win 7 games. Completely irrational thought created by people who aren't free thinkers.
As a testament to this, I ask you to watch our Spring Game with an open mind. Look that the rhythm & timing between Dak & his receivers. Simply, college football teams with this kind of rhythm & timing in their passing game, score lots of point & win lots of games. Not sure if it's because of twitter, etc, but there seems to be very few Free Thinkers anymore. Tell me this is a 6 win team on the field.
https://youtu.be/FRLgBVDjx2k
At some point, someone said, despite Arkansas losing their three best defensive players & despite them having a completely pedestrian QB, without the capacity to score points on a consistent basis, they were going to be a pretty good team this year because they played teams close last year & pulled a few upsets AT HOME.
However, at another point, someone took "Arkansas being pretty good" and morphed it into "Arkansas is a top 10 team" without any evidence whatsoever that that is going to happen.
Let me be clear, THERE IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN PLAYING TEAMS CLOSE & WINNING.
IMO, Arkansas is the most overrated team in the SEC by the media at this point. I'm not saying that they won't be better, but saying that they are anywhere close to being a top 10, seems crazy to me considering that they will likely struggle to score points, have to replace some DUDES on defense, don't have a game changing QB, & will now not be the after thought game in which teams show up believing that Arkansas sucks.
It's just amazing how the off season momentum effects predictions without teams playing games.
In the same way that Arkansas has benefited from that irrational momentum, so has Jeremy Johnson at Auburn. After last season & Spring practice, people thought Johnson had a chance to be a good SEC QB that Auburn could win with, then, in the Summer, the media started predicting that Auburn could win the SEC West, & now we are at a point where Johnson has better Heisman odds than Dak Prescott, even though he really hasn't done anything but start a game last season against a below average Arkansas team that had no film on him.
It's not that I don't think Johnson will be a good QB, because I do think it will do a good job for Auburn, but I point this out to make a point that somehow the media creates a tidal wave of momentum that becomes completely irrational by this time during the summer. It does show you that none of these guys are free thinkers & they simply build upon or subtract upon ideas that are already out there. The same has held true for MSU, in a negative way. Following last season, people thought we could be good again this year, but as the media tidal wave has grown, now we may not win 7 games. Completely irrational thought created by people who aren't free thinkers.
As a testament to this, I ask you to watch our Spring Game with an open mind. Look that the rhythm & timing between Dak & his receivers. Simply, college football teams with this kind of rhythm & timing in their passing game, score lots of point & win lots of games. Not sure if it's because of twitter, etc, but there seems to be very few Free Thinkers anymore. Tell me this is a 6 win team on the field.
https://youtu.be/FRLgBVDjx2k