The Ragedratic Equation

Florida State x ESPN + Chuck Amato - Atrocious QBs(3) = Evening of Rage

Last night's NC State-Florida State game was maddening enough, but with ESPN's need to constantly hype an upcoming game (did you know Texas was playing Mizzou this weekend?) and with the traitor Chuck Amato in the house, I was scrambling for my sanity.

Let me start, however, with NC State's QB depth chart. If you took the top 3 QB's from every FBS school in the country, and lined them up from best to worst, Russell Wilson would come in at # 397, Harrison Beck # 411, and Daniel Evans # 418. I actually read a game preview yesterday for last night's game that stated "Russell Wilson is a real weapon for the NC State offense, averaging 108 passing yards per game". Uh, that is ATROCIOUS. Who wrote that statement, a 4 year old Labrador Retriever? People will say, "hey, he really didn't have a bad game last night". For him, you are correct. But the unnecessary sack he took at the end may have cost them the game. He threw 1 decent pass all night. Not good enough. Unfortunately, NC State has to use him, because their backups could easily be replaced with scarecrows, and no one would know the difference. In fact, I am 80% certain Daniel Evans is a zombie, and 50% sure that Harrison Beck has warm banana pudding in his skull where a brain should be.

Despite this lack of talent, NC State played quite well. They had the lead early in the 4th quarter, and were down by only 6 with the ball when ESPN decided to totally ignore the game to have an interview with Mack Brown. As this conversation went on, State's critical drive was of secondary importance to ESPN, as they just HAD to ask Mack Brown important questions, such as "how are you preparing for Mizzou". Um, no one cares. Not to mention, these coaches will not give out any valid info, so what's the point? The announcers did not mention anything about what was going on down on the field during this generic conversation. Nothing. In fact, I thought they were just going to stop showing the game altogether so they could keep the Mizzou-Texas game graphics on the screen. This is totally unacceptable. The game was close, State's drive was critical, and it was late in the 4th quarter. Was there not a better time to have this interview? It was hard for me to hate Mack Brown more than I already did, but congratulations, ESPN, you made it happen! And while we're here, does ESPN have millions of dollars invested in Frank Caliendo's career? He was on Mike+Mike earlier in the week, while the co-hosts fake laughed throughout his whole routine, and then the following day, Mike Greeny talked about how great and funny Frank was on the show. What was once impossible has come true-I now hate Frank Caliendo more than Robin Williams. ESPN-where your fantasies of rage come true.

Chuck Amato-it was nice to see you. No it wasn't. Stop claiming you built everything at Carter-Finley. It was going to happen with or without you. Even if you had some pull in getting facilities built earlier than they normally would have, you also played a major role in tearing down the trust of fans. Thousands of young Wolfpack fans trusted you and your overblown dreams of glory. You left them empty and bitter. So congrats on your team's win last night Chuck, it was just like old times-you leave Carter-Finley with 56,000 crushed souls in your wake.