10-05-2011, 01:10 PM
Last fall we had a long thread regarding the Voldemort that disproved the mythos of any current NY Athletic Club involvement. My take home then was that it's pretty much owned and operated by ESPN.
Viewing it as an ESPN managed PR campaign, I've tried to keep myself from getting too engaged. My thinking to date has been that if anyone other than Luck wins I will simply mock and scorn it while referring to Andrew's draft status, as is recommended above.
However, sucker that I am, I recorded & skimmed a recent ESPN College Football Live that had a Voldemort Update teaser. It opened with: our 3 big stories which were: 1) Bamas big victory; 2) FL QB Brantley out with leg injury, and 3) Voldemort update. For the update they led off with Baylor QB Griffen, then Wisc QB Wilson, and lastly Luck.
I think their strategy is: #1 SEC guy, #2 another SEC guy if guy #1 fades, and #3 Anyone but Pac12. In 2010 it was 1) Bamas Ingram, until he got injured; 2) ARK QB Mallett; until they lost to Bama & he got knocked out of the game; and then 3) Cam.
Griffen will fade as Denard Robinson did last year. Baylors 1st 3 games were OOC @ home. KSU was their first conference road game, and they lost. An interesting byproduct of the Big12 contraction is that those teams now play an old school Pac10 type full round robin schedule (9 conference games) instead of their former SEC like 4 cupcakes & 8 conference with a chance to skip other tough teams.
Baylor still has to play MO, OSU, OU, Tx A&M, plus TX, so theyre looking at an 8-4 to 6-6 season. No Voldemort there, but a distraction from Luck for a few more weeks. My guess is that theyll start to push Wisconsins Wilson pretty hard to create an option to Luck. Landry could float up if OK goes undefeated, but I think thats unlikely. Somewhere the Big12 version of Oregon State will treat them as the beavers did USC during their strong run. Karmas a bitch.
I suspect that as BIG weather turns seasonal Wilson will be more of a game manager and goes heavy with the run game, so not such gaudy passing stats. They will run up scores as they did last year so that will keep him visible. If Stanford loses to Oregon, Wilson may be the Heis-man. Dont see anyone in the BIG at Wisconsins level right now. In my eyes, best BCS auto conference chance to go undefeated. Their remaining schedule, even with a BIG championship game, looks really light.
So, if we choose to participate in the Voldemort beauty pageant we've got our work cut out for us. The addition of Kevin Gemmell's blog on ESPN is a big plus, but the sports Borg will not go down easily.
Good Grief stay limber and upgrade that internet connection.
Viewing it as an ESPN managed PR campaign, I've tried to keep myself from getting too engaged. My thinking to date has been that if anyone other than Luck wins I will simply mock and scorn it while referring to Andrew's draft status, as is recommended above.
However, sucker that I am, I recorded & skimmed a recent ESPN College Football Live that had a Voldemort Update teaser. It opened with: our 3 big stories which were: 1) Bamas big victory; 2) FL QB Brantley out with leg injury, and 3) Voldemort update. For the update they led off with Baylor QB Griffen, then Wisc QB Wilson, and lastly Luck.
I think their strategy is: #1 SEC guy, #2 another SEC guy if guy #1 fades, and #3 Anyone but Pac12. In 2010 it was 1) Bamas Ingram, until he got injured; 2) ARK QB Mallett; until they lost to Bama & he got knocked out of the game; and then 3) Cam.
Griffen will fade as Denard Robinson did last year. Baylors 1st 3 games were OOC @ home. KSU was their first conference road game, and they lost. An interesting byproduct of the Big12 contraction is that those teams now play an old school Pac10 type full round robin schedule (9 conference games) instead of their former SEC like 4 cupcakes & 8 conference with a chance to skip other tough teams.
Baylor still has to play MO, OSU, OU, Tx A&M, plus TX, so theyre looking at an 8-4 to 6-6 season. No Voldemort there, but a distraction from Luck for a few more weeks. My guess is that theyll start to push Wisconsins Wilson pretty hard to create an option to Luck. Landry could float up if OK goes undefeated, but I think thats unlikely. Somewhere the Big12 version of Oregon State will treat them as the beavers did USC during their strong run. Karmas a bitch.
I suspect that as BIG weather turns seasonal Wilson will be more of a game manager and goes heavy with the run game, so not such gaudy passing stats. They will run up scores as they did last year so that will keep him visible. If Stanford loses to Oregon, Wilson may be the Heis-man. Dont see anyone in the BIG at Wisconsins level right now. In my eyes, best BCS auto conference chance to go undefeated. Their remaining schedule, even with a BIG championship game, looks really light.
So, if we choose to participate in the Voldemort beauty pageant we've got our work cut out for us. The addition of Kevin Gemmell's blog on ESPN is a big plus, but the sports Borg will not go down easily.
Good Grief stay limber and upgrade that internet connection.