Mark May Cannot Grasp Concepts Like Math

Don't know if anyone's watching the ESPN halftime show, which is sort of like MTV's annual attempt to steal viewers during the Super Bowl halftime, except instead of hot gyrating babes you get Lou Holtz and Mark May. But Holy Lord if you're not, keep on watching whatever hot gyrating babes you've locked your radar onto.

I bring it up because May, being Mark May, made the dumbest argument I've heard tonight: Oklahoma shouldn't have gone for it on fourth and one from the Florida one. "Take the points." Etc etc etc. The usual inane chatter.

I mean, even if you subscribe to the floofy, mathematically wrong theory that you should accept whatever points you can get, you have to acknowledge that a 46-yard run from the two can lead to a punt while a 46-yard run from the 30 -- about where Florida would have gotten the ball back after a kickoff -- is going to lead to a field goal on your face at the very least, at which point you've just given back those precious three points you got.

In conclusion: Mark May should be a Wal-Mart greeter.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-08-2009 @ 11:20PM

Becat said...

I want to put points on Mark May's Face

1-09-2009 @ 12:10AM

tim said...

These 2 media teams were NOT the best 2 teams in the country!!! ESPN has been pushing these 2 teams all season. I thought that USC would beat either of them

1-09-2009 @ 3:10PM

Jim said...

Bring 'em on!!!! The PAC-10 doesn't play defense any better than the Big-12.

1-09-2009 @ 8:58PM

fred said...

Drinking the cool aid Mark?

1-09-2009 @ 12:54PM

roberto said...

And your argument makes more sense? You make a lot of absurd assumptions about what would have happened if Oklahoma had taken the field goal, including the idea that Harvin would have automatically made another 46 yard run and that OU would automatically run the same defense, and that momentum would not have stayed with OU. We watch football because sweeping changes of emotion and unexpected bounces rule. The truth is May's argument makes as much sense as going for it, especially since Stoops lately has not had a great record when it comes to going for it (See Texas loss and the fake field goal that backfired). And while I'm not always a fan of Mays, he is very knowledgeable about football. Finally, speaking of May, it's too bad that Florida and USC couldn't have gotten together. It would have been great to see Taylor May(s) USC's 240 pound safety who runs a legit 4.2.5 forty yard dash roaming around in the defensive backfield, wouldn't it? It would have been great for the SEC to get a chance to atone for the 167 points USC has hung on its members over the last six years, while the SEC could only put up about 44 points, most of it in garbage time, don't you think? A chance to see two teams that can really play both sides of the ball. Pro offense against SEC defense college spread offense against pro defense. Or failing that, how about those over-achieving Utes against Florida?