College Sports: Not Too Much Going on These Days

Other than what seems to be a twice-weekly occurrence of players being booted off teams, all's quiet for now. Well, except for Urban Meyer. Most of you have probably heard about this... Simply calling Tim Tebow the best quarterback in college football apparently isn't enough. Gators coach Urban Meyer told a Miami audience that Tebow ''is the greatest player of our era.'' Tebow certainly has the potential to be the greatest player of this era, but I think it's premature to bestow that honor on him just yet. The MNC ring as a freshman and the Heisman as a sophomore put him in a class by himself, but he's got at least one more year in college, and SEC coaching staffs have had another full offseason to work on defensive schemes to slow him down. There are plenty of defenders across the SEC who will take a little extra joy popping the defending Heisman winner. * ESPN loves to make up new statistics and shove them down our throats—OPS anyone? Their latest is to come up with (in their mind) ... (link)