Cheap Shot Of The Week
So what do you do when you play for a cow college in Alabama…
And you find yourself facing an All-American defensive tackle who has been named “the best player in college football” and who will undoubtedly be a first round NFL draft choice?
Why…
You take him down with an illegal chop block, of course. As basically your only assignment on the play.
All while he’s tangled up with one of your teammates. In fact, while your teammate works him into you.
As in…
All the better to turn his right knee into spaghetti.
After all the whining and moaning, 99.999% of it from Gator Nation, about Mark Richt and the Dawgs needing to apologize for the masterful “celebration-a-rooski” they pulled against Florida…
This is the kind of thing that truly cheapens college football.
Go watch the footage. More than once. I’ll wait.
This isn’t a “fell into his leg in a tangle of people and bodies during a play” kinda thing like what cut short Tyrone Prothro’s amazing career.
In case you don’t know who Prothro is…
He’s the guy wearing the number “4” who shows up in this video a half dozen times, including his throwing an amazing legal block that takes out 2 guys twice his size simultaneously. Go ahead. Check it out. I’ll still wait.
The Auburn offensive lineman without any defensive player in his face, Chaz Ramsey, basically takes himself out as any source of protection for his quarterback or the Auburn backfield by coming off his feet, except the benefit of executing the chop block against Glenn Dorsey.
Honestly, Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville and both of the Auburn players involved, Ramsey and Lee Ziemba, should have immediately and publicly apologized not just to Les Miles and Dorsey, but also privately to Dorsey and his family.
Why?
Because it’s the right thing to do.
Honestly, it’d be the right thing to do even if Dorsey wasn’t an All-American, likely first-round draft pick.
But, if the thought of an apology had the possibility of even crossing Tuberville or his player’s mind…
That block wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Maybe they can take a cue from Mark Richt.
Man up…
And apologize, no matter what.
Even if that happened, by some miraculous change of heart…
The SEC and NCAA should still come down on this one like a ton of bricks.
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