From: wessir@shelley.u.washington.edu (bill the cat)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: Pac Ten Review (Bowls Edition)
Date: 5 Jan 1993 08:12:51 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: shelley.u.washington.edu
Summary: Rose Bowl review
Keywords: Brunell, Rose Bowl

In article <1ia0tfINNgmn@shelley.u.washington.edu> crs@stein.u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck) writes:
>The Rose Bowl (Pasadena, CA 1/1)
>Michigan 38, Washington 31
>
>Defense, my ass!  This game was supposed to be somewhere in the low 20's.
>The game was one of those classic shootouts in which you are sure that the
>team who has the ball last will win.  There were two big stars of this
>game...Tyrone Wheatley and Mark Brunell.  Wheatley ran the ball 15 times
>before leaving the game in the fourth quarter with back spasms.  He had
>three touchdowns and 235 yards.  His TD runs were all long ones as well, a
>56 yarder in the second quarter, a Rose Bowl record 88 yarder on the first
>play from scrimmage in the second half, and a 24 yarder late in the third
>quarter.  Most of Wheatley's runs came on two different running plays--a
>draw trap that sprang him most of the time in the first half, and a straight
>draw that the Wolverines switched to when the Husky linebacking corps 
>adjusted to the draw trap.  He was absolutely incredible, flashing his 10.3
>100 yard time in the secondary on virtually every other run.  For his part,
>Mark Brunell wa almost no less incredible, throwing 30 passes and completing
>18 for 308 yards and two touchdowns and no interceptions.  Time and again
>Brunell used his footspeed to escape the Wolverine pass rush and complete a
>long pass, ala John Elway.  He had several passes which were easily 65 yards
>to 70 yards in the air.  The Wolverines did an exceptional job in taking
>away the Husky ground game, however, holding the Huskies to just 105 yards
>on 43 rushing attempts.  Napolean Kaufmann was really held in check, gaining
>just 39 yards on 20 carries.  Brunell chipped in 32 yards on ten scrambles
>and option plays.
WOW!  Somebody noticed!
  I watched all the husky games this year.  TV and home games and even a trip
to oregun.  What I saw was what you saw.  Poor defense.  I don't know where
the "D" shit came from.  That was last year.  It was ok this year but not a
championship "D".  I saw us give up the big play many times this year and
we almost always countered with offense.  Not against AZ though.  WSU ran
it up the middle and then stung with the deep pass when we played the run.
Michigan saw the tapes, I expected the run, I saw it, I hated it!  
  What I didn't expect was the incredible offense that I saw.  Early in the 
year we saw Napolean Kaufman come up with the big runs and then they noticed.
They looked for that play and covered it.  Then there was the recievers, they
had trouble filling some pretty large shoes from last year and had trouble 
early on in the year so I wasn't expecting the offensive attack we saw Jan 1.
  That was heart!  That was effort!  There is a great QB!  I can't feel bad 
for this loss because I think the Rose bowl was by far the best played game
of the year.  The way he came back from injury the year before.  I just can't
be happy enough about the rose bowl.  I think the NFL will look at brunell
before they look at toretta.  
  If only Brunell could have completed just a couple more passes...
MVP of two rose bowls, awesome passing...  The golden ring was right there,
just reach out and grab it!  Awww..................
  I got a lot satisfaction out of seeing the quality of play from the 
Husky offense that had been absent for most of the year.  If only Emtman
could have stayed around, the defense might have taken us to the top, sigh...
wessir