Cummings has gone. Dominic Cummings, BoJo’s top advisor across the pond there, resigned Friday evening after a row with the boss. When last we saw Dominic he was running away from Downing clutching a parcel as he if had just pulled off a heist. Last night he was standing on the empty, wet, gloomy street. BoJo his own self is viewed with gathering gloom by his constituents.
In a normal year it would be the Big Game of the day. PSU at Nebraska. Two undefeated teams. A mammoth stadium filled to the gills. Two legendary coaches, future award winners and professionals scattered on both rosters. But this is 2020, where normal got buried. The outside observer looks on in empathetic shock as these two historic teams enter today’s contest not undefeated but winless; in sympathetic alarm that Scott Frost, the Chosen One, the local boy made good and come home again continues to struggle to right Big Red; and in bewilderment at what the state of things is in State College, Pennsylvania and how they got that way. This one must have hurt the heads of the odds makers. They have installed PSU as a three-point fave.
I watched 25’ of highlights of my beloved Pitt “Panthers” beatdown of FSU in Tally a few days ago. Pitt of course looked good but I wish I could say that objectively and not subjectively for I have never in my adult life seen an FSU team that bad. Rather than a game between two other struggling teams and coaches this one was between a competently mediocre college team and one put together on game day by a raid of the fraternity houses for any able-bodied young scholars regardless of familiarity with the curriculum of Pigskin 101. FSU’s quarterbacks are dreadful and that is compliment in comparison with their offensive and defensive lines. FSU is mired in doo-doo. Prof Mike Norvell has driven this program, at least on this date, into its deepest ditch ever.
In my view, and from the different angles to my view, this college tackle football season should never have been played. Surely the horror of this Fall's calamitous spread of TrumPlague is due in some measure to the reopening of colleges and universities. Shortly those hardy young people will return home to their older, less hardy, more vulnerable parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts. Every week on campus games have been canceled or postponed, players have been held out, coaches have missed games. This weekend six matches have been canceled including #3 OSU at Maryland, and nine have been postponed including #1 Alabama at LSU and Pitt at Georgia Tech.
