So Much for Briana Scurry’s "Superior Big-Game Experience"!
| 5
|
by LastRow
What must it be like to be a head coach? Calling all the shots, determining who plays and who doesn’t play…When everyone seems to have an opinion on it? Boy, that has to suck…Being scrutinized by peeps who make like a 12-year old and think they know everything! To think they’re more qualified to be head coach than the person who actually holds the position…What must that be like to walk in the shoes of a Lovie Smith or a Charlie Weis who most likely have eight quarterbacks between them and not a one of them is worth shit! Trying to decide who to start…Must be hard, right? I always thought to go with the best player at a given position, make sense, right?
Welcome to the world of soccer, futbol, fooseball, or whatever the hell else it’s called! Now it’s not often anybody talks about this sport, much less women’s soccer, although U.S. coach Greg Ryan has definitely changed that…Well, at least for today. Coach Dumbass caught everyone by surprise when he made the change at goalkeeper choosing to go with vet Briana Scurry over Hope Solo who has been dubbed "the best in the world". This perplexed move was apparently motivated by the superior big-game experience of the 36-year-old Scurry. So if Solo is "the best in the world" why sit her? Looks to me, "big-game experience" or not, she has that label for a reason. What kind of moron makes this kind of move…Barry Bonds wants to talk about an "idiot", well here you go Balco Man! Why that’s on the same level as choosing a brunette who happens to be pushing maximum density over a blonde bombshell just because ones preference is brunettes!
Now I’m not second guessing this decision…No, I’m first guessing it! Because of course the U.S. women’s team got their asses handed to them earlier this morning on a platinum platter served up by Brazil, 4-0…With an extra can whoop ass on the side to wash it down with! So much for "big game experience, huh Greg? Gosh a 4-0 soccer score is along the same lines as how bad Michigan beat down Notre Dame two weeks back! Although I’m guessing if you had it to do all over again, you’d do the exact same thing, right? Sure you would! Just like I would try to fix something that isn’t broken before I would happen to break it! Gosh, I love doing that! Now I thought it was just me who saw this as a moronic, dim-witted, dumb, stupid, foolish, irrational, nimrod, asinine, crazy, insane, senseless decision, but I’m no "let’s run 12-plus miles over 90 minutes while chasing a ball and maybe if we get lucky we can score one goal, much less four" expert. Turns out I’m not drinking this Kool-Aid by myself, Julie Foudy was sipping on some too …"I think Bri will be fine, and the move will be fine," Foudy said. "But I just think it becomes a distraction when you're too focused on that rather than the game. To me it's a sign of worrying too much about the opponent. I think you just play. You know they're good. You know their strengths and weaknesses but you don't have to make such a drastic change." In play English…"What the **** are you thinking chief!"
And we all thought George "Wiener" Bush was the dumbest American…Perhaps Marc Ecko can design an "idiot" shirt for Coach Shit For Brains. So what does Solo think about being pulled for a "big game experience" goalkeeper only to be playing in the "thanks for coming, we have some nice parting gifts for you" game? Well, to say the least, she isn't going to hold back. "It was the wrong decision, and I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that," she said. "There's no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves. And the fact of the matter is it's not 2004 anymore. ... It's 2007, and I think you have to live in the present. And you can't live by big names. You can't live in the past. It doesn't matter what somebody did in an Olympic gold medal game in the Olympics three years ago. Now is what matters, and that's what I think." ZING! No kindding...You don't say! Really? Question I have now is why can’t all "nappy as hoes" be this way? Communicating there thoughts so we know exactly what they’re thinking and feeling instead playing the never ending guessing game! GOD, I HATE THAT GAME!! Every woman can learn something from Ms. Solo!
Now whether or not if she would’ve made a difference…Hindsight is 20/20 the same result might have been, or the team would be playing for another World Cup title. Nonetheless you go with what got you to that point…You go with your bread and butter! Why all of a sudden change? It serves no purpose! It’s not like you’re playing fantasy football and Matthew Berry gave you a tip that back fired… Ryan, your job is to get your team ready to play, and judging by the 4-0 score, the team wasn't ready to play today or at least Briana Scurry wasn’t! Hmm…I hope you like second guessing pal! You’ll be for a long time to come! Although look on the bright side…Nobody pays attention to soccer in this country, so it’s very likely we’ll forget about all this. On the other, you did seem to bring it to the forefront and, well, we never seem to forget dumbassses in sports!
Now the question I still have to ask is…"Who starts for Team USA in the third place game?"
