Nice football wrap-up from Brooks Hatch

Brooks has a nice wrap-up of the bowl season over the weekend. Some good little observations in there.

Corvallis Gazette-Times - Time to wrap up the bowl season

• Virginia Tech finally threw Marcus Vick out of school for the intent-to-injure stomp he delivered to Louisville’s Elvis Dumervil. Kudos to VPI’s “nine strikes and you’re out” policy. Maybe Rick Metsger should call someone in the Virginia legislature and straighten them out.

Can you image the ruckus if Tech had played Notre Dame?

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• Call me amazed that the Pacific-10 Conference officiating crew at the Sugar Bowl didn’t flag Georgia wide receiver Bryan McClendon for excessive celebration or unsportsmanlike conduct after his perfect swan dive in the end zone following a fourth-quarter touchdown.

Let me see if I get this right: Mike Hass and Richard Seigler are flagged for brief poses at WSU in 2003, and Steven Jackson barely vogues after a go-ahead score at Washington, and two or three referees throw a penalty flag faster than you can say Verle Sorgen. But a guy from Georgia does a “look at me” half-gainer in a bowl game and it’s ignored completely.

Coincidentally, the same guy was the crew chief at the 2003 WSU game and the Sugar Bowl. That’s what I love about Pac-10 officiating, the consistency.

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• I guess if Nike says jump, you reply, “How high?” That explains Oregon’s decision to wear back pants with a Brillo pad decoration on each leg at the Holiday Bowl, and the black helmet and chrome-colored helmets they’re supposed to unveil next year.

There’s no accounting for (bad) taste. But somehow I can’t ever see the Beavers wearing green, Washington State wearing purple, USC wearing any shade of blue or Cal wearing cardinal.