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• Tuesday, September 4, 2007 03:25 AM

  Give credit where credit is due

  Michigan chose a tougher opponent than you thought. Admit it, you saw the name Appalachian State, maybe heard all the jokes about Caitlan Upton, and jumped to a conclusion.

  You don't follow college football, so you likely didn't know that the Mountaineers are one of the best Division-Formerly-Known-As-1AA schools in history. Or that this year's Michigan team was highly over rated coming into the season. You saw Big School vs Little School and made an assumption.

  Modesty forbids me using my own beloved Miami Hurricanes - a relatively small school that was on the verge of eliminating it's football program entirely just 2 years before they won their first National Championship, which kicked off 25 years of more or less consistent Division 1A dominance - as an example of how wrong these kinds of assumptions can be. Well, I guess I'm not all that modest :)

  I will tell you that this is going to become more common, not less. As school budgets are slashed around the country, there are going to be more and more talented atheletes who play their first ball when they get to college. And a lot of them are going to turn out to be damn good. Good enough for David to take out Goliath. We may not see an upset of these epic proportions again, but there are going to be some really good games and unlikely outcomes.

  It's just a shame that you won't see any of them.

  —mattwa33186 Read mattwa33186's other letters
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