Modern Day Cool Runnings - Grant

In Disney's classic movie called Cool Runnings we have 4 black guys who don't like the cold, have never been in a bobsled, and are coached by an extremely large John Candy making it to the Olympics to compete for a gold medal. It is a good movie that inspires everyone, whether you are black or not. The tragedy in this story is that on their gold medal run, after making record time during the whole run, their bobsled flips. Ultimately they don't win gold, but walk their bobsled across the finish line. I don't know about anyone else, but everytime I see it I say to myself, "What the crap? They should have won the gold!" I get the feeling every time that they got ripped off. So why am I even telling this to you? Let me explain.

Utah 31 - Alabama 17

Let's suggest that Utah is our Jamaican bobsled team. They did everything they needed to do to win a "gold medal" but got ripped off in the end. Utah's bobsled flipped over. Everyone who understands this tragedy needs to sound off as to why Utah can't get respect.

Any person who really follows sports can tell you that that score meant a lot. A team from a supposedly "weak" conference, pummeled a team that was ranked #1 in all of college football for 5 straight weeks. Keeping that in mind, let me pose a few questions.

1. Why did over 90% of people pick Alabama to win.
2. Why does Utah not get any National Title consideration at all?
3. Why can't the Jazz get it together? (Oh that's for a different column...but seriously why not?)

For more insight into this, look at this column by Dan Wetzel - http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-utah010509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns