Of all the stock shots in the college football cameraman’s arsenal (sunset over the Rose Bowl, shirtless frat bros in the snow…) it’s the one he goes to more than any other. A football coach stands there in the waning moments of the game staring at nothing in particular. His team is losing. No, that’s not it. His team has lost. Not in the record book just yet, but it’s plain to any objective observer that his goose is cooked. His number is up. His ship has hit the rocks. His football team has lost the football game numerically,
pedagogically, spiritually and strategically. He knows it, his players know it, and the camera guy looking to fill time before they cut to the studio knows it.
“Jackie Sherrill’s bovine veterinary tool kit!” you exclaim, “What must that guy be thinking?!?!”
It should come as no surprise that I have a couple of ideas. Ladies and gentledogs, this was Mississippi State head coach Jeff Lebby as time ran out in his team’s 41-21 loss to the Georgia Bulldogs:
What was Jeff Lebby thinking?
a) “Surely Dak Prescott’s got a nephew or a first cousin with some eligibility left. I ain’t that picky.”
b) “Forty years of football coaching and the best advise my father-in-law could give me was ‘‘keep a good lawyer on retainer and don’t put anything in writing.‘”
c) “So bye, bye Ms. American Pie…ole Jeff Lebby’s called a play or two, but Bobo’s that guy!”
d) “I think I sort of know how that steer felt.”
As always, feel free to drop your own guesses in the comments.
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
