Oklahoma has added another top-three finish to its storied sports history.
In bass fishing.
Bass fishing?
You read right. Last weekend, two-man teams from 36 colleges competed in the Under Armour College Bass National Championship on the Arkansas River near Little Rock.
Who knows what’s more amazing, that there’s a bass fishing national championship or that it’s sponsored by Under Armour.
Of all the things for Under Armour to sponsor, it sponsors a bass fishing tournament. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see a lot of fishermen revving up the boat and hitting the water wearing Under Armour.
Anyway, Virginia Tech won the national championship, but the team from OU finished tied for second with Louisiana-Lafayette. Chip Porche and Matt Pangrac represented the Sooners. (Are they technically called the Sooners? For our purposes, they will be.) They lost a tiebreaker to La.-Lafayette to finish third.
Again, I have questions.
What kind of tiebreaker are we talking about? For some reason, I imagine these two teams having a race to see who could bait a hook faster. Probably not the tiebreaker they actually used, but man, that’d be fun.
I’m poking fun, but the truth is, I have all sorts of respect for bass fishing aficionados since I don’t know the first thing about the sport. So, a hearty attaboy to Virginia Tech, Louisiana-Lafayette, OU and every other team that competed in the national championship.
Go, fight, fish!
October 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
You need to drop out of reporting on college football. You should be covering ping pong, volley ball, soccer, basketball, polo, or any womens sport. Maybe you would do better just dropping sports entirely and report on human interest stories..
October 28th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
not a very interesting blog.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:22 am
Why would you waste your time writing about something you admit you know nothing about? Let me see…what sport is it that you DO know something about?
November 1st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I had an oppotunity to see the OU Bassers the day before the tourney on the Arkansas River as they were fishing near me when I caught my best ever bass on the river. They were kind enough to take a picture of me with my catch. I would to say congrats and thanks again for the help. As I told them, I am a Penn State guy, but happy to see them do well, congrats!