Blame it on the Bobblehead

By Mike Gibson
The last time a university tried a Bobblehead Giveaway for a coach who won exactly one game, the coach came away a 55-25 loser.
Turner Gill walked off the field with a Bobbleahead likeness of himself in one hand, a clipboard in the other and a stat sheet with the bottom line: Ball State 55, Buffalo 25.
That was Oct. 7, 2006.
Buffalo learned the lesson.
No Bobbleheads for Turner Gill this season.
Temple learned the same lesson the hard way yesterday.
This time, it was Al Golden staring at a stat sheet with the bottom line: Buffalo 42, Temple 7. Somewhere, his Bobblehead was in the trash can.
Blame it on the Bobbleheads.
How else can you explain a 35-point loss to a team you are favored to beat by 3 1/2 points?
How else can you explain so many so-called betting experts saying to lay the wood on Temple, including one nationally syndicated radio show tabbing Temple the stone-cold lock of the week."
Blaming it on the Bobbleheads doesn't make any sense, but neither does the way Temple University's football team played its game on Saturday afternoon.
Poor blocking, poor tackling, a general malaise.
"We've got to change the culture of losing," Temple head coach Al Golden keeps saying over and over.
Screw the culture.
Just change the losing.
One way would be to get Travis Shelton the ball.
Often.
Here's a guy who singlehandedly beat Bowling Green last year and he gets maybe five touches a game.
It's obvious the coaching staff is trying to teach Travis Shelton a lesson for a real or perceived ill.
I'm sick of trying to teach guys lessons.
Teach the third-string right offensive guard lessons. Put Travis Shelton in the game and have him teach other teams a lesson the way only a guy with 4.27-40-yard dash speed can.
Culture, smuchler.
Just change the losing to winning.
Soon, like in the next two weeks.
Until then, no Bobbleheads for you.
Or anybody else.