10018 <p>Don't get me wrong. I love Tim Tebow. I think he is a tremendous football player but the excuses for his average play this season need to stop. A couple weeks ago, it was the concussion. Now, today, College Football Live decides its because Tebow lost his offensive coordinator this season; Dan Mullen.</p> <p>You would think Florida's new offensive coordinator is a complete outsider. He's not. Also, that head guy down there is pretty involved in the offense, and many pundits consider him one of, if not the top, head coach in America.</p> <p>A big deal was made this week about Tebow reaching 17 consecutive wins, I too want to congratulate him on reaching the halfway point to Matt Leinart's streak of 34 wins while at USC. An interesting thing happened to Leinart before his senior year. His offensive coordinator, Norm Chow, left for the Tennessee Titans. Many consider (or considered) Chow to be the best offensive coordinator in college football and he was a prior winner of the Frank Broyles Award given to the best assistant coach in the country.</p> <p>So what happened to Leinart his senior year, when he should have struggled because "Hey. He's got a new offensive coordintor?" Well, they went out and scored 63 and 70 (against Arkansas) in his first two games under the new coordinator. In fact, his lowest output of the year was 34 pts in the "Bush Push" game. Every other game except one was over 40. (The other one not was 38 at Arizona St.)</p> <p>Stop making excuses for Tim Tebow. He says he needs to play better. Its time the people commenting on his play would admit the same. As it stands right now, he's the third best quarterback in the state of Florida, behind Christian Ponder of Florida State and Jacory Harris of Miami.</p> true 2009-10-29T05:43:02Z 97515 6 2009-10-31T00:13:15Z