By al.comon September 15, 2012 at 9:14 PM, updated September 15, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson reacts during the third quarter of his team's 52-0 loss to Alabama. (Birmingham News/Mark Almond)
Tyler Wilson didn’t play.
The starting quarterback, who suffered what appeared to be a concussion the week before in the loss to Louisiana-Monroe, went through pregame warm-ups Saturday but spent the game on the sideline.
It didn’t help the Razorbacks, as the final score of Alabama 52-0 showed, but it would’ve hurt them far worse to trot their MVP out there as a wounded, sitting duck.
The Alabama defense knocked Wilson around last season. It was too big a risk to take that Jesse Williams and company would do it again.
This time the damage could’ve been much, much worse. The second concussion, or injury above the shoulders, or whatever you want to call it, often is.
Wilson was frustrated by not playing, and by some of his teammates that did, and that frustration spilled out in a postgame statement not unlike the one Tim Tebow delivered after his 2008 Florida team lost a regular-season game to Ole Miss.
Wilson said some Hogs quit and vowed “to keep everyone in this organization and this team in that locker room together.â€
Tebow’s address became a plaque after Florida ran the table from there to win its second national title in three years. Wilson’s words won’t have the same effect.
He means well, but his team, even with him under center, just isn’t that good.
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