Alex Smith Is a Bust....You Know It's True, Don't Kid Yourselves

Alex Smith rode the wave of Urban Meyer's magical season at Utah. Let's face it, we were all bamboozled by what this kid accomplished as a Ute.In his senior year, he tallied 2,952 yards passing and 631 yards rushing. He made the Mountain West look silly all season as the Utes rode his arms and his legs to a 12-0 record in 2004 as well as a "stunning" defeat over the Pittsburgh Panthers 35-7.Well, that was then and this is now.Fact of the matter is, Pitt should never have been in the Fiesta Bowl; they were a sub-par 7-3 team going into that game and proved their massive inferiority by laying that horrendous egg against the Utes.The Big East is largely a fraud and any attempt to prove otherwise is futile.That said, Pitt was likely the best that conference had to offer at that time but they, for the most part, have ranged between average and awful.Need proof? Here it is: In the five years since that "stunning" BCS defeat, the Panthers have managed only one ...