I can't watch it, simply because of my experience at UM. I knew a few football players, and college football is a full-time commitment. It's pretty much impossible to be both a student and a football player. I don't like it.my team is totally going to kick your team's ass next weekend.
I can't watch it, simply because of my experience at UM. I knew a few football players, and college football is a full-time commitment. It's pretty much impossible to be both a student and a football player. I don't like it.my team is totally going to kick your team's ass next weekend.
my team is totally going to kick your team's ass next weekend.
I probably will. I don't pass up a trip to any city that has Jai alai betting.
I do not doubt this.
Come to Miami when they play here in '09.
Go Irish?you're dead to me.
since my alma mater fordham university hasn't fielded a decent team since vince lombardi, i root for other northern catholic schools like boston college and notre dame. i'm still amazed at how seriously people out west and down south take college football. i know it's cliche but the pageantry and intensity that draws me in. im rooting for bc to finally show up those southerners in the acc and at least make it to a bowl game that matters this year.
It's gonna be a good year boys.who needs lee corso?
And boom goes the dynamiteIt's gonna be a good year boys.who needs lee corso?
And then you could live in North Dakota which is a whole other bag of sadness...youre forgetting about college hockey gilly, the fighting sioux are a perennial powerhouse.
And then you could live in North Dakota which is a whole other bag of sadness...youre forgetting about college hockey gilly, the fighting sioux are a perennial powerhouse.
I thought the Dakota's were filled with Nebraska fans.
Nope, didn't forget about it. If I did I could have said Minnesota has won a title recently. It doesn't count if only 10 schools in the nation actually take it seriously. But even if you do think it's legitimate to claim college hockey dominance (which I think Minnesotans might have more right to), it still is definitely not a major title. I could argue that an NHL championship isn't a major title anymore, but I won't.wait... whuuuuuuuuuuuuuht? you're nuts! (ive always wanted to type that). a minnesotan disparaging college hockey? i'm a music snob and a book snob, but above all else, i'm a sports snob and the very fact that only a handful of people actually give a s-hit about college hockey actually makes it MORE of a major title to me. on the other hand... when i think about the sadness that is maine or new hampshire hockey here in the east (xxxxl hockey jerseys and mullets)... you might have a point.
SERIOUSLY???
(http://www.arcuradio.com/etc/huskers.jpg)
At $109,382,222 for the current year, Ohio State's athletic budget is the largest in the nation and the biggest in the history of college sports. It allows the school to field 36 varsity teams in everything from baseball and soccer to riflery and synchronized swimming. The school spends about $110,000 on each of its 980 athletes, which is triple the amount the university spends per undergraduate on education.
we don't lose pretty. when we lose, it's an embarassment.
alabama/florida will work itself out. if alabama loses, they'll drop like a roc. nobody likes saban, so theyw ould take a beating in the human polls.
right now I think fla/ou would be the most entertaining game.
if alabama loses, they'll drop like a roc.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I think regular season games would still matter with a playoff system. Every NFL game matters right?Nope; about half the games in the last two weeks are between some combination of teams who are either resting starters for the playoffs or are out of the playoff picture. It's boring, and it's one of the myriad reasons that fantasy football is dumb. Playoff systems reward teams that are good enough to qualify and happen to get hot at the right time; college football rewards season-long consistency. The college football regular season is a playoff; if a team wants to be in the championship game, it cannot lose. It's as insane and unique as March Madness.
They should go to a 16 team playoff system and have another 16 team playoff that acts like an NIT. That way all of the bowls still get their games and some of the bowls will get higher ratings. The only thing the bowls will lose is cherry picking games to bring in extra revenue which is ridiculous anyway.You're asking teams and fans to travel, potentially, to four different locations in four weeks, each time on a week's notice. This is impossible. The bowl system exists to promote local tourism in the places games are played. If you make a playoff system you would need to abandon the bowl structure altogether and have teams play home games for at least the first two rounds. And to keep things fair, the games would necessarily be played on the same day or two each week (so teams would be playing on approximately the same amount of rest). Lots of these early playoff games would have to be played, then, at the same time; ratings wouldn't necessarily increase.
What might need to happen though is to have two less games before the conference season starts, but those games are normally cake anyway.Athletic programs make money by playing home games. Reducing that number for every team by one or two to add games for sixteen of the 120 or so teams is not a good idea. I will grant that non-conference games are probably about 50% or so cake; one way to deal with that is to not allow wins against non-Division 1A opponents to count towards bowl eligibility. Another would be to allow the computer polls to one again account for strength of schedule.
A +1 does nothing to combat the fact that 95 percent of colleges have no hope of winning a national championship before even one snap is takenAgain, there are about 120 teams. Do you really think only 6 teams have a chance at the beginning of the season? There are at least 2-3 teams in every major conference who potentially could run the table.
and for 95 percent of fans the bowl season is meaningless. This season has been fun to watch but I could care less about Florida or Oklahoma and I care even less about any other team battling for #3. There just isn't any intrigue in the bowl season for any fan outside of Florida or Oklahoma.This I completely do not understand at all. Any fan of any school that will be playing in a bowl game would disagree with you.
As a fan of West Virginia, oh how things have changed. The Mieneke Car Care Bowl should be fun. Right? Euy boy.
Good luck to Sooner and Gator fans. Sorry Longhorn fans.
My team, Vanderbilt, situated in Nashville Tennessee, gets to play in the Music City Bowl, situated in Nashville Tennessee.
Boise State got screwed. I'd be so pissed right now if I were a Boise State fan. People can say that they should play better non-conference opponents but they have a track record so big conference teams won't play them. Really, the best they can do is go undefeated playing teams that don't compare to them and that should give them the opportunity to get a shot against a BCS team. Instead they play the runner up in the Mountain West and that's a load of crap. This is the problem with the BCS system; you will never know how good a team Boise State is because nobody will play them and they're not allowed to play anybody at the end of the season in a game that really matters. At least in basketball, the teams that nobody wants to play during the season get a shot to prove themselves at the end.
Boise State got screwed. I'd be so pissed right now if I were a Boise State fan. People can say that they should play better non-conference opponents but they have a track record so big conference teams won't play them. Really, the best they can do is go undefeated playing teams that don't compare to them and that should give them the opportunity to get a shot against a BCS team. Instead they play the runner up in the Mountain West and that's a load of crap. This is the problem with the BCS system; you will never know how good a team Boise State is because nobody will play them and they're not allowed to play anybody at the end of the season in a game that really matters. At least in basketball, the teams that nobody wants to play during the season get a shot to prove themselves at the end.
I agree and I know first hand how a team like Boise State can beat one of the big boys. I also think that limits on the number of teams from one conference or mandatory inclusions in the BCS are a joke, but it's what they have to do to make it viable. And, the truth of the matter is that even without the BCS, Boise State would get screwed. It's about how many fans travel and what the bowl can do to make money. It's a classic haves/have nots.
You want to talk about a team that got screwed? Texas Tech. They have one loss, on the road at the now #1 team in the country. They beat Texas, and yet they are still just playing in the Cotton Bowl. That place is a dump.
It's amazing how much joy I get from Texas losing anything. I'm happy for Sam Bradford winning the Heisman (there's something special about a kid from Oklahoma, playing at OU), but I also love seeing Colt get passed over because he and his family are the stereotypical Texans who think that Texas is the center of the universe (when they lived out of state, his dad sprinkled dirt from Texas under his crib so that he could say he always lived in texas? yech)
Now, if we could win the championship it would be great on two fronts: 1) In your face texas and 2) word around here is that if the title game ends up going our way the next expansion on the stadium would be an $80mil pressbox renovation.
I made a joke exactly a year ago, when I saw him at the local supermarket, and said "Heisman polish? Aisle seven".
He didn't laugh, barely cracked a smile.
But he prayed for you and all the other Polynesians.
if Florida wins, it's a tainted title now ;):
http://newsok.com/demarco-murray-out-for-bcs-title-game/article/3330623?custom_click=breaking_news
I feel bad for the kid. he spent all year getting back up to speed after his knee injury last season. After the Texas game you could see it start coming back and the last few games he really looked like he was back up to speed completely and had the injury out of his head. He could be one of the really special ones who never has a chance to realize his potential. He reminds me a lot of D'mond Parker, probably the greatest running back ever at Oklahoma who just happened to play on some of the worst teams we had. He was our only option and every opponent knew it and he still continually made ridiculous plays.
It's amazing how much joy I get from Texas losing anything.
because he and his family are the stereotypical Texans who think that Texas is the center of the universe (when they lived out of state, his dad sprinkled dirt from Texas under his crib so that he could say he always lived in texas? yech)
That announcing crew succeeded in making me a life-long Tim Tebow hater.that's no shit. I know that I'm sensitive, but did we really need to see shots of him sipping water on the sideline while our offense was on the field?
That announcing crew succeeded in making me a life-long Tim Tebow hater.that's no shit. I know that I'm sensitive, but did we really need to see shots of him sipping water on the sideline while our offense was on the field?
That announcing crew succeeded in making me a life-long Tim Tebow hater.
Bradford had the laser precision (aside from that one insane interception) but Tebow brings a mountain of heart.That announcing crew succeeded in making me a life-long Tim Tebow hater.
Ditto. No need to elaborate. Just ditto.
That announcing crew succeeded in making me a life-long Tim Tebow hater.that's no shit. I know that I'm sensitive, but did we really need to see shots of him sipping water on the sideline while our offense was on the field?
I'm glad I didn't enter any pools or bet on the NFL playoffs. I would have done miserably.
I'm glad I didn't enter any pools or bet on the NFL playoffs. I would have done miserably.
Same, the Ravens and Eagles weren't total surprises but I really thought Carolina would blow out Arizona.
On another note, I'm still not sure how to feel about another year of Tebow.
Suicide time in oklahoma.
Watch Alabama vs. Arkansas this Saturday. After Arkansas beat Georgia last week, expectations are high.
I love your system, but totally don't understand it. What's the deal with mingling pro/college teams?
Plus, the Bugeater game with the Horns had some suspect calls that all seemed to go against Nebraska.
And Hugman- I don't dislike you. I remember exchanging PM's about it, and I don't remember what I said at the time, but I really have no ill will toward you and I'm sorry if it's come across that way in the past.
Is he eating grass?
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7589553/ (http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7589553/)
The saga continues!
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sns-tsn-afn-jefferson-johns-lsu-p1-20110826,0,4289784.story (http://www.latimes.com/sports/sns-tsn-afn-jefferson-johns-lsu-p1-20110826,0,4289784.story)
Baton Rouge, LA — LSU has suspended quarterback Jordan Jefferson and linebacker Josh Johns indefinitely after both were asked to turn themselves in to police on Friday in connection with a bar fight last weekend.
Head coach Les Miles gave no timetable for a potential return for the players.
"We will continue to cooperate with the authorities in an effort to find out exactly what took place during the incident," Miles said in a statement Friday.
"As sad as this incident is, it's important that we learn from this and that we take away a valuable lesson. This has weighed on all of us. It's time for us to come together as a team and focus on what we are here to do."
The arrest warrants issued Friday reportedly accuse each player of a felony charge of second-degree battery.
Baton Rouge police investigated a fight in the early morning hours of Friday, August 19 outside Shady's Bar near the campus of LSU. In addition to Jefferson and Johns, receiver Jarvis Landry and lineman Chris Davenport were asked to give statements to police.
According to the initial police statement, the fight started after an individual blew his horn to move a crowd out of his way in the parking lot.
holy shit.
We are heading toward another snoozefest rematch of SEC heavyweights. Man, I hope we get something even less thrilling than the 9-6 game where neither team even tried to score.
I understand why there are no great college basketball teams left, but why are there no great teams in college football? Why is it so hard to finish a cupcake 12-game schedule unbeaten?
You may get your wish! http://cfn.scout.com/2/557866.html (http://cfn.scout.com/2/557866.html)
What a set of choices for the mighty Tar Heels! Will it be a return to Charlotte for the newly renamed Belk Failing Southern Department Store Bowl, or a trip to nation's capital for the I Guess We Have ROTC on Campus and No Other Service Academies Qualified Military Bowl?
I can't wait.
It'll be hilarious if Georgia beats LSU in the SEC championship and the National Championship is between two teams that didn't even win their leagues.
I think Dave is a Vandy fan, so you can freely hate the Vols?
Pitt not only lost to Youngstown State, they were thoroughly dominated. It's gonna be a long, long year.
:(
I think Dave is a Vandy fan, so you can freely hate the Vols?
Not just the Vols: I'm kind of mad with the whole Inland South over the whole "only states voting less for Obama in 2008 than Kerry in 2004" thing. Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and that other one.
Politics is dreary, though, so I should add that I root against the whole SEC these days.
I think Dave is a Vandy fan, so you can freely hate the Vols?
Not just the Vols: I'm kind of mad with the whole Inland South over the whole "only states voting less for Obama in 2008 than Kerry in 2004" thing. Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and that other one.
Politics is dreary, though, so I should add that I root against the whole SEC these days.
I don't understand one word of this. But good luck supporting ACC football teams. Are there any?
This me ranking nem teams http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/ (http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/)
120 Pittsburgh 18.97842839
This me ranking nem teams http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/ (http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/)Quote120 Pittsburgh 18.97842839
Muhahahahahahahahaha!
This me ranking nem teams http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/ (http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/)Quote120 Pittsburgh 18.97842839
Muhahahahahahahahaha!
Too high?
This me ranking nem teams http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/ (http://gaughin.edublogs.org/2012/09/11/ncaa-football-week-2/)Quote120 Pittsburgh 18.97842839
Muhahahahahahahahaha!
Too high?
Oh, I'm not laughing at your rankings. I'm laughing at the pathetic state of my school's football program. It's the only thing keeping me from crying.
I went to the Gophers game yesterday with some tickets from work, first football game I've attended since college 10 years ago. Football is a tough game to watch live because there's so much stoppage in play. I can't believe people pay good money for tickets. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty fun to watch on tv, but it really is a TV sport.
Dave, did you make some changes to your system? It feels a lot more... um, normal than usual.
8) Texas Tech
I'm now actively rooting against the team that I was raised to love. We need some major shake ups and I'm afraid winning 9 games a year isn't bad enough to make them happen.
8) Texas Tech
FUCK.
8) Texas Tech
FUCK.
Wazzat about?
I'm now actively rooting against the team that I was raised to love. We need some major shake ups and I'm afraid winning 9 games a year isn't bad enough to make them happen.
Just be thankful that your team is one of the 15-20 teams that is relevant every year. It's kind of cool seeing fans rallying around the Gophers, but it's sad at the same time that 4 wins against nobodies is enough to regenerate interest in a team that hasn't been truly relevant in my lifetime. It shows just how bad the program has been, and we'll see if they can hold that fan interest when they lose games against the Big Ten. I have faith that Kill is on the right track though, and they may win a couple more games to squeak into a bowl.
This is our year!!!!!ours too
Why isn't Notre Dame penalized for taking a break when all the real teams are playing tough opponents?