College Football....

[Andy]

I'm sure this will be a hot, hot, hot thread on the board.

Anyone else a college football fan?  It's now 29 hours to kick off and the OU football message board I frequent just crashed due to excessive traffic.

[buffcoat]

Andy,

Yes, I'm excited.  I'm a UNC grad, and after years of sucky John Bunting we've got Butch Davis, so things are looking up.  I love college football about the same as the NFL, which is also gearing up.

But you're going to be able to hear the crickets on this thread.

buffcoat

[Andy]

I used to love college football, now I like it a lot.  could not ever watch NFL.

what scares me about the state of the game is that at the powerhouses, it's tough for me to say that these guys are not professional athletes.  I've been a lifelong OU fan, been going to games with my dad since '85.  I got to work around the stadium this spring and it's absolutely jaw dropping what these players get.  They work a lot for it, but to say that they're not compensated (besides the scholarship) is a stretch.

[Laurie]

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.

[Andy]

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.

[Laurie]

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 don't know, are the Hurricanes sucking again?

[dave from knoxville]

I really love it; in fact, I used to write a weekly column for a local small-town newspaper about it. But this is getting dangerously close to revealing my compulsive need to construct lists, and I was hoping not to get into that until our third date.

[Josh]

my team is totally going to kick your team's ass next weekend.

I do not doubt this.
Come to Miami when they play here in '09.

[Andy]

I do not doubt this.
Come to Miami when they play here in '09.

I probably will.  I don't pass up a trip to any city that has Jai alai betting.

[bruce]

well me and my Div III alma mater are all set. Hell I route for where my sister got her grad degree Michigan. Where I saw some no name qb called T Brady

[chrisfoll577]

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.

[TL]

Go Irish?

[Andy]

Go Irish?

you're dead to me.

[buffcoat]

APP STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously - I've known 20 people who attended App State and graduated college, but none who graduated from App State.

[Emily]

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.

vince lombardi? as in, the rest stop? (turnpike north exit 18)

i root for rutgers, since purchase never had a team.