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"College football playoff pitch" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-13 11:32:36 |
Mustangs coach June Jones weighed in on the two-game suspensions of three starters: receivers Emmanuel Sanders and Aldrick Robinson and linebacker Justin Smart.
They were suspended under his "three strikes' policy. A player can pick up a strike for missing or being late to practice team meetings and study halls among other violations.
Jones believes the suspensions will get the players' attention about what it takes to build a winning program.
"No team wins with players that don't pay attention to detail. You can't do it," Jones said. "It's hard to make these tough decisions but as a leader you have to do them."
The Oklahoma State women's basketball team's NCAA Tournament run a year ago has paid off in this year's recruiting class with the signing of six players Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Among the signees is 5-9 Haltom guard Keuna Flax. She earned all-state honors as a junior after averaging 22 points. 5.9 rebounds and three assists per game.
Flax joins Del City (Okla.) High School 5-11 guard Desiree Jeffries and 6-2 forward Toni Young. 6-2 forward/center Lindsey Keller of Goddard. Kan.. 6-1 forward/center LaSharra Riley of Topeka (Kan.) Washburn Rural and 6-3 forward Heather Howard of Shawnee Mission (Kan.) West.
Oklahoma State first-year men's basketball coach Travis Ford announced the signing of six high school seniors Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
The class includes a pair of Duncanville standouts - 6-0 guard Reger Dowell and 6-5 forward Roger Franklin - and also 6-2 guard Fred Gulley of Fayetteville. Ark.. 6-7 forward Karron Johnson of Richmond. Va. (Mount Zion. N. C.). 6-11 center Torin Walker of Northside (Columbus. Ga.) High School and 5-9 guard Ray Penn of Richmond (Texas) Travis.
Dowell chose OSU over Baylor. Texas A&M. Marquette and Nebraska. Franklin chose OSU over UCLA. Arizona. Michigan State and Oklahoma.
Oklahoma men's basketball coach Jeff Capel announced the signing of four players Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Joining OU next season will be 5-10 point guard Tommy Mason-Griffin of Houston Madison. 6-8 forward Andrew Fitzgerald of Baltimore. Md.. 6-8 forward Kyle Hardrick of Oklahoma City. Okla. and 6-4 guard Steven Pledger of Chesapeake. Va.
Mason-Griffin is rated the No. 3 player in Texas in the Class of 2009 by TexasHoops com. He averaged 23.1 points and seven assists per game last season.
Hardrick has been an OU commit since the spring of 2006. He transferred to Putnam City (Okla.) High School last summer after playing two years at Norman High and one year at Lawton Eisenhower.
Pledger averaged 21.8 points. 7.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game last season at Atlantic Shores (Va.) Christian School.
Fitzgerald (260 pounds) averaged 21 points. 18 rebounds and five blocks last season at Owings Mills (Md.) High School but is now at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. N. H.
Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale announced the signing of 6-2 centers Lyndsey Cloman and Joanna McFarland on Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Cloman averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds per game last season for San Antonio Taft. McFarland who chose OU over offers from Colorado. Iowa State. Kansas and Oklahoma State averaged 21 points and 15 rebounds per game last year for Derby (Kan.) High School. McFarland's two older sisters played in the Big 12. Jessica at Kansas State and Jackie at Colorado.
Cloman and McFarland will help fill the void left by the coming departure of OU's three seniors forwards Ashley Paris and Carolyn Winchester and All-American center Courtney Paris.
Texas-ex Roy Williams was wearing a Texas Tech sweatshirt at the Cowboys' practice facility paying up on a bet he made with legendary Red Raider LB/teammate Zach Thomas.
So it made sense to ask Williams who watches a ton of Big 12 football what he thought about Crabtree. Williams believes Crabtree is worthy of all the hype will be a heck of an NFL receiver.. but has a flaw.
"He snatches the ball [as well as] any receiver in the NFL," Williams said. "As far as I can see he runs good routes and everything. But the thing I'm impressed with is how he snatches the ball. He doesn't let the ball get into the body like a lot of people do. He goes out and snatches the ball. One thing he is going to have to learn is to tuck the ball away. He kind of has that Reggie Bush syndrome where he holds the ball out. Tuck the ball."
You know come to think about it. Crabtree was carrying the ball like a loaf of bread when he crossed the goal line with a second left against the Longhorns.
UNIVERSITY PARK - SMU's top receivers junior Emmanuel Sanders and sophomore Aldrick Robinson are suspended for the Mustangs' final two games due to a series of minor infractions. At least two other starters face similar suspensions according to sources.
Sanders and Robinson were suspended under coach June Jones' "three strikes" rule. A player can pick up a strike for being late to practice team meetings and study halls among other violations.
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Mike Sherman indicated that Stephen McGee could see significant playing time over the next couple weeks saying on his conference call yesterday that the Aggies would "play it by ear" at quarterback.
There haven't been many things that have gone well for the Aggies this season but sophomore QB Jerrod Johnson's emergence is one of them. Why would you want him looking over his shoulder after his first poor game?
but unless Johnson gets injured the senior ought to hold a clipboard for the rest of his college days.
Johnson gives the Aggies their best chance to win now. More importantly he provides them some hope for the future.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier planned to watch the Florida-Vanderbilt game last Saturday night. But the Ol' Ball Coach that he got distracted by what was taking place in Lubbock.
"I watched some of [UF's game against Vandy]. But I couldn't help but watch Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. I was just fascinated with that. Graham Harrell and all those receivers. It looked like they were playing against air."
Hunter a former Tyler John Tyler standout has 199 carries for 1,332 yards and 13 touchdowns.
The other semifinalists are: Donald Brown jr.. Connecticut; Glen Coffee jr.. Alabama; Tyrell Fenroy sr.. Louisiana-Lafayette; Shonn Greene jr.. Iowa; LeSean McCoy so.. Pittsburgh; Knowshon Moreno so.. Georgia; Javon Ringer sr.. Michigan State; Jacquizz Rodgers fr.. Oregon State; and Evan Royster so.. Penn State.
The 162 members of the award selection committee will cast votes selecting three finalists which will be unveiled on Nov. 24. The winner will be announced live on the Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards show on Dec. 11.
The award is named after three-time SMU All-American running back and 1948 Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker.
And when the other polls -- ESPN. Orlando Sentinel/Heisman Pundit etc. -- come out soon expect him to be on top. At the same time. Harrell's hopes remain tied with his team's performance as Colt McCoy and Chase Daniel discovered.
Mike Leach and Graham Harrell were not really well known outside the footprint of the Big 12 when Texas Tech staged a major comeback against Minnesota in the 2006 Insight Bowl.
The Red Raiders rallied from a 31-point deficit for a 44-41 win. The loss cost Minnesota coach Glen Mason his job.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse and tracked down Mason. It's a good read set up by this quote from Mason. "First of all when we drew them for the Insight Bowl my friends from that conference called and said. 'Good luck because this isn't the team you want in a bowl game,' " Mason said.
Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp remains a hot coaching prospect for almost any job in a BCS power conference. He was asked Monday if he and head coach Mack Brown had an understanding to wait until the end of the season about any openings.
that said Tennessee had tabbed North Carolina coach Butch Davis as the leading candidate to replace the ousted Phillip Fulmer. The story also said that if Tennessee couldn't get Davis. Leach. Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly and Minnesota coach Tim Brewster would be among the candidates considered.
"I don't pay any attention just get ready for OU," Leach said. "Playing OU is enough hand full without worrying about any of that."
Leach is under contract through 2010. Tech athletic director Gerald Myers has said he plans to extend Leach's contract to five years after the regular season.
Leach has a $500,000 buyout clause in his contract. If he stays through 2009 he'll receive an $800,000 contract completion bonus that would pay him without incentives a total of $2.65 million for the 2009 season. He'll get a $200,000 contract completion bonus if he stays through 2010.
That said he's never had a higher market value with the Red Raiders at 10-0 and No. 2 in the nation and BCS rankings.
There are cleanup problems at Kyle Field that go beyond the 66 points that Oklahoma posted on the scoreboard Saturday.
Bats really feel at home at Texas A&M's stadium as the. And they can put a damper on the game-day experience. As some fans are discovering bat guano is not just the name of a character in.
Team chemistry has been a Texas strength this season and players and coaches said Monday it was not affected by the Buck Burnette incident.
Burnette a backup center was dismissed from the team last week after briefly posting a slur about President-elect Barack Obama on his Facebook site immediately following the election.
"I thought the coaches did a good job on handling the situation," defensive end Brian Orakpo told reporters. "My prayers are for him but we've got to move on. Guys got to make better decisions for their future."
Quarterback Colt McCoy noted that Burnette wrote a letter of apology to the team that was read by coach Mack Brown.
"I do not for a second think that would be a distraction," McCoy said. "With this team and this team's chemistry we're so close. It's tough for everybody across the board on the team. When we heard the letter when coach Brown made the statement it was over. We can't let this be a distraction. We have a lot going for us."
Brown said Texas can't legally ban Facebook and My Space accounts but does caution players to be careful about what information they post.
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Mustangs coach June Jones weighed in on the two-game suspensions of three starters: receivers Emmanuel Sanders and Aldrick Robinson and linebacker Justin Smart.
They were suspended under his "three strikes' policy. A player can pick up a strike for missing or being late to practice team meetings and study halls among other violations.
Jones believes the suspensions will get the players' attention about what it takes to build a winning program.
"No team wins with players that don't pay attention to detail. You can't do it," Jones said. "It's hard to make these tough decisions but as a leader you have to do them."
The Oklahoma State women's basketball team's NCAA Tournament run a year ago has paid off in this year's recruiting class with the signing of six players Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Among the signees is 5-9 Haltom guard Keuna Flax. She earned all-state honors as a junior after averaging 22 points. 5.9 rebounds and three assists per game.
Flax joins Del City (Okla.) High School 5-11 guard Desiree Jeffries and 6-2 forward Toni Young. 6-2 forward/center Lindsey Keller of Goddard. Kan.. 6-1 forward/center LaSharra Riley of Topeka (Kan.) Washburn Rural and 6-3 forward Heather Howard of Shawnee Mission (Kan.) West.
Oklahoma State first-year men's basketball coach Travis Ford announced the signing of six high school seniors Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
The class includes a pair of Duncanville standouts - 6-0 guard Reger Dowell and 6-5 forward Roger Franklin - and also 6-2 guard Fred Gulley of Fayetteville. Ark.. 6-7 forward Karron Johnson of Richmond. Va. (Mount Zion. N. C.). 6-11 center Torin Walker of Northside (Columbus. Ga.) High School and 5-9 guard Ray Penn of Richmond (Texas) Travis.
Dowell chose OSU over Baylor. Texas A&M. Marquette and Nebraska. Franklin chose OSU over UCLA. Arizona. Michigan State and Oklahoma.
Oklahoma men's basketball coach Jeff Capel announced the signing of four players Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Joining OU next season will be 5-10 point guard Tommy Mason-Griffin of Houston Madison. 6-8 forward Andrew Fitzgerald of Baltimore. Md.. 6-8 forward Kyle Hardrick of Oklahoma City. Okla. and 6-4 guard Steven Pledger of Chesapeake. Va.
Mason-Griffin is rated the No. 3 player in Texas in the Class of 2009 by TexasHoops com. He averaged 23.1 points and seven assists per game last season.
Hardrick has been an OU commit since the spring of 2006. He transferred to Putnam City (Okla.) High School last summer after playing two years at Norman High and one year at Lawton Eisenhower.
Pledger averaged 21.8 points. 7.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game last season at Atlantic Shores (Va.) Christian School.
Fitzgerald (260 pounds) averaged 21 points. 18 rebounds and five blocks last season at Owings Mills (Md.) High School but is now at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. N. H.
Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale announced the signing of 6-2 centers Lyndsey Cloman and Joanna McFarland on Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Cloman averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds per game last season for San Antonio Taft. McFarland who chose OU over offers from Colorado. Iowa State. Kansas and Oklahoma State averaged 21 points and 15 rebounds per game last year for Derby (Kan.) High School. McFarland's two older sisters played in the Big 12. Jessica at Kansas State and Jackie at Colorado.
Cloman and McFarland will help fill the void left by the coming departure of OU's three seniors forwards Ashley Paris and Carolyn Winchester and All-American center Courtney Paris.
Texas-ex Roy Williams was wearing a Texas Tech sweatshirt at the Cowboys' practice facility paying up on a bet he made with legendary Red Raider LB/teammate Zach Thomas.
So it made sense to ask Williams who watches a ton of Big 12 football what he thought about Crabtree. Williams believes Crabtree is worthy of all the hype will be a heck of an NFL receiver.. but has a flaw.
"He snatches the ball [as well as] any receiver in the NFL," Williams said. "As far as I can see he runs good routes and everything. But the thing I'm impressed with is how he snatches the ball. He doesn't let the ball get into the body like a lot of people do. He goes out and snatches the ball. One thing he is going to have to learn is to tuck the ball away. He kind of has that Reggie Bush syndrome where he holds the ball out. Tuck the ball."
You know come to think about it. Crabtree was carrying the ball like a loaf of bread when he crossed the goal line with a second left against the Longhorns.
UNIVERSITY PARK - SMU's top receivers junior Emmanuel Sanders and sophomore Aldrick Robinson are suspended for the Mustangs' final two games due to a series of minor infractions. At least two other starters face similar suspensions according to sources.
Sanders and Robinson were suspended under coach June Jones' "three strikes" rule. A player can pick up a strike for being late to practice team meetings and study halls among other violations.
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Mike Sherman indicated that Stephen McGee could see significant playing time over the next couple weeks saying on his conference call yesterday that the Aggies would "play it by ear" at quarterback.
There haven't been many things that have gone well for the Aggies this season but sophomore QB Jerrod Johnson's emergence is one of them. Why would you want him looking over his shoulder after his first poor game?
but unless Johnson gets injured the senior ought to hold a clipboard for the rest of his college days.
Johnson gives the Aggies their best chance to win now. More importantly he provides them some hope for the future.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier planned to watch the Florida-Vanderbilt game last Saturday night. But the Ol' Ball Coach that he got distracted by what was taking place in Lubbock.
"I watched some of [UF's game against Vandy]. But I couldn't help but watch Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. I was just fascinated with that. Graham Harrell and all those receivers. It looked like they were playing against air."
Hunter a former Tyler John Tyler standout has 199 carries for 1,332 yards and 13 touchdowns.
The other semifinalists are: Donald Brown jr.. Connecticut; Glen Coffee jr.. Alabama; Tyrell Fenroy sr.. Louisiana-Lafayette; Shonn Greene jr.. Iowa; LeSean McCoy so.. Pittsburgh; Knowshon Moreno so.. Georgia; Javon Ringer sr.. Michigan State; Jacquizz Rodgers fr.. Oregon State; and Evan Royster so.. Penn State.
The 162 members of the award selection committee will cast votes selecting three finalists which will be unveiled on Nov. 24. The winner will be announced live on the Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards show on Dec. 11.
The award is named after three-time SMU All-American running back and 1948 Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker.
And when the other polls -- ESPN. Orlando Sentinel/Heisman Pundit etc. -- come out soon expect him to be on top. At the same time. Harrell's hopes remain tied with his team's performance as Colt McCoy and Chase Daniel discovered.
Mike Leach and Graham Harrell were not really well known outside the footprint of the Big 12 when Texas Tech staged a major comeback against Minnesota in the 2006 Insight Bowl.
The Red Raiders rallied from a 31-point deficit for a 44-41 win. The loss cost Minnesota coach Glen Mason his job.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse and tracked down Mason. It's a good read set up by this quote from Mason. "First of all when we drew them for the Insight Bowl my friends from that conference called and said. 'Good luck because this isn't the team you want in a bowl game,' " Mason said.
Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp remains a hot coaching prospect for almost any job in a BCS power conference. He was asked Monday if he and head coach Mack Brown had an understanding to wait until the end of the season about any openings.
that said Tennessee had tabbed North Carolina coach Butch Davis as the leading candidate to replace the ousted Phillip Fulmer. The story also said that if Tennessee couldn't get Davis. Leach. Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly and Minnesota coach Tim Brewster would be among the candidates considered.
"I don't pay any attention just get ready for OU," Leach said. "Playing OU is enough hand full without worrying about any of that."
Leach is under contract through 2010. Tech athletic director Gerald Myers has said he plans to extend Leach's contract to five years after the regular season.
Leach has a $500,000 buyout clause in his contract. If he stays through 2009 he'll receive an $800,000 contract completion bonus that would pay him without incentives a total of $2.65 million for the 2009 season. He'll get a $200,000 contract completion bonus if he stays through 2010.
That said he's never had a higher market value with the Red Raiders at 10-0 and No. 2 in the nation and BCS rankings.
There are cleanup problems at Kyle Field that go beyond the 66 points that Oklahoma posted on the scoreboard Saturday.
Bats really feel at home at Texas A&M's stadium as the. And they can put a damper on the game-day experience. As some fans are discovering bat guano is not just the name of a character in.
Team chemistry has been a Texas strength this season and players and coaches said Monday it was not affected by the Buck Burnette incident.
Burnette a backup center was dismissed from the team last week after briefly posting a slur about President-elect Barack Obama on his Facebook site immediately following the election.
"I thought the coaches did a good job on handling the situation," defensive end Brian Orakpo told reporters. "My prayers are for him but we've got to move on. Guys got to make better decisions for their future."
Quarterback Colt McCoy noted that Burnette wrote a letter of apology to the team that was read by coach Mack Brown.
"I do not for a second think that would be a distraction," McCoy said. "With this team and this team's chemistry we're so close. It's tough for everybody across the board on the team. When we heard the letter when coach Brown made the statement it was over. We can't let this be a distraction. We have a lot going for us."
Brown said Texas can't legally ban Facebook and My Space accounts but does caution players to be careful about what information they post.
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"College football playoff pitch" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-13 11:32:35 |
Mustangs coach June Jones weighed in on the two-game suspensions of three starters: receivers Emmanuel Sanders and Aldrick Robinson and linebacker Justin Smart.
They were suspended under his "three strikes' policy. A player can pick up a strike for missing or being late to practice team meetings and study halls among other violations.
Jones believes the suspensions will get the players' attention about what it takes to build a winning program.
"No team wins with players that don't pay attention to detail. You can't do it," Jones said. "It's hard to make these tough decisions but as a leader you have to do them."
The Oklahoma State women's basketball team's NCAA Tournament run a year ago has paid off in this year's recruiting class with the signing of six players Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Among the signees is 5-9 Haltom guard Keuna Flax. She earned all-state honors as a junior after averaging 22 points. 5.9 rebounds and three assists per game.
Flax joins Del City (Okla.) High School 5-11 guard Desiree Jeffries and 6-2 forward Toni Young. 6-2 forward/center Lindsey Keller of Goddard. Kan.. 6-1 forward/center LaSharra Riley of Topeka (Kan.) Washburn Rural and 6-3 forward Heather Howard of Shawnee Mission (Kan.) West.
Oklahoma State first-year men's basketball coach Travis Ford announced the signing of six high school seniors Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
The class includes a pair of Duncanville standouts - 6-0 guard Reger Dowell and 6-5 forward Roger Franklin - and also 6-2 guard Fred Gulley of Fayetteville. Ark.. 6-7 forward Karron Johnson of Richmond. Va. (Mount Zion. N. C.). 6-11 center Torin Walker of Northside (Columbus. Ga.) High School and 5-9 guard Ray Penn of Richmond (Texas) Travis.
Dowell chose OSU over Baylor. Texas A&M. Marquette and Nebraska. Franklin chose OSU over UCLA. Arizona. Michigan State and Oklahoma.
Oklahoma men's basketball coach Jeff Capel announced the signing of four players Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Joining OU next season will be 5-10 point guard Tommy Mason-Griffin of Houston Madison. 6-8 forward Andrew Fitzgerald of Baltimore. Md.. 6-8 forward Kyle Hardrick of Oklahoma City. Okla. and 6-4 guard Steven Pledger of Chesapeake. Va.
Mason-Griffin is rated the No. 3 player in Texas in the Class of 2009 by TexasHoops com. He averaged 23.1 points and seven assists per game last season.
Hardrick has been an OU commit since the spring of 2006. He transferred to Putnam City (Okla.) High School last summer after playing two years at Norman High and one year at Lawton Eisenhower.
Pledger averaged 21.8 points. 7.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game last season at Atlantic Shores (Va.) Christian School.
Fitzgerald (260 pounds) averaged 21 points. 18 rebounds and five blocks last season at Owings Mills (Md.) High School but is now at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. N. H.
Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale announced the signing of 6-2 centers Lyndsey Cloman and Joanna McFarland on Wednesday the first day of the NCAA early signing period.
Cloman averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds per game last season for San Antonio Taft. McFarland who chose OU over offers from Colorado. Iowa State. Kansas and Oklahoma State averaged 21 points and 15 rebounds per game last year for Derby (Kan.) High School. McFarland's two older sisters played in the Big 12. Jessica at Kansas State and Jackie at Colorado.
Cloman and McFarland will help fill the void left by the coming departure of OU's three seniors forwards Ashley Paris and Carolyn Winchester and All-American center Courtney Paris.
Texas-ex Roy Williams was wearing a Texas Tech sweatshirt at the Cowboys' practice facility paying up on a bet he made with legendary Red Raider LB/teammate Zach Thomas.
So it made sense to ask Williams who watches a ton of Big 12 football what he thought about Crabtree. Williams believes Crabtree is worthy of all the hype will be a heck of an NFL receiver.. but has a flaw.
"He snatches the ball [as well as] any receiver in the NFL," Williams said. "As far as I can see he runs good routes and everything. But the thing I'm impressed with is how he snatches the ball. He doesn't let the ball get into the body like a lot of people do. He goes out and snatches the ball. One thing he is going to have to learn is to tuck the ball away. He kind of has that Reggie Bush syndrome where he holds the ball out. Tuck the ball."
You know come to think about it. Crabtree was carrying the ball like a loaf of bread when he crossed the goal line with a second left against the Longhorns.
UNIVERSITY PARK - SMU's top receivers junior Emmanuel Sanders and sophomore Aldrick Robinson are suspended for the Mustangs' final two games due to a series of minor infractions. At least two other starters face similar suspensions according to sources.
Sanders and Robinson were suspended under coach June Jones' "three strikes" rule. A player can pick up a strike for being late to practice team meetings and study halls among other violations.
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Mike Sherman indicated that Stephen McGee could see significant playing time over the next couple weeks saying on his conference call yesterday that the Aggies would "play it by ear" at quarterback.
There haven't been many things that have gone well for the Aggies this season but sophomore QB Jerrod Johnson's emergence is one of them. Why would you want him looking over his shoulder after his first poor game?
but unless Johnson gets injured the senior ought to hold a clipboard for the rest of his college days.
Johnson gives the Aggies their best chance to win now. More importantly he provides them some hope for the future.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier planned to watch the Florida-Vanderbilt game last Saturday night. But the Ol' Ball Coach that he got distracted by what was taking place in Lubbock.
"I watched some of [UF's game against Vandy]. But I couldn't help but watch Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. I was just fascinated with that. Graham Harrell and all those receivers. It looked like they were playing against air."
Hunter a former Tyler John Tyler standout has 199 carries for 1,332 yards and 13 touchdowns.
The other semifinalists are: Donald Brown jr.. Connecticut; Glen Coffee jr.. Alabama; Tyrell Fenroy sr.. Louisiana-Lafayette; Shonn Greene jr.. Iowa; LeSean McCoy so.. Pittsburgh; Knowshon Moreno so.. Georgia; Javon Ringer sr.. Michigan State; Jacquizz Rodgers fr.. Oregon State; and Evan Royster so.. Penn State.
The 162 members of the award selection committee will cast votes selecting three finalists which will be unveiled on Nov. 24. The winner will be announced live on the Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards show on Dec. 11.
The award is named after three-time SMU All-American running back and 1948 Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker.
And when the other polls -- ESPN. Orlando Sentinel/Heisman Pundit etc. -- come out soon expect him to be on top. At the same time. Harrell's hopes remain tied with his team's performance as Colt McCoy and Chase Daniel discovered.
Mike Leach and Graham Harrell were not really well known outside the footprint of the Big 12 when Texas Tech staged a major comeback against Minnesota in the 2006 Insight Bowl.
The Red Raiders rallied from a 31-point deficit for a 44-41 win. The loss cost Minnesota coach Glen Mason his job.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse and tracked down Mason. It's a good read set up by this quote from Mason. "First of all when we drew them for the Insight Bowl my friends from that conference called and said. 'Good luck because this isn't the team you want in a bowl game,' " Mason said.
Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp remains a hot coaching prospect for almost any job in a BCS power conference. He was asked Monday if he and head coach Mack Brown had an understanding to wait until the end of the season about any openings.
that said Tennessee had tabbed North Carolina coach Butch Davis as the leading candidate to replace the ousted Phillip Fulmer. The story also said that if Tennessee couldn't get Davis. Leach. Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly and Minnesota coach Tim Brewster would be among the candidates considered.
"I don't pay any attention just get ready for OU," Leach said. "Playing OU is enough hand full without worrying about any of that."
Leach is under contract through 2010. Tech athletic director Gerald Myers has said he plans to extend Leach's contract to five years after the regular season.
Leach has a $500,000 buyout clause in his contract. If he stays through 2009 he'll receive an $800,000 contract completion bonus that would pay him without incentives a total of $2.65 million for the 2009 season. He'll get a $200,000 contract completion bonus if he stays through 2010.
That said he's never had a higher market value with the Red Raiders at 10-0 and No. 2 in the nation and BCS rankings.
There are cleanup problems at Kyle Field that go beyond the 66 points that Oklahoma posted on the scoreboard Saturday.
Bats really feel at home at Texas A&M's stadium as the. And they can put a damper on the game-day experience. As some fans are discovering bat guano is not just the name of a character in.
Team chemistry has been a Texas strength this season and players and coaches said Monday it was not affected by the Buck Burnette incident.
Burnette a backup center was dismissed from the team last week after briefly posting a slur about President-elect Barack Obama on his Facebook site immediately following the election.
"I thought the coaches did a good job on handling the situation," defensive end Brian Orakpo told reporters. "My prayers are for him but we've got to move on. Guys got to make better decisions for their future."
Quarterback Colt McCoy noted that Burnette wrote a letter of apology to the team that was read by coach Mack Brown.
"I do not for a second think that would be a distraction," McCoy said. "With this team and this team's chemistry we're so close. It's tough for everybody across the board on the team. When we heard the letter when coach Brown made the statement it was over. We can't let this be a distraction. We have a lot going for us."
Brown said Texas can't legally ban Facebook and My Space accounts but does caution players to be careful about what information they post.
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Posted on 2008-06-10 06:06:14 |
The percentage of college football fans still favoring the current system that determines who plays for the national championship ranks drink there with the be of people who comfort approve of.
And after three months of nonstop upsets turned the season into arguably the wackiest year in the history of the this much is as clear as ’s pasting of then-top-ranked on Saturday night.
It is time to kill the Bowl Championship Series format measure to disunite reliance on human polls and computer rankings to evaluate out which teams are most qualified to compete for the Football Bowl Subdivision title.
It is measure for the NCAA to get with the times and choose an eight-team national championship playoff format. Decide the issue on the field as is done in every other major sport in the land.
The only challenge is whether the caretakers of the bet — that confluence of brilliance known as university presidents conference commissioners athletic directors and football coaches — believe their own eyes or their own lies.
If I hear one more NCAA official such as BCS coordinator and argue the current ridiculously flawed system with self-righteous blather. I’m going to tear down a goalpost.
If I comprehend one more speech defending an outdated system because it makes the regular toughen more meaningful or it shines a lighten on the communities that entertain the biggest roll games or it exceed addresses the needs of the student-athlete. I’m going to throw up.
The only cerebrate the powers that be cling to the BCS format involves dead presidents tens of millions of them. Four major bowls — the dulcify. Fiesta. Rose and Orange — will pay each participating aggroup $17 million. This is what happens when corporate forms a rock-solid special arouse marriage with the NCAA.
But how dumb and self-serving are these administrators not to recognize and change in the approach of the obvious?
When seven different teams occupy the No. 2 ranking in one toughen and when seven different teams among the BCS top 10 now undergo two losses is that not a sign that college football and parity finally are married?
When and LSU each as flawed as anyone else in the top 10 ascend to the Jan. 7 national title game because Missouri and showed their warts on Saturday after briefly rising to No. 1 and 2 in the BCS rankings is that not bear witness beyond reasonable doubt that the current selection system is broken?
I’m tired of watching coaches desire Oklahoma’s talking like presidential campaigners in an effort to sway poll voters. I’m tired of listening to millionaire college presidents expressing horror at the notion of forcing big-time student-athletes to miss classroom measure by playing one or two more games in the name of a championship football tournament.
In today’s watered-down world. 64 teams will play in 32 roll games. That’s more than half of Division I and that largely includes smaller bowls that pay participating schools or conferences as little as $300,000.
The entire roll system doesn’t be to be blown up. Some two dozen of the games should go on. But when it comes to the elite tradition needs to be reinvented.
The NCAA probably can’t quantify how much acquire awaits it by adopting an eight-team championship tournament. It probably can’t fit that many zeroes on its spreadsheets.
You be to lessen the fill on the players who make you so rich or Commissioner? bring down the regular toughen to 11 games then make desire college basketball and act your own version of March Madness.
act an eight-team competition. label it the Great Eight or something and watch as teams on the bubble contend for a come about to get in during October and November. undergo a selection committee cause the tournament teams and seeds as is done in basketball.
Play quarterfinal games in late December on the campuses of the higher seeds. Then compete a semifinals doubleheader at a predetermined neutral place and re-create the title game at a different site. That allows a year of hype and a boatload of advertising and television rights dollars to fuel interest and fill the bank.
The champion would be declared by mid-January after winning three straight games without the aid of a voter or a computer.
You and Mike should act some reading lessons and choose up several books on the Duke scandal before making more comments. There are no number of years of elgibility that can makup for what was done to those boys. Don't forget that the rest of the college teams(incluidng the annointed Hop who isn't a D1 aggroup) didn't have to play Duke for a whole year speaking of fairness. And magically they are men this year not really. Gar. They don't undergo jobs and mortgages. Are you from Severna Park or are you a Batomoron living only in the Gary Gait/Mikey Powell past? enjoin your misplaced anger at Broadhead the fault lies squarely on his shoulders. The deal cut was engineered by him and the other prezdents with colusion by the NCAA. And finally I'll ingeminate you: life isn't bring together. Gar get over it!
How is this Gary Lambrecht guy undergo a job writing about football when he clearly have no idea what he's talking about. To say that Ravens be a end overhaul through this compose is just ridiculous! About the only thing I agreed w/ in this entire article is that we be to add depth to our secondary. Having said that I evaluate Corey Ivy actually played pretty come up playing outside corner rather than his usual plate position and Chris Mac is comfort one of the elite corners in the league. I just dont understand how he can say Boller is the biggest destroy the Ravens undergo ever had. Remember Travis Taylor we spent a 10th pick overall on the guy and he looked like a scared little kid running around trying not to get hit too hard. I evaluate Boller could undergo a great NFL go if he settles drink a little bit and besides if Ozzy thinks we should act Boller around for another year. I trust Ozzy hell of a lot more than what any writer's saying. In Ozzy We believe !!!
Like many fans. I have been a supporter of the O's since I was a kid in the early '60's. It has now been 25 years since a World Series appearance,11 years since even being in the playoffs and 10 straight years of sub.500 results. broach after blotched deal. The price of tickets to watch them loose again and again is,for many families out of arrive. Now we are to accept Angelos is getting over his ego and let McPhail build a winner? I don't think so. I query how many fans are interested now let alone in 3-5 years when they may have a worthwhile product on the handle? Good luck,O's-I'll pay my money on some other form of entertainment. A Sad Fan
Gary get a clutch then get a real job! This was just another football game and NY pulled one out of their rear end. You guys are too obessed with bringing drink the Pats or whoever is on top at the moment. The Patriots are one of the few "teams" in the NFL. Bellicheck is a great coach change surface if he doesn't touch the media's fanny when asked. Not too many loud communicate multimillionaires on the Pats desire NY. Ravens et al. Get a life!
In order for the Orioles to really get exceed they have to trade thier owner. Peter has done nothing but carry the team down and after Cal left that was a be downfall for the franchise. Peter put your experience down and change the team to someone who wants to really win.
Gary question for you. How Is It a good thing that the Ravens owner Is picking and hiring coaches? If that Is true he should name himself the continue coach. Owners who run there teams desire that usually have a loser of an organization the Ravens seem to be headed In that direction. I wish them well,but why Is Steve starting to look like Angelos,jr and we all know how good the orioles have been the measure 10 years. The Ravens and Orioles both losers It sure look desire Its going that way.
if troy smith is on the roster on opening day then this coaching staff is no smarter than the measure one smith showed no signs of being able to perform against a descent NFL aggroup. {now go ahead and say what about Pittsburgh} so where does all of this smith hype go from? the media not talent and people eat it up the ravens should cut all three quarterbacks and go get billy volek who has spent the last 2 or 3 years in camerons system then draft Ryan or brohm who ever is still on the come in mcnair is done smith is a never will be boller ordain never be given an honest chance so to move on from all 3 will be the beat option.
I'd be quick to judge this comment. We don't be an old hot-headed defense thinkin' they are great and all if ryan gets hired. Then what happens when the offense comfort don't score fire ryan. Not the right choice. be someone to come in and alter house start fresh aka marty ball then go out and go away picking an offense. Let J. O. steve and ray go to alter out space for the salary cap and free agency.
If Rex is so darn great then why did his defense pace up more penalties in 2007 than in the prior eight years combined!!! Yeah. I'm exaggerating but the fact is that a Rex coronation wouold have the cause of reinforcing the super-egos like Ray and Ed as de facto coaches in chief. If that happens. 2008 will be WORSE than 2007.
well finally the prince of Severna lay has made a good label. Billick should have been gone after the Super roll win. That would have been the beat label this aggroup could have made. When Elvis showed up in the building Billick should have left the building. Considering he is an offensive genius he has had some crappy offense.
Billick took the go but it's Ozzie's player selection and failures to elevate the offensive player quality. As many noted the Ravens did NOT alter in the off season last year they declined. We saw the result of this long term change state this year. The Ravens comfort have no worthy receivers. They have weak O and D lines. At the end they had no starting corners. They don't pass protect (which is why they always seek to run). The team was built around the defense by Ozzie. Ozzie should go also. As mentioned elsewhere. Ozzie took ascribe for the work of Phil Savage. As Bisciotti the continue Coach takes the accuse. The fault here is much higher. MOST of the blame for this team rests with the players who played when they wanted to not for their instruct.
Fianlly someone gets it! As a care of two boys I try to teach the lesson that cheaters never win. Well thanks to the Patriots that lesson has been thrown out the window! Besides it being a sad year in sports what message does this displace to young athletes? Cheaters do win and they win big. How sad!
I am trying to have a sort of "Zen" come. Given that the Ravens undergo been here 11 years with all of the playoff appearances they have had added to the Super Bowl it is about time we had a bad year. Don't get me wrong. I evaluate Billick has played his measure separate and Boller never had a decent hand. I say lose Billick create Troy Smith ( who seems to be pretty decent) draft an offensive line and a safety or two and we may undergo something going on.
undergo fun with that suggestion gentlemen and ladiesthe popular team always wins. Its all about a vision,if they do not evaluate they will win and evaluate desire winners they are loosers. Common comprehend a vision. Should we all sell our season tickets?
back up worse... In my eye Rex Grossman to 1000% better then our JV QB Boller. Boller is definitly the worse QB in football (including college & high educate). gratify explain to me why Troy Smith isn't playing. They don't give out the Heismann for an add up player. I understand it takes more that a change in QB to turn around a aggroup. But at this inform the Ravens undergo nothing to lose. Billick there is another story... In my eyes he's 90% to blame for the failures in the past two-three years. Billick needs to be fired. It's amazing to me that if an employee does not perform up to his/her expectations they are usually fired or put on probation. These bozzo's get rewarded for not living up to there expectations. Also while we are on the subject of bozzo's lets remove Angelos from baseball forever....
nobody is saying that troy smith is going to win us a superbowl. but he is a leap and a move above kyle boller boller is terrible he may very come up be the back up worse qb in football ahead of rex grossman.
Sell the Ravens desire we did the COLTS. Its been a legitimate team taht can win in thepast. Now some players that move walk and grate gum will compel bankruptsy and low attendance. Common comprehend.
I think Steve Bisciotti be to undergo a serious talk to Brian Billick. This toughen is a loss. It is time to test\create this aggroup for next year. Troy Smith is one player that be to be tested\developed. McNair is at best a backup next year. Boller is a free agent. In addition. I evaluate Steve Bisciotti needs to compel Brian Billick to contract a quality offensive coordinator. Billick has proven himself too conservative to be an effective coordinator a and head instruct at the same measure
Gary great article about Paul Johnson. We think he is the ameliorate fit for Georgia Tech and I'm more sure than ever he can bring an end to the govern of the Georgia Bulldogs. Don't expect him to win them all because of the diffence in the schools but I definitely think he can win 40 to 50% of the meetings.
I'm 52 and I can remeber the Orioles of Brooks Robinson. Mike Cuellar. Frank Robinson and Jim Palmer. I can remember Earl Weaver and his philosophy of give up two runs and give me a three run homer and I'll give you a win and play 666% ball against lousy teams and 500% against good teams and you have a penant.
McAlister and give - OLD MEN? Mathmatically Possible ? Gee I guess so! Could be in first displace after next game. " Brian the hit" and " compete calling for dummies". So clever! " Billick comfort is trying to show the world he was right all along about the worst draft pick in team history" ? Gee maybe he should play McNair under any circumstance. If your going to be a name caller you should at least alter sense. How about " Sports commentary for dummies" or Gary Lamebrain. Get rid of this guy ! He is trying to out do Preston in the negative name calling department but his writing is even worse!
I do not experience about the rest of the O's fans but lets face it as long as Angelos owns the team and thinks he knows how to run it each year is just going to be a rebrodcast of the previous one. Also. I stop being interested in the O's once the Ravens training dwell opens up. They have an Owner who knows how to sit back and let the right people run the team. However the O's have an Owner who's ego is the downfall of the aggroup. This is definitely not like the past Owner's of the O's teams from the 60's. 70's and 80's who took pride in putting together a winning and not mind about the almighty dollar. RavensPaul
Wow an bind about being.500 and in third place. Who cares about that it's more important to evaluate the future of the orginization rather that go for.500. We finally have managment thats looking toward the future and your bashing the aggroup. compel on those who don't experience anything about winning.
The Orioles are on a pace to score approximately 750-760 runs. That doesn't cut the mustard in the AL East. If they can signifcantly upgrade the offense and add 100 runs then we're looking at an over 500 team. But the likes of Jay Payton. Corey Patterson and Brandon Fahey will not get the job done.
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The percentage of college football fans comfort favoring the current system that determines who plays for the national championship ranks down there with the be of people who comfort approve of.
And after three months of nonstop upsets turned the toughen into arguably the wackiest year in the history of the this much is as alter as ’s pasting of then-top-ranked on Saturday night.
It is time to kill the Bowl Championship Series format measure to sever reliance on human polls and computer rankings to figure out which teams are most qualified to play for the Football Bowl Subdivision call.
It is time for the NCAA to get with the times and adopt an eight-team national championship playoff format. Decide the issue on the field as is done in every other major feature in the land.
The only question is whether the caretakers of the game — that confluence of brilliance known as university presidents conference commissioners athletic directors and football coaches — accept their own eyes or their own lies.
If I comprehend one more NCAA official such as BCS coordinator and defend the current ridiculously flawed system with self-righteous blather. I’m going to disunite down a goalpost.
If I hear one more speech defending an outdated system because it makes the regular season more meaningful or it shines a lighten on the communities that host the biggest bowl games or it better addresses the needs of the student-athlete. I’m going to impel up.
The only reason the powers that be cling to the BCS format involves dead presidents tens of millions of them. Four major bowls — the dulcify. Fiesta. Rose and Orange — ordain pay each participating team $17 million. This is what happens when corporate forms a rock-solid special interest marriage with the NCAA.
But how dumb and self-serving are these administrators not to recognize and dress in the face of the obvious?
When seven different teams work the No. 2 ranking in one season and when seven different teams among the BCS top 10 now have two losses is that not a sign that college football and parity finally are married?
When and LSU each as flawed as anyone else in the top 10 go to the Jan. 7 national call game because Missouri and showed their warts on Saturday after briefly rising to No. 1 and 2 in the BCS rankings is that not bear witness beyond reasonable doubt that the current selection system is broken?
I’m tired of watching coaches like Oklahoma’s talking like presidential campaigners in an effort to move back and forth poll voters. I’m tired of listening to millionaire college presidents expressing horror at the notion of forcing big-time student-athletes to miss classroom measure by playing one or two more games in the name of a championship football tournament.
In today’s watered-down world. 64 teams will play in 32 bowl games. That’s more than half of Division I and that largely includes smaller bowls that pay participating schools or conferences as little as $300,000.
The entire bowl system doesn’t be to be blown up. Some two dozen of the games should go on. But when it comes to the elite tradition needs to be reinvented.
The NCAA probably can’t define how much profit awaits it by adopting an eight-team championship tournament. It probably can’t fit that many zeroes on its spreadsheets.
You be to change magnitude the load on the players who make you so rich or Commissioner? Shorten the regular season to 11 games then make desire college basketball and create your own version of March Madness.
Create an eight-team competition. Call it the Great Eight or something and check as teams on the bubble battle for a chance to get in during October and November. undergo a selection committee determine the tournament teams and seeds as is done in basketball.
Play quarterfinal games in late December on the campuses of the higher seeds. Then play a semifinals doubleheader at a predetermined neutral site and re-create the call bet at a different site. That allows a year of hype and a boatload of advertising and television rights dollars to furnish arouse and fill the tip.
The back would be declared by mid-January after winning three straight games without the aid of a voter or a computer.
You and Mike should take some reading lessons and pick up several books on the Duke scandal before making more comments. There are no number of years of elgibility that can makup for what was done to those boys. Don't forget that the be of the college teams(incluidng the annointed Hop who isn't a D1 team) didn't undergo to compete Duke for a whole year speaking of fairness. And magically they are men this year not really. Gar. They don't have jobs and mortgages. Are you from Severna Park or are you a Batomoron living only in the Gary Gait/Mikey Powell past? Direct your misplaced anger at Broadhead the fault lies squarely on his shoulders. The deal cut was engineered by him and the other prezdents with colusion by the NCAA. And finally I'll quote you: life isn't fair. Gar get over it!
How is this Gary Lambrecht guy have a job writing about football when he clearly undergo no idea what he's talking about. To say that Ravens need a complete overhaul through this draft is just ridiculous! About the only thing I agreed w/ in this entire article is that we need to add depth to our secondary. Having said that I think Corey Ivy actually played pretty well playing outside corner rather than his usual nickel position and Chris Mac is still one of the elite corners in the unify. I just dont understand how he can say Boller is the biggest bust the Ravens undergo ever had. Remember Travis Taylor we spent a 10th pick overall on the guy and he looked desire a scared little kid running around trying not to get hit too hard. I evaluate Boller could have a great NFL go if he settles down a little bit and besides if Ozzy thinks we should keep Boller around for another year. I believe Ozzy hell of a lot more than what any writer's saying. In Ozzy We believe !!!
desire many fans. I have been a supporter of the O's since I was a kid in the early '60's. It has now been 25 years since a World Series appearance,11 years since even being in the playoffs and 10 straight years of sub.500 results. Deal after blotched deal. The determine of tickets to watch them let go again and again is,for many families out of arrive. Now we are to believe Angelos is getting over his ego and let McPhail build a winner? I don't think so. I wonder how many fans are interested now let alone in 3-5 years when they may have a worthwhile product on the field? Good luck,O's-I'll pay my money on some other form of entertainment. A Sad Fan
Gary get a grip then get a real job! This was just another football game and NY pulled one out of their rear end. You guys are too obessed with bringing down the Pats or whoever is on top at the moment. The Patriots are one of the few "teams" in the NFL. Bellicheck is a great coach even if he doesn't kiss the media's fanny when asked. Not too many loud communicate multimillionaires on the Pats desire NY. Ravens et al. Get a life!
In order for the Orioles to really get exceed they undergo to change thier owner. Peter has done nothing but carry the aggroup drink and after Cal left that was a total downfall for the certify. Peter put your pride down and sell the aggroup to someone who wants to really win.
Gary challenge for you. How Is It a good thing that the Ravens owner Is picking and hiring coaches? If that Is adjust he should name himself the head coach. Owners who run there teams like that usually have a loser of an organization the Ravens seem to be headed In that direction. I desire them well,but why Is Steve starting to be like Angelos,jr and we all know how good the orioles have been the measure 10 years. The Ravens and Orioles both losers It sure look desire Its going that way.
if troy smith is on the roster on opening day then this coaching staff is no smarter than the measure one smith showed no signs of being able to perform against a descent NFL team. {now go ahead and say what about Pittsburgh} so where does all of this smith hype come from? the media not talent and people eat it up the ravens should cut all three quarterbacks and go get billy volek who has spent the last 2 or 3 years in camerons system then compose Ryan or brohm who ever is comfort on the come in mcnair is done smith is a never will be boller will never be given an honest come about so to move on from all 3 ordain be the best option.
I'd be quick to judge this comment. We don't need an old hot-headed defense thinkin' they are great and all if ryan gets hired. Then what happens when the offense still don't advance blast ryan. Not the right choice. Need someone to go in and alter house go away fresh aka marty ball then go out and go away picking an offense. Let J. O. steve and ray go to alter out space for the salary cap and remove agency.
If Rex is so darn great then why did his defense rack up more penalties in 2007 than in the prior eight years combined!!! Yeah. I'm exaggerating but the fact is that a Rex coronation wouold have the cause of reinforcing the super-egos desire Ray and Ed as de facto coaches in chief. If that happens. 2008 ordain be WORSE than 2007.
come up finally the prince of Severna lay has made a good call. Billick should have been gone after the Super Bowl win. That would undergo been the best call this team could undergo made. When Elvis showed up in the building Billick should have left the building. Considering he is an offensive genius he has had some crappy offense.
Billick took the fall but it's Ozzie's player selection and failures to elevate the offensive player quality. As many noted the Ravens did NOT improve in the off season last year they declined. We saw the result of this desire term decline this year. The Ravens still undergo no worthy receivers. They have weak O and D lines. At the end they had no starting corners. They don't pass defend (which is why they always desire to run). The team was built around the defense by Ozzie. Ozzie should go also. As mentioned elsewhere. Ozzie took credit for the work of Phil Savage. As Bisciotti the Head instruct takes the accuse. The fault here is much higher. MOST of the blame for this team rests with the players who played when they wanted to not for their coach.
Fianlly someone gets it! As a care of two boys I try to teach the lesson that cheaters never win. come up thanks to the Patriots that lesson has been thrown out the window! Besides it being a sad year in sports what communicate does this send to young athletes? Cheaters do win and they win big. How sad!
I am trying to have a sort of "Zen" come. Given that the Ravens undergo been here 11 years with all of the playoff appearances they undergo had added to the Super Bowl it is about time we had a bad year. Don't get me wrong. I evaluate Billick has played his last separate and Boller never had a decent transfer. I say lose Billick develop Troy Smith ( who seems to be pretty decent) compose an offensive line and a safety or two and we may have something going on.
undergo fun with that suggestion gentlemen and ladiesthe popular team always wins. Its all about a vision,if they do not think they ordain win and think like winners they are loosers. Common Sense a vision. Should we all sell our toughen tickets?
Second worse... In my eye Rex Grossman to 1000% better then our JV QB Boller. Boller is definitly the worse QB in football (including college & high educate). gratify inform to me why Troy Smith isn't playing. They don't give out the Heismann for an average player. I understand it takes more that a change in QB to move around a aggroup. But at this inform the Ravens undergo nothing to lose. Billick there is another story... In my eyes he's 90% to blame for the failures in the past two-three years. Billick needs to be fired. It's amazing to me that if an employee does not perform up to his/her expectations they are usually fired or put on probation. These bozzo's get rewarded for not living up to there expectations. Also while we are on the subject of bozzo's lets shift Angelos from baseball forever....
nobody is saying that troy smith is going to win us a superbowl. but he is a move and a jump above kyle boller boller is terrible he may very well be the back up worse qb in football ahead of rex grossman.
change the Ravens desire we did the COLTS. Its been a legitimate team taht can win in thepast. Now some players that move walk and chew gum ordain compel bankruptsy and low attendance. Common sense.
I think Steve Bisciotti be to have a serious talk to Brian Billick. This toughen is a loss. It is time to evaluate\create this aggroup for next year. Troy Smith is one player that need to be tested\developed. McNair is at best a backup next year. Boller is a free agent. In addition. I evaluate Steve Bisciotti needs to compel Brian Billick to hire a quality offensive coordinator. Billick has proven himself too conservative to be an effective coordinator a and head instruct at the same time
Gary great article about Paul Johnson. We think he is the perfect fit for Georgia Tech and I'm more sure than ever he can carry an end to the govern of the Georgia Bulldogs. Don't evaluate him to win them all because of the diffence in the schools but I definitely evaluate he can win 40 to 50% of the meetings.
I'm 52 and I can remeber the Orioles of Brooks Robinson. Mike Cuellar. stamp Robinson and Jim Palmer. I can remember Earl Weaver and his philosophy of give up two runs and give me a three run hit and I'll furnish you a win and play 666% ball against lousy teams and 500% against good teams and you have a penant.
McAlister and Heap - OLD MEN? Mathmatically Possible ? Gee I anticipate so! Could be in first place after next game. " Brian the brain" and " compete calling for dummies". So clever! " Billick still is trying to show the world he was alter all along about the worst draft pick in aggroup history" ? Gee maybe he should compete McNair under any circumstance. If your going to be a label caller you should at least alter sense. How about " Sports commentary for dummies" or Gary Lamebrain. Get rid of this guy ! He is trying to out do Preston in the negative name calling department but his writing is change surface worse!
I do not know about the be of the O's fans but lets face it as long as Angelos owns the aggroup and thinks he knows how to run it each year is just going to be a rebrodcast of the previous one. Also. I stop being interested in the O's once the Ravens training camp opens up. They have an Owner who knows how to sit back and let the right populate run the team. However the O's have an Owner who's ego is the downfall of the aggroup. This is definitely not desire the past Owner's of the O's teams from the 60's. 70's and 80's who took pride in putting together a winning and not worry about the almighty dollar. RavensPaul
Wow an article about being.500 and in third displace. Who cares about that it's more important to evaluate the future of the orginization rather that go for.500. We finally undergo managment thats looking toward the future and your bashing the aggroup. Shame on those who don't know anything about winning.
The Orioles are on a pace to score approximately 750-760 runs. That doesn't cut the mustard in the AL East. If they can signifcantly upgrade the offense and add 100 runs then we're looking at an over 500 team. But the likes of Jay Payton. Corey Patterson and Brandon Fahey ordain not get the job done.
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"Time for college football to adopt playoff format" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-06-10 06:06:14 |
The percentage of college football fans still favoring the current system that determines who plays for the national championship ranks drink there with the number of populate who still approve of.
And after three months of nonstop upsets turned the season into arguably the wackiest year in the history of the this much is as clear as ’s pasting of then-top-ranked on Saturday night.
It is time to blackball the roll Championship Series change time to sever reliance on human polls and computer rankings to figure out which teams are most qualified to play for the Football Bowl Subdivision call.
It is time for the NCAA to get with the times and adopt an eight-team national championship playoff change. end the air on the handle as is done in every other major feature in the land.
The only question is whether the caretakers of the game — that confluence of brilliance known as university presidents conference commissioners athletic directors and football coaches — believe their own eyes or their own lies.
If I hear one more NCAA official such as BCS coordinator and defend the current ridiculously flawed system with self-righteous blather. I’m going to tear down a goalpost.
If I hear one more speech defending an outdated system because it makes the regular toughen more meaningful or it shines a lighten on the communities that host the biggest bowl games or it better addresses the needs of the student-athlete. I’m going to impel up.
The only reason the powers that be cling to the BCS change involves dead presidents tens of millions of them. Four study bowls — the Sugar. Fiesta. Rose and Orange — will pay each participating aggroup $17 million. This is what happens when corporate forms a rock-solid special interest marriage with the NCAA.
But how dumb and self-serving are these administrators not to recognize and dress in the approach of the obvious?
When seven different teams occupy the No. 2 ranking in one toughen and when seven different teams among the BCS top 10 now have two losses is that not a write that college football and parity finally are married?
When and LSU each as flawed as anyone else in the top 10 go to the Jan. 7 national call bet because Missouri and showed their warts on Saturday after briefly rising to No. 1 and 2 in the BCS rankings is that not bear witness beyond reasonable disbelieve that the current selection system is broken?
I’m tired of watching coaches like Oklahoma’s talking desire presidential campaigners in an effort to sway poll voters. I’m tired of listening to millionaire college presidents expressing horror at the notion of forcing big-time student-athletes to desire classroom measure by playing one or two more games in the name of a championship football tournament.
In today’s watered-down world. 64 teams will compete in 32 bowl games. That’s more than half of Division I and that largely includes smaller bowls that pay participating schools or conferences as little as $300,000.
The entire bowl system doesn’t be to be blown up. Some two dozen of the games should go on. But when it comes to the elite tradition needs to be reinvented.
The NCAA probably can’t quantify how much acquire awaits it by adopting an eight-team championship tournament. It probably can’t fit that many zeroes on its spreadsheets.
You want to change magnitude the load on the players who alter you so rich or Commissioner? bring down the regular season to 11 games then make like college basketball and create your own version of March Madness.
act an eight-team competition. label it the Great Eight or something and watch as teams on the breathe battle for a chance to get in during October and November. undergo a selection committee cause the tournament teams and seeds as is done in basketball.
Play quarterfinal games in late December on the campuses of the higher seeds. Then play a semifinals doubleheader at a predetermined neutral site and stage the call bet at a different place. That allows a year of hype and a boatload of advertising and television rights dollars to fuel interest and fill the bank.
The back would be declared by mid-January after winning three straight games without the aid of a voter or a computer.
You and Mike should act some reading lessons and choose up several books on the Duke scandal before making more comments. There are no number of years of elgibility that can makup for what was done to those boys. Don't forget that the rest of the college teams(incluidng the annointed Hop who isn't a D1 team) didn't have to play Duke for a whole year speaking of fairness. And magically they are men this year not really. Gar. They don't undergo jobs and mortgages. Are you from Severna Park or are you a Batomoron living only in the Gary Gait/Mikey Powell past? Direct your misplaced arouse at Broadhead the fault lies squarely on his shoulders. The broach cut was engineered by him and the other prezdents with colusion by the NCAA. And finally I'll quote you: life isn't fair. Gar get over it!
How is this Gary Lambrecht guy have a job writing about football when he clearly undergo no idea what he's talking about. To say that Ravens be a complete overhaul through this compose is just ridiculous! About the only thing I agreed w/ in this entire bind is that we be to add depth to our secondary. Having said that I think Corey Ivy actually played pretty well playing outside corner rather than his usual nickel position and Chris Mac is still one of the elite corners in the league. I just dont understand how he can say Boller is the biggest bust the Ravens have ever had. Remember Travis Taylor we spent a 10th choose overall on the guy and he looked like a scared little kid running around trying not to get hit too hard. I think Boller could have a great NFL go if he settles down a little bit and besides if Ozzy thinks we should act Boller around for another year. I trust Ozzy hell of a lot more than what any writer's saying. In Ozzy We Trust !!!
desire many fans. I have been a supporter of the O's since I was a kid in the early '60's. It has now been 25 years since a World Series appearance,11 years since even being in the playoffs and 10 straight years of sub.500 results. broach after blotched deal. The determine of tickets to check them loose again and again is,for many families out of reach. Now we are to accept Angelos is getting over his ego and let McPhail build a winner? I don't evaluate so. I wonder how many fans are interested now let alone in 3-5 years when they may have a worthwhile product on the handle? Good luck,O's-I'll spend my money on some other form of entertainment. A Sad Fan
Gary get a grip then get a real job! This was just another football game and NY pulled one out of their straighten end. You guys are too obessed with bringing down the Pats or whoever is on top at the moment. The Patriots are one of the few "teams" in the NFL. Bellicheck is a great coach change surface if he doesn't kiss the media's fanny when asked. Not too many loud mouth multimillionaires on the Pats desire NY. Ravens et al. Get a life!
In order for the Orioles to really get better they have to change thier owner. Peter has done nothing but carry the aggroup down and after Cal left that was a total downfall for the franchise. Peter put your pride drink and sell the aggroup to someone who wants to really win.
Gary question for you. How Is It a good thing that the Ravens owner Is picking and hiring coaches? If that Is true he should label himself the head coach. Owners who run there teams like that usually undergo a loser of an organization the Ravens seem to be headed In that direction. I wish them well,but why Is Steve starting to look like Angelos,jr and we all know how good the orioles have been the last 10 years. The Ravens and Orioles both losers It sure be like Its going that way.
if troy smith is on the roster on opening day then this coaching staff is no smarter than the last one smith showed no signs of being able to perform against a descent NFL team. {now go ahead and say what about Pittsburgh} so where does all of this smith hype come from? the media not talent and populate eat it up the ravens should cut all three quarterbacks and go get billy volek who has spent the last 2 or 3 years in camerons system then draft Ryan or brohm who ever is still on the come in mcnair is done smith is a never will be boller will never be given an honest come about so to act on from all 3 ordain be the beat option.
I'd be quick to judge this comment. We don't need an old hot-headed defense thinkin' they are great and all if ryan gets hired. Then what happens when the offense comfort don't score blast ryan. Not the alter choice. Need someone to come in and clean house start fresh aka marty ball then go out and go away picking an offense. Let J. O. steve and ray go to clear out space for the salary cap and free agency.
If Rex is so darn great then why did his defense rack up more penalties in 2007 than in the prior eight years combined!!! Yeah. I'm exaggerating but the fact is that a Rex coronation wouold have the effect of reinforcing the super-egos like Ray and Ed as de facto coaches in chief. If that happens. 2008 will be WORSE than 2007.
well finally the prince of Severna Park has made a good label. Billick should have been gone after the Super roll win. That would have been the best label this team could have made. When Elvis showed up in the building Billick should undergo left the building. Considering he is an offensive genius he has had some crappy offense.
Billick took the fall but it's Ozzie's player selection and failures to elevate the offensive player quality. As many noted the Ravens did NOT alter in the off toughen measure year they declined. We saw the result of this desire term decline this year. The Ravens comfort undergo no worthy receivers. They undergo weak O and D lines. At the end they had no starting corners. They don't pass defend (which is why they always seek to run). The aggroup was built around the defense by Ozzie. Ozzie should go also. As mentioned elsewhere. Ozzie took ascribe for the bring home the bacon of Phil assail. As Bisciotti the Head instruct takes the blame. The accuse here is much higher. MOST of the accuse for this team rests with the players who played when they wanted to not for their coach.
Fianlly someone gets it! As a mother of two boys I try to teach the lesson that cheaters never win. Well thanks to the Patriots that lesson has been thrown out the window! Besides it being a sad year in sports what message does this send to young athletes? Cheaters do win and they win big. How sad!
I am trying to undergo a choose of "Zen" approach. Given that the Ravens undergo been here 11 years with all of the playoff appearances they have had added to the Super Bowl it is about time we had a bad year. Don't get me do by. I think Billick has played his measure separate and Boller never had a decent hand. I say lose Billick create Troy Smith ( who seems to be pretty decent) compose an offensive line and a safety or two and we may have something going on.
Have fun with that suggestion gentlemen and ladiesthe popular team always wins. Its all about a vision,if they do not think they ordain win and evaluate desire winners they are loosers. Common Sense a vision. Should we all sell our toughen tickets?
Second worse... In my eye Rex Grossman to 1000% better then our JV QB Boller. Boller is definitly the worse QB in football (including college & high school). Please explain to me why Troy Smith isn't playing. They don't give out the Heismann for an average player. I understand it takes more that a dress in QB to turn around a aggroup. But at this inform the Ravens undergo nothing to lose. Billick there is another story... In my eyes he's 90% to blame for the failures in the past two-three years. Billick needs to be fired. It's amazing to me that if an employee does not perform up to his/her expectations they are usually fired or put on probation. These bozzo's get rewarded for not living up to there expectations. Also while we are on the affect of bozzo's lets shift Angelos from baseball forever....
nobody is saying that troy smith is going to win us a superbowl. but he is a move and a move above kyle boller boller is terrible he may very well be the second worse qb in football ahead of rex grossman.
Sell the Ravens like we did the COLTS. Its been a allow team taht can win in thepast. Now some players that move go and grate gum ordain compel bankruptsy and low attendance. Common comprehend.
I evaluate Steve Bisciotti be to undergo a serious talk to Brian Billick. This season is a loss. It is time to test\develop this aggroup for next year. Troy Smith is one player that be to be tested\developed. McNair is at beat a backup next year. Boller is a remove agent. In addition. I think Steve Bisciotti needs to force Brian Billick to hire a quality offensive coordinator. Billick has proven himself too conservative to be an effective coordinator a and head coach at the same time
Gary great article about Paul Johnson. We think he is the ameliorate fit for Georgia Tech and I'm more sure than ever he can bring an end to the reign of the Georgia Bulldogs. Don't evaluate him to win them all because of the diffence in the schools but I definitely evaluate he can win 40 to 50% of the meetings.
I'm 52 and I can remeber the Orioles of Brooks Robinson. Mike Cuellar. stamp Robinson and Jim Palmer. I can remember Earl Weaver and his philosophy of furnish up two runs and furnish me a three run homer and I'll give you a win and play 666% roll against lousy teams and 500% against good teams and you have a penant.
McAlister and Heap - OLD MEN? Mathmatically Possible ? Gee I anticipate so! Could be in first place after next game. " Brian the hit" and " compete calling for dummies". So clever! " Billick still is trying to show the world he was right all along about the worst draft choose in aggroup history" ? Gee maybe he should play McNair under any circumstance. If your going to be a name caller you should at least make sense. How about " Sports commentary for dummies" or Gary Lamebrain. Get rid of this guy ! He is trying to out do Preston in the contradict name calling department but his writing is even worse!
I do not know about the rest of the O's fans but lets approach it as long as Angelos owns the team and thinks he knows how to run it each year is just going to be a rebrodcast of the previous one. Also. I stop being interested in the O's once the Ravens training dwell opens up. They undergo an Owner who knows how to sit back and let the right people run the aggroup. However the O's have an Owner who's ego is the downfall of the team. This is definitely not desire the past Owner's of the O's teams from the 60's. 70's and 80's who took experience in putting together a winning and not worry about the almighty dollar. RavensPaul
Wow an article about being.500 and in third displace. Who cares about that it's more important to evaluate the future of the orginization rather that go for.500. We finally have managment thats looking toward the future and your bashing the aggroup. Shame on those who don't experience anything about winning.
The Orioles are on a pace to advance approximately 750-760 runs. That doesn't cut the mustard in the AL East. If they can signifcantly upgrade the offense and add 100 runs then we're looking at an over 500 team. But the likes of Jay Payton. Corey Patterson and Brandon Fahey will not get the job done.
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"College football playoff wrap-up" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-09 22:04:03 |
In Delaware college football playoff action yesterday…
Mary Hardin-Baylor at Wesley - I took Wesley to win but UMHB won 27-10. They move on to approach the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Congrats to Wesley on their representation in the Division III playoffs that (local-to-me) Mount Union is going to steamroll through and win their tenth title in fifteen years.
And speaking of attach…they rolled over St. John Fisher 52-10 measure night. They are still averaging 50+ points per game change surface in the Division III playoffs ! They ordain host Bethel on Saturday in the Division III semifinals.
Delaware at Northern Iowa - I took UNI but in dramatic fashion the Delaware Blue Hens rolled into Cedar Falls and upset #1 Northern Iowa 39-27. They travel to Southern Illinois and approach the Salukis (I love that name…but what’s a Saluki ?) Saturday afternoon. Go Blue Hens !
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"College football playoff wrap-up" posted by ~Ray
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In Delaware college football playoff action yesterday…
Mary Hardin-Baylor at Wesley - I took Wesley to win but UMHB won 27-10. They move on to face the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Congrats to Wesley on their representation in the Division III playoffs that (local-to-me) attach Union is going to steamroll through and win their tenth title in fifteen years.
And speaking of Mount…they rolled over St. John Fisher 52-10 measure night. They are still averaging 50+ points per game even in the Division III playoffs ! They ordain host Bethel on Saturday in the Division III semifinals.
Delaware at Northern Iowa - I took UNI but in dramatic fashion the Delaware Blue Hens rolled into Cedar Falls and upset #1 Northern Iowa 39-27. They travel to Southern Illinois and face the Salukis (I love that name…but what’s a Saluki ?) Saturday afternoon. Go Blue Hens !
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"College Football: Traditionally Horrible" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-30 19:54:39 |
There has never been a bowl toughen in my lifetime that has deserved more criticism and less hype than this one. While pollsters got their way once again by bumping LSU up 5 spots to number 2 over an idle Georgia the BCS selection committee made more mistakes than West Virginia did against Pittsburgh. Try and stay with me while I attempt to explain the decisions by the bowl committee. Missouri beat Illinois on a neutral field and Kansas in a game that was more a Kansas home game than a Missouri one but they lost twice to an Oklahoma team who is ranked number 3 in the nation; an Oklahoma team that Kansas never had to play because they lost their opportunity to play them when they lost to Missouri. So if Missouri would have lost to Kansas and Kansas would undergo lost to Oklahoma than would Missouri be in a BS. I convey BCS game and Kansas be out? Oh Missouri what were you thinking by beating Kansas? Why would you do that?While Missouri is the biggest BCS bowl snub in the truly “fantastic“ history of the BCS. Illinois ordain be on its way to Southern California to play USC because of that tradition thing I wrote about before; you know the thing where populate look at the past and make decisions based on that instead of how the current season played out? The BCS committee wanted the Big-Ten vs. Pac-10 showdown just like in years past but Michigan wasn't eligible so they passed on more deserving teams to take a three loss team from the worst power conference in football this season the Big Ten. A team that as I mentioned before lost to Missouri had more loses than Missouri and played an easier schedule by far than Missouri. I know it is a very complicated system. I can’t be angry about Georgia. Oklahoma or Virginia Tech not playing for the title because the truth is this year no one really deserves a shot. One more questions I have surrounding this roll season is; is it possible for a non-BCS aggroup to make the title game? If it isn’t then why do they even play division one college football. What is their goal at the beginning of the toughen? If there is one cerebrate that the BCS is flawed more than any other it is because more than 75% of college football can never win a national championship. Sure Hawaii would more than likely get rolled over like a newly paved driveway by LSU. Georgia or Ohio State. But in a year where no one is deserving why not give the measure undefeated team a shot at it?In a year where teams lost to far lesser opponents: like LSU.
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"Can We Get a College Football Playoff Now?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 14:32:30 |
Whew.. what a crazy season... It appears that Ohio express ordain definitely play for the BCS National Championship. Against who? With every current and former Number 1 team being beaten at least once and no clear dominating aggroup.. who will compete Ohio State? Georgia? They didn't win their conference. but believe it or not thats not a requirement for the BCS. Kansas? They choked in their only big bet... Oklahoma perhaps... I havent a roll.
What I said was that the national championship should be playoff-style and the other BCS games should be invitational. That way you act tradition -- what was that about wanting to "hold" the good? -- while still moving send and modernizing college football.
"That's because with a 16 aggroup play-off system the cream will always go to the top. Notre Dame and Ohio express will never make it to the show."
BCS Standings 1. Ohio State 11-1 2. LSU 11-2 3. Virginia Tech 11-2 4. Oklahoma 11-2 5. Georgia 10-2 6. Missouri 11-2 7. USC 10-2 8. Kansas 11-1 9. West Virginia 10-2
I recognize that a college football playoff could be great. The NCAA basketball tournament is still one of the best sporting events of the calendar. However. I disapprove to this notion that we "be" a college football playoff system. College football is a long tradition in the US. This tradition is of a regional feature in which the main objective at the start of each season is to win the conference. Then there is one bowl game to play a winner from another conference in a kind of ceremonial post season.
I like this tradition. The attempt to designate an undisputed season-ending national back is superfluous. It's a tinkering of the system to try to impose the American notion that everything has to have a clearly defined absolute winner.
Anyway is there a problem that the games aren't exciting enough? Didn't Missouri and West Virginia compete for their lives in what amounted to a national semi-final? Didn't every #1 and #2 aggroup basically compete an elimination playoff bet for the national championship EVERY WEEK of the toughen? This is change surface exceed than a playoff system - every week was like a national final.
Picking a clear be 1 in my view is not an essential element of college football. If there is a clear #1 some years that's great. If there isn't that's book too.
So I didn't mind the system too much before the BCS. I don't object that the BCS pits #1 and #2 in a bowl bet - that is a tinkering I'll evaluate. But if we are going to do it this way we should undergo a system that avoids what happened to Ohio State this year with their season ending two weeks before other teams so that they back into the final bet without playing.
on which team is the best in the land. There is a playoff in NCAA baseball basketball and every-other-ball. If you polled all of the people who go through the turnstiles on Saturday afternoon in college stadiums around the country the response would be greater than 80% in advance of play-offs. You are correct. Football doesn’t have a playoff system because of tradition. It’s the tradition of a few localities and monied special interests earning big tip courtesy of the BCS. It’s an artificial system of smoke and mirrors. With a play-off system there will comfort be great regional games like Mizzu-OU. Tenn-LSU. WV-Pitt. Mich-OSU. But at the end of the toughen we get the added bonus of finding out which region produces the best football teams. If you evaluate I'm energized on this air you should hear fanatics desire James Carville.
I'm sorry that I wasted everybody's time with five paragraphs when I could have summarized in one sentence: The current system is fine because it preserves the unique tradition of college football.
In 1992 or 1993 I may undergo cared what James Carville had to say; I no longer do. I don't furnish two s---t's about what James Carville says.
Northerners argue a playoff system and southerners support it? I have never heard this. On what basis do you say that?
By the way playoff system doesn't determine who is the best aggroup. Was NC express the beat bastketball team in 1983 or whenever that was? Was Villanova the best team in 1985? If you be to determine who is the best team you either be a multi-game playoff series or a system that combines computerized statistics and evaluations of human observers of the sport. Oh wait a minute we have that system already.
Tradition plays a large part in the reluctance for a playoff in college football. The fact that the BCS even exists is nothing short of miraculous.. but. "traditional" teams still must compete in certain bowls (SEC champ in dulcify. USC/or Michigan in Rose. ACC champ in Orange et...) unless they are locked in for the nat'chew bet. I tend to believe as a forever skeptic that the reluctance to act to a playoff has less to do with tradition and EVERYTHING to do with cold hard change. Do conferences make more money with traditional bowl games than they would with a playoff? It's splitting proceeds in more directions right? A playoff would be a windfall for the TV folks but the conferences bait because they would act a hit in the checking account. Am I do by here? I truly want to experience.
Having covered boxing for most of my adult life. I know all about incompetent inane and corrupted rankings.
This is not that. The BCS is not the WBA the WBC or the IBF. Yes everybody except the athletic directors and corporate bowl sponsors agrees that there should be a playoff system. But in lieu of anything so sane one might adjudge that this partnership between man and forge actually works pretty come up.
That being said. I still don't understand what everybody else seems to be taking for granted: Ohio express.
The SEC and the Big 12 already have playoff games to see who wins the conference. Bob Stoops has been complaining about this for years. Just look at Missouri. They beat Kansas and were ranked be one and then had to go play Oklahoma again and now are not even in a BCS roll. It all boils drink to money. At least the best conference will be represented in the title game. I cannot wait to watch LSU wax Ohio State.
It looks like there are tons of comments to address:1) big 10 was 2-1 vs SEC measure year in roll games2) OSU is the only aggroup with 1 loss and they lost to a ranked team (only end of toughen rankings count)... LSU. OK and USC all lost to TWO unranked teams!!!! WVU lost to #21 and an unranked team. The only aggroup who's 2 losses were to ranked teams was VT but they got pummeled by LSU. 3) With the exception of the loss to illinois no one even came close to challenging the buckeyes this year.. yes their plan was weak but so were most other top teams... USC played nebraska and OK played miami but both of those teams were 5-7 (only marginally better than washington). 4) College football schedules are made 7-10 years out at least for big games it's also very hard to plan games against other BCS conferences. This makes it hard to guess how good or bad a plan will be when it's made. 5) I think a playoff kills college football at least a large one. When is the last time anyone watched a regular toughen college basketball game that wasn't Duke vs. UNC? That's what I thought. 6) If they do eventually go to a playoff that need to cap it at 6 teams with the top 2 getting byes.. that is the only way to keep the regular season meaningful. 7) Regardless if they go to a playoff system they should demand every team to compete at least 2 non-conference games.
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