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Pollux said:
You really thing Strong would stay at UL instead of coaching a program like Arkansas in the SEC? You're insane...
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Signed,

"DONOVAN IS GOING BACK TO KENTUCKY! ITS A LOCK! NO WAY HE STAYS AT FLORIDA!"

When you hold pocket Aces you don't hold out to settle for winning just the blinds. FIU's coach could have taken the Rutgers job and didn't. Schiano could have gotten the Miami job but got an NFL job instead. And so on. Arkansas isn't Georgia or Florida.
 
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/03/3846133/nick-saban-asks-is-this-what-we.html

Speaking on the SEC coaches’ teleconference on Wednesday, Saban asked, “Is this what we want football to be?”

“I think that the way people are going no-huddle right now, that at some point in time we should look at how fast we allow games to go in terms of player safety,” Saban said. “You can’t substitute defensive players, you go on a 14-, 16-, 18-play drive and they’re snapping the ball as fast as they can and you look out there and all your players are walking around and can’t even get lined up.

“I mean that’s when guys have a much greater chance of getting hurt when they’re not ready to play. I think that’s something that can be looked at.”
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If not for the Curse of the Football Gods, Saban's 2nd worst Alabama team would have beaten The Auburn Newtons in the [REDACTED] season. Who were better than Oregon's best team in recent history.
 
bucknuticus said:
Most of the Huge stadiums are 80-90 years old. They usually started off "smaller" 50-60k, but then through expansions and rennovations over 80 years they have grown to the 90-100k size stadiums now.


edit: on another point, what sport do they play there? That ground is not level at all lol.
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Sorry didnt reply earlier, I went to bed.

They play football (Aussie rules) and cricket on it, neither of which are required to be perfectly flat. The picture does exaggerate the unevenness as the oval of play is more flat.

For some reason the English never really cared if the ovals were flat for cricket, the most famous oval in England has a huge lean on it but that is part of the charm, and then Aussie rules football began being played on the cricket ovals during winter.
 
Lonestar said:
If not for the Curse of the Football Gods, Saban's 2nd worst Alabama team would have beaten The Auburn Newtons in the [REDACTED] season. Who were better than Oregon's best team in recent history.
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Threeballz lives!

You should be glad for the luck of the Newtons that year. Without it, Oregon wins a title and the SECSECSEC crowd loses some of their derp fuel.

Edit: Wait, you think that team was worse than the one that got utterly shithoused by Utah?

Interesting...
 
Simple math: 3 Losses > 2 Losses

I say turning Garcia into an Urban Legend is one of the worst things Saban has done to the world.
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
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Cyan said:
Threeballz lives!

You should be glad for the luck of the Newtons that year. Without it, Oregon wins a title and the SECSECSEC crowd loses some of their derp fuel.

Edit: Wait, you think that team was worse than the one that got utterly shithoused by Utah?

Interesting...
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Eh, by the time the sugar bowl was 3 minutes old, the 2008 team had already lost our 2 best starting offensive linemen, Andre Smith (herp derping with an agent a week or so before the game) and Mike johnson (injury).

I'm not saying I agree with Lone, because I think the 2010 team was really, really good at the end of the season, but the 2008 team was pretty good as well, the results of the Sugar Bowl notwithstanding.
 
If he was more like Petrino he would be at work all day and night and not have any time to spend that money. Of course, Petrino had distractions at work, but he was smart enough to have the company pay for them.
 
perfectchaos007 said:
At worst it would have been 3rd and goal from the 1 foot line with 30 seconds to go. Texas would have scored anyway (99% chance)
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I mostly agree. I have no fucking idea how it gets ruled a TD though. Fumble, no clear recovery, Texas ball just outside the goal line.

Reminds me of an egregious fumble call by Harvin at Vandy that went the other way and was my wallpaper for months.
 
mre: I'm saying 2nd worse, because of how good that team should have been. The Team that performed Voluntary Manslaughter on the field with Michigan State, got blowed out by Stephen Garcia and Alshon Jeffries (we inflated AJ's ego so much, he promptly went on the Donut Diet with no cares in the world.), Let Jordan Jefferson complete a 70 yard TD pass (and run a reverse on 4th down to seal the game), and then had 28-27 happen.

2010: REDACTED
 
Lonestar said:
mre: I'm saying 2nd worse, because of how good that team should have been. The Team that performed Voluntary Manslaughter on the field with Michigan State, got blowed out by Stephen Garcia and Alshon Jeffries (we inflated AJ's ego so much, he promptly went on the Donut Diet with no cares in the world.), Let Jordan Jefferson complete a 70 yard TD pass (and run a reverse on 4th down to seal the game), and then had 28-27 happen.

2010: REDACTED
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Most disappointing by far, for sure. We should be working on #4 in a row.
 
mre said:
Eh, by the time the sugar bowl was 3 minutes old, the 2008 team had already lost our 2 best starting offensive linemen, Andre Smith (herp derping with an agent a week or so before the game) and Mike johnson (injury).
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If I learned one thing from Bama fans, it's that losing key players makes absolutely no difference in how your team does in important bowl games.
 
How did the tractor dot the I?

edit: Also, this week is Homecoming? The fuck? Aren't homecoming games supposed to be the cakewalk games (not that we've had any of those this year)?
 
Cyan said:
If I learned one thing from Bama fans, it's that losing key players makes absolutely no difference in how your team does in important bowl games.
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Not from Bama fans here. I don't think a single Bama fan that posts here has made any sort of statement along the lines that losing Colt McCoy made no difference in the 2009 MNC game.

I'm not saying we would have beaten Utah in 2008, because who knows. All I said was that the team's performance in the Utah game was not indicative of the overall quality of the team that year. They were better than they played in that game. And, like I've said of Texas, it was our fault for not having sufficient depth to overcome those losses. However, I attribute our lack of depth in 2008 to the fact that Saban was only in his second year here. Mack Brown was in his bajillionth year as Texas' head coach, and Gilbert had no experience as McCoy's backup because Brown left McCoy in blowouts way, way longer than he should have just to inflate his stats for his Heisman campaign.
 
Lonestar said:
If not for the Curse of the Football Gods, Saban's 2nd worst Alabama team would have beaten The Auburn Newtons in the [REDACTED] season. Who were better than Oregon's best team in recent history.
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Oregon's team with Dennis Dixon was their best one in recent history. If he hadn't torn his ACL they would've been more memorable.
 
TheNatural said:
2006-2011
Arkansas SEC $91,768,112
Louisville Big East $87,736,323

Pitino gets paid out the ass, Strong is probably going to get a huge extension that would put him in the top 20 or so paid in the country, all our non revenue coaches get paid a shitload. We're not hurting for money, we can offer as much as about anyone except a few of the big dog programs.
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By this extremely flawed logic the Louisville job is better than Nebraska, Florida State, Texas A&M, Oregon, & Oklahoma State because you have a higher athletic department revenue. Donor & Booster support is more important tbh. That's where you're at a disadvantage to a lot of the "big boys."

TheNatural said:
You think a palty million plus matters? LOL. We'll match that easily with an extension after this season.
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Past success/traditional power status, facilities, assistant pay, ease of recruiting, "prestige", booster/donor support, etc are bigger determinants in where a coach goes than a small salary bump. The smart ones at least. In a couple of those areas Louisville just isn't as attractive to top of the line coaches. Sorry, you're just not the hot piss you seem to think you are. I don't think Arkansas is a big upgrade but Arkansas IS still an upgrade in a number of ways.

That said, if I were Strong I'd stick with Louisville. You're in a shit conference that you can dominate if you are even halfway decent. It's a perfect setup for a FSU-like situation. Own your shitty conference and you can slowly start to pull in more and more talent as you remain in the public eye. Eventually you'll have a program that can compete regularly with the bigger, in a football sense, schools. Move to the Big 12 or another more competitive conference and Louisville drops back into the middle of the pack and only surfaces to occasionally to have a "good" year.

Cyan said:
Saban is afraid of Oregon Texas A&M confirmed.
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Fixed that for ya.

BertramCooper said:
11W's OSU/Nebraska poster is ready:
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Love those posters. Wish Nebraska had something like that. I'd be rotating those suckers out on my wall.
 
That is not true.

You don't worry about losing, but you really worry about what you have to tell the wife, family, friends, and fans when you do.

And if you are Florida, you do worry about winning, but thankfully pull it off.
 
Jhriad said:
Sorry, you're just not the hot piss you seem to think you are. I don't think Arkansas is a big upgrade but Arkansas IS still an upgrade in a number of ways.
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I don't think we're hot piss, but I don't think Arkansas is either. We've been basically even the past dozen years in any meaningful categories. They're in a better conference, but he could get a lot of jobs in a better conference.
 
SerArthurDayne said:
That is not true.

You don't worry about losing, but you really worry about what you have to tell the wife, family, friends, and fans when you do.

And if you are Florida, you do worry about winning, but thankfully pull it off.
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So they're the Colorado of the SEC?

Except that they can't beat Georgia.
 
Cyan said:
So they're the Colorado of the SEC?

Except that they can't beat Georgia.
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My only regret is that Colorado has replaced Arizona as the most embarrassing football program in the Pac 12.

My only hope is that Colorado can replace Arizona as the most overhyped basketball program in the Pac 12.
 
TheNatural said:
I don't think we're hot piss, but I don't think Arkansas is either. We've been basically even the past dozen years in any meaningful categories. They're in a better conference, but he could get a lot of jobs in a better conference.
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Not really hard when practically all the jobs are in a better conferences. Though, like I said, I think he should stick to Louisville instead of going into Arkansas. Their position within that conference gives him lots of room to hone his craft and build a program to last. Also I don't think he'd fare well in the SEC West. Funnily enough I thought Texas A&M should have picked him up as their Head Coach back when they hired Sherman a few years back. They probably ended up ahead of the game with Sumlin even if I'm not sold on some of his staff. Time will tell I suppose.
 
I keep forgetting, when I make fun of A&M, that they hired Sumlin this offseason.

Man, way too much happened this offseason to keep track of...
 
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