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[ChiTownBuffalo]

Eff it. Colorado, hire Bobby Petrino.

"Coach, we have 300 days of motorcycle riding weather a year."

 

[perfectchaos007]

Just bolding the one word? Really?

I only read the first sentence

 

[Monroeski]

I didn't think anyone could stoop to the level of wanting the Kentucky job. Same goes for the Cal position, I'm not sure how anyone could bear that type of mess. At least it's not as bad as it is in Tennessee - nobody will volunteer for that shit.

 

[Cyan]

This gif is awesome.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Wait, is this for real? The last time Kent State won the MAC, Jack Lambert, Gary Pinkel, and Nick Saban were all on the team?

Crazy.

Don James was the coach. Kent State:coaches::Texas/California/Floridalayers

 

[Kevtones]

Just bolding the one word? Really?

I just vandalized his reputation, sort of like the Idaho athletic department when they convinced Jason Gesser to take the job.

Spoiler

so sorry

 

[cdyhybrid]

I just vandalized his reputation, sort of like the Idaho athletic department when they convinced Jason Gesser to take the job.

Spoiler

so sorry

You're going to need to duck the tomatoes coming your way.

 

[cashman]

I just vandalized his reputation, sort of like the Idaho athletic department when they convinced Jason Gesser to take the job.

Spoiler

so sorry

Chip Kelly is a quack. Oregon will never win a MNC with him in charge.

 

[Kevtones]

rimshawesomeness.gif

I guess I'm through mining these bad puns. Kind of like the folks in El Paso realizing that Price was finally tapped out.

Spoiler

what am i doing?

 

[Talon]

This thread needs a cleansing fire.

 

[Kevtones]

You're going to need to duck the tomatoes coming your way.

Maybe we'll import Sark? He's been such an upgrade from your prior coach who couldn't even muster a tie in his final year.

 

[Cyan]

Man, takes an eagle eye to see some of these. Now do BC and Auburn.

 

[Balphon]

Wait, is this for real? The last time Kent State won the MAC, Jack Lambert, Gary Pinkel, and Nick Saban were all on the team?

Crazy.

Apparently, it was also the last time they went to a bowl at all.

 

[Lonestar]

Apparently, it was also the last time they went to a bowl at all.

This is a golden opportunity for them to play against one of the least flashier teams in the country, Florida.

 

[cashman]

Man, takes an eagle eye to see some of these. Now do BC and Auburn.

Cyan, you're such a corndog!

 

[Kevtones]

Man, takes an eagle eye to see some of these. Now do BC and Auburn.

Genius! If I wasn't such a spaz I would've thought of one for them sooner!

 

[bluemax]

P.S. Guess who's joining the WAC! Yep, obviously it's Grand Canyon University. What? What do you mean you've never heard of them? They're an up and coming program!

Good God that's a pathetic list. Kind of sad how many crappy programs the WAC is cozening into losing money in DI.

Seattle University was a one time basketball power house. I'm pretty sure they are only in the WAC for hoops.

Help. My schools AD cares more about netball.

Works for ucla.

 

[desh]

USC: Sixth best team in California.

 

[Draxal]

Man, takes an eagle eye to see some of these. Now do BC and Auburn.

BC is most likely going to be Diaco, ND's DC. Al Golden (Miami HC) and Pete Carmichael (NO Saint's OC) are the other rumored targets.

Auburn is most likely going to be Petrino professional coed/motorcycle rider.

 

[cdyhybrid]

NCAA can't even do a witch hunt right

 

[timetokill]

NCAA can't even do a witch hunt right

Was just about to post this. It's basically just saying what everyone already knew -- that USC was unfairly targeted and punished by the NCAA. Sorry, Branduil. You may want to sit down for this one.

A judge's decision made public last week -- and obtained in full by CBSSports.com -- shows that at least three persons may have improperly tried to influence the NCAA's powerful infractions committee to find former USC assistant Todd McNair complicit in the Reggie Bush case. Lawyers for McNair are trying to show the association violated its own rules and procedures in investigating their client.

Two non-voting members of the NCAA infractions committee and NCAA staffer allegedly tried to influence voting members inside the 10-person committee. The judge's decision contains excerpts of emails that he has determined show "ill will or hatred" toward McNair.

In finding McNair and USC guilty of rules violations, the NCAA used a phone call between the coach and would-be marketer Lloyd Lake, a convicted felon, as evidence. The NCAA concluded that Lake's description of the call was credible and rejected McNair's version. An NCAA investigator got the year of the call wrong (2005, instead of 2006) while interviewing McNair.

The NCAA admitted it had telephone records showing that Lake initiated the call, contrary to his testimony to the association. Lake told the NCAA McNair had called him in early hours of Jan. 8, 2006. That conclusion according to Shaller's decision "could reasonably cast doubt on the occurrence of the … conversation." The NCAA "should have known" parts of the infractions report regarding that call were "demonstrably untrue."

 

[Cyan]

Shocking. No one could have seen this coming.

 

[Cyan]

Bill McCartney's not happy about the Embree firing.

Former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney on Tuesday afternoon blasted university officials for firing Jon Embree after two seasons at the school.

McCartney, who coached Embree in the 1980s and helped get Embree hired at Colorado, went on ESPN 102.3 FM and read a prepared letter to the Colorado administration and CU fans which castigated the move.

After he read the letter, McCartney said the school did not give Embree, who is black, as much opportunity to succeed as they would have given a white coach. McCartney said the reason he was given more than two years to work through losing seasons at CU was because he's white.

 

[Lonestar]

meh, still ok with the outcome. USC's sacrifice was able to temporarily quell the Cruel Bitch known as the NCAA.

 

[jakncoke]

Tulane and East Carolina to big east in 2014. So basically just Conference USA now. 9 former members.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Tulane and East Carolina to big east in 2014. So basically just Conference USA now. 9 former members.

And the ACC is BE, etc. etc.

 

[Karakand]

We're still doing the pun thing, right?

Here's mine.

Todd McNair is in a real dog fight with the NCAA, but the cruelty and mistreatment will be put down by our legal system.

 

[cdyhybrid]

And the ACC is BE, etc. etc.

At least you guys will be able to get into the BEAST with all the shuffling going on!

 

[GoldenEye 007]

At least you guys will be able to get into the BEAST with all the shuffling going on!

I can't wait!

 

[Cyan]

Tulane and East Carolina to big east in 2014. So basically just Conference USA now. 9 former members.

 

[truly101]

So where does CUSA end and the Beast begin?

Also Coach Cutcliffe won ACC coach of the year. UP AND COMING PROGRAM, FOOTBALL! $250 MILLION APPROVED FOR STADIUM AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, TRULY A VALUE FOR ANY CONFERENCE TO HAVE!!!!!!!!

 

[cdyhybrid]

So where does CUSA end and the Beast begin?

Also Coach Cutcliffe won ACC coach of the year. UP AND COMING PROGRAM, FOOTBALL! $250 MILLION APPROVED FOR STADIUM AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, TRULY A VALUE FOR ANY CONFERENCE TO HAVE!!!!!!!!

Are they seriously spending $250MM on football?

 

[Balphon]

And the ACC is BE, etc. etc.

If everyone goes up a notch, does that make the SEC the new NFC South?

 

[NewLib]

Only one team who played football in the Big East in 2004 will play football in the Big Eastin 2014.... Temple.

 

[zyxwvu4321]

So where does CUSA end and the Beast begin?

With whoever gets left behind between Cincinnati, Louisville, and UConn. They can lord their seniority over the others. We'll ignore USF.

 

[truly101]

Are they seriously spending $250MM on football?

yep. $100 million has already been raised, and this was before ND joined and UMD left. After next season, they'll lower the field, remove the stupid track and get rid of the ugliest pressbox in the southeast.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Pac-12 2013 schedule home/road rotation is out

This is our schedule (conference games not in order obviously).

Aug. 31 --- Boise State
Sept. 14 --- vs. Illinois at Solider Field
Sept. 21 --- Idaho State

Home: Arizona, Cal, Colorado, Oregon, WSU.
Away: Arizona State, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA

We should be able to win all 3 of our OOC games. Oregon is the only home game in which a loss wouldn't be disastrous. All 4 road games seem like swing games, although UCLA is clearly the hardest one, followed by OSU. Stanford loses a lot, and ASU was decent but didn't set the world on fire this season.

Not a cakewalk to 9 wins but it's certainly doable if the team improves going into the season like we expect them to.

 

[SerArthurDayne]

This page, man. You guys are bored. If you find a pun in this post, it is entirely accidental.


And yes, I almost put a pun in this post. But I am above the fray.

 

[chicko1983]

GAF Pick'em Week 14 - THE FINAL WEEK
*all games Saturday unless otherwise noted.


(THU) Louisville @ Rutgers by 4
(FRI) Northern Illinois vs. Kent State by 4
(FRI) UCLA @ Stanford by 4
Oklahoma @ TCU by 4
Oklahoma State @ Baylor by 4
UCF @ Tulsa by 4
Kansas @ West Virginia by 4
Middle Tennessee @ Arkansas State by 4
Boise State @ Nevada by 4
Cincinnati @ Connecticut by 4
Alabama vs. Georgia by 4
Pittsburgh @ South Florida by 4
Texas @ Kansas State by 4
Florida State vs. Georgia Tech by 4
Nebraska vs. Wisconsin by 4

 

[timetokill]

USC in 2013

Home: ARIZ, STAN, UCLA, UTAH, WSU
Away: ASU, CAL, COLO, OSU
Miss: Washington, Oregon

Pretty favorable. You're up, Wittek!

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

Well, Bill McCartney pulled the race card.

And I think he might be right.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Well, Bill McCartney pulled the race card.

And I think he might be right.

If you gave Hawkins 5 years you could give Embree at least 3

 

[SerArthurDayne]

Well, Bill McCartney pulled the race card.

And I think he might be right.

Well, I would have fired him. And I just learned his was black five minutes ago. Sorry Colorado, but I never cared. I think you left the Big XII before you hired him right? That is my excuse.

 

[truly101]

forgot picks

(THU) Louisville @ Rutgers by 3
(FRI) Northern Illinois vs. Kent State by 7
(FRI) UCLA @ Stanford by 10
Oklahoma @ TCU by 7
Oklahoma State @ Baylor by 7
UCF @ Tulsa by 3
Kansas @ West Virginia by 13
Middle Tennessee @ Arkansas State by 3
Boise State @ Nevada by 7
Cincinnati @ Connecticut by 3
Alabama vs. Georgia by 3
Pittsburgh @ South Florida by 10
Texas @ Kansas State by 10
Florida State vs. Georgia Tech by 14
Nebraska vs. Wisconsin by 3

This is the first time I've picked against Bama, certainly not because I want them to lose, but I think the nation wants to see a Bama/ND championship game. For that they will get UGA instead.

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

If you gave Hawkins 5 years you could give Embree at least 3

The people who say its not racist are bringing up Colorado's 6 -6 season where they played Alabama in the Independence Bowl as an example of why Hawkins was allowed more time than Embree.

 

[Yaboosh]

The people who say its not racist are bringing up Colorado's 6 -6 season where they played Alabama in the Independence Bowl as an example of why Hawkins was allowed more time than Embree.

Yeah, I am surprised Hawkins wasn't fired after he went 1-11.

Oh wait, he never went 1-11? Weird.

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

Yeah, I am surprised Hawkins wasn't fired after he went 1-11.

Oh wait, he never went 1-11? Weird.

Those weren't his players when he went to the Independence Bowl.

When his players started, he went 5 -7, 3 - 9, and then 3 - 6, then he got canned. He went 2 - 10 is first year.

 

[SerArthurDayne]

Yeah, I am surprised Hawkins wasn't fired after he went 1-11.

Oh wait, he never went 1-11? Weird.

Fucking Pirate Cougars made this happen.

 

[Karakand]

Well, Bill McCartney pulled the race card.

And I think he might be right.

It's one of those either/or firings if you decouple it from the realities of race in college football. I'd probably give any coach more than 1 recruiting class, but I don't get paid the big bucks to run a college athletics department into the ground.

Unfortunately this is essentially a death knell to his career head coaching when it is coupled to the realities of race in college football, and that's why it's really ridiculous. Meanwhile a scrub like Jorts Chizik will have no trouble finding a middling I-A program so desperate for a coach it'll take a treadless retread.

 

[Yaboosh]

Those weren't his players when he went to the Independence Bowl.

When his players started, he went 5 -7, 3 - 9, and then 3 - 6, then he got canned. He went 2 - 10 is first year.

I am not sure anybody should ever survive a 1-11 season though.

Screaming racism because Hawkins had more time when Hawkins never went 1-11 just seems crazy to me. I don't know the situation though. There could easily be racism involved. But I think it is more likely for racism to prevent the man from every being hired than for it to be the reason he was fired after going 1-11.