Sports Illustrated has released it's preseason top 25.
ND finally gets revenge on mre and is ranked above 'Bama.
ND finally gets revenge on mre and is ranked above 'Bama.
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bucknuticus
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Go Home SI you drunk, a 8-5 team from last year with a harder schedule and a brand new QB aint gonna do it.
edit: am i talking about Auburn, ND, or both! You decide!
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Is there a sport that has more clueless prognosticators than CFB?
I mean are these preseason polls for real?
I mean are these preseason polls for real?
Mac the KNife
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SI lighting itself on fire to get some clicks.
bucknuticus
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So Pryor has a mysterious injury days before he's supposed to return to the shoe (Where hes still technically banned from), uh huh.
Every sport has boatloads of them.
The Mariners are going to the World Series this year guys!
ND & Auburn in the top 5? They're definitely grasping at any sort of temporary bump they can find if they're putting that in print. Notre Dame's schedule is mostly cream puffs with practically no real challenging away games so I wouldn't be shocked to see them with a decent record at the end of the season. They're not a better team than a number of others on the list though.
Azwethinkweiz
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If they can somehow beat us on the road in October, they'll probably go undefeated until they get curb stomped in the playoffs.
bucknuticus
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Part of his deal was he would be banned from all OSU facilities for 5 years.
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Maybe it's me or where I live, but I never heard that. Just like I never hear that say the Browns have a real chance of the Super Bowl.
In CFB you will hear team that went 7-5 last year gonna win it all.
Purple Cheeto
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He's two years younger than Pete Carroll and Nick Saban. He's 10 years older than Meyer and 20 some odd years older than Helfrich.
That's because college football has a lot more year to year turnover than any of the professional sports. You're adjusting anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of your roster on a given year. Plus the variance in scheduling year to year and the lack of unified scheduling means a lot. I also think coaching changes matter more at the collegiate football level than they do in any pro sport.
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Disney stock tanking cause of ESPN worries.
Ruh roh
Ruh roh
timetokill
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Yeah but he ACTS like he's 80 yo
BertramCooper
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You take Lou Holtz and Mark May off the air and look what happens.
Pete Carroll acts like he's 25, so he's 25 to me.
Carroll is also in the NFL though.
Mac the KNife
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FelixOrion
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Frequently might be a big of an overstatement
But yeah it's time baby. I work on campus next to Memorial and it's autograph day, so there are people everywhere right now (just about to start).ESPN is precious.
Do scum fans/media not realize State/Dantonio (Izzo too while I'm at it) feasts on shit like this?
GoldenEye 007
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scUM, maybe? Like ConFLiCT.
Wait... what? Tell me this is true.
Frequently might be a big of an overstatement
Compared to a lot of the fair weather fans we see for some teams you might as well be a daily poster.
They know, but they have to keep making everything about Jesus Harbaugh and keep scummers interested and clicking on those articles.
Earlier this year when asked if MSU still has a chip on its shoulder, Dantonio responded, ""Yeah, all you have to do is read the paper every now and then."
I give MD plenty of credit, though - he's always cool and patient with this garbage. My favorite moment is probably from his first season during the ND game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCduwd71plk
That's when I knew I loved this guy.
Mac the KNife
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I give MD plenty of credit, though - he's always cool and patient with this garbage. My favorite moment is probably from his first season during the ND game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCduwd71plk
That's when I knew I loved this guy.
Forgot about that one, it was a shitty question and he handled it perfectly.
Dantonio doesn't necessarily have this massive chip on his shoulder, he's just concerned about his team and constantly asking him to frame that team through the lens of another and time again would become pretty fucking annoying after awhile.
For anyone wondering, this is 100% what it's like to play @ USC.
https://youtu.be/CRWggz084bE
https://youtu.be/CRWggz084bE
perfectchaos007
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You're not a fan of cosplaying goofballs wielding musical instruments? I don't know if they are the "best" band in a traditional sense, but they are the only band I can watch at a football game that can make me smile, and that has to be worth something.
c'mon cyan, if you weren't a fan you wouldn't be photobombing in this pic
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What I don't get is the excuse that they had to move Rese to run Gameday cause Chris was to busy doing the Saturday night primetime game.
If that were the case then why the fuck is Kirk still on the show when he has the same duties?
Seems like Rese's contract was up, and other networks wanted him. So with Lou retiring, they could just ditch the not loved Mark May, and then move Rese to Gameday while keeping Chris on the main game. Supposedly in effort to appease Fowler they offered him either Gameday or the PT Game knowing he'd take the game and leave the Gameday spot for Rese.
Despite all of this I'm not sure I like the Finale replacements. Joey Galloway does jack shit to move the meter for me. I like Captain Virk, but he never seemed like prime time material. He always seemed like the perfect ESPNU host. Plus Danny is a polarizing figure.
I think part of my problem is ESPN hasn't exactly cultivated new young CFB TV talent while losing older people they had for various reasons like Mark & Lou or Craig James (not that I like any of these guys).
I'm kinda surprised ESPN hasn't attracted more high profile talent seeing as they are the TV leader in the CFB space.
If that were the case then why the fuck is Kirk still on the show when he has the same duties?
Seems like Rese's contract was up, and other networks wanted him. So with Lou retiring, they could just ditch the not loved Mark May, and then move Rese to Gameday while keeping Chris on the main game. Supposedly in effort to appease Fowler they offered him either Gameday or the PT Game knowing he'd take the game and leave the Gameday spot for Rese.
Despite all of this I'm not sure I like the Finale replacements. Joey Galloway does jack shit to move the meter for me. I like Captain Virk, but he never seemed like prime time material. He always seemed like the perfect ESPNU host. Plus Danny is a polarizing figure.
I think part of my problem is ESPN hasn't exactly cultivated new young CFB TV talent while losing older people they had for various reasons like Mark & Lou or Craig James (not that I like any of these guys).
I'm kinda surprised ESPN hasn't attracted more high profile talent seeing as they are the TV leader in the CFB space.
bucknuticus
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Rece Davis is one of the best dudes on ESPN, so im excited hes getting a bigger role now. Although im going to be bummed about gameday final. I kinda like sitting on the couch wrapping up a saturday listening to Rece and then having Mark and Lou yell back and forth at each other.
I took it to mean that Chris Fowler was the new Brent Musburger. It's a promotion for him, not a demotion. And they seem to be grooming Rece Davis to be the next Chris Fowler. Both are good decisions by ESPN, IMO.
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Fowler already had that position though. He can't be promoted to something he was already doing last year. They just seemed to not want to have him spread to thin since Gameday wasn't always at the same site as the primetime game.
That all makes sense, but Kirk has the same duties. LoL
Sirpopopop
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UCLA has the best band in the Pac-10.
Really, we have the best of everything.
Really, we have the best of everything.
GoldenEye 007
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The band is half the reason I'm contemplating going to the UCF-Stanford game this year.
Although I think they're under sanctions right now and have a travel ban. So they won't be at away games this year. Title IX violations. Drugs, sexual harassment, hazing, etc. Usual band stuff.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/...land-stanford-junior-university-marching-band
Think about their standard operating procedures for their "analysis" shows: high profile, nationally recognized talent. For CFB, those people are going to the NFL. Tebow is the only hire that fits their mold, and that's because they kept him relavent. Ballooning coaching salaries justify staying in the game longer for them. The talent pool just isn't that deep.
Pellini/Chizik Final Verdict
Most unique? Yes.
Best? I have a hard time believing this.
It's honestly hard to compare what they do to what a traditional college marching band does.
I haven't watched any ESPN college football programming other than Gameday in years because I wasn't interested in listening to Mark May sit there with that shit eating grin as he trolls everyone. Good riddance.
BertramCooper
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what the what
I can't believe that took 19 minutes.
BertramCooper
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SI covers are out:
BertramCooper
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Notre Dame is a national program, mang.
BlackGhost
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Dak has a great build, he looks like a rb.
Waits for the jokes
BertramCooper
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Apparently the end of last season still hasn't killed the illusion of the Mispsssissi programs being legitimately good.
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While I don't disagree on the May front I'm not exactly sold their replacements are any better.
Y'all are going "Mississippi State, really?" and I'm going "Auburn, really?" I guess they're putting all of their chips in the "Muschamp's going to give Auburn a great defense basket," but he's going to arguably have less talent than he had at UF. I just don't get it.
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