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College Football 2012 Week 1 - Get Your Piss Hot
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bucknuticus
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We should do a weekly thread title Vote, Bluemax selects top 5 or 3 titles then we all vote on them.
I'll be at the Texas State game this weekend! First time the whole family has been able to get together for a game in years. Should be pretty fun.
I knew even as I was buying tickets from the Tech ticket office that I should have waited to buy them from TSU. Our seats suck, there were still plenty available in better areas of the stadium, and there should be a pretty large number of Tech fans there so it's not like we would have been completely surrounded by opposing fans.
Lot of people saying Houston was the biggest win in the program's history, but on the downside, there's not way Tech is going to overlook you now. Lot of Tech fans glad your big win happened this past week.
The Outsider
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You know, I don't think I posted my impressions of the Gata game. Oh well, I don't really feel like it now. Lots of room for improvement. That's for sure.
Hopefully the playbook opens up against A&M. I don't think I can take a loss against the Aggies.
Hopefully the playbook opens up against A&M. I don't think I can take a loss against the Aggies.
Sounds like SOCIALISM.
The bolded is the heart of the matter--he didn't deserve to be fired. If they had a credible reason to fire him, Tech admin wouldn't have skulked around and conspired to have him fired because they were too cheap to pay him the bonus to which he was entitled. I would personally be pretty pissed if the best coach in the history of my program was fired because the administration was too cheap to live up to a modest contract.
Those leaked emails from the administration are pretty damning, and I had first-hand experience with Tech officials when OSU hired David Schmidly (for some mystifying reason). Guy was a hack who tried to run OSU like a corporation--re-naming the Athletic Director the "VP for Athletic Operations" and shit like that. Complete political type, which fits in with what Leach described in his book--too much concern about career advancement among the administration, and not enough concern for the athletic department or students.
Leach brought excitement, high rankings, high graduation rates, 60 Minutes profiles, NY Times magazine features... Frankly, it sounds like the Chancellor deserved to be told to fuck himself.
Did you not see that Monroeski said to trust him?
If you can't trust a Texas Tech fan who's rationalizing his school's administration running off an awesome football coach for no good reason, who can you trust?
Yes, this one is clearly the best.
zyxwvu4321
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When I was posting the Coaches' Poll, I noticed that Todd Graham replaced Lane Kiffin's vote. Do we know if he's ranking the teams based on how good they are, or based on what order he's going to go coach them?
Leach complaining about too much concern about career advancement is laughable considering all the time he spent fishing for interviews at other schools during the offseason instead of recruiting while that same mostly intact administration has been advancing Tech's academic standing and funding by leaps and bounds in the intervening time.
Also, the whole "not paying him his bonus" thing was a pretty small part of the whole deal. Got much more play in the national media than it should have. If it was all just about firing him because they didn't want to give him money he wouldn't have had to wait two years to get another job. If anything, the bigger problem with the money was that every year Leach was complaining about getting a new, higher paying contract when he was never even able to win the division, much less the conference. He was already not getting results consummate with his pay and was still wanting more while doing as little as possible to raise any money himself.
Again, I'm not saying that the Administration is perfectly in the clear but Leach definitely did his fair share of the work in making the relationship irreparable. I wouldn't mind having 2000-2007 Leach back, and I probably wouldn't mind having current "out of football for two years and can only get a job at a last place team" humbled Leach, but I wouldn't want 2008-2009 Leach back. He's going to be on much better behavior at WSU than he was in his last years at Tech. That 2008 season (and in particular the UT game) pretty much tipped him over the edge in thinking that he was bigger than the University.
Magazine covers wearing eyepatches is great and all but we set season ticket and fundraising records the first year he was gone. If his 60 Minutes interviews and Donald Trump stories were worth as much to the University as people say they were then the big story about not wanting to pay him a bonus wouldn't have made any sense because it would have been offset. It's not remotely as open and shut as you think it is.
Such an awesome coach that he could barely even get an interview for over a year after he was fired.
Done for now, I really don't want to keep reiterating the same stuff I've been saying for a few years now. This is why I didn't comment on the WSU game as it was going on the other night. It gets really old trying to relate first hand knowledge of the situation only to get rebuffed every time with some variation of "you're just rationalizing LOL Tech is stupid."
Mattdaddy
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Just got back from Mexico last night. I'm going to go ahead and assume that OU played great and looked sharp and are eager to take back the big 12 title.
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8-4 or 7-5
Looked like a poop sandwhich out there.
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8-4 or 7-5
Looked like a poop sandwhich out there.
StrikerObi
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Thanks Monroeski, for your point of view. It's nice to hear from somebody who saw both sides of it, since most of us only really every saw Leach winning games and ESPN trying to railroad him out of Lubbock.
Don't worry, the defense looked strong against that ferocious UTEP attack, and the poor o-line play was simply Stoops testing Landry Jones on his pocket presence.
And Metoyer definitely looked like Dez/Broyles 2.0 out there.
Mattdaddy
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I need a good crying gif. I have none
At least we're always safe in Norman. Oh wait.
Tallshortman
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lol is this one for real?
The KSU and Notre Dame games look a lot more interesting now. Not that I expect OU to lose either, but still.I need a good crying gif. I have none
At least we're always safe in Norman. Oh wait.
An Alabama radio guy was just on with Softy and he thinks we'll give LSU a game because their QB is a question mark. I hope he's right!
Just make sure you hit him up around the head. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Mattdaddy
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Yessir I can't wait for those either, especially Notre Dame. I think they are like 8-1 against us, and I was at the game in Southbend last time they played in 99. They came back from a couple touchdowns and beat us. Time for some getback
Playing them at night, at their house? You have a chance, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. How did Mettenberger do in his first game, anyway?
That Tech game is a potential trap as well.
OU's schedule is actually pretty tough.
KSU
@Tech
Texas
Notre Dame
Baylor
@WVU
OSU
@TCU
Hard to see the team that showed up at UTEP getting through that with fewer than 3 losses.
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/9/4/3286024/alabama-football-2012
Alphabetical is up
I like the part that says, if not bound by the rules and the stadium, Alabama's OLine would have pushed Michigan's DLine all the way to Mexico, and probably wouldn't stop till it hit the Pacific.
Alphabetical is up
I like the part that says, if not bound by the rules and the stadium, Alabama's OLine would have pushed Michigan's DLine all the way to Mexico, and probably wouldn't stop till it hit the Pacific.
Decent stats but it sounds like they didn't ask him to do much since they were leaning on the run.
Mattdaddy
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I can see us taking some licks if Stoops doesn't get things sinched up. I think you guys could clown us again.
We'll know a lot more about OSU after the next 3 games.
If we can handle Arizona and Texas with relative ease, 10 wins should be the goal. And it would be fantastic to get that Norman monkey off our backs.
ConfusingJazz
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Oh god, aggies are claiming that it was other fanbases that funded the damn billboard: http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=2143001&forum_id=5
This is what happens when you go full aggie.
This is what happens when you go full aggie.
Sirpopopop
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"College Football 2012 Week 2 - JoePa touched me in the soul"
Hear hear!
Looks like it based on those stats. Completion percentage was good, but 1 TD and 1 int against who they played isn't exactly a dominant performance. Hard to tell based on that, I guess that's why the Bama beat writer said you guys have a chance.
bucknuticus
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With Texas State getting 10 points in the "also receiving votes" category of the AP poll, that makes them the 4th ranked school in the state (Texas at 17, TCU at 20, Baylor with 38 in others receiving votes). Who would have ever thought that Tech could actually improve their national standing with a win over the Bobcats this week?
Is it really a trap game if OU hasn't won in Lubbock since 2003?
Gotta commemorate the lack-of-win streak.
Besides, what else really happened this week that's interesting enough for a thread title?
True. Keep it up.Is it really a trap game if OU hasn't won in Lubbock since 2003?
Hope it's a night game, that should help the odds of an upset substantially.
I agree with this.. The more that we talk about the school, the worse it is for CFB as a whole, IMO. Even if we're making fun of them, our jokes aren't really those that you'd necessarily get if you didn't follow these threads every day.
bucknuticus
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So Andy Staples posted he left Ohio St off his ballot on accident becuase he did it at 3:30 in the morning.
I'm so glad we have these things...
I'm so glad we have these things...
Nothing really I guess. I just don't want the mouth breathing PC police in here.
Schmitty
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Hey! An article that doesn't condemn every alumni and student! Nice!
But some of the slogans...
"we are because he was"
"we know the truth media"
etc
Let it go people !! Ugh...ignorance is bliss I suppose
bucknuticus
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A Fla beat writer just called into the Urban Meyer Call-in show and asked what he thinks about gata fans rooting for UCF since he left Florida for tOSU.
Urban told him he didnt leave one school for another and his facts are "unsurprisingly, incorrect." Love the way Urbz handels press, so much better than the vest.
Urban told him he didnt leave one school for another and his facts are "unsurprisingly, incorrect." Love the way Urbz handels press, so much better than the vest.
Schmitty
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I used to not like the guy when down in SEC land but after coming to OSU, I can definitely tell that he knows what he is doing
True. I don't want to live in an America where I can't get my piss hot in peace.
BertramCooper
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Probably going to buy a student ticket off Stubhub for this week's game.
I guess we'll see if the old BuckID passes the stadium security smell test.
I guess we'll see if the old BuckID passes the stadium security smell test.
bucknuticus
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They dont give a shit. You dont even have to have your own BuckID, just a BuckID. I could give my ticket and BuckID to my parents and they would let one of them in.
BertramCooper
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Urban Meyer is a dick. Only fans of the team he's coaching like him. He completely ruined the BYU/Utah rivalry. It used to be fun and the fanbases teased each other. When Meyer came he introduced a serious lack of respect and turned the whole thing mean. Now the fanbases don't tease, they're just flat out rude and mean to one another.
I was happy to see him leave Utah, but unfortunately the rivalry is still bitter and mean, and I don't know what it would take to make it a fun rivalry again.
bucknuticus
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I know, and its great!
timetokill
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A kid born around the time Penn State last won a football game would be 14 now.
... huh.
... huh.
You just raised Jerry's eyebrows.
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