AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
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College Football 2016 Week Seven: It's Never the Right Time to Wear Orange.
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Kill the host to allow short term access to the festering wound. I understand why they are doing it, but I can't tell if they know or care that it will be to their long term detriment.
Affeinvasion
Member
Basketball is really the only major sport I don't enjoy. I never once went to a basketball game at ND. I did go to football, baseball, hockey, soccer, and lacrosse games.
Purple Cheeto
Member
https://twitter.com/bonaguraespn/status/788163523276894208
Almost for percent of UCLA's run plays go for 0 or less yards. They average a conference worst 1.27 yards per carry between the tackles.
Also they were taking a ton of snaps from under center to start the season (as compared to recent years) and have abandoned that the last two games.
Turns out it can get worse than Noel Mazzone.
Almost for percent of UCLA's run plays go for 0 or less yards. They average a conference worst 1.27 yards per carry between the tackles.
Also they were taking a ton of snaps from under center to start the season (as compared to recent years) and have abandoned that the last two games.
Turns out it can get worse than Noel Mazzone.
I don't know why so many people seem surprised at this. No good expansion options are available anymore.
Even TCU and WVU wouldn't have gotten in this round IMO. Not a stretch to say most people think the Big XII is destined to implode but it's still not as imminent today as it was when they were down to 8 and those two got in.
We don't need 12 now like we needed 10 then.
GoldenEye 007
Member
Big XII is trash and I hope they suffer the same fate as the Big East or WAC.
They deserve it. Conference is full of shit teams that think their shit don't stink. Especially outside of OU and UT.
They deserve it. Conference is full of shit teams that think their shit don't stink. Especially outside of OU and UT.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I found this interesting. Lot of people (including myself) have felt like Hurts still has a long way to go in the passing game. Looks like he's actually doing pretty well though, and he's been improving nicely. His completion percentage on 20+ yard passes is nearly 20% higher in the last three games than it was in the first three. Think he still needs to work on passing better under pressure, which wasn't covered in that article.
Hurts is going to be a pain in the ass for the rest of the conference for the next 2-3 years. I for one am going to enjoy that.
Will the B12 just stay at 10 then? I doubt that's viable long term. It's not like their options are going to get any better either, TV contracts and greater stability are going to keep teams from any of the other P5 conferences from jumping ship to the B12.
UCONN released its Big 12 presentation... honestly they were the best choice, just too far.
http://uconn.edu/public-notification/big-12/
http://uconn.edu/public-notification/big-12/
I've always wondered why the ACC was so dead set against UConn. Rumors were that UConn tried to block BC from leaving the BE and there was bad blood between the schools so BC would veto any move to have them join. At this point there isn't anything marketshare wise they add, and you have to wonder how strong the brand is when selling the matchups. They were top tier in basketball when Calhoun was coach, but he retired, though Kevin Ollie has done pretty well. They are the team everyone loves to hate in women's hoops, but how far does that carry over for the rest of the conference. They are on and off in football, from OK to terrible and I'm not sure they could become a consistent threat.
FloydtheFathead
Member
Randy said it in OT, but apparetly Clemson and Florida State put their foot down and demanded Louisville for football rather than add UConn. Clemson and Florida State won.
Part of me dreams that the ACC would eventually embrace their niche as the basketball conference and add them and try and get Kansas.. that really would make The ACC tourney really fun.
Vanillalite
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The ACC had two issues.
The southern schools said despite it being a basketball conference that football rules the $$$ roost so they needed to add more football schools.
The ACC second point which the ACC ultimately caved on to some degree is they wanted some semblance of academic good standing. The Big 10 had a similar thought during their expansion. Hence why neither conference wanted say WVU.
They ultimately caved on #2 to satisfy #1 to some degree. They also didn't have a ton of choices in terms of expansion.
PS: Also people forget during that time frame Uconn was under NCAA investigation.
The southern schools said despite it being a basketball conference that football rules the $$$ roost so they needed to add more football schools.
The ACC second point which the ACC ultimately caved on to some degree is they wanted some semblance of academic good standing. The Big 10 had a similar thought during their expansion. Hence why neither conference wanted say WVU.
They ultimately caved on #2 to satisfy #1 to some degree. They also didn't have a ton of choices in terms of expansion.
PS: Also people forget during that time frame Uconn was under NCAA investigation.
sf2fanatic
Member
Tells you how much they miss Perkins when he moved on to the NFL.
Uconn led the lawsuit against the ACC during the first raid, Blumenthal's folly.
Really though their problem is that you were good enough in basketball and not good enough in football, their one good football year happened to coincide when WVU decided to shit their pants. Just not enough football players in the Northeast, not enought to support BC/Syracuse/and Uconn especially since NJ/NY has become Osum/Mich/Psu recruiting stronghold.
The ACC tournament is already really fun. If you haven't been in person, I highly recommend it. You have to balance the revenue sports in a world where football is king which is why I was fine with the Louisville add.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
I'm glad there is baseball to get us through the week right now
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Seriously. Slooooooow news and discussion week. OTC is trash.
FloydtheFathead
Member
I wouldn't go because I'm not the biggest college basketball fan. I watched a lot of it last season.. it was fun to see. That's why I would hope that UConn would get added one day and maybe Kansas just to see the madness because outside of Kentucky, UCLA, and arguably Sparty.. that would be almost all of the BIG basketball schools right?
That isn't necessarily a bad thing.
A giant fence around the area until 2018 is kind of a bummer for me
FloydtheFathead
Member
Yep. I'm betting the smaller schools wanted to expand to stabilize the conference, but those same schools couldn't agree on teams that wouldn't also hurt them.
FloydtheFathead
Member
There's no way the wheels aren't being put in motion for all the major schools. I hope we get more leaks in the immediate future.
So I messed up last week and had 13 games in the pick 'em instead of 12. Since everyone picked FSU, I just ignored that game. I have to walk the dog, so I'll create this week's pick 'em and post it after that's done.
Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17J0KxBiOpJCixZIh-YPUIZTlFQvG3sUVss4_YlGi494/edit?usp=sharing
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Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17J0KxBiOpJCixZIh-YPUIZTlFQvG3sUVss4_YlGi494/edit?usp=sharing
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12 55 ag
0 33 AlteredBeast
0 37 andycapps
0 29 Battlezone
0 30 BertramCooper
8 46 bpfd
9 50 BTM
10 47 Bucknuticus
9 42 cashman
8 46 Chicko1983
0 6 Chris R
10 46 Deacon
8 13 DorkLord54
11 50 Dsyndrome
10 52 ErnieMcCracken
8 49 felixorion
0 7 fgfdgdfg
8 51 FloydtheFathead
0 8 Frank Beamer
0 26 Frustrated_Grunt
8 43 Ganhyun
0 10 Garryk
0 33 GoldenEye 007
0 28 Googly Eyes Dog
0 14 GreenyMac
0 9 HeySeuss
0 16 Jerm411
7 52 jfkgoblue
0 8 Jhriad
11 60 jstevenson
7 47 Karl2177
0 10 Kawl_USC
0 9 Kenpokesbabrie
0 25 KingBrave1
0 4 LionPride
0 30 Lizardking
9 49 Lonestar
9 49 Mac the KNife
11 33 Monroeski
0 8 mre
11 57 MrJames
0 12 nobuyuki
0 34 OceanicAir
9 44 perfectchaos007
9 40 Quake1028
8 44 ryseing
10 58 sf2fanatic
0 13 Stooge
10 47 Subitai
0 23 Surge
0 36 Tebunker
0 5 tetromibi
0 38 TheLetdown
6 37 timetokill
0 4 Titanoboa
0 33 truly101
0 8 whytemyke
0 32 xeris
0 44 Yaboosh
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AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Weird, I remember doing the pick'em last week
bucknuticus
Member
Im making my move! I was down in the basement but 2 strong weeks got me back!
Lonestar somehow doing good in this pickem unlike the podcast one....
Lonestar somehow doing good in this pickem unlike the podcast one....
I'd even guess I might have chosen differently on games used in both.
https://goo.gl/forms/19rBLFtbgOP43bv02
UCF/UCONN
MIAMIOH/BGSU
IND/NW
WISC/IOWA
TEX/KSU
CUSE/BC
COLO/STAN
MEM/NAVY
TAMU/BAMA
ARK/AUB
MISS/LSU
WYOM/NEV
UCF/UCONN
MIAMIOH/BGSU
IND/NW
WISC/IOWA
TEX/KSU
CUSE/BC
COLO/STAN
MEM/NAVY
TAMU/BAMA
ARK/AUB
MISS/LSU
WYOM/NEV
GoldenEye 007
Member
ConFLiCT is destined to last forever!
I assumed thats what it meant so I went with 217
Good article about Briles' offensive system. I'd be curious to see a good defensive mind break it down. I'm guessing that there really aren't that many different plays and that the calls are all one or two word plays. It's built around speed.
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That short?