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College Football Bowl and Playoff Thread - Where American Mediocrity is rewarded!
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bucknuticus
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I'm never moving again. Next time will be when I'm rich enough/fed up enough to hire movers
that movie aint saying nothing that aint already known. people just like football too much for it to matter.
Azwethinkweiz
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chicko1983
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He didn't live up to his hype however he was double teamed by a lot of opposition lines.
The games he missed or partly missed, Ole Miss defence was a lot worse.
Sirpopopop
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I think you are overthinking things too much.
Sea World did not deserve to get Blackfished. They are a good corporation that does a lot for the environment. Blackfish was a Morgan Spurlock/Michael Moore hit & run upon a corporate citizen because some people don't like America.
The NFL & College Football will be fine. The hippies may have taken away our Sea World, but they won't take away our football.
GoldenEye 007
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Ah nothing like a bowl game in a scam baseball stadium on a Monday before Christmas in the middle of the afternoon.
But hey, I guess it's better than not being in a bowl game at all? Probably not. I'm sure everyone is losing money today.
But hey, I guess it's better than not being in a bowl game at all? Probably not. I'm sure everyone is losing money today.
It's no Bahamas Bowl.
You have a lot of faith in Luke Wilson's ability to inspire any sort of emotional reaction in a human being.
GoldenEye 007
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Sorry, this WKU QB just looks like trash today. My god. Not even close on most throws.
Edit: And this production just sucks overall. Bowl games in baseball stadiums should be banned.
Edit: And this production just sucks overall. Bowl games in baseball stadiums should be banned.
perfectchaos007
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It's very emotional. One girl who saw the movie has a brother that's being recruited by Tech, UT, and Ole Miss and after watching the movie she said she is going to do everything she can to convince her brother to just stick with track and field
Purple Cheeto
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Speaking of Track and Field: Adoree Jackson to skip spring practice in an attempt to make USA Olympics team.
chicko1983
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serious question, but how hard is it to get offered a scholarship?
I assume it may be difficult for a Div 1 team but I saw the other day the Div 3 teams playing their national championship - do these colleges offer scholarships?
If you are say, in the top 5 players of your High School, would you be able to get a free tertiary education from playing football?
I assume it may be difficult for a Div 1 team but I saw the other day the Div 3 teams playing their national championship - do these colleges offer scholarships?
If you are say, in the top 5 players of your High School, would you be able to get a free tertiary education from playing football?
Very hard, an average High School will have no scholarship players.
Elite High schools like Saint Thomas Aquinas in Florida can send up to 11 players on scholarship. But these high schools recruit 8-7th graders and poach from other high schools. High school football can be very cutthroat.
http://www.scholarshipstats.com/ncaalimits.html for you scholarship question.
GoldenEye 007
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Speaking of SeaWorld, looks like people are stuck on the SkyTower thing in Orlando. Just saw it pop up on my FB feed.
I heard that. RIP.
chicko1983
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cheers.
There is an American Football competition in my city in Australia and I suggested to my Brother in law that he get his son into kicking or punting and then try and get a scholarship to a US college.
Brad Craddock (point kicker for Maryland) played in the same competition I think.
Sirpopopop
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Chicko is the best fan in this thread.
Relentlessly positive and supportive of Ole Miss football. He doesn't brook no for an answer. Rightfully defends the SEC as the top conference in the land. Rightfully acknowledges that Ole Miss is a clean program, that's a scrappy underdog.
Relentlessly positive and supportive of Ole Miss football. He doesn't brook no for an answer. Rightfully defends the SEC as the top conference in the land. Rightfully acknowledges that Ole Miss is a clean program, that's a scrappy underdog.
GoldenEye 007
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I love how they've stopped saying the amount raised by the field goal net thing from Allstate. I remember last time it was something like 3 million since 2005. Which is trash given the amount of schools in the program and how long it has been going on.
chicko1983
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At least you know where I stand, hehe.
I never said they were a clean program, and if I did that's not what I meant. IIRC, I said that all programs are dirty and it sounds a lot like sour grapes from the bigger team fans (Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson, Bama etc) when they get their players flipped to go to Ole Miss. People just need to accept that if their team can consistently get top recruits, other teams are allowed to every now and then too.
With regards to Nkemdiche, I still think he is a very good player and you only have to look at the game where he sat out with concussion to see how much of difference he made to Ole Miss' defensive line. Time will tell I suppose.
perfectchaos007
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South Florida is trash
GoldenEye 007
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Game has become exciting in the 2nd half.
chicko1983
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cost me $5!
Frustrated_Grunt
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I went from watching almost every bowl last year to watching barely any so far this year. It feels strange.
chicko1983
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I heard them sing his name a fair bit during the BYU v Utah game.
What is so special about him?
When he was D coordinator Utah's defense became great. Who knows how much of it was him though.
All of the Polynesian ex-players are stoked and are talking about how kids that werent going to consider BYU before will now have them high on their list.
perfectchaos007
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Are the majority of Polynesians Mormon?
Ah, trying to be the next Tom Hackett? Punters usually don't get scholarships unless they're very very good.
Yeah there is a huge population of them at least.
Sirpopopop
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I have decided to end the trolling game.
My post-mortem:
It's very easy to be a delusional pie in the sky rah rah type of fan. You just need to be willing to stick to two basic points:
A. Whomever is your head coach is the best head coach in the land.
B. The fans know less than the administration/coaches at all times.
It's also a lot less stressful being such a fan, because you don't care about the accountability of your opinions. They always flip depending on who is in charge.
However, I grew bored of the act. The delusional state of mind that exists for your average paranoid Rivals user (the newspaper is out to get us. ESPN is out to get us, etc.) got too ridiculous for me.
My post-mortem:
It's very easy to be a delusional pie in the sky rah rah type of fan. You just need to be willing to stick to two basic points:
A. Whomever is your head coach is the best head coach in the land.
B. The fans know less than the administration/coaches at all times.
It's also a lot less stressful being such a fan, because you don't care about the accountability of your opinions. They always flip depending on who is in charge.
However, I grew bored of the act. The delusional state of mind that exists for your average paranoid Rivals user (the newspaper is out to get us. ESPN is out to get us, etc.) got too ridiculous for me.
That's too bad. Texas Tech and Rutgers are both in the final 3 for an OL recruit and I was looking forward to making a post in that vein if we landed him.
Sirpopopop
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The issue with Durant is whether he will qualify or not.
I'm just wondering how it is that we've offered him and a 2018 OL from that school but haven't yet offered Valentin, by far the most highly rated and highly offered of the group.
GoldenEye 007
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Ball St losing their coach Pete Lembo to Maryland. As an assistant. To Maryland. Maryland!
perfectchaos007
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Maybe not, but they're a very close-knit team.
Lembo was going to be fired, and underarmor is underarmoring. Virginia's and Syracause's head coaches are now on that staff as well.
GoldenEye 007
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Will be a heck of an experiment on how long so many former head coaches can get along on one staff...
chaosblade
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Temple and Toledo should be a fun game to watch.
GoldenEye 007
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I think so. Should be fun.
And good for Akron. First bowl win in school history. Played them the past couple years and it was fun seeing them grow and Bowden establish himself. He has to feel great right about now.
GoldenEye 007
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I love baseball this time of year!
3 Temple
2 Toledo
3 Temple
2 Toledo
chaosblade
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A couple minutes and some poor tackling later: 3-9.
Shadow2222
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Go Toledo
After watching the Bobcats fall to pieces and lose their bowl game, I'm happy to root for another Ohio team.
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