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That's great stuff. Really heartwarming. Hearing the crowd go nuts is awesome
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That's great stuff. Really heartwarming. Hearing the crowd go nuts is awesome
BertramCooper
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Wait, ESPN is a business?
Fuck, I always assumed they were a public service.
Fuck, I always assumed they were a public service.
Sirpopopop
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I agree with this comment.
Academics & athletics have no relation. The donors who donate to athletics usually ignore academics & vice-versa.
Jack Hoffman (the kid) is also recorded in the official stat sheet for the touchdown and as the lead rusher for the game.
Well there is a relationship, it's just extremely negative, even here more than more schools.
Sirpopopop, I think Barchi's gone too.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/04/rutgers_president_robert_barch_1.html
He didn't even read the outside council report (I don't have a law degree but my layman reading of the report is yeah, you could fire him with cause but he can sue and he'd probably win).
You can't throw the outside council report under the bus if you don't even bother to read it.
edit. From Jerry Carino who easily did the best job of reporting on this (well in a biased Rutgers fans pov).
Sirpopopop
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Barchi's not gone.
Christie bailed his ass out.
Christie bailed his ass out.
I think there's going to be more heat on Barchi, I don't think anybody at Rutgers is happy right now. I don't think story is over yet, especially since there's alot of stuff left to dig.
Wouldn't be surprised if he got a call saying "Get the merger done, then immediately resign to spend time with your family."
Yeah he's only here for the merger, but he's an old rich guy who clearly doesn't give a fuck (look at what he said that got the Newark faculty pissed off at him, it was a tactless rich white guy I don't give a fuck comment). I'm suprised he didn't just resign because he clearly doesn't need the job and doesn't care about this bullshit.
perfectchaos007
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I guess he isn't redshirting
Btw.
At least somebody's calling out ESPN for not mentioning Murdoch's garbage.
http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/07/espn-exposes-abusive-coach/
UGA had 43k people at their spring game yesterday. Or about 5k more than the b1G championship game. Not bad for a spring game with the Braves playing in Atlanta that night.
Not quite Bama numbers but the game is drawing more every year. Helps that it wasn't during the Masters this year.
Not quite Bama numbers but the game is drawing more every year. Helps that it wasn't during the Masters this year.
Sirpopopop
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Nice Draxal.
Now, on another note, can we get back to talking about Texas Tech and Tommy Tuberville!
I long for those days at this time.
Now, on another note, can we get back to talking about Texas Tech and Tommy Tuberville!
I long for those days at this time.
I head Tuberville was spotted eating dinner with Mike Rice the night before the video leaked.
Schmitty
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I still don't think is over.
You and I know where Tim Pernetti came from. (CBS ... he was pretty much the executive who decided the games that CBS was going to show each saturday).
CBS wants him back, CBS owns WFAN, WFAN were already doing hit jobs on ESPN already (ESPN guys can't show up on Sportspope's show).
I hope francesa goes berserk.
perfectchaos007
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If Murdoch truly was fired for being a whistle blower, Rutgers is in deep shit. I'm sure Rutgers is trying to find other reasons as to why he was fired, but Murdoch has a good case.
also, in case it hasn't been posted.
NMA
He wasn't fired, he was on one year contracts and went AWOL after he didn't attend a camp and assumed he got fired, and now he's being investigated by the FBI for extortion charges.
:jnc
ChiTownBuffalo
Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
I have a date with an Aggie.
I'm not sure how this will end up.
I'm not sure how this will end up.
perfectchaos007
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Confession: I went to my senior prom with an aggy. To my defense, I didn't know at the time she was going to be an aggy. Her dad went to Texas Tech so I thought she was neutral.
As what you should expect? I don't know, ask her if they actually have chili at chili fest. That should break the ice.
Pristine_Condition
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...probably with her wanting you to jerk it into a jar.
"Oh that's not an actual chili dog!"
Huh? Nobody blew the whistle on the Duke Lacrosse case, there was an actual police investigation with charges filed and due to the nature of race and privilege it was covered nationwide by everyone. Not seeing a lot of parallels between it and either the Rutgers issue or Auburn.
Err, what I meant was that Duke players were demonized by the press and a decent amount of your faculty.
Selena Roberts was the most notorious one.
And she never apologized for it.
Did you faculty ever own up to being wrong about that case?
Just make sure you have an exit strategy prepared for action at the first sign of a "whoop."
CouldBeWorse
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Huh?
There are two sources for the two articles (ESPN and Selena Roberts). Everyone else is just quoting (or taking exception to) those articles.
CouldBeWorse
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So the PR campaign failed or was successful? I wasn't following the case closely enough so I don't know what was on the table.
It does sound like he and his lawyer weren't confident enough in his innocence to take this to a jury.
Oh, come on. You know better than this.
That's true, I just meant that every major news source is talking about it. ESPN and Selena Roberts are the only ones that have seemingly done any research and actual reporting.
Ok I see your point there. No, nobody who commented, blogged, opined on the Lacrosse case admitted they were wrong. A few nut cases insisted something must have happened anyway, but most just ignored it ever happened. Duke alumni turncoat and all around miserable human being John Feinstein, who famously said that all the players should be expelled, scholarships revoked etc when the case first hit, said university president Richard Broadhead should have resigned for capitulating to pressure in cancelling the season. I hate John Feinstein, ad anytime Duke beats Navy in football, it brings a smile to my face.
There was a live view of his town hall meeting on cnn.com. I'm at work so I couldn't watch but saw some of the comments rivals just suggest that it was a complete disaster.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvplive/cvpstream2&hpt=hp_t2#/video/cvplive/cvpstream2
Here's the Rival Rutgers comment thread.
http://rutgers.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?SID=988&fid=642&style=2&tid=163870906&Page=1
lol yeah right man how many Rhodes Scholars do they even have? Are they trying to be the Harvard of Jersey?
This is all from the New Brunswick (the flagship campus). Our philosophy department is top of the line.
http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/national-rankings
Newark leadsa in "Diversity".
Much to their chagrin, I think that spot is taken up by Princeton.
Princeton is already Ivy League. They don't need to be a "Harvard of the.."
Little late to post it but I saw over the weekend that Texas receiver Kendall Sanders was arrested early Saturday morning. Normally posting about a UT player being arrested is like posting that the sun came up this morning but this story gets bonus points for the arrest having been made by the Texas A&M Police.
That's why you never go full Aggy.
It's like saying Georgia Bulldogs are the Alabama Crimson Tide of Georgia, so close yet so very far at the same exact time.
Sirpopopop
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We are no longer talking about Rutgers.
So how about that brewing scandal with the Washington Huskies. Apparently Steve Sarkisian was caught in a shower with a badger?
Hey, if the badger consented, I'm ok with that.
So how about that brewing scandal with the Washington Huskies. Apparently Steve Sarkisian was caught in a shower with a badger?
Hey, if the badger consented, I'm ok with that.
Was the Badger Russell Wilson? Because that would be perfectly understandable and even encouraged.
Sirpopopop
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It was a badger that once bumped into Russell Wilson while he was out in the woods.
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