bucknuticus
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Basically that the families get no help at all attending these game, for instance OSU's players families have had to try to book flights,hotels, tickets for 3 separate games in 3 different cities.
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College Football Playoff Thread | Setting A Daggerous Precedent
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Basically that the families get no help at all attending these game, for instance OSU's players families have had to try to book flights,hotels, tickets for 3 separate games in 3 different cities.
I thought Oklahoma State would be higher on that list.
The problem for the rest of the Big 12 is that in the conference rankings Baylor is #1 and TCU is #3.
That doesn't seem like all that big of a deal. Certainly not enough to hold up expansion.
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That makes a bit more sense, though the article pretty much counters it in the same way I would: The NFL plays 16 games and all other divisions in college play 15 to 16 games, and add to that that even in high school it's 16 games (in Texas, at least). Meyer says "This is the first time in college football history that you’re asking a student at a university to spend this much time," but in reality they will be playing 14 games while this season alone you will have 8 other college football teams playing 15 or more (2 each for FCS, D-II, D-III, and NAIA).
BertramCooper
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Could be wrong, but I think Draxal is referring to this:
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/106947/playoff-grind-a-concern-for-meyer?src=mobile
Though covering travel and ticket costs for families of players is also a debate that needs to be had.
bucknuticus
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@jbook37 38m38 minutes ago
Stanford's Lance Anderson and Shannon Turley and Kentucky's Vince Murrow all declined to go work on Harbaugh staff at Michigan.
Stanford's Lance Anderson and Shannon Turley and Kentucky's Vince Murrow all declined to go work on Harbaugh staff at Michigan.
Kentucky is an up and coming program.
Mac the KNife
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They must be decaf guys.
Randolph Freelander
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I'm assuming it's an argument about the length of the season, as I don't recall specifically what Meyer might have said but length is one that has made the rounds recently, and often before that.
Schedule length is a junk argument, and is simply self-serving, as is usually the case with college athletics. And if it isn't junk, it is one that should be made for every other level of collegiate football. D1 FCS plays a 12 game schedule and then a 24 team playoff. D2 has a 24 team playoff, and D3 is 32.
I don't want to hear about too long of a season at 4 or 8 teams. I also don't want to hear about it expanding into academic work, which is another argument they use. 12/20 was a perfectly good Saturday to hold the quarters this year.
Randolph Freelander
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Indiana
Oh you
Lee Chaolan
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You're not wrong, but there is no way they would schedule this game against the NFL playoffs.
The funny thing about Turley is that he applied for the opening for strength and conditioning coach at UGA, didn't get it, but isn't interested in going to Michigan. :jnc
BertramCooper
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In that case I'd rather it be a Thursday night than a Monday night.
perfectchaos007
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GAF downtime sucked. Why can't they take care of maintenance during the Australian work day?
Randolph Freelander
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As if. Clearly, the culprit is Oregon. Have you seen their championship game uniforms?
Frustrated_Grunt
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I just assumed Last Guardian got a trailer or something.
Worse than the other 14 uniforms they've had so far this year? I saw them, and honestly, I've seen so many shitty uniforms from them that I can't rate one as better or worse than the others.
bucknuticus
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Champ game jerseys:
It was this one, and I wouldn't compare Div 1 to NFL or Div 2/3 they are very different beasts (and div2/3 shouldn't be playing that many games either), the CTE scare is very real.
bucknuticus
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Randolph Freelander
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It's not even about the way it looks, it's the way it doesn't look. To wit, it doesn't look green or yellow.
I guess that part is interesting but when you're using different shades of yellow or green in each uniform and mixing in alternate colors all willy nilly, this isn't too shocking to finally elevate one of the alternate colors and leave your primary ones out. Honestly, this is one of the least offensive Oregon uniforms I've seen just because it's not such an assault on the eyes.
Purple Cheeto
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Oregon not wearing school color's is just about the most shameful thing possible but whatever.
I saw on Twitter over the weekend that the two CFP games had higher tv ratings than the two NFL playoff games from Saturday. Looks like the playoff is a success.
I saw on Twitter over the weekend that the two CFP games had higher tv ratings than the two NFL playoff games from Saturday. Looks like the playoff is a success.
Until you have to see Tennessee and Florida uniforms all the time, you don't know what offensive is.
White is one of our school colors. We've worn all white uniforms numerous times. These are pretty much the same uniforms we wore against USC in 2012.
bucknuticus
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" In the 1890s,Oregon students voted to make the school colors green and yellow. The football team, however, chose to wear blue and yellow. It wasn't until 1925 that students voted to force the football team to adopt the official school colors, according to the school's archives."
When has Oregon cared about tradition in the last 5 or 6 years? Our "tradition" is to be non-traditional, to the hilarious displeasure of college football "purists" who think it's a travesty to change the width of a fucking stripe.
All that really matters is it benefits recruiting.
Randolph Freelander
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Which is why Nike U does that nonsense. And then the athletes don't see a dime.
When I'm sports czar, schools have 1 home and 1 away uniform. They can apply for changes every 4 years, subject to my approval.
BertramCooper
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East, so that we play OSU and UM each year.
You could make that argument for literally any of the crap that every schools sells to fans. Alabama-branded hot sauce, FSU-branded rape whistles, you name it.
Hard to care about something that doesn't exist.
Hating Nike U is all I have left, don't take this from me
The Outsider
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Oregon unis are hot, but they should've worn something with green.
Mac the KNife
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I'm sorry that James Castleman crushed your spirit.
Can you make Tennessee wear that ugly checkerboard stuff they like to put everywhere?
You should also make Washington wear plaid or something. Call it a tribute to grunge.
I'm more sad that our team looked like ass, and there's a lot of uncertainty going into next season. Although I suppose a lot of turnover from a mediocre team is not necessarily a bad thing. I'll miss our three defensive All-Americans though
Do you work for every broadcast team that covers a Seattle sports team?
Our games always go to commercial playing Nirvana/Soundgarden/AiC/Pearl Jam.
At least change it up and go with Hendrix sometimes, geez.
You're basically saying you're down with whatever uniform designs they come up with, as long as 17-18 year olds in highschool enjoy it. Pardon me for not agreeing with today's youth on what is or isn't cool.
Frustrated_Grunt
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Are Oregon Goodwills filled with old duck uniforms? Or does your school keep them all?
Randolph Freelander
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I am not above trolling a fanbase.
Do you work for every broadcast team that covers a Seattle sports team?
Our games always go to commercial playing Nirvana/Soundgarden/AiC/Pearl Jam.
At least change it up and go with Hendrix sometimes, geez.
I just want to make my dream of seeing the Huskies take the field in purple and gold flannel a reality.
Me too. I can imagine Delany sitting in his office thinking, "I need to get MSU out of this division so they don't muck up the stakes of the OSU-UM game."
Draxal, is the switch something that's been rumored elsewhere, or just a hypothetical question?
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