College Football Week 6 - If the Stanford Tree falls...

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If you remember the Alabama TeaBagger from the French Quarter following the Alabama/LSU game that everyone watched, he decided to plead guilty. After saying no to a 2 year prison plea bargain months ago, he decided to plead guilty for a 2 year prison term. Sidewalk Fan Supreme.
 
Monroeski said:
Not like a professional football player you don't.
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Um, dude. Football players are in a union, therefore they're communists, therefore they're part of the 47% that don't work hard and expect food and medical care and whatnot and think of themselves as victims and will never ever vote for me because they just won't take any personal responsibility.
 
Lonestar said:
If you remember the Alabama TeaBagger from the French Quarter following the Alabama/LSU game that everyone watched, he decided to plead guilty. After saying no to a 2 year prison plea bargain months ago, he decided to plead guilty for a 2 year prison term. Sidewalk Fan Supreme.
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How is a plea bargain sentence the same as a guilty sentence?
 
he wasn't given a guilty sentence, he decided to take the plea, months after saying no to it.

He's got sentencing in a month or 2, maybe it'll be a different outcome. Not sure if he's been out on bail or not, but if he'd just plead guilty months ago, he'd already be well on his way to getting out of prison by now.

Sounds like the only positives, is he doesn't have to register as a sex offender.
 
Well, they are exactly the same, assuming the judge accepts the plea and finds you guilty.

I think he meant he took months of time to take the same deal.

Also, 2 years is presumptively the minimum, but is extreme. They should have reduced the charges or the punishment, if possible under LA law.

Anyways, I will console myself by believing the culprit is most likely a huge douche.

Lonestar said:
he wasn't given a guilty sentence, he decided to take the plea, months after saying no to it.

He's got sentencing in a month or 2, maybe it'll be a different outcome. Not sure if he's been out on bail or not, but if he'd just plead guilty months ago, he'd already be well on his way to getting out of prison by now.

Sounds like the only positives, is he doesn't have to register as a sex offender.
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You are confusing the hell out of me. No plea bargain and he just plead guilty? Or the Judge is considering probation? Here in Tejas if you plead to jail time you go straight to jail, you only reset for sentencing if you are trying to get probation.
 
It's Louisiana. It's all gibberish down there.

The offer was 2 years. He was facing 10-25 years.

This is the general story I'm going off of:

Bama teabagger Brian Downing, whose trial was set to begin this morning, has reached a plea bargain, agreeing to plead guilty to lesser charges. Downing pleads guilty to one count of obscenity, one count of amended obscenity (reduced from a sexual battery charge) and now faces two years in prison served concurrently on both obscenity charges. Downing will be sentenced in 45 days.

Downing faced ten years in prison if he was convicted of the sexual battery charge so he's decided not to try his luck in front of a New Orleans jury. Yesterday his attorney said that Downing's defense would be that the was drunk and stupid.
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Okay, that makes sense. Still an absurd sentence for "obscenity" but I don't know what that actually means. I assumed he was facing 2-10 on some lower level sexual assault charge.

If I had to guess, I assume the Prosecutors let him plead guilty to a lesser charge, but they couldn't agree on punishment. It sounds like he faces a maximum of 2 years, and the judge will sentence him to something below that or give him probation.

Man, Louisiana crim statutes are a disaster, and I don't fee like looking through it.
 
StrikerObi said:
Why the fuck did we take Pitt and 'Cuse again? Should have taken Cincy and Rutgers. Same TV markets, better teams.
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Because they were the teams seen as the foundation of the Big East, and at the time all the Big 12, PAC 16 rumblings were going on and it looked like it was heading to four 16 team power conferences.

Perception wise it hurt more than substance wise really. Neither teams are worth a shit in football and in basketball they're good but there are plenty of replacements available.
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
Less than 30 days until the BE TV contract goes to the open market...

And yes LOL Pitt and Cuse! Striker, you took them for their basketball, clearly.
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Obviously. I hate the ACC.

A few FSU bloggers were talking about what happens if Bama, Oregon, and FSU all go undefeated. FSU is going to get left out in the cold. I think if that happens, FSU may figure out a way to find that $50M to get the hell out of the conference.
 
StrikerObi said:
Obviously. I hate the ACC.

A few FSU bloggers were talking about what happens if Bama, Oregon, and FSU all go undefeated. FSU is going to get left out in the cold. I think if that happens, FSU may figure out a way to find that $50M to get the hell out of the conference.
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I don't know how you do that without another conference helping you. Isn't your Athletic Dept. already in debt?
 
StrikerObi said:
Obviously. I hate the ACC.

A few FSU bloggers were talking about what happens if Bama, Oregon, and FSU all go undefeated. FSU is going to get left out in the cold. I think if that happens, FSU may figure out a way to find that $50M to get the hell out of the conference.
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I think Boone Pickens should call up the big donors from the other schools and raise $25 million or so to help defray the cost of a move to the Big 12 for FSU.

FSU could probably settle the exit fee for $30 million or so (based on what % Aggy and UNL ended up paying) and the cost would be well worth it for the future strength and stability of the conference.
 
Azwethinkweiz said:
I don't know how you do that without another conference helping you. Isn't your Athletic Dept. already in debt?
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Not anymore. But they are just barely in the black.

There would definitely need to be help from the Big XII. But I think a win in the Orange Bowl would drive donations. It's definitely a tall order though. On the plus side, FSU is the #2 school in terms of merchandise revenue. #1 is Notre Dame (of course).
 
StrikerObi said:
Obviously. I hate the ACC.

A few FSU bloggers were talking about what happens if Bama, Oregon, and FSU all go undefeated. FSU is going to get left out in the cold. I think if that happens, FSU may figure out a way to find that $50M to get the hell out of the conference.
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Don't think that 50 million will stand in court, you'll have to pay a stupid sum of money but not that incredibly stupid sum of money.

Pitt actually has a chance of getting out of it's quagmire, they just made two stupid hires in a row and were stuck with a lame duck qb, but they can easily get into that Ohio football talent and Penn's a good ground as well esp with PSU getting Sanduskied.. Syracuse is going to rot, Upstate ny has no football talent, and it's going to be extremely hard to sell recruits on their facilities.
 
Draxal said:
Don't think that 50 million will stand in court, you'll have to pay a stupid sum of money but not that incredibly stupid sum of money.

Pitt actually has a chance of getting out of it's quagmire, they just made two stupid hires in a row and were stuck with a lame duck qb, but they can easily get into that Ohio football talent and Penn's a good ground as well esp with PSU getting Sanduskied.. Syracuse is going to rot, Upstate ny has no football talent, and it's going to be extremely hard to sell recruits on their faculties.
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Having lived in upstate New York for a couple of years, I found this pathetic. There's a ton of athletic talent in New York, but for a number of reasons (most notably the fact SUNY schools are largely awful at athletics), football is an afterthought.

It made me glad I didn't grow up in New York. I find the entire SUNY system sad and depressing. A state as large and powerful as New York should have public schools that rival the likes of Berkeley. When your "Berkeley" is Binghamton, you're in a pretty sorry state.
 
BertramCooper said:
Having lived in upstate New York for a couple of years, I found this pathetic. There's a ton of athletic talent in New York, but for a number of reasons (most notably the fact SUNY schools are largely awful at athletics), football is an afterthought.

It made me glad I didn't grow up in New York. I find the entire SUNY system sad and depressing. A state as large and powerful as New York should have public schools that rival the likes of Berkeley. When your "Berkeley" is Binghamton, you're in a pretty sorry state.
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It's also a weather/density issue. Northern states can't have the seven on sevens, that the southern states have in winter, and while NY probably does have untapped talent, if that talent isn't playing somebody else of its own calibur it doesn't get developed. NYC has the issues were there's just no place to play, due to real estate issues. OTOH, I don't understand why LI doesn't develop more players.
 
BertramCooper said:
Having lived in upstate New York for a couple of years, I found this pathetic. There's a ton of athletic talent in New York, but for a number of reasons (most notably the fact SUNY schools are largely awful at athletics), football is an afterthought.

It made me glad I didn't grow up in New York. I find the entire SUNY system sad and depressing. A state as large and powerful as New York should have public schools that rival the likes of Berkeley. When your "Berkeley" is Binghamton, you're in a pretty sorry state.
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NY/NJ has always historically been a hotbed for prep basketball talent. Inner city and urban kids play hoops, not football. And even that has kind of tailed off, at least with "major" prospects.
 
BertramCooper said:
Having lived in upstate New York for a couple of years, I found this pathetic. There's a ton of athletic talent in New York, but for a number of reasons (most notably the fact SUNY schools are largely awful at athletics), football is an afterthought.

It made me glad I didn't grow up in New York. I find the entire SUNY system sad and depressing. A state as large and powerful as New York should have public schools that rival the likes of Berkeley. When your "Berkeley" is Binghamton, you're in a pretty sorry state.
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It sounds like the area is waiting for a Howard Schnellenberger type to do in New York what he did in Florida in the early 80s.
 
Cyan said:
ChiTown, I see you out there starting more ban-bait threads.
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Yeah, but see, CFB-GAF knows. And that's all that matters.

You want to see some bans? I can poke a stick into NBA-Gaf if you'd like.
 
StrikerObi said:
The Big East must be back! Rutgers beat an SEC team!
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NFL GAF is a pretty cool place, but on gamedays, the thread moves way too fast to have any sort of coherent conversation.

It's not absurdly hostile like the NBA thread, but it's just way too big for my liking.
 
Sad not to see Kansas State vs Kansas on the pickem...

Since Penn State won, we should put Kansas in the pickem until they can win a game. lol.
 
StrikerObi said:
On the plus side, FSU is the #2 school in terms of merchandise revenue. #1 is Notre Dame (of course).
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No, that's nowhere near accurate. I'm surprised all the UT fans haven't jumped all over this already. In the last quarterly report ND is #10 and FSU is #21. In the last annual report ND was #11 and FSU was #22.

Get back in your place 'Nole.
 
BertramCooper said:
NFL GAF is a pretty cool place, but on gamedays, the thread moves way too fast to have any sort of coherent conversation.

It's not absurdly hostile like the NBA thread, but it's just way too big for my liking.
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It is far too hostile to outsiders for my taste. You get the occasional moronic "who are you?" even in this thread, but it is just hard to participate in the nfl thread.
 
Jhriad said:
No, that's nowhere near accurate. I'm surprised all the UT fans haven't jumped all over this already. In the last quarterly report ND is #10 and FSU is #21. In the last annual report ND was #11 and FSU was #22.
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And thats likely using CLC numbers which dont include Ohio State and USC.
 
chicko1983 said:
Here goes round two for me:
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I'm glad to see you're still participating. A lot of new guys come in for one week because their team got hot and then leave the next week.

As far as picking so many games, the more you watch, the better a feel you'll get for things. Different teams have different styles, and some match up better with others, and so on. There's also a lot of history and tradition that comes into play, and a lot of emotion. You'll start to pick up on those things as time goes on. Stick with it. There's no other sport quite like it.
 
Jhriad said:
No, that's nowhere near accurate. I'm surprised all the UT fans haven't jumped all over this already. In the last quarterly report ND is #10 and FSU is #21. In the last annual report ND was #11 and FSU was #22.

Get back in your place 'Nole.
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This marked the seventh consecutive year The University of Texas at Austin ranked No. 1 in CLC’s fiscal year-end rankings.

(The rankings cover royalties reported between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, by clients of CLC, which account for about 80 percent of the market. The company doesn’t represent every major-conference school, with Ohio State and Southern California among those not on its list. )

(1.) The University of Texas at Austin
(2.) The University of Alabama
(3.) University of Kentucky
(4.) University of Florida
(5.) The University of Michigan
(6.) Louisiana State University
(7.) University of North Carolina
(8.) University of Georgia
(9.) University of Notre Dame
(10.) The University of Oklahoma
(11.) Auburn University
(12.) The Pennsylvania State University
(13.) University of Nebraska
(14.) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
(15.) University of Wisconsin
(16.) University of Tennessee
(17.) West Virginia University
(18.) University of South Carolina
(19.) Texas A&M University
(20.) University of Missouri
(21.) Florida State University
(22.) The University of Kansas
(23.) Oklahoma State University
(24.) Clemson University
(25.) University of Illinois
(26.) Texas Tech University
(27.) University of Miami
(28.) University of Washington
(29.) Purdue University
(30.) Arizona State University
(31.) Syracuse University
(32.) University of Louisville
(33.) The University of Arizona
(34.) University of California, Los Angeles
(35.) Duke University
(36.) Boise State University
(37.) University of California, Berkeley
(38.) Oregon State University
(39.) University of Minnesota
(40.) University of Utah
(41.) Stanford University
(42.) Washington State University
(43.) University of Maryland
(44.) The University of Virginia
(45.) University of Mississippi
(46.) Georgia Institute of Technology
(47.) Texas Christian University
(48.) University of Connecticut
(49.) University of Pittsburgh
(50.) University of Colorado
(51.) Brigham Young University
(52.) University of Cincinnati
(53.) East Carolina University
(54.) State University of New Jersey
(55.) Boston College
(56.) Georgetown University
(57.) The University of Montana
(58.) University of South Florida
(59.) University of Central Florida
(60.) Vanderbilt University
(61.) The University of Memphis
(62.) University of Nevada
(63.) U.S. Military Academy
(64.) The University of New Mexico
(65.) The University of Wyoming
(66.) Fresno State
(67.) Marshall University
(68.) Northwestern University
(69.) Colorado State University
(70.) Villanova University
(71.) Texas State University- San Marcos
(72.) University of Delaware
(73.) Louisiana at Lafayette
(74.) Gonzaga University
(75.) James Madison University
 
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