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I’m sorry, I don’t think it really matters. It is ridiculous to believe that college football is a level playing field and coaching is what separates the top teams. It’s players first and foremost. And how they are getting them, and or cycling the ones that don’t work out to get new ones. Sure, good coaching can win you games. But not compete for a title year after year. When your opponents appear to always be 2 deep at every position. it makes it pretty fucking difficult to compete against them. There is a reason all of the Big12 teams appear to have some type of flaw. It is because they all do. A single key injury can sink a Big12 team. And we all seem to either have either a good defense or a good offense, but seldom both. We all get 85 scholarships but how other schools honor them is far different then how our conference runs business. When a school is capable of placing 5 to 7 players in the NFL draft almost every year, most of which make rosters, something is bullshit. That isn’t just coaching, that is having a talent to begin with.

I’m a get off my grass guy. And would never approve of changing anything about our uni’s except the occasional color shift, number height, etc. Those subtle changes I understand. And I think the same should be said of all the helmet schools. The Oregon thing on the other hand was Phil Knight finally achieving the financial power to do something to create awareness for a program few east of the Rockies even knew exsisted. And quite frankly they have been pretty fucking entertaining even though sometimes they go way to far (see their basketball court floor for an example of this). So for smaller schools who could benefit from such a move more power to them. Though the chrome helmet thing always reminds me of “Flash....duh duh Gordon”.....

I just wonder what the fuck goes through his head? His ego tells you he would fire a bitch in a second to get what he wants. Yet here we are, waiting yet again for a competitive team. Proving the definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result. Fucking amazing.

Funny. This generation of coaches are enjoying the fruits of yesteryears efforts. I can still remember Bear doing that cheesy Sunday TV show hawking shitty potato chips and demonstrating how difficult it was coaching versus being an analyst. Because he was never very good at talking the talk about how he did things. Having their own TV show was at the time one of the few ways in which to increase coaches salaries. And even running into him on occasion at breakfast spots around the Birmingham and Jacksonville area. Just sitting there eating with nobody bothering him other then to say hello as they walked by. You just don’t see that these days. They have become more rock star then regular people.

Let me help you out with your conundrum. Wealth, one is perceived as having it, one is known to have not. Which is pretty fucked up when you think about it. Though the university may in fact be well off. I know some Texas grads that have had a pretty hard time in life. So it’s like guilt by association.

Sam losing his helmet gave the ref’s pretty much Carte Blanche to spot it along a wide area. If what the announcers claimed is true (fuck it, I ain’t looking it up) that the play is dead when a player loses his helmet. They could pretty much put it anywhere they fucking wanted to. And if you can stomach to watch it again. Pay attention to when the two line judges converge at the mark, they are about a yard apart in their opinion as to the proper spot. Had they gone with the other guy it would have been a conversion. From the camera angles we were shown there was no way to determine exactly when Sam’s helmet actually came off. So it came down to where those to ref’s met at center.

I don’t believe so. Rumor in these parts was Bob moved Brent down to these parts for reasons other then making room for his brother, and that was just the cover story to clean everything up. And though it has worked out well for Brent, many down in these parts believe there is something to it. Because if you pay attention you never hear his name mentioned any more. Yet his resume is that of someone that should have already been given an opportunity to be a head coach. Hell he already has a ring, and coached in four title games including beating Alabama. That is as good or better then Pruitt, Mullen or Smart all of which had a similar body of work.

Lutz

Damn Mike, I read your responses all the time. And they always appear well thought out. But, in this case I believe you may have missed my point. I wasn’t advocating any particular system as much as I was simply throwing something out calling for fair play. I’m open to anything, even going back to the old bowl tie ins if need be, rather then this slight of hand shit. And a disclaimer: I like Pappy very, very much. And probably shouldn’t start a thread at 1:00 am after consuming it.

Gooner? Nah. Riley got his job done, albeit it required 4 quarters. Ain’t no one shut his ass down for 4. And their defense is a fucking sieve that you and I could score on. That game had little to do with two coaches playing mental chess. One just has a better scheme on one side of the ball, the other simply has better players on the other. Had Texas held the 21 point lead they built/enjoyed in the first 3 quarters I would wholeheartedly agree.

After watching yet another episode of College Football Final. Featuring that dumb ass Palmer and Puppet using their fancy board to post their take on the top 5 teams. I felt compelled to ask a simple question. What was the real reason logic didn’t prevail and simply take conference champions and say, an at large bid? Money, pride, TV demanding good match up rating numbers? Who would want to watch Ol Miss, Wisconsin, Utah, Okie lite, Wake Forest, and Boise State right? Taking the conference champs and an at large would leave an opening for either ND should they run their schedule, and not piss them off. Or provide what could be the occasional Cinderella team out of the other schools like a UCF? Instead we have invented a new phrase, these fuckers can’t use enough....“the eye test”, which is nothing more then a euphemism for, man I really like these fuckers and the ratings would be awesome. Plus I think they should be in the mix. And I don’t care if they just lost, and can’t win their conference they looked really good doing it. For more then a century the subjectivity of the sport was actually part of the fun. And losing late was a season killer. Then the money got bigger and we got bowl tie ins. But that still allowed ambiguity in the ranks. And when a few select schools didn’t like those results we got the BCS. Which began the current corruption. And resulted in the bullshit we have now. I don’t have to remind any of you of the obvious shit. But one thing should be pointed out. Absolutely no one doubts the talent level of a Alabama. You watch them play and you can see it. But one doesn’t have to look any farther back then last year, where they failed to not only win their division, but the conference as well. However because of the “eye test” their loss to Auburn was largely meaningless. And if anything it allowed them not only a mulligan but time to heal, and extend their preparation for the four team playoff. One of which was a team from their own fucking conference they should of had to deal with in the first fucking place. I get that the SEC is the greatest and can beat several NFL teams. Shit I won’t even bother to argue that shit anymore as no one really cares. But the fact that we have a fucking committee going behind closed doors (no chance of impropriety there) and arbitrarily selecting the four schools without a reviewable data set is pretty laughable. In place of measurable data we get instead “their body of work” or the “eye test” bullshit. And lastly it still allows the mighty SEC to win every year. Because fuck it they do anyway. But the team that does do that will also be able to call themselves conference champion. Something last years champ can’t even fucking do. And it equally applies pressure to every member of every conference that to get in just win. Because, you know. It’s football, and sometimes really fucked up shit happens regardless of the “eye test”. Sometimes, on occasion, once in a blue moon, the favorite doesn’t fucking win. Fuck it, I’m done...

There is absolutely nothing about this guy that says gangsta. I know he has been very successful, and maybe it’s a generational thing. But he pretty much looks like a pussy.

Exactly, and if I had a guess he got that message to the right people. He is making good money with the mouse. And I just don’t buy Acho, if for nothing else but pride. Just woke up that morning and decided to speak out against his own. It reeks of just one more piece of the ESPN narrative.

Hell, if I had a say in it I would tell whichever coach you went with to start cheating like a mother fucker. What could possibly go wrong? The NCAA? The FBI? If they can’t connect the dots with Jayhawks basketball, they sure as hell couldnt do anything about a historically bad football team, that just magically got a little better.

You look at Tex’s Tech over there. And it makes you damn glad you chose something else....

It’s recruiting guys. Missing out on the Oliver’s of the recruiting world really hurts. Sure, a good coach can hide a player or three. But at the end of the day great players make all coaches look smarter then they really are, unless your name is Belichik. And you have the gift of seeing things in players others always seem to miss. And regardless of their philosophy (see Chizik) plug in an All American nose tackle, and voila just like that your team is tough to run on. But there are so few of those guys, and everyone wants them. Recruit better, team improves. That is why you pay the head coach $10 million. Not just because he knows how to handle the coin toss.

Was that Christian Okoye? The guy no one wanted to stand next to during the NFL combine?

aggy will never be a threat in the SEC. The Birmingham Boys would never allow it, and apparently aggy was to fucking stupid and petulant to recognize it. The power of the SEC brought aggy in for no other reason then a physical presence in Texas. Which they achieved. They wanted Texas, but at gun point. So instead they went after the retarded brother. One that would say yes to anything to get separation from their own paranoia. They knew that Texas would never be prostrate to those in Birmingham. So any negotiations would have died in committee. Texas could still be a world class institution in the SEC, just not as Alabama’s bitch. Way to many on this site, and others. Believe it was, or is acedemics that kept Texas from getting involved with the SEC. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It was about power. Those in Austin were not about to live under a currupt Alabama rule. Equal voices? Perhaps. But never a rubber stamp member. aggy in the other hand obviously has no problem with it....yet. Give it time, it is only going to get worse for aggy. They need only ask their former SWC member Arkansas how things have fared since joining. A member since 1992, and hasn’t sniffed a conference title in football and never will.

Last three throws, one high, one bounced, and one thrown away.

Aaron may want to get his State Farm agent on the line and file a claim on his personal injury coverage. That arm is hurt...

Gratuitous spot

Damn, after watching college football all day yesterday, and then watching this game. Pro defenses are really fucking fast.

I just don’t get the analysis of how ND had to go the road at a tough Northwestern team? What is that? Half the Big12 could put 50 on Northwestern. And Michigan? Ok, they supposedly have a good defense, but who have they played that has an offense that you would want? Hell, the shitty ND QB beat em before the went with Ian Book. Then Georgia blows its wad against LSU, which scored zero points against Bama? How good are the really?

You apparently have never went double or nothing on a all carry 185 yard par 3 into an island green. Making a clean second swing is pretty fucking hard to pull off, and the guy who does it deserves the cash.

Lutz, I posted on this last week when cameras kept picking up his emotional reactions during the broadcast. And how they have being doing this since the K-State game where the cameras caught him doing dramatic exhale thing while looking up to the sky as time expired. I believe it was then they picked up on it. And now are simply focusing on it. As I said in my previous post from last week. There is nothing wrong with it per se, as it is just the bodies way of relieving the stress the brain is under during an emotional event. And though the man is under intense pressure he unfortunately has not yet learned how to manage the physical side of it. And isn’t cognizant that people are watching. Yeah I know he makes millions, yada, yada. But he is still human.