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Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 3:59 pm
by brian
Was going to watch Army-Navy but had to turn it off thanks to Gary Danielson and the jingoistic America! boners every time there’s a pause in the game.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 5:57 pm
by L-Jam3
Too bad. The Linc looks really cool with the snow, like that Lions-Eagles game a few years back.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:43 pm
by teeteebee
Was down the game today. Sat in the end zone where the final FG attempt just missed. Great time. Had my dad and son with me. Always great to see this game in person - my first in over a decade. Pageantry, tradition and pride in country.
LJAM - was thinking of that Lions game while sitting there and watching the snow fall the entire game. My second favorite Eagles-Lions game next to the shit kicking the Birds gave them in the playoffs back in 95. Was there at the Vet day. I think Lomas Brown was there too.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 10:04 pm
by L-Jam3
I guarantee Lomas Brown was at that game.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 1:04 am
by brian
Sure, Pentagonz jumps into a bunch of threads but doesn’t note how screwed Wyoming is to draw Central Michigan in the Potato Bowl.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:57 am
by Square Rob
It depends. Wyo's defense is very good. Their offense is very not.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:05 am
by brian
Square Rob wrote:It depends. Wyo's defense is very good. Their offense is very not.
I was just kidding. It actually should be a good game. They're pretty evenly matched.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:21 pm
by Square Rob
brian wrote:Square Rob wrote:It depends. Wyo's defense is very good. Their offense is very not.
I was just kidding. It actually should be a good game. They're pretty evenly matched.
It really depends on if Josh Allen is healthy or not. If not, Pokes get killed.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:23 pm
by brian
Jesus.
https://twitter.com/Mark_Schlabach/stat ... 5103602688I might literally have more pot than that stuck in the bowels of my keyboard.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:03 pm
by brian
Downtown Boise for the Potato Bowl is a little different than what Bourbon Street is like before the Sugar Bowl.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:00 am
by rass
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:41 pm
by brian
Kind of genius how the Potato Bowl has the MAC as a tie-in. Almost verbatim quote from every CMU fan: “Yeah, it’s cold but it isn’t as bad as Kelly/Shorts in November.”
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:56 pm
by brian
Flyover from F-14s from Mountain Home AFB. Pretty badass.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:58 pm
by wlu_lax6
Charlie Weis Jr. moving from Falcons to Offensive Coordinator for Lane K at FAU. He is 24 years old
http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/17/lane-kiff ... ordinator/
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:36 pm
by brian
Urban Meyer is about 50/50 to be Ohio State's head coach by the end of the week (and even that might be charitable.) Fucking football coaches looking the other way at abuse when it's convenient for them.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:17 pm
by brian
I put his odds at about closer to 10 or 20 percent at this point.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:17 pm
by Pruitt
A fine "Leader of Men."
The way Meyer views himself as a coach, the difficult calls are eventually made very simple by his sanctimonious, self-appointed sense of justice. Whether it was Aaron Hernandez running wild at Florida with no repercussions, Gators running back Chris Rainey texting “Time to die” to his girlfriend or star running back Carlos Hyde caught on video in a violent act before the 2013 season at Ohio State, Meyer needed nothing more than another stroke of his ego to justify giving someone chance after chance.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:23 pm
by mister d
I don’t know, man. All that evidence says he’s a spineless opportunist at best but, on the other hand, he says he’s a good guy.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:58 pm
by brian
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:30 am
by A_B
1-2 odds Meyer throws his wife under the bus a la Colangelo.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:46 am
by tennbengal
Nothing he or tOSU can do other than accept his resignation.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:46 am
by phxgators
I am so glad he's gone from UF. Though I still feel like there's at least one big skeleton in the closet that hasn't been found yet. Given some of the players from back then, that skeleton may be quite literal too.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:49 am
by Giff
phxgators wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:46 am
I am so glad he's gone from UF. Though I still feel like there's at least one big skeleton in the closet that hasn't been found yet. Given some of the players from back then, that skeleton may be quite literal too.
Sounds like UF has really cleaned up its image.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:50 am
by phxgators
Giff wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:49 am
phxgators wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:46 am
I am so glad he's gone from UF. Though I still feel like there's at least one big skeleton in the closet that hasn't been found yet. Given some of the players from back then, that skeleton may be quite literal too.
Sounds like UF has really cleaned up its image.
Yeah, it's been quite a couple of weeks, hasn't it?
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:15 am
by Nonlinear FC
The MSU coaches have some level of plausible deniability with what happened over there.
I don't see how Meyer survives this one. The fact that he helped cover this up while at UF, brought this guy with him to Columbus, and he's been a serial abuser for about a decade?
That's disgusting.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:18 am
by Nonlinear FC
But hey, Jay Paterno says this is all unfair, driven by "giddy" fans out for Urban's scalp.
https://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootb ... meyer.html
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:30 am
by mister d
The only good thing about the present state of everything is how pitch perfect the worst people tend to be. A Paterno has to be top 5 funniest Meyer defenders, right? One of them, Briles, Slava Voynov, Adrian Peterson and Warren Moon or something.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:35 am
by sancarlos
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:30 am
The only good thing about the present state of everything is how pitch perfect the worst people tend to be. A Paterno has to be top 5 funniest Meyer defenders, right? One of them, Briles, Slava Voynov, Adrian Peterson and Warren Moon or something.
Larry Nassar told me that Meyer is innocent. All he needs now is a supportive tweet from Trump.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:36 am
by brian
Do NOT read the mentions at Eleven Warriors or any other tOSU-slanted Twitter account (the coverage from 11W itself and the other pro-tOSU outlets have been fine so far, FWIW, but the mentions. Oh lord, the mentions. We're not talking about the most rational, intelligent fanbase to begin with, but good god.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:49 am
by Sabo
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:17 pm
by A_B
We should do one of those thread split things and start the 2018 thread. We being shirley.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:29 pm
by tennbengal
brian wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:36 am
Do NOT read the mentions at Eleven Warriors or any other tOSU-slanted Twitter account (the coverage from 11W itself and the other pro-tOSU outlets have been fine so far, FWIW, but the mentions. Oh lord, the mentions. We're not talking about the most rational, intelligent fanbase to begin with, but good god.
It's...not great.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:04 am
by DaveInSeattle
I've always defended Urban Meyer (and Alex Smith) for what he did in turning Utah into a football school.
But fuck him and his lying ass. He needs to be fired, tonight.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:15 am
by TT2.0
A_B wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:30 am
1-2 odds Meyer throws his wife under the bus a la Colangelo.
five swampbucks on this please. Ive always wanted to bet on a spineless coward throwing his wife under a bus
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:05 am
by Joe K
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:04 am
I've always defended Urban Meyer (and Alex Smith) for what he did in turning Utah into a football school.
But fuck him and his lying ass. He needs to be fired, tonight.
This is really a test of how much college football (and college sports in general) cares about off-field morality. There’s obviously a pattern, going back at least to his Florida days, of Meyer turning a blind eye to off-field criminality. It feels like this *should* be it for him but a big part of me remains skeptical that OSU would fire a guy who’s without question the #2 most successful coach in the sport.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:28 am
by DSafetyGuy
I get it under the all-encompassing umbrella of "very successful college football coach does what he wants without question", but what I don't get about all of this is...
Why does Meyer not fire Smith at Florida? Or, if he really wants to do him a favor, makes him leave so as to not present it as a firing after the charges were dropped? He was a graduate assistant (or "intern", as Meyer called him).
And why hire him at tOSU? You're the fucking head coach at Ohio State and you can't find a different wide receiver coach?
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:55 am
by A_B
Joe K wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:05 am
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:04 am
I've always defended Urban Meyer (and Alex Smith) for what he did in turning Utah into a football school.
But fuck him and his lying ass. He needs to be fired, tonight.
This is really a test of how much college football (and college sports in general) cares about off-field morality. There’s obviously a pattern, going back at least to his Florida days, of Meyer turning a blind eye to off-field criminality. It feels like this *should* be it for him but a big part of me remains skeptical that OSU would fire a guy who’s without question the #2 most successful coach in the sport.
Ohio state has more experience firing successful coaches than most places, though.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:56 am
by Joe K
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:28 am
I get it under the all-encompassing umbrella of "very successful college football coach does what he wants without question", but what I don't get about all of this is...
Why does Meyer not fire Smith at Florida? Or, if he really wants to do him a favor, makes him leave so as to not present it as a firing after the charges were dropped? He was a graduate assistant (or "intern", as Meyer called him).
And why hire him at tOSU? You're the fucking head coach at Ohio State and you can't find a different wide receiver coach?
I was wondering this too. I read that Smith is the grandson of Earle Bruce, the former OSU coach who gave Meyer his start on coaching and then served as a career-long mentor for him. That has to be part of it, because otherwise it seems completely irrational for Meyer to go to such lengths to protect Smith.
Re: College Football Rest Of The Season 2017
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:25 am
by brian
Joe K wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:56 am
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:28 am
I get it under the all-encompassing umbrella of "very successful college football coach does what he wants without question", but what I don't get about all of this is...
Why does Meyer not fire Smith at Florida? Or, if he really wants to do him a favor, makes him leave so as to not present it as a firing after the charges were dropped? He was a graduate assistant (or "intern", as Meyer called him).
And why hire him at tOSU? You're the fucking head coach at Ohio State and you can't find a different wide receiver coach?
I was wondering this too. I read that Smith is the grandson of Earle Bruce, the former OSU coach who gave Meyer his start on coaching and then served as a career-long mentor for him. That has to be part of it, because otherwise it seems completely irrational for Meyer to go to such lengths to protect Smith.
Yeah, that's the only reason. Smith was like a surrogate son to Meyer because of the relationship with Earle Bruce. That doesn't excuse it, but it at least explains it. Meyer seems like a guy who thinks by force of will that he can turn shitheads like Aaron Hernandez and Chris Rainey into decent citizens, but he's just a fucking football coach, not Captain America.