there's a lot of good non conference games this year
tenn-oregonmiami-ohio stoklahoma-fsupenn st-bamatexas-uclaclemson-auburnlsu-uncmiami-pittnebraska-washingtonoklahoma-cincyminnesota-uscuga-coloradowisconsin-az stgt-kansas
― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
penn st-bama
^-^
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ps u forgot uconn @ mich
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i did
fsu @ okla, miami @ ohio st & penn st @ bama are all on the second week of the season btw
― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
truly a 9/11 2 remember
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^_^
― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I am more excited about the prospect of usc (the other one...) fucking up than my own team doing well. kiffin is neo-charlie weis.
^ this!!!x1000
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, week 2 is going to be so much fun. I can barely wait for it.
usc has a losing season, calling it here and now
― iatee, Thursday, 4 March 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
USC Trojan Football Future Schedules
USC Football 2010 ScheduleDate OpponentSept. 2 @ Hawaii - WINSept. 11 Virginia - WINSept. 18 @ Minnesota - WINSept. 25 @ Washington State - WINOct. 2 Washington - LOSEOct. 9 @ Stanford - LOSEOct. 16 California - LOSEOct. 30 Oregon - LOSENov. 6 Arizona State - WINNov. 13 @ Arizona - WINNov. 20 @ Oregon State - LOSENov. 27 Notre Dame - WINDec. 4 @ UCLA - LOSE
My predictions, anyway. Puts them at 7-6, which is still humiliating.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
they could lose to notre dame
― iatee, Friday, 5 March 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Erik Kuselias and I quote, "Speaking of Notre Dame, you know if you find that group of guys there's always that one bachelor, donuts for dinner, dates a different model, goes on golf vacations, doesn't have to ask anybody, in college football that's Notre Dame"
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 May 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think miami will have a losing season, but our non-conference schedule is tough.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 May 2010 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
it's gonna be a really fun season
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
btw everyone was saying that last year
ohio state is overrated & pittsburgh is coached by dave wannstedt -- ohio st played 1 good game last year (oregon) and the list of teams being overrated/underrated due to bowl performance is a very, very long list -- we didn't play well on the road last year but we can undoubtedly beat ohio state -- we aren't historically good against running quarterbacks but our defense is going to be really, really good (our defense line is srsly sick) -- we'll see about the offense but i'm less concerned about that than a lot of people are -- we might be one year behind the teams of the early decade but i genuinely believe that this team is almost as talented as those old teams
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
boise @ va tech is gonna be a hot game
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that game is highly dope
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
really wonder what it's gonna mean for boise if they lose tho
we can undoubtedly beat ohio state
hope you're right; think you're wrong
we might be one year behind the teams of the early decade but i genuinely believe that this team is almost as talented as those old teams
lol. you must have had too many champagne mimosas for your birthday, and it's clouded your thinking.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 May 2010 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm for real
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
there isn't anyone as good as, say, andre johnson, but the talent on this team runs sooo deep
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd like to point out that i'm always right about collge football and ohio state really is mad overhyped
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the same team that put up 318 total yards against michigan -- i don't believe u, u need more people
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
the game that most concerns me is any game after we win, bcuz last year's team was not at all good at handling success -- if we actually beat osu i might not even watch the pitt game -- same for clemson if we beat pitt
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd like to point out that i'm always right about collge football
did you correctly predict the hurricanes over the cornhuskers in the 1983 championship game?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
from beyond the womb
― contl;drizer (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yes but did you get the "over/under," as well?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/andy_staples/05/17/lyons-questionnaire/index.html
this is pretty rad
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
dude's got a rhodes in his future
it looks like cal hasn't offered him, so I hope he goes w/ stanford or michigan for non-football reasons
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
how many times can i rep usc this season before i get sb'd?
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
should prolly wait til kiffin works his magic before you start worrying about that
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
and by works his magic I mean loses 5 games and then gets hired as the head coach for the 49ers w/ a record salary
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
if that happened, much as i love USC, i would think it was hilarious. (the 49ers part, not the 5 losses part.)
― a bold plan drawn up by assholes to screw morons (ytth), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
is ncaa ever gonna get around to busting usc for the reggie bush stuff or is that never going to happen?
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently there's gonna be news about that soon (tomorrow?)
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"Rodriguez and his staff are not rogues, renegades or cheaters," his response said. "Yes, there were violations. But they were not done deliberately or knowingly. Rather, they were inadvertent and in many cases isolated."
We screwed up a lot but we spread it out -- once a day, sometimes twice a day, but never twice in the same hour.
Third person alert:
His overall statement of defense:“Coach Rodriguez is surprised and disappointed that violations occurred in his program. He has strived throughout his career to follow the rules. Rodriguez recognizes that as a head coach, he has a heightened responsibility to monitor his program and promote an atmosphere of compliance. Rodriguez embraces that responsibility. He regrets that he did not adequately monitor certain aspects of his program in this case. Rodriguez has learned from his mistakes and will be a better coach and compliance leader going forward.“However, ensuring compliance with complex NCAA bylaws is not a one-man job. It requires a diligent commitment from everyone with responsibility for compliance oversight. It also requires clear and open lines of communication. In this case, there was not adequate compliance oversight nor open communication concerning important compliance matters.“Every activity that resulted in a violation in this case was done openly, transparently and under the watch of not only Rodriguez, but also other Michigan coaches and administrators. Violations went undetected because several Michigan staff members, including Rodriguez, were not paying close enough attention. In short, there was a collective failure that resulted in the violations in this case. That is not to deflect blame away from Rodriguez, it is simply stating a fact and putting Rodriguez’s culpability in the proper context.”
“Coach Rodriguez is surprised and disappointed that violations occurred in his program. He has strived throughout his career to follow the rules. Rodriguez recognizes that as a head coach, he has a heightened responsibility to monitor his program and promote an atmosphere of compliance. Rodriguez embraces that responsibility. He regrets that he did not adequately monitor certain aspects of his program in this case. Rodriguez has learned from his mistakes and will be a better coach and compliance leader going forward.
“However, ensuring compliance with complex NCAA bylaws is not a one-man job. It requires a diligent commitment from everyone with responsibility for compliance oversight. It also requires clear and open lines of communication. In this case, there was not adequate compliance oversight nor open communication concerning important compliance matters.
“Every activity that resulted in a violation in this case was done openly, transparently and under the watch of not only Rodriguez, but also other Michigan coaches and administrators. Violations went undetected because several Michigan staff members, including Rodriguez, were not paying close enough attention. In short, there was a collective failure that resulted in the violations in this case. That is not to deflect blame away from Rodriguez, it is simply stating a fact and putting Rodriguez’s culpability in the proper context.”
― Andy K, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank fucking Jeebus Rodriguez didn't come to Alabama. *phew*
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i know that charlie weis is no longer the coach, but i think notre dame should have to win 10 games before we have to sit through this off season routine where everyone goes "hey! their schedule isn't that great! can't they win 10 games and have an outside shot at the national title?! what sleepers!"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I miss charlie weis
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so, uh...pac16? big16? feels like one of those pointless corporate mergers, though I guess this stuff actually makes more sense than that financially. I'd rather cal doesn't play 5 texas teams a year.
― iatee, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of looking forward to the day when there are four giant regional conferences of 16 teams each. Will definitely make playoffs easier (but sorry, little schools).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm gonna post about this soon
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
not like it's gonna be a mind bending post or w/e but i'm feeling lazy atm but i do have an opinion 4 u
2 conferences4 divisions each32 teams
all overseen by lou holtz
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
BFeldmanESPN USC has been hit with a two-year post-season ban in addition to the loss of scholarships, among other penalties from the NCAA.
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
that is horrible news. i guess we won't have to worry about usc being good again this decade... let the transfers begin.
― dad, i wanna be a lothario speedwagon (ytth), Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, really wonder what the max exodus is gonna be like
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, usc was obv. guilty so now i can get all uppity and compare what they did vs. what alabama did to get the same sanctions, or i can just be mad at college football for being dumb and punishing people who were in 7th grade at the time of the violations because that's all they can do. as a fan, it sucks... a one-year postseason ban would have been one thing, but i really do think this will cripple the program to near washington-state levels.
― dad, i wanna be a lothario speedwagon (ytth), Thursday, 10 June 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
this won't cripple the program more than kiffin will
― iatee, Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
btw
He then claims to have poisoned the trees, and signs off with "Roll Damn Tide." He then claims to have poisoned the trees, and signs off with "Roll Damn Tide."
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure they don't have any environmental laws, they might be able to charge him using a football law
― iatee, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/harvey_updike_arrested_in_toom.html
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys, the state of Alabama isn't completely ass backwards. They can probably get him on vandalism/destruction of property as well as unlicensed used of controlled chemicals in the act of. Oh, and there will MOST DEFINITELY be punitive fines (and likely jail time) considering he'll be tried in the same county where the act occurred.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm looking into alabama state law right now: apparently the trees were considered down by contact? but this happened after the play ended, it's a personal foul. also this was a fourth down, so he's gonna be executed.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
You're bustin' on my home, man.
(Although, I'll admit...south of Birmingham all the way through the Florida panhandle to the Gulf coast is some country-ass shit.)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
haha sorry :(
― iatee, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
tressel getting grilled now on WKNR 850am about what he knew
― brownie, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
What I'm getting is that it looks like OSU is suspending Tressel for two games and fining him 250k. NCAA will be heard from.
― brownie, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that can't be the last of it
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Tressel out.
lol x 1,000,000
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 May 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
it's only gonna be funny until they hire someone who is 20x the coach
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 May 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
They're just going to hire some passable guy who can keep them at the top of the Big Ten for 3 or 4 seasons until Urban Meyer can be coaxed out of retirement.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 May 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
he won't need to be coaxed & it'll happen in 2012
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 May 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yr right.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 May 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Ohio State problem just keeps getting uglier. Terrelle Pryor is probably done in college.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, that story about Tressel fixing the raffles when he was an Asst. Coach is some lowdown despicable shit.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
always wondered about how college players got such sweet rides; when I was at ND I'd walk by the stadium daily & see the players drive up in Escalades & other sweet rides obv. beyond the means of what you'd expect students from their financial backgrounds to afford. Yet as far as I know ND's not been investigated for this kind of thing. So I mean it much be a pretty much open secret on every campus as to what kind of shenanigans are going on (though I know almost nothing about the shenanigans at my present school, in the Big 12, though I'm not a student either).
― Euler, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty sure there's shenanigans going on at every big school, but some coaches are more hands on than others about attempting to keep their programs clean. Tressel clearly had everyone snowed.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
someone involved in these matters once told me that head coaches generally have their assistants do the dirty work & in exchange, promise to get those assistants better jobs, so that everyone is committed to the taint. Though this was someone at ND & that's not the only ND-associated institution that works that way...so maybe this isn't the way it is at other schools---Tressel seems to have been pretty involved in the corruption at OSU.
― Euler, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
People rightly or wrongly hate Nick Saban and Urban Meyer, but I think those guys have set decent examples of how to run major programs relatively cleanly. And I'm no expert on Texas football, but I'd bet that after SMU the schools there are either superficially clean or far better at hiding their cheating.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I highly doubt either of those two guys is clean. Coaches who know they're hot & can get jobs wherever they want can leave the program in whatever condition they want; they're off the hook if someone has to take the fall (as in Pete Carroll's case)
― Euler, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was in high school I had a friend who was in juco, and as soon as he transferred to a real college they hooked him up with a fancy car. And it wasn't like he was somebody special. I don't know if he even saw the field much.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Winning coaches aren't invincible. Tressel will be lucky if he's not coaching a high school team next year (DIII is more likely). And I still think there are a lot more moving parts at USC than there are at a lot of other schools, and Pete Carroll might not actually be a villain (but he saw what was comin').
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
(I realize I follow the game with a willful naiveté.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
saban recruits 33 players a year and forces kids off the team through bullshit grey shirts and "medical hardships" - he is a dirtbag to the core, get real
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
les is the only clean coach for any top program, and only because he's too dumb to deceive anyone (it all goes on behind his back)
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
there's also been stories about saban's extreme abusiveness, calling players cunts and niggers and shit like that - so much better than giving something nice to some kid from an impoverished background so he can take care of his freakin family while you work him like a slave
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't say he was an angel. Just that he runs a clean program.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
so as a USC homer, i can't help but be curious if the ncaa sticks with the new trend toward harsher penalties that they just defended in USC's appeal, or if they back off a little bit.
― and you are a part of everything and everything is like melting (ytth), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I know a guy who's dad used to be an assistant under Saban at Michigan State. He told me that his father said that Saban's by far the worst guy he's ever dealt with in 30 years in coaching.
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Terrelle Pryor had 8 cars in 3 yrs, drove w/ suspended license since Feb.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
he's kinda putting cam newton to shame
― b.o.s.e. (banned ones still envy) (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, really.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 2 June 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i even have trouble feeling bad for this dipshit
― max tldr (k3vin k.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
well there's certainly nothing to feel bad about -- anyone who wants him to fail will enjoy his wake up call come the 2012 draft
― b.o.s.e. (banned ones still envy) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Who the hell would feel bad for this fool?
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AodEfP7hx3zopCSyXuKRH7Y5nYcB?slug=ys-cole_bcs_strips_usc_title_060611
carroll's legacy is pretty lol at this point
― iatee, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Not that it wasn't inevitable, but it's now official: Pryor is dunzo at OSU.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
goodbye and good luck. I don't really root for OSU (mainly a MSU guy and I want the Big Ten to do well against other conferences) but Pryor had some great potential and was fun to watch. I think the sun might be setting Big 10 football.
― brownie, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
so it looks like the usc-ohio st on-field showdowns of the past decade are gonna take a backseat to the battle over who can get pummeled harder by the ncaa
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6637444
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 June 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
is there any way to see this other than that oregon is completely fucked?http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=Amo7hASTbf4KGHzkxOfNn_k5nYcB?slug=ys-robinson_scout_details_deal_oregon_kelly_070111
― and you are a part of everything and everything is like melting (ytth), Saturday, 2 July 2011 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't see how chip kelly survives
― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 July 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
that the assistant AD was involved doesn't bode well for them RE: failure to monitor/lack of institutional control/etc
― and you are a part of everything and everything is like melting (ytth), Saturday, 2 July 2011 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yahoo sports has pretty much become the college football muckraker. bout time the sport had one, I suppose.
― iatee, Saturday, 2 July 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/656296/gators_poster_2011_medium.jpg
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Friday, 8 July 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
that gator looks stoned out of its mind
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 July 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
which is appropriate!
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Friday, 8 July 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link