10-11 ncaa football thread

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

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?

from beyond the womb

yes but did you get the "over/under," as well?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/andy_staples/05/17/lyons-questionnaire/index.html

this is pretty rad

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

how many times can i rep usc this season before i get sb'd?

should prolly wait til kiffin works his magic before you start worrying about that

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

if that happened, much as i love USC, i would think it was hilarious. (the 49ers part, not the 5 losses part.)

is ncaa ever gonna get around to busting usc for the reggie bush stuff or is that never going to happen?

apparently there's gonna be news about that soon (tomorrow?)

"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.”

Thank fucking Jeebus Rodriguez didn't come to Alabama. *phew*

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!"

I miss charlie weis

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.

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).

i'm gonna post about this soon

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 conferences
4 divisions each
32 teams

all overseen by lou holtz

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.

that is horrible news. i guess we won't have to worry about usc being good again this decade... let the transfers begin.

yeah, really wonder what the max exodus is gonna be like

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.

this won't cripple the program more than kiffin will

^ quality post.

it's gonna be a long, long time til usc wins a bigpac32 championship

I was kinda expecting to feel more schadenfreude about the whole USC thing, but honestly I am more happy that Colorado is apparently definitely in the Pac-10, and Texas is likely to follow. I was kind of worried the Pac-16 was gonna get stuck with Baylor.

scholarship losses are going to fuck them more than anything

devil's advocate here: maybe what USC actually needs right now is someone who is better at recruiting their ass off than actually coaching? even tho winning actual games is obv tied up in recruiting, you probably need a guy right now that's an amazing salesman (& a guy who can develop players etc etc). maybe not, idk.

yeah I mean these next 2 years esp when you gotta work w/ a tainted brand.

I guess this explains why Kiffin got the job, fwiw.

Orgeron too. That guy is apparently a recruiting monster (I mean, why else would anyone have played at Ole Miss?).

recruiting is so weird, I never get how these hs kids' minds work

Not that it's anything more than conjecture at this point, but -if- the SEC were to expand, I'd love to bring in Florida State and Clemson (both of which I'm sure are just waiting for the invitation, especially now that Jimbo Fisher is at the helm in Tallahassee). The other thing is the Texas schools. I think A&M would rather go south, but the Longhorns might rather go west, but they both know they have to travel together. I'd welcome them both, but be sad if it meant a Texas/Alabama game every single season. RISKY!

Ideally, I'd love for Georgia Tech to stop it already with the sour grapes and come back to the SEC, but I'm pretty sure that will never ever happen in a zillion years.

there is no room for the sec in the bigpac32

So it's going down right now. Colorado just announced their move.

If this plays out as predicted, it's conceivable that Oklahoma and Nebraska could meet in the Rose Bowl Game every other year or so. HA! That's bizarre.

@AaronRodgers12: Looking forward to getting my PAC-10 championship ring from the ‘04 season.

YES

love it

Auburn might get the nat'l title too, yes?

If the Pac-10 goes to 16 teams, I'd like to listen in on the meetings when they tell Arizona they're being put in the Pac-16 East with Texas et al.

If this plays out as predicted, it's conceivable that Oklahoma and Nebraska could meet in the Rose Bowl Game every other year or so. HA! That's bizarre.

yeah I mean this can be considered a step towards a playoff in the sense that it gets rid of the 'we must keep the rose bowl sacred' argument.

so, chance that pc's career decision had nothing to do with sanctions has dropped to what... less than 0%?

boise state to mountain west

So I guess the WAC can finally officially rename themselves THE WACK, right?

actually in a weird way I think it might be good for them in the long-term - or, I guess it's 'not entirely bad'

I mean yeah it sucks to lose what has become a consistently good football team, but now other WAC-y teams get a chance in their own conference?

Oh yeah, it definitely levels the field now in terms of competitiveness.

(I realize I follow the game with a willful naiveté.)

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

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)

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

I didn't say he was an angel. Just that he runs a clean program.

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.

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.

Terrelle Pryor had 8 cars in 3 yrs, drove w/ suspended license since Feb.

he's kinda putting cam newton to shame

yeah, really.

i even have trouble feeling bad for this dipshit

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

Who the hell would feel bad for this fool?

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

Not that it wasn't inevitable, but it's now official: Pryor is dunzo at OSU.

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.

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

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

i don't see how chip kelly survives

that the assistant AD was involved doesn't bode well for them RE: failure to monitor/lack of institutional control/etc

yahoo sports has pretty much become the college football muckraker. bout time the sport had one, I suppose.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/656296/gators_poster_2011_medium.jpg

that gator looks stoned out of its mind

which is appropriate!