10-11 ncaa football thread

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.

he won't need to be coaxed & it'll happen in 2012

yr right.

lol Ohio State problem just keeps getting uglier. Terrelle Pryor is probably done in college.

Also, that story about Tressel fixing the raffles when he was an Asst. Coach is some lowdown despicable shit.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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').

(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!