10-11 ncaa football thread

this is honestly all i think about all day

here is something weird

BFeldmanESPN RT @gamecocksblog No sign of South Carolina freshman All-American WR Alshon Jeffery at first spring practice. That's never good.

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.

there's a lot of good non conference games this year

tenn-oregon
miami-ohio st
oklahoma-fsu
penn st-bama
texas-ucla
clemson-auburn
lsu-unc
miami-pitt
nebraska-washington
oklahoma-cincy
minnesota-usc
uga-colorado
wisconsin-az st
gt-kansas

penn st-bama

^-^

ps u forgot uconn @ mich

yeah i did

fsu @ okla, miami @ ohio st & penn st @ bama are all on the second week of the season btw

truly a 9/11 2 remember

^_^

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

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

USC Trojan Football Future Schedules

USC Football 2010 Schedule
Date Opponent
Sept. 2 @ Hawaii - WIN
Sept. 11 Virginia - WIN
Sept. 18 @ Minnesota - WIN
Sept. 25 @ Washington State - WIN
Oct. 2 Washington - LOSE
Oct. 9 @ Stanford - LOSE
Oct. 16 California - LOSE
Oct. 30 Oregon - LOSE
Nov. 6 Arizona State - WIN
Nov. 13 @ Arizona - WIN
Nov. 20 @ Oregon State - LOSE
Nov. 27 Notre Dame - WIN
Dec. 4 @ UCLA - LOSE

My predictions, anyway. Puts them at 7-6, which is still humiliating.

they could lose to notre dame

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"

i don't think miami will have a losing season, but our non-conference schedule is tough.

it's gonna be a really fun season

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

boise @ va tech is gonna be a hot game

that game is highly dope

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.

i'm for real

there isn't anyone as good as, say, andre johnson, but the talent on this team runs sooo deep

i'd like to point out that i'm always right about collge football and ohio state really is mad overhyped

that's the same team that put up 318 total yards against michigan -- i don't believe u, u need more people

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

Guy's been arrested now, btw.

He's 62, so he should know better to say the least.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:51 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

link?

i wonder if alabama has any environmental laws with which to charge him, or if it will just be 'destruction of property' or w/e

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."

pretty sure they don't have any environmental laws, they might be able to charge him using a football law

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/harvey_updike_arrested_in_toom.html

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.

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.

;_;

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.)

haha sorry :(

tressel getting grilled now on WKNR 850am about what he knew

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.

yeah that can't be the last of it

Tressel out.

lol x 1,000,000

it's only gonna be funny until they hire someone who is 20x the coach

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!