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Post by AustinHoya03 on Aug 16, 2013 9:52:56 GMT -5
Preseason polls: sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/pollsWeek 1 Picks for Games That Matter: Utah over Utah State in a Beehive Boot game Northern Illinois over Iowa in a revenge game Penn State over Syracuse Clemson over UGA TCU upsets LSU Washington upsets Boise State Colorado over Colorado State in the Rocky Mountain Showdown for the Centennial Cup
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Post by CAHoya07 on Aug 16, 2013 14:53:22 GMT -5
So what has Heisman winner Johnny Manziel been up to lately? I feel like I can't find anything about him on ESPN or SportsCenter whenever I turn it on...
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Post by HometownHoya on Aug 16, 2013 19:43:10 GMT -5
So what has Heisman winner Johnny Manziel been up to lately? I feel like I can't find anything about him on ESPN or SportsCenter whenever I turn it on... Not sure but I have an autographed football if you want to buy it.
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Post by CAHoya07 on Aug 17, 2013 2:59:01 GMT -5
So what has Heisman winner Johnny Manziel been up to lately? I feel like I can't find anything about him on ESPN or SportsCenter whenever I turn it on... Not sure but I have an autographed football if you want to buy it.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Aug 28, 2013 22:17:10 GMT -5
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Post by thebin on Aug 30, 2013 9:07:23 GMT -5
I hate college football season openers in neutral site pro stadia instead of on campus where they belong. I hate that there are basically no good day games anymore. Almost as much as I detest the fact that college football season (and thus "football season period") begins with a whimper on a Thursday night. Thanks ESPN.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Aug 30, 2013 9:37:57 GMT -5
That Ole Miss - Vandy game was a burner, though. Still can't believe Vandy gave it up. Go LSU!
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Aug 30, 2013 11:53:33 GMT -5
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Aug 30, 2013 11:56:55 GMT -5
I hate college football season openers in neutral site pro stadia instead of on campus where they belong. I hate that there are basically no good day games anymore. Almost as much as I detest the fact that college football season (and thus "football season period") begins with a whimper on a Thursday night. Thanks ESPN. Don't forget that the proliferation of postseason bowl games can also be blamed (mostly) on ESPN. "In 1991, the network turned the bowl season into Bowl Week, surrounding the games with its full complement of programming. But as ESPN gobbled up rights to the growing roster of games — this season it will televise all but two — and created or bought others, Bowl Week morphed into Bowl Month.
ESPN’s nine fully owned, commercially linked bowl games, with names like the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, generally draw some of the lowest TV ratings of the college football postseason. Still, they provide hours of low-cost live programming and help ESPN reward its partner conferences and teams."
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Post by thebin on Aug 30, 2013 13:19:27 GMT -5
I hate college football season openers in neutral site pro stadia instead of on campus where they belong. I hate that there are basically no good day games anymore. Almost as much as I detest the fact that college football season (and thus "football season period") begins with a whimper on a Thursday night. Thanks ESPN. Don't forget that the proliferation of postseason bowl games can also be blamed (mostly) on ESPN. "In 1991, the network turned the bowl season into Bowl Week, surrounding the games with its full complement of programming. But as ESPN gobbled up rights to the growing roster of games — this season it will televise all but two — and created or bought others, Bowl Week morphed into Bowl Month.
ESPN’s nine fully owned, commercially linked bowl games, with names like the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, generally draw some of the lowest TV ratings of the college football postseason. Still, they provide hours of low-cost live programming and help ESPN reward its partner conferences and teams."That's a good point. The college bowl season (save 2-3 games) is essentially as meaningful as the preseason is for NFL. It is just dreadful. It was always flawed, but now it is atrociously bloated and unwatchable and just serves to make NCAA fb look bush league compared to either bball and NFL fb. It is a really horrible way to end the season of a sport which (gloriously) has highly important match ups with valid national title implications every single weekend from week 1 on...until the "post-season" starts that is.
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Post by thebin on Aug 30, 2013 13:23:23 GMT -5
Oh boy. If you are a Uconn hoops fan, that result has to sting a bit extra this year. Honestly why don't they just stick their fb program with Umass in the MAC and join the Big East for everything else? It isn't as if they SEC/ACC/Big10 couldn't steal them away at any point they wanted if that call ever comes.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Aug 31, 2013 11:23:41 GMT -5
Oh boy. If you are a Uconn hoops fan, that result has to sting a bit extra this year. Honestly why don't they just stick their fb program with Umass in the MAC and join the Big East for everything else? It isn't as if they SEC/ACC/Big10 couldn't steal them away at any point they wanted if that call ever comes. At this point, would we take them? Though it would be great for basketball, I doubt that we would.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Sept 1, 2013 19:01:08 GMT -5
We are in a BASKETBALL league. No more of these football schools.
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Post by thebin on Sept 4, 2013 10:01:57 GMT -5
I'd take Memphis if they dropped football, which they should. They have no new stadium to worry about ditching. And I'd take Uconn if it became clear there was no BCS league interested in them in the forseeable future and they moved their fb only program to the MAC. As for the unforseeable future? I'd lock them in at a price that made it worth having them if they did flee- something like $50mm. And only Uconn...because of the stature of their hoops program, the hopelessness of their "big time" football program, and most of all because of the number of seats they would fill and energy they would interject into the BET as well as regular season league games generally. Also doesn't hurt that they would move the center of gravity back eastward a bit.
I'm not without reservations as to the small to modest amount of reputational risk this would entail to our new league, but I think the benefits are greater than the risks. Just make sure that if they join it is for a few yearsminimum with a golden parachute exit fee attached for the league. I don't see this as the same type of situation we just came out of where we have to worry about their departure triggering a dominoe effect: there would be nobody else remotely in their shoes.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 5, 2013 11:50:50 GMT -5
Week 2 Picks for Games That Matter: Florida over Miami UGA over South Carolina Michigan over Notre Dame UTEP over New Mexico in a Rio Grande Championship game* Wazzu upsets SC *This was an annual series when all three schools were in the WAC, but I'm not sure if the Rio Grande Champion is still a thing. Also, Utah over Weber State was originally on the list, but apparently Weber State has been kicked out of the Beehive Boot series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Boot
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 6, 2013 17:47:29 GMT -5
I would have mixed emotions with respect to a Wazzu win over USC (which I think will never happen, regardless of how screwed up USC's quarterback situation is). While that result would cause me to LMAO, it would also probably result in the immediate firing of Lane Kiffin, who I would like to see remain at USC as long as possible (unless they want to bring back Paul Hackett).
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 8, 2013 2:13:04 GMT -5
I would have mixed emotions with respect to a Wazzu win over USC (which I think will never happen, regardless of how screwed up USC's quarterback situation is). While that result would cause me to LMAO, it would also probably result in the immediate firing of Lane Kiffin, who I would like to see remain at USC as long as possible (unless they want to bring back Paul Hackett). So who gets fired first, Lane Kiffin or Mack Brown?
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 8, 2013 4:02:42 GMT -5
I would have mixed emotions with respect to a Wazzu win over USC (which I think will never happen, regardless of how screwed up USC's quarterback situation is). While that result would cause me to LMAO, it would also probably result in the immediate firing of Lane Kiffin, who I would like to see remain at USC as long as possible (unless they want to bring back Paul Hackett). So who gets fired first, Lane Kiffin or Mack Brown? I bow down before your wisdom. Kiffin.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Sept 21, 2013 16:32:59 GMT -5
Austin, you out there? Where are the Picks for Games That Matter?
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 22, 2013 17:42:52 GMT -5
Austin, you out there? Where are the Picks for Games That Matter? Sorry, I've been slammed at the office lately and haven't had time to post anything substantive. Will post a recap of the games I missed plus next week's picks soon. Went to the Texas game last night. Glad to get the win. Mack Brown apologists think their man's job is saved, but I don't think Kansas State has a very good football team this season. "Let's talk after OU" is my response to that crowd. If Texas is blown out by its chief rival for a third straight year, beating K-State in Austin will become pretty meaningless.
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