College football offseason thread

[Jon]

Nike butchered Michigan State's uniforms: http://www.msuspartans.com/view.gal?id=68126

[Garwilly]

Nike butchered Michigan State's uniforms: http://www.msuspartans.com/view.gal?id=68126

 

 

Photo 11/13 looks good to me.

[Guest]

The Football ones aren't bad, but boy are those basketball jerseys heinous.

[MSG T]

Sorry to derail the thread, but anyway, what makes us Hog fans delusional is that we want to compete for more than a West title every few years and a Cotton Bowl. We want BCS bowls and chances to play for the NC. Nutt would never get us there, Petrino might.

 

That's just not gonna happen at mid-level SEC schools like Ole Miss or Ark. I think what Ole Miss has done the past two years (being ranked in top 15 and being about two wins away from being a BCS school) is about as close as it is gonna get for schools our size. We aren't LSU or BAMA and we never will be.

 

However, Arkansas probably should be better than they are though. Y'all have the entire state to recruit from basically. Mississippi has an insane amount of football talent but it is completely distributed between Ole Miss, Miss St, and our lovely neighbors right next door: LSU and BAMA. Throw in the fact that Southern Miss occasionally steals someone like DeAndre Brown, and it is really spread thin. So I guess at least the Mississippi schools have an excuse. There's no reason Arkansas shouldn't get the majority of your in state players.

 

And if Petrino is ever gonna do anything, he sure as hell should recruit better than he did this past year. 49th in recruiting?? At least Nutt had y'all in the top 25 just about every year.

 

I think you underestimate those schools. Look at Iowa this coming year. If they are able to get their O-line rebuilt, they're loaded everywhere else, they could very well contend for the National Title. And that's from the smallest B10 school (well, public school) in the state with the smallest recruiting base in the conference and having to share that base with another BCS school (well, Iowa State is kind of a BCS school). Short of that, they've been to what, 7 New Years day games (2 of them BCS) in the last 10 seasons? That's pretty good success for a team with the limitations they have.

 

With the right coach schools like Ole Miss, MSU, Arkansas should have it much easier than Iowa.

 

Difference is that Iowa has to play the likes of Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State, whereas the Hogs have to play LSU, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, etc.

 

Wii bit tougher in the SEC IMO.

 

 

Iowa played just as many top 10 teams as Arkansas and 1 fewer ranked teams. That would have been as many if Arizona hadn't crapped their Bowl game down their leg. They also played more BCS conference teams. The big difference is that Iowa only lost once to all those ranked teams and AR lost all of their games to ranked teams.

 

Arkansas has a serious natural recruiting advantage over Iowa too. And no in-state competition.

[dew1679666265]

The Football ones aren't bad, but boy are those basketball jerseys heinous.

 

I really like the white football jersey.

[Derwood]

watching the PSU spring game on delay here......how the hell did they get the ABC "A-Team" (Musberger/Herbstreit) to call an exhibition game?

[dew1679666265]

The NCAA recently licensed the Dallas Football Classic and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium, pushing the number of bowls to 35. The International Bowl didn't apply for a license, so there will only be one more bowl than last season.

 

That still means 70 of 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams will get to go bowling, even if one or two happen to be 5-7.

 

We can't have a playoff, but we can have under .500 teams in the postseason. Sweet.

[shnsajax]

Herschel Sims commits to Oklahoma State. Nice get for them. 2 of the big 4 RB coming out of have committed, though the biggest 2 have yet to decide.

[Guest]

The NCAA recently licensed the Dallas Football Classic and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium, pushing the number of bowls to 35. The International Bowl didn't apply for a license, so there will only be one more bowl than last season.

 

That still means 70 of 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams will get to go bowling, even if one or two happen to be 5-7.

 

We can't have a playoff, but we can have under .500 teams in the postseason. Sweet.

 

Ridiculous.

[NCCubFan]

Completely ridiculous. It's supposed to be an honor to go to a bowl game, not a disgrace not to go (which is what it's getting close to if over half the teams go to one).

[dew1679666265]

Completely ridiculous. It's supposed to be an honor to go to a bowl game, not a disgrace not to go (which is what it's getting close to if over half the teams go to one).

 

Bowls are basically like a participation trophy in little league.

[NCCubFan]

Completely ridiculous. It's supposed to be an honor to go to a bowl game, not a disgrace not to go (which is what it's getting close to if over half the teams go to one).

 

Bowls are basically like a participation trophy in little league.

These days, yes. I still remember, though, when there were around 15 games and making one really meant something.

[dew1679666265]

Completely ridiculous. It's supposed to be an honor to go to a bowl game, not a disgrace not to go (which is what it's getting close to if over half the teams go to one).

 

Bowls are basically like a participation trophy in little league.

These days, yes. I still remember, though, when there were around 15 games and making one really meant something.

 

Yeah, they bring in quite a bit of money, though, which is why there are so many now.

[Banedon]

Completely ridiculous. It's supposed to be an honor to go to a bowl game, not a disgrace not to go (which is what it's getting close to if over half the teams go to one).

 

Bowls are basically like a participation trophy in little league.

These days, yes. I still remember, though, when there were around 15 games and making one really meant something.

 

Were you walking 5 miles to school, uphill both ways, in foot deep snow too? :)

[jersey cubs fan]

There is a hierarchy to the bowls though and it's still an honor to make most of them. I doubt the smallest ones bring in that much money.

[NCCubFan]

Completely ridiculous. It's supposed to be an honor to go to a bowl game, not a disgrace not to go (which is what it's getting close to if over half the teams go to one).

 

Bowls are basically like a participation trophy in little league.

These days, yes. I still remember, though, when there were around 15 games and making one really meant something.

 

Were you walking 5 miles to school, uphill both ways, in foot deep snow too? :)

That's Fred you're thinking of. :D

 

(Runs for cover)

[Tracer Bullet]

There is a hierarchy to the bowls though and it's still an honor to make most of them. I doubt the smallest ones bring in that much money.

 

everything is relative, but I think that's right.

 

For some schools, they lose money going to the smaller bowls.

[dew1679666265]

Ole Miss will open the 2011 season hosting Boise State. Good move for Boise, which has been trying to play higher level competition for a while now (with very few biting).

 

It's a one-game deal that will cost the Rebels a hefty $900,000 payout, which is easily the largest in program history.

[Garwilly]

ND/Miami at Soldier Field in 2012?

 

I smell a long weekend.

[Andy]

I love this idea. I love the idea that it's not finalized because they're working on more meetings in the future even more.

[Jon]

The NCAA has banned the use of BYU online courses for student athletes. There could be some interesting implications while programs adjust.

[shnsajax]

I was just looking for this thread. Looks like Texas has become the favorites for Austin Seferian-Jenkins out of Washington. He's still waiting for an offer, but it looks like it could come any day now. Its dumb to become excited about a recruiting class this early, but if they get him, Malcolm Brown, and Josh Turner this will be the best Texas class ever.

[Guest]

The NCAA has banned the use of BYU online courses for student athletes. There could be some interesting implications while programs adjust.

 

Wait, so other schools take BYU online courses to be eligible for other universities? How does that work?

[Jon]

The NCAA has banned the use of BYU online courses for student athletes. There could be some interesting implications while programs adjust.

 

Wait, so other schools take BYU online courses to be eligible for other universities? How does that work?

I assume they're done by current student athletes for "summer school," but apparently they've been abused by future student athletes before entering college.

DeseretNews.com[/url]"]The movie "The Blind Side" earned $300 million worldwide, helped Sandra Bullock win an Oscar and made football player Michael Oher a household name.

 

The book, by Michael Lewis, was a New York Times best seller and introduced millions to BYU's online high school courses. Oher used BYU high school credits to become eligible for the college football scholarship that led to an NFL career.

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According to the bestselling book, Oher replaced several F's in high school English by taking BYU "Character Education" courses that merely required Oher to "read a few brief passages from famous works ... and then answer five questions about it." Lewis dubbed the process "the great Mormon grade-grab."

 

BYU has improved online class testing procedures in recent years at both the secondary and college level. Tests now are switched out, so after one student takes the test and the next student walks in, he is given a different test, thus decreasing cheating.

 

Salt Lake Tribune[/url]"]One of the best-known cases remains that of Ricky Clemons, who took nine credit hours from BYU as part of 24 credit hours he completed from three schools in the summer of 2002. Clemons was a high school dropout who was trying to get eligible to play basketball at the University of Missouri. Students trying to get or stay eligible to play sports at the University of Kansas, University of Mississippi and Nicholls State University also have been found to have improperly taken BYU correspondence courses. In the case of Nicholls State, some athletes didn't know coaches enrolled them in the BYU courses.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Ah Ricky Clemons.