College Football - Week 11 (Nov. 12th)

[Sosa21MVP]

so now students at penn state are apparently flipping over news vans: https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/jon_wertheim/status/134496542479495168/photo/1

 

Also if they are going to go that far at least set it on fire. I mean geez. Riot like pros at least.

[Theo]

Did they flip over Sandusky's van? http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/004/473/free-candy.jpg?1308207599

[CubInOK]

Sorry Penn State fans, but it's like Jon Grabow is pitching these to Theo.

[rocket]

the real winner in all this is joe posnanski, who moved to state college a few months ago to write a book on joe paterno. i think he just got a guaranteed best seller

[TruffleShuffle]

the real winner in all this is joe posnanski, who moved to state college a few months ago to write a book on joe paterno. i think he just got a guaranteed best seller

 

was he planning on interviewing paterno? because he'd better do it soon; joe will probably die within the month.

[treebird]

the real winner in all this is joe posnanski, who moved to state college a few months ago to write a book on joe paterno. i think he just got a guaranteed best seller

 

oh my god i completely forgot about that. i was very sad when the poscast went away. i think the resulting book will be worth it now.

[TruffleShuffle]

lol

 

@ESPN_BigTen Paterno received at his home an envelope from a messenger with a # to call 15 minutes b/f BOT announcement

 

i guess it's fitting that in a situation where numerous people did the wrong thing, this ends with the board of trustees doing the wrong thing (having paterno call a phone number to be told that he's fired; giving no notice to the local police)

[Guest]

the real winner in all this is joe posnanski, who moved to state college a few months ago to write a book on joe paterno. i think he just got a guaranteed best seller

 

Jonah Keri did a podcast with Posnanski last week and they spent 15-20 minutes talking about Paterno, Penn State and the book. His tweet about it yesterday...

 

You want surreal? Enjoy this podcast I did w/ @JPosnanski 5 days ago..on idyllic Happy Valley & idealistic Joe Paterno

[Irrelevant Dude]

The streets of Penn St. look like something out of an episode of The Walking Dead.

[NonProfitCow]

The streets of Penn St. look like something out of an episode of The Walking Dead.

They both suck

[Old Style]

That whole scene last night was a huge embarrassment.

[apete6]

Did they flip over Sandusky's van? http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/004/473/free-candy.jpg?1308207599

 

See, this is quality stuff, here.

[jersey cubs fan]

That whole scene last night was a huge embarrassment.

 

IT WAS THEIR ARAB SPRING, only in the fall and instead of trying to overthrow a tyrannical disctator they were mad the football coach got fired.

[CubInOK]

That whole scene last night was a huge embarrassment.

#occupystatecollege

[Tracer Bullet]

Move the JoePa discussion to rants please.

[Banedon]

Speaking to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com, interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas thinks “there is growing sentiment to eliminate the automatic qualification part of the BCS.” Neinas believes the moves that have been made from one conference to another over the past two years, by both the schools and the conferences, can be traced to the jockeying for membership in a BcS AQ league.

 

“You can see what’s happening,” Neinas told Dodd. “They [conferences] are gerrymandering all over the place under the intent to maintain an automatic qualification. History has shown you don’t need that if you are qualified.”

 

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/10/elimination-of-bcs-aq-status-being-discussed/

[Smack]

Move the JoePa discussion to rants please.

 

Rants? It's one of the biggest news stories in years. I agree it shouldn't be in the College Football - Week 11 thread, but I don't think it should go to rants....

 

Also, things may be getting much worse.

 

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ycn-10407023

[jersey cubs fan]

Move the JoePa discussion to rants please.

 

Rants? It's one of the biggest news stories in years. I agree it shouldn't be in the College Football - Week 11 thread, but I don't think it should go to rants....

 

Also, things may be getting much worse.

 

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ycn-10407023

 

there is a long thread on the topic already in rants. It should probably be moved out of there, but this has been discussed.

[Tracer Bullet]

Move the JoePa discussion to rants please.

 

Rants? It's one of the biggest news stories in years. I agree it shouldn't be in the College Football - Week 11 thread, but I don't think it should go to rants....

 

Also, things may be getting much worse.

 

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ycn-10407023

As jersey said there's already a thread there. No need to have two threads and bury other cfb discussion. So please, again, take the JoePa discussion to the thread dedicated to him.

[Banedon]

I'll move it here. Rants is a poor place for it.

[CubColtPacer]

Speaking to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com, interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas thinks “there is growing sentiment to eliminate the automatic qualification part of the BCS.” Neinas believes the moves that have been made from one conference to another over the past two years, by both the schools and the conferences, can be traced to the jockeying for membership in a BcS AQ league.

 

“You can see what’s happening,” Neinas told Dodd. “They [conferences] are gerrymandering all over the place under the intent to maintain an automatic qualification. History has shown you don’t need that if you are qualified.”

 

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/10/elimination-of-bcs-aq-status-being-discussed/

 

The biggest fanbases would get a whole lot more BCS games if the automatic qualification was eliminated unless it were replaced by a simple top 10 in the BCS go (which the bowls would never go for). It might eliminate switching conferences but it would cause a much bigger problem.

[Banedon]

Speaking to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com, interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas thinks “there is growing sentiment to eliminate the automatic qualification part of the BCS.” Neinas believes the moves that have been made from one conference to another over the past two years, by both the schools and the conferences, can be traced to the jockeying for membership in a BcS AQ league.

 

“You can see what’s happening,” Neinas told Dodd. “They [conferences] are gerrymandering all over the place under the intent to maintain an automatic qualification. History has shown you don’t need that if you are qualified.”

 

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/10/elimination-of-bcs-aq-status-being-discussed/

 

The biggest fanbases would get a whole lot more BCS games if the automatic qualification was eliminated unless it were replaced by a simple top 10 in the BCS go (which the bowls would never go for). It might eliminate switching conferences but it would cause a much bigger problem.

 

A simple "top 10 in the BCS go" is exactly what they're discussing in the article. The only opponents to that would be teams that are part of crappy AQ conferences right now.

[CubColtPacer]

Speaking to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com, interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas thinks “there is growing sentiment to eliminate the automatic qualification part of the BCS.” Neinas believes the moves that have been made from one conference to another over the past two years, by both the schools and the conferences, can be traced to the jockeying for membership in a BcS AQ league.

 

“You can see what’s happening,” Neinas told Dodd. “They [conferences] are gerrymandering all over the place under the intent to maintain an automatic qualification. History has shown you don’t need that if you are qualified.”

 

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/10/elimination-of-bcs-aq-status-being-discussed/

 

The biggest fanbases would get a whole lot more BCS games if the automatic qualification was eliminated unless it were replaced by a simple top 10 in the BCS go (which the bowls would never go for). It might eliminate switching conferences but it would cause a much bigger problem.

 

A simple "top 10 in the BCS go" is exactly what they're discussing in the article. The only opponents to that would be teams that are part of crappy AQ conferences right now.

 

Nah, the bowl committees and some college presidents would be against that idea also. Bowl committees don't want to lose the opportunity to invite an Alabama or an ND that may have slipped to 11-14 in the BCS standings and also be forced this year to invite both Boise and Houston into the BCS. College presidents would be nervous because it gets things one step closer to a playoff which some of them are ardently against. The ACC and Big East would be furious about this because they've benefited the most. And the Big 10/Pac 10 wouldn't be too happy either because in a year like this one the Rose Bowl wouldn't be able to take a Big 10 team if none qualified. I think there's too many power brokers against an idea like that to make it happen.

[Banedon]

Nah, the bowl committees and some college presidents would be against that idea also. Bowl committees don't want to lose the opportunity to invite an Alabama or an ND that may have slipped to 11-14 in the BCS standings and also be forced this year to invite both Boise and Houston into the BCS. College presidents would be nervous because it gets things one step closer to a playoff which some of them are ardently against. The ACC and Big East would be furious about this because they've benefited the most. And the Big 10/Pac 10 wouldn't be too happy either because in a year like this one the Rose Bowl wouldn't be able to take a Big 10 team if none qualified. I think there's too many power brokers against an idea like that to make it happen.

 

Conference instability might change some attitudes towards this. Obviously it's just chatter for now.

[TruffleShuffle]

I'll move it here. Rants is a poor place for it.

 

I do find it quite fitting that the thread about a pedophile and the numerous people who failed to expose his horrible acts is titled "Joe Paterno"