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I take offense to the Eagles' coaching being ranked behind Baltimore.... probably Seattle too, and maybe even Dallas.
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Holy Cross in the 4 years before I went there: 69-45, 1 Patriot League title, 3 winning seasons Holy Cross while I was there: 32-77, 0 winning seasons (best record: 10-18) Holy Cross in the 6 years after I graduated: 124-62, 5 winning seasons, 3 Patriot League titles (the 3 years immediately after I graduated), 1 NIT appearance. Plus, the football team went 11-33 while I was there, then went 7-4 right after I left. So, it could be worse.
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Penn State home games next year Fighting International University Notre Dame Buffalo Iowa Wisconsin O$U Purdont Road games next year @scUM (ugh please beat these a-holes sometime) @Illinois @Indiana @Temple @Moo They shouldn't lose more than 3 games, without question. One-loss season is certainly reasonable, with the hardest game on the schedule clearly being the Michigan game. It all really depends on if the OL plays well and if Morelli can be pretty good, like he was against UcheaT.
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well, I see Vance and J.R. have both voted now
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How not to conduct yourself at the Gator Bowl
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Actually if the Buckeyes lose, then we'll have had the immensely enjoyable trifecta of Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State losses in BCS bowl games.
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Hardball Times article on slotting starters
TruffleShuffle replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Again, what exactly do you expect them to do? They went 66-96 last year. It's pretty damn hard to have a team that bad and improve by 18 wins the next year. I know that your credentials are impeccible - after all, you do post on an internet message board - but I think even you'd have a hard time winning 90 games this year without completely mortgaging the future. And, I think your assertion that the Cubs don't want to be better than average is idiotic. Teams don't spend $110M with the intention of being and staying average. You might not agree with how they're going about building a team, but to suggest that the decision-makers on this team are striving for mediocrity is absurd. -
Yeah, and that Kansas State, the same one that barely beat Illinois State and lost to, among other teams, Baylor and Kansas. Rutgers blowing out Kansas State proves that they're better than a mediocre team. We already knew that. I can play that game too. Kansas State beat Texas. Texas wasn't that good, they also lost at home to aTm.
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Yeah, and that Kansas State, the same one that barely beat Illinois State and lost to, among other teams, Baylor and Kansas. Rutgers blowing out Kansas State proves that they're better than a mediocre team. We already knew that.
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Well I'd beg to differ on that, but please, show me the four games that Rutgers or WVU played that rival the difficulty of playing four road games against nationally-ranked oppoents. I'll be happy to admit that I'm wrong.
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my bad, I forgot that GT choked that game away I think he's talking about Rutgers, who was coming off a 19 point loss to Cinncinati. They scored 41 on Rutgers, and Slaton played most of that game.
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my bad, I forgot that GT choked that game away
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And who did WVU, Rutgers and Louisville beat, except for each other once? Cincinnati, Navy and Miami? Hot damn! You can't just discredit beating each other. At least Louisville, WVU, and Rutgers beat teams who were at least ranked at the end of the year. Will WVU be ranked? Do they deserve to be?
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from a friend:
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And who did WVU, Rutgers and Louisville beat, except for each other once? Cincinnati, Navy and Miami? Hot damn!
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Well, Louisville made the BCS because they won the conference, so nobody's arguing that they should've been in there. And most of us who aren't ND fans already agree that they didn't belong.
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Cubs sign Ben Howard
TruffleShuffle replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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The #11 team really shouldn't have been there. They need to change the rule that prohibits a conference from only getting in two teams and we could have had a better match-up. If they do that then the rich just get richer. You'd see just SEC, Big 10 and Big 12 teams fill all the slots. Maybe - or maybe there'd be a deserving school from the Big East or one of the other conferences in there. Rutgers screwed themselves by losing to Cincy, and WVU screwed themselves by losing to USF. They had nobody to blame but themselves for not getting in the BCS this year. Do you really think they would have taken them over ND, Michigan or Wisconsin if they (BE team) only had one loss? I don't. Opps, I forgot LSU which somehow managed to lose 2 games too but I suppose that's ok. Show me where a two-loss Big East school played four games like @Auburn, @Tennessee, @Arkansas and @Florida, and I'll agree that they belong in the BCS. Really, if your defending of the Big East has blinded you to the fact that LSU is indeed one of the five best teams in the nation, and is in the very least better than Rutgers and West Virginia, then we're really not going to get anywhere in this debate.
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The #11 team really shouldn't have been there. They need to change the rule that prohibits a conference from only getting in two teams and we could have had a better match-up. If they do that then the rich just get richer. You'd see just SEC, Big 10 and Big 12 teams fill all the slots. Maybe - or maybe there'd be a deserving school from the Big East or one of the other conferences in there. Rutgers screwed themselves by losing to Cincy, and WVU screwed themselves by losing to USF. They had nobody to blame but themselves for not getting in the BCS this year.
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bitter notre dame fan face
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So ND is clearly worse than at least Florida and LSU, so if they were in the SEC they wouldn't be in a BCS bowl. And, if they played a schedule like LSU had this year, they'd probably have finished with 4 losses since I highly doubt they beat Arkansas and Auburn on the road.
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For everyone"s enjoyment next season, could we have ND play an SEC schedule? Pretty please. We went over this earlier in the year and people had ND as the 9th best team in the SEC. You're all as nuts as ND fans. Well ND definitely proved everyone wrong, what with losing by only 27 points to LSU.
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It's possible but not likely. A lot depends on how much last year's strong recruiting class can contribute. My guess is that Weis is too good a coach and that they find a way to win 8 games. But next year's schedule has road games with Michigan, Penn State, UCLA and a home game against USC, and all those teams are probably better on paper than ND. BC and GT might be better on paper. So I'll be stunned if they lose fewer than 3 games in 2007.
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and at Michigan, and at Penn State. And will probably have a tough time vs. Georgia Tech, and Boston College. At least they're actually playing some real teams next year. To be fair, BC is the only one of those teams (USC, UCLA, Mich, PSU, GT, BC) that they didn't play this year.
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and at Michigan, and at Penn State.