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  1. Tracer Bullet
    BC changing QBs. Rumor has it Shinskie was found laying on his dorm room floor mumbling "not Manti Te'o...please...anything but Te'o" just beat these guys.
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    Really? I mean I only know a couple of them, but they were pretty upset. Weren't there a number of people calling for his head after the first season? Or was that after his second? I definitely heard calls for his head after year 1, don't quite recall how loud they were. they were deafening up here. He wasn't a "Michigan Man" which put him outside of Bo's graces and thus behind the 8-ball with most of their fans. Some of the more sane fans realized that after the team got rejected by just about everyone, Rodriguez was a pretty big "name" to take the gig. But even those fans were livid after that year. The rules violations and mass departures from the team didn't help.
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    ok - first of all - UM fans were livid in RichRod's first year. If you don't think so, teleport yourself back to Michigan that year. It was unbearable. Lots of teams' fans get pissed when their unrealistic expectations aren't met. No one (except maybe Andy) is saying there's a mandate that ND be good every year. They've been treading water (or worse) since Lou left. Lots of people are frustrated. ND doesn't have average talent, which is the most frustrating part. They have youth and inexperience at some very key positions (QB and both OTs) and a couple key injuries (Crist in the UM game and the only FS on the team missed UM and MSU). But a large part of the frustration is the wealth of talent (based solely on recruiting star numbers, which is all casual fans really have to go on, ND is in the #2-5 mix with Florida and Texas, right behind the cheating juggernaut that is Southern Cal). Weis was not a player developer, outside QBs. He just didn't emphasize it enough and it might have been his biggest drawback. But he recruited really well.
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    andy - stop making all nd fans look bad. jesus.
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    He even said "I always like the best teams." ugh.
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    I don't know how I missed the old thread. I do remember that part of the story from law school was that consumer surveys showed that customers preferred McD's coffee b/c it was so hot. Maybe b/c it would stay hot until they got to where they were driving? anyway, it's an interesting case.
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    maybe. the guy stated he only tried out for the mascot so he could start a mascot fight with the buckeye. That's stupid, yes. But the actions are not particularly harmful to anyone and the result is pretty funny.
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    I mean how can you not laugh at this? http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2010/football/ncaa/09/20/ohio.mascot.ap/brutus-buckeye-attack.jpg
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    http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5596131 Awesome. =D> I don't get why people think that's awesome. He's an ahole who decided to assault somebody. That's cool? Obviously it's not good that he's apparently imbalanced, but it was two mascots fighting, of course that's funny. Two mascots fighting is funny, but that is not what was being applauded, people are applauding a guy for coming up with a scheme to start a fight. a fight between two mascots in which one gets tackled and punched in his fat mascot face twice. this isn't a plot to kill the president. everyone involved is going to wake up tomorrow just fine.
  10. Tracer Bullet
    The alternative is exposing yourself even more to the biases that everyone spends the whole season complaining about. "This 2-1 team is better than this 3-0 team" "Why" "The team they lost to is really good, better than anyone the other team played" "Why" "Because that's what we thought before any of the games were played" trying to do rankings now is pretty difficult. but it's not like the information we have coming into the season is completely worthless (though it's obviously flawed). Going strictly by W/L record isn't an answer that makes a great deal of sense though.
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    Nonsense and I'm talking in general, not just Iowa. A top 10 team that schedules a tough road, non-conference game against another ranked team shouldn't be banished from the top 20 automatically while others get to hang around because they scheduled cupcakes. What reason is there for anyone to schedule anything but guarantees if you're going to punish teams that much for challenging themselves? Because it's about the sum of your schedule. Right now a team with a loss doesn't really deserve to be in the Top 25, there's only been 3 games in the season. If Iowa or Florida State or Penn State or whoever keep winning, the sum of their schedule will have them right where they belong by using the same principles. BS. You don't kick out every team that loses for teams with no losses, no matter how high the 1-loss team was ranked and no matter who it lost to. That makes absolutely no sense. Rankings are not just a matter of wins and losses. In a 3 game season they are primarily a function of wins and losses. that's just not true. some voters think W/L controls, some clearly do not.
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    Nonsense and I'm talking in general, not just Iowa. A top 10 team that schedules a tough road, non-conference game against another ranked team shouldn't be banished from the top 20 automatically while others get to hang around because they scheduled cupcakes. What reason is there for anyone to schedule anything but guarantees if you're going to punish teams that much for challenging themselves? Because it's about the sum of your schedule. Right now a team with a loss doesn't really deserve to be in the Top 25, there's only been 3 games in the season. If Iowa or Florida State or Penn State or whoever keep winning, the sum of their schedule will have them right where they belong by using the same principles. BS. You don't kick out every team that loses for teams with no losses, no matter how high the 1-loss team was ranked and no matter who it lost to. That makes absolutely no sense. Rankings are not just a matter of wins and losses.
  13. Tracer Bullet
    Stanford? This should be fun.
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    Your first sentence just isn't true. And I'd be less annoyed by it had they not flagged ND for 2 delay penalties early in the game. Like I said, Kelly made some real head scratchers and ND turned the ball over almost every time they didn't score. ND had a chance to blow the game open early and didn't. It's just frustrating to have an obvious penalty on the last play not called and then the blown called excused by a conference. The difference between lining up a 46-yarder and a 51 yarder is pretty huge right there.
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    One report I saw said that the stadium game clock still had 2 seconds left when the ball was snapped. http://irish.nbcsports.com/2010/09/kudos-to-the-spartans.html.php http://www.bluegraysky.com/forum/index.php?id=29400
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    which isn't to say that Kelly didn't have a pretty bad day today
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    http://twitpic.com/2puq8t
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    he's got a cannon, but the touch isn't there yet. Floyd needs to hang on to the [expletive] ball.
  19. Tracer Bullet
    Go Gophers Go!!
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    Because Michigan and ND are a big rivalry game every season and without fail the winner becomes ranked no matter how bad they actually are. People might want to start thinking about that in future years. To be fair, Michigan is one of only a handful of teams who hadn't played a cupcake team in the first 2 games of the season, and they won both of their games. Of course I say that and UConn is getting beat by 2 scores by Temple. UCONN is not a good team and ND was playing the QB that was the backup at Pasadena JC last year for 2 quarters. UM hasn't had a good win yet. But since ND had the backup in for half the game, they won't face a good team until maybe MSU so they'll be 5-0 and the hype around Denard will be even worse than it is now. Then they'll get owned by Iowa.
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    Wait. The trib added 2 years because they could is "specific" information but all the other times people have said Hendry was pressured into signing Soriano by the suits is just vague? yes
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    and a White Sox fan would be pretty interested, though disappointed with the results. the point is, there were some races that were good enough for fans of those teams to be interested. but maybe not good enough to keep general baseball fans interested into September. I don't think good races are as rare as you made them out to be, is my point.
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    I guess it might depend on your perspective. A really good buddy of mine is a Twins fan and they've basically buried the Sox over the last week or two. He couldn't be enjoying the race more than he is right now.
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    yeah, I enjoy great races, but we don't have much of that this season. I still watch baseball during the week, but I'm not as interested as I was a few months ago or as I will be in October.
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    If he appears to be serious about it, then it eliminates any possibility of an acquiring team re-signing him after the contract. Any team trading for him is guaranteed to only have him for two seasons (2011 and 2012). That said, I don't think it kills his trade value since teams probably don't make trades for near-30 pitchers largely on the basis that they will re-sign said pitcher two years later. It could hurt his value to some extent, however. right. so it doesn't kill his trade value. it might hurt it a little. Yeah, I explained the reasoning behind why it could kill his trade value, but then I agreed with you. my first post wasn't directed at you, it was directed at erik who suggested that this "kills" his trade value. you explained why he could hurt his trade value a little, which I, and pretty much everyone, understands. A team looking to acquire him is always only guaranteed the rest of his contract term. And nothing he's said changes that to a guarantee of only his current contract. People say a lot of things. And while it's the case sometimes that teams trading for a player will condition the trade on an extension, that's not likely the case with pitchers that are 30+ and good, but not great. This in no way "kills" his trade value.
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