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  1. SpongeWorthy
    I doubt it. Getting hurt in the first preseason game probably killed those chances. But he'll still see the field and I bet he's starting within a month or so.
  2. SpongeWorthy
    In theory, Usain Bolt could stop being a millionaire sprinter and go play college football anywhere in America while some guy scratching out a living playing obscure European pro basketball can't play college basketball. Why is one ok and one not? Are engineers stopped from returning to college for further engineering education because they're already making a living as an engineer? What's the difference? I think the public reflexively takes the NCAAs bylaws as fair and sound when they have no real, logical hurdles to overcome.
  3. SpongeWorthy
    Really? Seems like it's the whole point to me. If you're on a football scholarship what does it matter if your job before enrolling was minor league outfielder or pizza delivery guy? On the other hand, if you got paid for the sport you're receiving a scholarship to play as an amateur... Is it the whole point? I think it's just another random NCAA bylaw that doesn't require any public justification because hey, they're the NCAA. Plus wasn't Jeremy Bloom declared ineligible to play football because he was a professional skier? Doesn't that disprove the thesis that playing the same sport professionally and then as an amateur is the "whole point" ?
  4. SpongeWorthy
    Are we never gonna use a leading full back? Clark seems kind of tall to line up as FB in an I formation and Manumaleuna is probably too big to be a traditional lead blocker.
  5. SpongeWorthy
    That doesn't seem like a material difference to me.
  6. SpongeWorthy
    What's the difference between that Turkish guy and someone like Chris Weinke going from minor league baseball to college football?
  7. SpongeWorthy
    Any chance Major Wright could be a SS? Wright and Harris seem to be the best tandem or safeties talent wise. I think he could be. He loves to hit in run support. I think Harris at SS and Major at FS makes the most sense at the moment if Wright can get up to speed coming off the injury. Also on this http://www.chicagobears.com/team/depthchart.asp it says Kellen Davis is the backup TE while Manumaleuna and Dez are the fullbacks. That's kinda weird isn't it?
  8. SpongeWorthy
    He was ineligible to play. OJ didn't kill people during his years at USC (that we know of). I'd take it from Bush and give it to no one. If the NCAA acted when this news broke, instead of 5 years later, this would be a much easier resolution. Seems right to me. The delay definitely hurts it. The only difficult part of resolving this is getting Bush to stick the trophy in a FedEx box. It's pretty open and shut if you ask me. There's no way that doing anything else but vacating the award for that year is under consideration.
  9. SpongeWorthy
    For some reason I thought there wasn't going to be a a Thursday night game this week. Pretty good match up as it turns out.
  10. SpongeWorthy
    It's not going out on a limb or anything to predict that Matt Hassebeck might outplay Derek Anderson, Alex Smith, and a talented rookie who is liable to get killed by opposing defenses.
  11. SpongeWorthy
    I'm not criticizing the Giants because I'm a Bears fan, not a Giants fan. If the Giants want to shoot themselves in the foot we should welcome that. I'd rather it be the Packers but at least they're an NFC team. In fact if the rest of the teams in the NFL want to be boobs about personnel and business decisions I'd welcome that too.
  12. SpongeWorthy
    You also have to consider that several of the teams ahead of the Bears on those rankings are there because they have won bigger, more recently than Chicago has. The Bears can fall ass backwards into a huge, captive market without ever having to win much to maintain a relatively high valuation. The Patriots were as nondescript as NFL teams got until at least Parcells.
  13. SpongeWorthy
    I'm criticizing their performance on the margin of things not because I think they're killing the viability of the Chicago Bears to be an ongoing concern. So yes, they're meeting and exceeding that very low hurdle. That isn't any reason for them not to attempt to do better. I also think you'd have to take some outrageously stupid risks, or literally set piles of money on fire, to jeopardize the Chicago Bears as a viable NFL franchise. So what some would call conservative leadership I think I would call unnecessarily losing out on the risk-reward payoff. And as I said, I think that is indicative of a losing culture or at least not a win-maximizing one. The operations/player personnel decisions aren't totally divorced from the business side. The latter informs and shapes the former.
  14. SpongeWorthy
    Being able to run a profitable, privately held business that you inherit from your highly innovative father/grandfather isn't really a sign of great business acumen. You take a valuable, highly visible asset in a captive market and you don't run it to the ground...sorry if I'm not singing your praises as an incredible business genius.
  15. SpongeWorthy
    I'm not sure Snyder and Jones are ridiculed for being bad businessmen. They're ridiculed for their egos and in Snyder's case, a lack of success on the field. Anyway, the Bears are run poorly from a business perspective and I don't think there's any disputing that. Now if it doesn't affect the product on the field then I could really care less but the 2nd article says the Bears have not been in the top 10 in payroll once since 1998 so I think we can assume it's a problem. From a larger perspective I think it's indicative of a culture that doesn't embrace change very well and isn't really cut throat about winning. That's why we get all these nice leader of men types as head coaches and no real innovators. Plus I'm really just annoyed that the Bears are treated like the Tampa Bay Bucs while the Eagles and Cowboys of the world have their own personal ESPN reporters. It's not a huge deal or anything but it sticks in my craw.
  16. SpongeWorthy
    So there's no prime time ABC game this week? Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.
  17. SpongeWorthy
    http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/25/most-valuable-nfl-teams-business-sports-football-valuations-10-intro.html The Chicago Bears are only the 9th most valuable franchise in the NFL. That's pretty pathetic. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0913/nfl-values-10-bears-chicago-football-money-midgets-midway.html
  18. SpongeWorthy
    Coaches Poll is 1/3 of the BCS formula.
  19. SpongeWorthy
    No he was the best player.
  20. SpongeWorthy
    Tyrod Taylor was the best player on the field by a country mile.
  21. SpongeWorthy
    The play was whistled dead much earlier than the hit OOB.
  22. SpongeWorthy
    That guy was wide open for a TD except Kellen Moore can't throw it that far.
  23. SpongeWorthy
    Tyrod Taylor looks like Nas.
  24. SpongeWorthy
    Yeah, he's really good and considering how much Rex Ryan loves to blitz (IIRC, they blitzed on a far higher percentage of plays than any other team), he's really important.
  25. SpongeWorthy
    Can we really call a QB who never has to (or can't) throw the ball harder than a junior high softball player a Heisman Trophy candidate?
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