SpongeWorthy
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Minny's receivers stink without Rice. I'm liking this.
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I'm noticing Minnesota's receivers not being able to get separation.
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You suck Hartley.
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Henderson's femur was cured by the adolescent joy Brett gets from playing the game. I bet his rehab involved wearing Brett's hand me down Wranglers and playing a little touch football in the backyard.
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LOOK AT HIM HAVING FUN OUT THERE
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Bernard Berrian isn't good any more.
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I think if you took Boise's OOC schedule over the last couple seasons and added a MWC conference schedule there wouldn't be too much of an uproar of them getting in over a 1-loss BCS conference school. Moving forward, losing BYU on the conference slate hurts though. Edit: Oh yeah, losing Utah too. I guess the MWC probably isn't enough any more.
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Wasn't the Virginia Tech/BSU game put together just last season? It seems like there's always a big, quality BCS program with an early opening in its schedule every year. Of course that makes Boise's options for scheduling a tough game on the fly pretty limited.
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Is that jealousy I see in your eyes hawkeye? Hmm, yes, drown me in the sweet water of your envy.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna get too invested in this. It's just Melo and the merits are pretty close either way if you do a deal that includes Noah. Reading this thread in the period between July 1 and THE DECISION is pretty hilarious...just a consistent, unrelenting wave of BS being spouted by every NBA beat writer in the country.
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Well Noah isn't being floated, yet, in the rumor mills. Of course if you're Denver and you have any interest at all in dealing Melo you ask for Noah. The question is can you get Melo without giving up Noah. Probably not unless you get another team involved.
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Danilo Gallinari is God-incarnate come to Earth to reign fiery rage on the hapless NBA.
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Deng's contract isn't worse than Johnson or Gay's. On a per dollar, length, and year basis it's probably better. Of course that doesn't mean it's a GOOD contract or anything Denver is necessarily in the market for.
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The NCAAs bylaws aren't what's holding back college basketball from becoming an NBA old-timers league. If those rules evaporated over night it's not like Michael Jordan would immediately signal his intent to play for UNC. But as a pure thought experiment, yeah, I'd be ok with it.
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To what extent should this logic be carried out. Can Lebron play for Kentucky on his off days? Lebron is still being paid as a professional basketball player on his off days so no.
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So Michael Jordan isn't a professional but he isn't an amateur either? What do you call such a person? The NCAA needs a word for it. This is the sort of thing I was getting at--these bylaws lack rigor and inevitably get applied arbitrarily over the years.
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Because in basketball the kid isn't an amateur. Since the NCAA is amatuer athletics, professionals arn't allowed to play it. By that logic Michael Jordan is still a professional basketball player.
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Bears game 1: Sunday Sep. 12 vs DET on Fox
SpongeWorthy replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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. -
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.
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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" ?
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Bears game 1: Sunday Sep. 12 vs DET on Fox
SpongeWorthy replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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. -
That doesn't seem like a material difference to me.
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What's the difference between that Turkish guy and someone like Chris Weinke going from minor league baseball to college football?
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Bears game 1: Sunday Sep. 12 vs DET on Fox
SpongeWorthy replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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? -
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.