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  1. SpongeWorthy
    Bernard Berrian isn't good any more.
  2. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  3. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  4. SpongeWorthy
    Is that jealousy I see in your eyes hawkeye? Hmm, yes, drown me in the sweet water of your envy.
  5. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  6. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  7. SpongeWorthy
    Danilo Gallinari is God-incarnate come to Earth to reign fiery rage on the hapless NBA.
  8. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  9. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  10. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  11. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  12. SpongeWorthy
    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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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" ?
  16. 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.
  17. SpongeWorthy
    That doesn't seem like a material difference to me.
  18. SpongeWorthy
    What's the difference between that Turkish guy and someone like Chris Weinke going from minor league baseball to college football?
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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