SpongeWorthy
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You really think there is a potential #1 on the roster? Based on what? I mean there's one by default but that's about it. The receiver play was horrible this year. WR needs to be a big priority. You can't just plug and play with any guy off the scrap heap...you need true difference makers not average WRs who only put numbers up because hell, someone has to catch the ball.
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WR isn't a priority?
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This is just vague hand waving and meaningless rhetoric. What do "sending a message", "token effort", and "coming down really light" even mean? It is a convenient way of giving yourself wiggle room to criticize whatever penalties come down as being too lenient though. and lets be honest, no college fb fan really wants the NCAA to really promote amateurism. The just want it enforced at schools who do better then the team they cheer for i'd like a level playing field. there are rules in place and if the school i root for chooses to abide by those rules, i don't want school to suffer competitively because other schools are looking the other way and letting their athletes get houses and cars and money. if that's going to happen and you're not going to enforce the rules, then just get rid of them altogether and let schools pay athletes whatever they want. If you were so concerned about a level playing field you'd just have every athlete who met some minimum academic requirement be in a pool of players and we'd have a draft. The entire recruiting process is sort of based on the idea that the playing field isn't level isn't it? That's true whether everyone is following the rules or not.
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This is just vague hand waving and meaningless rhetoric. What do "sending a message", "token effort", and "coming down really light" even mean? It is a convenient way of giving yourself wiggle room to criticize whatever penalties come down as being too lenient though.
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It's not really the perfect coaching job if the NCAA hammers them is it? And Carroll was never going to stick around forever. He's not Paterno. He openly talked about how he would only go to the NFL if he had total control. Now he has that on a West Coast city, he's making $2 million more per year, and he gets another shot at the NFL. I doubt whatever's coming down the pike from the NCAA had that much to do with it.
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And yet Miles has as many national championships as coach as LSU as Carroll won at USC. Well I disagree but I don't really have the energy to rehash that pointless discussion. I will admit that Les Miles has more or as many national titles as many, many coaches that he is much worse than. He's a horrible in game coach that makes perposterously stupid decisions. The Ole Miss game was no isolated incident it's just that in past years he was bailed out with luck. And there are plenty of Tigers fans who wouldn't disagree with that.
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Another major difference is that LSU actually benefits from anything that could conceivably get Les Miles fired more quickly.
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Less important to whom? Aren't we talking about the football program here? The Tim Floyd stuff is more important to whatever punishment the NCAA hands down on the football program than the Reggie Bush stuff? That doesn't sound reasonable.
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The Onion couldn't get away with running that headline. That HAS to be some kind of joke. It just can't possibly be a real rumor. Someone in the FO is leaking it as a gag. ...I can't get over how perposterous that sounds.
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They? USC isn't under investigation for buying Reggie Bush a house and/or car. They're under investigation for not knowing an agent with no connection to the school put Bush's parents up in a fairly expensive house in San Diego and provided some other luxuries to his family. But since you're under that misapprehension I can see why you think they would deserve more than a few lost scholarships. This isn't a situation where a USC booster gave Bush's parents a bunch of crap to get him to go to USC. It was a potential agent plying his parents with stuff so Bush would sign with him. You could argue that they had a very vested interest in getting Bush to leave school early (and Bush would've left early regardless because his stock really couldn't have gone any higher). I don't see how the program gains a competitive advantage that way. All these years and I've never heard a single valid explanation as to why USC gained something from the Bush situation unless you really believe that knowing his parents lived in a relatively nice house in San Diego made him play better than he otherwise would have.
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What do you define as a slap on the wrist? The way some of you guys talk, it's death penalty or the NCAA was in cahoots with USC.
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I stomached a little of that Bears/Colts replay last night. The first drive of the 2nd half, Indy controls the ball for ~8 minutes and kicks a field goal to go up 19-14. They pooch kick to around the 33 on the kickoff. Bears get a first down and then a 9 yard gain to Moose to set themselves up with a 2nd and 1 inside Indy territory. Next play is an 11 yard sack where Garza literally is rooted in place while the DT makes a spin move around him and then Rex takes another 10+ yard sack after a bobbled snap with Kreutz. I turned it off after that.
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That's part of it. Outside of the obvious good ones (Phil, Popovich, Brown, etc.) NBA coaches are recycled so often that I'm skeptical of how much they really matter. The roster just doesn't mesh around Rose's talents very well and that's on Pax. But if he can move Hinrich/Salmons for cap relief without totally putting the season in the tank (Ray Allen plz) it will hopefully be worth it.
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On the bright side, Rose attempted 10 free throws for I think the 2nd or 3rd time in his career. More of that.
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Another loss to a bottom feeder. [expletive] Vinny letting the team relax and take its foot off the pedal once the schedule eased up. Why didn't Tyrus play more tonight? He got 12 minutes according to the box score and Gibson was totally ineffective so wtf.
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A glimmer of hope.
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Horrible. What a nice way to come back home. Geez, Clippers gotta save their season best performances for us eh.
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Forte Faulk Five letters, begins with F, coached by Martz, can you say league MVP?
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Well I think the Cavs have already proved they can win a lot of games. They won 65+ last year didn't they? They're on pace to do the same this year. I guess it comes down to whether LeBron thinks he can be a better long term winner relative to Cleveland elsewhere. I don't think there's something fundamentally wrong with the Cavs that would preclude them from winning it this year. Maybe Mike Brown. The list of teams that haven't won a title winning 65+ regular season games is shorter than the list of teams who have.
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Well I don't want to nitpick a fluff piece interview but Bruce was already damn good when Martz got there and Holt is a hall of famer. I did forget Az Hakim though...they did some nifty things with him in that offense. I wonder what he thinks of Forte.
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Cutler did amazingly well? Come on man. You're letting the last two weeks of solid play cloud your judgment. He consistently made horrible decisions for most of the season. Rodgers is a guy who did amazingly well with porous protection. He was sacked 50 times! Cutler is a guy who had his flaws exposed because of porous protection. And it's not like Cutler didn't make his fair share of crappy decisions in Denver. He was still the league leader in red zone INTs when he had an amazing offensive line and good weapons. It was one of the concerns coming into this season. I'll grant most everything you said about the players around him...there's still a lot there. It was a free for all: red zone picks, final drive picks, several picks by defensive linemen. I'm not saying I wouldn't have done the trade...I'm just submitting I'm not entirely sold on him being an elite QB. There's a lot to fix.
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Varejao and probably Williams are more valuable than Rose would be on a team with LeBron. I think Varejao's very good and pretty underrated but the Bulls have Noah. And he's already getting more love than Varejao. They're very similar with the weird name, hair, and style of play. Mo Williams isn't in the same universe as Derrick Rose. He's nice but he's just another guy ultimately. What you have to worry about is New Jersey being in a position to draft John Wall and possibly deal Devin Harris.
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Cutler just made way too many utterly baffling decisions that wouldn't be out of place in a YouTube video entitled: Rex Grossman NFL Mixtape for me to be completely sold on him moving forward. Independent of the atrocious receiver and line play, there's still a lot there to be worried about.
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When the Knicks were last good they played a horrificly boring brand of thug ball that nearly destroyed the league and necessitated major rule changes. Lebron would be the biggest star in New York since Mantle.