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Why is the happiness of the bowl operators even a major point of consideration? If they don't want to participate, or rather if they don't want to change, there's plenty of sponsors and stadiums willing to step in. If the 4 major bowls right now passed on a playoff system working under a new mega TV deal with 4 different venues/cities they'd effectively be committing suicide. It's much better business for them to play ball than it is to be relegated to a decided 2nd tier status, even if it means losing out on revenue. Maybe it's a negative sum game for them but I can't imagine that the pie for everyone else wouldn't be a lot bigger under a playoff system. The conferences certainly wouldn't be missing out on anything. The BCS bowl games only matter relative to a playoff system that doesn't currently exist.
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Whatever bowl game becomes a national quarter or semifinal game automatically becomes a big one.
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goony raises a good point about teams in the Midwest/Northeast having to play what would essentially amount to 3 road games in order to play for the NC. But I think if you built a playoff system you could easily get someone to sponsor a new bowl at Lucas Oil, Ford Field, the Metrodome, etc. to serve as venues.
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The idealist in me says get rid of the bowl games altogether and build a viable playoff system from the ground up. I wouldn't miss it and within 10 years people would laugh at the quaint way things were done. Then the last people bloviating about the old days would die off and we could laugh harder. On the other hand I don't think the logistics are that big of an obstacle to make an 8 team playoff work within the existing bowl system. Like the playoffs wouldn't make money and get huge numbers? There's enough money in the system to compensate bowl operators for lost revenues and it'd probably be made up when the other bowl games were given an extra premium for becoming TRULY meaningful games themselves. You could always rotate the bigger bowl games so everyone had a fair shot at the big semifinal/final games. The argument that it would diminish the meaning of the regular season is valid but hardly a deciding factor. If you incorporated seeding or even a home game the regular season would still be very, very important. In fact it would still be, by far, the most important regular season of any major sport. It wouldn't be a frictionless process to switch to a playoff but that's no reason to stick with a bad idea.
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Maybe he realized he has to play in the Hokies "offense" for the next 3+ seasons. They MUST fire Stinespring.
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Brad Miller with a +18. He's probably going to double everyone on the team in that category again this season and I will continue to be confused by it.
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How's that possible with Blair getting 80 boards per game? Is this going to be a season long thing where you're nowhere to be found when Blair plays well and constantly yapping when he doesn't? It's not like he was even the problem for the Spurs tonight. Anyway, good win. Rose looked about a billion times better on defense. The Bulls didn't really shoot it very well from the floor or the line but it seemed like there was a good cutback on wasted possessions (e.g. Gordon dribbling off his foot 3x a game). And I'm not complaining about Vinny which is nice. So you'll hear him yapping at least 70 times this season. He's a petulant whiner when it comes to basketball so I guess it wouldn't matter either way.
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How's that possible with Blair getting 80 boards per game? Is this going to be a season long thing where you're nowhere to be found when Blair plays well and constantly yapping when he doesn't? It's not like he was even the problem for the Spurs tonight. Anyway, good win. Rose looked about a billion times better on defense. The Bulls didn't really shoot it very well from the floor or the line but it seemed like there was a good cutback on wasted possessions (e.g. Gordon dribbling off his foot 3x a game). And I'm not complaining about Vinny which is nice.
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Looking good so far. Really good stuff on offense in the 3rd quarter. Offense looks crisp and we're dominating on the glass. Now let's see if we can close...
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wtf, no one talking about the game? I hate all of you. Bulls up 47-46 at the half.
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Yeah, Rick Barnes makes offensively bad coaching decisions all of the time. It's pretty hilarious.
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John Wall is very, very good (if he is allowed to play). It's not just a matter of who returns but who else you add. I agree and that is why they should go from unranked and barely a .500 team to ranked in the 15-20 range. To me the top 5 is reserved for the teams who played close or at that level the year before and return a lot. The top 5 is not for a team that has been mediocre for years now and get a great recruit who no one really knows how good he will be because he has yet to play. They are top 5 simply because they have been talked about all off-season. They should be ranked where ESPN feels they stack up, not based on past history. Wall isn't the only great freshman they have, he's just the best one they have. They are definitely a top 10 team. Wall's good, but the hype is a little outrageous. He can't shoot. And that will really impair his ability to use his quicks. People talk like he's the best guard we'll have seen in a long time. He's not. Dude isn't as good as Rose or Gordon. Most hotshot PG prospects have little jumper to speak of because they never have to use it in high school.
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Melo posterized Millsap last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlrbJ6oG7OM
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You think Damien Wilkins is a who? You may have heard of his dad, Dominique AKA The human highlight reel. Never heard of him. Is he related to Gerald AKA The Jordan Stopper?
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Well, there's not really any resources left to get linemen high in the draft so now what? The dream scenario is that you do what Denver has done with their defense where you get 1 good, blue chip piece in Dawkins, get a bunch of retreads and career back ups, and bring in a new staff. Seriously, who's even HEARD of most of these guys on the Broncos defense? Many of their new faces barely played anywhere else and now they're a top 2-3 unit in the league so far after being utterly horrible last season.
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I remember those devastatingly harsh penalties placed on Notre Dame immediately after the Kim Dunbar scandal. And by devastating I mean 2 whole scholies pulled and by immediately after I mean 2-4.5 years after the fact. 2 more schollies than USC has lost for much more severe offenses, BTW. And by "2-4.5 years after the fact" you must mean "less than one year", because that's the actual truth. The allegations were from 1993-1998. The investigation was opened in January 1998 and the punishments were handed down in December of 1999. That's nearly two years and you're looking at 5 years of alleged malfeasance. Let's not act like the NCAA was swift in its actions. Anyway, the Bush/Mayo thing will bear fruit for you at some point and you can pretend its some great act of justice when all anyone really cares about is that a program you don't like gets punished--after all the only time people like the NCAA is when its sticking it to hated teams.
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I remember those devastatingly harsh penalties placed on Notre Dame immediately after the Kim Dunbar scandal. And by devastating I mean 2 whole scholies pulled and by immediately after I mean 2-4.5 years after the fact.
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Carter hasn't missed significant time in years. Personally I'm less sold on Garnett, Manu, and Shaq staying healthy. Maybe even Kobe who has a lot of miles on him at this point.
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Is Rose gonna play or what?
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UCLA WR Randall Carroll on his offensive coordinator Norm Chow via twitter: oregon, stanford, and cal should have been easy wins ,, but shyt thys nigga norm chow dnt be trustin us ,, so it is what it is And yeah, ND/WSU on Halloween night in San Antonio is like the most random game ever.
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Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
SpongeWorthy replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
It would be insanity not to at least consider a new head coach if this turns out to be another middling season with Cowher, Shanahan, Holmgren, and Gruden available. You don't have the picks to make big changes quickly so you've got to be open to a new coaching staff. -
Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
SpongeWorthy replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
Forte isn't the same back this year. Any RB would struggle behind this crap but Forte hasn't really helped the situation. I've seen him miss cutbacks and just in general not done anything to make a play out of nothing...good backs do that. Which isn't to say that Forte is the problem here but he's not really done anything to be part of the solution either. -
Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
SpongeWorthy replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
Benson's better than all of those guys by a lot. -
Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
SpongeWorthy replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
No, I think Benson was pretty much the epitome of a change of scenery doing a player wonders. And I didn't even really believe in that theory until Benson... -
Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
SpongeWorthy replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
The good thing about losing is that it improves our draft posi