SpongeWorthy
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yeah, did usc lose a lot to the nfl last year? i expected their offense to dip this year with sanchez leaving, but have been really surprised at how poorly their defense has played this year. it hasn't just been tonight either; notre dame moved the ball well and so did oregon st. Cushing, Maualuga, Matthews, and Moala were all drafted in the first two rounds. 8 players on defense drafted overall. I was sort of lulled into thinking the defense wasn't gonna miss too much of beat because they had no problems until Notre Dame in the 4th quarter. Even then, I thought a pro style passing attack was what's gonna hurt them not the spread option game. Obviously, I was wrong on that. This is pretty humbling though. Talent wise, there's no way USC's D should allow Oregon 600+ yards of offense when the other D's on Oregon's schedule have performed better. There's been huge schematic issues tonight.
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I think what's most shocking to me is that USC hasn't made any adjustments to stop letting Oregon rip off 10+ yards every play. I knew our offense wasn't going to keep up with the Ducks pace but I thought they'd at least slow them down a bit.
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Welp. Nice work Oregon. Every play they're running looks like how you diagram it on the chalk board. I guess Carroll's D was bound to get owned like this one day. Christ.
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Carroll's getting owned by Chip Kelly so far. 2nd half adjustments plz.
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I see that Duke still has to play GT, Miami, and Wake. That'd be hilarious though.
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Duke can win the ACC?
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The Sagarin predictor has Iowa at #12. The rating he's forced to use in the BCS has them at #1. The predictor is more accurate, btw.
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Tougher schedule = better than ?
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I don't really have a problem with saying Iowa's played the toughest schedule of the unbeatens while saying I think they're an inferior team to most of the unbeatens. If they go undefeated and Texas drops, go ahead and put em in the title game. I think they'd get spanked but I wouldn't have a problem putting them there.
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Florida kicker just drilled a 56 yarder.
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I don't think anyone hates Iowa. We're just trying to point out that your team has many cracks in the armor and would probably get beat handily by a team like Alabama, Florida, or Texas. Id say you guys are pissing and moaning more about rankings. No one is denying that there are "cracks in the armor" - but the other top 3 teams all have flaws as well. Florida just hasnt been exposed yet, and Texas is not that much better than Iowa. Alabama is the only team I would put above Iowa, and I still say we could beat them on gameday. Id say winning by 18 points when you lost Richardson, Robinson, and Sandeman last week aint bad. Iowa has become very familiar with the term "next man in line" this year, and keeps winning. The only people that think Iowa is better than any of those teams is a certain percentage of the Hawkeye fanbase.
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If Indiana had any capability of making them pay for it it'd be a moot point. Stanzi plays this bad against 20 other teams and you'd be calling for his head. He's played pretty bad against a lot of teams. I'm not one who suggested pulling him after 5 picks. End of the day, he's won most of his games, and were 9-0. He's also the reason anyone with a set of eyes can tell Iowa isn't an elite team. They'll get detonated by OSU or in a BCS game unless Stanzi gets a lot better.
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8-0 teams aren't garbage. sorry. and the #4 team in the country doesnt struggle against indiana. and northern iowa. and arkansas state. Um, Iowa is blowing IU out. You really think saying Iowa struggled with IU is an inaccurate statement?
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If Indiana had any capability of making them pay for it it'd be a moot point. Stanzi plays this bad against 20 other teams and you'd be calling for his head.
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I'm happy you guys are ranked. 6 of 11 teams are ranked. Sweet. Damn it, you just reminded me how annoying it is that this whole thread is going to be Big Ten slurping. (They'll likely deserve it, granted, but it'll still be annoying.) The Big Ten has a good argument for being the best conference in basketball. 9/11 of the teams have tourney hopes to start the season, they have top end teams in MSU and Purdue, the only argument against them is Iowa and Indiana, but I'm not really sure there's a conference that doesn't have an IU and Iowa. It's certainly better than the Big East slurping that went on last year because of all their high end teams(all the while ignoring the utter dreck at the bottom) which amounted to 0 teams in the Championship. I think ND(and Georgetown) makes the tourney btw on a dead cat bounce and a down year for the Big East. There are a lot of good arguments for the Big Ten being better than the Big East. Number of teams in the championship game of a one-and-done tournament is not one of them. It surprises me that on a board full of people who generally agree that playoff baseball is a crapshoot that so many people are eager to jump on a one-and-done tournament performance as justification for one conference over another. The better team wins quite a bit more in basketball though.
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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.