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  1. Andy
    Why do we insist on adding a degree of difficulty to every game? We dominate the game for long periods of time and then give up the big play to let them back in it.
  2. Andy
    Gigantic, monstrous drive to end the half. Caught a break with the interference IMO, but I'll take it. 14-7 going into the break.
  3. Andy
    I didn't see the 2nd grounding. The 1st one was grounding, but the 2nd one, Sportsline had as intended for Gaines. Not sure about that one.
  4. Andy
    TD KEYSHAWN!
  5. Andy
    Ah yes, the typical "completely and totally shut down the other team for the first 25 minutes of the game, then give up a scoring drive reminiscent of the early-00s Colts defense right before the half" thing. I'm very familiar with this. I swear we are the most predictable team in the league.
  6. Andy
    Bulls dominating tonight, 37-23 on the Celts in the 2nd.
  7. Andy
    I actually like that college FB's regular season matters. Any more than 4 teams in there and you have 2-loss teams winning it all, and I dunno about the rest of you, but that'd piss me off.
  8. Andy
    TD SMITH! :D
  9. Andy
    <3 DeAngelo.
  10. Andy
    Typical stupid playcalling to start it off. Two runs up the gut for nothing and an incompletion. Steve Smith isn't just the best individual player in the league besides LDT, he's also by far the most underutilized weapon in the league.
  11. Andy
    Need to win this game if Carolina wants any chance to win the South Division.
  12. Andy
    To be fair, some AP voters probably don't watch many of the games either. I doubt most have seen a team like BYU even once this year. I think if they look at box scores of games and read recaps, they can at least inform themselves enough to put a decent top 25 together. I'd also be willing to bet that a large part of putting most coaches' top 25 polls is done by someone other than the head coach. Someone probably puts a top 25 together and then the coach maybe makes a couple of tweaks before submitting it. Another problem I have is the fact that 63 coaches vote, but there is no known system to determine which 63 vote. What makes Charlie Weis, Chris Petersen (Boise State), Steve Kragthorpe (Tulsa), or other guys who've been coaching for only a couple of years more qualified than, oh, I don't know, Joe Paterno, Urban Meyer, Bobby or Tommy Bowden, or any of the other coaches that have been around a little longer?
  13. Andy
    Butler is ranked 14th in the AP and 15th in the coaches heading into Wednesday's tilt with Ball State. I'll be at Hinkle Fieldhouse cheering on my Cardinals. Edited to add that we also play 22nd-ranked Oklahoma State in San Diego on Saturday. In the span of four days the Cards will play the only two 9-0 teams in the country. With Kansas and Georgetown already in the rear-view mirror and IU in Bloomington still to go. What a brutal OOC schedule.
  14. Andy
    If you were 5 outs away from the world series and you went to catch a ball basically on the dividing line between the field and the stands that would make you 4 outs from the world series and some dude with stupid headphones knocked the ball away, you would, in the heat of the moment, stop to rationally think things through? You would stop to think, "Everyone makes mistakes, back to business as usually." and calmly walk away? Not saying Alou is excused, but thats an intense situation. Did he say anything afterwords? Apology? Announce that it was his own fault? He did apologize quite profusely to Bartman and his teammates before Game 7 as I recall.
  15. Andy
    yeah I didn't really hash out how the BCS rankings would be done in my system, because I liked the playoff that resulted, regardless of what formula the BCS was using that week. But I agree, get the AP back (I think they'd come back if you installed a 4 team playoff). I voted "2 but fix the current system". I don't mind having a 2-team national title and that's that, but the way they do it now puts too much variability in. There's really no way to eliminate "variability" if you stay at 2 and use human polling. I guess variability was the wrong word. I just would really prefer to eliminate the coaches' poll from the equation. One of these days the party-line voting by conference, the coaches voting their own teams way too high (Stoops had Oklahoma fourth, Schiano had RUTGERS seventh), and the ignorance (my own school's coach didn't rank ARKANSAS) is going to get catastrophic.
  16. Andy
    These are the only alternate ones that I believe were unveiled, who knows if there are more: http://static.flickr.com/117/311582943_0c27511a59_o.png
  17. Andy
    yeah I didn't really hash out how the BCS rankings would be done in my system, because I liked the playoff that resulted, regardless of what formula the BCS was using that week. But I agree, get the AP back (I think they'd come back if you installed a 4 team playoff). I voted "2 but fix the current system". I don't mind having a 2-team national title and that's that, but the way they do it now puts too much variability in.
  18. Andy
    Sweet-talk the AP into coming back to the BCS, scrap the coaches' poll, and put a little more of an emphasis on the computer rankings. Half of the BCS is the average of the AP and Harris polls, half is the computer rankings.
  19. Andy
    I have a feeling that -9 line is more because they want action from ND fans than that they actually think ND is worth a crap enough to keep them that close.
  20. Andy
    I fail to see how either point is even worth mentioning. It was a simple comment, no need to rip him for it. I'm not ripping him. I said I don't see the point. The tone of the post reflected annoyance at coaches making absurd rankings. The last paragraph was a throwaway comment, but you're correct about the rest of my post.
  21. Andy
    Woohoo! ND 36th in the AP! (Thanks for no votes whatsoever coaches...)
  22. Andy
    Samardizja is also projected to go ahead of him-in fact, I hate this bitterly because most mock drafts have Samardizja going to the Patriots in the first round. :( I'm curious if the Bears have given any thought to drafting Samardzija. Lord knows they probably won't pick defense yet again.
  23. Andy
    Predictably, Charlie Weis ranked ND 8th (their actual ranking was 11th), although Phil Fulmer ranked them 7th and three other coaches (including strangely enough John L. Smith) ranked them 8th as well, so at least it wasn't too glaring. Steve Spurrier continues his campaign against all things Dome by ranking the Irish 16th. Larry Coker ranked them the 2nd-lowest at 15th. Oh wow, I hadn't realized BSU coach Brady Hoke had a ballot. The former defensive coordinator at Michigan unsurprisingly put the Wolverines number 2, as did Lloyd Carr himself.
  24. Andy
    Thursday, Dec. 7th at 8 pm (NFL Network) ------------------------------- Cleveland (4-8) at Pittsburgh (5-7) Sunday, Dec. 10th at 1 pm ------------------------------- Atlanta (6-6) at Tampa Bay (3-9) Baltimore (9-3) at Kansas City (7-5) Indianapolis (10-2) at Jacksonville (7-5) Minnesota (5-7) at Detroit (2-10) New England (9-3) at Miami (5-7) NY Giants (6-6) at Carolina (6-6) Oakland (2-10) at Cincinnati (7-5) Philadelphia (6-6) at Washington (4-8) Tennessee (5-7) at Houston (4-8) Sunday, Dec. 10th at 4 pm ------------------------------- Green Bay (4-8) at San Francisco (5-7) Seattle (8-4) at Arizona (3-9) Buffalo (5-7) at NY Jets (7-5) Denver (7-5) at San Diego (10-2) Sunday, Dec. 10th at 8 pm (NBC) ------------------------------- New Orleans (8-4) at Dallas (8-4)
  25. Andy
    Here's hoping if the Raiders pick Quinn that he keeps Weis on speed-dial, calls him a couple times a week, and completely ignores anything the Raiders' coaching staff tells him. That'd be his best chance at success.
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