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  1. Andy
    It should be noted that I believe the chance of this scenario occurring is about as good as the chance that Notre Dame, USC, Texas and Penn State all go winless next year.
  2. Andy
    1-loss UCLA has played a bad schedule and has looked terrible the last two weeks. Can't argue with Oregon but UCLA has been lucky to avoid a couple more losses.
  3. Andy
    The last two years, particularly in 2005, Nomar's OBP is not even close to Aramis. Also, Aramis's OBP has been rising and he is still yet to enter his prime. Ramirez has the chance to become a truly special player, and there's no reason at all to trade great-hitting third basemen who haven't yet entered their prime.
  4. Andy
    I'll take Miami, by an eyelash over PSU.
  5. Andy
    Same rib injury, out for the rest of the game. Idonije not having the best of games penalty-wise. Just kills me fantasy-wise. Traded Stephen Davis and Aaron Brooks for TJ and Lavernues Coles. Why do you trade the TD factory Stephen Davis? He gets the ball inside the 5 every time for the Panthers. Bears win, nice INT. Chicago might yet make some noise in the postseason if their D can keep rescuing them and their offense can keep playing at least borderline competently.
  6. Andy
    So, I suppose by the end of the offseason, we'll have had people advocating trading EVERY important player on the team? We've already had advocates for trading Lee and Ramirez, ESPN Radio has talked about trading Z. Aren't we a little insane for all this?
  7. Andy
    That should be the Bears' slogan this season. Can't you see it? "Come see the Bears play at beautiful Spaceship/Soldier Field. This game is butt ugly!"
  8. Andy
    Looks like Penn State jumped ND in this week's AP poll - and deservedly so. Miami jumped Alabama also - perhaps not deservedly so? 1. USC (57) 9-0 1,617 2. Texas (8 ) 9-0 1,568 3. Miami 7-1 1,452 4. Alabama 9-0 1,450 5. LSU 7-1 1,328 6. Penn State 9-1 1,271 7. Notre Dame 6-2 1,201 8. Virginia Tech 8-1 1,147 9. Georgia 7-1 1,097 10. Ohio State 7-2 1,076 11. Oregon 8-1 943 12. Florida 7-2 905 13. Texas Tech 8-1 753 14. UCLA 8-1 693 15. Auburn 7-2 680 16. West Virginia 7-1 677 17. Florida State 7-2 605 18. TCU 9-1 536 19. Wisconsin 8-2 438 20. Fresno State 7-1 410 21. Michigan 6-3 372 22. Colorado 7-2 312 23. Louisville 6-2 242 24. Georgia Tech 6-2 109 25. Northwestern 6-3 82
  9. Andy
    Hone$tly...you're confu$ed? This a thing that really bugged me. ESPN gave the final scores for all the top 25 teams and then the rest. The only time they put up stats was for ND and Quinn. When did you see that? I saw stats for Vince Young, Brad Smith, and a few others on College Gameday Final.
  10. Andy
    Bears will win this one. They can basically cruise to the NFC North title now the way the Lions are playing today. The Saints are the only bad team in the South, and they are very bad. Haslett's job is in jeopardy for about the millionth straight year.
  11. Andy
    Well, except that they just pasted the living crap out of an unbeaten Va Tech team that looked to have a stronger profile than Texas up to that point, and they did it on the road. Other than that I wholeheartedly agree.
  12. Andy
    Kirk Herbstreit made an excellent point on this on SportsCenter. He said that the Harris Poll, which didn't start till October, had basically the same top 5 as everyone else. The fact is, even if you start rankings later, you're still going to get the same bias.
  13. Andy
    ND has to have nine wins and be top-12. The vast majority of the time, ND's schedule is difficult enough so that if they meet those requirements, there's no controversy because everyone will feel them deserving. This year happens to be an exception thanks to all those teams that were supposed to be good suddenly struggling. Just for reference, ND was BCS-eligible in 2002 (and, I think, 1998) and was not selected for an at-large berth, so it's not always a guaranteed shoo-in.
  14. Andy
    ND recently chose to discontinue their games with BC due to the juvenile behavior of Eagle players and fans. And you've conveniently left off IU and Illinois. If Notre Dame joined the Big 10 and then ran the table in a bad year for the conference (like last year, when PSU, MSU, IU, and Illinois were all bad and there was no more than one or two real good teams in the conference), then what would the complaint be? And if you were ND, would you join a conference when you can make boatloads of money without doing so? Seriously, put yourself in other people's shoes. If I had a network football deal then what could possibly be the benefit of joining a conference?
  15. Andy
    You hate on ND for not joining a conference and then reel off a list of teams (like MSU, Tennessee, Michigan and Stanford) who have compiled their losses mainly against very good teams in their conference. Why am I not surprised? Notre Dame has played an invincible team in USC, a very good team in Michigan, a good team in MSU, a good team that fell victim to a murderous schedule in Tennessee. Pitt and Stanford are both teams that aren't great but aren't terrible either, and Notre Dame sent Purdue's season into a tailspin by smoking them. Syracuse and Washington, IMO are the only just plain terrible teams Notre Dame has played/will play, as opposed to most big-conference teams who made sure to schedule at least 2 terrible teams out of conference while also getting to play Indiana/Illinois-caliber teams. (See Baylor, KSU and Oklahoma State in the Big 12, Duke in the ACC, both Washington schools in the Pac-10, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi St in the SEC, the aforementioned IU and Illinois, etc.)
  16. Andy
    To be quite honest you could make cases for all those teams being more deserving than Notre Dame, right now. However, VT, Georgia and LSU all have shots at missing their conference title game, Wisconsin will probably end up finishing 3rd in the Big Ten behind PSU and OSU, and UCLA will have another loss after the USC game. (Oregon is liable to get screwed if they win out, unfortunately.) IMO you really can't say that a team is more deserving of ND if they can't finish among the top 2 of their conference. And Notre Dame conveniently avoids any possibility of finishing outside the top two in a conference by not joining one I'm sick of having this argument so I'm not going to comment. I've made my position known on this and have backed it up with facts. I don't need to say any more.
  17. Andy
    As soon as there's a list up, my picks will be in. :P
  18. Andy
    Add Buehrle to my list, I forgot about him, I knew I was forgetting at least one White Sox. Add Ozzie Guillen too obviously.
  19. Andy
    To be quite honest you could make cases for all those teams being more deserving than Notre Dame, right now. However, VT, Georgia and LSU all have shots at missing their conference title game, Wisconsin will probably end up finishing 3rd in the Big Ten behind PSU and OSU, and UCLA will have another loss after the USC game. (Oregon is liable to get screwed if they win out, unfortunately.) IMO you really can't say that a team is more deserving of ND if they can't finish among the top 2 of their conference.
  20. Andy
    Pierzynski Edmonds Barroid Oswalt Clemens Berkman
  21. Andy
    That's a very valid point. The BCS is looking like this right now: (my predictions on some of this) Rose: USC/Texas Fiesta: PSU/ND Sugar: Alabama/FSU Orange: Miami/WVU I suppose that if FSU were to look particularly bad in losing to Miami in the ACC title game, that Va Tech could conceivably jump them into the Sugar Bowl, but other than that, the Hokies could be looking at a Gator Bowl bid this year.
  22. Andy
    This year, the Fiesta gets the Big 12 and Pac-10 champs, but with that matchup likely to take place in the Rose Bowl between USC and Texas, the Fiesta gets the Big 10 champ and the first pick of an at-large, making a PSU/ND Fiesta Bowl likely. In the Sugar you get the SEC champ (Bama or Florida?) and (probably) an at-large (probably whoever loses the ACC title game), and in the Orange you would get the ACC/Big East matchup between Miami/FSU and WV.
  23. Andy
    Terrible, terrible foul by Tyson there. That was reprehensible, fouling anyone going for a game-tying shot. Bulls lose 100-99. Sterling efforts by Hinrich (26 pts) and Gordon (22) flushed down the toilet thanks to a stinkbomb by Tyson (1 pt, 9 rebs, 6 fouls). Ugghhh. Hope we can even hang with the Spurs at this point.
  24. Andy
    The Bulls trail 74-66 after three. It's Gordon time...
  25. Andy
    OSU and Michigan are one and the same in my opinion. The only difference is that O$U players get in trouble with the NCAA while scUM players get in trouble with the law. That's why I like watching OSU-UM games...someone has to lose.
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