Andy
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Everything posted by Andy
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Ricky Stanzi wants no part of the Big Ten referee charity.
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HAHAHA, not even close. Unreal.
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Haha, that personal foul was predictable.
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"Ruling on the field stands." :) It wasn't a catch at all.
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Jesus, Stanzi.
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rofl. really? Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but this is happening way too often lately, especially with the SEC and Big Ten. Perception is reality and whether or not it's true, people are starting to believe that these conference refs are purposely aiding the top teams to keep alive the conference's hopes of title-game $$.
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Conference referees have to go. They have to.
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It'll stand, his right foot touched.
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Wow. Incredibly lucky bounce for Iowa off a good play by the D-line.
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A blitz on 3rd and 8 in your own red zone with 15 seconds left in the half puzzles me.
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Holy [expletive] Iowa, are you kidding?
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Pac-10 doesn't need a conference championship since each team in the conference actually plays every other team. NCAA rules prohibit title games unless you have 12 teams in the conference, which no one ever pays attention to when they start yammering about conference title games (which are dumb anyway).
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I don't recall a big "Big Ten is better than Big East" argument last year. More along the lines of "Big East isn't as good as people think and Big ten isn't as bad. " I mentioned the tourney because everyone based the Big East = best conference ever stuff based on their top end teams, and they wound up striking out with them. They had four teams in the Elite Eight and two in the Final Four. No one made the final, but Pitt might have if Nova hadn't upset them - I think the Panthers would've had a good shot at UNC. MSU/UConn was a close game. I wouldn't call that 'striking out'. It wasn't setting the world on fire, but half the Elite Eight and half the Final Four is a pretty solid tournament performance. But, after the hype job the Big East got last year I expected that. Hell the Big ten got two teams in the Final Four in '05, in case you forgot that was another one of the down years for our conference according to the experts. Too many "experts" have agendas. As a Notre Dame football fan who listens to his team get trashed year after year on ESPN because most of our games aren't on that network, you don't have to tell me twice.
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I don't recall a big "Big Ten is better than Big East" argument last year. More along the lines of "Big East isn't as good as people think and Big ten isn't as bad. " I mentioned the tourney because everyone based the Big East = best conference ever stuff based on their top end teams, and they wound up striking out with them. They had four teams in the Elite Eight and two in the Final Four. No one made the final, but Pitt might have if Nova hadn't upset them - I think the Panthers would've had a good shot at UNC. MSU/UConn was a close game. I wouldn't call that 'striking out'. It wasn't setting the world on fire, but half the Elite Eight and half the Final Four is a pretty solid tournament performance.
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The AL/NL rotation currently has the AL hosting the ASG in 2014... This should qualify for a special exception. To make it up to the AL we will give them the Brewers back. Screw the AL over twice? :)
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The AL/NL rotation currently has the AL hosting the ASG in 2014...
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Re: Sale of Cubs to Ricketts Complete (p. 15)
Andy replied to 17 Seconds's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Like the quotes I'm seeing. The Ricketts family says the right things - by April we'll have a good idea if they do them. -
I know it's unpopular but I still like the 'regular season is a playoff' thing. Though I don't like the BCS system - there's got to be a better way to do it. I'm guessing that the title picture will sort itself out.
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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.
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It's not much of an exaggeration to say that lottery ball saved the franchise from being in a black hole for a few years. It was big to get this one since we're almost certainly not winning tomorrow. Very good win.
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So VT apparently isn't all that good. Too bad for the ACC, who don't seem to have anybody good this year. ETA: Ga. Tech, maybe. I guess.
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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.)
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4605910&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_4605910
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AP poll is out too. 1 Kansas 2 Michigan State 3 Texas 4 Kentucky 5 Villanova 6 North Carolina 7 Purdue 8 West Virginia 9 Duke 10 Tennessee 11 Butler 12 Connecticut 13 California 14 Washington 15 Michigan 16 Ohio State 17 Oklahoma 18 Mississippi State 19 Louisville 20 Georgetown 21 Dayton 22 Georgia Tech 23 Illinois 24 Clemson 25 Minnesota
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ND got some votes, but even though Seth Davis likes our team, I think that the Scott Martin ACL tear is going to end up costing us an NCAA bid.
