abuck1220

It has nothing whatsoever to do with a sense of entitlement and more to do with the fact that ND would likely lose money going to that bowl game and has very little to gain from it. Yes, practice time, but if the new coach isn't ready/able to coach the bowl game, what good does practice time under a lame-duck coaching staff do? Not to mention the predictable media laugh-fest if ND lost to Central Michigan - which I'm certain they would do. yeah, notre dame's strapped for cash. probably can't afford a charter to detroit or wherever the hell that bowl is.

obviously the cubs are more likely to give him a six year deal once he becomes a FA at age 33.

i love ND fans and their sense of entitlement. talking about turning down bowls when they're what, 15-20 over the past three seasons?

have ANY of hendry's multi-year, big money deals for middle relievers panned out??? you think he'd learn.

~$3.75 mil/year seems about right for a guy that will give you 70 innings of 1.40 whip pitching. holy crap, if hendry had to gm a small market team they would win 26 games a year.

did iowa lose? oh boy.

yeah, i had some sweet $28 bleacher seats three rows from the top. ridiculous.

holy [expletive] that would be terrible.

damn, iowa state is kinda good.

they had momentum, I don't deny that. But I'm not sure how much of it was based on the ability of their QB to move the ball effectively down the field. I guess I don't trust him b/c it's pretty easy for a long pass to turn into a sack/fumble or a pick. An INT at that point doesn't have to be a pick-6. Any INT other than on a bomb is going to give OSU the ability to gain just 0-25 yards and kick the winning FG. And I have more trust with my QB in OT b/c I'm at the 25, have a solid kicker from inside 40 yards and I have a good defense. You can run the ball effectively in OT. With 50 seconds to go, OSU can come after the QB pretty hard. I just don't trust him to make good decisions/throws in that situation. Obviously, one of the things you can't have in OT is a 10-yard sack to take you out of FG range. Eh, I don't trust a freshman QB in that situation that much either, but I don't think the chances of OSU getting a turnover + getting in FG range are greater than the chances of Iowa getting in FG range. It's not a terrible decision to run out the clock, but I probably would have gone for it. With an inexperienced QB, I like the chances of getting a TD or FG from the 25 much more than I like the chances of trying to get 40+ yards in 50 seconds when the other side knows you're going to be throwing it on every down. except in the first scenario, the other team also gets a chance to score a td from the 25. in the second scenario they probably don't get the ball.

i just realized one of the reasons i like college football so much is because of how much i hate certain teams. is that sad?

yeah, at that point iowa had about as much momentum as you could have in a football game, 59 seconds, a confident qb and an osu defense that was probably reeling. i'm not saying you throw five yard outs that can turn into pick 6's, but you can, at the very least, take a deep shot with djk or mcnutt. if you don't trusty vandenburg in that spot i don't know why you'd trust him in OT. they were ~40 yards away from winning in columbus and playing in the rose bowl and they just let that opportunity tick away.

i think missouri handles isu fairly easily. hope 6-6 is good enough for a bowl.

lsu losing to la tech. the sec blows.

isu is going to blow it.

vs. notre dame in the little caeser's bowl?

damn it, iowa state in the process of blowing their chance to face usc in shreveport.

i think usc matches up pretty well with san diego state in the poinsettia bowl.

they may get a chance to do it again in the emerald bowl, but i'll have to check their conference affiliations. usc v. minnesota would be a compelling matchup.

will iowa state play in a better bowl than usc?

what time do the limos leave for the sun bowl, usc fans?

[expletive] the skype thing was [expletive] lame too.

also 86-ing that deal would be the fact that halladay is awesome and bradley is a nutjob.

so effing lame does barnes really want to be a part of a twilight themed poster next year??? no. go to iowa state.

i've foolishly allowed myself to get my hopes up. buddy is trying to convince me to go to the press conference... i mean, he wouldn't hold a big pc in ames if he wasn't going to pick iowa state, right? right??