Derwood
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that's a scary injury
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Can't?
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And the Big 12. And the ACC. In basketball. The Big 12 doesn't seed their tournament by division, but they schedule by division. Home and home against everyone in your division, one game against everyone in the other division. It doesn't look like the ACC does that though. Big 12 standings also aren't listed by division. It's just 12 teams, top to bottom. So divisions really only matter in football, and a geographic east/west split (esp. if you add Pitt) would have the historically best teams in the East (and would prevent the conference pipe dream of an OSU/UM title game every year). I don't know how else you would split it, though, unless you just threw teams into a hat
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closer to a new coach though. Which is more important for this franchise than getting Angelo a 1st round pick. With Virginia McCaskey calling the shots, I don't think logic or reason play any part in what happens with Smith/Angelo
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And the Big 12. And the ACC. In basketball.
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SEC is the only major conference with division play. The Big East has like 47 teams and no divisions. It would only matter in football (and I'm fairly sure there are no women's football teams, but maybe Professor CubbieBum can edumicate me on that). Add Pitt, go with: East ----- Penn State Pittsburgh Ohio State Michigan Michigan State Indiana West ----- Iowa Illinois Northwestern Wisconsin Minnesota Purdue There's no way not to split up Indiana and Purdue unless you go away from geography (Indiana is the dividing line of the conference). If you ask a school like Missouri, you put them in the west and move Purdue to the East. Done and done.
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No not really, but that's ok. Really? So, Ingram- who faced ONE Top 40 rush Defense (UF) gained fewer yards in more games, and had 11 fewer rush TD's, didn't rob Gerhart- who faced FIVE Top 40 Rush Defenses? So, Gerhart had 200 more yards in fewer games, 11 more TD's in fewer games, and did it against better competition (with MUCH less help around him), but wasn't robbed? In those 5 games against Top 40 Rush D's, Gerhart had 11 TD's... 4 fewer than Ingram got in a full season plus a championship game. Yes, he got robbed, and your homerism sure looks stupid now. Gerhart barely lost. It was the difference of one or two voters. It wasn't like Gerhart finished in 5th
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It sucks that losing doesn't even move you up in the draft. One of the worst seasons I can remember (in terms of expectations vs. results)
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Also, there wouldn't be divisions for basketball, so who cares?
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PSU loses a nailbiter to Va Tech, despite Battle having 32 points and taking the last shot. It's gonna be that kind of year
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Ingram Gerhart McCoy Suh Tebow Spiller Moore
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wow? I figured he would win it. I figured McCoy would win
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Gerhart 2nd
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all they said was "closest vote ever"
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Wow, Ingram wins the Heisman
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Cubs non-tendered LHP Neal Cotts. Not a surprise. Cotts, who turns 30 in March, underwent Tommy John surgery in July and is not expected to be ready until the middle of next season. The Cubs are reportedly open to offering him a minor league deal. Cotts posted a 7.36 ERA and 2.09 WHIP in 19 appearances in '09 and has a 4.63 ERA in parts of seven major league seasons.
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Talor Battle with 19 points in the 1st half tonight, even after missing several minutes with a twisted ankle
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In the pre-renovation days of Soldier Field, the bathrooms were so lousy (and there were so few of them) that people pissed in the sinks
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The point is that the system rewards teams for living up to expectations, and penalizes them for playing better than expectations
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There are 5 undefeated teams this year, and the two who are getting to play for the NC are there because coaches and sports writers decided in August that they were the most likely to be good. End of story. Had Cincy, TCU or Boise State been a pre-season #1 or #2 team, they would be playing for the title instead of Texas. So go ahead and defend this system all you want, but it's completely and utterly broken
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couldn't you argue that Hendry's quick signing of Dempster set the bar for the rest of those contracts? Had Dempster been signed for, say, 4/40 instead of 4/52 (not saying he would have, but theoretically) would all the rest of those contracts also been lower? -
so, who ends up at Cincy?
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Dempster's deal wasn't way above market value though so I'm not sure what comparison you're trying to make there. If anything, it was maybe a little under market value. I remember it being the perception at the time, but I don't have a full list of the 2008 off season contracts to verify
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I fully expect Hendry to offer Cameron a multi-year deal that will end up being way higher than market value once we see what Bay/Holliday make (see: Ryan Dempster deal)
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or he wouldn't have committed to leaving until after being eliminated from the playoffs. It would just have delayed his departure
