Derwood
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Tough, I know.
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Tough, I know.
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Tough, I know.
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USC is still favored by 2 or 3 touchdowns though, right?
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i can't even post (if this went through it's a miracle)
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Anyone else having trouble accessing the league today? It's giving me an error and saying I'm not a member of the league...
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Anyone else having trouble accessing the league today? It's giving me an error and saying I'm not a member of the league...
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I think the auto-bids for conferences is fine, though it's unfair that 1/2 the conferences have title games and the other 1/2 don't. In other words, Penn State has no chance of losing their spot to, say, Northwestern in a Big Ten title game. Same goes for WVa and USC. the counter argument, of course, is that if Texas and Va Tech are as good as we think, there is no worry of them getting upset. PS - I updated the Bowl comittments on the firsr post of this thread
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Hi Bruce! Any news?
Derwood replied to RynoRules's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Maybe someone can mak Bruce a "Bruce Miles Headshot" avatar. Then people will believe! -
I agree, there's no reason ND should decline their invite. They've had a great season and it's not like they aren't deserving. Even if they did decline, it wouldn't help bring change. Of course they shouldn't turn down the invite. That's not fair to the players or the fans. But I really hate the repeated "Don't hate the playa, hate the game" attitude about what's broken in the BCS
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Does anyone think that perhaps the 2 at-large teams should have to face each other in the "lowest" BCS bowl? In other words, should the Fiesta be allowed to (potentially) pick the two at-large teams with picks 1 and 3 over the conference champs?
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My mistake. The fact that it was posted on the main page like a featured article led me to believe it was something different than the message board, But the point of my posting it was simply to show yet another example of the attitude that ND is somehow above or better than conference teams. Also, it once again brings up the extremely flawed logic of "It's okay for ND to bump out more deserving teams because they make more money, etc." It's very easy for you or any other Irish fan to say "well, that's just the way the system is, don't blame the school, blame the BCS, etc." But I don't hear any ND fans or supporters say "ND really ought to opt out of this privelaged arrangement for the betterment of the sport." It's like a spoiled rich kid saying "don't hate me because my daddy buys me a new BMW every year, It's not MY fault he's rich. What? Sell the car and donate the money to charity? Errr...."
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A prime example of the ND mentality... from http://www.ndnation.com (an editorial...not from the message board)
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Army and Navy would also have a bit of a problem with that. If you can somehow come up with a way for this to work with alignments and memberships and such, you talk to Myles Brand and maybe he can pull it off. I'll also note that this is an ironic argument coming from someone whose team stopped being independents one decade ago and up until this year had been sliding downhill ever since then. Really? PSU joined the big Ten in 1990 and played their first conference schedule in 1993. Their record since then: 106-50 Notre Dame's record in that same period: 99-55-1 Oh, plus 4 different coaches in that span. So how has joining the Big Ten made PSU inferior to ND (or anybody)?
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Damn those Cardinals :wink: Cardinals=Louisville Cardinal=Stanford Damn that Notre Dame education :twisted:
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Too true. I was really rooting for Stanford just to make all this argument academic, but they didn't cooperate.
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I think that West Virginia and Louisville are just as good as any of the one or 2 loss teams. If Colorado and/or Florida St win will that knock ND out of the BCS? I mean who do they pick Texas or ND or do they drop Ohio State? I think that something has to be done about these Conference Playoff games. At least the team with the best conference record goes in the BE but to have these 4 loss teams go in automatically is a joke. What would be worse IMO is if college football had a playoff the fact that Florida St or Colorado would be one of the 8 or 16 teams would just be wrong. I think Ohio State is out the window if USC or Texas goes down because those teams would become at-larges. If they both lost, ND and OSU are both probably out. If Va Tech loses, IMO they are probably out of the at-large picture and are headed for the Gator Bowl. And that's a problem. OSU lost to the current #2 and #3 teams in the BCS. ND lost to the current #1 and #NR in the BCS. And yet OSU would get screwed.
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I think the ND hatred comes from the fact that they seemingly play by different rules than everyone else. Considering there are less than 10 independent schools, I would be all for a rule stating every division 1-A school MUST be in a conference. Then we wouldn't keep having this argument
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Does anybody else find this pretty funny? I'm not sure bowl comittees are bright enough for irony
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Haven't you heard? It doesn't matter. It's not their fault that their super tough schedule ended up being weak, so you can't hold it against them, and every other team plays weak teams, and they are Notre Dame and God loves them and so does Lou Holtz so they belong in the Fiesta Bowl.
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Why would Giles want to go play CF in that park?
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I hear there's some sort of football game going on next Saturday at the LA Coliseum. Might even be an important one. Orange County High School Playoffs?
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How would UCLA get screwed. They would win the PAC-10 and get an automatic berth, right? I'm still unclear on this. I thought I read that USC could lose and still win the PAC-10 If UCLA defeats USC, there would be a 3-way tie for first place (Oregon, USC, UCLA). Then they'd go to losses against common opponents - losing to a worse team is worse. Obviously, UCLA will be eliminated there. Obviously it's their fault for losing to a bad Arizona team. But that 1 loss has more than likely eliminated UCLA from a BCS game, which I think is a screw job. If UCLA beats USC they should get an at-large over ND since ND's claim to fame is that they almost beat USC. You and your logic are not welcome here! :wink:
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That spelling is the gayest thing I've ever seen.
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Terry Adams just signed a minor league deal with Philly or Toronto or somewhere.....
