Ryne Ween

I did not bet on that game. I'm just happy they lost. If you watched it you heard the arguments for BYU to be in the playoff from the espn crew doing the game.

Well so arizona would have had a fg to win the game or take a late lead? Whatever then oregon has not played up to par since the MS game and deserves to be knocked off the NC radar until they have an impressive couple wins. I'm pretty geeked up for these games tomorrow.

I fell asleep during the game what happened with this call?

Well USC got a two year bowl ban and 30 scholarships because Reggie Bush accepted a gift from a pro agent while at SC 6 years prior and a female tennis player made long distance phone calls. So hey Ole Miss might also get worse sanctions than Penn State.

He also didn't have a history of debilitating plantar fasciitis like Noah that I can say, speaking from experience, does in fact get irritated with more stress put on it. Between that and the deep front court they'll have, there's zero reason to play Noah more than 30-32 minutes a game. Aren't all the doctors saying plantar faciatis comes and goes regardless of stress? Even so do you think 3 minutes on the court makes a difference? If it does than limit what he does in practice.

Jimmy butler is the only guy who needs to play less and that's because he's on offensive liability at a wing position for 40 minutes a night.

1) the spurs have had a deeper more complete roster than thibs bulls since the Rose MVP season. 2) the spurs core is aged 32, 37 and 38 Kwaii Leonard notwithstanding. When Duncan was Noah's age he played as many minutes as Noah.

Noah needs to play 35-37 mpg like any other star player in his prime. Not sure why we would want Noah to play 6 less minutes than every single one of his peers. As always with Thibs, if guys play well they will earn a spot in the rotation. Jimmy Butler earned his way in by doing the things Thibs wanted. If Nikola can play, he will play. The Thibs minutes thing is manufactured. The minutes thing in general is manufactured. There is no objective data that suggests playing 3-4 more minutes during games enhances the chance of injury. So please just stop it.

Not the minutes stuff again.

A guy like Mike Riley might have made sense when they hired Hoke. Patterson makes sense now. He coached TCU into the Big 12 if you can imagine the impact he's had there. Obviously harbaugh if he would do it.

Looking at the programs you mentioned, the common theme seems to be poor coaching decisions in the face of a variety of circumstances. Tennessee and Texas had long established coaches who were more or less forced out due to fan/booster pressure, with inadequate replacements coming in. Penn State had the opposite issue, with Paterno overstaying his usefulness (scandal aside). USC had some mediocre years, but even when they were going 7-5, they were beating good teams and not losing by 5 scores like Michigan is. I'm not sure what the heck AD's at these schools are doing, but there is really no excuse for a blue blood program to settle for anything less than the elite coaching options available to them. Rolling the dice on an up and comer or settling for a guy with school-ties is a little dumbfounding. That said, the fans are as fickle as ever. They're already turning on Urban Meyer here in Columbus. Elite coaching options aren't as cut and dried of a category as you make it appear. Clearly not, but in many cases, everyone can see a disaster coming. Whiffing on Les Miles and settling for Hoke was such a case It's not as easy as it may seem to find an elite coach, but it's probably not as hard as Goony implies either. The key is substantive, long-term head coaching success. Hoke didn't have that. He only had one great season at Ball State (against a wildly easy schedule), then had two good-but-not-great seasons at SDSU. There aren't guys like this available every year, but the ones who have proven they can do it, often repeatedly, like Urban at BG and Utah and Brian Kelly at CMU and Cincy, generally are the safest bets to have success at the blue-blood level. James Franklin, Charlie Strong and Chris Petersen were all hires from last off-season that fit that mold. Add in a long leash if they are coming off a suck cycle. Rich Rod had all the hallmarks of a good hire. He had a history of success at a power 5. His last year at mich was his best. They weren't good played a tough schedule fairly well. Had they stuck with him they'd be in a better place. So ing opinion if you are settling on Hoke and his shoddy resume, keep the proven winner around at least to see if he can get results in that year or if a better option becomes available the next year.

I never bet a road favorite of greater than 3 points in the NFL. Pittsburgh will likely win but lots of points to lay. That's a 6pt teaser.

And geez. I'm not defending Hoke for being incompetent. I'm just saying it's unlikely he knew he had a concussed player and played him anyway. Besides aren't they saying he passed the sideline test? For Hoke to deserve all this he would have 1) had to known the player failed a sideline test and 2) knowingly played him anyway. I find that To be hard To believe.

Looking at the programs you mentioned, the common theme seems to be poor coaching decisions in the face of a variety of circumstances. Tennessee and Texas had long established coaches who were more or less forced out due to fan/booster pressure, with inadequate replacements coming in. Penn State had the opposite issue, with Paterno overstaying his usefulness (scandal aside). USC had some mediocre years, but even when they were going 7-5, they were beating good teams and not losing by 5 scores like Michigan is. I'm not sure what the heck AD's at these schools are doing, but there is really no excuse for a blue blood program to settle for anything less than the elite coaching options available to them. Rolling the dice on an up and comer or settling for a guy with school-ties is a little dumbfounding. That said, the fans are as fickle as ever. They're already turning on Urban Meyer here in Columbus. Texas is garbage this year, but I think it's a little early to describe Strong as an inadequate replacement. He's gonna be a bad replacement. Even if he is a good replacement they won't give him the time he will need. Especially because he seems to be taking the "win with good young men" to the extreme.

He deserves to be fired for the terrible job he's done as head coach. Why does everybody feel like they need to nail him to the wall and paint him as some monster? Guys slip back on the field with concussions all the time. It be one thing if hoke marched a key player out there in an attempt to win a game but this was the end of a blowout. I don't think he's some sociopath for this. These sidelines are chaotic and I could see something like happening on accident. Doesn't make it right but it doesn't make hoke a bad person. Wow could Lane Kiffen get the Michigan job? Does michigan still think that only a "Michigan Man" is good enough for the job? Is Gary Patterson gonna leave TCU for one of the big jobs opening up?

It's almost hard to remember that Tennessee was once one of the 5-10 best programs in the country. Running full mer out of town was stupid and then compounding that with the Dooley hire destroyed the program.

Aggrey Sam is no longer on te bulls beat for CSN I guess. I wonder if he got fired for some reason.

Yea I think Watson probably made some mistakes but I'm surprised mickelson would do what he did. At the end of the day any combination of the Americans are capable of winning the Ryder cup they just didn't. Watson is also not a "coach" or master golf strategist. He's just a guy who excelled at an individual sport.

Well if you are gonna be like that about Ole Miss' defense, then you should similarly discount Bama's offense because they've played the 80th, 85th, 110th, and 120th ranked defenses so far this year. So would I. I have zero confidence in a win. However, our defense IS legit and our offense has scored a similar amount of points as Bama against similarly crappy teams. This will be a close one. This isn't the Bama of two years ago, this team actually has weaknesses (primarily pass defense). The only thing that won't keep this close is if "Bad" Bo Wallace shows up and he throws three picks, as he does a few times a year. However, when Wallace is on, he's really good. All of us will be routing for ole miss. Just pointing out 6.5 seems like a low spread. This game last year was not much of a contest and Bama looks like they are as good as they were last year so ole miss would need to really really improve to make the 6.5 make sense. Bama is a tremendous road team.

You can't keep using the defense rankings. Floridas defense has played 3 games. One was a shutout, one was a triple OT and one was the Bama game. WVU has played Bama and OU in their young season. The defensive rankings don't really mean anything. Florida has a bunch of defensive talent and a defensive head coach and Bama decimated them. Credit to Bama's offense for being the reason Florida defense in number 85.

For reference 2009 was the lane Kiffen year.

Really goes to show how much things in the SEC has changed that this is the 4th most important SEC game this week. As suspected this will be the first time in the last 20 years neither is ranked. Look how a once mighty game has precipitously fallen: UF - TENN 1994: #1 - #15 1995: #4 - #8 1996: #4 - #2 1997: #3 - #4 1998: #2 - #6 1999: #4 - #2 2000: #6 - #11 2001: #2 - #5 2002: #10 - #4 2003: #17 - #12 2004: #11 - #13 2005: #6 - #5 2006: #7 - #13 2007: #5 - #22 2008: #4 - NR 2009: #1 - NR 2010: #10 - NR 2011: #16 - NR 2012: #18 - #23 2013: #19 - NR 2014: NR - NR

While Ole Miss has been great and I'd love to see them beat Bama, it's only Bama -6.5. That seems shockingly low for Bama off a bye week with an offense that absolutely torched Florida.

Somebody is gonna hire schiano and it's gonna work for them. He'd make KU respectable pretty quickly.

Okay fellas I just wanted to point out that trestman sucks that's all guys.