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3.2 this year, 7m next, 9.8 3rd year. Limited no trade.

That's the one that stood out to me. His ERA has gone down in each of the last three seasons (as have his IP) and their projected ERA would be almost a full run more than he gave up last year. I know ERA is flawed - but still, a jump of that magnitude... He's only had an ERA over 4 once and that was when he pitched six games after he got called up in 2001.

The fact that Zambrano has an era over 4.00 should indicate that PECOTA is broke.

Is there a better player in the NBA than Durant right now?

Well he was but he mostly loved to rant about them and was banned from multiple Iowa boards. He also liked to post in the political threads here and post the Cubs lineups here early. This guy started posting when Rusch stopped, has never posted about Indiana despite being a fan, loves to rant about Iowa, seems to know a lot of details on and off the field, posts the same way in the political thread and gets the lineups in game threads early. If you want to talk Indiana football, we can. I just find no point in doing so. Since you say I say nothing about Indiana football, I'll chime in: They're probably going to be terrible like always especially with Chappell graduated/Doss gone to the NFL next year. The offensive line next year with McDonald, Pagan, Damisch, and Matte returning should improve but offensively they have nothing left besides Belcher. He should flourish next year but there won't be Tandon to help take the pressure off. I expect him to be heavily covered next year by everybody. I'm hoping for a pretty decent battle into camp between Roberson (Indiana's Mr. Football), Kiel and Wright-Baker for quarterback. I'm really not sure that Wilson would start a true freshmen over a sophomore, but Wright-Baker is nothing really impressive from what I've seen (more a runner than a passer). Both Wright-Baker and Roberson are dual-threat quarterbacks, and it'll be interesting with Oklahoma's style of football how it'll fit. I wonder if they'll lean towards Kiel since he's more of a pro-style quarterback, and that fits with Oklahoma's schemes. We're really going to miss Chappell for sure. I would also expect Nick Turner to possibly take and really battle the job from Darius Willis depending if Willis can get back to 100 percent from patellar injury. It probably won't really matter because Willis can't seem to get through a season without getting hurt. Up front defensively, I'm interested in seeing how Johnson plays as he seems to be the guy with Beckum the most in the backfield. Replogle isn't too bad upfront either. Other than that, the rest of the defense is pretty much garbage. They have Zack Shaw (4 star guy) coming in at linebacker, and that's about it there. The cupboard is pretty much empty like always. They should win 2-3 games next year (South Carolina State and maybe @ North Texas/Ball State). Conference-wise the only win is at home against Purdue and that's a long shot. Road schedule is hardest in conference - @ Iowa, Wisconsin, Mich. St, and Ohio St. Then why did you first just say that you were an Alford fan, then you changed it to an Indiana guy, then you edited again to delete? Where are the detectives who figured out RedFlash? #1 - I decided to forget and/or delete my post because the topic wasn't going anywhere after a couple replies back and forth. #2 - Then you obviously saw that I posted that I was an Indiana (Alford) guy. After that, you tried to compare me to another poster that posts here or used to so I decided to give you Indiana football information since you posted that I rarely talk about them. Now, lets get back to your regularly scheduled college football offseason thread and I'll head back into the politics thread where I belong.

Well he was but he mostly loved to rant about them and was banned from multiple Iowa boards. He also liked to post in the political threads here and post the Cubs lineups here early. This guy started posting when Rusch stopped, has never posted about Indiana despite being a fan, loves to rant about Iowa, seems to know a lot of details on and off the field, posts the same way in the political thread and gets the lineups in game threads early. If you want to talk Indiana football, we can. I just find no point in doing so. Since you say I say nothing about Indiana football, I'll chime in: They're probably going to be terrible like always especially with Chappell graduated/Doss gone to the NFL next year. The offensive line next year with McDonald, Pagan, Damisch, and Matte returning should improve but offensively they have nothing left besides Belcher. He should flourish next year but there won't be Tandon to help take the pressure off. I expect him to be heavily covered next year by everybody. I'm hoping for a pretty decent battle into camp between Roberson (Indiana's Mr. Football), Kiel and Wright-Baker for quarterback. I'm really not sure that Wilson would start a true freshmen over a sophomore, but Wright-Baker is nothing really impressive from what I've seen (more a runner than a passer). Both Wright-Baker and Roberson are dual-threat quarterbacks, and it'll be interesting with Oklahoma's style of football how it'll fit. I wonder if they'll lean towards Kiel since he's more of a pro-style quarterback, and that fits with Oklahoma's schemes. We're really going to miss Chappell for sure. I would also expect Nick Turner to possibly take and really battle the job from Darius Willis depending if Willis can get back to 100 percent from patellar injury. It probably won't really matter because Willis can't seem to get through a season without getting hurt. Up front defensively, I'm interested in seeing how Johnson plays as he seems to be the guy with Beckum the most in the backfield. Replogle isn't too bad upfront either. Other than that, the rest of the defense is pretty much garbage. They have Zack Shaw (4 star guy) coming in at linebacker, and that's about it there. The cupboard is pretty much empty like always. They should win 2-3 games next year (South Carolina State and maybe @ North Texas/Ball State). Conference-wise the only win is at home against Purdue and that's a long shot. Road schedule is hardest in conference - @ Iowa, Wisconsin, Mich. St, and Ohio St.

forget it. delete.

Considering Iowa's football season was a disaster (on the field and off the field) this year, I'm probably sure there wasn't much positivity coming from anyone regarding them. I'm just asking a simple question. If you don't want to answer it, ignore it.

Troll fail. Or just stupidity, I can't tell which. Not a troll attempt at all. Just asking a simple question.

Michigan State is melting down. What the heck happened?

Hawkeye fans: I'm just curious, but how much rope does Ferentz gets before Iowa fans say that's enough? You guys have had everything negative possible happen there from assaults to DUIs to rapes to CBI. Now, this? 13 of your own players hospitalized for being overworked? It has to be embarrassing to try to protect that program every couple of months when something negative comes. Has to be embarrassing to root for them. Rich Rodriguez pretty much got fired at Michigan for practicing his players too much. Ferentz' S&C coach pretty much puts 13 of his players in the hospital from overworking them, and most Iowa fans I've heard say so what - it happens? Name me one program that has had many players problems (excluding Florida under Urban Meyer) as Ferentz has had? I can't think of one. I get it - he's a decent coach, but when is enough enough?

If it's from purely overworking, Doyle should be in some pretty big trouble, right? I'm sure a lawsuit will be coming up if everyone doesn't turn out alright from this.

Utah should just forfeit every time they come to LA to the play the Lakers.

This is seriously stupid. I am going to go ahead and say medical reports will come back in favor of Cutler not playing. It isn't going to be a big deal after that. Forget about Steve Bartman already?

If it's anything but a torn acl, Cutler is going to get torched.

Rooting for the Steelers is like rooting for the Yankees. Don't do it especially with their scumbag QB.

Uhmm... Iowa? No?

John Walters source was wrong. Floyd staying at Notre Dame according to Joe Schad. http://twitter.com/#!/schadjoe/status/25237661459423232

Just to make it easier for everyone. I know it's easy to say now, but seeing what I've seen from him in the last six months, he would have been incredibly hard to root for if he had come to Chicago. Sure it would have been when you're winning 60 games every year and in the NBA Finals about every year.

No justice in this world. Scam Newton in the title game, and Ohio State scams their way to a Sugar Bowl win.

They'll get Julio Jones or Justin Blackmon. Not AJ Green, but not bad at all. Blackmon got a DUI in college, so there is no way Spags will allow him to be drafted. Well, that leaves Jonathan Baldwin from Pittsburgh, Ryan Broyles from Oklahoma (if he leaves), Titus Young from Boise State, Torrey Smith - Maryland, and Leonard Hankerson from Miami. Are they first rounders? Wouldn't doubt if Spags stretches and takes Broyles in the 1st round.

Draft order (* - depends on playoffs) 1. Carolina (2-14) 2. Denver (4-12) 3. Buffalo (4-12) 4. Cincinnati (4-12) 5. Arizona (5-11) 6. Cleveland (5-11) 7. San Francisco (6-10) 8. Tennessee (6-10) 9. Dallas (6-10) 10. Washington (6-10) 11. Houston (6-10) 12. Minnesota (6-10) 13. Detroit (6-10) 14. Miami (7-9) 15. St. Louis (7-9) 16. Jacksonville (8-8) 17. Oakland (8-8) 18. San Diego (9-7) 19. New York Giants (10-6) 20. Tampa Bay (10-6) 21. Seattle (7-9)* 22. Indianapolis (10-6)* 23. Green Bay (10-6)* 24. Kansas City (10-6)* 25. Philadelphia (10-6)* 26. New York Jets (11-5)* 27. New Orleans (11-5)* 28. Chicago (11-5)* 29. Baltimore (12-4)* 30. Pittsburgh (12-4)* 31. Atlanta (13-3)* 32. New England (14-2)*

They'll get Julio Jones or Justin Blackmon. Not AJ Green, but not bad at all.

Not looking through the whole thread, but has it been said that the Oakland Raiders made history today? Only team ever to go 6-0 in their division and not make the playoffs.

Garrett's hired so Chryst should be on packing his stuff up in Madison?