Soul

Dial up that OSU/USC title game. It's over.

Watching the Bulls almost blow a 20 pointer to the Knicks was just too much to take. I agree. And blowing it to their bench too. Thank God they hung on in the end.

Gonna blow it to the Knicks. The Knicks.

Amazing what happens when the Bulls play relatively turnover-free basketball too. I think we have all of 6 through 3 quarters.

Yay for a game that might be worth continuing to watch!!!

My God you have to catch a ball right on the numbers on 4th and 4.

I think part of what we are seeing is what happens when you play Navy, Air Force, then Army...........and then expect to be ready to play USC. The other part is USC's far superior speed, of course.

Time for the big game. College football rules.

True. I still like Corso's goofy-ness though. In the same way that I like Tom & Jerry cartoons 8)

But I believe he punked us more than once last year. Sounds like a win for the Cubs.

Because you're making the argument that you want the optimal offense because that is the offense that gives you the chance to make it to the WS. The other side is arguing that most WS teams don't have that top offense, so you don't need one. I think you're right, and using the argument that a team made it to the WS with offense X is like saying: "It's OK for the offense to be mediocre, cause medioce teams have won the WS before." Sadly, the Cubs will ignore their biggest problem (OBP) while Hendry is around. ...which I think everyone on these boards has difficulty understanding. Why would a MLB GM ignore an important metric such as OBP? I can't wrap my mind around it----and I sense almost everyone else feels the same. But nevertheless, it appears to make no sense.

I don't think Wisky can return their Capitol One invitation, which they have already accepted.

I don't understand why ESPN employs Lou Holtz and allows him to speak on national television. The guy makes statements that hold absolutely no merit and are completely off base. Don't get me wrong, Mark May isn't great either, but at least he puts thought into his arguments and provides a good reasoning to go along with them. As an ND fan, Lou Holtz embarrasses me at this point. When someone tries to make an argument for your team and they are so horribly bad at it that it can easily be shot down by the whole country, the country can become convinced that there is no better argument out there. Every time Lou says something about ND, it just makes ND look weaker and weaker because of his horrible representation of the facts. I hope he retires-soon. He should stick to being a motivational speaker and leave it at that. Lou should not be a public speaker anywhere. Just a horrible voice. I'd rather listen to him speak than Mark May. May's voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Add to that his nonsensical arguments and it becomes difficult to keep from V-Chipping ESPN off my channel list. Lou Holtz's arguments are WAY more nonsensical than May's are. Lou Holtz just says that South Carolina and Notre Dame are going to win and that's it. May at least provides realistic arguments (whether or not they are correct) and provides adequate logic and reasoning as to why he's arguing that side. Holtz doesn't. Like I said in my original post, I don't like May too much either but May is, by far, the lesser of two evils. Yeah, but you know Lou is just a rah-rah kind of guy. It's forgivable. With May, there's a sense that he should know better.

I don't understand why ESPN employs Lou Holtz and allows him to speak on national television. The guy makes statements that hold absolutely no merit and are completely off base. Don't get me wrong, Mark May isn't great either, but at least he puts thought into his arguments and provides a good reasoning to go along with them. As an ND fan, Lou Holtz embarrasses me at this point. When someone tries to make an argument for your team and they are so horribly bad at it that it can easily be shot down by the whole country, the country can become convinced that there is no better argument out there. Every time Lou says something about ND, it just makes ND look weaker and weaker because of his horrible representation of the facts. I hope he retires-soon. He should stick to being a motivational speaker and leave it at that. Lou should not be a public speaker anywhere. Just a horrible voice. I'd rather listen to him speak than Mark May. May's voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Add to that his nonsensical arguments and it becomes difficult to keep from V-Chipping ESPN off my channel list.

I dunno. Rex. Mike Brown. Bradley. To a lesser extent, Benson. We've had important players miss pretty significant time. We're just so stacked/deep that we've been able to soften the blows. For this year, Berrian, Ogunleye, Hillenmeyer, and other members of the secondary. Scott and Clark have also been banged up pretty good for a couple of games. We've been playing without our starting stud safety for much longer than the Patriots have. I know the Bears have been healthy, but there have been significant injuries as well. Just not the crushing onslaught of previous years, so it seems like nothing (*****KNOCK ON WOOD*****)

No, Louisville is playing Pittsburgh now :lol:

USF has to get a first down still. .....just did. It's over.

Wow, what happened to Florida?

Yet they can't against SF. It's pretty funny to watch a club like WVU, who once tried to convince the nation of their national title credentials, struggle with a ballclub like South Florida. The fact that they are just illustrates that the Big East is a small time conference parading as one of the big boys. I'm not sure how you can take any conference game and prove anything. Florida and SC did the same thing several weeks ago-did that prove the SEC was a small time conference? The only way you can really measure a conference is their non-conference play-the Big East was good against that, but very unproven at the same time (lots of wins, bad competition). It's all a matter of perspective-you can take this game and say the Big East isn't very good, or you can take the same result and show how the conference is deep enough that the middle teams can beat the top teams. It's very hard to tell which of those interpretations is really the correct one. BTW, South Florida up 21-12 now. No, I feel quite safe in saying that South Carolina is far superior competition to a school such as USF. Plus this game is for all the marbles for WVU. There's nothing to overlook. This is it. Except for the fact that they play Rutgers next week. Louisville has 1 conference loss and what *looks* to be an easy schedule to close the season. And your point is? Louisville beat WVU so they hold the tiebreaker anyway. If both win out Louisville wins the conference. Point is, WVU goes from some chance to no chance if they lose today because Louisville isn't losing 2. Anyway, looks like WVU finally woke up.

Yet they can't against SF. It's pretty funny to watch a club like WVU, who once tried to convince the nation of their national title credentials, struggle with a ballclub like South Florida. The fact that they are just illustrates that the Big East is a small time conference parading as one of the big boys. I'm not sure how you can take any conference game and prove anything. Florida and SC did the same thing several weeks ago-did that prove the SEC was a small time conference? The only way you can really measure a conference is their non-conference play-the Big East was good against that, but very unproven at the same time (lots of wins, bad competition). It's all a matter of perspective-you can take this game and say the Big East isn't very good, or you can take the same result and show how the conference is deep enough that the middle teams can beat the top teams. It's very hard to tell which of those interpretations is really the correct one. BTW, South Florida up 21-12 now. No, I feel quite safe in saying that South Carolina is far superior competition to a school such as USF. Plus this game is for all the marbles for WVU. There's nothing to overlook. This is it. Except for the fact that they play Rutgers next week. Louisville has 1 conference loss and what *looks* to be an easy schedule to close the season.

Yet they can't against SF. It's pretty funny to watch a club like WVU, who once tried to convince the nation of their national title credentials, struggle with a ballclub like South Florida. The fact that they are just illustrates that the Big East is a small time conference parading as one of the big boys. I'm not sure how you can take any conference game and prove anything. Florida and SC did the same thing several weeks ago-did that prove the SEC was a small time conference? The only way you can really measure a conference is their non-conference play-the Big East was good against that, but very unproven at the same time (lots of wins, bad competition). It's all a matter of perspective-you can take this game and say the Big East isn't very good, or you can take the same result and show how the conference is deep enough that the middle teams can beat the top teams. It's very hard to tell which of those interpretations is really the correct one. BTW, South Florida up 21-12 now. No, I feel quite safe in saying that South Carolina is far superior competition to a school such as USF. Plus this game is for all the marbles for WVU. There's nothing to overlook. This is it.

Maybe they should play D2 schools instead like your buddy Barry? Why do you think they are so scared to play any BCS teams out of conference? USF is a D2 school. They'd suck in the MAC for Christ's sake. You're funny. Do you do stand up too? I tried it but some guy heckled me and I went off on a racist rant. Damn those cell phone geeks!

Maybe they should play D2 schools instead like your buddy Barry? Why do you think they are so scared to play any BCS teams out of conference? USF is a D2 school. They'd suck in the MAC for Christ's sake.

Yeah, because all it takes in the Big East is to switch one bad player for a mediocre one. I'll be here waiting after that BCS game when Rutgers gets destroyed.

Yet they can't against SF. It's pretty funny to watch a club like WVU, who once tried to convince the nation of their national title credentials, struggle with a ballclub like South Florida. The fact that they are just illustrates that the Big East is a small time conference parading as one of the big boys.