soccer10k
-
Posts
26,137 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
3
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by soccer10k
-
I personally enjoy reading Simmons, but there are more that a few people who find his incessant pop culture referencing and writing style to be annoying, so I put him on there. I think he's entertaining, but a terrible analyst of sports. He seems very hit and miss with his analysis. He's probably best at discussing the NBA. I agree. I like his writing style and enjoy reading most of his columns but I don't usually take a lot of stock in his analysis of sports, namely baseball.
-
Gotta be Scoop Jackson.
-
Morgan although Walton, McCarver and Madden aren't far behind.
-
I really hope Pete Carroll doesn't go to Miami.
-
I was thinking we should start an offseason college football thread for coaching moves, recruiting and players declaring for the NFL draft.
-
Fresno State paid for a ton of upgrades to the athletic department, and I believe other facets of the school as well, by playing the OOC schedule I provided above for the past few years.
-
A 16-team field would be absurd. There is no reason why teams that couldn't finish in the top 10 need to get a 2nd or 3rd chance to contend for the title. It's not feasible at all, since it would mean the end of the bowl system and suck money out of the system. There's no logical reason, but the teams from Big 6 conferences not about to go without an automatic bid to any playoff that exists. Sure, it sucks, but an 8 team playoff wouldn't include any Boise State. A 10 or 12 team playoff would, likely, but then you're already stuck with a 4th week of playoff games, which is no different from a 16-team playoff, and then every conference could be represented. An 8 team playoff could include a Boise State if they finish in the top 8 of the final BCS standings. Utah made a BCS game when there were only 4 games.
-
A 16-team field would be absurd. There is no reason why teams that couldn't finish in the top 10 need to get a 2nd or 3rd chance to contend for the title. It's not feasible at all, since it would mean the end of the bowl system and suck money out of the system. There is also no reason to preserve the BCS rankings. You could easily got with 10 teams and play two play-in games. How do you pick the ten teams? If you get rid of the BCS and use the polls, which do you use? If multiple polls are used, what if they differ?
-
So long as the 8 team field is the actual Top 8 in the BCS (with no conference tie-ins) I'm all for it. But if a #21 ranked F$U gets in from the ACC, or Wisconsin gets the boot for being the 3rd Big Ten team, I wouldn't be happy. This is my problem with an 8 team playoff. Just like with the BCS, there is no way all the major conferences would agree to an 8 team playoff without their conference champions getting an automatic bid. There is no way you get a playoff with the top 8 ranked BCS teams. It won't happen. The BCS rankings are completely ridiculous. The conference champs should get in. Wisconsin and Michigan don't get in unless they win the Big 10. Same for LSU or Cal or whoever else. Why is that so difficult? If you can't win your conference, you can't win the national championship. Makes sense to me. So you want to give a team like last year's 8-4 (before the bowl game loss) Florida State a shot at the title because they won the ACC over a team that goes 10-2 but doesn't win their conference but finishes top 5 in the BCS (2006 LSU, 2005 OSU)? FSU didn't deserve a shot at the title last year.
-
I'm tired of this argument. The BCS teams will schedule the smaller conference teams if they want games. Look at Fresno State's OOC schedule for the past few years: 2000: at Ohio St., at UCLA, vs Cal 2001: at Colorado, vs Oregon St., at Wisconsin, at Colorado St., vs Utah St. 2002: at Wisconsin, vs San Diego St., at Oregon, at Oregon St., vs Colorado St. 2003: at Tennessee, vs Oregon St., at Oklahoma, vs Portland St., at Colorado St. 2004: at Washington, at Kansas St., vs Portland St. 2005: vs Weber St., at Oregon, vs Toledo, at USC 2006: vs Oregon, at Washington, vs Colorado St., at LSU Over these seven years Fresno State went 7-12 against teams from the six major conferences. They have not only beat some of these teams but gotten some of them to travel to Fresno to play. In 2001, they went 5-0 in their OOC schedule with David Carr and yet teams continued to schedule them. They gave USC all they could handle last year but in the next two years they play a home and away with Kansas State, at Oregon and vs Wisconsin. I don't think it's the unwillingness of major conference teams to schedule them but rather the small conference teams not wanting to play tough OOC schedules.
-
So long as the 8 team field is the actual Top 8 in the BCS (with no conference tie-ins) I'm all for it. But if a #21 ranked F$U gets in from the ACC, or Wisconsin gets the boot for being the 3rd Big Ten team, I wouldn't be happy. This is my problem with an 8 team playoff. Just like with the BCS, there is no way all the major conferences would agree to an 8 team playoff without their conference champions getting an automatic bid. There is no way you get a playoff with the top 8 ranked BCS teams. It won't happen.
-
Final Bowl Standings by Conference Conference W L PF PA Wins Over ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ACC 4 4 206 199 WAC, Pac-10, Big Ten, I-A Ind Big 12 3 5 218 277 SEC, Big Ten (2) Big East 5 0 150 89 C-USA, Big 12, ACC (2), MAC Big Ten 2 5 141 191 SEC (2) C-USA 1 4 101 141 MAC I-A Ind 0 2 38 66 MAC 1 3 69 106 Sun Belt M. West 3 1 112 48 MAC, Pac-10, C-USA Pac-10 3 3 175 189 Big 12 (2), Big 10 SEC 6 3 257 193 ACC (2), C-USA, Big 12, I-A Ind, Big 10 Sun Belt 1 1 55 48 C-USA WAC 3 1 124 99 MWC, Pac-10, Big 12
-
I could see that with Florida and LSU, but I can't follow you there with Arkansas or Auburn. I think Arkansas and Auburn (especially Auburn) could beat USC or OSU. http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboard?confId=null&weekNumber=1&seasonYear=2006 hater You guys are the one making me defend USC! USC!!! Don't lie, you enjoy it.
-
I would say WVU as well. My point was that people always complain about having good games and with Slaton hurt, WVU wouldn't have given LSU a game. Yeah, I think they deserved to be there more than ND but the game wouldn't have been close.
-
and run-on sentence . . . ND did not deserve a BCS berth this year. they played three good teams and got annihilated by all three. Funny how no matter how obvious I make it that I'm kidding, ND haters feel the need to attack the Irish anyway after kidding comments. This treatment is getting ridiculous. I think I'll say it this time so you don't have to ndistops. Under the current rules of the BCS (only 2 teams per conference allowed in the BCS) Notre Dame was the most deserving at large team after Michigan, and LSU. no, they weren't. they weren't good enough. I didn't understand your comment anyway - I was more kidding because I have read all the ND fan complaining about being picked on all season without comment all year. anyway, I'm just kidding around. we can beat it to death some more either way Who would you put in place of ND then? West Virginia actually beat a team in the Top 25.... With Slaton hurt there is no way WVU puts up any sort of a fight against LSU. If Slaton was healthy it's a different story, but not with him out.
-
and run-on sentence . . . ND did not deserve a BCS berth this year. they played three good teams and got annihilated by all three. Funny how no matter how obvious I make it that I'm kidding, ND haters feel the need to attack the Irish anyway after kidding comments. This treatment is getting ridiculous. I think I'll say it this time so you don't have to ndistops. Under the current rules of the BCS (only 2 teams per conference allowed in the BCS) Notre Dame was the most deserving at large team after Michigan, and LSU. no, they weren't. they weren't good enough. I didn't understand your comment anyway - I was more kidding because I have read all the ND fan complaining about being picked on all season without comment all year. anyway, I'm just kidding around. we can beat it to death some more either way Who would you put in place of ND then?
-
I'm assuming the first two are Florida and LSU but who is the third...Auburn? There's no way Auburn is the third best team in the nation. You have a legitimate argument (not saying it's right) with saying the SEC has the top 2 but they don't have the top three.
-
and run-on sentence . . . ND did not deserve a BCS berth this year. they played three good teams and got annihilated by all three. Funny how no matter how obvious I make it that I'm kidding, ND haters feel the need to attack the Irish anyway after kidding comments. This treatment is getting ridiculous. I think I'll say it this time so you don't have to ndistops. Under the current rules of the BCS (only 2 teams per conference allowed in the BCS) Notre Dame was the most deserving at large team after Michigan, and LSU.
-
look at the teams out of conference schedules before you say stuff like this please. your are def wrong. Big 10 O-O-C Games (Sagarin Rankings) OSU v. 18 Texas OSU v. 40 Cincy OSU v. 84 N. Illinois OSU v. 139 BGU PSU v. 106 Akron PSU v. 13 Notre Dame PSU v. 70 Youngstown State PSU v. 165 Temple UM v. 13 Notre Dame UM v. 65 Vandy UM v. 62 Central Michigan UM v. 93 Ball State Wisc v. 139 BGU Wisc v. 157 W. Illinois Wisc. v. 120 SDSU Wisc. v. 149 Buffalo Those are just the top 4 Big Ten teams schedules, but I would say those OOC schedules blow. You are the one who is "def" wrong. By the way, the Big 10's strength of schedule for OOC games was 9th of the 11 major conferences. http://www.andersonsports.com/football/ACF_frnk.html Breaking news - pretty much every conference plays easy out of conference schedules. Welcome to major college football. Can the Pac-10 get a little respect?
-
He does this.
-
Lee Corso picked Florida before the game. I think Mark May did as well.
-
Game, set, match.
-
Tim Tebow is an animal.
-
look at the teams out of conference schedules before you say stuff like this please. your are def wrong. Ohio State played at Texas. Michigan and Penn State played at Notre Dame. Even Minnesota played somebody good OOC when the went to Cal.
-
It's pretty bad when your impact player has 7 rushes for 37 yards in the middle of the third quarter.