Warpticon

Are people really that high on Gabbert? I think he's he's a good prospect, but I hadn't even seriously considered him coming out at this point.

Get the %*&$ off me!

The bolded is flat false. He's no more of a "statue" than any other pocket passer, and he's a better play action passer than all of them. He's also done great things on bootlegs and called rollouts. Does that make him a threat to gain yards with his legs? No. But the lack of a strength is not the same thing as a weakness. His biggest weaknesses as a passer are: * He doesn't make touch passes as much as he should: tends to rifle the ball in when he could stand to take something off it (I have no idea how you managed to see the opposite of this) * He trusts his arm too much and can make dangerous throws because of this. * Last year he was really bad about screwing up his mechanics under pressure. When guys got in his face, he would fail to square his shoulder and step into his throws, which would result in wild inaccuracy. This year he got A LOT better about this (and it's reflected in a nearly 11% increase in completion %) , but he still has those moments from time to time. Cam has a huge arm, amazing physique, and special mobility, but he has work to do as well. His footwork is poor, his mechanics could use some fine tuning, and his decision making is still a big question mark. Also there will be questions in how well he handles pressure, considering he played behind arguably the best offensive line in the country this year and thereby rarely saw any. I think he can play QB in the NFL, but I don't see him doing it particularly well right away.

Unless Newton shows better footwork and/or a demonstration that he can make reads other than run/throw the ball downfield, I absolutely pick Mallett over Newton. And I pick Luck above anybody, free. Not to say Newton can't play QB at the next level, he's just been limited in what he's been required to do and has gotten by a lot on just being a physical beast. That will only take him so far at the next level. At some point he's going to have to start reading defenses and checking down regularly, and we can't honestly say we have any idea how well he's capable of doing those things based on his play in college.

SEC wait...

This year there is 1 team with more than 2 losses in the Top 16 of the BCS, and it's Alabama. It won't just be top 16 BCS teams. And 2 losses is too many. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_LSU_Tigers_football_team

Meanwhile, Petrino signs a 7 year extension.

The madness ends for good after Week 17, so they're trying to squeeze every last drop of him they can. Plus, I think they're just looking for excuses to keep Ed Werder employed. Don't be so sure. I'd put even odds on offseason talk of him at least considering coming back. With Arizona or Miami being the likely destination. Ew, why Miami?

I like that Washington/Nebraska is a bowl game. Nothing like being rewarded for a 6-6 season with a rematch against a team that destroyed you in the same season.

Do you really believe this? All that smoke and no fire... Y'all happen to get the #1's from MS, AK, LA, FL's #3 player, GA's #5 and the top JUCO player and it's totally because Auburn is just that badass and Chizik is such a draw. C'mon. Ahh, the fertile recruiting ground of Alaska.

Miami is 6-5.

I feel really bad for the MWC. A year ago they had very good TCU, Utah, and BYU teams carrying the conference to a level that many thought justified consideration for an automatic qualification. Then the announcement that Boise was moving to the MWC came. Could a strengthening conference be getting stronger? And then..Utah moves to the Pac-10, BYU goes independent (seriously, wtf?), and now TCU is going to the Big East. And essentially, Boise just traded the bottom of the WAC for the bottom of the MWC...especially with Fresno, Nevada, and possibly Hawaii coming along. A Boise/Utah/BYU/TCU/Nevada/Hawaii/Fresno top half of the conference would be very formidable. Boise/Nevada/Hawaii/Fresno...we already had that.

Where you been? I guess not watching Arkansas. :lol: Today will put him at about 900 yards over his last 6 games. No, I've been paying attention and have taken note of him of late. But he seems to have come out of nowhere the past 1.5 months. Well, they've been trying to figure out who was going to be The Man since last season. They were giving Broderick Green, Ronnie Wingo, Dennis Johnson before he got hurt, and Davis about equal snaps, and none really distinguished himself. Davis started picking up around game 5 against A&M and really exploded a couple of weeks later against Ole Miss.

Where you been? I guess not watching Arkansas. :lol: Today will put him at about 900 yards over his last 6 games.

What? WHAT?!

Okay, this game is just nonsense now.

Ark/LSU game is really weird so far. All sorts of stuff happening that shouldn't. I think there were like 4 fumbles and 2 missed field goals in the first several minutes.

Waiting for the punchline

It's funny how playoffs are good enough for every college sport, including the overwhelming majority of college football teams,, virtually all high school sports, virtually all junior college sports, and pretty much all professional sports...only FBS football, which "coincidentally" is the biggest money maker in college athletics, cares enough about its students' welfare to keep them out of all those darn playoff games. How nice of them.

I like how Gee wants to say that TCU and Boise don't deserve a title shot because of their conferences and then is so overwhelming against a playoff, citing academic reasons (yeah, right). What a coward. It's also highly disingenuous for people like Gee to espouse, as they have done repeatedly, that the're just looking out for the student athletes so they don't have to miss too much class. So what, it's good enough for FBS, but not FCS? Those student-athletes aren't important? Your basketball players aren't important? You just have to protect those poor delicate football players from actually playing for a championship if it takes longer than one week? You really think anybody buys that pile of uncooked chitlins?

The one downside of A&M beating Nebraska this past weekend is that I think they jump us in the Cotton Bowl's eyes. Out of all five 8+ win teams in the Big 12, we're lowest on the totem pole IMO. Here's a factor that may not mean anything, but maybe would: the Cotton Bowl may be reluctant to select either A&M or Arkansas since they've got a series going in JerryWorld for, like, 10 years, thus reducing the novelty of playing there, and possibly the draw.

Feels weird haivng the Battle for the Boot on a Saturday.

Yeah, they have way too much talent on that squad to have so little to show for it.

Oh yeah, Arkansas had me hella worried tonight, but they pulled it out. MS St. is a good team, and this was a good win. Also, shoutouts to A&M. That win is looking real good on Arkansas's resume now. Finally, congratulations to Knile Davis for going over 1000 yards for the season. In what was considered a collection of decent backs, he has emerged as legitimately special back in the second half of the season. Davis has 741 yards and 11 touchdowns in his last 5 games. It's made the Arkansas offense that much stronger, and more importantly, much less likely to fade in the 2nd half, as they did earlier in the season. If they had had the current Davis against Alabama, I suspect they would have held on and won that game.

He was 10/21, 68 yards, 0 TDs and 1 INT (and lucky to not have 2 more) against a very mediocre Bruins defense. I'd love to see the Vikings take him over a better QB. It's all about his physical prowess though. Part of me is convinced that he's gonna be Josh Freeman but maybe better because he's more talented. The other part thinks that Sarkisian is a good offensive coach and he hasn't developed under him. The numbers are similar, the questions and the positives are similar. Of course there are many more hits than misses in that mold though. I mean, he's physically gifted, yeah...but Luck does a lot of the same things, only a lot better. I never got the degree of hype before this season, and I really don't get it now. I get that he doesn't have great talent around him, but he hasn't done anything to suggest he's an elite prospect to date. I mean, compare him at Washington to Cutler at Vanderbilt, for example. Cutler was a significantly more productive college player and he crept up the boards before eventually going #11 (and is clearly better than either of the quarterbacks who were drafted ahead of him). Locker has been talked about as a possible #1 overall and still gets a lot of top 5 talk. I don't get it.