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As someone who has gambled on football, I can say that more often than not the obvious pick doesn't play out that way. I guess hope springs eternal. I'll watch until we get down by 10. Then I'm moving on to other more pleasant things. Don't get me wrong. I'm not planning on being up too late on Sunday to watch the end.

As someone who has gambled on football, I can say that more often than not the obvious pick doesn't play out that way.

Ugh. I hope FSU can at least score a TD this week.

With Westbrook out for another week, I see McNabb having to pass to win. Of course, I can't see the Bears stopping him at key times, since their pass D is abysmal. Philly 13-3.

I avoid all things OSU HOF post FTW

Have they ever played this game when both teams are not ranked or did that happen last year? I want to say it has happened a couple of other times. Last year obviously neither team was ranked because they both came in 0-2. Those calling this the worst ND/UM game must have short memories, because not only were the two teams looking worse entering the game last year than this year, but it wasn't even a close game as Michigan destroyed us 38-0 in the most humiliatingly lopsided loss in recent ND football history. It's the only game I have ever given up on watching before the first half was even over. That FSU game back in 2003 was pretty bad at that time as well. 37-0, IIRC. One of the few highlights of the Chris Rix era.

Well, it was nice to see FSU beat up on an inferior opponent again. First time I've seen that in a good 7-8 years. I wasn't very optimistic to start the season, but we could be pretty good this year. I definitely see us having a shot in the ACC, considering that 80% of the teams look like a good HS team could give them a scare.

that's pretty pathetic. the IOC doesn't rely on international federations to do their own drug testing, because it would be too easy for them to sweep positive results under the rug. plus, there is now significant evidence that the chinese are knowingly breaking the rules and using athletes in competition based on falsified documents. this should be investigated and the chinese should be stripped of the gold medal, but this is happening in china so nothing is going to happen. Exactly. There's way too much money to be made in that country. The most that would happen is that they'd close the loophole for future games, and ignore this one. My guess is that if anything happens, it happens AFTER the games are over. The IOC will not disrespect China in front of their entire nation, in spite of the fact that someone needs to be made an example of so this doesn't happen again. And again. And again.

Speaking of, what are the rumors like about Greg Schiano? Aside from an internal hire, is he the front-runner that everyone says he is?

And the plot of the 13 year old (I mean 16 year old) gymnast thickens.

communists never lose. http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/18818686.jpg yeah, but at least communism got rid of carl weathers. But not completely. He just needed a good bowl of soup and a chance run-in with Tobias Funke for a comeback. :D

Truffle can go into much more detail, I'm sure, but it's due to something called tapering. It's where the swimmers set their training regimines so they are at their strongest for the day of the race (or week in some cases). It's certainly not an accident or pure coincidence. yeah, generally a swimmer will only shave/taper for a couple of meets a year. they'll swim other meets, but they'll be swimming a lot more yardage in the days before those meets. basically you train through the minor meets - knowing that your times will be slower - to get into better shape for the one or two meets a year that you do shave/taper for. i can't speak for what phelps does, but in college we swam about 5000-7000 yards a day for single practices, and about 10,000 yards when we had morning and afternoon practice. we'd come down a little bit in yardage before some meets, but generally never below 3500. in early january we'd do our training trip, when we'd swim about 12,000 to 14,000 yards a day. by the end of that, you'd be in great shape, but your arms would be mush. from that point until our big meet (patriot league championships), we'd come down in yardage gradually. the week before the meet, we'd never do more than 3,000 yards. you're in good enough shape and strong enough from the work that you've done during the year that coming down in yardage doesn't result in you getting out of shape. my best times in season were 2:08 in 200 back, 2:28 in 200 breast, 2:07 in 200 IM, 59.5 in 100 back, 1:56 in 200 free. shaved and tapered, my best times were 2:02 in 200 back, 2:21 in 200 breast, 2:02 in 200 IM, 57.0 in 100 back, 1:51 in 200 free. obviously i'm not as good as phelps or anyone in the olympics, but it's the same idea - my fastest times came in the meet that I expected to swim fastest. Truffle, are Phelps and Co. doing any weight lifting? How about the university swim teams? What's a typical plan? Back in the mid- to late-80's when I was swimming competitively it was still frowned upon as something that would "tighten up your muscles and slow you down."

Yes, it's sour grapes, but I wanted to get another opinion on this: Is it just me, or did it seem that the minor mistakes made during the Women's Gymnastics competition by the U.S. team were penalized more harshly by the judges than those of the Chinese team? Just checking on this, but it could just be point-of-view.

There's almost no question FSU w/ Weinke would have curb-stomped Tennessee that year. Haha, Weinke was such a putz. I'll never forget him pissing himself when Torrance Marshall was barking at him before the Orange Bowl. He looked like he wanted to cry. Sometimes when I need a good laugh, I go back and watch that video. Maybe, but I'm pretty sure FSU leaves OU gasping for air if we don't have Jeffrey Bowden as OC for that game. Someone should have known it was the beginning of something bad for FSU football at that time.

Looks like just one man's opinion though. He doesn't cite any polls. I'm surprised to see Tennessee that high (10th) and Alabama that low (8th). I would have put Bama ahead of, at least, Oklahoma, Miami and Texas. Possibly as high as fourth (kicking Florida down a peg or two). And I respect the heck out of Bear Bryant. Bama? Hated? I don't see it. They're been absolutely irrelevant to most of the country for a long time now. If I had to guess the teams on this list, they probably wouldn't have been in my first 15 guesses. Miami should be higher..they've been hated by a lot of people for a long time now. Florida State should be on that list. I've still noticed a lot of hatred for Nebraska even though they haven't been on the map for awhile. There aren't enough people out there who hate Florida State. We're not a bunch of arrogant bastards (UF fans) or thugs (UM fans). We're just simple rednecks who enjoy a good football game. The problem I've had with Florida State has been the media hype surrounding them. It's decreased lately, but through the 90s and early 2000s few teams got the media hype Flordia State did. It bugged me like heck that the Seminoles were so heavily favored by many to beat Tennessee in 98. Not sure what the official line was, but I got the feeling the Vols were, for some reason, heavy underdogs heading into that game. Well, when you accomplish something no other team in CFB history has done (15 straight Top 5's), you get some media attention. I'll warrant it was without merit in the 00's, but I have no issue saying it was correct in the 90's. Something interesting about the UT game for you to chew on (especially if you're a gambler). Before the Fiesta Bowl, Tostitos printed 135,000 UT National Champs bags, and only 40,000 FSU bags. I'm not saying things are fixed, but that seemed a bit fishy compared to the lines. Also, I think that game ends differently if Wienke is playing QB instead of the Rooster (Marcus Outzen).

Looks like just one man's opinion though. He doesn't cite any polls. I'm surprised to see Tennessee that high (10th) and Alabama that low (8th). I would have put Bama ahead of, at least, Oklahoma, Miami and Texas. Possibly as high as fourth (kicking Florida down a peg or two). And I respect the heck out of Bear Bryant. Bama? Hated? I don't see it. They're been absolutely irrelevant to most of the country for a long time now. If I had to guess the teams on this list, they probably wouldn't have been in my first 15 guesses. Miami should be higher..they've been hated by a lot of people for a long time now. Florida State should be on that list. I've still noticed a lot of hatred for Nebraska even though they haven't been on the map for awhile. There aren't enough people out there who hate Florida State. We're not a bunch of arrogant bastards (UF fans) or thugs (UM fans). We're just simple rednecks who enjoy a good football game.

All this offseason turmoil and very little from the big Florida schools, oddly enough Thankfully, I might add. We'll let you guys deal with it for a year (or hopefully many).

You can't put the Notre Dame joke on a tee like this. It's not fair. It's not fair, but it's still fun to kick Notre Dame, even when they're down.

That just came out of nowhere. =D>

Didn't he play for Oklahoma? I don't think this really counts raisin. :P http://images.bruinsnation.com/images/admin/Neuheisel.Aikman.jpg Aww, with Neuheisel. Is that the discussion of how to win your office pool?

Sweet. Just what FSU needed going into the offseason.

Florida State, please.

State government. They probably hadn't received the required 37 quotes (and bribes) needed to fulfill the RFP prior to sending out letters. Or they are required to run out before printing new stationery.

That's pretty cool. I also like how some have a personalized note. In looking over a few of them, Wisconsin doesn't seem to have much direct contact to offer. They ask him to contact his recruiting coach, rather than even giving out Bielema's number.

Just waxing nostalgic here, but I wish more players would stay until the end of their Junior year. There is a ton of young talent out there, and the NCAA tournament was EXCELLENT this year. I can't help but imagine how good teams like UNC and UCLA (not to mention KSU, KU, Memphis, etc.) would be in another year or two. Not to mention OSU probably would have had LeBron, Oden, and Conley last year. That would have been fun to watch.