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I don't mind Musberger too much, as I've had to deal with The Devil Spawn themselves Verne and Gary. gently caress Verne and Gary.
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The Hawaii Bowl had Mark May and Lou Holtz doing commentary. After that, everything else sounds pretty good. Except that one time Matt Millen had a mini-stroke that caused every noun to come out as "hurtin' buckaroo."
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Auburn band reacts to the kick six https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgQjW4B_5c8
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Thermos H Christ posted:The Hawaii Bowl had Mark May and Lou Holtz doing commentary. After that, everything else sounds pretty good. Except that one time Matt Millen had a mini-stroke that caused every noun to come out as "hurtin' buckaroo." The best Matt Millen broadcast was when he and Sean McDonough poo poo all over the OSU/MSU game a few years ago.
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LTBS posted:I don't mind Musberger too much, as I've had to deal with The Devil Spawn themselves Verne and Gary. The money sign and double throat slash commentary was one of the funniest things that's happened on a college football broadcast and why you need stodgy old guys to comment obliviously on a sport played by 18-22 year-olds.
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Frinkahedron posted:Auburn band reacts to the kick six This is great, but I wonder why they put the drum major in such a spot that like three rows can't even see her. It's because woodwinds don't matter.
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The kick six was the most exciting play all year, I love listening to local radio announcers during those plays.Meltathon posted:It's because woodwinds don't matter.
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Meltathon posted:This is great, but I wonder why they put the drum major in such a spot that like three rows can't even see her. not to be all  , but there are 2 other drum majors on either side of the band, each where the winds can see. I really like how the right-side drum major doesn't even pretend to care about conducting the band, he's just going to hug the director and celebrate.
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Meltathon posted:This is great, but I wonder why they put the drum major in such a spot that like three rows can't even see her. Because the woodwinds already know how to play the song. Especially if it's the fight song.
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Meltathon posted:This is great, but I wonder why they put the drum major in such a spot that like three rows can't even see her. It's not really that big of a deal: there's only so much watching the drum major you can do while doing the horn flashes anyway, and in that compact of an area you can just listen to the tempo from behind you. (On the field this is either a bad idea or one you have to use carefully.) Also they can probably play the fight song in their sleep by now. :marchingband101: Also quote:It's because woodwinds don't matter.
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Frinkahedron posted:Auburn band reacts to the kick six This play will never get old for me. Never.
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Huh just realized PSU got Terry Smith, my school's old head coach who could never lead us to the promise land and always blow it in the championship game. God that Central Catholic game was heartbreaking  Hopefully he does good things there.
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Morby posted:This play will never get old for me. Never. It's on the level of the Hail Mary or the Play. For all of Bama's storied history they're going to have to live with seeing that play every season and every Iron Bowl for the rest of time. That play changed football and how it's played. You might be hard pressed to see a return from a FG again(already rare) because every coach that tries something similar will at one point go "holy poo poo don't let that happen" and adjust how he does such an attempt. When they practice long FG kicks at practice now they're going to stress not just sitting there and admiring it but moving down the field to cut off a return.
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Crotch Bat posted:It's on the level of the Hail Mary or the Play. For all of Bama's storied history they're going to have to live with seeing that play every season and every Iron Bowl for the rest of time. You're also going to see many fewer coaches try those long, prayer field goals just because you risk that return. Of note: that was the 2nd 109 yard missed field goal return this year with Odell Beckham Jr taking one 109 against UAB. Not as impressive, but statistically significant.
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Nothing will ever ever top playing poker at the Planet Hollywood poker room and watching that FG return go down live and hearing/seeing the entire casino floor completely erupt. It was the omega
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I'm just glad that play happened so they'd shut up about the one two weeks prior. Now I just have to see it for every edition of the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry from now until I die.
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ROSS MY SALAD posted:Nothing will ever ever top playing poker at the Planet Hollywood poker room and watching that FG return go down live and hearing/seeing the entire casino floor completely erupt. It was the omega I don't know, being there was pretty sweet. </  >
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SmellsLikeToast posted:I'm just glad that play happened so they'd shut up about the one two weeks prior. Now I just have to see it for every edition of the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry from now until I die. I've been saying for quite some time now that the Auburn-Georgia finish was more improbable and much more ridiculous than the Iron Bowl. Obviously not nearly as significant, but it is important to keep in mind that Bama would have had the division wrapped up if not for Ricardo Lewis's catch.
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Crotch Bat posted:It's on the level of the Hail Mary or the Play. For all of Bama's storied history they're going to have to live with seeing that play every season and every Iron Bowl for the rest of time. The ultimate penance for all their three-peat nonsense.
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LeeMajors posted:The ultimate penance for all their three-peat nonsense. It's a good thing their fans are strong enough to weather the hardships of watching replays of the handful of games that their team has lost in the last decade.
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VDay posted:It's a good thing their fans are strong enough to weather the hardships of watching replays of the handful of games that their team has lost in the last decade. Every now and again, I encounter something that I can't believe a sentient being has written without the protection of a helmet. This is one of those times.
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VDay posted:It's a good thing their fans are strong enough to weather the hardships of watching replays of the handful of games that their team has lost in the last decade.
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JT Jag posted:I've been an Alabama fan since a little before Saban was hired (I was admitted to Alabama while he was still coaching the Dolphins). The fact that this sorta makes me feel like a member of the "old school" now with the number of new idiot fans the team has accumulated is horrid. Are you STRONG ENOUGHto hold onto your seat on the bandwagon?
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LeeMajors posted:Are you STRONG ENOUGHto hold onto your seat on the bandwagon? Who could endure such slings and arrows?
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Morby posted:This play will never get old for me. Never. It will to me, Morby. It will to me.
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Crotch Bat posted:That play changed football and how it's played. You might be hard pressed to see a return from a FG again(already rare) because every coach that tries something similar will at one point go "holy poo poo don't let that happen" and adjust how he does such an attempt. When they practice long FG kicks at practice now they're going to stress not just sitting there and admiring it but moving down the field to cut off a return. That's a little over the top. That play did not change football or how it is played in the least. Being able to return a short field goal is nothing new and the only thing special about that play was that it was done as time expired. Malzahn putting a guy back there was smart coaching, but that play being successful was more a complete failure on the Alabama players part to realize the ball was still live, and on Sabin's part to have nobody in there capable of chasing a guy down if the kick was short. There was nothing remotely revolutionary about it. Normally it would be smarter to not return a short field goal because you get possession at the point where the ball was kicked and you are unlikely to return it that far. In this case the situation was different because the clock had run out so if you don't return it you don't get another play. And on the other side, the only reason that field goal was even attempted was because of the short time with a tie game. In any other situation it would have been a punt or Hail Mary. Thoguh fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jan 22, 2014 |
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Want to spend 5-10 minutes reading Dave Brandon's attempts to convince himself and his fanbase that the Brady Hoke hire was totally normal and not at all desperately grasping at straws? Here you go! also quote:"During that process (media members) were tracking flights, finding tail numbers, checking hotel rooms ... You can't enter a face-to-face interview with a coach (without confidentiality). You don't want to let your current employer know you're interviewing. So I had ensure confidentiality. So that required sneaking in the back door of hotels, flying empty airplanes (to random destinations), just silly stuff." On one hand I can appreciate trolling the media and moron fans that obsessively watch FlightAware, but on the other that seems like an incredible waste of money. Especially when it's not hard at all to have a private plane taken off tracking sites.
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Thoguh posted:That's a little over the top. That play did not change football or how it is played in the least. Being able to return a short field goal is nothing new and the only thing special about that play was that it was done as time expired. Malzahn putting a guy back there was smart coaching, but that play being successful was more a complete failure on the Alabama players part to realize the ball was still live, and on Sabin's part to have nobody in there capable of chasing a guy down if the kick was short. There was nothing remotely revolutionary about it. The play is so famous/infamous that it will absolutely affect how coaches approach a similar situation. Alabama's failure on that play is exactly how it will be affected. Saban loaded up a bunch of fat guys who made the initial block and stood by to watch it and you're simply not going to see that in the future because coaches will be too aware of the play to risk repeating it. They'll make sure they have speed on the field and they'll make sure their guys know to make the block and hustle down the field to prevent a return. As someone else said it might flat out affect whether or not a coach wants to even kick the FG in a situation like that if they don't think it's a realistic option.
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Crotch Bat posted:This is wrong. The play is so famous/infamous that it will absolutely affect how coaches approach a similar situation. Alabama's failure on that play is exactly how it will be affected. Saban loaded up a bunch of fat guys who made the initial block and stood by to watch it and you're simply not going to see that in the future because coaches will be too aware of the play to risk repeating it. They'll make sure they have speed on the field and they'll make sure their guys know to make the block and hustle down the field to prevent a return. It's always been legal to return missed field goals, so it's not a new play. As was pointed out, it's usually a bad strategic decision so nearly all the time it's allowed to go out of the end zone. Saban hosed up. That's really all there is about it.
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Deteriorata posted:It's always been legal to return missed field goals, so it's not a new play. As was pointed out, it's usually a bad strategic decision so nearly all the time it's allowed to go out of the end zone. Even then, Saban didn't really gently caress up as much as he didn't consider the possibility that the kick would stay in bounds
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There have been high profile FG returns prior to this one, I can't imagine there are too many coaches who aren't aware of the possibility.
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MourningView posted:There have been high profile FG returns prior to this one, I can't imagine there are too many coaches who aren't aware of the possibility. There's also a much higher risk that a field goal like that will get blocked and returned for a touchdown (higher being relative, obviously. like 1% instead of .001%), but you don't see coaches putting a DB or linebacker behind the kicker to chase down somebody returning a blocked kick.
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I don't think it's as quite a 'wake-up call' moment as it's being made out to be. The bigger lesson is Cade Foster sucks and get a new kicker
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pillsburysoldier posted:I don't think it's as quite a 'wake-up call' moment as it's being made out to be. The bigger lesson is Cade Foster sucks and get a new kicker Cade Foster didn't kick on that play. But your point stands in that he missed a bunch before that.
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Texas bas been pretty spoiled with the special teams for quite awhile but I just can't figure out how Nick "I literally know nothing else but football" Saban let such a loving travesty of a kicking game go on like that.
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Emron posted:Cade Foster didn't kick on that play. But your point stands in that he missed a bunch before that. The particular kicker on that ending kick rules though
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The key is to have like 12 kickers on the roster at all times, obviously. One time Iowa had three (!) scholarship kickers and wound up starting a walk on instead. We also currently have multiple scholarship punters. Kirk Ferentz wants to make me sad. They felt bad for one of the scholarship kickers and let him pretend to be a backup QB. He'd go out there and warm up with the QBs and signal in plays from the sidelines, it was adorable.
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go3 posted:Texas bas been pretty spoiled with the special teams for quite awhile but I just can't figure out how Nick "I literally know nothing else but football" Saban let such a loving travesty of a kicking game go on like that. On Saban's teams, kickers are for extra points, not field goals.
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