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Fluffdaddy posted:From the outside sure, but this is going to be a nightmare for us. And don't get cute about the recruiting part either.
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TheGreyGhost posted:Considering most of our formations are 3 WRs or more, it's going to be largely dependent on your slot coverage I imagine since I seem to remember your starters being solid. Eeh, our backers tend to give up a few big gains on drags and slants every week. You're right, our corners are elite, but you can hurt our formations over the middle. How's your TE situation? quote:If you guys have even a middling passing offense Lemme just stop you right there.
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Nebraska moved the ball pretty well against MSU this year. If Nebraska's turnover explosion was taken out of the equation the Huskers would have made it a very close loss or a victory. One or two of the turnovers may have been the result of a good defense, most of them were a result of a freshman QB making bad choices and poor ball security. I think it also helps Stanford that they get to play Oregon late enough in the season that the Cardinal defense has had a chance to come together. It takes discipline to stop Oregon's offense and discipline develops over the course of the season. All of this is to say I think MSU will get their poo poo pushed in against Oregon. PBCrunch fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Elotana posted:Is the MOB at least coming this time
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PBCrunch posted:Nebraska moved the ball pretty well against MSU this year. If Nebraska's turnover explosion was taken out of the equation the Huskers would have made it a very close loss or a victory. MSU vs Oregon will be a good barometer as far as whether or not I should be excited for Oregon's complete season. Not that it'll keep any Oregon fan from dreading the month of November.
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Incoherence posted:Maybe. It's not the first week of classes this time, although I'm not sure how keen the MOB director is on going to College Station in general. If nothing else they'll at least do the pep band thing again. But this time they won't be able to mock Johnny. Alas.
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Thoguh posted:What the gently caress Swofford? Why even have divisions if you aren't going to have the teams all play each other and aren't going to use division champs for the title game? Don't they have some weird agreement with Notre Dame where Notre Dame plays like 4 conference games in some rotating arbitrary pod, starting in a few years?
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JT Jag posted:Hope Saban tells him to just shut the gently caress up, draw up his offense and recruit and do nothing else. I'm sorta surprised that Saban would go with this hire. The man can coach offense, but he has a ton of baggage in the conference.
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Maybe he hired Kiffin for the express purpose of trolling Tennessee. The game next year is at Tennessee, too, it's gonna be glorious.
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Noctone posted:Maybe he hired Kiffin for the express purpose of trolling Tennessee. The game next year is at Tennessee, too, it's gonna be glorious. In that case, he also successfully trolled a large section of the Alabama fan base. Just about all my Alabama friends are confused, but at least see the humor in it. Then there's the one guy at work saying "LALALA COACH SABAN KNOWS BEST WE'LL SHOW YOU". I'm not saying he won't be good for Alabama. He has done good work with QBs in the past and is a great recruiter, but from where I sit, this still looks drat funny. The only thing better would have been getting Coach O.
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If Rice joined the Big XII tomorrow, they'd be better than at least two other teams in the conference. I think they'd be a great fit. UCF I'm not so sure about, but it only seems fair that if two or three other conferences have a Florida contingent, then so should the Big XII.
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Probably Magic posted:If Rice joined the Big XII tomorrow, they'd be better than at least two other teams in the conference. I think they'd be a great fit. UCF I'm not so sure about, but it only seems fair that if two or three other conferences have a Florida contingent, then so should the Big XII. I really doubt the Big XII is going to let in any more Texas teams.
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Probably Magic posted:If Rice joined the Big XII tomorrow, they'd be better than at least two other teams in the conference. Haha no
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Zypher posted:Haha no Kansas beat West Virginia last year, and we all know Kansas's recent record against Rice.
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Probably Magic posted:If Rice joined the Big XII tomorrow, they'd be better than at least two other teams in the conference. I think they'd be a great fit. UCF I'm not so sure about, but it only seems fair that if two or three other conferences have a Florida contingent, then so should the Big XII. Rice would be better than the absolute basement of the conference for like a year at most. Rice is not even a sustainably decent football program.
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Rice brings nothing to the conference, though. They don't have a national brand, they have like 50 fans, and their facilities would instantly be league-worst. The only thing Rice brings to the equation is academics, so they bring nothing.
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I would settle for SWC + OU and OSU... Really, it would just be cool to play Arkansas and A&M annually again.
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Zypher posted:Rice brings nothing to the conference, though. They don't have a national brand, they have like 50 fans, and their facilities would instantly be league-worst. The only thing Rice brings to the equation is academics, so they bring nothing. Isn't their stadium too large to be filled with every living or dead alumni in school history?
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Sorry if this has already been posted I did a quick scan through the thread, and didn't see it. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Summery: UNC pays researcher to do a study. Study comes back and shows between 8-10% of the players on the UNC football and basketball teams are reading below a third grade level. Also apparently one basketball player could neither read or write. The university said it didn't believe that a player couldn't read or write but won't discuss the rest because they haven't receive the data yet. Researcher shows email proof that study was sent to UNC twice. So far for her research which was paid for by the university she's received 4 death threats and 30 alarming messages. Not sure if this is 100% true since its a fairly new story, but even if its only a little true, Jesus Christ! Talk about poison sports cultures in college athletics.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Isn't their stadium too large to be filled with every living or dead alumni in school history? When it was built, at least. Seems incredulous that it would still be true (70,000 capacity).
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Morby posted:In that case, he also successfully trolled a large section of the Alabama fan base. Just about all my Alabama friends are confused, but at least see the humor in it. Then there's the one guy at work saying "LALALA COACH SABAN KNOWS BEST WE'LL SHOW YOU". I'm not saying he won't be good for Alabama. He has done good work with QBs in the past and is a great recruiter, but from where I sit, this still looks drat funny. The only thing better would have been getting Coach O. Coach O is also a really good assistant though.
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Zypher posted:When it was built, at least. Seems incredulous that it would still be true (70,000 capacity). Rice is a tiny, tiny school, with one of the most beautiful campuses I've ever seen. EDIT: Why hasn't anyone hired David Bailiff? He's won at Rice, and a year winning fewer games at Rice than Bailiff got Todd Graham the Tulsa job. Ghost of Reagan Past fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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HarlanHell posted:Sorry if this has already been posted I did a quick scan through the thread, and didn't see it. So by the numbers, approx 3-4 of them were pictograms?
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Oh hey, they posted SEC schedules. I really want next year to be better. Arkansas always plays a couple FCS cupcakes to start the season to get some games under their belts and hopefully build up some fan goodwill before the SEC schedule gets going, right? Let's see who our first game cupcake is this ye-quote:Aug. 30 – at Auburn 
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Zypher posted:When it was built, at least. Seems incredulous that it would still be true (70,000 capacity). What the flying gently caress is Rice doing with a 70,000 seat stadium? Baylor's new stadium is only going to have room for 45k to start.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Rice would be better than the absolute basement of the conference for like a year at most. Rice is not even a sustainably decent football program. Zypher posted:When it was built, at least. Seems incredulous that it would still be true (70,000 capacity). Spiritus Nox posted:What the flying gently caress is Rice doing with a 70,000 seat stadium? Baylor's new stadium is only going to have room for 45k to start. Incoherence fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Incoherence posted:It was built in the 1950s when city leaders felt that Houston needed a marquee stadium. It hosted Super Bowl 8, so it sort of paid off for the city. The end zone seats are currently covered by large tarps to make the empty seats somewhat less depressing. Ah, yes. I have experience with tarps.
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It looks like scalpers are going to make a killing this year for the Bama at Tennessee game. Bets on if Kiffin coaches from the field or booth for that game? If you would of told me 4 years ago to this date that Kiffin would be the OC at Bama I would of said you was high.
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Incoherence posted:
That's nuts. Since it was built in the 50s, I just assumed they've been at least 2k enrollment since then and steadily ramping up to their current size. Blows my mind that + however many dead alums from the '20s is still less than 70k. Ghost of Reagan Past posted:According to Rice's alumni website, it's still true. They have 46,509 alumni as of 2008.
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MourningView posted:Coach O is also a really good assistant though. I don't disagree. He did a masterful job at USC and I'm surprised they didn't try to hold onto him. Moose King posted:Oh hey, they posted SEC schedules. I really want next year to be better. Arkansas always plays a couple FCS cupcakes to start the season to get some games under their belts and hopefully build up some fan goodwill before the SEC schedule gets going, right? Let's see who our first game cupcake is this ye- Bielema with another season to recruit and establish his system could be dangerous. He's also holding onto his complete coaching staff, right? Morby fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Zypher posted:That's nuts. Since it was built in the 50s, I just assumed they've been at least 2k enrollment since then and steadily ramping up to their current size. Blows my mind that + however many dead alums from the '20s is still less than 70k. quote:Yeah I'm from Houston and went to high school with a lot of kids that went there (including one of TFF's biggest Rice fans). The campus is really, really beautiful.
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Morby posted:I don't disagree. He did a masterful job at USC and I'm surprised they didn't try told hold onto him. They did, he told them to go gently caress themselves.
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Noctone posted:They did, he told them to go gently caress themselves. At the very least he warranted being Co-HC or SOMETHING. He's paid his dues at USC for a long time. I feel like they treated him really, really poorly.
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