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Good for Duke! Hope they are able to give aTm a good game - pulling for them!
That's cool that they're doing this, but there will be very few Duke fans in Atlanta for two reasons:
1. They don't even show up for their home games. I live in Raleigh, and I've been to a handful of Duke football games over the years and there are almost always more visiting fans than Duke fans.
2. There is a Duke basketball game in Greensboro on the same day as the bowl game. It's basketball season, and most Duke fans are more interested in filling up the Greensboro Coliseum for basketball than the Georgia Dome for football.
Baseball typically has the worst GPA on campus if i remember correctly
Hair dryer rated the worst bowl gift this year: http://barstoolu.barstoolsports.com/m/random-thoughts/the-8-worst-swag-i...
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# | My Case for a 16 Team Playoff Using 2013's Potential Matchups. well, that's not true. VT is where it is now by building it's program over that 25 years largely in a completely biased post-season bowl system. Boise and Utah did the same. Just because the national championship is not open to a Cinderella run doesn't mean programs can't be built up and improved.
For example, in a 4 team playoff system, lets say JMU enters D1. They will largely get their ass handed to them for many years (save for the Hokies taking a nose dive from time to time). However, they are able to get bowl eligible after several down years. First taste of recognition. Then another bowl. Then another. Then they get to mid-level bowl. Let's use Peach Bowl as example, where they play a team from a major conference with national recognition and win. Boom, now they have name recognition. Then a few years later they keep winning and get into a big time bowl against a national powerhouse like Texas. And what do you know, they win. That catapults them into the spotlight and just 4 years later they are playing Florida State in the national championship game.
yes this is what VT did. All the while the "national championship" was in a completely biased system before the BCS and then with the BCS. It can happen for any team. And it can happen in a system with just 4 teams. If you just take the top 4 teams, that are conference champions, no matter from what conference. Then every team in D1 has a shot. No need for 16 team playoffs and all the potential issues with it then.
Student ticket prices are crazy for bowl games. I can enter orange bowl ticket lottery for $125 each. They could even be top of the end zone. yay!
Everyone I know that roots for Texas wants him gone. This could be even more ugly than Florida State & the Dadgum Coach.
LOL. That Saban, he'll get after ya.
Heard this on the radio the other morning. Good for Duke.....hope their students take advantage and show
up for them.
You can ask Saban about Texas, but please dear goodness NEVER ask Saban about McCarron being on the cover of Sports Illustrated... or this happens.
Plus a Sam Rogers
This apparently from Saban, "No I am not considering Texas. If I were, I would not be killing myself trying to prepare for Oklahoma. Shit!"
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# | My Case for a 16 Team Playoff Using 2013's Potential Matchups. I have a feeling we are going to go up and down this thread...
You'll get no argument on the severity of travel with academics and athletics on the lower Divisions. Cross country bus rides are terrible. Especially after you just lost a big game or got your ass handed to you and your banged up. My brother played in D3. I know what you are talking about. But there are still too many problems with large playoff formats to make it viable for D1.
I don't think any conference should have a guaranteed spot. Just the top 4 teams who won their conference Championship game. that opens it up to literally any team in D1, except independents who would naturally just join a conference.
In an 8 team play off with Big-5 winner automatic bids and 3 at large, there would be similar rules to the current set up an a mid major would have to have at least a certain rank or higher than a Big-5 champ. Unless a Big-5 conference has a TERRIBLE year you'll probably never have lower than a 9 or 10 win team winning the conference. If that happens that just means there is lots of parity and chances are they beat up on each other. Think about it, when was the last time the SEC champ, "the conference king of all parity," has won with fewer than 9 wins? Yes it would happen every so often, but that would be one team out of eight.
Not only that but it would make the end of the season more exciting as the conferences fight for the ability to play in their championship games. I know I had a hell of a lot of fun trying to see who would represent the Coastal this year the past few weeks.
Yes there would be blowouts and boring games, but that happens now! Just re-watch the previous to MNCs.... In the end it would produce much better semi-finals and finals.
Will this affect their NCAA eligibility to be Cameroon Crazies?
Yes, because I am tired of winning the ACC not meaning jack squat, and that was pretty much the attitude of this fan base every time they won after 2004.
For everyone opposing my proposal, remember VT 25 years ago would not have a seat at the table as a struggling independent, even if they went on the road, built the program, took on the toughest teams, and then got into a neophyte conference. In an 8 team playoff, there is no incentive to join a conference outside of the top 4 and try to build. The door would be closed, regardless of any gold rings offered to those smaller conferences.
Chicken salad went right over my head.
That aside, look at the end of that first paragraph. Every single position group was inconsistent. There was nothing for him to put out there and say, "THIS. This right here is our offense. We'll base our offense around THIS." The closest he got was Thomas, but between his own struggles and (more importantly, IMO) the inconsistencies around him, even that wasn't enough. Look at BC. They have a bad offense. BUT, they have a couple quality O-linemen and an absolute stud at RB who will be spending the weekend in New York. Loeffler doesn't have that luxury. And there's no way you can judge Loeffler based on that year at Auburn. Bad HC, bad QB (who is now a safety), talent that didn't remotely fit what he was trying to do, etc.
What? A rumor post that doesn't make any unbased claims and posts actual sources for information?
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# | My Case for a 16 Team Playoff Using 2013's Potential Matchups. I know what you're saying but in my opinion Mount Union's skill level to any other team in the division is still closer than FSU/Bama to New Mexico State or Georgia State.
And I never said I want fat cats to decide. I just want the 4 best teams in the country to play.
To ensure if he doesn't step down that he will be relieved of his duties.
The current process has already done the same thing. The best teams in the SEC avoided big OOC match-ups because they know if they can run the tae in the SEC they are guaranteed a BCS title birth or a top 4 spot in the playoff. It doesn't matter if the SEC is down, reputation dictates they will get the spot.
This way, we don't leave the discussion up to guessing which teams can and can not compete. You have a game that settles the issue. The only downside is that my system disincentives playing tough OOC teams, but you make that up by playing those games IN THE PLAYOFF. And, you are only playing 1 additional game (11 game regular season and 4 playoff games versus 13 regular season games, a month layoff where the kids have a break from practice and lose their conditioning, and then a championship game like we have now. And, when the 4 team playoff goes live, I guarantee those kids won't get a break either. The outcome of the game is too important. Let them play.
D3 kids play 14 games. I believe DII and FCS play 15. All still play even with exams. Their travel is tougher because they don't have the $$$ to travel as well. There is no argument against this.
Well, you could say every year we lean on our defense; that's just Hokie Football!