Speaking as a magnanimous Longhorn, I would never want to take a loss away from another school.
Posted on 06/10/2010 12:38:44 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Yea right...
23-0 (At your house!)
True, and Miami’s home game attendance is pretty bad.
I am referring to the 2004/5 season, when USC smashed the Sooners in the Orange Bowl. Auburn and USC did not play that year.
I would have loved to have seen a rematch. I think Auburn would have won, for a change, but regardless it would have been a much better game than the slaughter the Sooners endured.
Uhh, look at my Freeper name.
BTW I noticed somebody already went into the Wikipedia page for the 2004 Auburn Team and wrote:
“Due to Sanctions against USC, The 2004 Auburn Tigers team is now considered the 2004 National Champions”
Speaking as a magnanimous Longhorn, I would never want to take a loss away from another school.
We really need to just call it the NFL minor leagues and pay them. NCAA, Universities, Media, and Coaches are already getting millions.
Funniest. Picture. Ever.
Clearly, the spirit of the scholar-athlete is all but a distant memory. I mentioned "graduation rate" in my original post, but no one has responded to that particular point.
I read a story from earlier in the year that said Penn St. had the highest graduation rate among the top-25 teams this past season. It said...
"The Nittany Lions (11-2) were No. 9 in the final AP poll, earning their 23rd Top 10 finish in Joe Paterno’s 44 seasons as head coach.Joe Paterno is the exception, not the rule. Sadly.Penn State football student-athletes that enrolled in the University in the fall of 2002 earned a federal graduation rate of 89 percent, easily the best among the teams ranked in the final AP poll. Alabama and Miami (Fla.) were tied for second at 75 percent.
Penn State’s 89 percent federal graduation rate led all Big Ten Conference institutions and was 34 points above the 55 percent FBS average, according to the NCAA data released last November.
The Nittany Lions also led all AP Top 25 teams with a program record 85 percent Graduation Success Rate. The figure was based on Penn State football student-athletes entering the University in the fall of 1999 through 2002. Cincinnati and Miami (Fla.) were tied for the second-highest GSR among AP Top 25 teams at 75 percent.
Auburn your NEW 2005 National Champs!
I notice in that photo that the Texas players and one USC cheerleader are happy.
Yep. I agree. It’s really not about the graduation anymore. It’s about being the NFL minor league system.
And others get to play, too.
For some of them, it is about the education, but the BCS has nothing to do with education.
If nothing else, baseball’s minor league system in the past has been fairly honest, not pretending it was an educational program. More baseball players, however, are coming from the college ranks.
The championship should go to The Ohio State Buckeyes!
Why? Just because. That’s why.
Thanks, but we decline. We’ll just go win another one instead someday soon.
That TV report out of KC about OU going to the SEC has been discounted. That station doesn’t even have a sports staff...
Actually she's an honors student in math and organic chemistry and just never did learn how the game of football works. They just recruited her to the cheerleading squad to help her get out more. :)
USC cheated, no question. It is interesting how it took until USC sucked for the NCAA to figure that out.
It’s a pretty famous picture now on the web. The cheerleader has been photoshopped into a dozen situations where she definitely should not be cheering.
Nothing can take away the sweetness of that victory by the greatest school on the globe, The University of Texas!
Yep, funniest pic EVER!
And if you ask me, Ohio State should be National Champs again, if just to piss Hurricane Nation even more!!
A good friend of mine’s older brother was 1 of the 4
living in a “dorm” with O J Simpson. We went over there often.
The “dorm” was a 3500 sq. ft. 3-story condo in Westwood.
For the NCAA to do this to SC is shicken chip. (And, I despise SC.)
The NCAA likes to pretend that these Big Collage Ball
players aren’t compensated because it’s against the rules.
All the schools do this all the time.
Like campaign financing, it should be in the open, reported and not controlled.
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