Posted on 12/14/2006 5:43:54 PM PST by MikefromOhio
I would love to see Atlanta trade Vick to the Raidahs for that #1 pick.
Wisconsin fans should be pissed. They got gypped.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=106564
...guess Tom Dienhart of the Sporting News was off. :o)
In other words, Notre Dame didn't belong in a bowl game.
LSU has had a pretty good year too. Final Four in B'ball and BCS win. And Florida was 3-0 against LSU in all of the games against them combined. I think it bodes well for us on the 8th.
Actually, the only reason Wisconsin did not get a BCS invite was because the rules allow only two teams from each conference in the BCS. OSU/MICH locked Wisc out, much as LSU/FLA locked Auburn out.
It is sooooooo nice to see ND get a good butt kicking in a bowl game.
LOL as I told my Boss today (Fla Alum) - as a Georgia fan it is against my religion to root FOR Florida, but I can sure as hell root AGAINST Ohio St. :-)
We should be facing Louisville hosting Boise State in a week and a half playing for the 4th spot in the Final Four, while waiting to see whether Florida or Ohio State will join LSU and USC with byes to the Final Four.
Instead we get a fraudulent joke of a beauty contest on Monday that will prove absolutely nothing beyond that college football is a joke when there is no national championship earned on the field.
I like watching the big guys lose: Notre Dame and Neebraskaa's losses were wonderful, but one of my fav teams, Oklahoma, lost a game that I loved seeing them lose. What a game!
Zero-U losing was a beautiful thing!
If everyone wants a real playoff system, all we have to do is to turn on tv and watch NFL games.
And we all know the only reason that rule is in place is to protect Notre Lame.
So why don't they do away with the playoffs for Division 1-AA, Division II and Division III?
"Brady Quinn - OVERRATED!!!"
How about Samardzjia, letting that open touchdown pass hit him in the helmet(!) and then letting a 5'11" db out-jump him on the other one down near the goal line? The receiver has all the advantage in those situations. Amazing, and he's on All America teams.
SEC fans are like brothers, we fight like hell against each other, but we stick up for one another when we play teams outside of the conference. Even though I still find it hard to ever root for Tennessee.
They are not Division 1 level so it is irrelevant.
I do have a bit of a problem when we overempahsize athletics over academics on high school and college level. I believe that it is better if we institute a minor league football and basketball system, it will better serve athletes and our educational system at the same time.
We have too many high school athletes without the academics to get into college and they end up not being good enough to turn professional and thus they have wasted their time at college.
Notre Dame may had looked terrible tonight but we have to give them all the credit for graduating their athletes.
The honor goes to Duke and Stanford as well.
The NCAA has playoffs in every other sport and every other division. Div. ! football doesn't have a higher graduation rate than those other sports and schools, so the argument that adding just 4 addition games to complete a playoff would hurt academics comes off as utopian silliness.
Just 4 additional games, with at most 1 team playing 3 of them, otherwise no more than 2 extra games for any team. Only 5 teams in the country would have any extra games, hardly a threat to academic standards. If that were a legitimate concern they could always set it up where any hours accumulated for practice and travel during the playoffs be offset by equivalent reductions in the spring football sessions for the affected teams. You do realize that college athletes in any sport have workouts and routines during the offseason?
addition = additional
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