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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart

Ha ha! Whether I'm right or not depends upon the game, the teams, the weather and the circumstances. But, for certain, the midwestern teams seem very unwilling to take on the Mountain West or WAC. This, of course, results in the sports press denigrating the Mountain West and WAC because they don't have enough midwestern teams on the schedule. Sigh.


37 posted on 01/05/2007 12:06:40 AM PST by JennysCool (Well done, President Ford.)
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To: JennysCool

It was, as someone described it, the kind of ending in a football game that was invented by an author, except for the fact that it was real.


42 posted on 01/05/2007 12:10:32 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy (It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
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To: JennysCool

I do not know enough to really argue. I'm not a rabid Buckeye fan like my friends, who know everything about OSU football. But I am enough of a fan to revel in this year and have great fun with it.


46 posted on 01/05/2007 12:13:30 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Happy 200th Birthday General Robert E. Lee 1/19/2007!)
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To: JennysCool
The big schools like keeping the club as small as possible. The more recognition the WAC schools get, the better they can recruit, and the more likely they are to get big paydays on bowl day. This takes money away from Ohio State, Michigan, SoCal, Texas, and the approximately ten other "name" colleges. Back when the number of scholarships was unlimited, Texas used to pass out close to 100 scholarships a year. When you include redshirts that puts between 400 and 450 players on the football team. Of course, the majority of players never even got to suit up for a game. However, the players were then committed to Texas, and would not show up in Baylor or Texas Tech uniforms. The current BCS system is a way of keeping the small schools from getting "uppity."
103 posted on 01/07/2007 12:42:37 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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