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Ehud posted:lol our new DC is dumb Still better than the Joker Phillips and Harry Potter ones.
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Events have always conspired so that I've never been able to attend our spring game, but I've never really gone out of my way to try and fit it in, either. I'm plenty fine with just watching it on TV or catching the replay later. Even in a football-starved state, I tend to get bored of spring games halfway through. At a certain point, it just stops resembling actual football (and with the way some teams set theirs up, it never does in the first place).
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Dilber posted:Instead of hiring Kevin Patrick, who would loving love to coach D-line at Miami, Al Golden hired Randy Melvin, a dude that has been a journeymen for his entire career, and was fired after 1 year with the Bucs. Melvin is a solid coach, you're overreacting.
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Ehud posted:lol our new DC is dumb Someone needs to come to a more definite decision on when to use caps and when not to use caps.
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This'll be Baylor's first year having a Spring-rear end Spring Game instead of just an open scrimmage. Having a stadium on campus for the first time in decades will do that, I suppose. I'm excited to see what they do with it. At the very least, I'll be intruiged to see if Jarrett Stidham has any chance of overthrowing Art Briles' love for veteran players and taking over the QB role.
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VT's spring games have always been on or around my birthday, so I considered it a present to get to watch some football-like substance in what's usually nice weather for a couple hours outside. Also, tailgating in springtime should be encouraged for any reason, might as well make it football.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I'm also curious (as an outsider) how will do. They looked unstoppable in a few games this season, and the bowl game was the kind of win that leaves a pretty strong impression. The new DC (Robb Smith) seemed to do pretty well last year without the greatest secondary and turned our linebacker corps around. The real story for the season was the way Philon, Spaight, and Flowers gelled and they are all gone. The offense will be mature so I expect it will be better than last year but I predict the defense will take a step back. Hopefully we win as many as last year but I'm not counting on it.
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Since the coaching carousel thread is closed: Nebraska DB Coach Charlton Warren — the lone holdover from Pelini's staff — is reportedly taking the same job at UNC. If true, that sucks. Very good recruiter. E: Apparently it came as no surprise to Nebraska or even some of the media; Warren transparent through the courting Real Name Grover fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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RumbleFish posted:Events have always conspired so that I've never been able to attend our spring game, but I've never really gone out of my way to try and fit it in, either. I'm plenty fine with just watching it on TV or catching the replay later. Even in a football-starved state, I tend to get bored of spring games halfway through. At a certain point, it just stops resembling actual football (and with the way some teams set theirs up, it never does in the first place). Yeah, they're fun, but nothing monumental. My friends and I just always treat it as a nice excuse to go up to Clemson, tailgate a little bit, walk around town, get food, watch like one half of the game, and then go drink some more. Also, all of the shops use it as an excuse to get rid of old stock from the previous season so we all buy tshirts and hoodies and poo poo at crazy discounts.
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Georgia Tech D-Line coach Mike Pelton is interviewing for the same position at Oklahoma. If he goes, he would be the only (or maybe first?) GT coach to leave this year. OU's lowest-paid assistants make $100,000 more than he does currently. Pelton's pretty highly regarded among Tech fans, it'd be a shame to see him go.
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A newly signed BYU running back is gonna have his scholarship pulled after assaulting a prostitute. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865621790/Key-BYU-recruit-Charles-West-arrested-for-aggravated-assault-police-say.html
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Clearly he was just trying to enlighten her to The Mormon Jesus' plan...
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Does it count if he was beating her with the Good Book? Really thats a pretty lovely thing to do. I have a whole thing about why prostitution should be legal and it is mostly so the people working don't have poo poo like this happen to them. E: Looks like UGA WR coach Tony Ball is going to end up at LSU according to every website known to man. I feel like we could make a 2015 coaching carousel thread, title ideas? KKKLIP ART fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Ehud posted:lol our new DC is dumb You redeem juice points with GPD to get out of arrests. Based on acquired juice points determines if you can escape a misdemeanor or a felony.
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Iowa promoted Brian Ferentz to "run game coordinator" which is a meaningless title to ease his inevitable transition to OC and then head coach. I assume our running game will continue to consist of two plays (outside and inside zone). When he was originally hired I'd hoped his time under Belichick would add some creativity to the offense but loving lol They also moved LeVar Woods from outside linebacker coach to tight end coach, but those are both completly meaningless jobs so whatever. MourningView fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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MourningView posted:Iowa promoted Brian Ferentz to "run game coordinator" which is a meaningless title to ease his inevitable transition to OC and then head coach. I assume our running game will continue to consist of two plays (outside and inside zone). When he was originally hired I'd hoped his time under Belichick would add some creativity to the offense but loving lol Wouldn't Kirk only be allowed to appoint his idiot son (just assuming he's an idiot son) as successor if he were still successful? I thought Iowa was just running out the clock on Ferentz until the buyout was manageable.
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Spacemonkey57 posted:Wouldn't Kirk only be allowed to appoint his idiot son (just assuming he's an idiot son) as successor if he were still successful? I thought Iowa was just running out the clock on Ferentz until the buyout was manageable. Depends on what they do with their incompetent AD. He really likes Kirk and I could see him continuing with Brian, and that's definitely the path Kirk is trying to set up. Kirk makes the school a ton of money (and has on balance been one of the best coaches in school history) so the administration really likes him, even if the fanbase is growing impatient. He has a lot of influence within the athletic department. Tom Brands jokingly calls him "the president" I actually don't think his son is an idiot. He's a pretty good line coach. And even though he only got the job with the Pats because Kirk and Belichick are buddies from back in their Browns days, he reportedly was pretty well regarded within the team. It's posisble he could be pretty good once he doesn't have to adhere to Kirk's dumb outdated football philosophies.
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Texas hired Brick Haley from LSU as our new DL coach and semi-legendary high school coach Jeff Traylor to handle special teams and tight ends.
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Power 5 conference commissioners are considering making freshman of all sports ineligible.
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Not every day you see a revoked rule come back later
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So the idea is that you are basically not allowed to do anything with the team or it is like a redshirt year? I don't see this changing a whole whole lot, to be honest
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korrandark posted:Power 5 conference commissioners are considering making freshman of all sports ineligible. I know this is the CFB thread but this is ridiculous for basketball. I hope the best players start going to foreign leagues instead of being forced to not play games for a year.
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Spacebump posted:I know this is the CFB thread but this is ridiculous for basketball. I hope the best players start going to foreign leagues instead of being forced to not play games for a year. Yeah, if freshman can't play, every single player who is one and done would probably go to europe/china
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Spacebump posted:I know this is the CFB thread but this is ridiculous for basketball. I hope the best players start going to foreign leagues instead of being forced to not play games for a year. I would prefer that, actually. Athletes not actually interested in going to college probably shouldn't waste their time playing on a college team.
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The Glumslinger posted:Yeah, if freshman can't play, every single player who is one and done would probably go to europe/china poo poo or just sign with an agent and spend the year training and bulking up if they dont want to go overseas.
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Spacebump posted:I know this is the CFB thread but this is ridiculous for basketball. I hope the best players start going to foreign leagues instead of being forced to not play games for a year. The thing is other than making money this tends to be bad for their development. Euro teams don't want to waste time on guys who are going to bolt after one year so they just ride the pine and don't get very much time with the coaches. Chinese teams do, but Chinese basketball is so bad I don't know that it helps much either. Plus moving to a foreign country when you're 18 is a lot harder than people seem to think.
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Wonder what percentage of freshmen see meaningful playing time in the fist place
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so stupid guy @crudtown 1 hour ago posted:@edsbs Jim Harbaugh did podcast w Tim Kawakami today, was asked best meal/resturaunt he ever had. Said Cracker Barrel without hesitating.
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Feb 14, 2015 02:57
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Murder him. His life isn't worth living.
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This would obviously be a huge deal for basketball, but would this really change much for CFB? I get the impression that even places that constantly roll in the top-5 classes still usually only play a couple of their freshmen a year.
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Deteriorata posted:I would prefer that, actually. Athletes not actually interested in going to college probably shouldn't waste their time playing on a college team. The NFL is, of course, not at all interested in drafting high school students because physical development is so important to football, and because they seem perfectly fine with the idea of the FBS serving as their minor league.
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Spiritus Nox posted:This would obviously be a huge deal for basketball, but would this really change much for CFB? I get the impression that even places that constantly roll in the top-5 classes still usually only play a couple of their freshmen a year. Looking at Ohio State, at least ten true freshman saw playing time this year. A few of them (Raekwon McMillan, Curtis Samuel, the kicker) had a significant impact.
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I don't have the exact numbers, but Mora has played something like a dozen freshmen in each of the past couple of years. Obviously not all starters, but most of those got significant playing/development time.
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LeeMajors posted:Murder him. His life isn't worth living. Yep. This is me at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWoWHzq21tA
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Entire interview is available here: http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawaka...igan-much-much/
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Sash! posted:Wonder what percentage of freshmen see meaningful playing time in the fist place We had 2 on OL, 3-5 on DL, 3 WRs 1 LB ans 1 RB play a whole lot of snaps for fsu. so 7 - 10 kids out of a class of 20 incoming freshmen is quite a lot.
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VT started the most freshman in program history last year and were like #2 in the country for freshman starters. This would be an unbelievably bad rule change so I doubt it happens.
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I sort of understand it for basketball, but it would suck for football. It would create depth problems at some schools (for example, Tennessee has a Jr. QB and 3 true freshmen backing him up) and it would hurt any program that has to rebuild because they can't sell immediate playing time anymore. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it sounds like this is designed to put pressure on the NBA to raise the minimum age.
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It would be a garbage rule for idiots.Ticonderoguy posted:I sort of understand it for basketball, but it would suck for football. It would create depth problems at some schools (for example, Tennessee has a Jr. QB and 3 true freshmen backing him up) and it would hurt any program that has to rebuild because they can't sell immediate playing time anymore. The NBA's commissioner wants to raise the minimum age anyways. It's very very silly.
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As of last night, it's been pretty much confirmed that UGA's WR Coach Tony Ball is 100% LSU bound. He wasn't always the best at recruiting, but he did a great job at developing blocking receivers. It will be curious who he sees move over, maybe our RB coach McClendon. E: The pie in the sky thing from UGA folks seems to be Hines Ward, who apparently said his dream job would be to coach at UGA. It would be pretty cool, and Ward is amazing, but I just don't see that happening. KKKLIP ART fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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