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Declan MacManus posted:It would be a garbage rule for idiots The fact that they have to pretend to be college students for a year is already stupid. Just let the kids make money out of high school.
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I know this thread isn't big on baseball, but since it is the offseason right now, I just want to brag on these awesome throwback Unis that we are wearing for the afternoon game today We get cool baseball stuff because we are apparently Adidas' number one baseball school.
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happy valentine's day, TFF
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Frinkahedron posted:happy valentine's day, TFF 
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Frinkahedron posted:happy valentine's day, TFF Hahahhahah. That's great
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Frinkahedron posted:happy valentine's day, TFF This is a beautiful oasis in the wasteland that is the off-season
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Early 5Dimes lines: Alabama (-13) vs. Wisconsin in Arlington Auburn (-10) at Louisville South Carolina (-7) vs. North Carolina in Charlotte Michigan at Utah (-3) Ohio State (-17) at Virginia Tech Virginia at UCLA (-16) Texas A&M (-4) vs. Arizona State in Houston Texas at Notre Dame (-10.5)
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Early 5Dimes lines: Texas is going to win this, get everyone excited, and go 8-4.
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Guys, there's still college football going on in India! https://twitter.com/EFLIFootball
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Frackie Robinson posted:Texas is going to win this, get everyone excited, and go 8-4.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:I'd take that, I'll take Bama minus anything in those neutral-site openers as long as Saban lives, I'd expect Auburn to win but like Louisville with the points, and I wouldn't dream of touching any of those others. I'd have to think auburn has a good chance to cover with Grantham and Co. handling the D.
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Louisville is replacing a ton, especially on O. I'd be shocked if they did much offensively next year, least of all week 1 against a good Auburn squad.
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Pakled posted:Guys, there's still college football going on in India! Their website hasn't been updated since 2013. I can't even find any news reports about it on Google since last summer. I don't think there is actually anything going on with them.
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Raku posted:if Virginia Tech wins again Frank Beamer will be a legend forever and it'll all be completely justified Frank Beamer has literally never done anything even approaching that level of consistency against elite opponents so I'm pretty sure nobody needs to worry about tossing that word around regarding him. Everyone seems to stumble into beating a top 10 team once a decade or so.
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Raku posted:if Virginia Tech wins again Frank Beamer will be a legend forever and it'll all be completely justified tear down the goal posts first game of the year, rush all fields, go hog wild
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Just you watch, for as long as Frank Beamer lives, VT will win one impossible upset per year and finish every season with 6-7 wins.
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Frank Beamer's career of impossible upsets: 1995 - #6 Texas 2003 - #2 Miami 2014 - #8 OSU Oh what a magical 30 years. Legendary, some might say. e: Texas was a loving 2 point favorite, not altogether that shocking of a win in that aspect, it's more a holdover from being the first big bowl VT ever won. Crotch Bat fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Pakled posted:Just you watch, for as long as Frank Beamer lives, VT will win one impossible upset per year and finish every season with 6-7 wins. If Frank Beamer was the head coach of every team every college in the NCAA would have bowl eligibility, an incredible win, a few gutwrenching losses, and a midranked recruiting class every year. Frank Beamer is a symbol for what an amazing experience college football with parity would be (although gently caress that ever happening I'm an Alabama fan).
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Crotch Bat posted:Louisville is replacing a ton, especially on O. I'd be shocked if they did much offensively next year, least of all week 1 against a good Auburn squad. They'll still beat Houston by about 50 in Week 2.
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Pakled posted:Just you watch, for as long as Frank Beamer lives, VT will win one impossible upset per year and finish every season with 6-7 wins. Raku posted:If Frank Beamer was the head coach of every team every college in the NCAA would have bowl eligibility, an incredible win, a few gutwrenching losses, and a midranked recruiting class every year. I honest to god don't know where the idea that Frank Beamer is good for a miracle win every year or two comes from, it's baffling. The man is likely the worst Hall of Fame-level coach against the top 5/10 in the history of the sport. He's like the patron saint of bed making GBS threads. Stop this nonsense about unbelievable upsets or other such crap.
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Crotch Bat posted:I honest to god don't know where the idea that Frank Beamer is good for a miracle win every year or two comes from, it's baffling. The man is likely the worst Hall of Fame-level coach against the top 5/10 in the history of the sport. He's like the patron saint of bed making GBS threads. Oh, I wasn't under the impression he pulled impossible upsets a lot, I was just teasing based on how this season went and how if he hadn't beaten Ohio State or if he'd just lost one more game in the regular season you guys would probably have a better coach next season.
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Crotch Bat posted:The man is likely the worst Hall of Fame-level coach against the top 5/10 in the history of the sport. He's like the patron saint of bed making GBS threads. Out of curiosity is there an easy way to look this up for coaches? I don't doubt you all that much but I'd like to compare it to other guys.
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Grittybeard posted:Out of curiosity is there an easy way to look this up for coaches? I don't doubt you all that much but I'd like to compare it to other guys. This may be what you're looking for. EDIT: Oh, I misread your question, carry on. Ghost of Reagan Past fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Grittybeard posted:Out of curiosity is there an easy way to look this up for coaches? I don't doubt you all that much but I'd like to compare it to other guys. Not unless your coach is so spectacularly bad at playing said teams that it becomes a stat repeated essentially anytime they play. Frank was at one point 1-26 all-time against the top 5 and that was years ago so I imagine he probably has a healthy 3% winning percentage now. He has a handful more top 10 wins but not many. Amazingly enough, he has quite a few more top 5 wins if you look at end of season rankings and not game time ones but that's not how these things are done so 1-for-whatever is what he gets.
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I was actually asking about record vs the top whatever, but that proves Beamer is automatically above a bunch of guys in wins vs the top 10 because there are so many who never even got a chance to play anyone on that level. Something that would let me put together a list like this without wasting my entire life looking up what everyone's ranks were at any certain point: 
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Crotch Bat posted:Louisville is replacing a ton, especially on O. I'd be shocked if they did much offensively next year, least of all week 1 against a good Auburn squad. Bobby Patrino is a wizard with offenses. Chances are he will just plug in guys and go like he usually does. Also, Auburns defense was terrible. Yes, Muschamp is there but this will be their first game under him, so they might only give the O three free first downs due to dumb penalties instead of five.
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Grittybeard posted:I was actually asking about record vs the top whatever, but that proves Beamer is automatically above a bunch of guys in wins vs the top 10 because there are so many who never even got a chance to play anyone on that level. That's why I said of coaches who are Hall of Fame level. The level of coaches you would expect not to suck complete rear end against top ranked opponents. It's probably one of the worst stats in the sport as far as coaches go, especially amongst peers of his supposed coaching level. If there's a source on records vs the top 5 I'm unaware, like I said the stat was produced probably a decade ago at this point by some nerd at ESPN and it's engrained in the head of any VT fan who doesn't choose to ignore its existence because you'd read it or hear it repeated on TV constantly. You will see this stat on TV or in the papers when VT plays OSU in the opener, you can count on it.
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swickles posted:Bobby Patrino is a wizard with offenses. Chances are he will just plug in guys and go like he usually does. Also, Auburns defense was terrible. Yes, Muschamp is there but this will be their first game under him, so they might only give the O three free first downs due to dumb penalties instead of five. Wizard or not, you need talent to survive. Even Bud Foster can't always plug and play. Louisville lost a ton from an offense that wasn't particularly good last year, I can't envision them blasting out of the gate much less against one of the better teams on their schedule. Petrino's more man than myth. He's not going to do anything but sit behind FSU and Clemson in that division and I see nothing right now that suggests otherwise.
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Crotch Bat posted:Wizard or not, you need talent to survive. Even Bud Foster can't always plug and play. Louisville lost a ton from an offense that wasn't particularly good last year, I can't envision them blasting out of the gate much less against one of the better teams on their schedule. His AWESOME COOL ROLL-OUT-THEN-THROW-AGAINST-THE-GRAIN to a leaking RB or TE got figured out by the conference really really quickly and became more of a nuisance than a back-breakingly great, well-time play call. One could argue that he was handcuffed by how limiting his QB was, either by injury or just not being all that good to begin with, but yeah, he's got a rebuilding job after Louisville got 11 departing players invited to the combine. He's not exactly in a great place right now
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Crotch Bat posted:Wizard or not, you need talent to survive. Even Bud Foster can't always plug and play. Louisville lost a ton from an offense that wasn't particularly good last year, I can't envision them blasting out of the gate much less against one of the better teams on their schedule. On the other hand this will be the second year in his system, last year they were transferring to a new offense. I don't think the drop off in recruiting between Strong and Petrino (on offense at least) was significant. I doubt any team blasts out the gate the first game of the season unless they are playing a div 2 or lovely FCS team. Also, I think you are over valuing FSU.
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More proof that Bill Snyder is a football wizard.
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swickles posted:On the other hand this will be the second year in his system, last year they were transferring to a new offense. I don't think the drop off in recruiting between Strong and Petrino (on offense at least) was significant. I doubt any team blasts out the gate the first game of the season unless they are playing a div 2 or lovely FCS team. Also, I think you are over valuing FSU. This year? Perhaps. But even 3 steps back FSU is a better program than Louisville and you can't underestimate the amount of talent Louisville is losing that it can't replace as easily as FSU. Clemson likely reigns this year but I'd be more worried about NCSU making a run at the title game than Louisville. I just don't buy Petrino. I think SEC fans have a different opinion but I never bought what he did at Louisville the first time(who didn't do well in the Big East back then once VT, BC, and Miami left?) and his run at Arkansas was nice but he lucked into the situation with Mallett and then vanished like a thief in the night when that all ended. The guy can't sit down for more than a couple years at a time so I just don't buy him as a long-term threat in the conference. Not to mention Louisville isn't exactly a destination college for top-end talent and he doesn't have the SEC to sell. How long before the well runs dry and he heads off to kickstart another program for a couple years?
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Crotch Bat posted:This year? Perhaps. But even 3 steps back FSU is a better program than Louisville and you can't underestimate the amount of talent Louisville is losing that it can't replace as easily as FSU. Clemson likely reigns this year but I'd be more worried about NCSU making a run at the title game than Louisville. I think that recruiting will be the problem for him as it tends to have been in the past. He still has three years of Strong's players even if the best and most experienced have now graduated. He will get a good QB and he will get good receivers and he will eventually be a deep ball threat and will have success but will likely suck on defense and his QBs will get a ton of hits/sacks. He's a good coach and you can see how Tyler Wilson regressed after he left and know that he can develop QB talent quite well or at least make someone look good.
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Crotch Bat posted:This year? Perhaps. But even 3 steps back FSU is a better program than Louisville and you can't underestimate the amount of talent Louisville is losing that it can't replace as easily as FSU. Clemson likely reigns this year but I'd be more worried about NCSU making a run at the title game than Louisville. Bobby P left Louisville and Atlanta like a thief in the night, but he didn't leave Arkansas because Mallet left, he got fired for putting his mistress on the AD payroll.
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tactlessbastard posted:Bobby P left Louisville and Atlanta like a thief in the night, but he didn't leave Arkansas because Mallet left, he got fired for putting his mistress on the AD payroll. Then lying about it to cops and only telling the AD part of the story. He also passed over more qualified and diverse candidates for that extremely competitive position, which was highly competitive. And his sidepiece was engaged to another member of the athletics department.
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Stunt Rock posted:Then lying about it to cops and only telling the AD part of the story. He also passed over more qualified and diverse candidates for that extremely competitive position, which was highly competitive. And his sidepiece was engaged to another member of the athletics department. Didn't he only wreck the motorcycle because he was texting his wife while driving his mistress around?
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You wouldn't say that about Petrino if you had to deal with him yearly like Big East or SEC fans did. He's not Saban or Meyer, but he's really good.
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swickles posted:Also, I think you are over valuing FSU. Are you talking about just this year or for future years as well? If it's the latter I'm curious as to why you think that.
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