Numlock posted:

Texas Tech will beat the following teams this year, Texas, Oklahoma, Baylor and TCU.

If not I will change my avatar image to something expressing my undying love for one or more of these teams until Texas Tech's first game of 2016.

Numlock posted:

Cross posting this so that the fans of these teams can hold me to it, because if it does happen I will be a giant rear end about it to them and other fans of those teams for years.


Toxx's are fun.

Spiritus Nox posted:

All of them? That's pretty brave. I could see Tech beating any of those four, but if you're going to go for all 4 you may as well just toxx for the conference championship.

Numlock posted:

Having watched well over a decade of Tech Football, I'm crazy not suicidal.

Spiritus Nox posted:

All of them? That's pretty brave. I could see Tech beating any of those four, but if you're going to go for all 4 you may as well just toxx for the conference championship.

Groucho Marxist posted:

Not really all that surprising but Harold Brantley will miss the entire season

VDay posted:

Michigan's new contract with Nike (they're leaving Adidas in 2016) worth approximately eleventy billion dollars. ($169m/15 years)

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2015/07/nike_michigan_1.html#incart_story_package

MourningView posted:

It's a good thing no one is saying that he's a bad coach!

tactlessbastard posted:

It's not like he's my poor teams' coach, who is the world's biggest loving baby and is a terrible coach and an objectively awful human being.

MourningView posted:

who is your team

SpiritualDeath posted:

Arkansas

Ross Angeles posted:

I think SDSU is gonna win 9 games this year

RumbleFish posted:

Yeah, I'm kind of glad we dropped Arkansas as our permanent rival even though it means dealing with Aggy every year. They could be very good very soon.

RumbleFish posted:

Given this and the fact that Auburn has averaged like 9 wins a season over their entire history, I can't muster up a single ounce of sympathy for anything that program's been through. They're the lesser of the two evils against Bama and they gave us Cam, but that's about it (though I do like the fans that post here).

Of course, I'm also slightly bitter since we haven't beaten them since the 30s despite a few close calls in recent years.

Jeremor posted:

Helps that we got to completely poo poo on them the last time we played as rivals. For once.

Morby posted:

Also I think Auburn/South Carolina will play again in, like, 2019 or something.

...Unless Auburn wins the west this year and South Carolina wins the east.

kayakyakr posted:

You've got a point. If TTU has beaten those 4 teams, it's probable that they are good enough to beat WVU, KSU and OSU as well, which is a run at the championship.

Spiritus Nox posted:

All Big 12 Team is out. Baylor leads the conference with 7 picks, TCU and OU each with 5. Boykin OPOY, Oakman DPOY. Oakman's pick surprised me - I don't even think he's Baylor's best lineman (take a bow, Andrew Billings) - but I guess the memes won out.

Thoguh posted:

Bert just called his bowl win over Texas "borderline erotic" at media days.

Spintzel posted:

Better he gets off from football games than from Arkansas volley ball players

Pakled posted:

Every conference should get 14 members and do this.

vyst posted:

Have you seen the tail at Arkansas? Probably easier to get off on the football games.

LeeMajors posted:

No, he pretty consistently whines when he doesn't go undefeated or is embarrassed in any way.

He whined after Utah crushed them in 08. Has been whining about tempo and plays per game for several years now. Then they get beat by OSU and it's because of the timing of the draaaft graaaades . It's been a pretty common theme for years now, and it's super loving annoying. Bob Stoops does it too.


_{Ohio St got theirs too, and they cut your rear end. Quite whining.}

Morby posted:

Where is that article from that guy who is supposedly Saban's friend? I'm talking about the one where he said Saban complained that the BCSNCG was preventing him from recruiting.

Raku posted:

He's directly answering questions from reporters about what issues he thinks last year's team had. That and he's been well established as a perfectionist that's always trying to make things even marginally better. Would you rather he say "Well everything was in our favor but we just weren't good enough?" He's not even being petulant, he says it all matter of factly, as if he was doing an autopsy. At no point did he say "We would have won but ___," people ask him what his team's problems were and he tells them what he thinks. If you want can-do attitudes and bullish sentiments look for interviews of his strength and conditioning coach, but Saban's always going to be looking for things that could have been better because that's how he is.

LeeMajors posted:

No the problem is when he blames outside factors that affect every team's chemistry, as if Alabama is the only team that has NFL prospects, or faces HUNH teams or whatever.

It just seems petty and weird for such an amazing coach to not just blame himself, his staff, his team for getting it done.

quote:

HOOVER, Ala. -- Every year, it seems, Nick Saban comes to SEC Media Days and uses the platform to push one or two big talking points. This year the Alabama head man took several opportunities on Wednesday to discuss an issue that was troubling him and had impacted his program: The NFL's timeline for underclassmen to learn their draft grades from the pro evaluators.
Saban pointed out the deadline when an underclassmen needs to submit for a draft grade is Dec. 15, and the players get the results around Christmas. "And then you have a playoff game coming up on Jan. 1 or 2, and I think it's my obligation as a coach to inform that young man when I get that information, because it's his information not my information," Saban said. "And we're talking about a young person who has to deal with a lot now."
Saban's teams have been upset in the past two bowl games -- in 2014 by No. 11 Oklahoma, 45-31, and in 2015 his No. 1 team was knocked off by No. 4 Ohio State, 42-35.
"Our team chemistry from the SEC title game to the (Ohio State game) was definitely affected by something," he said.
Lots of folks, including all Buckeye fans who have images of Ezekiel Elliott running wild through the Tide D, will take this as Saban making an excuse when what affected Bama most was Urban Meyer's team. After all, wouldn't this be an issue for most top teams?
In response to those saying Saban is making an excuse, the Alabama coach told the SEC Network, "It wasn't an excuse at all for losing to Ohio State. There is no excuse. We didn't play well. It's my responsibility, and I didn't manage it as well as I should have."
Alabama linebacker Reggie Ragland, who opted to return to Tuscaloosa for his senior season after considering the NFL, reaffirmed Saban's stance.
"I'd say guys got distracted by people in their ear," the senior said at SEC Media Days. "With me, the people that were in my ear, I wouldn't answer the phone. I was just worried about playing football.
"A lot of guys got sidetracked by that, but I think this year coming up we've got a lot of guys that are not worried about the NFL. They're just worried about right now."
Senior center Ryan Kelly didn't think it was a huge issue for last year's Crimson Tide but said, "Obviously Saban keeps bringing it up, so I guess it was." Kelly acknowledged the issue would have applied to both Alabama and Ohio State, "but obviously they did a better job managing it than we did."
It's certainly a valid point regarding the distractions teams have to cope with, just not one exclusive to the Tide. Think of all the distractions the Buckeyes had over the last month of the season, including the death of teammate Kosta Karageorge.
Saban noted that his program has had an unusually high number of young players engaged in that process with six getting evaluations last year and 11 the year before.
"So we're trying to get ready for a game and all of a sudden, a guy finds out he's a 'first-round' draft pick or a guy that thought he was a first-rounder finds out he's not a 'first-rounder,'" Saban said. "I think it would be better not to submit that information to a player until (his season) is completed. We've moved the draft back. We have not moved the date that a player has to declare back."
Saban also said that some of his players played not to get hurt in the Sugar Bowl.
He said he thinks a week to 10-day delay would be ideal for the draft evaluation process. I asked how -- besides from talking about it in these settings -- does he try to make it happen. Saban said he's spoken to some other coaches who had "moderate interest" in the issue. Some of the pushback he got on that was that by pushing one thing back it'd then further squeeze roster management with Signing Day coming up.

Raku posted:

I have a follow up story for you!

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...id=484897859939

LeeMajors posted:

swickles posted:

I have google news set as my home page, giving me top stories etc. However, I also have College Football set as a topic I want news and info on. During the season, its mostly ok, but in the off season all I get is stock and financial info because of the tag "BCS". Does google just not care or can they really not figure out how to filter out financial stories instead of actual college ones? Also, why even have BCS as a tag anymore?

MourningView posted:

Strahan being all over morning TV owns because Tiki Barber wanted that career so dang bad and then that gap toothed goofus swooped in out of nowhere and got it instead.