NCAA Offseason N/V: Home of the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (awaiting Shark Bowl)

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Seaniqua: Mar 12, 2004; "We'll see how the first year goes. But people better get us now, because we're going to keep getting better and better."

General Dog posted:

I'd say go with Yahoo. Not sure you can do custom pick sets, but the default set is usually pretty strong if you don't mind the additional time investment of making about 20 picks per week.

The week to week team features are pretty robust, it shows who picked who for each game like, etc.

I think I probably will go with Yahoo, until I can get a good luck at ESPN's tool. Right now it's under maintenance.

As an aside, I'm going to start writing my own pick 'em website. If it's like my other passion projects, I'll probably give up within a couple weeks. If not, I might try to use it next year.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:34

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:37

KKKLIP ART: Sep 3, 2004

If Mark Richt would have fully embraced Evil Richt instead of Saint Richt, I think he would have been better off.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:43

the mean lunch lady: Jun 24, 2009; went mad at sea
lots were drawn
Kroenke didn't survive
he was delicious

D.N. Nation posted:

Because I'm a terrible college football fan, I would email Al every week after that Sugar Bowl for about half a year telling him how my watch party sucked because the opponent was so terrible, but never received a response. And I never will, seeing how he's dead.

Hahaha, this rules

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:44

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

FizFashizzle posted:

Georgia was probably the second or third best team in the country that year.

the UGA Hawaii game should have been stopped after the first quarter.

That game was loving ridiculous.

Who did Georgia lose to that year to keep them out of the SEC title game?

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:52

DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

tactlessbastard posted:

That game was loving ridiculous.

Who did Georgia lose to that year to keep them out of the SEC title game?

Tennessee and South Carolina

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:53

LeeMajors: Jan 20, 2005; I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!

Um, so I've ignored all the Last Chance U hype for awhile.

I succumbed this morning and I am now hooked.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:55

Grittybeard: Mar 29, 2010; Bad, very bad!

Seaniqua posted:

As an aside, I'm going to start writing my own pick 'em website. If it's like my other passion projects, I'll probably give up within a couple weeks. If not, I might try to use it next year.

If you're actually seriously thinking about doing this you should collaborate with whoever took over the https://saseliminator.com/ site. I know a few goons were going to keep it running at least.

I've wanted college football stuff on there for years.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:56

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

LeeMajors posted:

Um, so I've ignored all the Last Chance U hype for awhile.

I succumbed this morning and I am now hooked.

Last Chance U is really good. When you get around to season 2, you ought to leave your thoughts in the thread.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 20:57

D.N. Nation: Feb 1, 2012

FizFashizzle posted:

Georgia was probably the second or third best team in the country that year.

Georgia consolation prize in 2007 is that they were tangentially a part of two of the best quotes of that season: Mike Gundy's I'M A MAN I'M 40 and Mike Patrick daydreaming about Britney Spears.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:09

I. M. Gei: Jun 26, 2005; CHIEFS

BITCH

Please, Jesus... :pray:

http://www.chron.com/sports/aggies/article/Chancellor-John-Sharp-I-d-like-to-put-the-11438080.php?ipid=hpsportsctp

quote:

COLLEGE STATION � Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin and others have long referenced the Aggies� rugged schedule in the Southeastern Conference, which has won eight of the last 11 national championships, when asked whether A&M might one day face old rival Texas in football again.

A&M chancellor John Sharp put it more colorfully to Texas Monthly in a long feature on Sharp in the August issue.

�The players just get the s--- beat out of them in those games because of the big SEC defenses,� Sharp told the magazine. �They need a full week to recover � some of them don�t even practice until Tuesday or Wednesday.�

Two years ago Sharp said concerning A&M vs. UT, which hasn�t played since 2011 as the Aggies exited the Big 12 for the SEC in 2012, �My sense is with the 12th Man � we've got new friends.�

The new friends being the likes of LSU, Alabama and Arkansas in SEC West competition. Sharp has appeared to soften a bit on that stance, like so many others of late concerning Aggies-Longhorns. Last week, new UT coach Tom Herman said he�d love for his program to play an annual non-conference contest against A&M.

Meanwhile Sharp told Texas Monthly, �I�d like to put the UT-A&M game back together. I know the governor (Greg Abbott) wants to put it back together. UT wants to put it back together. � Man, can you imagine how much money we could make off that game?�

I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 26, 2017

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:12

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Henchman of Santa posted:

SB Nation has a huge project up on the 2007 season
https://www.sbnation.com/a/2007-college-football-season

every year I pray to the college football gods for a year as messed up as 2007, and i think between this being the 10th anniversary and literally the entire rest of the world having gone batshit crazy we're in for a good year.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:16

DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

crosspostin'

DJExile posted:

Pac12 Network will experiment in a few non-conference games with cutting out commercial breaks and shortening halftime from 20 minutes to 15 in an effort to speed up games

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:17

Mr. World: May 6, 2007; Working undercover for the man . . .

Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:

Please, Jesus...

http://www.chron.com/sports/aggies/article/Chancellor-John-Sharp-I-d-like-to-put-the-11438080.php?ipid=hpsportsctp

Insha'allah. The poo poo talking isn't nearly as fun when we don't play.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:19

HannibalBarca: Sep 11, 2016; History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.

DJExile posted:

Tennessee and South Carolina

And of those, the South Carolina game was a close loss that we could have won at the end of the game if our offense hadn't been awful and anaemic (I was in the stands for it!).

The Tennessee game was a horrible nightmare where we got utterly curbstomped.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:25

Dilber: Mar 27, 2007; TFLC
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DC Murderverse posted:

every year I pray to the college football gods for a year as messed up as 2007, and i think between this being the 10th anniversary and literally the entire rest of the world having gone batshit crazy we're in for a good year.

what would be totally crazy would be miami being back, so i'm in.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:26

Seaniqua: Mar 12, 2004; "We'll see how the first year goes. But people better get us now, because we're going to keep getting better and better."

Grittybeard posted:

If you're actually seriously thinking about doing this you should collaborate with whoever took over the https://saseliminator.com/ site. I know a few goons were going to keep it running at least.

I've wanted college football stuff on there for years.

huh, I'm not sure I knew this existed. Looks cool. I actually already started writing my own for fun, even if nothing comes of it.

I tried to register for SASEliminator, but it didn't work. There was no "contact us" page or whatever, but I found the github project for SASEliminator and found someone with the same username on Twitter and tweeted at him. We'll see, I guess!

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:26

dphi: Jul 9, 2001

D.N. Nation posted:

Because I'm a terrible college football fan, I would email Al every week after that Sugar Bowl for about half a year telling him how my watch party sucked because the opponent was so terrible, but never received a response. And I never will, seeing how he's dead.

That was my last year as a Hawaii fan. I'd lived in Oregon for 5 years at that point but didn't know whether to root for UO or OSU so just stuck to my home team. But after that bowl game, June Jones leaving, and Chip turning OU into something just as fun to watch as the UH run and gun years - I knew which ship I was jumping to.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:27

the mean lunch lady: Jun 24, 2009; went mad at sea
lots were drawn
Kroenke didn't survive
he was delicious

DC Murderverse posted:

every year I pray to the college football gods for a year as messed up as 2007, and i think between this being the 10th anniversary and literally the entire rest of the world having gone batshit crazy we're in for a good year.

I would be very happy if Mizzou had another year like 07 this year

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:30

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Surprised Texas and TAMU haven't ended up like UF and FSU way back in the day, where the Florida government let it be known it was in their best interest to start playing every year.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 21:44

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Randaconda posted:

Surprised Texas and TAMU haven't ended up like UF and FSU way back in the day, where the Florida government let it be known it was in their best interest to start playing every year.

The Texas government is too busy being loving awful to do anything sensible.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:33

wandler20: Nov 13, 2002; How many Championships?

These are so bad.

https://twitter.com/AndrewMLind/status/890204999099322368

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:34

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Seaniqua posted:

Hey TFF, we're less than a month from real loving football happening, which means you aren't sick of picking the games a week every week yet, and you're still be operating under the delusional thought that you'll actually make your picks, on time, every week this year, so...

Let's do a 2017 TFF College Pick 'Em!!!!

Last year we used Fox Sports College Pick 'Em, but apparently that's not an option this year.

jk, fine with me... I vaguely remember there being some issues with the site last year, so let's find a new one. Has anyone had good experiences with other sites? Here's what I'd like to find:

1.) Custom set of games to pick each week. Fox Sports had a bunch of preselected sets of games, but they never quite matched what I thought TFF would enjoy the most. But they let you pick a 100% custom set, so I generally tried to pick two games from each power five conference, with preference on ranked games, or games that people in TFF had been discussing the most. Also, I want to keep the set of games at 10, because after that I think it gets to be a little too time consuming. Edit: It looks like this requirement excludes Yahoo, because you have to use one of their predefined sets.

2.) Ability to pick against the spread, without confidence points. I like doing against the spread instead of straight-up, it's more interesting and more challenging. But I personally think confidence points make the whole task feel more like work than fun.

3.) (ideally) The ability to see what everyone picked in a given week, and the results. Fox Sports actually had this feature. It generated a nice grid that showed everyone's picks, so it made it fun and easy to find who did the best and worst, who picked games correctly that no one else picked, etc. Unfortunately, our group got too big, and Fox Sports wouldn't generate that grid anymore. But you could click on individual users and see what their picks were. So, I wrote a Java program that actually skimmed the HTML of every user's individual picks and generated the same grid. This was a pain in the rear end, and I don't want to do it again.

Thanks everyone - who will dethrone General Dog?

(last year's results):

Did so badly that I got my own picture.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:36

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Also, I can forgive not being able to draw the Penn State logo because it is complicated. But some of those are dang letters.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:39

wandler20: Nov 13, 2002; How many Championships?

Sash! posted:

Also, I can forgive not being able to draw the Penn State logo because it is complicated. But some of those are dang letters.

And the one guy pretty much nailed the Iowa logo but holy poo poo the letter ones.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:40

General Dog: Apr 26, 2008; Everybody's working for the weekend

Randaconda posted:

Surprised Texas and TAMU haven't ended up like UF and FSU way back in the day, where the Florida government let it be known it was in their best interest to start playing every year.

The state government needs to stay out of the affairs of state universities and do their job, which is telling women what they can and can't do.

Edit: in retrospect "telling people where to go to the bathroom" would be the funnier punchline here

General Dog fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jul 26, 2017

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:43

Nissin Cup Nudist: Sep 3, 2011; Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land

D.N. Nation posted:

Georgia consolation prize in 2007 is that they were tangentially a part of two of the best quotes of that season: Mike Gundy's I'M A MAN I'M 40 and Mike Patrick daydreaming about Britney Spears.

You can always figure out how old Gundy is from that speech

# ? Jul 26, 2017 22:53

Bacon Taco: Jun 8, 2006; Now with extra narwhal meat!
HAIKOOLIGAN; Dinosaur Gum

Seaniqua posted:

Hey TFF, we're less than a month from real loving football happening, which means you aren't sick of picking the games a week every week yet, and you're still be operating under the delusional thought that you'll actually make your picks, on time, every week this year, so...

Let's do a 2017 TFF College Pick 'Em!!!!

Last year we used Fox Sports College Pick 'Em, but apparently that's not an option this year.

jk, fine with me... I vaguely remember there being some issues with the site last year, so let's find a new one. Has anyone had good experiences with other sites? Here's what I'd like to find:

1.) Custom set of games to pick each week. Fox Sports had a bunch of preselected sets of games, but they never quite matched what I thought TFF would enjoy the most. But they let you pick a 100% custom set, so I generally tried to pick two games from each power five conference, with preference on ranked games, or games that people in TFF had been discussing the most. Also, I want to keep the set of games at 10, because after that I think it gets to be a little too time consuming. Edit: It looks like this requirement excludes Yahoo, because you have to use one of their predefined sets.

2.) Ability to pick against the spread, without confidence points. I like doing against the spread instead of straight-up, it's more interesting and more challenging. But I personally think confidence points make the whole task feel more like work than fun.

3.) (ideally) The ability to see what everyone picked in a given week, and the results. Fox Sports actually had this feature. It generated a nice grid that showed everyone's picks, so it made it fun and easy to find who did the best and worst, who picked games correctly that no one else picked, etc. Unfortunately, our group got too big, and Fox Sports wouldn't generate that grid anymore. But you could click on individual users and see what their picks were. So, I wrote a Java program that actually skimmed the HTML of every user's individual picks and generated the same grid. This was a pain in the rear end, and I don't want to do it again.

Thanks everyone - who will dethrone General Dog?

(last year's results):

How did I manage to score as high #15 in this? :iiam:

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:10

MourningView: Sep 2, 2006; Is this Heaven?

HannibalBarca posted:

And of those, the South Carolina game was a close loss that we could have won at the end of the game if our offense hadn't been awful and anaemic (I was in the stands for it!).

The Tennessee game was a horrible nightmare where we got utterly curbstomped.

The SCAR one happened really early too so I wasn't totally clear that it had really hosed them until at the end of the season when they went on a tear, SCAR fell apart, and everyone else kept loving up. That might have been Richt's best shot at a title.

WVU losing to Pitt was funny at the time but is such a bummer in hindsight. They were REALLY good and that offense with Pat White and Steve Slanton was fun as hell. Would have been nice to see them win a title. Guess they can settle for being the best video game team of all time

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:15

General Dog: Apr 26, 2008; Everybody's working for the weekend

Bacon Taco posted:

How did I manage to score as high #15 in this?

If you remember to do your picks every week you're going to do pretty well

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:18

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

wandler20 posted:

And the one guy pretty much nailed the Iowa logo but holy poo poo the letter ones.

yeah well Matt Vandeberg had a lot of spare time last season so it is to be expected.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:19

wa27: Jan 15, 2007

That nittany lion has seen some poo poo.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:44

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

wa27 posted:

That nittany lion has seen some poo poo.

Somebody buy that for Sash!.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:51

YOLOsubmarine: Oct 19, 2004; When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

"Motherfucking, what's that big dragon shit? That orange motherfucker. Charizard."

MourningView posted:

The SCAR one happened really early too so I wasn't totally clear that it had really hosed them until at the end of the season when they went on a tear, SCAR fell apart, and everyone else kept loving up. That might have been Richt's best shot at a title.

They were a few yards and one dumb play by a receiver from playing for one in 2012 that I'm fairly confident they would have won.

# ? Jul 26, 2017 23:58

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

D.N. Nation posted:

Because I'm a terrible college football fan, I would email Al every week after that Sugar Bowl for about half a year telling him how my watch party sucked because the opponent was so terrible, but never received a response. And I never will, seeing how he's dead.

One of my favorite VT fan stories is similar. The sports editor for the local paper in Roanoke (closest big city to Blacksburg) was a Duke alum named Bill Brill. Bill Brill hated VT with a fiery passion because he was an ACC elitist who saw the conference as better than VT. After the conference realignment was announced, Brill said the infamous phrase "VT will not win an ACC championship in my lifetime". VT proceeded to win the ACC in football in its first year in 2004 and VT fans responded by flooding his house with funeral flowers and cards for his wife on the passing of Brill. VT won a bunch of ACC titles those first few years in the conference and fans would doggedly call and mail Bill to remind him until he finally died years later.

# ? Jul 27, 2017 00:05

whos that broooown: Dec 10, 2009; 2024 Comeback Poster of the Year

wa27 posted:

That nittany lion has seen some poo poo.

Its pretty much the cat version of that 50s UConn logo.

# ? Jul 27, 2017 00:30

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

kittenmittons posted:

Its pretty much the cat version of that 50s UConn logo.

They should bring back this logo, as it's a fitting representation of UConn Football in 2017.

# ? Jul 27, 2017 00:36

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Benne posted:

They should bring back this logo, as it's a fitting representation of UConn Football in 2017.

Holy poo poo, that is amazing.

# ? Jul 27, 2017 01:00

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

Randaconda posted:

Somebody buy that for Sash!.

If someone does, I'd like it to say Marcus Allen underneath thanks

# ? Jul 27, 2017 01:11

Scarf: Jun 24, 2005; On sight

wandler20 posted:

These are so bad.

https://twitter.com/AndrewMLind/status/890204999099322368

Holy gently caress how did I never realize how many loving logos in the B1G solely consist of a single letter?

Also holy gently caress how can you be so bad at writing a single block letter?

# ? Jul 27, 2017 01:12

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:37

PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:

Please, Jesus...

http://www.chron.com/sports/aggies/article/Chancellor-John-Sharp-I-d-like-to-put-the-11438080.php?ipid=hpsportsctp

gently caress yeah.

Also, lol A&M missed what would have been a 6-year winning streak against us.

# ? Jul 27, 2017 01:20

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