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I don't know about you, but I'm excited for my team to have a standard year where it wins most but not all of its games!
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TipTow posted:No one identifies as ... "Spartan," Except for the people that live in Sparta, I guess. Its not like Laconia sank into the ocean in antiquity.
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Apr 20, 2017 21:30
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Quandary posted:Legit question is making your school after a group a bad thing always? Obviously if it's a slur IE Redskins that's awful but having them be the Aztecs isn't necessarily bad or derogatory. I don't think so. Various Native American groups like it when the Army/Air Force/Navy name helicopters after them. They even have to get tribal approval to go ahead with the name. kayakyakr posted:Thoughts on Irish as a mascot? I give no shits. Plus its not like they're called the Surly Micks or anything. Signed, An Irish-American from a family of Irish Catholic Notre Dame fans
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Apr 21, 2017 14:24
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Henchman of Santa posted:Wait, Vandals are an ethnic group? Bunch of guys from Poland-ish, ran roughshod over Europe for 700 years, sacked Rome in 455.
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Apr 21, 2017 14:40
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Highlight of the Blue and White Game was when some kid participating in a contest was asked if he liked the Steelers or Eagles. He said Patriots and the boos rained down.
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Apr 23, 2017 13:33
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Declan MacManus posted:I feel like a lot of black coaches have to institute this ultra-macho grit and grind culture just to keep the donors happy and it never ends up working out for anyone involved I'm glad that James Franklin pretty much showed up as the physical embodiment of  and was just like "time to win some football games!" I guess when you figure that the big donors aren't going to accept you because you're not Ghost Paterno, you have to take a different tack.
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Apr 26, 2017 04:24
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Can someone repost the piss chart because I need to prove that there's such a thing as championship hydration to someone
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Apr 27, 2017 03:43
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Thanks. Good to know where I stood today too. Declan MacManus posted:If they have to ask, they probably aren't hydrating like a champion My friend probably isn't, so I need to show him he's being selfish and holding everyone back
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Apr 27, 2017 04:52
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Detroit_Dogg posted:If Jim Harbaugh played Russell Crowe's character in Gladiator he'd have gotten soundly beat twice and not even gotten to face the emperor He's the guy that pisses on himself in Libya. Or the guy that had the gay giraffes.
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Apr 29, 2017 02:27
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Pakled posted:Eh, I figure a human name sounds more respectable than the name of a company. Wrigley must bend your mind into a pretzel
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May 2, 2017 18:21
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MourningView posted:Yeah I've definitely seen guys hit from 70+ in practice or pregame when they were just loving around and didn't have any pressure or have to worry about it getting blocked. Case in point, my brother was an incredible punter in practice. His only live snap at punter was a nine yard shank.
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May 4, 2017 00:29
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He wasn't even a good assistant coach. When I was up there for the Blue and White Game, the only people I saw wearing any Paterno stuff where frat bros and the skanky girls accompanying them. It perplexed me.
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May 5, 2017 21:41
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Sab0921 posted:He was a good assistant at ISU and OSU? I meant Jay Paterno
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May 6, 2017 17:02
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all-Rush mixtape posted:You've got to admit, planning to take down a mascot a year ahead of time takes gumption. Truly an inspiration and role model for the children out there. Had a plan, worked hard, and followed through. We should all look to his example.
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May 6, 2017 23:25
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I am skeptical anyone ever typed the phase "ebony lesbians." It seems too...poetic? for porn.
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May 8, 2017 20:46
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Crotch Bat posted:The Happy Valley excuse doesn't fly at all when you consider they've been to Blacksburg more. State College isn't even the middle of nowhere. Nowhere in the mid Atlantic is far enough from anything to be that. The actual reason is because there's no opponent worth going for. It's either because of Ohio State or Michigan, which for the longest time was every other year. None of the out of conference opponents is good enough and even when they are, Penn State wasn't very good. For most of the Gameday history, you might see a useful opportunity once every four years. Sash! fucked around with this message at 05:09 on May 14, 2017 |
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May 14, 2017 05:07
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Just because you're "only" 4 hours from NYC doesn't mean you aren't in the loving boonies. Last fall, I had to go to a wedding in Vidalia GA. The closest place I could fly into was Jacksonville and drive up. At Brunswick, I declined to stop for something to eat, which turned out to be a mistake because I didn't see anything until Vidalia. Except a prison and lots of onion farms. Later, we drove to Macon and I'm not even sure there was a gas station that whole drive. That's the middle of nowhere. Nothing in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia is like that. You're always either in some town or in eye shot of somewhere.
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May 14, 2017 13:46
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iospace posted:I don't see how this would end the possibility of upsets, considering this is currently the status quo. The only difference would what would attract the students, money, or the potential to be on a winning team. You'd probably see Nebraska and Iowa rise, because they have the financial means to overcome the geographic and demographic difficulties they have when recruiting.
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May 23, 2017 01:20
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iospace posted:I picked Rutgers because they're a poo poo team with probably a shithead deep pocketed booster who is willing to dump tons of money into it because they feel they're the red headed step child of the big ten and RED HEADS NEED LOVE DAMMIT. RutgersAl doesn't have that much money, I assume.
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May 23, 2017 03:21
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PostNouveau posted:I had absolutely no idea Pittsburgh was a pre-WW2 college football powerhouse. Pitt was able to leverage all those kids desperate to get out of the mill towns they grew up in. Then steel collapsed and Penn State took over with mine town kids. Then coal collapsed. Marcellus shale doesn't seem to have impacted football.
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May 25, 2017 18:37
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I'd be winning to offer Oklahoma and WVU a good home. Although I support any scenario that gets VT into the SEC. Make them play UT in the Hoke-Smokie Classic and TAMU for a giant Medal of Honor every year. These are too obvious to not have happen.
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May 26, 2017 16:20
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General Dog posted:Also I'm not sure if the Big Ten has moved on from its "market size isn't everything, it's the only thing" phase The Big Ten already has a quarter of the top 50 media markets: #3 Chicago, IL #4 Philadelphia, PA #8 Washington, DC #15 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN #18 Cleveland Akron Canton, OH #23 Pittsburgh, PA #26 Indianapolis, IN #27 Baltimore, MD #32 Columbus, OH #34 Milwaukee, WI #35 Cincinnati, OH #39 Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI #43 Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA And the states of Iowa, Nebraska, and New Jersey. Where the hell do you pick next? The Big Ten would have to go beyond media market because they already won that race, unless they inexplicably get a Florida or Texas school and run up the score. Or go for Syracuse to actually get NYC, but....eh?
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May 26, 2017 21:06
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AsInHowe posted:You forgot Detroit. Accidentally deleted Detroit. I was a bit surprised it was as high as it was and that Buffalo is smaller than some of those.
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May 27, 2017 02:49
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Kim Jong Il posted:Why do you think Syracuse adds NYC in any capacity? That's like saying the Buffalo Bills add the NYC market to the NFL. Rutgers indeed has the largest plurality in the very fractured NYC market. Syracuse gets you Buffalo and that's it. Because, unless they changed the carriage agreements, the state is what matters, not the city.
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May 27, 2017 05:12
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I don't see any reason why WVU wouldn't jump the second the ACC knocked. Is there anything beyond "mutual survival" that got them into the Big 12 after the Big East collapsed and a quarter of the Big 12 left?
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May 27, 2017 22:31
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West Virginia was a slave state too.
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May 28, 2017 03:06
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Kim Jong Il posted:What does that mean? It all has to do with media markets, not states. Pitt somehow gives the ACC a foothold in Philadelphia? The Big Ten claims entire states as in market. That's why.
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May 28, 2017 03:36
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ulmont posted:Also Sash! Is either wrong or technically correct at best, considering West Virginia didn't separate from Virginia until 1863 and then to join the Union. Had slaves until the war ended and the emancipation proclamation didn't apply to them. Those Virginia counties weren't interested in leaving the US, not abolitionist though. Just like Maryland and Kentucky.
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May 28, 2017 16:17
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General Dog posted:Maybe an actual WVU fan can weigh in, but that's my impression. West Virginia the state is at a junction of regions and isn't quite as solid Appalachian as you'd think. Historically, and I mean in our parents lifetimes, they identified with the industrial North more than you might have thought. Those guys in the mine held themselves just as industrial as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, and Chicago because they knew that's where their coal went. Steel needed them and they knew that. Then you get the panhandles fitting into different states too. They're a Mid-Rustalachian state. Enough of their rivals are in the ACC that you could drop them in there and they'd have a grand old time. But, that said, they've got some of this upper South vibe that would fit them in with Kentucky and Tennessee. poo poo, Georgia outside of Atlanta is just a flat West Virginia even. The truly hilarious one, to me, is UVA is culturally SEC, but too bad for that to ever work. They'd bolt right into a slot with Ole Miss as "planter elite."
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May 28, 2017 21:04
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Actually, it is "the South didn't win," which is distinct from the North winning. Last summer, in heard the phrase "War of Southern Independence" for the first time ever. That was an odd one.
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May 30, 2017 15:33
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"Big Ten Baseball" isn't a phrase I have ever heard, ever. Do we even have it?
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Jun 1, 2017 01:36
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I don't know why people fixate on relegation without addressing the real problem facing college football: too many teams named Tigers.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:39
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Crotch Bat posted:I remember when I used to spend like 30 bucks each summer for all the magazines. It isn't summer if I don't spend some time on a beach somewhere trying to decode Phil Steele's abbreviation system and read his ALL CAPS IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT HOW AWESOME PHIL STEELE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 8, 2017 01:42
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MourningView posted:They were pink at one point but they are too cowardly to use those as a throwback I'm pretty sure that the colors had changed by the time there was football, so they can't really "throw back" to that. Baseball definitely wore black and pink. They do the S in the student section in black and pink for homecoming though. The actual secret is the blue used to be a bright one, more like Florida's. Sash! fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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Jun 16, 2017 03:51
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I caught a 40 inch bonnethead shark the other day, so I'm going to ride that for the rest of my life. He'll be a 15 foot tiger shark by the time I die, obviously. Also, I wish I still had my 00 reg date account.
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Jun 18, 2017 13:22
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an adult beverage posted:Did you...did you gently caress that shark rear end, my dude? I put him back in the ocean, as part of my deal with the sharks: I won't kill them if they don't kill me.
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Jun 19, 2017 23:06
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Quandary posted:Quit being an old person, a) emojis are fun and cool and b) recruits like it and c) who gives a poo poo They make me feel like I'm reading that page in Highlights magazine that replaced random words with pictures to help you learn how to read.
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Rumors abound that Pitt is going to change colors and go with their 70s throwbacks as standard. The eight or nine Pitt fans must be thrilled.
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The elephant in the room is Purdue. What the hell state does he think that is? Purduesylvania?
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