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General Dog posted:Saw that Guy Morris died this week at age 71, after a 2016 Alzheimers diagnosis. He played 15 years in the NFL, but as a coach his legacy is probably being on the receiving end of this play as Kentucky's coach... I'm just going to assume what that video is and not click it. I saw that yesterday, lots of love coming from current and former UK connections. I had forgotten how long he had been there prior to being the head coach. He left UK after one year as the head coach when the administration refused to give raises to his assistants, so he took Baylor's offer. That was apparently a wakeup call for the football program. That one year was fun though with Lorenzen slinging it around all over the place.
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Spacemonkey57 posted:Tell me this is worse than me having to sit through three goddamned years of the Steve Bellasari experience. Would Georgia Tech have had to start Reggie Ball for eight years under the current system? Reggie Ball is legitimately the best Tech QB in the past 20 years. Feast your eyes on a very sad list of QBs since having Joe Hamilton and George Godsey back-to-back.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Reggie Ball is legitimately the best Tech QB in the past 20 years. Feast your eyes on a very sad list of QBs since having Joe Hamilton and George Godsey back-to-back. That is a terrible list but a lot of those guys were option QBs and none of them had Calvin Johnson. Reggie Ball had 1,820 yards passing in 2006 and Calvin Johnson had 1,202 of those. I don't know if one receiver has ever accounted for more than 66% of a quarterbacks passing yards in a season, but I doubt it.
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Sep 7, 2022 21:24
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Sep 7, 2022 21:34
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What's the last time a team ranked in the top 5 defeated another team ranked in the top 5 and then dropped in the polls?
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Pakled posted:The rise of NFL salaries is a big reason why there aren't as many Polynesian sumo wrestlers as there used to be. In the 80's and 90's, there were a lot of Polynesian people in the top ranks of sumo. But NFL salaries have exploded since the 90's while Sumo wresters' salaries have remained relatively stagnant, so now if you're an enormous 18-year-old Samoan guy who wants to pursue athletics, it makes a lot more sense to go into American football. Living in a somewhat less alien culture and not being subject to the hardships of being a low-ranked guy in a sumo stable are other pluses. Yeah, NCAA or sumo is a pretty easy decision. If you don't make it in football at least you have a degree to fall back on. If you spend 4 years in sumo and don't make the top ranks, guys are basically dependent on the equivalent of boosters to hook them up with jobs. But sumo and line coaches could probably learn quite a bit from each other. Sumo could probably use some modern S&C tips while footballers could get some drills for footwork and explosiveness off the line (though sumo training in that area is probably too dangerous even for football standards).
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Bird in a Blender posted:Did I miss the latest polls? Maybe I was missing graphics and I certainly wasn't paying attention to preseason polls all that much, but did Florida go from unranked to #12 after beating an unranked LSU by the skin of their teeth? Was LSU ranked going into that game?
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Grittybeard posted:Maybe I was missing graphics and I certainly wasn't paying attention to preseason polls all that much, but did Florida go from unranked to #12 after beating an unranked LSU by the skin of their teeth? Florida beat Utah, but I don't know how you jump them up to 12 from unranked
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Mike_V posted:Florida beat Utah, but I don't know how you jump them up to 12 from unranked gently caress I'm a moron. Apologies to both Florida fan bases.
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Sep 7, 2022 22:39
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They should absolutely be ranking Florida way higher after that game. Preseason rankings are poo poo. There should be wild swings in the first few weeks. Florida and Utah had the best game of the week.
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Mike_V posted:Florida beat Utah, but I don't know how you jump them up to 12 from unranked well they dropped Utah to 13 so they had to put Florida 1 spot ahead of them
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General Dog posted:What's the last time a team ranked in the top 5 defeated another team ranked in the top 5 and then dropped in the polls? Yea, that’s a rare one. I guess scoring points still matters to human voters.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea, that’s a rare one. I guess scoring points still matters to human voters. Just kind of funny that they rank the two teams 2 and 5, #2 wins by 11 points and the voters go “hm, would like to have seen more.” (I know it’s really more about them being really impressed with Georgia, probably rightfully)
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Grittybeard posted:but did Florida go from unranked to #12 after beating an unranked LSU by the skin of their teeth? OH MY GOD 
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LeeMajors posted:OH MY GOD as an FSU fan im equally insulted
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Grittybeard posted:did Florida go from unranked to #12 after beating an unranked LSU by the skin of their teeth? Greta: How dare you?!
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Joey Freshwater posted:I had completely forgotten that Bo was at Oregon now so when the game started I did have to do a double take a laugh a little. I remember that guy, he was the For The Love Of God Not Guantanamo option that couldn't ever actually beat out Guantanamo
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D.N. Nation posted:I remember that guy, he was the For The Love Of God Not Guantanamo option that couldn't ever actually beat out Guantanamo Yeah him and 5* Harrison Bailey who inexplicably sucked, transferred and apparently still sucks
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D.N. Nation posted:I remember that guy, he was the For The Love Of God Not Guantanamo option that couldn't ever actually beat out Guantanamo Good typo
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Like it says, watch Robby Ashford https://twitter.com/NathanKing247/status/1566447890607775746
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LeeMajors posted:OH MY GOD Like I said I apologize to all of you profusely, I was just washed over by so much football this weekend that my brain broke is the only thing I can say.
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After the roller coaster of Mauer/Shrout/Guarantano/Harrison Bailey, I am so happy the Vols have Hendon Hooker and an apparently serviceable Joe Milton, with another inbound 5* in Iamaleava.
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I forgot all about Harrison Bailey, holy poo poo lol Where is he playing now?
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I forgot all about Harrison Bailey, holy poo poo lol He’s a backup at UNLV
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Like it says, watch Robby Ashford Ok, so what number is Ashford? I don’t know who anybody is or who to look for. E: #9?
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Bird in a Blender posted:Ok, so what number is Ashford? I don’t know who anybody is or who to look for.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Yeah, the QB who hands off to Tank, goes out of frame and then streaks back in to clobber a guy way downfield and give him poo poo for it also. Oh poo poo, I thought that was a WR
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General Dog posted:Good typo 
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PostNouveau posted:They should absolutely be ranking Florida way higher after that game. Preseason rankings are poo poo. There should be wild swings in the first few weeks. Florida and Utah had the best game of the week. Man good for the pollsters. More wild swings at the beginning of the season should be the norm. But I didn't think they'd be aggressive enough with it to put UF all the way up to 12. (I called 16 in the GDT)
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In the week 1 - week 2 transition you can often rely on a critical mass of voters going "well it'd look dumb if I ranked team a below team b that they just beat so I'll put them one spot above" since there's nothing to craft a different narrative out of yet
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Should be able to fill the space of Herbstreit and the old man when they leave https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1567546372945068034?s=20&t=ppO1LG_tIq_gSUZ2VBNFxg
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Warbird posted:Tired: Recruiting from Texas/LA/Floridia for context, Fujitsu Frontiers are probably the top team in the Japanese top American football league which I think is either semi-pro or all the players are "employees" who show up to the Fujitsu office once a year but otherwise full-time athletes, as has been tradition in Japanese pro sports for a long while. If he was at that university, he probably has decent enough high school credits/grades to be an international student, but it's gonna take either him getting the money to be a walk-on or somebody at a west coast G5 throwing a real gamble on a former sumo wrestler who'd be at best a sawed-off O- or D-lineman. pseudodragon posted:Yeah, NCAA or sumo is a pretty easy decision. If you don't make it in football at least you have a degree to fall back on. If you spend 4 years in sumo and don't make the top ranks, guys are basically dependent on the equivalent of boosters to hook them up with jobs. I don't think this guy was in a sumo heya at the time but in the 'sumo club' at a sports university, so also on track for a college degree, but still.
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Dabo got paaaaaaid No money for players etc
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Soul Glo posted:After the roller coaster of Mauer/Shrout/Guarantano/Harrison Bailey, I am so happy the Vols have Hendon Hooker and an apparently serviceable Joe Milton, with another inbound 5* in Iamaleava. Tayven Jackson is a 4* and apparently looking pretty good but I doubt he ever sees the field in any serviceable manner because of what you said Oh we also have Heath Shuler's kid, Navy
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Joey Freshwater posted:Tayven Jackson is a 4* and apparently looking pretty good but I doubt he ever sees the field in any serviceable manner because of what you said Yeah Shuler played last week, he went 0-1 for -18 yards lol
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Like it says, watch Robby Ashford That's beautiful! Stroud had a good one like that against ND, hand off to RB and then jumped out in front and made blocks. I can't find a video of it, might have to watch the recap and find it 
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Guess we'll see if Arizona is a real football team this week or if SDSU had just really fallen off. I had almost forgotten the home and home with Mississippi state that byrne had set up.
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downout posted:That's beautiful! Stroud had a good one like that against ND, hand off to RB and then jumped out in front and made blocks. here it is, timestamp like 4:13. Stround only gets a 5/10 on this effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TimnEbOz_zo&t=252s
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harperdc posted:for context, Fujitsu Frontiers are probably the top team in the Japanese top American football league which I think is either semi-pro or all the players are "employees" who show up to the Fujitsu office once a year but otherwise full-time athletes, as has been tradition in Japanese pro sports for a long while. If he was at that university, he probably has decent enough high school credits/grades to be an international student, but it's gonna take either him getting the money to be a walk-on or somebody at a west coast G5 throwing a real gamble on a former sumo wrestler who'd be at best a sawed-off O- or D-lineman. at just over 6' and just under 300lbs, I think his ultimate destination is going to be DT/NT where you can use that lower leverage well. It seems like he's trying to make the transition via not going state-side, so that's interesting. I bet he could walk-on somewhere fairly easily, though, if his grades are good enough to land an international scholarship.
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