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wandler20
Nov 13, 2002

How many Championships?
I'm ready to see these tonight:

https://twitter.com/FSUFootball/status/1568224052397088775?s=20&t=sSLK0jsWIimTO-56bgiGzw

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D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

Spacemonkey57 posted:

They haven’t even won a conference title since 1998.

Jerks robbed us of a cool K-State team in the natty.

Christe Eleison
Feb 1, 2010


oh dang those are clean

YOLOsubmarine
Oct 19, 2004

When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

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

regulargonzalez posted:

Counterpoint: they have not won a natty since before television was invented

That’s the best part. They have basically all of the advantages a school can have and are absolutely desperate for success and every year they faceplant hilariously. Like, they’re over here throwing a hundred million at Jimbo to lose to App State while Ed O stumbles dick first into a natty at the school down the road.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

D.N. Nation posted:

Jerks robbed us of a cool K-State team in the natty.

This was such a drama filled day too, they might have made it anyway but to be sure they needed Cade McNown and UCLA to lose, who were playing Miami on December 5th for some ungodly reason. Miami came up with the upset and as I remember watching it on TV it got announced in the stadium and everyone was going crazy...K State was up 27-12 in the fourth quarter.

...

And then fate happened.

LLCoolJD
Dec 8, 2007

Musk threatens the inorganic promotion of left-wing ideology that had been taking place on the platform

Block me for being an unironic DeSantis fan, too!
I don't know if this is a repost but regardless it is worth viewing these Cameo pranks on Brian Ferentz.

https://twitter.com/ILoveIowaBball/status/1569507773771304966

https://twitter.com/XAVlERNWANKPA/status/1569487409661857794

kayakyakr
Feb 16, 2004

Kayak is true
NCAA CFB Fantasy Football
Week 2 recap

The week 2 game of the week was The Paterno People (Komet) vs TreVeyon my wayward son (Piper). Piper had relatively even performances across the entire team, with standout scores from MSU RB Jalen Berger (52 pts) and ECU RB Keaton Mitchel (57 pts) for a total of 290 points. That wasn't enough to overcome Komet's 292.5 points. Komet's team had breakout performances from UTSA QB Frank Harris (72 pts), PSU RB Nick Singleton (63 pts) and AF RB Brad Roberts (59 pts).

2.5 points! Yikes. And they used different types of scoring to get there.

Only 3 unbeatens remain in just the 2nd week: Cristo Balls and ACL tears (Dilber), TAXES (of course), and Two Safeties One Field Goal (DC Murderverse)

Standings
pre:
Rk	Team					W-L-T	GB	FPts
1	Cristo Balls and ACL tears		4-0-0	0	1111.5
2	TAXES					4-0-0	0	1096
3	Two Safeties One Field Goal		4-0-0	0	1035.5
4	The Mailman Always Delivers		3-1-0	1	947
5	Mike Sherman's Alouettes		3-1-0	1	896
6	Shough it off				2-2-0	2	993
7	Fat Shirtless State Guys		2-2-0	2	899.5
8	The Paterno People			2-2-0	2	864
9	Beamer's Steamers			2-2-0	2	809
10	University of Phoenix			1-3-0	3	883.5
11	TreVeyon my wayward son			1-3-0	3	1062
12	EMOTIONAL BLITZING			1-3-0	3	886
13	Florida #1 Spreader Offense in the NCAA	1-3-0	3	576
14	Rich Rod's Rage Face			0-4-0	4	699.5
15	Phyllis From Mulga			0-4-0	4	677.5
Week 3 Preview

Week 3 features no teams with winning records playing each other which is pretty wild to me.

This is a big week for The Paterno People, who are currently 2-2 and face the 2-2 Fat Shirtless State Guys and 3-1 The Mailman Always Delivers.

TreVeyon my wayward son looks to break his streak of bad luck, but also faces the top scoring team in the league in Cristo Balls and ACL Tears.

Elsewhere across the league, folks are just trying to separate or differentiate themselves from the pack.

LeeMajors
Jan 20, 2005

I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!



If I weren’t contractually obligated to never say anything nice about FSU, I’d say those might be the cleanest all-whites I’ve seen outside of Austin.

regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU ;-* ;-* ;-* YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES :shepspends: :shepspends: :shepspends: ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:

LLCoolJD posted:

I don't know if this is a repost but regardless it is worth viewing these Cameo pranks on Brian Ferentz.

https://twitter.com/ILoveIowaBball/status/1569507773771304966

https://twitter.com/XAVlERNWANKPA/status/1569487409661857794

It's worth the repost because they're hilarious.

LLCoolJD
Dec 8, 2007

Musk threatens the inorganic promotion of left-wing ideology that had been taking place on the platform

Block me for being an unironic DeSantis fan, too!
This honestly surprised me, but I guess Bo Pelini helped frontload Nebraska's stats:

Judgy Fucker
Mar 24, 2006

Those recruiting states are so damning of Texas, good Lord

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Spacemonkey57 posted:

They haven’t even won a conference title since 1998.

Aggie also has a fake army and worships a false idol

LeeMajors
Jan 20, 2005

I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!


Does Aggie have the largest sense of entitlement with the fewest accomplishments in CFB? It not them, who is it?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

LLCoolJD posted:

This honestly surprised me, but I guess Bo Pelini helped frontload Nebraska's stats:


I don't think "we've been about as good as Texas the last 12 years" is as good a pitch as the person who made that graphic thinks it is.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

LeeMajors posted:

Does Aggie have the largest sense of entitlement with the fewest accomplishments in CFB? It not them, who is it?

I was going to say as in many other things Texas is their rival here, and 2005 was doing some really heavy lifting for that program. But the Mack Brown era other than 2005 was much better than I remembered off the top of my head.

Also Texas somehow went to the Rose Bowl in back to back years, which probably annoys some Big 10 fan somewhere.

Judgy Fucker
Mar 24, 2006

Grittybeard posted:

I was going to say as in many other things Texas is their rival here, and 2005 was doing some really heavy lifting for that program. But the Mack Brown era other than 2005 was much better than I remembered off the top of my head.

Also Texas somehow went to the Rose Bowl in back to back years, which probably annoys some Big 10 fan somewhere.

In the last 20 years (current) Big 12 teams have won the Rose Bowl as many times as Big 10 teams have

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

Does A&M still claim Big 12 conference titles for 97 and 2010?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Grittybeard posted:

I was going to say as in many other things Texas is their rival here, and 2005 was doing some really heavy lifting for that program. But the Mack Brown era other than 2005 was much better than I remembered off the top of my head.

Also Texas somehow went to the Rose Bowl in back to back years, which probably annoys some Big 10 fan somewhere.

That Rose Bowl the year before the title one ruled too. It gets overshadowed by the next year of course, but Dusty Mangum hitting the last-second FG to beat Michigan was an awesome finish to a great game.

YOLOsubmarine
Oct 19, 2004

When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

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

PostNouveau posted:

I don't think "we've been about as good as Texas the last 12 years" is as good a pitch as the person who made that graphic thinks it is.

Are you sure the point wasn’t just to laugh at how bad Texas is?

nate fisher
Mar 3, 2004

We've Got To Go Back

LeeMajors posted:

Does Aggie have the largest sense of entitlement with the fewest accomplishments in CFB? It not them, who is it?

I can’t think of another team. Honestly I paid zero thought to them before they came to the SEC and I’m still confused why they come across as so entitled. I even say this as a Tennessee fan. Even if I ignore the great history at Tennessee before I was born, at least they have won a BCSNC and several SEC championships in my lifetime. Still we do have our share of entitled pricks, but that is given when you won something before (see Bama before Saban). What am I missing about the Aggies?

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

LLCoolJD posted:

This honestly surprised me, but I guess Bo Pelini helped frontload Nebraska's stats:


What I'm getting from this is that Nebraska is BACK!

YOLOsubmarine
Oct 19, 2004

When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

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

nate fisher posted:

I can’t think of another team. Honestly I paid zero thought to them before they came to the SEC and I’m still confused why they come across as so entitled. I even say this as a Tennessee fan. Even if I ignore the great history at Tennessee before I was born, at least they have won a BCSNC and several SEC championships in my lifetime. Still we do have our share of entitled pricks, but that is given when you won something before (see Bama before Saban). What am I missing about the Aggies?

It’s a cult. They believe their lord Dog (not a typo) will reward them for their faith (believing that Texas is the greatest place on earth and College Station is the greatest place in Texas) and works (squeezing their balls, cumming in jars, abysmal comedy routines, sword fighting cheerleaders).

LeeMajors
Jan 20, 2005

I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!


nate fisher posted:

I can’t think of another team.

I had a thought about Michigan but they won a fuckton of games even if they have 0.5 titles in the last 80 or 90 years or whatever.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AS IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!

LeeMajors posted:

Does Aggie have the largest sense of entitlement with the fewest accomplishments in CFB? It not them, who is it?

You can play with the “how far back we going” limit and Notre Dame shows up

LLCoolJD
Dec 8, 2007

Musk threatens the inorganic promotion of left-wing ideology that had been taking place on the platform

Block me for being an unironic DeSantis fan, too!

LeeMajors posted:

I had a thought about Michigan but they won a fuckton of games even if they have 0.5 titles in the last 80 or 90 years or whatever.

Yeah, Michigan is up there. I think being Ohio State's big rival gives some Michigan fans a false sense of accomplishment.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Cthulu Carl posted:

What I'm getting from this is that Nebraska is BACK!

:hmmyes:

PBCrunch
Jun 17, 2002

Lawrence Phillips Always #1 to Me

Declan MacManus posted:

i think since the shine's allegedly off the apple that matt campbell would be the best pickup for nebraska; failing that, i think steve clinkscale from michigan or maybe even a left field choice like justin wilcox or jason candle could work there

failing that, maybe it's time to go back to the option. go get jeff monken
Wilcox looks way too much like Riley v2.0. Candle looks to be trending down (like Riley before he was brought to Lincoln). I don't think Nebraska is going to look at Clinkscale because the program needs someone with head coaching experience to instill consistency/culture. This is another reason I support BOB. He has attended the Saban School and presumably has seen how to run an organization, something the previous two administrations in Lincoln are alleged to have done poorly.

A way-too-large part of the Husker fanbase would love it if Monken was the new coach. I personally don't think that is a good move. Nebraska at its peak did things a little against the grain, but running triple option in the Big Ten in 2023 is a little too nuts.

Stuff that made Nebraska somewhat unique among elite programs in the past:
* Emphasis on offensive line play in promotional materials in the 80s and 90s (I seem to recall the media guide one year having "The Pipeline" offensive line players on the cover, invention/popularization of the "pancake" stat for knockdowns by offensive linemen)
* Recruiting and starting athletic QBs that could barely throw
* Recruiting receivers based primarily on speed and blocking ability
* Extremely tight integration of area high school play style with Osborne's system
* Being way ahead of the pack on strength and conditioning (and/or steroids)
* Accepting partial qualifiers
* Extremely robust academic support systems to get and keep those PQ players eligible while keeping the NCAA away
* Emphasis the walk-on program

Pretty much all of this stuff has been adopted by other programs or has just become too antiquated for today's version of college football. Example: option isn't really viable anymore at least in part because the physical toll on the starting QB is just too great in an era of hurry-up offenses (more plays per game, even if only the other team is playing fast) and ever-more-freakish defensive players. S&C is a big part of every major college football program in America (except Nebraska itself during the Mike Riley era). Receivers never really wanted to play in a no-block, no-rock (and maybe still no rock) regime, but they really won't put up with that poo poo today.

Spacemonkey57 posted:

Somehow none of those Nebraska losses include the 2016 Ohio State game that ended up 62-3. I was excited to see Ohio State play a good team at home because I’d only ever seen them play MAC teams or Indiana. Spending around $300 on that between ticket, Uber home afterwards, and beer was enough to put me off live sporting events for a long time.
Not included because I was trying to illustrate a point that Solich and Pelini deserved their firings more than most people think. Mike Riley was the coach for that debacle and his "legacy" has pretty much zero defenders.

Grittybeard posted:

Yeah, but firing him to hire the guy that the Raiders openly rebelled against and in the only time I can remember the press and fans were totally on the team's side while it was happening was certainly a choice though.

Charles Woodson was like 'gently caress this guy I am not playing for him' and Nebraska sees this and thinks, 'That's our man!'
Plenty of Husker fans did not believe in Callahan from the jump. He was like the tenth choice of the AD at the time. With that said there are plenty of disciplinarian type coaches that don't work out in the NFL but find success at the college level.

regulargonzalez posted:

Tom Osborne has been instrumental in the choice and/or hiring of 3 of our last 5 coaches. He has talents but coaching hires is not among them.
100% true. I'm pretty confident that Osborne gave (or would have given if asked) his blessing to hiring extreme dipshit Steve Pederson as athletic director in 2002 (Pedersen graduated from Nebraska and worked in the athletic department when Osborne was head coach). Osborne was also terrible at hiring basketball coaches.

Thermos H Christ posted:

TAMU is located in Texas, plays games in all the SEC states, cares about football as much as anyone, and has more money to throw around than any other school currently in the SEC. That’s a lot of advantages over Nebraska.
Counterpoint:

Spaced God
Feb 8, 2014

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!



https://twitter.com/DieselOnRadio/status/1570769563507363841?s=20&t=IDA093cCdirJNWdlpNAGaA

More coaches need Tom and Jerry on their staff imo

Jubs
Jul 11, 2006

Boy, I think it's about time I tell you the difference between a man and a woman. A woman isn't a woman unless she's pretty. And a man isn't a man unless he's ugly.

Grittybeard posted:

This was such a drama filled day too, they might have made it anyway but to be sure they needed Cade McNown and UCLA to lose, who were playing Miami on December 5th for some ungodly reason. Miami came up with the upset and as I remember watching it on TV it got announced in the stadium and everyone was going crazy...K State was up 27-12 in the fourth quarter.

...

And then fate happened.

The UCLA-Miami game got rescheduled because of Hurricane Georges.

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!
The MBAs have infected App State football. RIP.

Ches Neckbeard
Dec 3, 2005

You're all garbage, back up the truck BACK IT UP!

Rules.

Have TAMU players started saying they were actually high that whole game yet?

YOLOsubmarine
Oct 19, 2004

When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

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

PBCrunch posted:

A way-too-large part of the Husker fanbase would love it if Monken was the new coach. I personally don't think that is a good move. Nebraska at its peak did things a little against the grain, but running triple option in the Big Ten in 2023 is a little too nuts.

This sounds like a horrible culture fit and generally bad idea. Plenty of guys come through the Saban rehab program and turn out to be poo poo and BoB is mostly known for being a giant prick who won and then lost a battle for control of the Texans.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Whenever I hear about a coach using dumb symbolic object around the facilities I think of Jack Del Rio putting a stump and an axe in the locker room so his players would "keep chopping wood" and the punter almost immediately putting that axe into his own leg.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


PostNouveau posted:

Whenever I hear about a coach using dumb symbolic object around the facilities I think of Jack Del Rio putting a stump and an axe in the locker room so his players would "keep chopping wood" and the punter almost immediately putting that axe into his own leg.

Yep https://www.espn.com/blog/jacksonville-jaguars/post/_/id/27399/jaguars-infamous-ax-didnt-keep-chopping-but-its-still-around

quote:

The Jaguars were coming off three consecutive losing seasons, and owner Wayne Weaver had fired Tom Coughlin after the 2002 season and replaced him with Del Rio, a 12-year NFL linebacker who had been Carolina’s defensive coordinator for one season. He knew the Jaguars were in need of a bit of a rebuild and wanted to send a message of perseverance.

So he brought in the ax and an oak tree stump, put them in the middle of the locker room, and encouraged players to take a swing.

Many did.

Darius did, too. The day before Hanson’s accident, Darius took a swing -- and nearly split his own leg open.

“I have never swung an ax [until then],” Darius said. “It hit the wood and just barely missed my leg. It just barely missed me, and I was like, ‘Whoa!’

“I never touched that thing again.”

Based on what Hanson’s agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN that day, Hanson and the other specialists were in the locker room early, and Hanson decided to take a swing with the ax. The ax either bounced off the stump or went through a piece of it, and the blade buried itself in Hanson’s right leg.

Moments later, then-head athletic trainer Mike Ryan was interrupted in a meeting by an assistant with the news. When Ryan got to the locker room, he saw Hanson sitting on the ground in a pool of blood.

“If you feel your shin, the skin’s really tight. So when you slice it, it expands very quickly,” Ryan said. “When I looked at it, the whole front of the shin was just flayed wide open."


Said Hanson in 2004, "I'm glad that's behind me. Sure, there were times when I sat there and wondered why it happened. But I owe it to the doctors and the Jaguars for fixing me. It's behind me. It's something that happened that wasn't controllable and I'm happy it's over with now."

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

I'm going to Vegas today and betting KU to beat the spread against Houston so congrats on your blowout victory, Houston.

Judgy Fucker
Mar 24, 2006

kiimo posted:

I'm going to Vegas today and betting KU to beat the spread against Houston so congrats on your blowout victory, Houston.

That line looked appetizing to me, too. Too bad I’m not in Vegas

PBCrunch
Jun 17, 2002

Lawrence Phillips Always #1 to Me
Over/under on Nebraska vs Oklahoma is 66. Sounds kinda low to me. Nebraska's defense does not exist at the moment. Oklahoma could score 67 all on its own.

Nebraska's offense has been shockingly good for one with a brand-new OC, WR coach, RB coach, and OL coach and negligible contributions by existing players. The OL hasn't looked great but the two new running backs have performed beyond expectations and the QB has shown flashes of brilliance. The team lost its only competent offensive lineman as a second-round NFL pick and a returning starting guard to "banned substances." The two returning tackles are a guy that PFF graded last season as a zero and another guy that played in five games (two starts) of Division I football before tearing his ACL, MCL, and meniscus.

NU Passing:
Casey Thompson is the only guy to attempt a pass. New player (portal)

NU Rushing:
Anthony Grant. New player (juco)
Ajay Allen. New player (true freshman)
Logan Smothers. Existing player. Two gimmick play QB runs for 17 yards total
Casey Thompson
Trey Palmer. New player. A wide receiver from LSU (portal)
Jacquez Yant. Existing player (walk-on). Three attempts for five yards
Gabe Ervin. Last year's game one starter. One attempt for half a yard

NU Receiving:
Trey Palmer (18-231)
Marcus Washington. New player (portal) (10-181)
Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda. New player (portal) (4-120)
Allante Brown. Existing player (8-87)
Travis Vokolek. Existing player (via portal) (5-63... in the first half of the first game, then injured. His absence coincided with the collapse of NU's offense against Northwestern)
Brody Belt. Existing player (walk-on) (4-53)
Oliver Martin. Existing player (via portal) (2-36)
Nate Boerkircher. Existing player (walk-on) only playing because of Vokolek injury (2-32)
Omar Manning. Existing player (3-24)
Anthony Grant (2-16)
Wyatt Liewer. Existing player (walk-on) (1-13)
Ajay Allen (1-9)
Chancellor Brewington. Existing player (via portal) (What a loving name on that guy) (2-1)

God drat, that is a damning indictment of the development of the high school players brought in over the last few recruiting cycles. Total yards from non-true-freshman scholarship guys that came to Nebraska out of high school:
17+0.5+87+24 = 128 yards.

I am being generous by attributing the 87 yards and 24 yards receiving 100% to the receiver. Knock that down to 50% (the other half going to the QB of course) and the total yards contributions by non-frosh scholarship guys drops to 73 yards. Jesus Christ.

Defenders in the two-deep that weren't on campus last fall:
Ochaun Mathis (DE, TCU) (starter)
Tommi Hill (CB, Arizona State) (starter)
Ernest Hausman (LB, true frosh starting because of injury)
Devin Drew (DT, Texas Tech)
Stephon Wynn (DT, Alabama)
Omar Brown (S, Northern Iowa)

The current DC (Erik Chinander) runs a bend-don't-break scheme that absolutely depends on players knowing their assignments and the assignments of those around them. He only has a job right now because last season's defense was bailed out by a four-year starting CB that left as a second round draft pick and several other 23+ year old COVID super seniors that knew the defense inside and out from spending five years on campus learning it. Now the rotation is packed with much younger players and guys that have been learning the defense for all of spring and fall camp. Devin Drew has been on campus since August 9.

A dip in performance on defense was expected by anyone paying attention, but the actual drop has been breathtaking.

PBCrunch fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Sep 16, 2022

KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

PostNouveau posted:

Whenever I hear about a coach using dumb symbolic object around the facilities I think of Jack Del Rio putting a stump and an axe in the locker room so his players would "keep chopping wood" and the punter almost immediately putting that axe into his own leg.
That had to be the best or worst day of some insurance guy's life

downout
Jul 6, 2009

kiimo posted:

I'm going to Vegas today and betting KU to beat the spread against Houston so congrats on your blowout victory, Houston.

That's good and all, but don't forget iowa is just sitting out there too and supposedly expected to score 24 points!

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LeeMajors
Jan 20, 2005

I've gotta stop fantasizing about Lee Majors...
Ah, one more!


I’m choosing to believe this is CFB content

https://twitter.com/dril/status/157...ingawful.com%2F

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