NCAA Football 2012 - Week 13 - Page 13

Eublet · #**241** 12-06-2012, 11:28 AM

Speaking of Strong, Louisville AD Jurich was asked if Auburn contacted him about speaking to Strong. "Of course not." He was then asked if they contact Strong, "I'm not putting anything past them."

The hate is still strong (no pun intended) from Jet-Gate apparently.

GregC · #**242** 12-06-2012, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Eublet

Speaking of Strong, Louisville AD Jurich was asked if Auburn contacted him about speaking to Strong. "Of course not." He was then asked if they contact Strong, "I'm not putting anything past them."

The hate is still strong (no pun intended) from Jet-Gate apparently.

LOL! I'd forgotten about that one.

GregC · #**243** 12-06-2012, 12:12 PM

Badgers fans must be ecstatic about Alvarez coaching the team in the Rose Bowl. http://espn.go.com/college-football/...gers-rose-bowl

LAG · #**244** 12-06-2012, 05:40 PM

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Badgers fans must be ecstatic about Alvarez coaching the team in the Rose Bowl. http://espn.go.com/college-football/...gers-rose-bowl

No more Brent Bielema in Madtown.

It would be pure bliss for Badger fans to see Wisconsin win the granddaddy of them all again with Alvarez at the helm. My oh my. On Wisconsin!

Eublet · #**245** 12-07-2012, 10:08 AM

fisticuffs · #**246** 12-07-2012, 10:16 AM

Eublet · #**247** 12-08-2012, 03:37 PM

Wow! Tubbs goes to Cinci. Never would have seen that move coming, though I think it's a great move for him. He'll do well there and Cinci will be in the ACC very soon. He's a good coach and I'm sure living in Lubbock had to really suck.

Eublet · #**248** 12-08-2012, 03:43 PM

All Access, Butch Jones first day on the job at UT. Regardless of who you pull for, this kind of video should be very enjoyable if you love CFB. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-vHo...o4eZbA&index=1

Eublet · #**249** 12-08-2012, 09:49 PM

Congrats to Manziel on the Hesiman. Maybe I'm a homer in saying this, but Mark Ingram's acceptance speech is the best of the modern era if not top 5 of all time. He was so humble, overwhelmed, and gracious to have received it. You can feel the weight of the award in his speech. It's emotional just watching him accept it, even over guys like Tebow, much less the conceited and thankless winners like Cam. With Manziel's speech tonight, it almost felt like it was no big deal to him. Not conceited, but not humbled by it either. Oh well. No two people are alike.

Tractorr · #**250** 12-09-2012, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Eublet

Congrats to Manziel on the Hesiman. Maybe I'm a homer in saying this, but Mark Ingram's acceptance speech is the best of the modern era if not top 5 of all time. He was so humble, overwhelmed, and gracious to have received it. You can feel the weight of the award in his speech. It's emotional just watching him accept it, even over guys like Tebow, much less the conceited and thankless winners like Cam. With Manziel's speech tonight, it almost felt like it was no big deal to him. Not conceited, but not humbled by it either. Oh well. No two people are alike.

Congrats to Manziel, he had a crazy good season.

I still think it should have gone to Te'o. Without him ND would not be going to the NCG. Having a shot at the big one means a whole lot more to me than stats.

GregC · #**251** 12-09-2012, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Eublet

Congrats to Manziel on the Hesiman. Maybe I'm a homer in saying this, but Mark Ingram's acceptance speech is the best of the modern era if not top 5 of all time. He was so humble, overwhelmed, and gracious to have received it. You can feel the weight of the award in his speech. It's emotional just watching him accept it, even over guys like Tebow, much less the conceited and thankless winners like Cam. With Manziel's speech tonight, it almost felt like it was no big deal to him. Not conceited, but not humbled by it either. Oh well. No two people are alike.

I don't remember his speech, I may have missed it. Smells homerish.

He probably was emotional 'cause his dad (who I rooted for back in the day) was in the slammer.

I'm still pissed about '08 when Tebow got the most first place votes, but the Big 12 homers who voted him third behind Bradford and McCoy kept him from winning.

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Congrats to Manziel, he had a crazy good season.

I still think it should have gone to Te'o. Without him ND would not be going to the NCG. Having a shot at the big one means a whole lot more to me than stats.

I saw Manziel in person and not T'eo, so my perspective is a bit skewed, but I thought Manziel deserved it. T'eo is a great player and a great kid (with a very compelling story), but I'm not totally sure he was the best defensive player in the country.

MJ5150 · #**252** 12-09-2012, 10:16 PM

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I don't remember his speech, I may have missed it. Smells homerish......

Haha, seriously. Eublet is, in my eyes, becoming less and less of a football fan and more and more a University of Alabama football fan. It's probably always been that way, but it seems more obvious to me in the last year.

-Mike

Eublet · #**253** 12-10-2012, 05:13 AM

Ingram's speech itself wasn't so great in terms of the wording. It was his demeanor and emotion that made it so powerful. I remember the ESPN guys and former Heisman winners remarking on it after. It's on YouTube for anyone who cares to watch.

Eublet · #**254** 12-10-2012, 05:14 AM

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Haha, seriously. Eublet is, in my eyes, becoming less and less of a football fan and more and more a University of Alabama football fan. It's probably always been that way, but it seems more obvious to me in the last year.

-Mike

Really? Wow. I feel less like a homer every year still. Bama will always be number one though.

MJ5150 · #**255** 12-10-2012, 07:35 AM

Yeah really. I still like your posts and your take on college football. It's not an insult at all, please don't take it that way.

-Mike

Eublet · #**256** 12-10-2012, 07:48 AM

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Yeah really. I still like your posts and your take on college football. It's not an insult at all, please don't take it that way.

-Mike

None taken. Just doesn't feel that way to me, I think maybe because of the way I know I used to feel 20 years ago, getting ticked whenever someone said something negative about Bama, or hating everyone on our schedule. Maybe all this winning the last few years is just getting to me.

Eublet · #**257** 12-10-2012, 07:52 AM

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I'm still pissed about '08 when Tebow got the most first place votes, but the Big 12 homers who voted him third behind Bradford and McCoy kept him from winning.

Yeah, he deserved it then, but Bradford was a great QB himself.

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T'eo is a great player and a great kid (with a very compelling story), but I'm not totally sure he was the best defensive player in the country.

He's not even close to the best defensive player in the country IMO. Even his stats don't stand out. I was looking at some of the SEC stats for linebacker and there are several players who have more tackles, solos, tackles for loss, etc. I'm not dogging T'eo at all because I've watched him play, and he's a FANTASTIC player, but I honestly don't know where the Heisman thing came from. It's like someone weeks ago started talking about it, and then other people just grab it and run with it. There have been many defensive players over the last 10 years who deserved it more than T'eo, and IMHO it would have been an insult to give it to T'eo when those others were overlooked. It would be even more insulting to Manziel whose numbers are honestly just freakish on paper.

MJ5150 · #**258** 12-10-2012, 08:12 AM

Maybe we should identify a player for next years Heisman and start talking him up all over the internet to see if we can get him into consideration.

-Mike

Eublet · #**259** 12-10-2012, 09:24 AM

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Every school with a contender for the Heisman does exactly that. Going back to the 70's, Alabama perpetually had a player who's last name became his middle name and his new last name became "Heisman trophy candidate". That has simmered down some in recent years since they actually landed one, but early in this season there was talk of McCarron being a Heisman trophy candidate.

And in fairness, other schools do it too. But in the state of Alabama, for Auburn to have something, much less two of something that Alabama does not have just ate the Bama nation up inside.

Now on the other side of that coin, the Auburn nation is really jealous that we don't have a player's mom with man made cantaloupes comparable to AJ's mom's.

I don't know AJ's mom, but I know one of the other girls in those pictures that have been all over the internet.

Hey, did you or anyone else watch the 30 for 30 show on Bo Jackson this week? Such an incredible story on a remarkable athlete. I'm still mad that he didn't come to Bama. The Alabama assistant who told him he might not get to play for at least a couple of years in Tuscaloosa should have been fired on the spot!

Lonesomedave · #**260** 12-10-2012, 09:29 AM

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.....Hey, did you or anyone else watch the 30 for 30 show on Bo Jackson this week? Such an incredible story on a remarkable athlete. I'm still mad that he didn't come to Bama. The Alabama assistant who told him he might not get to play for at least a couple of years in Tuscaloosa should have been fired on the spot!

Bo Jackson was the most remarkable athlete since Jim Brown.

i hesitate to use the word "tragedy", since so many things happen in this world that are real tragedies,BUT....it is a crying shame that he, of all people, should have been injured like he was.

i bet if he hadn't been, we'd still be talking about all the records he set.