NCAA Football Offseason

MJ5150 · #1 01-13-2010, 02:41 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! HEHEHEHE!!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!

What a way to kick off the offseason Lane......yowsah!

-Mike

Grizzly700 · #2 01-13-2010, 03:02 PM

*facepalm*

Eublet · #3 01-20-2010, 09:44 PM

The hits just keep on coming. Seems to be much more activity this year than last. Lots of shakeups and strange stories coming out. I'm ready for signing day.

anyonefortennis · #4 01-20-2010, 09:51 PM

I think it's time to throw Boise State in a BCS conference (PAC-10 or Big XII North, the Big 10 can have Mizzou if they want them). Either that or make the MW and BCS conference.

Right now they are refusing a deal for 2015 with NU since Nebraska is offering the 2-and-1 deal for 600k they offer by their own rules to non BCS teams. Boise wants 1-and-1 and 1M (rightfully so). Looks like the games will not happen and the fans miss out.

GregC · #5 01-20-2010, 09:54 PM

I am SO ready for signing day! Florida's class is really great, and could be insanely great when all's said and done. Now I still don't know if the rankings are all they're cracked up to be--but the way they're talking about this group, it sounds phenomenal.

And on another note, please let this come to pass.

A plant by any other name...

Roddick A Knoxville attorney has filed paperwork seeking to rename a local waste water treatment plant in honor of Lane Kiffin.

Drew McElroy paid $262 and filed an application with the Knoxville City Council Public Properties and Facilities Naming Committee to rename the Kuwahee Wastewater Treatment Plant as the Lane Kiffin Sewage Center.

"It dawned on me -- Lane Kiffin told us that he hoped the fans would understand. I thought, 'Well, naming the wastewater plant for him would let him know, I think very clearly, we do understand,' " McElroy told WBIR-TV, a local NBC affiliate. "We want to memorialize his stay here, and I think this would be doing it appropriately."

According to WBIR, McElroy wrote that he wanted "to honor our recently departed head coach and raise awareness of the good work done by the Knoxville Utilities Board."

The committee hasn't set a date for its next meeting, but McElroy said he intends to follow through.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4840383

Pilgrim · #6 01-20-2010, 10:32 PM

I'm happy...or at least I think so.

Pete Carroll to the Seahawks, where I hope he does well...

Which gets him out of USC, where he has been too darn good...

Bringing Lane Kiffin to USC, where the rest of the PAC-10 will finally have a coach they can truly dislike, which was tough to do with Carroll who is a decent guy.

With any luck Kiffin won't do as well at USC, we can freely loathe him, and the conference will open up a bit!

Meanwhile, the rebuilding at my alma mater continues as we we recover from a 1-11 season.

BartmanPDX · #7 01-21-2010, 12:48 AM

FWIW, the new coach at Tennessee, Derek Dooley, was in my class in high school. We were both in the gifted program and thus were in a lot of classes together. He's smart (has a law degree), not a jerk (unlike most of the football jocks in H.S.), and a very driven person. If he gets some good assistant coaches he could revive the UT program to national prominence.

It's going to take him a while to clean up the recruiting mess left by Kiffin, but I think he'll be a great coach. Of course, he'll look pretty good by comparison to Kiffin though that's not saying much. He worked under Saban, who I don't care for personally but is one hell of a good coach.

My biggest problem is that now I will feel compelled to root for Tennessee (except when they play Georgia). It will be a while though before I stop cringing every time I hear "Rocky Top."

Eublet · #8 01-21-2010, 06:04 AM

I'm looking forward to the Senior Bowl right here in my home town. It's always a great chance to get in one more "college" game after everybody else is done. Lots of great players are going to be here, including Tebow. Go South!

Eublet · #9 04-19-2010, 12:47 PM

Spring games are happening everywhere. Roster's are being announced. Coaching changes, position shifts, and on and on. Who's ready for September? Anyone want to make any EARLY conference predictions? I don't know that I'm quite ready, but surely someone is brave enough!

By the way...Boise St. vs Virginia Tech on Sept. 6. How big will that be?!?!!!!

sloasdaylight · #10 04-19-2010, 01:31 PM

I don't really start following College ball until June/July, so I don't know how many players Boise has coming back, but I'm pulling for them almost as hard as I am my Gators. I've been a Boise State fan for the past like 5 years and watch them whenever they're on, so long as they're not competing against UF, and I really want them to do well and get some of the national recognition I feel they've earned in spades.

That being said I'm going to go ahead and say the SEC will retain it's dominance. I think U. Tenn will be a force to be reckoned with in the SEC again in 2-3 years or so, depending on this new coaches recruiting abilities. I'll be moderately surprised if USC pulls out an 8 win season now that Lol Kiffin is coaching there, but then again it is the PAC-10.

Who knows, it's a whole new season in a couple months, and it's wide open, so here's hoping for a good season.

anyonefortennis · #11 04-19-2010, 02:03 PM

Suh donated 2.6 mil to Nebraska this weekend during the Spring Game. 2 mil to the Athletic Dept and 600k for a scholarship to the College of Engineering. What a a great dude, best of luck to him on Thursday.

Grizzly700 · #12 04-19-2010, 02:09 PM

Saw the orange and white game, I'm guessing we go 5-7 this year. However, I was impressed by Tyler Bray, he will be dang good in a couple years.

MJ5150 · #13 07-02-2010, 06:13 PM

LOL at Damon Evans.

Police officer: "Sir, why do you have a pair of red ladies panties between your legs?"
Damon: "She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home."

-Mike

jp58 · #14 07-02-2010, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Pilgrim

I'm happy...or at least I think so.

Pete Carroll to the Seahawks, where I hope he does well...

Which gets him out of USC, where he has been too darn good...

Bringing Lane Kiffin to USC, where the rest of the PAC-10 will finally have a coach they can truly dislike, which was tough to do with Carroll who is a decent guy.

With any luck Kiffin won't do as well at USC, we can freely loathe him, and the conference will open up a bit!

Meanwhile, the rebuilding at my alma mater continues as we we recover from a 1-11 season.

I sincerely hope that you were joking about Carroll being a decent guy. With as many rule violations as USC has been involved in, and deserves to be hit with (not even counting Kiffin's), you would be had pressed to convince me that he is decent.

Agents and runners allowed in locker rooms and on sidelines, players given uncapped credit cards, several recruiting violations. And then he lied about it, and then changed his story to "I didn't know it was going on" and finally to "I didn't know it was against the rules."

FilterFunk · #15 07-02-2010, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jp58

I sincerely hope that you were joking about Carroll being a decent guy. With as many rule violations as USC has been involved in, and deserves to be hit with (not even counting Kiffin's), you would be had pressed to convince me that he is decent.

Agents and runners allowed in locker rooms and on sidelines, players given uncapped credit cards, several recruiting violations. And then he lied about it, and then changed his story to "I didn't know it was going on" and finally to "I didn't know it was against the rules."

Violations certainly occurred, but they were not nearly as widespread as it's being made out to be. I understand that USC got caught, but anybody who thinks that this is somehow terrible beyond the norm is being seriously naive. One thing's for sure: Major colleges are actually better off having several athletes run afoul of the law than they are having a few athletes commit NCAA infractions.

GregC · #16 07-02-2010, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MJ5150

LOL at Damon Evans.

Police officer: "Sir, why do you have a pair of red ladies panties between your legs?"
Damon: "She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home."

-Mike

Oh man, Mike. I love this story so much.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/inci...ed-563333.html

MJ5150 · #17 07-02-2010, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GregC

Oh man, Mike. I love this story so much.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/inci...ed-563333.html

Fo sho. This is great. Here are my favorite Damon quotes from the story....

"I apologize and don't want to use my influence but....."
"I am not trying to bribe you but....."
"I don't want you to use who I am but...."
"I am not trying to bribe you, but".....

At least the AD of an SEC school will look good on his resume when he goes looking for another job.

-Mike

Eublet · #18 07-03-2010, 08:39 AM

Come on guys. I used to have to hold girls panties for them all the time so I could get them home. This man deserves some credit here for looking after this poor, pantyless girl.

BartmanPDX · #19 07-03-2010, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MJ5150

Fo sho. This is great. Here are my favorite Damon quotes from the story....

"I apologize and don't want to use my influence but....."
"I am not trying to bribe you but....."
"I don't want you to use who I am but...."
"I am not trying to bribe you, but".....

At least the AD of an SEC school will look good on his resume when he goes looking for another job.

-Mike

LMAO!

I'm a lifelong Dawg fan, so I'm hating how this will hurt my team, but man -- what a mess! What an idiot!

I guess if you're going to go down in flames, you might as well go holding some chick's panties.

Hey, at least they were school colors.

Might not hurt us too bad for recruiting though . . .

Pilgrim · #20 07-03-2010, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jp58

I sincerely hope that you were joking about Carroll being a decent guy. With as many rule violations as USC has been involved in, and deserves to be hit with (not even counting Kiffin's), you would be had pressed to convince me that he is decent.

Agents and runners allowed in locker rooms and on sidelines, players given uncapped credit cards, several recruiting violations. And then he lied about it, and then changed his story to "I didn't know it was going on" and finally to "I didn't know it was against the rules."

I honestly believe Carroll didn't know about much of what was going on. The head coach does NOT follow individual players off the field - he has other things to do. He gets the blame, but more than he deserves. I haven't seen the stories about the "I didn't know it was against the rules". I've listened to an interview with an ex-coach I trust who knows the PAC-10, and I believe his assertion that the head coach learns about a lot of this stuff after it occurs.

But I do know that unlike Cal, during the past couple of seasons when WSU has been terrible, USC didn't run up the score when they could have. They even changed their offense to minimize the run-up. His decisions on the field were classy.

So we may disagree, but I'm not going to consider Carroll a bad guy.

And USC's bad luck is a great leveler for the rest of the conference during this transition period...not a bad thing unless you're a USC fan.