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2012 D1 BCS thread
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jmh
win or lose, we booze
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
You'd think, but for the longest time, all the good players who wanted to stay "local" would go to Penn State or Maryland or Pitt or Syracuse or BC. And you couldn't blame them either; Rutgers had been bad for SO LONG (basically the whole '80s and '90s) that if you're Chris Simms or Neil O'Donnell or Tony Siragusa or Plaxico Burress or Ron Dayne, if you were serious about football as a career, Rutgers wasn't really an option. Schiano took over with the stated goal of recruiting the best local guys, but it was largely through recruiting contacts he'd made in Florida during his time at Miami that he started building the decent teams of 2003-05, and it wasn't until Brian Leonard and Ray Rice wound up at Rutgers instead of Syracuse that the tide started to turn on local guys. Even so, they still aren't getting the top guys, and you still can't really blame them for going to powers like Ohio State or Florida when you don't really know what the future will hold for Rutgers.
MountieBoyOz
Eater of Worlds
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Great post, jmh.
Syracuse used to dominate the mid 80s-late 90s because they recruit Florida. They would pick off all of the kids that couldn't make it a UF/The U/FSU. They'd get the kids in Cali that wouldn't make it on Pac 10 teams. The worst thing that happened to the program was when South Florida became a D1 program. That took the kids that would've went to Syracuse. If you have the option to play in sunny Tampa over the land of lake effect. You'll take USF 9 times out of 10.
Great post, jmh.
Syracuse used to dominate the mid 80s-late 90s because they recruit Florida. They would pick off all of the kids that couldn't make it a UF/The U/FSU. They'd get the kids in Cali that wouldn't make it on Pac 10 teams. The worst thing that happened to the program was when South Florida became a D1 program. That took the kids that would've went to Syracuse. If you have the option to play in sunny Tampa over the land of lake effect. You'll take USF 9 times out of 10.
Spartanforlife4
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
I'm surprised UCF wasn't able to do what USF did. They were in FBS level five years before USF and in the same conference for a few years. Not to mention they have a giant student enrollment.
Side note: Why is USF called USF? They're nowhere near the south of florida. If anything they should be UWF.
I'm surprised UCF wasn't able to do what USF did. They were in FBS level five years before USF and in the same conference for a few years. Not to mention they have a giant student enrollment.
Side note: Why is USF called USF? They're nowhere near the south of florida. If anything they should be UWF.
bronconick
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread - Be VERY careful or I'll go all Priceless on you.
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread - Be VERY careful or I'll go all Priceless on you.
Central Florida screwed up and joined the MAC, and crapped the bed in their 2-3 years there rather than dominate. That made USF more attractive in 2003-05 to the Big East than UCF, so UCF got to wait until next year to join the Big East.
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Central Florida screwed up and joined the MAC, and crapped the bed in their 2-3 years there rather than dominate. That made USF more attractive in 2003-05 to the Big East than UCF, so UCF got to wait until next year to join the Big East.
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Because there's already a UWF. In Pensecola. So unless they could get them to switch to say Florida Panhandle, they're kind of left with USF. Unless they want to work in something like Florida Gulfside perhaps.
ExileOnDaytonStreet
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Strictly speaking, UConn can't beat UConn.
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
There is already a Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Meyers, so Florida Gulfside would be confusing.
Regarding the name...if Wikipedia is to be believed, USF was the southernmost public university in Florida when it was named in 1957. It also states that other names considered were "Citrus State University," "Sunshine State University," "The University of the Western Hemisphere," and "The University of Florida at Temple Terrace".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_South_Florida
There is already a Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Meyers, so Florida Gulfside would be confusing.
Regarding the name...if Wikipedia is to be believed, USF was the southernmost public university in Florida when it was named in 1957. It also states that other names considered were "Citrus State University," "Sunshine State University," "The University of the Western Hemisphere," and "The University of Florida at Temple Terrace".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_South_Florida
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Well, there you have it. Notre Dame has dropped games with Michigan for 2015-2017, so there goes another of the hallmark college football matchups in recent decades. Not shocking, but it will be weird when there's no early season matchup between the two.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/notre-dame-exercises-option-drop-michigan-games-2015-154254110--ncaaf.html
Well, there you have it. Notre Dame has dropped games with Michigan for 2015-2017, so there goes another of the hallmark college football matchups in recent decades. Not shocking, but it will be weird when there's no early season matchup between the two.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/notre-dame-exercises-option-drop-michigan-games-2015-154254110--ncaaf.html
French Rage
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
I would have gone with Sunshine State University and offered a major in hugs and rainbows.
I would have gone with Sunshine State University and offered a major in hugs and rainbows.
Spartanforlife4
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Well if that was the case: Good choice, USF.
And I completely forgot about the MAC and UCF. Wasn't that about the time Marshall was still decent?
Well if that was the case: Good choice, USF.
And I completely forgot about the MAC and UCF. Wasn't that about the time Marshall was still decent?
bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Yeah. The MAC had finally caught up in football support in the last couple years before Marshall left for CUSA, where they no longer have that edge and win 4-6 games a year. Of course, as soon as Marshall left, the MAC stopped its momentum and went from having 3 10 wins teams in 2003 to crap for most of the 2000's.
Yeah. The MAC had finally caught up in football support in the last couple years before Marshall left for CUSA, where they no longer have that edge and win 4-6 games a year. Of course, as soon as Marshall left, the MAC stopped its momentum and went from having 3 10 wins teams in 2003 to crap for most of the 2000's.
Twitch Boy
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Well, we all knew this was coming eventually.
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bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
It blunted the rise of "Call me Maybe" marching band productions, so it's not a complete fail.
It blunted the rise of "Call me Maybe" marching band productions, so it's not a complete fail.
French Rage
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Well the Ohio one makes the Oregon one look like complete crap.
Well the Ohio one makes the Oregon one look like complete crap.
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Oregon did that on purpose, in keeping with their overall design concept for the look and feel of their football program.
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread - Be VERY careful or I'll go all Priceless on you.
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread - Be VERY careful or I'll go all Priceless on you.
This was a response the ESPN Big Ten blog mailbag that made me laugh:
Current Brian Bennett: On Sept. 27, you receive an email from a Minnesota fan wondering if beating Iowa would mean anything and if the team would have to wait until it played Northwestern in a possible battle of unbeatens to get a true measuring stick of its worth.
Past Brian Bennett: (Head explodes).
Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread - Be VERY careful or I'll go all Priceless on you.
This was a response the ESPN Big Ten blog mailbag that made me laugh:
Current Brian Bennett: On Sept. 27, you receive an email from a Minnesota fan wondering if beating Iowa would mean anything and if the team would have to wait until it played Northwestern in a possible battle of unbeatens to get a true measuring stick of its worth.
Past Brian Bennett: (Head explodes).
MavHockey14
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Re: 2012 D1 BCS thread
Free Floyd!
Free Floyd!
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