Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Wait...they have the ball back. Game's not over yet. Go for 40!!
Wait...they have the ball back. Game's not over yet. Go for 40!!
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College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
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The Darkness
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
That win deserves an *
That win deserves an *
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
if it stays close you leave it in the voters hands to pick boise....
if it stays close you leave it in the voters hands to pick boise....
The Paragon of Virtue
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Because of an injury?
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That's ESPN's claim and I'm sticking to it.
That's ESPN's claim and I'm sticking to it.
The Darkness
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
I never said they didn't deserve to win based on the circumstances, just that the circumstances should be forever explained so those idiots in the SEC can't get all self-righteous and act like they totally dominate the football world.
I never said they didn't deserve to win based on the circumstances, just that the circumstances should be forever explained so those idiots in the SEC can't get all self-righteous and act like they totally dominate the football world.
The Paragon of Virtue
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
But Mark Ingram had to sit for part of the second half due to cramping! Let's put another asterisk on it for that!
But Mark Ingram had to sit for part of the second half due to cramping! Let's put another asterisk on it for that!
The Darkness
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
He sat for two series and was ineffective for the couple of series before that.
He never had to leave the sideline.
The Texas team had to watch the centerpiece of their team and their leader leave the field and not come back. I'm sure there's a reason the entire team started playing better when he got to the sideline.
It's a tainted victory, it just is.
He sat for two series and was ineffective for the couple of series before that.
He never had to leave the sideline.
The Texas team had to watch the centerpiece of their team and their leader leave the field and not come back. I'm sure there's a reason the entire team started playing better when he got to the sideline.
It's a tainted victory, it just is.
The Paragon of Virtue
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Is the Twins' 1987 World Series victory over the Cardinals tainted because Jack Clark, easily the best player on St. Louis, was injured and didn't play?
The Darkness
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Yes.
That's like me winning a fight with Muhammad Ali today.
Is the Twins' 1987 World Series victory over the Cardinals tainted because Jack Clark, easily the best player on St. Louis, was injured and didn't play?
Yes.
That's like me winning a fight with Muhammad Ali today.
Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
It's a team sport. If Texas builds their whole team around one guy, then that's a risk they chose, very deliberately, to take.
But if McCoy were playing, Bama might have called their plays slightly differently, too, no? There's just no way to win the what-if game - the only game you can win is the one that is actually played on the field.
It's a team sport. If Texas builds their whole team around one guy, then that's a risk they chose, very deliberately, to take.
BoomGoestheDynamite
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Despite the Texas comeback I never really felt like Bama was really in trouble. It seemed like the Tide simply stopped trying for most of the second half until they had to turn it on again. Overall this was a terrible game to watch and had to avoid falling asleep for the entire third quarter. Then again I find both fanbases insufferable, so this was a lose-lose from the get go.
Despite the Texas comeback I never really felt like Bama was really in trouble. It seemed like the Tide simply stopped trying for most of the second half until they had to turn it on again. Overall this was a terrible game to watch and had to avoid falling asleep for the entire third quarter. Then again I find both fanbases insufferable, so this was a lose-lose from the get go.
Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
All they did was win some fancy bowl trophy. Game suck members units from NMU though.
The Darkness
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
It's your quaterback, you kind of have to build your team around him. It's kind of like watching your hobey finalist goalie go down in the first minute of the Championship game, only to be replaced by a freshmen goalie who has only played sparingly. It sucks.
You can survive losing your starting center or a defensemen, but to see your goalie go down is going to have an extremely adverse effect on you team. Not only is going to effect the goalie position but now everybody has to adjust to the way the new goalie plays, not to mention the mental aspect of all of the rest of the players to watch the player go down.
Texas defense played great against bama the whole game not counting the garbage time at the end. That's why Bama's first possession ended in a 4&25, Texas had five sacks in the first half, and Bama's only in the first half came mainly off having great field position, because Gilbert couldn't move the ball, and of course off of that shovel pass that Gilbert messed up.
In the second half bama tried to run the ball like they did in the first and couldn't. When they tried to pass the ball McElroy couldn't find a open receiver and didn't have time to if he could.
With Colt McCoy playing, even if all that meant is Bama not crowding the line expecting runs and short passes the first half (which they got 99% of the time with Gilbert extremely over throwing receivers when he did throw it) it's a totally different game.
It's your quaterback, you kind of have to build your team around him. It's kind of like watching your hobey finalist goalie go down in the first minute of the Championship game, only to be replaced by a freshmen goalie who has only played sparingly. It sucks.
You can survive losing your starting center or a defensemen, but to see your goalie go down is going to have an extremely adverse effect on you team. Not only is going to effect the goalie position but now everybody has to adjust to the way the new goalie plays, not to mention the mental aspect of all of the rest of the players to watch the player go down.
Texas defense played great against bama the whole game not counting the garbage time at the end. That's why Bama's first possession ended in a 4&25, Texas had five sacks in the first half, and Bama's only in the first half came mainly off having great field position, because Gilbert couldn't move the ball, and of course off of that shovel pass that Gilbert messed up.
In the second half bama tried to run the ball like they did in the first and couldn't. When they tried to pass the ball McElroy couldn't find a open receiver and didn't have time to if he could.
With Colt McCoy playing, even if all that meant is Bama not crowding the line expecting runs and short passes the first half (which they got 99% of the time with Gilbert extremely over throwing receivers when he did throw it) it's a totally different game.
Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
QFT. on both counts.
Alabama's team is nowhere near as reliant on a single player. That's worth something. And while I'll never believe that Texas wasn't hurt dramatically by the loss of McCoy, I'll also never believe that it didn't have an effect on the way that Alabama played in the second half.
You just can't go back in time and change just one thing. The world doesn't work that way.
QFT. on both counts.
Alabama's team is nowhere near as reliant on a single player. That's worth something. And while I'll never believe that Texas wasn't hurt dramatically by the loss of McCoy, I'll also never believe that it didn't have an effect on the way that Alabama played in the second half.
You just can't go back in time and change just one thing. The world doesn't work that way.
Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
It does if you have a fancy, tricked-out, Delorean.
It does if you have a fancy, tricked-out, Delorean.
Kepler
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Or video review.
True Blue Fan
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Based on how Texas and Mccoy played against Nebraska, it is not a given that if he played the entire game last night Texas would have won. Granted he gives Texas the best shot to win, but there is no way anyone can state that the result would have been different had he not been injured.
No tainted victory, no asterix, just a National Championship for Alabama.
Based on how Texas and Mccoy played against Nebraska, it is not a given that if he played the entire game last night Texas would have won. Granted he gives Texas the best shot to win, but there is no way anyone can state that the result would have been different had he not been injured.
No tainted victory, no asterix, just a National Championship for Alabama.
unofan
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Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote
Your post deserves a FAIL tag.
Your post deserves a FAIL tag.
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