College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote

[bigmrg74]

Re: College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote

Or you make sure there is nothing called National Signing Day and you let Seniors sign during their entire senior seasons.

That would never happen. There's too much pressure by the big programs to sign those kids the first day its legal to do so. If it became legal for a kid to sign on August 1st, when they're just getting into 2-a-Days of their HS Senior season, then thats going to be National Signing Day. Those programs have way too much invested in most of those kids to wait much past that 24 hours to keep recuiting them.

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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Anybody watch the 30 for 30 film on "The U"?

Thoughts? I thought it was a pretty good documentary that told the story certainly like I've never seen it told before. I was born in '87 so I was obviously a little bit too young to understand most of what was going on but as much as I have hated Miami over the years, I really liked the film.

I'm not sure if the movie made me hate Miami more or respect them for just plain not caring what everyone else though about their actions. You have to give them credit, most of the time they backed up their actions on the field.

Were they a bit excessive? yeah most certainly. However, they still were out there having fun and being creative. I miss the days when the NFL wasn't the No Fun League so it was nice to see something like this again and sad at the same time that these touchdown dances will never be seen again. It was good TV whether you liked it or not.

Sporting events, movies, books, etc are always more appealing and entertaining when there is a villain. The U played this role perfectly and from that aspect I respect them and kind of wish they still existed today.

 

[Patman]

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Well, all it really does is eliminate the excuse of "Well, I need to go to catch up on the recruiting". If you push signing day back a month, once the BCS is done, you've got roughly 8 weeks to recruit and assemble a class.

Of course, this could screw up the early enrollees....

They will use that excuse anyhow... if you know you are out the door then there's no point in dragging it out over 4-5 weeks

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Anybody watch the 30 for 30 film on "The U"?

Thoughts?

I liked the film, but I grew up a Miami fan. I was 10 yrs old in 84. So I was just getting into watching all of the sports as they started their run of 5/8 Nat'l titles from 85-02.

It also helped that I absolutely hated Notre Dame and Florida State.

 

[Terrierbyassociation]

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I liked the film, but I grew up a Miami fan. I was 10 yrs old in 84. So I was just getting into watching all of the sports as they started their run of 5/8 Nat'l titles from 85-02.

It also helped that I absolutely hated Notre Dame and Florida State.

You definitely don't look anywhere close to your age.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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You definitely don't look anywhere close to your age.

At some point as I get older I hope that pays off with the college ladies

 

[Craig P.]

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Or you make sure there is nothing called National Signing Day and you let Seniors sign during their entire senior seasons.

i.e. you push National Signing Day to August.

National Signing Day isn't the ONLY day players are allowed to sign an NLI, it's just the FIRST day they're allowed to sign.

 

[Terrierbyassociation]

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And more coaches than not want the signing period to start earlier. They're sick of having kids be their commits all year long and then all of a sudden sign with someone else.

The earlier the period the longer a team has to figure how to replace a guy who defects last second.

 

[Slap Shot]

And more coaches than not want the signing period to start earlier. They're sick of having kids be their commits all year long and then all of a sudden sign with someone else.

The earlier the period the longer a team has to figure how to replace a guy who defects last second.

It's not like a player on the edge hasn't considered decommitting between the time he verbals and the time he signs and that it only becomes a serious thought after the signing. Therefore, the outcome of delaying the signing time could very well produce the opposite result, as in the longer they wait the more sure the player will be by the time he signs and you will see fewer decommits.

 

[unofan]

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And more coaches than not want the signing period to start earlier. They're sick of having kids be their commits all year long and then all of a sudden sign with someone else.

Yeah, I don't feel sorry for the coaches one bit. A lot of em make used car salesmen look genuine.

 

[pirate]

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I'm 'ok' with the period as it is...there is no perfect way to do it so I assume this way is the 'best' of the worst options.

I am ok with kids changing their minds, not ok with kids changing their minds and not telling the first school until signing day, not ok with schools offering 115% of their available scholarships figuring some won't qualify, not ok with schools revoking scholarships at last minute when too many do qualify (rare but it happens), and not ok with schools putting a big squeeze on somebody else's commits.

I think for every rule, there is somebody with a way around that rule, the only thing separating schools is the degree to which they go around the rules...nobody adheres completely. To wit, I suspect many schools don't have organized 'pride' teams of young bimbos willing to sell themselves to get football players to a school. Therefore they don't have to worry about guidelines for said bimbos. Any school with such a program has already taken a step in a direction I wouldn't allow as a school president...there is no way there is any intent other than the implicit offer of flesh for attendance, no matter what BS mission statement they develop.

Mind you, I'm ok with prostitution in Nevada...just not on college campuses where the university is doing the pimping.

 

[French Rage]

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Cal stole an RB recruit from USC. IIRC the last time a Cal football player was involve in theft it was when those two Cal players held up and robbed two members of their crew team.

 

[Terrierbyassociation]

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He was a three star and likely projected as a FB with the Trojans. Not a big loss. Good to know now rather than on Signing Day.

 

[bueller]

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Butch Jones to Cincy

If the money is right you can live in Brian Kelly's shadow forever. It's not like he's going to get credit for anything else unless he settles down somewhere.

 

[bigmrg74]

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Butch Jones to Cincy

If the money is right you can live in Brian Kelly's shadow forever. It's not like he's going to get credit for anything else unless he settles down somewhere.

You know, a while back I heard somebody joking that BK was going to go to ND, Jones was going to go to Cincy, Chuck Martin at GVSU was going to go to Central. I'm starting to worry that they might have actually known something we don't know now.

 

[bueller]

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You know, a while back I heard somebody joking that BK was going to go to ND, Jones was going to go to Cincy, Chuck Martin at GVSU was going to go to Central. I'm starting to worry that they might have actually known something we don't know now.

Was that me? I can't remember. But, I'm comfortable knowing Jones will never get respect as long as he piggy backs on BK's work.

 

[bigmrg74]

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Was that me? I can't remember. But, I'm comfortable knowing Jones will never get respect as long as he piggy backs on BK's work.

Might have been several others coming up with that joke as well I guess. Who knows. Right now it seems like Martin really wants to be BK's DC. He would be great at it, just as long as he doesn't get to run the offence, as he really doesn't get it. Who knows, Things will be shorted out soon enough in another week or 2.

 

[Hammer]

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It just means that Butch Jones is likely the next coach at Notre Dame.

 

[Kepler]

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It just means that Butch Jones is likely the next coach at Notre Dame.

Not necessarily, but it means the next CMU coach will definitely be the next Cincy coach.

 

[gregg729]

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It just means that Butch Jones is likely the next coach at Notre Dame.

BEST. SIG. EVER!! Too funny, man.....

Don't even really have anything about college football to say, either. (Hmmmm, guess I could mention I watched a 26 year old football game today - the 1983 Sugar Bowl where Penn State won its first title. )