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College Football IV: The Hand over Fist Cash Grab Time, or Bowl Season for short.

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I'm still waiting for the Big XII-2 to extend invites to SMU, Houston or Rice to get the numbers back up. Plus, it would bring back an old SWC feel to things.
 
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Stanford's band has been banned from playing at halftime tonight

Updated 7:15 AM PST, Mon, Jan 3, 2011

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Fearing an en masse pants drop, or just wanting to protect their newest celeb athlete, LeBron James, from OJ Simpson-style mockery, the Orange Bowl administrators have decided to keep the bawdy Stanford Band from performing at halftime.

For more than 40 years the Stanford Marching Unit Team, or SMUT, has been providing scandal for the NCAA. For OJ, the band pulled out a white van covered in bloody handprints. Also in LA, they spoofed the USC alum who started Girls Gone Wild when their announcer said, "It takes a special kind of man to be wanted for sexual harassment, drug trafficking, tax evasion, prostitution, child abuse and disruptive flatulence."

Hilarity? It continues.

* During a game with Notre Dame the Band's show was entitled "The Irish, Why Must They Fight?" Using a crucifix as a baton got them banned from the campus.

* Oregon also banned them from performing. Not the University of Oregon ... the entire state. That was over the spotted owl environmentalists vs timber industry. (In fairness, the Cardinal mascot is The Tree, so what did they expect?)

* In 1970, in Arkansas, they dropped trousers, as a unit, at halftime.

Denying the Stanford Band a stage also denies Virginia Tech one. The Orange Bowl will only allow the teams' bands to perform in six-minute bursts before kickoff.

The Band's show is entitled "Recent Events in the Pro Sports World in Miami."

Whose talents could possibly be targeted, er, featured?
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Edit: Goddammit, Gruden doesn't know jack about college football. Why must I suffer this again?
 
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I want more Stanford Tree!
 
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bronconick said:
Stanford's band has been banned from playing at halftime tonight



Edit: Goddammit, Gruden doesn't know jack about college football. Why must I suffer this again?
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Sorry Tech, you've been <strike>one</strike> ten-upped.
 
Re: College Football IV: The Hand over Fist Cash Grab Time, or Bowl Season for short.

Yeah, we're tame compared to Stanford's antics. I've known that for awhile.

HPB: Controlled Chaos
SMUT: Pure Chaos
 
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Stanford's looking pretty good vs. Bowling Green so far.
 
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First Time said:
He wasn't suspended for drugs.
He was suspended for academics.
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Ok fine, then it is expected when you are already suspended for one thing getting caught with drugs will lead to this.
 
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Nice catch by the Stanford center. 9 yards deep in the end zone.
 
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WeWantMore said:
I was behind Maryland for getting rid of Friedgen-if they brought in a big name. Now that they've brought in Edsall, what's the point? Is he really going to fill that stadium better than Ralph did?
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Not really... he doesn't have a lot of charisma. Worse is that he'll probably boot a few players out just due to the change in culture he will demand. I don't know what it was like at Maryland but he's not going to deal with bad eggs. That being said, I don't think Maryland has the patience to work with edsall... he's been building up UConn consistently but he's not going to bring in recruits by force of personality.

There's a lot more I could say and this whole episode has gone wrong for Edsall. We'll see what happens. My verdict... Maryland fans won't have the patience to handle Edsall and if Edsall is that dumb then he's earned what he's going to get.
 
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At the risk of sounding like someone who is pro-BCS, I think there's something that ought to be cleared up. I'm actually kind of shocked that there are still so many people who don't get :

There is a very good reason why some conferences have an AQ and others do not. All four of the bowls in the BCS (Rose, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta) all had conference tie-ins before the BCS was created. It just so happens to be that the AQ conferences (Big Ten, Big Twelve, Pac Ten, ACC, SEC and Big East) all had agreements to send their champions to those bowl games. If the AQ conferences were going to give up on those arrangements (and the exposure, prestige and money that go along with it), they were going to want something else in return. Hence, the AQ.

It's that simple. It's not an issue of keeping the little man down, it's not a conspiracy against the TCUs and BSUs of the world. If anything, the current BCS system gives the mid-major schools more than the previous system did. Does BSU or Utah ever play in the Fiesta Bowl without the BCS? Does TCU ever play in the Rose Bowl without the BCS?
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
It's that simple. It's not an issue of keeping the little man down, it's not a conspiracy against the TCUs and BSUs of the world. If anything, the current BCS system gives the mid-major schools more than the previous system did. Does BSU or Utah ever play in the Fiesta Bowl without the BCS? Does TCU ever play in the Rose Bowl without the BCS?
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No but so what...the point of the BCS was to crown a champion which the old system didnt do and the fact is that only a team from a major conference can win it. TCU is undefeated and beat a Top 5 BCS school in the Rose Bowl and won't even get a share. And if they had 1 loss they never make a major bowl unlike the rest of the conferences. (look at BSU) Under the old system wouldnt TCU be playing in the Cotton Bowl...which used to have cache before the BCS crapped all over it?

Maybe in the beginning you were right, but nowadays it for ****ed sure is a cartel out to basically squeeze every dime out of the system and keep it for themselves. They dont even pretend to hide it (hell Jim Delaney flaunts it) and they want to make it even worse by trying to allow 3 teams from one conference in. (which Delaney openly lobbied for just a month ago) Christ a "smaller school" has to go undefeated to even have a shot now, imagine if the BCS has the right to take a third SEC team you dont think they will? Most years a 2 loss alabama or LSU will make it over an undefeated TCU if such a plan comes to fruition.

If the system was just supposed to bring a balance to the major bowls I would be with you because now non big conference schools have a shot, but the "C" stands for "Championship" the point was to have the "1 vs. 2" matchup and crown a National Champion. As it is, basically the "Champion" is just the best of the major colleges and the rest can eat sand. Any system that allows for a team to be undefeated (and not on probation) and not have a chance to play for the title is a botched system anyways, but when the big guys set the rules and they benefit the most from them than it is rigged.
 
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I think I could have thrown that touchdown pass. Holy crap VT's defense has been picked apart in the second half
 
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Silly VT....they thought they had a shot for a while there...
 
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Handyman said:
No but so what...the point of the BCS was to crown a champion which the old system didnt do and the fact is that only a team from a major conference can win it. TCU is undefeated and beat a Top 5 BCS school in the Rose Bowl and won't even get a share. And if they had 1 loss they never make a major bowl unlike the rest of the conferences. (look at BSU) Under the old system wouldnt TCU be playing in the Cotton Bowl...which used to have cache before the BCS crapped all over it?

Maybe in the beginning you were right, but nowadays it for ****ed sure is a cartel out to basically squeeze every dime out of the system and keep it for themselves. They dont even pretend to hide it (hell Jim Delaney flaunts it) and they want to make it even worse by trying to allow 3 teams from one conference in. (which Delaney openly lobbied for just a month ago) Christ a "smaller school" has to go undefeated to even have a shot now, imagine if the BCS has the right to take a third SEC team you dont think they will? Most years a 2 loss alabama or LSU will make it over an undefeated TCU if such a plan comes to fruition.

If the system was just supposed to bring a balance to the major bowls I would be with you because now non big conference schools have a shot, but the "C" stands for "Championship" the point was to have the "1 vs. 2" matchup and crown a National Champion. As it is, basically the "Champion" is just the best of the major colleges and the rest can eat sand. Any system that allows for a team to be undefeated (and not on probation) and not have a chance to play for the title is a botched system anyways, but when the big guys set the rules and they benefit the most from them than it is rigged.
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Great points. I love the tradition of the Bowl games. I would miss having a Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl game in place of a playoff. I also do enjoy how important every game is in the college season. Although the current system leaves undefeated teams out of the national championship.
 
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