http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2009/Michigan/cleats.htm
On a sad note, Stefanie Spielman the wife of ex-Buckeye Chris, lost her battle with cancer this evening. Prayers to all of her family for having to deal with this ugly disease.
Posted on 11/19/2009 12:40:47 AM PST by GOP_Raider
I had an all-day training seminar at work on Tuesday, so I had to reduce the number of games I featured this week by about 2 or 3. Monday night and Tuesdays are typically the day I spend writing the thread, so I was sort of pressed for time this week.
Wow, I never thought I would read the word “yawn” from a Buckeye when it comes to this rivalry. I guess that is probably bound to happen when you have had the mastery OSU has had in this rivalry recently.
LOL, that might be this thread’s version of “pick a number between 1 and 10”. For the record, I’ll go with 9.
That’s always a classic. I have to wonder if there are “mixed marrigaes” like that in the Midwest.
That does seem odd to me, although it probably seems odder now that each of them would have games against FIU and UT-Chattanooga before they play FSU and Auburn, respectively.
My wife is a Purdue grad; I'm an Indiana grad. It happens.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/uga-vii-dies-205602.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746
I was just thinking if its possible that the PAC10 might expand by say a couple of teams and maybe they might tae Boise State and one other school (maybe even Utah).
I cant resist. Will there be a 21 bone salute.
And don't forget Michigan spanked UF's butt that season in Lloyd Carr's last football game.
http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2009/Michigan/cleats.htm
On a sad note, Stefanie Spielman the wife of ex-Buckeye Chris, lost her battle with cancer this evening. Prayers to all of her family for having to deal with this ugly disease.
Oh. My. Gosh. I think I grew up with that couch in our den. Ick.
So GOP took 9, I’ll take 5
UTC 3
FI 2
BOOK IT DANO!!!!
This weekend I'll be pulling for Texas and Baylor (of course!), Alabama, and TCU. I've got two "little" boys from my church who play for the Frogs...the Brock Brothers. I swear they're the stinking Twin Towers; their dad is just as big. Gotta root for the church kiddies...even if Raider is still nursing wounds from last weekend (sorry about that!).
Good luck to your teams this weekend!
P.S. Speaking of third world African countries, I think there is something wrong with me that I never get tired of saying "Djibouti." It's not easy to work that word into conversation, but I make it happen, baby!
Exactly, so each time a Heisman winner was involved in a bowl game with Tebow playing, the Heisman winner lost. The Heisman Curse is real.
There’s a website to vote for C.J. Spiller from Clemson to win the Heisman Trophy. I know it’s a long shot but TCU fans are also voting for him. A big thank you goes out to some classy fans.
That topic gets discussed ad infinitum on the message boards and the comments section of the newspapers and TV stations around here. Here is the basic gist of how the conversation goes on that subject.
The PAC has a real thing about academics, and the more academic things your school can do, the more they like you. This doesn’t explain why they can still have a few of their member schools still in the league, but that might be another topic for another post. Scholarly achievement isn’t really a problem for the U of U, since we’ve got a renowned medical school, have several research programs for people who are into that sort of thing, and if you care about Nobel Prizes, one of the U’s professors won one a few years ago.
Now, this impresses the folks at places like Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Washington, and the LA schools, and this along with what we have athletically would probably make us an ideal fit for the Pac. The problem to some people is that you’d probably need a 12th team, and the conventional wisdom is that right now there really isn’t another team that could join along with us.
—byU won’t ever be considered for the Pac, and for a couple of reasons. I don’t think that a lot of the schools in that conference (basically the ones I mentioned above) don’t think that byU has the academic luster that they want to see. They’ve nearly had their accreditation stripped from them based on the lack of “academic freedom” at the Y, which is funny when you think about the fact that such a whine is probably lib-speak for “we can’t indoctrinate people here like we do pretty much everywhere else”. Couple that with the fact that a school like Berkeley won’t tolerate a private, religious school (and a private, religious Mormon school at that) into their little clique and I don’t think that they’ll have enough support to get into the Pac.
—Boise State won’t sniff the Pac for a very long time, if they ever do. BSU hasn’t even been a four year school for 50 years yet (they went from a two year college to a four year college back in 1968). There’s still that reputation BSU has of being a glorified ITT Tech with a good football program, and it may take longer for BSU to shake that stigma. Aside from that, BSU still doesn’t have the TV sets and eyeballs for the Pac to financially justify bringing them in. SLC has more as it’s a bigger television market, but even then I’m not sure it would be enough.
Some people like to pose the theory that the Pac would take Utah and pluck Colorado from the Big XII, therefore making the Pac a 12 team conference, but I’ll believe that when I see it. If nothing else, it is good message board and talk radio fodder.
Why thank you Blair, that was very nice of you to say. Considering I didn’t have as much time as I usually do to write the thread this week, I thought “oh, man this week’s thread is going to suck”. Sometimes the threads that I think are going to be terrible turn out great and the ones I feel great about don’t turn out well.
Speaking of PBR, there’s one bar here in town that actually sells PBR in 16 oz cans for $1. Seeing as how it is PBR and all, I think bars should be paying me to drink it, although that’s not exactly the career path my parents had envisioned for me back in my three year run of Geography Bee dominance, but I think I am able to serve a useful purpose.
(BTW, if you can find a way to mention that the chief export of Djibouti is natural gas, you’ll have fun for at least several hours.)
Considering Colt is 1 win away from becoming the winningest college football QB in history, I agree it should be Colt’s year to win the Heisman. If - still a big “if” at this point - Texas and Florida matchup in Pasadena for the title, well Texas won’t lay down like OU did last year. That would be a helluva game.
The evidence definitely supports the curse. I just have to wonder why, it is a strange thing.
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