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The Greatest Sport Ever.

(Look at me, all starting a sports topic.)

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

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Go, Bucks! Ohio State has the best tailgates, ever. And that concludes my football knowledge.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

And Kristin, that's all you need to know.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Roll Tide!

It is, INDEED, the Greatest. I love the College ball. Down with the NFL and their shiny uniforms.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


Well, college basketball is the greatest sport ever. Just to let y'all know.

But look at mighty Maryland! 3-0! First in the ACC!

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


And UNC beat the CrimiNoles! Yay!

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


Oh, for real. The only time I'll ever cheer for UNC.

We were following the score at the office, and got the game on the radio (Thanks, Yahoo!) after they took a 20-9 lead. We went from "FSU will come back" to "Holy shit, they're going to win!"

I thought the Tar Heels announcers would have a coronary.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


Our Nittany Lions aren't doing so hot this year, and all Joe Pa needs is one more win to (I think) to tie Bear Bryant's record.

Okay, I've never actually seen a Penn State game. But I listen to people talk about them all the time. Does that count? I have a sweatshirt.

But,the number one all time most important rule of college football is: You Always Root for the Team Against the Huskers.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


You also must cheer for whoever is playing against Boise State. It's a law (that I made up.)

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Ahem. Have I mentioned that my alma mater has NO MORE FOOTBALL? Have I received the vast amounts of sympathy that should go with such deprivation? Not that Swarthmore football was in the hearts and minds of many before, but now there's not even hope. And y'all can root for your alma maters, or something close, all you want. Who will comfort me now? Penn State? I don't think so.

By the way, you should all read The Game of Life. 'Specially Mike.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


Who could hate Boise State? Don't they stink?

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


GO HEELS! GO HEELS! GO HEELS!

Can you tell I'm a UNC alumni?...And an idiot for choosing to not go to the game on Saturday (my parents have season tickets).

My kids got to see me screaming and jumping up & down in the living room though! I only hope it gives us GOOD confidence, not OVER confidence for the game against NC State this weekend.

I love football. I was in the marching band in high school and college, so went to every home game & a lot of away ones. I could watch football on TV all weekend if I had the time.

We don't always have the best team, but they're still MY team & I'll always pull for them! If they beat State this weekend on top of the win against FSU they can lose every other game this season & John Bunting will STILL have a job!

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


I actually watched a UTexas game (my alma mater) the other night, at a party, after catching myself flipping through the channels all day to keep up with the scores for A&M (my brother's alma mater) and such. And for some reason, I keep trying to follow Fresno. Maybe it's just all the "Cinderella Story" hype?

Am I turning into my ex-husband? Because I really can't explain this new curiosity.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


I got the student athletic pass so I can go to all the 'SC games (to the horror of my parents, who went to Stanford for grad school). And I think Utah is going to do much less sucky than usual, too. So I'm psyched.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001

Mike, you OK? This is the first time I've been able to get Web access since I heard about the tornadoes.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Yeah, I'm fine -- they didn't touch down where I live. But two people died in College Park and there's apparently a ton of damage, which I'll see firsthand Saturday when I go up there for the Maryland-West Virginia game.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001


*Shrugs* They've won their own bowl game for two years in a row, they aren't *THAT* bad.

I'm just mad that my Vandal boys from U of Idaho are playing them this weekend and since the Vandals suck more than BSU...

Ah, well. You get the idea.

Who needs ranked teams to cheer for when you've got local teams that get slaughtered by mediocre Pac-10 teams?

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001


But their field is blue, for crying out loud.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

THIS is one of the many reasons to cheer against them! They have a stupid field, they usually humiliate themselves with some retarded paint scheme on the hardwood when the NCAA national hoop tournament comes to town too.

(Note: They are actually ripping out that turf in a couple of years. 3/4 of the town of Boise is very upset. It boggles the mind.)

I'm just not a BSU fan.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001


Bumping this up to celebrate that...

Maryland is ranked! No. 25 in the country, baby!

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001


They're saying Northwestern might win the Big 10. Jigga what?

This Saturday's Ohio State-Northwestern game might be a tough one.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001


NW's actually won or shared the conference title in something like three of the last six seasons.

Of course, it's no Maryland.

HUGE week this week, against the hated Virginia Cavaliers.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001


Y'all, the Crimson Tide will break your heart. Where is our defense? On the love cruise with our special teams, I guess, because none of them seem to have made it to the game on Saturday.

Oh, and we only had about 17 turnovers, so, you know.

Lost by one point, people. To the Gamecocks. Need I say more? I think not. Poor MOC. I nearly kicked his ass black and blue during the game. I tend to have a violent streak when Alabama plays.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001


On the other hand, it must do your heart good to see that South Carolina, a ranked team, tore down the goalposts after the victory.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001

They only did that because we've beaten them every year for like, ten years - AS IT SHOULD BE.

I hate them.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001


Oh, is Northwestern not number one in the Big 10 anymore. HA! What a great fun, wild game. People get a lot crazier when it's dark out, that's fo' sure.

But the Horns lost the Red River Shootout. Sadness.

But you know, all I really have to say is, Go Bucks!

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001


I was at the A&M/Baylor game with my brother while my Horns were busy catching the ball on the TWO YARD LINE at the end of the game, then turning it over to OU.

Beer helped ease the pain. A little.

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001


You know how I said that all Penn State needed was to win one more game? Evidently, that exceeds the abilities of our team. Another loss this weekend.

Poor Joe Pa.

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001


On what planet is OU not now #1? That's all I want to know.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

On the planet where Maryland is now 5-0, which is a pretty good sign that we were all somehow transported from Earth to some distant galaxy one night in September when all of us were asleep.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Who is #1? Miami still or did they lost to Florida?

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Maryland is going to come crashing back to earth Thursday night, dont'cha know!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

We'll see. Our coach knows Tech pretty well. And the season really became a success Saturday, when we beat the crap out of the Cavaliers and sent them crying back to Charlottesville.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Maryland is going to come crashing back to earth Thursday night, dont'cha know!

Aw yeah. And MOC, if you can get a line on a ticket for my man, he will be your bitch, for real. He is salivating about that game.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001


Mighty big talk for a team that lost to Clemson at home. Clemson, meanwhile, lost to Virginia at home. And we all know what happened when Maryland played Virginia this past weekend.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

I'm sure GaTech will rise to the challenge.

Things are pretty exciting around here. Tickets are hard to come by, given the implications of this game. Not to mention that the Tech stadium holds less people than most Texas high school stadiums.

And there have been some rumored sightings of the ESPN Gameday guys around campus.

It's the showdown of the two teams with the lamest mascots. The turtles vs. the bees? Please. I thik both schools ned to up the ferocity of their mascots.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001


MOC, there is a BIG difference between a bee and a yellowjacket. I think. But really- fear the turtle? At least a yellowjacket can sting you.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

Hey, a terrapin could follow you around real slowly.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

Hee! Whenever I'm feeling low, I just say "Fear the Turtle" and collapse into giggles.

I think I should hide now before Mike sics a rabid terrapin on me.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001


Nittany Lions. Um, yeah. No, nobody here knows what a "Nittany" is either. Lion sounds real tough though.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

The late Swarthmore football team was the Garnet Tide.

You heard me.

Because opponents would be so frightened by a cascade of jewelry.

They used to be the Little Quakers, in deference to the Quakers of Penn. Which gave rise to the chant, "Fight, fight, fight for the inner light! Kill, Quakers, kill!"

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001


Hey, a terrapin could follow you around real slowly.

A Terrapin can also pick up the football when a Yellow Jacket carelessly leaves it on the ground in overtime, thus giving Maryland yet another victory. We're 6-0 now, you know. If the season ended now, we'd be the national champions, since we're the only bowl- eligible team right this second.

Also, Chris, the lamest mascot in the ACC wasn't playing last night. That's gotta be Wake Forest's honor. I mean, the Demon Deacons?

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2001


And I can't believe someone who follows a team called the "Buckeyes" is making fun of my team's mascot.

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2001

Oh, how cute, they let the little teams play on Thursday nights.

Okay, so what's a Buckeye, right? I don't know. But yelling Go Bucks! just sounds raunchy and loud. So there.

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2001


I thought the Buckeye was the Ohio state tree.

Anyway, I always wondered how the good Christian state of North Carolina felt when the Deamon Deacons played the Blue Devils. Or maybe they all rooted for the Tar Heels. What the $#*&^ is a Tar Heel?

BTW, Chris, my thoughts are with Allison and her family, especially her hated daddy.

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2001


Oh, how cute, they let the little teams play on Thursday nights.

Let this be a lesson to you all. You insult the Terps, and your team promptly goes out and loses to Wisconsin.

-- Anonymous, October 13, 2001


I know. Shut yo mouth.

-- Anonymous, October 13, 2001

I think I should hide now before Mike sics a rabid terrapin on me.

Hannah! Look out! It could be there to get you by July!

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001


I am only now able to discuss my deep searing pain at the outcome of the Texas-OU game. I know that Dawn also feels it. This was Texas' real shot at a national championship (I know, I know - that is partly due to the weakness of the second half of our season, but still - undefeated is undefeated) and we fucking blew it with a mediocre offense led (and I use the term loosely) by a pretty-boy QB who had way too many interceptions. And, yes, thank you - Vasher, wtf was going through your mind? I hate you.

At least we beat OSU and got back into the top 10 this week. But, we won't get a BCS bowl and we can't win the Big 12 unless OU loses twice in the next few weeks, which ain' gon' happen.

Texas fans are sad.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001


We know Mack Brown well from his UNC days, and while he's a fine coach and a matser recruiter, the truest statement about his is that he's good for one unexplicable loss per year.

And I like Phil Simms as much as the next football fan, but all Major Applewhite does is win football games, and he's glued to the bench.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001


I know, right??? And it's Mack Brown's fault. We should have let Chrs Simms go to a school that needed to replace a Peyton Manning or a Cade McNown. When Simms signed with Texas, supposedly it was because he would be the starter by his junior year, and Major agreed to that because he doesn't want to go into the NFL and Simms does. Last year's dual-QB deal was the dumbest thing I ever saw (uh, if it didn't work for the Dallas Cowboys why on earth would it work for Texas?) and just frustrated the team even more.

I will say this in public and believe it till my last breath: If Major had been the QB last week against OU, Texas would have won the game. He doesn't throw interceptions. He owns the pocket. And, his receivers all believe in him.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001


And there's the rub.

Talent-wise, Chris Simms is the better quarterback. No question. But so much of being quarterback is the intangibles ... the leadership and the ability to get your teammates to believe in you. Applewhite could go out there on a third-and-50 and say "I'm going to run a quarterback sneak and we'll get the first down" and the whole offense would believe that that's what was about to happen. From what I gather, Simms isn't there yet.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001


Will someone please explain the NYT whack ass computer poll to me? I mean, I agree with it's ranking OU number one, but it's all a mystery from there. I love the Runnin' Utes, but #20? Is there a bug in the program? I know they had a whole article explaining it today, but common sense tells me that poll ain't right.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

And I just typed it's for its. Y'all, shoot me now.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

I love the Seattle Times poll, run by two Washington grads, that coincidently had the Huskies No. 1. I'm assuming that's changed now that they lost to UCLA.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

Mike, you know I love you, right? I mean, I'll come up to DC and show you how much.

So, if things hypothetically were to get real ugly on another board in re: NCAA football, a board that I never go to because I am always MATH+1ing, whenever I have the chance...

...you would get my back, right?

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2001


PG, after an into like that I'd have your back on any topic on any board in the English-speaking world.

Assuming, of course, I wouldn't have to say nice things about UVA.

-- Anonymous, October 16, 2001


suh-weet! No, I promise, no nice things about UVA.

And, um, we'll get that other stuff worked out over e-mail. ;->

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2001


I'm so easily swayed ... damn your feminine wiles!

I don't know that I could say nice things about Florida State either, though.

For football fans ... general question. Who do you most want your team to beat each year?

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2001


...nice things about Florida State...

Mike, I think that's an oxymoron.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2001


Y'all, Ohio State might suck ass this year, and Bellisari might be a drunk driver, but goddamn do the Buck fans know how to party. (Which, actually, might've been Steve's problem. . . .)

We were blessed with amazing weather and good spirits for the last home game of 2001. Too bad we weren't blessed with a win.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001


You can't be getting behind the wheel if you're going to blow a .22, is all I'm saying.

I'm desperately crunching numbers to see if I can afford a trip to the Orange Bowl, since Maryland's officially the ACC champs and will probably go there. Or maybe the Sugar.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001


Is it really true that a UGA fan who forgot his camera was responsible for the Hartsfield shutdown?

Pardon me while I laugh. And laugh. And laugh laugh laugh.

And prepare my whisky clear for the weekend.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001


Hey, nobody said SEC fans were the sharpest knifes in the drawer.


(ducking to avoid the firestorm when Allison checks this thread).

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001


ACC Rulz!

Hey Mike, what's your pick for the Egg Bowl?

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001


Berman, please don't make me mad now after I've been rooting for your Terps for an entire season.

And may I just say, with all the conviction my bedraggled and diseased body can muster, ROLL. DAMN. TIDE.

We may be 6-4 or something awful like that, but we won the game that mattered this year - AND WON IT SOUNDLY. I got so tired of doing the touchdown dance, I had to take a break.

As for the 'dawgs fan who shut down Hartsfield, all I can do is laugh and nod my head with understanding. Georgia fans. I've known a few.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001


Mississippi State, even though they've packed it in already, because they can salvage their season by beating the Rebels.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Al, my dad hated UGA so much that he graduated a year early. In 1969.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Can I moan and wail about the injustice of it all? About how in two days Texas is going to be 10 and 1 and relegated to the crappy GalleryFurniture.Com bowl?

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

We are planning a family trip over the Christmas holidays. We were going skiing, but now my dad wants to wait and check the bowl schedule. I'm worried, though, that because my family has already been to the Liberty Bowl, they won't want to go.

Fight ON, though.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001


Can I moan and wail about the injustice of it all? About how in two days Texas is going to be 10 and 1 and relegated to the crappy GalleryFurniture.Com bowl?

Beat Oklahoma next year, and it won't be a problem.

Besides, isn't Texas going Cotton?

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001


Beat Oklahoma next year, and it won't be a problem.

Um....yeaaaaaaaah.

Mike, I'm breaking up with you. Our football love affair is OVAH.

Y'all, I have become an Oklahoma State Cowboys fan for the week. If you know what's good and right in this world, you would too.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001


Hey, my alma mater made a BCS bowl!

I'll probably never be able to say that again, but still...

Man, I hope we don't draw Florida. They'd kill us. Of course, they'd kill Texas too.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001


Wait. How many BCS bowls are there? The Rose Bowl is the big daddy though, right?

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001

HB, there are four majors, and yes, the Rose Bowl is the Big Daddy this year.

Mike, what? What??? Why do you have to go there? This is why I dumped you. You are mean and hateful. We could too beat Florida.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001


Oh, PG! Don't be breaking my heart over a silly football game.

I just think Florida's the best team in college football right now. And they'd beat Texas, because Mack Brown is your coach.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001


PG, Mike will turn on you like that.

People, I have never understood the mania over bowl games. If it ain't the big one, who cares? This is Alabama logic, I know. Not that we have a snowball's chance of seeing the big one, or any other one, for a long time.

And Mike, how could you say anything positive about Florida when they are the devil's team? I mean, the actual devil roots for them. Lord, I hate Florida with an undying passion. Spurrier and his hat... seeing that is enough to give me a rash.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001


Hey, I hate Florida. Let me say that clearer: I Hate Florida. I hope they go 0-11 every year. But they match up great with Maryland, so I fear them.

As for bowl games ... I agree with y'all. Maryland hasn't been in a bowl game in 11 years, so any game would be big news in College Park, but for a lot of teams the attendence depends on where and when the game is. For the ACC, that's why the Peach is more popular than the Gator, even though the Gator technically has more prestige -- because where would you rather go for New Year's, Atlanta or Jacksonville?

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001


but for a lot of teams the attendence [sic] depends on where and when the game is...

It was explained to me last night that this is why Texas might get a Sugar Bowl bid... because regardless of rankings, or BCS bullshit, Oklahoma fans simply do not travel, even for big games. Cornhuskers travel, so do K-State fans. But OU fans haven't even made a dent in Big 12 Championship ticket sales, even though they are a done deal, and the Cotton Bowl is driving distance.

In fact, don't quote me but I'm pretty sure that when we went to the Sugar Bowl in 1996, the Superdome sold out. 'course, as my ex-boyfriend Mike pointed out, how hard is it to turn down New Orleans for New Years'?

I am keeping my fingers crossed that ye BCS gods smile down upon us on December 1.

-- Anonymous, November 22, 2001


The rumblings are that the Sugar Bowl really wants a Texas-Tennessee game, but that will be hard to pull off -- I don't see how they can take Tennessee as an at-large team if Florida beats them. You might wind up with Texas-Florida in the Sugar -- and all I'm saying is you might not like that matchup when you get it. But if Oklahoma beats Nebraska in the rematch, both the Sooners and Huskers will take the BCS slots and the Longhorns would be SOL.

That would leave Maryland and either the Big Ten champ or an at- large -- probably an at-large, unless the Fiesta takes BYU -- in the Orange.

-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001


Go Bucks! They beat Michigan!

-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001

Yay Bucks!

And, YAY OKLAHOMA STATE!!! who just beat #4 OU, thereby sending Texas to the Big 12 Championship next week!

My boys are back in the game!
If we beat Colorado in the Big 12, we could go the Rose Bowl!

Hook 'Em Horns!

(sorry, yall - we're a just a little excited down here in Austin - gotta go get my drink on)

-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001

And Nebraska lost as well, right? That's also gotta be good.

-- Anonymous, November 24, 2001

It is good. Since Nebraska lost, Colorado is the champ of the Big 12 North division. And since Oklahoma lost, Texas is the champ of the Big 12 South.

So, next week we play Colorado to see who wins the conference and gets to represent the Big 12 in the BCS. I'd rather play CU than NU - because even though CU just played crazy-good yesterday, and have a grudge against us since we beat them earlier this season, Nebraska is the overall better team. Our odds are better against Colorado.

Although, I figured tonight there is no way we can go to the Rose Bowl... sadness.

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001


I just figured out that Maryland is still mathmatically in the Rose Bowl race. Hear me out.

Nebraska is the clubhouse leader -- the highest-ranked team whose season is over. Maryland is second.

If: Miami loses to Va. Tech
The Florida-Tennessee winner goes on to lose the SEC championship game.
Texas loses to Colorado.
Oregon loses to Oregon State.
BYU loses one of its last two games.

Maryland would, possibly, maybe, be the No. 2 team in the country. They probably wouldn't be the second team in the BCS, because Miami (and maybe even a few others) would be ahead of us, but if the poll voters drop some teams pretty far in the standings...

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001


I'm still in shock over the OSU/Michigan win. Even if we did let them come back 20 points in the second half, we still won. A Michigan win is better than ANY BCS bid, ever.

And now, as icing, we'll probably go to a New Year Day's bowl.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001


While I relish the idea of any ACC team going to the Rose Bowl (besides Fa State, of course)I can't support Maryland if they need Texas to lose to get there.

That just isn't right. In several ways.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001


damn.

I have heard many tales... about who he is, about why he is cool, about what makes the Meat of Cheese really the Meat of Cheese.

but, now.... Now I know. Now I feel the love in my heart, burning like the indigestion of a game day corn dog, warming me like the sun on my face at an 11:00 kickoff, surrounding me like 50,000 angry Aggie fans.

I love the MOC. With a platonic football love, but still a love.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001


You all right PG? Staying away from sharp objects?

Colorado's finishing the season better than anyone in the country. If college football had a playoff system, they'd have as good a chance as anyone to finish as national champs.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


But in good news, Florida lost, right?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

Good news, because it knocks Steve "Douchebag" Spurrier out of the Rose Bowl.

Bad because now they'll probably play us in the Orange Bowl, and Maryland matches up very poorly with the Gators.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


Oh my god, that call against Texas was BULLSHIT. Or, to be specific, Buffalo shit, because I won't defame Bevo in such a profane manner. He was trying to catch the ball. 15 yard penalty, my ass.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

Yeah, but it all comes down to a simple math equation ...

Mack Brown + Chris Simms + big games == Lots of INTs + Loss.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


T, which bullshit call would you specifically mean? I couldn't really see the TV for this strange wetness leaking out of my eyes during the second half.

Okay, not really. But still.

Mike, I agree with you. You are still Dumped as my Football Boyfriend, but I agree with you. And, I blame this on two things:

1) Why in the name of all that is good and holy didn't they red-shirt Simms?? That's what I need to know.

2) Whether they had (or hadn't) red-shirted him, I blame all of this on the dumb-ass tandem quarterback thing Mack pulled last year.

If it didn't fucking work for the Dallas Cowboys, why would it work for Mack Brown?

Okay. I'm taking deep breaths. And, I'm rooting for Nebraska to go the Rose Bowl, and for the Terrapins to beat the hell out of whomever they play.

And Gary Barnett (who sold his soul to the devil around the first of November) can join Steve Spurrier, who we've decided beats his wife (doesn't he look like he beats his wife?) and Bobby "Take 'Em Out at the Knees, Boys" Bowden in the Coaches I Love to Despise Club.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


Has the tandem QB thing worked anywhere? At any time?

No. Being a quarterback isn't like being a wide receiver. You can't rotate guys in there. There can be only one boss of the huddle, and that's the starting QB. Having two just makes a mess of things.

I've never understood why coaches do that.

I was really hoping Applewhite would complete the comeback just to prove he should have been starting all along. I hope he gets drafted and surprises people by becoming a star in the NFL. That would crack my ass up.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


Didn't work at Alabama, either.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

I've heard Applewhite has already accepted a position as a graduate assistant on the offensive coaching staff if he doesn't go into the NFL. But I know guys here who say ain' no way he's not getting drafted.

I believe he could have pulled it off had it not been for that personal foul on the attempted block on CU's kicker. And it would have been the story of the year. The headline in Sunday's Statesman read "Too Little, Too Late," and truer words were never spoken. Applewhite just didn't get enough time.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


I would be pretty surprised if he wasn't drafted, and I think he'll make someone's team next year as a third quarterback. I don't know if he'll be there long -- it'll depend on where he winds up and what kind of a chance the team gives him -- but I think he's done enough to get a look.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

Mike, I am not trying to re-generate a smackdown here.

I'm just sad. Why do you hate Mack Brown so much? Texas is a good team, a better team than we were under John Mackovic. If Mack Brown got too much better, we'd be the best team in the country. We were #3 in the country last week before the Big 12, and I don't care who you are or who you root for, that's not a disgraceful place to be at any time during the season -- and especially not at the end.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001


We got to see him for a few years at North Carolina, and my general views have not changed.

My .02 is that Texas had a coach, in John Mackovic, who was great in big games (he won, what, two Big 12 championships as big underdogs) but had problems getting his team to that plateau.

Now they have his opposite -- a great coach for the little games but terrible in the big ones. North Carolina dominated most of the ACC (admittedly not the strongest league), but was 0-for-ever against Florida State, and thus spent about four straight years at the Gator Bowl. Now, at Texas, he played two teams in the top 10 this year, right? And he went 0-for-2, including a loss to Colorado -- a team on a roll, but not as talented as the Longhorns.

I mean, y'all had a shot at the Rose Bowl entering the final game, and on one hand that's all you can ask for. On the other, at least Mackovic got y'all into the BCS a couple of times. Who knows if Brown will do the same?

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001


Wait. How can Nebraska go to the Rose Bowl when they got their asses kicked by Colorado? Is it because TN lost to LSU? This is confusing.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001

Nebraska is going because they had a better "strength of schedule" rating in the BCS formula. This apparently happened because of the outcome of the TCU/Southern Mississippi game last friday.

I hate the BCS. It clearly does not achieve the same results as a playoff ystem, as I have heard someone on ESPN state. If it did, it would take into account the fact that Colorado is very hot right now and if they were involved ia playoff system, would probably be going to the Rose Bowl.

And did anyone hear any of Mr Heisman trophy Winner's interviews? Could someone be more full of himself?

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001


I saw one where the interviewer asked him if was any sweeter since he was basically writtin off after the CU game and he was like, "of course blah blah" but you could tell he really wanted to say "Hell yeah and fuck ALL y'all."

So it's Miami and Nebraska in the Rose Bowl and OR/CO in the Fiesta. And Michigan gets to play Tennesee and OSU plays SC? (Even though I'm sure some are happy about that as the Bucks can redeem themselves from last year's debacle.)

I don't know anything about anything but I know that's crap.

Are Texas or Maryland going anywhere? Didn't UT get like, the Holiday Bowl or some nonsense?

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001


You know, I thought that sportsmanship had a little to do with winning the Heisman Trophy, and this guy seems like a big prick.

Didn't he thank his wife, his babymamma, his parents, his mother's husband, the other guys who were competing for the Heisman - all those folks - without a single mention of a coach or teammate? Get thee to the NFL, already, jerk.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001


Are Texas or Maryland going anywhere? Didn't UT get like, the Holiday Bowl or some nonsense?

Maryland is going to a BCS bowl. Texas is going to the Holiday Bowl.

yay....Mike...

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001


Maryland is Orange-Bowl bound. We'll play Florida, and if the game is determined by the amount of God-fearing Americans cheering against Steve Spurrier, we'll win by 40. Otherwise we're probably in trouble.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001

George O'Leary......what the hell happened there?

Did he really get fired for falsifying his resume or is it something else? Because, while falsifying the resume is bad, what would have led Notre Dame officials to check that information? Is that standard practice?

On another note, I had a chance to talk to some high up officials at Georgia Tech, on the academic side not the football side, and apparently they are glad to be rid of O'Leary. He was a real jerk. He would ask these folks to admit students who were clearly not qualified to attend college at all, let alone Tech, and then would get angry and foul mouthed when he didn't get what he wanted.

That might help explain that 33% graduation rate of Tech football players.

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2001


MOC, did you see the ESPN.com column (I think) that came out just before Leary resigned, alleging that he'd deliberately had a player hurt who disagreed with him? I have a suspicion that ND realized fairly quickly that they had a grade-A asshole on their hands, and the bio falsification is a convenient excuse.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 2001

So who plays on the 1st? Besides the Bucks and Cocks, of course.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 2001

Apparently the accusations of resume pattern started with an article in a New Hampshire newspaper, so Notre Dame didn't initiate the search. And then they refused to accept his resume twice before finally accepting it.

It seems that the player abuse incident didn't have an effect, at least officially, on Notre Dame's decision, although it probably should have.

On a tangent, what about the Cleveland debacle? While the NFL is circling the wagons and saying that the officials made the right call, I find it disgusting what the fans did. I find it even more disturbing that the Browns president found nothing inherently wrong with the fans throwing potentially dangerous projectiles at officials and players.

I guess that is what happens when you live it Ohio. (hehe!)

-- Anonymous, December 17, 2001


You shut-up Jersey cheese.

That's what happens when you're a BROWNS fan. I think they're 2nd to only the Raiders in terms of pyscho, violent fans.

-- Anonymous, December 17, 2001


George O'Leary......what the hell happened there? Did he really get fired for falsifying his resume or is it something else? Because, while falsifying the resume is bad, what would have led Notre Dame officials to check that information? Is that standard practice?

I'm guessing someone tipped them off, because really, who cares about the resume padding? Did they hire O'Leary because he lettered at New Hampshire, or because he won lots of games at Ga. Tech?

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001


I think it was actually because they couldn't get any of their first choices, and he has an Irish surname.

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Anyone get the number of that truck in the orange helmet?

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2002

Y'all, Nebraska is getting spanked. Spanked! Is UMiami an NFL team and no one knows or what? Dayum.

Poor Ohio State. They battled their way back only to lose by a field goal. A field goal! I'm bitter.

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2002


Not a very good bowl season for the Big 12 OR the Big 10.

How did the rest of y'all's teams do?

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2002


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