NCAA Football 2013 Off season discussion thread

[Jimbo]

True that would mean the OSU would have to make the game first

I'll take the bet of who's making it , Ohio State or South Carolina.

 

[Ronnie-]

Ohio State certainly has a much easier path to the tittle game that USC does that much is certain. I would not be surprised to see them sniffing it at years end.

 

[Derwin0]

Ohio State certainly has a much easier path to the tittle game that USC does that much is certain. I would not be surprised to see them sniffing it at years end.

And just like before they'll get slapped around by an SEC team. Rinse, Lather, Repeat...

 

[The Insider]

I'll take the bet of who's making it , Ohio State or South Carolina.

If it was between the two of who makes it Id bet OSU also. I mean look who they have to beat to get in compared to USC.

OSU probably has the easiest path to the title game of any contender this year. Its basically your game to miss.

 

[osu1991]

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[Jimbo]

And just like before they'll get slapped around by an SEC team. Rinse, Lather, Repeat...

Rather make it then NOT .

 

[Ronnie-]

Rather make it then NOT .

Then not what? Win?

I'd be happy to make it as well, and they should be proud of their success. Ohio state is a storied program, and one of the elite.

They do have an easy path this year however. If they don't make it again I'd be shocked. Then again, stranger things.....

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[Jimbo]

Then not what? Win?

I'd be happy to make it as well, and they should be proud of their success. Ohio state is a storied program, and one of the elite.

They do have an easy path this year however. If they don't make it again I'd be shocked. Then again, stranger things.....

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I would rather make it to the game then not make it to the game ...

I would rather WIN it too !!!

 

[Ronnie-]

I'm with ya. I tell you, I wish we could play the games in campus stadiums though. Can you imagine a national championship game in Bryant Denny? Or at the horseshoe?



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[Jimbo]

I'm with ya. I tell you, I wish we could play the games in campus stadiums though. Can you imagine a national championship game in Bryant Denny? Or at the horseshoe?



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That was discussed when they decided on this set up, but they decided against it, i guess

 

[Ronnie-]

Yep, and it is one aspect that I am not pleased with. The bowls still keep their hands in the pot with the new format.

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[dvrexpander]

But that was in the ACC. Boise St. had quite a few undefeated seasons, but that was in the WAC.

Sorry, but you're only as good as the people you play. And watching the SEC slap around the ACC at the end of the season (in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Wake/Vandy) every year is getting pretty old. God forbid Kentucky & Louisville ever move their game to the end of the season, then they'd probably go 5 for 5 that weekend. Well maybe not, it's still Kentucky (apologies to Ramy )

Clemson just beat LSU last year how is that smacking around when you exclude that fact? I mean every team can not win them all and the ACC teams have won some big games and some of which over the SEC. This is a different year, different players and different coaches in some respect - the out come could very well be different, we just do not know and can only speculate with the reserve we don't try to drive it into each others face with some sorta ACC hate directive.

 

[dvrexpander]

Yep, and it is one aspect that I am not pleased with. The bowls still keep their hands in the pot with the new format.

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Ohh that pot is full of cash, and that is why they are still involved.

 

[Derwin0]

Clemson just beat LSU last year how is that smacking around when you exclude that fact? I mean every team can not win them all and the ACC teams have won some big games and some of which over the SEC. This is a different year, different players and different coaches in some respect - the out come could very well be different, we just do not know and can only speculate with the reserve we don't try to drive it into each others face with some sorta ACC hate directive.

And South Carolina beat them the final week of the season to cemete the 4-0 SEC sweep of the ACC in rival weekend.

btw, Clempson beat VT, so really can't use that to shock the "strength" of the hokies. Better to look at the ACC teams you actually beat.

Sorry, as much as it pains me to say, being a GT grad, but the ACC is not a football powerhouse conference.

 

[dvrexpander]

And South Carolina beat them the final week of the season to cemete the 4-0 SEC sweep of the ACC in rival weekend.

btw, Clempson beat VT, so really can't use that to shock the "strength" of the hokies. Better to look at the ACC teams you actually beat.

Sorry, as much as it pains me to say, being a GT grad, but the ACC is not a football powerhouse conference.

I know Clemson did good last year, not saying anything to compare them against VT so what, again different year and different situations so different out comes. We all know you are a GT grad and we all know you say the ACC is not a football power house conf but I disagree based on how the teams have played but again different year, different players, different everything.

I pull for VT and I pull for the ACC in general, you really can't say anything else to change that so I don't know why you continue to play the "I'm a GT grad, ACC not a powerhouse conference etc etc" card.

 

[Derwin0]

if everything is new, then why do you keep bringing x number of 10 win seasons?

 

[Ronnie-]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...arterback-recruit-just-another-140740700.html

Texas football had it pretty good in its state for a number of years.
The other schools in the state of Texas were fine, but didn't stand out. They were in the same conference as the Longhorns, battling for the same recruits, and there was really no reason to go anywhere but Texas. It was Texas, that's the state's team, and the others were battling for second.
Texas A&M's move to the SEC may have totally changed the landscape. A school finally differentiated itself, in a major way. The commitment of top quarterback Kyle Allen is just another sign that the game might be changing in the Lone Star State.
Realignment was a pain for most college fans, who had to sit by while school presidents chased paychecks at the expense of everything in the sport, but the one move that made sense was Texas A&M to the SEC. The Aggies have a different pitch now. They can sit in a recruit's living room and ask if they want to come play in the greatest conference in college football. What is Texas going to counter with, a trip to Ames, Iowa?

It certainly appears to have been a great move for the Aggies.

 

[The Insider]

haha absolutely love that last line in the quote you posted

It was a good move for them, and it seems perfect timing. Without Johnny football (who accounted for some 80% of AnM offense last year) they would be lucky to be .500 in conference play. So Getting a like Johnny in place at the same time you move to the SEC was a huge move for them and will allow them to get top recruits from texas as they see AnM with success in the SEC.

If they were still in the Big12 they more than likely would of won the title last year, and maybe had a couple more years of success in the conference but when Johnny football left they would be like baylor without RG3.. Now in the SEC they are in a much stronger position to keep getting top tier players.

 

[Ronnie-]

I remember when some people (even me) saw this map and said that based on these stats that missouri did not belong in the SEC.




I guess we were wrong. So says the waffle house map.



Welcome Tigers!

 

[Ronnie-]

Gee, who is laughing now?

They're laughing at Notre Dame today. And at your neighborhood parish. And perhaps even at the Vatican.
The Southeastern Conference is chuckling.


So are the universities of Louisville and Cincinnati.
Bret Bielema, too.
And if you go back a bit, Boise State and the Little Sisters of the Poor are probably smiling as well.
Gordon Gee has announced his retirement as president at Ohio State, effective July 1. It's abrupt enough to make clear that this was a forced exit plan, not a desired one.
Maybe he finally ran out of bad-joke material. Or maybe the school's trustees finally ran out of patience with Bow Tie's ability to insult and offend.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...s-president-gordon-gee-retires-210441222.html