Dear Virginia Tech,
by kipling iffer on Sep 7, 2010 12:22 AM CDT
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Sometimes you eat the cupcake, sometimes the cupcake eats you.
Sincerely,
Ole Miss
PS - the timing of tonight's Admiral Ackbar commercial was ... unfortunate. Salt in the wound, I'd say. If ever there was a good time for feel-good muppet-like creations like Hotty and Toddy, or a gigantic riverboat, it is now. Giggity, my friends. Giggity.
PPS - I can only hope the apocalyptic crash of ag schools on Thursday night can draw the same great thread activity as tonight's outing. Fun stuff.
RTR
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yeah i heard Boise sent Va Tech a letter.. it read...
BOOM ROASTED
Alabama football....The only addiction God wholeheartedly approves of..
Va Tech
a team who can not beat a top 5 team (they just can’t) let all of college football down last night.
Now the Boise hype machine will push them into the BCSNCG.
I lay this at the feet of Beamer. A good coach who can not win the big game. And do they really have a place at VT reserved for the NC throphy? You got to be kidding me.
By the way, VT could do the rest of college football a favor and go 4-8.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
Fine with me if they make the championship game
I’ll rest my hopes on Alabama, and i will sleep like a baby doing so.
If it were my team, I’d worry. I have enormous faith in Saban and his men taking care of this in a large way if it falls to them to do so.
Maybe it's best for Boise to make the national title game
That way we can trash them and just get it over with
It's hard to say what's been most impressive. The seamless jump from AA? The ability to hit for average? The ability to hit for power? The 18 walks in 111 trips to the plate? The flair for the dramatic? When you're trying to isolate the most impressive aspect of Jason Heyward's game, there's a lot to choose from, and it's only been a month and a half.
My biggest complaint about that it is rests the future of the system on one team. If Boise wins, we’ll be hearing that used as evidence of the system “working” for about the next 25 years.
I'm wrong all the time.
No, it doesn't
Boise is ranked largely based upon their body of work over the course of several years, this is not considered a “one team they beat” thing. If they were as good as they played last year, and they lost only one player . . .why should they not be highly ranked? Especially after watching so many “better” teams implode?
I am also curious as to whether or not they can make it undefeated this season—lot of football left. They have alwyas whined they were disrespected and played with a chip on their shoulder. That motivation is gone, how do they handle being the cool favorite in every game all year long with all the glowing media? Guys who are not used to that don’t always handle it well.
I am betting they don’t go undefeated and thus, these fears are unfounded. Also, if they stagger—not lose but just look crappy? Against inferior teams, the chances they will drop in rankings is far greater than if say Alabama had a poor but succesful showing against a lower tiered SEC team.
Well, then
let’s compare Alabama’s, Texas’, Oklahoma’s, Florida’s, LSU’s, [insert powerhouse team in good conference here] body of work over the past few years. For any given one of these teams, their body of work over the PAST SEASON roughly equates to Boise’s body of work over the past few seasons. Why in the world should that equate to a high ranking? This year’s Boise team did not defeat Oklahoma, so why should they get any credit for that win?
Their starting ranking this year should reflect what the returning starters accomplished last year, which was beat three teams [roughly equivalent to two good SEC teams (TCU and Oregon) and one very mediocre SEC team (Hawaii)] and a slate full of pansies otherwise. Every SEC team plays 2-3 times that schedule EVERY YEAR. Any other major conference plays at least twice that schedule EVERY YEAR. Why in the world do teams like Florida and Texas have to start the season at a disadvantage to Boise based on last year’s wimpy schedule and the work of other Boise teams that this year’s crop of players had absolutely no part in?
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Sep 7, 2010 7:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Their work is considered too
Just because your body of work is considered that means no one else’s can be?
“Every SEC team . . .”
Yeah, that’s the dogma but last few years, every year? I’ve heard “Well, we weren’t as strong top to bottom as we usually are” so, like, what’s the real point? Is the SEC so dominant that no one can play with them? Then why rate any other team period? Why play anyone else? Why do SEC teams play Jacksonville State? I mean, it’s a waste of time since it’s a foregone conclusion the whole conference is better anyway right?
I like Strength of Schedule, always have, but guess what:
That doesn’t mean you or anyone else is actually a better team. It simply doesn’t. How many SEC teams you seen win or lose out of flyshit luck? A bunch right? So we don’t count those because they don’t reflect the SOS?
Why even play on Saturdays period? Why not drop football altogether and pocket the cash, knowing you’re simply superior?
It don’t work that way son. Gotta play the game and the results count, whether you play Auburn annually or don’t.
Guess what? SEC is top heavy too.
You'd have a point
if it was impossible for Boise to equalize strength of schedule. But it’s not – they have several OOC games every year, and they use one of them to knock of a worthy opponent to set the tone for their season, play pansies for the rest of them, and walk into a decent bowl game (perhaps the MNC this year) at the end of the year. That is simply not accomplishing what the other top teams do to get there. I’m sorry – they may be the better team, but IMO the MNC is about what a team has accomplished that year, and not who they might be able to beat if they had a chance. If we’re really going to talk about “why play on Saturday’s period,” they perhaps Boise might try actually playing a few more quality teams on Saturdays.
As for the SEC “not being as dominant,” sure, it hasn’t been. That wasn’t my point. My point was you take any given Boise schedule over the past 10 years, and place it beside the slate that every single SEC team must play, and the SEC’s is at least twice as difficult. You can’t honestly sit there and argue that, can you? And that is not just true for the SEC, it’s true for every other major conference as well (Big 10 possibly excluded). I’m not saying the teams in those conferences go undefeated, or even lose just one game, every year. I’m not saying there’s not a gap between the powers and have-nots of the conference. I’m saying the quality of the competition is so much better it’s mind blowing, and with Boise having the chance to play similar competition and not taking it because they have a strategy with their ticket punched already – well, I just don’t think they deserve a seat at the table.
I’ll say this before it comes up – it is not true that they “can’t” schedule good teams because the good teams don’t want to play them. Boise is looking for home and homes, and they just aren’t going to get those. They need to schedule good teams anyway – and not necessarily the Alabamas or Texas’s of the world – even the Pitts, Northwesterns and Michigan States would do.
Love ya Bob – you’re one of my favorite posters, but I just can’t see the sense in what you’re saying.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Sep 7, 2010 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
That's bad ass
I would totally put a script A on there and roll to T-Town with that bad boy.
I voted for Kleph and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
by BamaReturns07 on Sep 7, 2010 11:28 AM CDT up reply actions
Don't worry everyone..
…after seeing VT choke, and, as un-juggernaut-like as BSU looked, they’ll lose one they shouldn’t…trust me.
"...because you've got your mind right, and that's the way we like it." Nick Saban
The only hope they will lose is Oregon St.---period.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
Don’t be so dramatic. Hope is a wonderful thing.
I hope they lose to SJS.
I'm wrong all the time.
by PeteHoliday on Sep 7, 2010 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hope away
but the only real hope is Oregon St. If actually bet money I’d be glad to give odds on BSU going undefeated in conference.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
OK, but are you really going to stick around to converse with me
once I’m standing there with a hand full of shit?
If I'm wearing a turban, it means Auburn is playing Iraq.
boise's wining out for sure
the team is loaded with 3rd year starters across the board. oregon state will get smoked along with the rest of their schedule.
i still dont think this means BSU inherently is title game worthy. but for now, they have re-affirmed their previous distinction of a top 3 teams. Oregon and Bama look to be the other top teams. Iowa and OSU may deserve to be in there as well…
The beauty of The Process is that you have never arrived, so you get to continue being perpetually awesome... -Espyonage
Dear Va. Tech
you suck at life…the other 118 teams rooting for you to finally stop choking.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 7, 2010 1:35 PM CDT reply actions
rec'd
just cause im pissed and now hate Va Tech.
Alabama football....The only addiction God wholeheartedly approves of..
Now you guys know
Why I was so happy when Bama beat Tech. I live among the Tech fans and not all, but quite a few strut and preen like they have a history of winning championships. If I kept failing to make a goal after 22 years, I would change something.
"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way." - Steve Martin
I was at the game
courtesy of some fine Tech fans. It reminded me of Bama of a few years ago when they would be leading and lose it late. I felt bad for my VT friends. That taste stays in your mouth for a long, long time.
Have a Crimson Tide Day!
Roll Tide, Saban Tsunami Roll!
I know
the Virginia Tech O-line didn’t do so well last night but I was disappointed by Ryan Williams. He was dancing around too much and didn’t run with authority like he usually did last season. He tried to do too much and usually lost more yards. If not for Taylor making some plays Virginia Tech gets blown out last night. After so much hype for the Virginia Tech running game they really didn’t do much at all. If they could have ran the ball even just a little at the end of the game they could have put it away and won.
A picture says a thousand words unless it is a picture of the Alabama football team then it only says one word.........CHAMPION!
by AlabamaTitans2009 on Sep 7, 2010 3:38 PM CDT reply actions
Agreed
I was surprised at his play, but I wasn’t at his eye view looking at holes develop/collapse either.
I commented earlier today on the (allegedly) #2 RB tandem in America
I don’t know if you can coach vision, but comparing TR 2009 to TR 2010 makes me think “yes.” He looks like a different player (he looks like a stronger, faster MI). I am really becoming a huge fan of both Pendry and Burns. Our running game is very well coached. Shoot, even Lacy got coached up and came out looking like “Prototypical Stud Alabama Back” that we are now mass-producing.
Several times last night, it seemed the Hokie backs missed holes and ran directly into tackles.
by kipling iffer on Sep 7, 2010 5:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Definitely outcoached.
When will people realize Frank Beamer is not a great coach. He can win, but he can’t win the big ones.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
That's the way with some teams
They can’t mentally get over the hump. At leats Beamer coaches some of his talent up. I doubt he annually has as much talent as MIles has had, does he?
Well
when he had Vick he the most dominant player in the game and he still couldn’t win a NC.
But, you can’t compare any coach to Miles because Miles is an enigma.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
Miles is an enigma.
Does enigma mean the same as idiot?
If I'm wearing a turban, it means Auburn is playing Iraq.
Should that be
Enema?
"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way." - Steve Martin
No enigma
as in a mystery. He is the most mysterious person in football today. You never what he is thinking, saying etc. but somehow he wins just enough to keep his job.
No one knows the real Les Miles. not even Les Miles.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
Oh Enigma!!!
Yeah! That “Return to Innocence” had some good songs on it.
"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way." - Steve Martin
by 13thBama on Sep 8, 2010 5:59 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Let's recall this:
Sure, it’s a simulation of last year’s teams, but I’m easily entertained.
2009 Boise State versus 2009 Alabama: What if Broncos played for national title?
“Final average score: Alabama 31, Boise State 14 (1001 simulated games)
The Crimson Tide won 88 percent of the games played against the Broncos…. The Broncos gave up 350 yards rushing to the Crimson Tide, including 141 yards to Heisman Trophy-winner Mark Ingram and 117 yards to Ingram’s backup Roy Upchurch…"
Gotta play the game
Absent that, it’s conjecture. I tried to get Alabama ot pick up Boise’s open date, they were too packed with ringers already. Shame, Alabama could have put this conversation to rest.
You guys know we're playing Penn freaking State this week right?
I still don’t understand why we’re being so obsessive about Boise State
"You know, we had a lot of fun tonight. But there's nothing funny about vapor lock! It's the third most common cause of cars stalling. So please, take care of your car and get it checked!" -Joe Namath
because it's a travestshamockery!!!
And, because we got our nuts stomped on by counting an ACC team to be competent for a mere four quarters.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 7, 2010 9:53 PM CDT up reply actions
I didn't count on that
come on man, it’s the ACC
"You know, we had a lot of fun tonight. But there's nothing funny about vapor lock! It's the third most common cause of cars stalling. So please, take care of your car and get it checked!" -Joe Namath
by billycthulhu on Sep 7, 2010 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions
TRAVESTSHAMOCKERY-
My new favorite word!
by Richard Bonds on Sep 8, 2010 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I stole that from somewhere...
Sadly, I don’t remember.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 8, 2010 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions
George Bush?
along with “Strategery”? lol
"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way." - Steve Martin
it's too clever...
requires knowing three synonyms?
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 8, 2010 6:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Boise Obsession
I think it’s because they threaten our chances of being in the NC game with our potential one loss scenario. I would love for us to face them in that game. It would offer a chance to put this argument to rest and also redemption for Utah.
Which is why VT v. BSU
has such high TV ratings in B’ham.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
How about it was one of the few games of the week
that didn’t feature creampuffs getting slaughtered by mega-powers. Of course, we did get our lulz with some of those games, but after a pretty lackluster weekend, we were really, really looking forward to a good game.
Shit, who am I kidding. We all know OSU will choke a game, and, if we can run the table, BSU is the most likely foe (provided there is no other undefeated, supremely good 1-loss AQ).
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 8, 2010 11:32 PM CDT up reply actions
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