All teams that relocate should be forced to change their names. One of my biggest pet peeves in sports is when a team moves to another city but keeps the team name. The name should stay with the...
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All teams that relocate should be forced to change their names. One of my biggest pet peeves in sports is when a team moves to another city but keeps the team name. The name should stay with the...
Looking back to 07-08, the first year Draft Express has salary info, between the two teams that met in the Finals, the team with the highest salary alltoment won the title. The most expensive team...
Looking at HoopsHype, Miami's big 3 make 17.5 a year, and the salaries escalate to 19, 20, and 22 over the next 3 years (which is greater than KD...yes, Chris Bosh will technically have a higher...
The problem is with the NBA. The system does not really punish large market teams from poaching the young or mid-career superstar free agents that grew up in the small markets. The Thunder has had...
My opinion on this is here: Iron Sharpens Iron
LOL at ISU beating Mizzou. Mizzou beat ISU 52-17 in 2011. Got shut out by Mizzou in 2010. Mizzou was a regular bowl team, two-time Big 12 North champion in the Big 12 in recent years. Racking up...
Why do you care about what people think about Rose? It's a damn sports message board, and one of the few young superstars in the league sitting out even after being medically cleared to play (for...
That makes sense. None of these QBs are 1st or 2nd round caliber. All the teams prior to the draft had done something to present a Week One starter (Kolb, Palmer, Flynn, etc). But these teams all...
Dallas provides the laughs, "3rd round grade"...Jerry Jones, the only person who idolizes the way Al Davis does things (except Davis would select some 4.4 receiver no one's ever heard of)...
Not crazy about the Ogletree pick. The FS is on the field every single play on defense. OLBs step off the field 1/3 of the time, moreso if you have a lead and the opposing team is throwing the ball...
If the Rams draft Lacy, then they've wasted their 2012 2nd rounder with Pead. You don't need all these RBs, it's an outdated position, this is a passing league. Rams have a 2nd rounder in Pead, a...
Rams trading down with Falcons. Details not known. Good idea, with Reid gone off the board. Hope they got a 2nd out of it.
I abhor the idea of trading up, ever. Trading up is a gamechanger in the value of player you're drafting. Your 1st through 3rd round picks are your future starters, and the Rams were penciled in to...
I'm not as high on Austin, because he played against Big 12 defenses. He's not the first guy to make Javon Harris whiff on a tackle. I hope he's the dynamic playmaker that he can be for Sam. One...
Given the GOR, the Big 12 would have to be dissolved, which would require 8 teams saying that they want to leave. Thus, the most realistic scenario is an arrangement that sends 8 Big 12 teams to the...
The culture thing doesn't make too much sense. Oklahoma is a hodgepodge, it's Southern, Southwestern, Western, and Midwestern. Rural, urban, and (mostly) suburban. College football fans are...
All these moves by Buffalo, Arizona, and Oakland will push the QB cl**** to even later spots in the draft. Every single team out there has a Game 1 starter at QB. Yes, there are some bad QBs out...
Louisville looks good right now for one reason: they beat an SEC team in a BCS bowl. If Louisville finished 7-6, there wouldn't be so much regret over not offering UL.
Of course in retrospect,...
That's a good point. In the Big 8, the whole season built up to the game against Nebraska. Maybe we won, maybe we lost, but usually an Orange Bowl was on the line. In the Big 12, competing to win...
I don't see how power is being concentrated in too few places in the era of superconferences. 4 of the major conferences will continue on and thrive. From Miami FL to Seattle WA, from New Jersey to...
Although this is an interesting interpretation, I disagree with two of the premises: that college football currently is or is entering a financial bubble, and that tradition (as a whole) is...
The NCAA has no role in this. The NCAA has punished programs at the expense of "money" to the NCAA--OU in the past, PSU in the present. This format is being guided by the BCS and the power...
Coversations with a Scout
If Mel Kiper thinks Landry Jones is rising in the draft that's a clear indicator that Landry is falling in the draft.
This is an excellent signing for the Rams. Via free agency and the draft, they needed 2 OL, 2 WR, and 2 Safeties, and they've scratched one off the list. Jared Cook can act as a receiving threat,...
So the 10 team model may soon be confirmed as a bonafide failure. Why oh why can't the rest of the world behave in such a way to allow the OU and UT administrations look like ingenious strategic...
If LJ is willing to sell out for football (and I'm not sure that he is), he can be successful. This is the perfect year for him to come out, and there are few teams that desperately need a QB in...
You can't run the ball consistently from the shotgun unless the QB can run. Relying solely on the RB in the shotgun (or pistol) is self defeating. When the QB is under center, there are more angles...
Baylor's not as worthless as oftentimes presented. They are decent academically, and they are centrally located among the major metro areas in TX for recruiting purposes. If we are operating under...
Alex Smith is a good pick up for them. Andy Reid makes all his QBs better than they really are, and Smith will play with a chip on his shoulder. I ****ume this means that they'll resign Bowe.
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Define "alot" of games. If OU/UT/OSU/Tech joined the PAC 16, that would lead to two 8 team divisions, one coastal (PST) and one CST/MST. 7 divisional games, 2 cross divisional games, 1 of which...
If we are selling two team expansion to FSU/Miami/Clemson, if we are selling four team expansion, no wonder we get cold shoulders. None of these schools--FSU, Miami, Clemson--want to play the...
1. AD
2. Spencer Tillman (earliest memory of Sooner football, him jumping over a dude for NU in 83)
3. Q
4. Mike Gaddis
5. Jerald Moore
6. Demond Parker
7. Trey Millard?
8. James...
A 20 team league will involve 4 pods of 5 teams. Each team plays the other four teams in its pod every year. Each pod will align with one of the other three pods in any given year (five more...
Thoroughly indifferent is a poor choice of words. I meant more in line of, regardless of his personal views on slavery, he was not as motivated to make it a national priority, national cause, and a...
That's a good one to mention. There's a good book on that I read some years ago, wish I remember some of the premises from it, Inventing the Flat Earth
Re: Lincoln. It is true he was thoroughly indifferent towards slavery when he was elected and when the Civil War began. But by the time he was ****assinated, he became more convinced of the...
College basketball is dead. If you love college b-ball, more power to you. But the ineptitude of the skillmanship has driven many previous die hard fans away from the game. I find college...
The probability is extremely relevant.
First off, comparing this to the NBA and NHL (and MLB) is a bad comparison. Those are series based playoffs, of which no football league partakes in.
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There is a gulf the size of a galaxy between "possibility of a rematch" and "guarantee of a rematch".
This conference has leveraged itself in contradictory directions to where it can't do anything. Permanent apoplexy. We drooled for a 10 team TV contract (particularly with Fox, which overpaid so it...
Tulane isn't worthless. They add more to the Big 12 then almost half of the Big 12 adds.
These are the ****ets that a program potentially brings to a conference:
1) Great football program. Of...
KU is the 3rd most valuable conference member. That says a lot about the degradation of the Big 12. They used to be the 7th most valuable program in the Big 12 until four other members left.
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Another aspect of B1G expansion to think about is the role of the CIC. The CIC benefits from adding more (good) schools into its own network, as it leads to shared resources and leveraged politics...
I think the talk about Midwest teams is the distraction. The B1G likely wants help from the Big 12 and/or SEC to break up the ACC. If they can arrange to carve up the ACC like 18th Century Poland,...
A 16 team SEC easily works. Two 8 team divisions: A&M, LSU, Mizzou, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, Bama, Auburn in the West. UGA, Tenn, Kentucky, Vandy, USC, UF, ACC team A, ACC team B in the East. ...
This is dumb. The evidence that Callahan threw the Super Bowl is based on him changing the gameplan the Friday before the game. Why is that the conclusion? The more reasonable conclusion from that...
Texas A&M is a sleeping giant. That is definitely a backhanded complement, as Texas A&M has been one of the most underachieving programs in the history of college football. They should have won 5+...
Making it about the Heisman is a strawman. Clearly he didn't fabricate, or exacerbate, a hoax to win the Heisman. However, he could have done it in order to be considered an All American. Or a 1st...
This has easily been the weirdest 3 years or so of college football. On the field, off the field. Sandusky, Te'o, Petrino, Conference Realignment, Johnny Football, Cam Newton, BCS rematch, SEC SEC...