College Football 2008

StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:

doesnt get much better than this!

Congrats UCLA fans.

Your QB looks to have grown up real quick today. Neuheisel never should've been fired for betting in an NCAA bracket pool.

EDIT: I hate short kickoffs, dumbest play in football.

South of Seattle wrote:

Congrats UCLA fans.

Your QB looks to have grown up real quick today. Neuheisel never should've been fired for betting in an NCAA bracket pool.

CRAPPPPPPPP... i hope they miss they kick....... again

South of Seattle wrote:

This UCLA game is turning out to be pretty damn good.

C'mon Bruins! I can't stand the Vols.

StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:

all I can say.... wow

Best game of the weekend.

Great game. UCLA really fought hard. Can't believe the contrast of their QB from the 1st and 2nd half. I agree about that pooch kick, sooo dumb. Might as well kick it out of bounds, Tenn. would've had worse field position. Looks like slick Rick will be a good fit in LA.

catch22 wrote:

rich rodriguez is a douchebag and watching michigan drop their second straight home opener made me feel a little better about wells going down.

Tressel is no saint either, pal. I feel terrible for Beanie Wells, sucks working that hard and being poised to have a break-out year and have this happen. Foot injuries seem to have a lingering effect and can take a while to fully heal, so even if he can play, he might not be 100%. But as for O-State, I have no sympathy for that program. If anything, you should want other Big 10 teams to win non-conference games so the conference looks better b/c we all know your BCS showings haven't helped.

As an Alabama fan I would like to say one thing..


GO BRUINS!!!!

Thank you for capping off an great weekend.

catch22 wrote:

i wont argue that the big ten isnt weak. it is. that isn't ohio state's fault. there's plenty of good discussion about their bcs showings lately in this very thread. last year they shouldn't have been there, period. it was a rebuilding year and they only slid in because the bcs is fucked, the big ten sucked, and nobody else was winning consistently. it was a joke. the year before they did deserve to be there. anyone who saw them play that season knows that the team that showed up against florida was not the team that had played all season. nonetheless, it's embarrassing how they fare against the sec. that day florida came hungry, and ohio state came like they shouldn't even have to play. they paid for it in a big way.

as to tressel, he doesn't compare to rich rodriguez. that guy's scum. he bends wvu backwards to get them to give him a huge big money contract. then he bails a month later to jump to another team and doesn't want to pay the penalty. he's a douchebag of the highest order. tressel doesn't compare. i've only heard one guy complain about tressel and he had no evidence other than his brother's friend's cousin's uncle's nephew who knew a guy that saw tressel mayb do something shady. the guy's done a good job of trying to clean up a program with some checkered characters. rodriguez blows. much as it hurts to compliment lsu after last january, at least les miles walked his talk when he said he was keeping his promise and wouldn't go to michigan... and that was his dream job!

I completely agree with your first paragraph. But because of the fact the Big Ten is so weak, I feel that any fan of a Big Ten team should root for the conference in these early, non-conf. games. Maybe not root, but atleast not want them to lose. I mean, it seems likely that the BCS title game will involve 1-loss teams again with the way the top 6 teams schedules play out, and if O-State loses to USC in 2 weeks(something I desperately don't want to happen), the only win they'll have to hang their hat on is at Wisconsin. Maybe Illinois, but I don't think that is too impressive.

For the record, I'm not some Michigan blowhard. I went to school and played football outside the Big Ten, but from where I live and the people I know, I follow and support this conference greatly. So with that said, I wasn't comparing Tressel to Rodriguez in any way. Their recent success is incomparable. I wouldn't say his record is completely spotless though. Between Clarett and Troy Smith, there was some shady shit going down. I'll give him credit for keeping his name clear though. As for Rodriguez, I just feel this guy gets a worse rap than he should. How do you know he bent wvu backwards? From your brother's friends cousins uncle or some Mountaineer blog? That state acted as classless as I've ever seen. As if they're the only school to ever lose a coach. They tried to completely take the guy down. It was as if their first high school girlfriend dumped them before sophomore year so they spent the summer trying to spread rumors about it. If you were offered a larger salary to do the same job at a more prestigious place, you wouldn't take it? The whole refusing-to-pay-the-buy-out was lame. Don't feel that warrants him the title of a douchebag, especially just b/c he coaches at your rival school. Look, major college coaching has gotten completely out of hand, with these guys making millions to coach amateur athletes in the most competitive spectrum. Everybody seems exposed, but nobody really knows what goes on behind the scenes except for those actually behind it.

markymark550 wrote:

If it's the qb that has had problems with getting in trouble in the past then it will be ok as he's our third-stringer

once they dumped Beecher they looked Scary. Smelly should be #1.

You have to be happy with Ellis Johnson right now too.

IwasBittin wrote:

I completely agree with your first paragraph. But because of the fact the Big Ten is so weak, I feel that any fan of a Big Ten team should root for the conference in these early, non-conf. games. Maybe not root, but atleast not want them to lose. I mean, it seems likely that the BCS title game will involve 1-loss teams again with the way the top 6 teams schedules play out, and if O-State loses to USC in 2 weeks(something I desperately don't want to happen), the only win they'll have to hang their hat on is at Wisconsin. Maybe Illinois, but I don't think that is too impressive.

For the record, I'm not some Michigan blowhard. I went to school and played football outside the Big Ten, but from where I live and the people I know, I follow and support this conference greatly. So with that said, I wasn't comparing Tressel to Rodriguez in any way. Their recent success is incomparable. I wouldn't say his record is completely spotless though. Between Clarett and Troy Smith, there was some shady shit going down. I'll give him credit for keeping his name clear though. As for Rodriguez, I just feel this guy gets a worse rap than he should. How do you know he bent wvu backwards? From your brother's friends cousins uncle or some Mountaineer blog? That state acted as classless as I've ever seen. As if they're the only school to ever lose a coach. They tried to completely take the guy down. It was as if their first high school girlfriend dumped them before sophomore year so they spent the summer trying to spread rumors about it. If you were offered a larger salary to do the same job at a more prestigious place, you wouldn't take it? The whole refusing-to-pay-the-buy-out was lame. Don't feel that warrants him the title of a douchebag, especially just b/c he coaches at your rival school. Look, major college coaching has gotten completely out of hand, with these guys making millions to coach amateur athletes in the most competitive spectrum. Everybody seems exposed, but nobody really knows what goes on behind the scenes except for those actually behind it.

you can't pull troy smith as an example of tressel being sketchy. if anything, it's a credit to how classy he is that troy smith WAS headed for trouble and tressel managed to turn him around into a truly classy college player and heisman winner. clarrett... that guy was a train wreck and would have been no matter where he played. tressel could have looked the other way and just taken his shit because he was good. but he benched someone who had the potential to be one of the best running backs in school history because of his stunts. that would not happen at a lot of other schools.

i'm not rooting against michigan, just rich rodriguez. his contract negotiation with wvu were publicly documented. they finally ponied up to offer the package he wanted, and they put in a clause to ensure that he didn't bail on them after he signed the deal. he did exactly that, and then bitched about them wanting him to honor the contract he'd dragged them over coals to get. les miles was a michigan man through and through, but he still had the class to say "i'm not bailing on lsu" and stick to it. rodriguez paid that lip service but didn't deliver. sure, he's entitled to take the better job, but he acted like a child in doing it. what was his contract at michigan? he can't handle compensating wvu for wasting their time in negotiations that they could have better spent looking for someone else? it's about rich rodriguez, not about hating on michigan. the only big ten team i truly hate and root against is purdue and that's because my whore of an ex goes there