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The Fixer wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

exactly. anyone that likes the nfl more than cfb is a moron

what a game. I'm glad ok st lost. they are soft as shit

I don't care for CFB. I prefer the NFL.

I'm sorry man, but you're lost.

games last two days have been better than anything the crappy nfl will ever produce

It bores me. If college football ever gets a playoff system, then I'll have an interest in it. Other than that, it bores.

The Fixer wrote:

It would be great if the hogs beat lsu on friday. I think they have a legit shot. then all hell will break loose and the push for a playoff will get even more momentum.

I would be willing to bet that if LSU lost to Arkansas next weekend they would only swap places in the rankings, and it still wouldn't be enough to change anything. Just my guess.

Newch91 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

I don't care for CFB. I prefer the NFL.

I'm sorry man, but you're lost.

games last two days have been better than anything the crappy nfl will ever produce

It bores me. If college football ever gets a playoff system, then I'll have an interest in it. Other than that, it bores.

totally agree. the games are exciting...but what does it matter? tough to get all hyped up about a sport that lets a computer decide the 2 teams that will play for the championship.

at this point, my only enjoyment with this sport is rooting for the best possible cluster fuck. and it looks like we're gonna get it again. :thumbup:

starting with my utes winning in OT and then going to USC-Oregon and then going to OK-Baylor.....it was like the last night of the MLB regular season . good stuff......and the first time in my life I ever pulled for USC :shock:

The Fixer wrote:

Horos wrote:

Props to SC. Oregon couldn't stop them. Can't believe they even came back. Thanks to those turnovers. Terrible clock managment by Oregon at the end. I know they wanted to hurry SC but they left a timeout on the board and could have had more time at the end. Also firgured the FG would be missed, Oregon hasn't even tried too many this year. Leaves the OR Civil War game I'll be attending a little less enthusiastic.

kelly should grow a pair and start bennett. he's so much better than the turd they started tonight

why don't they run the option with thomas?? benett is kelly's kind of qb.

I'm more excited for the guy behind Bennett, Marcus Mariota, he's gonna be good.

I might be the only one here hoping that LSU and Bama win out. That way this Duck loss won't really matter.

Horos wrote:

Props to SC. Oregon couldn't stop them. Also firgured the FG would be missed, Oregon hasn't even tried too many this year.

when you're a big time program, is it so fucking hard to recruit a decent FG kicker??? Oregon and Boise (for the second year in a row) might want to realize that these little guys can make a huge difference.

hell, utah's guy (who is supposedly no good) kicked a 40 yarder in a blizzard yesterday.....for the win.

The Juggler wrote:

mickeyrat wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

soooooo, a bunch of 1 loss teams with only a game to play? yeah, i'm sure the bcs will sort all this out fairly. :roll:


college football/bcs, what a fucking joke.----every season ends with a partial birth abortion without fail.

color me a huge arkansas fan for next saturday just to add to this stupid cluster fuck.

or we could color you a sports fan fraud. :P

tough day for your buckeyes yesterday, eh mick?

From where we were at the start of the season? with a freshmanm QB? I'll take 6-5. Thanks.

Good commentary article in todays local paper.

http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stor ... ckell.html

The rumors about the Ohio State coaching position had been swirling all week. Hurricane season arrived yesterday.

ESPN reported that former Florida coach Urban Meyer had talked to Ohio State about the job and that there is strong mutual interest. That’s ESPN, the company that employs Meyer as a commentator. That’s not quite the same thing as a blogger with a brother who has a friend who once played football with Meyer in high school reporting from a laptop in his basement.

If the ESPN story weren’t true, Meyer probably could have had it pulled off the website faster than he could say “Chris Spielman,” the former Ohio State linebacker and current broadcasting-booth partner whom Meyer reportedly wants on his coaching staff.

Luke Fickell is still the Ohio State coach, which makes this a little awkward. Fickell stepped up like a good soldier and took the job for at least one season when Jim Tressel was forced to resign on Memorial Day. There has been a sense that if Fickell could somehow get the Buckeyes into the Big Ten championship game, he might be able to stop the Meyer movement and secure a new contract.

Any chance of that happening likely ended yesterday, first when Wisconsin beat Illinois to oust the Buckeyes from title-game contention, and even more emphatically when Ohio State lost 20-14 to Penn State.

The Buckeyes are 6-5, which isn’t the best gauge of the kind of job Fickell did with this disjointed team in this disjointed season. But it probably is the one that administrators will use if they give Fickell their thanks instead of the job.

Not surprisingly, Fickell wouldn’t address the situation after the game. He still has one more regular-season game as coach, and it’s not just any game, but Michigan.

“I don’t talk about it,” Fickell said. “I don’t think this is the time or the place. We’re talking about the game, and we’re going to move on and talk about Michigan. And when that comes a point in time, then those things are out of my control. … I don’t turn the TV on a whole lot. I don’t open up the Internet other than the recruiting side of things. Those are things I have no control over. So I’m not going to waste a whole lot of my energy on it.”

That has been his approach all season, and it has been an admirable one, despite the disappointing record.

Fickell inherited a seriously flawed team. His quarterback fled to the NFL this summer, several of his best players served multi-game suspensions to start the season, and his best receiver, DeVier Posey, finally came off the suspension list yesterday. And the coaching staff wasn’t his.

Fickell was also starting his head-coaching career with one of the most-demanding and -unforgiving jobs in America.

“Believe me, Coach Fick doesn’t want sympathy from anyone,” junior defensive end John Simon said. “That’s the kind of guy he is. He’s a fighter like the rest of us.”

He has the players’ loyalty, which is impressive, particularly given the way the season has gone.

“Put anybody in the situation he’s been put in this year, and it’s going to be tough,” senior center Michael Brewster said. “A young team, guys suspended, and I think he’s done a heck of a job. He’s had us out there fighting every day in practice, getting after it, working hard, paying attention to the little things.

“The record doesn’t show, but if you were in the locker room, this team hasn’t pulled apart, and I think he has a large part to do with that.”

Even though the record doesn’t show it, it’s only fair to keep one thing in mind if and when Fickell is shown the door:

Tressel wouldn’t have won a Big Ten championship with this team in this situation, and before last year’s title was vacated, his teams won the previous six.



Bob Hunter is a sports columnist for The Dispatch.

The Juggler wrote:

color me a huge arkansas fan for next saturday just to add to this stupid cluster fuck.

LSU and arkansas always play the friday after thanksgiving

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

color me a huge arkansas fan for next saturday just to add to this stupid cluster fuck.

LSU and arkansas always play the friday after thanksgiving

oh okay. the battle for the golden boot or whatever they call it, right?

even bigger game this year, obviously. go razorbacks!

FRAUD!!!!!

norm wrote:

richrod to arizona

pac-12 is stocking up on douchebag coaches