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Beardown About...Rose Bowl #0
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gilstein21
Well-Known Member
Flag will be picked up on over turned targeting calls. Rules 2 for 2 this week.
coogrfan
Well-Known Member
What to do with your weekends while cfb is on vacation? Custom mini helmets!
I wanted a UH matte white mini, and since Riddell doesn't make one I made my own. Total cost with scorehere.com account discount: approx $30.
Helmet: https://www.scorehere.com/product/0...CAA-Mini-Speed-Football-Helmet-B-White-B-.htm
Decals: http://upperdeckstudios.com/upperdeck_004.htm
I wanted a UH matte white mini, and since Riddell doesn't make one I made my own. Total cost with scorehere.com account discount: approx $30.
Helmet: https://www.scorehere.com/product/0...CAA-Mini-Speed-Football-Helmet-B-White-B-.htm
Decals: http://upperdeckstudios.com/upperdeck_004.htm
Rutgers Mike
Dr. Sad
Brent Musburger is getting moved to the lead spit on the SEC network with Short Tie Palmer.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the ABC primetime spot. I hope Nessler gets it.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the ABC primetime spot. I hope Nessler gets it.
gilstein21
Well-Known Member
Give Musburger back and let the SEC have Ron Franklin back.
Rutgers Mike
Dr. Sad
Musburger's contract was up. That's why he's on SEC Network now. Plus the fact he burned his bridges so he has no where else to go.
No Fowler please.
They'll probably just put Nessler on ABC with Herby, move Jones to ESPN1 with Blackledge and then move Pasch to ESPN2 Primetime. They can call up somebody from ESPNU to do the Noon games. Pam Ward is also available.
Also, putting Musburger and Palmer on SEC Network means they will probably shift a lot of their better games there to get cable carriers to pick them up. Maybe not their first pick, but probably the 2nd pick ESPN gets each week.
bruin
Well-Known Member
"Has 5, has 10!"
Miss you, Ron.
but, Sean McDonough>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I'd go McDonough/Spielman or Herbstreit then Nessler/Blackledge.
McDonough was CBS' main guy in the late 90's/early 00's. Called the NCAA tourney too. Should have never left. Always have felt he's been under used at ESPN.
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Chase
Well-Known Member
And just like that Fowler signs a reported 10 year $35 million dollar deal. More guaranteed money than Jarius Byrd. He will be the announcer for Saturday Night Football on ABC including the MNC game and one of the semi-final games. Will still host College Gameday and all of the Tennis majors.
gilstein21
Well-Known Member
McDonough isn't bad. I guess I wrote him off early due to his time slot. I just love this Franklin exchange with Holly Rowe though. "If the coaches are giving up," Rowe added, "what does that say to the players?" Franklin responded: "Holly, it's not giving up. It's 49–21, sweetheart."
gilstein21
Well-Known Member
He was fired when he called Jeneane Edwards Sweet baby in a production meeting. She got mad so he then called her an asshole. Moral of the story: Don't let women talk about sports.
gilstein21
Well-Known Member
how's spring practice going? Some schools have started, more cranking up this week. I know we don't get a lot of info from the spring practices, but it holds us over for a few weeks of this long offseason.
Chief
Lt. Fun Times
@GR8 2 B FL G8R They throwing ya people through windows out here in these streets
gilstein21
Well-Known Member
good thing he got that 6th year
Rutgers Mike
Dr. Sad
R.I.P. Golden Goose
Don't believe that bjc was referencing "anOSU."
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JSU Zack
How do I IT?
@bjc That last one was a real doozy. I've always enjoyed the band/music major comparison. The band travels as well and gets a scholarship, vacation, stipend, etc. in very similar ways to the football team. If the 1st chair saxophonist writes a single, he can sign with any record company and profit. The NCAA prohibits student-athletes from working at McDonald's.
Another comparison:
What if Mark Zuckerberg rowed crew with the Winklevoss and was on scholarship? He wouldn't be able to generate ad revenue and get Facebook off the ground without violating NCAA bylaws.
Looking at the bigger picture, this is a win for student-athletes in general as they are beginning to be respected as young adults and instead of kids that are treated like cattle.
Another comparison:
What if Mark Zuckerberg rowed crew with the Winklevoss and was on scholarship? He wouldn't be able to generate ad revenue and get Facebook off the ground without violating NCAA bylaws.
Looking at the bigger picture, this is a win for student-athletes in general as they are beginning to be respected as young adults and instead of kids that are treated like cattle.
Lightningwar
Administrator
Coolege football as we know it is gone. No more generating millions in revenue while paying those producing it a few thousand in book keeping changes. Those three comments are pathetic. I bet those who made them barely have a high school diploma and are overweight slobs.
Lightningwar
Administrator
I mean look at the top commentator for the article.
https://www.facebook.com/travis.white.7374
He said "Now what Northwestern needs to do is drop all scholarships and have all players PAY for their education!!"
This guy is exactly who I would expect to make that comment.
https://www.facebook.com/travis.white.7374
He said "Now what Northwestern needs to do is drop all scholarships and have all players PAY for their education!!"
This guy is exactly who I would expect to make that comment.
Lightningwar
Administrator
Chances are high down the road compensation will be asked. So I don't think it is against the spirit of the conversation to bring it up.
purple112
Go Berzerk
coogrfan
Well-Known Member
"Northwestern players can unionize"
Well...no. A regional NLRB director agreed that Northwestern football players met the definition of "employees" and could therefore form a union and begin collectively bargaining with that University. There's a lot that still has to happen for that to actually take place. Yes, the players won a victory but it's only the first in a series of hurdles they will face.
Everyone should probably just take a deep breath, relax and wait to see how this plays out.
Well...no. A regional NLRB director agreed that Northwestern football players met the definition of "employees" and could therefore form a union and begin collectively bargaining with that University. There's a lot that still has to happen for that to actually take place. Yes, the players won a victory but it's only the first in a series of hurdles they will face.
Everyone should probably just take a deep breath, relax and wait to see how this plays out.
Wooly
Well-Known Member
My biggest issue is that these idiots act like most college football athletes sign with education in mind before football.
Right.
But therein lies the problem in my mind. I wish they didn't choose schools based on football first. The further things move in this direction, the more we need an NFL development league. It's probably the only thing that can save CFB for me in the long run. Just have all the athletes that would rather just practice their sport instead of school go to the development league, they can go college like any other student. If you got rid of scholarships, or mandated half scholis, who would still play sports? Just those kids that like playing the sport, and then they would probably still take school seriously. If you look at athletics as whole, only a few sports have the problems that football &basketball have (sometimes baseball & hockey too). Athletes in other sports are by and large pretty good students. They have no illusions of being a professional athlete, and many of them do not get full scholarships either. They play sports for other reasons. You could turn football and basketball into something a lot more like the other sports if you approached it right. Change the incentives, change the recruits, and you will get different outcomes.
adchester
A-1 From Day 1
Oh UNC. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox...hlete_got_an_a_for_a_one_paragraph_paper.html
Mary Willingham, who spent a decade tutoring and advising UNC’s jocks before turning into a whistleblower, unveiled the paper during an interview with ESPN. As the segment explains, academically troubled UNC athletes were encouraged to sign up for so-called “paper classes”—which were essentially no-work independent studies involving a single paper that allowed functionally illiterate football players to prop up their GPAs, thus satisfying the NCAA’s eligibility requirements. While viewers were not treated to any of the "work" produced in those courses, Willingham did show this paper she later clarified was written for an actual intro class, in which the athlete finished with an A-:
And here’s the text.
On the evening of December Rosa Parks decided that she was going to sit in the white people section on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. During this time blacks had to give up there seats to whites when more whites got on the bus. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Her and the bus driver began to talk and the conversation went like this. “Let me have those front seats” said the driver. She didn’t get up and told the driver that she was tired of giving her seat to white people. “I’m going to have you arrested,” said the driver. “You may do that,” Rosa Parks responded. Two white policemen came in and Rosa Parks asked them “why do you all push us around?” The police officer replied and said “I don’t know, but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.
Clintmartian
Stringer Bell
I really doubt that it wasn't the final paper. This is the kind of pressure put on you when you expose a large program and you almost have no public support.
Clintmartian
Stringer Bell
And even if it wasn't a final paper, you wouldn't get an A for that paper in junior high.
Lightningwar
Administrator
Because then they can be called "student-athletes" and the university systems don't have to pay them.
jamesnathan
Resident Mormon
Norm Chow abruptly ended media interviews during spring practice because he didn't like a reporter. A reporter who was critical of Chow's hiring Kevin Clune as DC was seen among a group doing interviews. Chow yelled that he wasn't welcome and ended all interviews even though the reporter said he would leave so others could do their jobs.
This is that guy who seemed surprised when he was told BYU administrators weren't going to name him head coach even though he didn't get along with them. Unless you're a champion (like Urban or something), you can't get away with this crap.
Chow has apologized, but you know it was because school administration came down on him. I think he deserved a chance to be a HC, but this seems to show why no one would take a chance on him before now.
This is that guy who seemed surprised when he was told BYU administrators weren't going to name him head coach even though he didn't get along with them. Unless you're a champion (like Urban or something), you can't get away with this crap.
Chow has apologized, but you know it was because school administration came down on him. I think he deserved a chance to be a HC, but this seems to show why no one would take a chance on him before now.
Rutgers Mike
Dr. Sad
4-20 record doesn't help especially after the success they had, especially under Jones, but even under McMackin.
