college football thread

yeah that's true, also their offensive line is gonna have like three guys go in the top 2 rounds

Clicked on this thread just for kicks and I gotta say it's really weird to read about the big news in my town and the construction near my office in the article linked in the first post.

Washington State is in the smallest market in the Pac-12. It has the smallest football stadium, the lowest average attendance, smallest athletic budget, and hasn’t had a winning football record since 2003.

All this is true, but I'd like to see it broken down on a per-capita basis. On game days if the tiny stadium is full there are more people there than live in the town. It's just insane even with such a shitty record.

Luck and Gerhart (who was apparently a three-star recruit looking back at old Rivals rankings--take that for what it's worth, given one of Andrew Luck's fellow 5 star prospects his year included UCLA JC transfer Kevin Craft) helped, but Stanford's defense has been pretty good (better than UCLA's, even though we put four dudes in the NFL over the past couple years) over the past few years as well, for comparison. The pre-Harbaughian Stanford teams were awful in all facets (although I guess Trent Edwards did technically go on to be an NFL Starting QB somehow), and it turned around really, really quick.

The BruinsNation people (who are INSANE) want Petersen badly, and so it is always super-creepy when you talk about what you need to bring him in. Like people were pointing out that we have an advantage because his son's doctor ended up coming out to Los Angeles recently.

i really don't see why petersen would go to ucla

the guy has had any pick of jobs over the past three or four years including ucla once before, idk.

i think ucla is wasting their time and with them directly competing with a few other schools right now for jobs, they should zero in on good candidates that aren't one in a thousand shots.

I dunno if it's possible to be USC/Ohio State/LSU/Alabama and expect to compete for the National Championship every year with the higher admissions standards (does Texas have them? You think of UT-Austin in the same academic plane as Cal/UCLA/Stanford/Northwestern/Vanderbilt/Duke/etc., but then their football program makes more money than God has, so I dunno. Does Michigan?), but I think you can win 8-9 games a year consistently with those players if you find the right guys to coach and the right guys to play, and make runs at the championship when Luck-quality guys stumble in. There's a limited number of really smart, really good football players, but it's not like only one place gets to have them all.

Apparently we are now targeting Sumlin from Houston to be our dude. Which seems like at least we'd be more fun to watch on offense.

they'll def have to fend off texas a&m for him

i think

re admission standards, there are some schools i think like miami and michigan and i think texas that have higher admission standards than a school like LSU or alabama but are still a notch below the admission standards of stanford and notre dame and schools of that ilk.

We apparently offered Petersen $4 million before he officially pulled his name out, though, so at least we're gonna spend the money this time. I think he always gets called because he is probably the best bet for an aspiring big-money school to turn their program around, so even though he's going to stay in Boise for as long as he wants, it at least gives you the chance to say "We tried to get the best guy."

Most hilarious name I've heard thrown around: Herm Edwards.

i'm scared for UCLA that they're

gonna end up hiring an NFL guy (i.e. del rio)

If they hire Mike Sherman I am probably gonna start weeping.

yeah i don't think you have to worry about that

hiring guys on the cheap because they have a strong tie to a school really just doesn't work.

See Mike Shula.

Good points brought up though that UCLA really doesn't value their football program as much as their basketball program, and while they're in an incredibly fertile recruiting area they're content to just take what comes their way. What probably ends up happening is that they take a gamble on some buzzed about assistant coach (who? no idea) and ride him for a couple seasons. I don't see any current head coach who's worth a damn leaving the program he's got and taking on the burden of UCLA.

This Houston loss is rough...

i didn't really wanna see them in a bcs game, but i don't wanna see tcu in a bcs game either

^otm

i wonder if there were undecided heisman voters who watched & now are def off keenum, not that he deserved v srs consideration imo

Southern Miss is just a logo/uniform/lettering disaster

Furious Bradley & Larry Fedora are A++ names

why does larry fedora wear a visor

feel like sumlin had the over

twitter is saying that sumlin will be announced as a&m's coach w/in 24 hours, to we'll see

barkley's going above griffin III huh

I don't see how the draft isn't Luck 1, RG3 2 then everybody else.

no idea either -- things change tho -- remember this year people were still talking about cam newton being a second round pick

that's the greatest onside kick I can remember.

i think kickers in general are getting better at onsides kicks

ouch

that onside kick was so, so beautiful -- shit was like a rainbow

Murray looks awesome!

haha did you guys see those georgia fans getting all verklempt

murray is really good

this is a complicated BCS situation brewing here, right?

Depends on what happens tonight in Oklahoma. If the Sooners win, things go crazy.

(in the event LSU loses, that is)

no things will go crazy if okie st wins

assuming lsu loses

Oh yeah, I had it backwards.

no first downs!

THE HONEY BADGER

fuckin honey badger!!

why are the lsu cheerleaders dressed up like the princess from aladdin

Oh damn, Honey Badger with a phantom touchdown.

uhhhh so yeah he def didn't score

That was some Desean Jackson rookie year shit.

That was a hell of a runback.

ppl calling for honey badger and the heisman are out of control -- dude has had a few nice punt returns, but let's relax

WTF is with all the broken clocks this year?

joe_sheehan Joe Sheehan
The 11 teams Alabama beat combined to win 20 games against bowl-eligible schools, MOST of those against 6-6 (5-6 FBS) teams