2010 College Football

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[quote]BradyZ wrote:

[quote]SSC wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]BradyZ wrote:
I was proud of my Huskers last night, good win over KSU. I was especially happy how our defense held Thomas to 68 yards rushing when he averages 157 a game.

Next up is Texas, it will be a good game to watch.[/quote]

Yes revenge is sweet. :slight_smile: This will be a beat down sadly. [/quote]

I’m thinking so as well. Nebraska is a LOT better this year than I thought they’d be
 and I thought they were a top 10 team coming in!

I know it’s a little early, but if Nebraska beats Texas there aren’t going to be too many more major obsacles in the path to a NC appearance.

They’re good
 and they’re not gimmicky. They’re also winning with ground control and stellar defense. Husker fans should be pretty excited right now.[/quote]

I think the one game that stands between us and the NC is the Big 12 game, I think we will play OK, and it depends on which OK team shows up till be the factor, if it the one that played FSU then it will be a hard fought game, but if its the one that has struggled to get the win, then Nebraska will leave the BIG 12 with the title in hand.

But first, Texas! This will be a good game to watch.
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Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves, everybody. Nebraska has looked good, but they honestly have not played a solid defense yet. Washington’s offense is actually pretty good, and shutting down K State’s running game was nice too, so I have confidence in our D. But the offense still makes me nervous. Texas will be a true test. If we are able to pound away on that defense, then I think we have something special here.

As for the rest of NU’s schedule, two games other than the Texas and Big XII Championship games stick out: At Oklahoma State and at Texas A&M. Both teams have explosive offenses. Okie State is the better team, but A&M is the tougher place to play. There is a legitimate chance Nebraska could drop one or both games.

I am not worried about the Mizzou game. It is at home and our D was kind of designed to stop that sort of offense. Also, I don’t believe they have much D to speak of.

Iowa State could actually be a toughie. They have a solid football team this year and after last year’s game they should feel somewhat confident that they can run with us. You know that Ames is going to be rocking for that game too.

However impressive they’ve looked so far, I am not ready to say that they are a national championship caliber team. I have this small feeling in the back of my head that things could explode at any minute.

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whaaaat? 14-14 at the half? Whats up WestCoast? hahaha

I am definitely happy with a tie game at the half. USC’s offense looks good. We just gotta keep putting up points and driving the ball. We easily could be up right now. Not too shabby

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Wow, hell of a ending to the USC vs. Stanford game. The personal foul by USC on that final drive was what helped Stanford. Good back and forth game.

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Chris Galippo is an embarrassment. He should be stripped of his scholarship and dismissed from the team. He single-handedly lost the game for USC on a total bonehead play. Last year he was a total pussy and this year he’s a fucking dipshit. I can’t stand that guy.

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[quote]eic wrote:
Chris Galippo is an embarrassment. He should be stripped of his scholarship and dismissed from the team. He single-handedly lost the game for USC on a total bonehead play. Last year he was a total pussy and this year he’s a fucking dipshit. I can’t stand that guy.[/quote]

5 star recruit. top LB in his entire recruiting class
 talk about a fucking bust.

I cant believe we lost two weeks in a row on time expiring field goals
 both of which after long ass drives. God our Defense sucks fucking balls!

plus the announcers were fucking dickhead retards

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]eic wrote:
Chris Galippo is an embarrassment. He should be stripped of his scholarship and dismissed from the team. He single-handedly lost the game for USC on a total bonehead play. Last year he was a total pussy and this year he’s a fucking dipshit. I can’t stand that guy.[/quote]

5 star recruit. top LB in his entire recruiting class
 talk about a fucking bust.

I cant believe we lost two weeks in a row on time expiring field goals
 both of which after long ass drives. God our Defense sucks fucking balls!

plus the announcers were fucking dickhead retards[/quote]

Seriously. It’s almost as if all of our luck with linebackers in the past is now coming back to bite us in the ass. We barely lose awesome linebacker recruits to our two biggest rivals (Manti T’eo at ND, Jordan Zumwalt to UCLA), the recruits we do get can’t play because of congenital heart defects (Frankie Telfort), the ones that can play decide to transfer (Jarvis Jones, Jordan Campbell, Glen Stanley), and the ones that stay are total busts (Chris Gallippo).

Gregron, I just can’t take the close losses anymore. I’d rather lose by 50 than on a last-second field goal. I just knew that our failure to punch the ball in at the end of the first half would come back to bite us in the ass. Fuck, this blows.

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[quote]eic wrote:
Gregron, I just can’t take the close losses anymore. I’d rather lose by 50 than on a last-second field goal. I just knew that our failure to punch the ball in at the end of the first half would come back to bite us in the ass. Fuck, this blows. [/quote]

Although I can’t comment too much on the game from last night or much of Pac-10 activitiy (it’s definitely the football we get the least over here,) I agree with this statement overall.

Look at my Gators for instance
 Couldn’t they have just let LSU blow them out by 30 points like Alabama instead of taking it into the last 5 seconds so I could have been doing something more constructive!!!

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]eic wrote:
Chris Galippo is an embarrassment. He should be stripped of his scholarship and dismissed from the team. He single-handedly lost the game for USC on a total bonehead play. Last year he was a total pussy and this year he’s a fucking dipshit. I can’t stand that guy.[/quote]

5 star recruit. top LB in his entire recruiting class
 talk about a fucking bust.

I cant believe we lost two weeks in a row on time expiring field goals
 both of which after long ass drives. God our Defense sucks fucking balls!

plus the announcers were fucking dickhead retards[/quote]

Was at the game yesterday, and it was amazing to watch. The crowd was ridiculously loud and the atmosphere is general was great.

Luck showed some serious poise on that final drive. After seeing Mallet’s implosion two weeks ago, I think Luck is easily the best QB in the country.

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I gotta give credit to both teams, they played their asses off to the wire. This is what I love about college ball (and why I hat the pros.) These kids fight their asses off to win, shit, sometimes the win looks ugly and downright deplorable, but a win’s a win.

USC’s final score happened too quickly, they should have tried to time is better so that no time remained on the clock. I wonder if those uber-smart Stanford folk maybe let them score so quickly?..insert Jeopardy music. The announcers did make one good call, and that was that whoever held the ball at the end could very well be the winner, and that’s exactly what happened. Couple that with no sign of defense (both teams combined for almost 1000 yrds of total offense.)

Galippo is too slow and clumsy to be a Mike (middle) linebacker. Yes, they are usually larger and should be more powerful, but he moves more like a skinnier lineman than a backer. Yes, his personal foul was beyond foolish, I think in the long run it would have just made for a longer field goal attempt for the Stanford kicker.

But this is another heartbreaker. The defense is beyond fucking worthless, particularly the secondary. With Cal next week, then Oregon at home, I am more concerned with the offense.

Lane Kiffin need not bother with the defense, because they aren’t going to fix shit. Now, it’s up to Barkley to just outscore or keep up with the opposing offense. We can win games 49-48 for all I care, and that may very well be the case.

Barkley made some incredible throws under pressure, he is showing signs of greatness. If this team had any shred of a defense, they would be a contender for a Pac-10 title.

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Can someone explain how Alabama remains ahead of SC in the polls. Alabama should have dropped out of the top 10
they have plenty of games left to improve their rankings. The ranking system is bullshit>

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Because SC also lost earlier in the season and dropped in the polls, also SC doesn’t deserve to be rated higher than any team that has no losses and won’t be rated higher than Bama just because they beat a #1 Bama team. Bama was expected to dropped but not of positions.

My feeling is when you lose, you will drop 5-6 positions in the polls, when you win, you can gain one, maybe two positions in the polls, depending on who in front of them has a recent won or loss.

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What was up with that Personal Foul penalty in the Florida and LSU game. The one against the O Lineman from Florida when he slammed that blitzing LSU guy (think he was a saftey?)

That was totally a weak call. I just saw the replay on Sports Nation
 The dude jumped up in the air and was stopped/slammed back down. Its not like the Lineman picked him up or anything.

Totally weak IMO and Im definitely a Gator Hater

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We linemen would lick our chops at the shot at a pencil neck safety. Running plays where we pull (like traps, tosses, sweeps, draws, screens, etc), we (at least I) would get giddy knowing I would get to fuck up some skinny little prick.

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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
We linemen would lick our chops at the shot at a pencil neck safety. Running plays where we pull (like traps, tosses, sweeps, draws, screens, etc), we (at least I) would get giddy knowing I would get to fuck up some skinny little prick.[/quote]

x1000, I only played at the HS level and I remember the pure joy of crushing the pretty boy d backs

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[quote]gregron wrote:
What was up with that Personal Foul penalty in the Florida and LSU game. The one against the O Lineman from Florida when he slammed that blitzing LSU guy (think he was a saftey?)

That was totally a weak call. I just saw the replay on Sports Nation
 The dude jumped up in the air and was stopped/slammed back down. Its not like the Lineman picked him up or anything.

Totally weak IMO and Im definitely a Gator Hater[/quote]

The entire game was STRICTLY enforced. That penalty alone is a testament to other kinds of penalties that were called throughout.

Which, does bring me to another point, what are your guys’ thoughts towards tight officiating?

For it? - Keeping the game as fair as possible, helping to allow talent to take over instead of people cheating because they can’t quite keep up?

Or against it? - Let them play. Mistakes and mental errors will happen, that’s football.

I’m personally in the camp of looser officiating


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Ah, officiating. It pisses me off to no end. Things I hate . . .

  1. When a player from Team A lays a hit on a player from Team B just barely out of bounds. If it happens on Team B’s sideline, there is always that long pause after the hit, during which players and coaches from Team B jump up and down and go “Ohhhhhhh!” Then it happens: That dreadfully late flag for a late hit.

  2. When a player lays a vicious (but legal) hit on his opponent. The crowd always goes, “Ooooooh!” prompting the ref to throw a flag on the play on the assumption that it must have been an illegal hit (even though video evidence shows it was clean).

  3. Calling pass interference ridiculously tight against one team, but then letting the other team get away with an almost comical level of interference without throwing a flag.

  4. Basically any conduct penalties for (a) excessive celebration, (b) taunting, (c) etc. I think the NCAA and conferences have forgotten that college sports are primarily for entertainment purposes. Fans like it when a player leaps into the end zone unnecessarily. We like it when a guy high steps into the end zone. We like end zone celebrations. We like it when a dude sacks the quarterback and then stands up and flexes. We like it when our receiver makes a tough catch across the middle, gets hit, then stands up and does the “first down” gesture. If you don’t like it, maybe your team tries to stop the other from having a reason to celebrate next time.

Unless a team sacrifices a goat in the end zone after scoring a TD, or head butts an opponent after making a big play, there should be no such thing as excessive celebration or taunting, respectively. And referees should be expressly precluded from throwing a flag for excessive celebration during (a) major rivalry games (e.g., Red River Rivalry, OSU-Michigan, USC-UCLA), (b) a conference championship, or (c) a bowl game. There is no such thing as “excessive” celebration in those contexts.

Can you tell I hate officials?

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[quote]eic wrote:
Ah, officiating. It pisses me off to no end. Things I hate . . .

  1. When a player from Team A lays a hit on a player from Team B just barely out of bounds. If it happens on Team B’s sideline, there is always that long pause after the hit, during which players and coaches from Team B jump up and down and go “Ohhhhhhh!” Then it happens: That dreadfully late flag for a late hit.

  2. When a player lays a vicious (but legal) hit on his opponent. The crowd always goes, “Ooooooh!” prompting the ref to throw a flag on the play on the assumption that it must have been an illegal hit (even though video evidence shows it was clean).

  3. Calling pass interference ridiculously tight against one team, but then letting the other team get away with an almost comical level of interference without throwing a flag.

  4. Basically any conduct penalties for (a) excessive celebration, (b) taunting, (c) etc. I think the NCAA and conferences have forgotten that college sports are primarily for entertainment purposes. Fans like it when a player leaps into the end zone unnecessarily. We like it when a guy high steps into the end zone. We like end zone celebrations. We like it when a dude sacks the quarterback and then stands up and flexes. We like it when our receiver makes a tough catch across the middle, gets hit, then stands up and does the “first down” gesture. If you don’t like it, maybe your team tries to stop the other from having a reason to celebrate next time.

Unless a team sacrifices a goat in the end zone after scoring a TD, or head butts an opponent after making a big play, there should be no such thing as excessive celebration or taunting, respectively. And referees should be expressly precluded from throwing a flag for excessive celebration during (a) major rivalry games (e.g., Red River Rivalry, OSU-Michigan, USC-UCLA), (b) a conference championship, or (c) a bowl game. There is no such thing as “excessive” celebration in those contexts.

Can you tell I hate officials?[/quote]

Quoted for ultimate truth

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPapd31bW9tNLPFpl-vKRDUvHWfgD9IRBUQO0?docId=D9IRBUQO0

Interesting article about the mid-season report of college football.

I don’t think Taylor Mariinez from Nebraska will win the Heisman though.

Interesting picks for the BCS games.

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^ I could see it playing out that way. Would be a great game to watch.

And before I forget why do you have a Vagina as a Avi? Not that I mind. :slight_smile:

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[quote]DJHT wrote:
^ I could see it playing out that way. Would be a great game to watch.

And before I forget why do you have a Vagina as a Avi? Not that I mind. :slight_smile: [/quote]

I never saw my avi as that, lmao.

Its suppose to be a “phoenix” I may have to change it now. :slight_smile:

I think Andrew Luck will win the Heisman, with Robinson second. I actually feel that Nebraska can win the Big 12, but will end up 3rd in the BCS standings and Oregon vs. Boise State in the BCS championship. I have a gut feeling the whole BCS will play out in odd fashion.