Official 2011 College Football Thread

[mooby]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Was happy to see Notre Dame lose...and what was that bullshit game delay twice to break USF's momentum. Never seen anything like that in my life. Brian Kelly has to be the biggest prick in college football.

What was it that kept causing the game to be delayed? Weather? I don't think they clarified it enough on the highlights, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Either way great start for ND hahaha, they're clearly headed on the right path. 3 turnovers inside the red zone? Now that's how you win football games.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by mooby

What was it that kept causing the game to be delayed? Weather? I don't think they clarified it enough on the highlights, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Either way great start for ND hahaha, they're clearly headed on the right path. 3 turnovers inside the red zone? Now that's how you win football games.

Well, the first game delay was basically a bad storm hit the area - rain, lightening, wind, etc. But I've definitely seen worse conditions. The second delay was even more absurd, there was nothing. It was the threat of something that never actually happened. It was all around bizarre to say the least.

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by mooby

What was it that kept causing the game to be delayed? Weather? I don't think they clarified it enough on the highlights, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Either way great start for ND hahaha, they're clearly headed on the right path. 3 turnovers inside the red zone? Now that's how you win football games.

Wu Marshall got called off early too. Very frustrating. Maybe there is a new weather mandate in the NCAA this year?

[mooby]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Wu Marshall got called off early too. Very frustrating. Maybe there is a new weather mandate in the NCAA this year?

Yeah heard about that too. I think the NCAA is taking weather a lot more seriously this year than in year's past. I can't remember seeing this many games delayed, or in Michigan's case ended, over weather concerns in one weekend no less.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Was happy to see Notre Dame lose...and what was that bullshit game delay twice to break USF's momentum. Never seen anything like that in my life. Brian Kelly has to be the biggest prick in college football.

Can the NCAA step in and force Notre Dame to join a conference? They haven't been relevant in many years and it looks like they won't be any time soon. At the least they should remove that stupid BCS rule about them.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Can the NCAA step in and force Notre Dame to join a conference? They haven't been relevant in many years and it looks like they won't be any time soon. At the least they should remove that stupid BCS rule about them.

I'm not sure if the NCAA can "force" a school to join a conference and I'm not sure there's much incentive for Notre Dame to do so given their exclusive agreement with NBC that runs through 2015. Which is probably a big sticking point with the BCS rules committee.

That said, Notre Dame has increasingly found itself on the outside looking in when it comes to matching the success of the other major programs around the country. I think their inability to recruit top notch talent like they once did has been a major cause for their decline over the past decade. Not to mention the carousel of coaches. I believe they just stop paying Ty Willingham for his contract just two years ago.

I wonder what GMScud thinks of Notre Dame's failure to field a powerhouse.

[Chico23231]

Boise St kicking off the year again beating a good team, no surprise

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

UGA a good team?? Dont make me laugh

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

UGA a good team?? Dont make me laugh

Big win Quake. Les is the man and knows how to keep it exciting. Oregon and Auburn both gonna be hungover from last year.

GA nots bad at all...they got the talent, coaching is suspect. That game score closer than it actually was.


I think the two schools from Oklahoma are going to be great. Alabama and LSU gonna be great again. FSU is going to be very strong. Scud's Florida team is going to compete for the top spot in their division.

Their is a ton of good QBs this year. Next years draft is going to be stocked with them.

[12thMan]

Terps unis trending hard on Twitter right now. Seems like a lot of people hate them for some reason.

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Terps unis trending hard on Twitter right now. Seems like a lot of people hate them for some reason.

Theyre horrible. I like the no names on the back team first thing, but they are horrible.

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Theyre horrible. I like the no names on the back team first thing, but they are horrible.

first not sure if it's new but the whole time i was watching the wvu game leadin up to the storm they kept talking about lighting strikes withing 6 miles, from now on if there is a lighting strike within six miles of a stadioum game is postponed for 30 minutes minimum. the rule seems a bit over kill, and the worst part is they haven't really figured out what to do when the game is postponed. when the wvu game was stopped they had everyone huddled in the tunnles just waiting. then the two schools AD's have to get together and decide if they want to call it. it's def somthing that needs to be addressed asap.

now as far as md's uni's they are complete crap and very distracting, somthing tells me they will change, i hope these were just a one time deal. and as for no name on the back i couldn't disagree with you more. in college football the players change every year and i like having the names on the back so it's easier to identify a player. georgia did somthing even more annoying imo though by putting georgia on everyones name plate, that was even worse than the no name.

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by mlmdub130

first not sure if it's new but the whole time i was watching the wvu game leadin up to the storm they kept talking about lighting strikes withing 6 miles, from now on if there is a lighting strike within six miles of a stadioum game is postponed for 30 minutes minimum. the rule seems a bit over kill, and the worst part is they haven't really figured out what to do when the game is postponed. when the wvu game was stopped they had everyone huddled in the tunnles just waiting. then the two schools AD's have to get together and decide if they want to call it. it's def somthing that needs to be addressed asap.

now as far as md's uni's they are complete crap and very distracting, somthing tells me they will change, i hope these were just a one time deal. and as for no name on the back i couldn't disagree with you more. in college football the players change every year and i like having the names on the back so it's easier to identify a player. georgia did somthing even more annoying imo though by putting georgia on everyones name plate, that was even worse than the no name.

Yeah, what was weird is they kept saying 7 miles away, then changed it to 6 but would also say 6.75 or something..... Then they said the storm was continuing its path North West but that the stadium was south of the storm. Then they cut the game off. They definitely need to do something about coming up with a better way of handling it. I was watching on espn3 (its officially crunch time for the whole no cable thing) which made it even harder to figure out what was going on.

It is hard as hell to keep up with players when their names arnt on the jerseys in college, but I still prefer it.

[SmootSmack]

Some reason? have you seen them?

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Some reason? have you seen them?

yeah, but i don't what to really think about them. Granted i'm having a screw driver at the moment. but they loook like the maryland state flagg. very strange.