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[iam416]

Tanqueray and chronic...well I'm fucked up now!

[entropy]

new recruiting rules..

Division I adopts football recruiting, summer access rules

By Michelle Brutlag Hosick
NCAA.org

The Division I Board of Directors on Wednesday adopted five new football recruiting rules, including one that will allow football coaches increased access to student-athletes in the summer. The measures are effective immediately for Football Bowl Subdivision schools.

The new rules emerged after months of research into recruiting issues identified by football coaches. That research included surveys of both student-athletes and coaches and was conducted by a subcommittee of the division’s Leadership Council.

Both the Legislative Council and the Leadership Council endorsed the changes. Both groups are comprised of representatives from all 32 Division I conferences, with the difference that the Leadership Council focuses on broader issues.

The new rules:

Allow football student-athletes to participate in preparations for the season during an eight-week period each summer. Those weeks can include eight hours per week of required weight training and conditioning. Up to two of the eight hours can consist of film review. Student-athletes who participate in the summer activities must be enrolled in summer school or meet specific academic benchmarks. The model is similar to those adopted by men’s and women’s basketball in the last two years. Both the Football Bowl and Football Championship subdivisions supported this change.

Prohibit a school’s staff members from attending an all-star game or activities associated with those games and from having in-person contact with recruits participating in the games from the time the recruit arrives at the event until he returns to his home or school. Both FBS and FCS supported this ban.

Establish a dead period when no in-person recruiting can take place. The dead period, scheduled to coincide with winter holidays and the annual American Football Coaches Association convention, begins the Monday of the week in which mid-year junior college transfers can begin signing the National Letter of Intent. It ends the Wednesday of the week of the AFCA convention. For 2013-14, Dec. 16 through Jan. 15 is now a dead period. The FBS supported this proposal, but the FCS did not because its coaches need more time to discuss it. Army and Navy may seek a temporary exception from this new rule if the date of this season’s game makes it difficult for them to follow it.

Establish a 14-day dead period in late June and early July for Football Bowl Subdivision schools.

Allow schools to pay for meals for up to four family members who accompany a recruit on an official visit. Before this change, schools could pay for the recruit and his parents, legal guardians, spouse or children, but excluded siblings and other family members. This approach provides schools more flexibility to address each recruit’s specific family situation. Both the Football Bowl and Football Championship subdivisions supported making the rule more flexible.

Those who recommended the changes believe they will promote a healthy recruiting environment for both recruits and football coaches. They also believe the changes will help protect the integrity of the recruiting process.

In other business, the board asked the Leadership Council to study the issue of online courses and whether heavy reliance on such courses is appropriate for student-athletes.

The current rules outline how online courses can be counted for both full-time enrollment requirements and progress-toward-degree standards. Some presidents noted the importance of student-athletes establishing a physical presence in the classroom, but others said student-athletes should have the same opportunities that are available to other students.

And, in a nod toward all the Division I structure discussion that is expected to take center stage at the Division I Dialogue in January, the presidents also extended the terms for conference representatives whose tenures were about to expire. The suspension will allow people currently serving to continue their roles while a new Division I structure is developed, eliminating the need for conferences to develop new slates of representatives while the plans for Division I are in transition.

[entropy]

Carl farks on the tiger droppings board... Lsufreeks is great

http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p/45825857/Fark-Carl-Pelini.aspx

[Mike]

Hopefully that thread will really get smokin' tomorrow.

[Optimus Prime]

If you are going to party with Co-Eds FAU is fine place to start. Located in Boca Raton (+ a few satellites), most of the women are well-groomed & bred, from wealthy families...too lazy to drive to U of M, Florida and yes even FSU for a proper education. Hot chicks, hoping to strike it rich locally....with an extremely naughty streak.

[Wild Hoss]

Carl was in the right place then.

[Rob F]

If you are going to party with Co-Eds FAU is fine place to start. Located in Boca Raton (+ a few satellites), most of the women are well-groomed & bred, from wealthy families...too lazy to drive to U of M, Florida and yes even FSU for a proper education. Hot chicks, hoping to strike it rich locally....with an extremely naughty streak.

Written as if the author has had first-hand experience(s) involving the naughtiness of FAU's coeds.

[Mike]

60 minutes has a piece on Nick Saban about to air shortly. I'll watch with great interest and envy. Oh... what it must be like to have an elite football coach.

[THE_WIZARD_]

LSU Freek is amazing...Carl "Spicoli" Pelini...

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1891509/rst.gif

[entropy]

ESPN.com

The Texas Longhorns will hire Arizona State athletic director Steve Patterson to be the Longhorns' next AD, a high-ranking school official told ESPN's Joe Schad.

More on Texas
For full coverage of the Longhorns, check out the Texas blog, part of ESPN's College Football Nation. Blog
More:
• Texas' clubhouse page
• ESPN.com's Big 12 blog
• ESPN Dallas' college blog

Patterson, who held the same position at Arizona State, will formally be announced as the replacement for DeLoss Dodds later this week.

Dodds, who will remain under contract until Aug. 31, 2014, oversaw an athletics budget of $163.3 million, which is the largest in the nation.

The 55-year-old Patterson, who has an undergraduate and a law degree from Texas, and West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck had emerged as the two candidates.

Among the decisions that await Patterson will be the future of football coach Mack Brown, whose roller-coaster season has the Longhorns now eyeing the Big 12 championship after starting the season 3-2. Brown remains under contract until 2020 and will be paid $5.4 million this year.

Patterson has worked with the NFL's Houston Texans (1997-2003) and the NBA's Houston Rockets (1989-93) and the Portland Trail Blazers ('03-07).

[entropy]

appears he'll fit right in... looks like he's used to working with for the devils

[entropy]

Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas doesn't expect Stanford to derail the Ducks' national championship hopes for the second year in a row. “

Oregon I feel like, this team, we should at least put up 40. We will.
” -- Oregon RB De'Anthony Thomas

Last year, Oregon lost its only game of the season 17-14 in overtime to Stanford. But Thomas is confident this year's team won't be held to two touchdowns.

"I don't think so," Thomas told Oregon's official website. "I feel like, this team, we should at least put up 40."

Slowing down Oregon's offense will be the top priority for Stanford when the fifth-ranked Cardinal (7-1, 5-1 Pac-12) host No. 3 Oregon (8-0, 5-0) on Thursday night in a matchup of the winners of the past four Pac-12 championships.

Oregon is averaging 55.6 points per game, the second-best in the nation, while Stanford is allowing 19.4 points per game.

To upset the Ducks again, Stanford will have to shut down not only Thomas, who averages more than 7 yards per carry, but also versatile quarterback Marcus Mariota, who averages more than 9.

Almost every week, Stanford coach David Shaw delegates a backup quarterback to the scout team in practice who can best simulate the upcoming opponent. Not this week.

Shaw's search for somebody on the roster to mimic Mariota and Oregon's up-tempo offense was deemed a lost cause.

There's nobody who could even come close.

"We have to sign somebody," he joked.

In 21 starts, Mariota has put up video game-like numbers against nearly every team he has faced. That is, except for Stanford.

Last season's loss to Stanford is Mariota's only loss of his career. Stanford's victory ended then-No. 1 Oregon's three-year run as conference champion and dashed the Ducks' national championship dreams -- not to mention Mariota's chances for the Heisman Trophy.

"If our guys use last year as a motivational factor to practice harder ... we'll take it," coach Mark Helfrich told Oregon's official site. "Any external motivation that was used to prepare, great."

Duplicating last season's performance might be even tougher for Stanford.

Mariota has thrown for 2,281 yards and 20 touchdowns and run for 587 yards and nine TDs this season. He is completing 64 percent of his passes and, perhaps most impressively, has not thrown an interception. The last time he was picked off was during last season's meeting with the Cardinal.

"I thought last year he was the best quarterback in the nation, and I feel the same way this year," Shaw said. "I don't care about stats. Stats don't mean anything. You watch the film, you see a kid that makes every throw. Every throw is accurate. Twenty touchdowns and no interceptions? Every ball is perfect, every ball is in stride, every ball there's no wobble on it. Everything's pretty.

"As a former receiver, you always appreciate that, a guy that just throws a pretty ball. And then when nobody's open, he just takes off and outruns everybody. You're designing a quarterback, that's what you want."

The secret to Stanford's success against Mariota remains somewhat of a mystery.

The Cardinal credit a physical, gap-plugging 3-4 scheme under defensive coordinator Derek Mason, who emphasizes the most basic fundamentals: tackling and discipline. Since losing 27-21 at Utah on Oct. 12, Stanford has shut down Brett Hundley and UCLA (10 points) and Sean Mannion and Oregon State (12 points) in back-to-back victories.

Now the Cardinal hope to make it three in a row with Mariota up next.

"He's a great player. He's going to make some plays. But we can't just let him take the ball, read what we're doing," said linebacker A.J. Tarpley, who intercepted Mariota last season. "We want to try and mix it up a little bit, whether that's attacking him, try to show something that looks like something but it's actually something else. We'll mix it up. We don't want them to get in their rhythm. Because once they do that, you can't stop them."

More on Oregon

Oregon For full coverage of the Ducks, check out the Oregon blog, part of ESPN's College Football Nation. Blog
More:
• Oregon's clubhouse page
• ESPN.com's Pac-12 blog

In the first 10 games before last season's meeting, the Ducks seemed unstoppable under Mariota. Oregon led the Football Bowl Subdivision with 54.8 points per game and never scored fewer than 42.

Mariota completed 21 of 37 passes for 207 yards, one touchdown and the one interception against Stanford. Besides a 77-yard run in the first quarter, Mariota netted only 12 yards rushing, often looking flustered under heavy pressure.

"I think a lot times we were hesitating a little bit and we were unsure of some of the fronts we were seeing," Mariota said. "That's the stuff we're really going to have to clean up."

One of the staples of Stanford's defense also is what Mariota avoids most: turnovers.

Stanford has forced a turnover in 33 straight games, the second-longest streak in the country. Being the first team to make Mariota throw an interception this season is a challenge Stanford knows will be difficult, but it's also one it will embrace.

"It's time," cornerback Alex Carter said, "for him to throw one."

Stanford's injury-depleted defense got a boost Monday with news that defensive end Henry Anderson will play against Oregon.

Anderson has been out since mid-September. Stanford's other starting end, Ben Gardner, is out for the rest of the season.

Josh Mauro, who replaced Anderson while he was out, now will fill Gardner's spot.

[Wild Hoss]

Flipping channels, and I come across Frank Solich and the Ohio Bobcats on ESPN2, playing at Buffalo.

Watch for a bit, and I see the Ohio QB get a safety for intentional grounding...even though he threw the pass at the four yardline. In fact, the official who was BEHIND the QB and threw flag, wasn't even in the end zone himself.

Spot of the foul being unreviewable, the play stood as called, 9-3 Buffalo. Ohio free kicked, and Buffalo just turned the short field into a touchdown. 16-3.

Wondering if Wiz is in Buffalo....

[entropy]

NCAA hammers Chadron State..

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2013/november/chadron+state+college+lacked+institutional+control

[Mike]

Wow. We're talking about several hundreds of dollars in illegal benefits to players from a $30,000 golf fundraiser. What's that old saying? If Auburn pays Cam Newton $200,000 watch out if you're Chadron State!