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Rutgers fans can't show up for a game across the river in NY????
No way do they belong in the BIG.
No way do they belong in the BIG.
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Rutgers is no draw till they can win 10 games a season; Rutgers to the B10 isn't a positive either. What is, is M, OSU, PSU and the B10 able to play games televised in New Jersey and New York City.Comment
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AA News has Josh Garnett 80% committed to Michigan, any news WM?Last edited by Optimus Prime; December 30, 2011, 04:31 PM.?I don?t take vacations. I don?t get sick. I don?t observe major holidays. I?m a jackhammer.?Comment
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Your either 100% or 0% committed... Competition is Stanford & Notre Dame and Garnett plans to announce at the end of January.Comment
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Missed this early in the year. Weirdest coach's presser of the year
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EChnZTJicw"]Bennett Presser: Act more like dogs - YouTube[/ame]
he was fired at the end of the yearBenny Blades~"If you break down this team man for man, we have talent to compare with any team."Comment
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The cow bells are annoying meGrammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.Comment
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Barrett Jones, Outland winner from Bama will return for his senior season next year.
DammitRepugnant is the creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.Comment
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SEC boosters are very generous.Comment
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Cue the jokes about him not wanting to take a pay-cut by going pro....Comment
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Not CF-related, but M won the GLI title in OT over sparty tonight. Scored with :50 left to force OT.
Great weekend with a win over #3 BC yesterday as well.Repugnant is the creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.Comment
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Too bad about Jones. I was hoping Bama would win the title this year and have a mass team exodus to the NFL - giving Mich a chance in the '12 opener.“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” - Groucho MarxComment
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The most disappointing aspect of the bowl season for me is allowing the kids to do all the individual stupid, silly, and obnoxious celebration type junk after plays. Don't care for it in the NFL and certainly wish it were not allowed in the bowl games. Sure hope M doesn't do it.Comment
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How is that any different from every game during the season?Comment
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I congratulate the author for taking on this weighty subject but his proposals to pay college athletes have some gigantic holes.
I like how he deals with the issue of no pay for the non-rev sports (e.g. all women's sports .... possible Title IX issues but none of them insurmountable for the reasons he sites ..... baseball and hockey both have a road to the pros other than playing in college and all the non-rev sports, women's and men's, do not; non-rev sports do not have the commercial/entertainment/revenue generating value to the schools offering them that football and basketball do.
A commenter points out the Military Academies have an established mechanism to pay their students and athletes alike that could serve as a better model than one proposed by the author.
There are a ton of good points the author makes (most we are familiar with) and solutions (no one has really tried to tackle these authoritatively before this article) to advance the interests of college football and basketball players and curtail the antiquated NCAA and their extraordinarily weak arguments about amateurism and all their stupid rules. You have to take some time reading this. It's long and serves the purpose of illuminating what a complicated issue this is that can't be dealt with adequately in the framework of an ESPN 30 second sports segment.
Last edited by Jeff Buchanan; January 1, 2012, 01:01 PM.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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"College football, governed by the NCAA also penalizes excessive celebrations with a 15 yard penalty. NCAA Football Rule 9-2, Article 1(a)(1)(d) prohibits "Any delayed, excessive, prolonged or choreographed act by which a player (or players) attempts to focus attention upon himself (or themselves)"; in addition, Rule 9-2, Article 1(a)(2) asserts that "After a score or any other play, the player in possession immediately must return the ball to an official or leave it near the dead-ball spot."[3] Additionally, if a player's actions is considered "unsportsmanlike conduct" the result is dead-ball foul; a "flagrant unsportsmanlike conduct" foul requires player ejection. If a player’s nonfootball-related act (e.g. taunting or cursing) causes an opponent to physically retaliate, it is considered fighting and both players are ejected.Originally posted by Jamie H View Post
The NCAA doesn't, or supposedly doesn't, allow any of the "celebrations" that are so typical of NFL players. But, in many of this year's bowl games somewhat similar thought probably not as demonstrative celebrations were evident and pretty common. Two that I remember vividly was one player, after a good tackle or something, was running around midfield (calling attention to himself) with his arm outstretched and swooping around like an airplane. Another example, and I believe it was Isiah Pead of Cincinnati, was of a player running around with his hand to his ear as the opposing fans were actually on his case for a play he had made. In any event, there were many such examples which just aren't seen or which are flagged during the regular season. I think, for one reason or another, the celebration rule may be relaxed during the bowls. Not sure why. Call me old fashion.Comment
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