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Here is the full Big Ten bowl schedule: All 9 teams with 6 or more wins received a bowl invitation so nobody was snubbed. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Badgers/Hurricanes for the 2nd year in a row. Last year was the Orange Bowl; this year, the Pinstripe Bowl. A demotion, of course, but lucky to have gotten into any bowl game. “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” | |||
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So Ohio State is pissed they played one more conference game and lost to a chump? They would have been more successful playing a chump not in their conference, like say Maryland (where they almost lost)? I understand what they are saying, but this year is a horrible example for them. | |||
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Hey now! Easy on the chump talk. We beat 3 ranked teams this year (#2, #16, and #23). Every team we lost to was unranked but made a bowl game (i.e. top half of all teams). Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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I watched every minute of that Purdue / Ohio State game. Maybe chump is a strong work, just inconsistent? Either way, if they had beat what is now a 6-6 team, they would be in the CFP. My takeaway is being undefeated while still playing some good teams is valued more than losing 1 game by 30 points to an unranked opponent and playing some good teams. They controlled their own destiny but failed in the attempt. I don't understand why that is hard to see. If Alabama got crushed by Old Miss or Arkansas State, I think they would be close to the same position as Ohio State. | |||
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The college football championships BCS/CFP no more produces a national champion than the World Series produces a World Champion baseball team. The history of the bowl system is that it was invitational games, never designed to produce a College Football Champion. Can we stop pretending that it does? There has never been anything "fair" about any of it. I really don't even know why we argue about it. Using only 12-13 games (130 participants), human opinions, and a matrix designed by an SEC athletic director, is no way to objectively rank teams. While the NFL is designed to eliminate dynasties, college football creates them and protects them. We trust a system that was designed to favor certain regions for the sake of marketing and profits. You do realize, ESPN/ABC, who has the contract for the Play-offs, also has a ranking system. They also have a contract to market the SEC so they have a product and a market to protect. They leave the human factor in it so they can manipulate the outcomes. That's why the criterion changes every year. One year the emphasis is on Body of work, and the next year it is on who they think is playing the best at that time. The next year they say it's strength of schedule so they start the season with a whole conference ranked in the top 25 so whether you win or lose, it's to a ranked team. When that doesn't produce their desired outcome, they say nope, only kidding, we are going to look at non-con games and "style points" then they change to grading losses instead of said wins, which is subjective based on how those teams were ranked by the system. Then they say we will look at the record, unless of course, your one loss is to a team the "system" says is low ranked and therefore a bad loss. They said they are not going to allow a team from the Big 12 in because they don't have a true conference champion. Because. . ."Championships matter". So the Big 12 creates a Championship but the next three years championships don't matter: Alabama got in even though they were not even good enough to get into their conference Championship game. Same with Ohio State the next year. Was it because Penn State, who won the Big 10, was not supposed to be so competitive so soon after their scandal? They were allowed to play and win, just not allowed to be successful. Who gets to decide that? Then Notre Dame gets in this year without having to play a championship. Until teams play head-to-head on truly neutral fields, there will be no "fair". Neutral field doesn't mean taking a team built to win in freezing rain in November to the south coast to play a team 30 miles from their home stadium. I'm not even saying Ohio State should be in the play-offs. I am saying that the system doesn't do what it tells us it does. Conference championship games are the last true college football championships of the year. The rest is just entertainment.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Texas@Last, | |||
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So life isn't fair?  | |||
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No, I don't suspect that it is. I'm not the one to ask about it though because I don't do philosophy.  But I'm pretty sure I was just saying that the BCS/Football Championship is not an NCAA championship.  lolYou could argue that the winner is the champion of a four-team invitational and I would agree. I think the whole idea is stupid to begin with. You start with five power conference champions and only four spots. I have run all kinds of tournaments from state basketball to church Table Tennis, and no one in my experience would accept that a real tournament be run that way. So I'm not saying it's not fair, I'm saying it's a lie. I know it's just my opinion. Thanks for asking for clarification. :thumbs-up: | |||
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From Ohio State's official sports page: Offensive coordinator Ryan Day, 39, was interim head coach during Meyer's 3 game suspension. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yeah watching him on the sidelines this year was painful. | |||
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Ohio State took a lot of heat over the Zach Smith spousal abuse allegations and Urban Meyer’s possible knowledge and inaction. It’s not a stretch to imagine that his resignation was agreed to at the start of the season. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yeah, with a little 'comfort' money to boot. Then again, if he had rolled over Purdue, into the CFP as #4, then slayed Bama and Clemson, I doubt they'd be looking to show him the door... Just for arguments sake. | |||
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So you guys think the severity of the cyst inside Meyer's brain is being exaggerated? _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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Well, did you think his "health problems/heart problems" and wanting to be with his family were exaggerated when he left UF? We will see how quick he heals (again) if the ND job opens up. | |||
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You think Kelly is leaving? RB Cancer fighter (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) since 2009, now fighting Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. | |||
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Ond of my interventional rads did, until seeing that a surgeon had already attempted to remedy. As he put it, tons of folks walk around with these all day and it's a not event, usually unknown. If it's bad enough a prominent surgeon would attempt to treat it's in a category separating if from the mundane and likely a legitimate issue. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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The cyst has been a problem for over two decades, according to this article in the second paragraph. So while perhaps it's an issue to deal with now, it also has been a part of his life for at least the last 4 teams he's coached. They drained the cyst in 2014, so we can only wait to see what he does after taking care of it again in the near future. "The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy." | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I seriously doubt that Notre Dame would offer Meyer a position. He rather snubbed them before and he would not be popular among ND alumni for lots of reasons. Integrity is part of the problem as well. George O'Leary would have been a great coach, but you cannot make stuff up on a resume for a job at ND. | |||
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