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Great lake. Even a beautiful lake like that would be honored to have the Great GP1 go 100 for 100 hitting balls into it...
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Their golf course has the world's only floating green; really cool. You have to take a boat ride out to the green.
Do you have to navigate a clown's mouth to get there?
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His last answer raises some serious questions. Are we at fault for being fans?
Of course it shouldn't be banned. I'm of the opinion that football below the ages of 7th grade should be outlawed. Children are getting head injuries at too young of an age and he impact of those injuries can last a lifetime. I don't believe the majority of the people coaching Pee Wee, etc. are able to properly instruct very young children in the proper way to safely play football. Most Jr HS coaches don't either, but some structure could be put around their coaching to make them more effective. I don't believe the children are fully able to understand and execute the coaching lessons below 7th grade either.
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He is, by far, our biggest asset to gaining any national publicity. AND it's free. That's the point.
Our basketball players are our biggest asset to gain publicity. If they play well, people around the country see them on TV and see there is something good going on at UofA. If they fall short, we hope for another mention about James in an SI article or some other publication.
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There is another way of looking at it too. Eventually the middle and lower class get sick of looking at the rich and cut their heads off and move into the better houses.
At which point they begin to mismanage their new homes and the next thing you know, it is a ghetto again. People who run the MAC and the ADs wouldn't know what to do if it was a BCS conference.
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"IF" we were to create a "AA" league for our selves, how would we aviod the encroaching FCS bloodletting that Montana's former AD forewarned about?
You don't. Montana is going from the frying pan into the fire. Anytime I read a quote from an athletic director, my bull*&^% meter goes off. The guy wants to put on his resume that he moved a team from IAA to IA...that's what I think is going on. If he can't change jobs soon, he will start trying to get facilities upgrades on his resume in order to boost his resume more. College athletics has become largely nonsense.
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I'd rather live in a condemned house in a rich neighborhood than in the nicest house in the ghetto.
Eventually, the rich folks get sick of looking at the condemned house and have it torn down. There is another way of looking at it. I'd rather live in the nicest house in an upper middle class neighborhood if that is what I could afford.
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C-USA, the MWC, and the Sun Belt have all back-filled their losses and become weaker. I think they've all fallen behind the MAC at this point. The MAC is now sitting in 7th behind the six former BCS conferences simply by virtue of not panicking when Temple left and not adding a bunch of regional FCS schools with questionable success.
It's crazy, but right now unless we somehow, some way, get an invitation to the Big East, we are best served by sticking with the MAC. C-USA is weaker than the MAC now. The Sun Belt took several steps backwards. The MWC lost everything that made them great, and the WAC is all but dead.
Based upon your theory, I'd rather be first instead of last. "What do you mean by first GP1?"...Well, we can be a successful, yet forgotten school in a forgotten conference; or, we can be the best team in a division consisting of teams/conferences just like us. Look at the links above. We CAN be like every school in those conferences and we CAN be better. We'll NEVER be an Alabama or LSU...It's just the way the world of college sports works and Zips fans shouldn't fool themselves into thinking we can. It's simply not in the world of reality. If we (MAC) separated from the BCS schools with what remains of the conferences above, we could have our own division and play for a national championship. We can be a regular playoff participant playing meaningful playoff games in December at the Big Dialer.
Is the sign of greatness in college football how you do against the universe of those playing your sport, or is it measured by how you do against your peers/equals? I believe it is a measurement of how you do against your peers. Compared to Alabama, Mt. Union is not a great football team. Alabama would score 100 points on them and Mt. Union might not get past the 50 or even a first down. Compared to all of the DIII teams, Mt. Union is a great program. There is certainly no shame in what Mt. Union has given their fans/school over the years even though they are not at the same level as Alabama. It's all how you look at things.
I have a story about Zips fans who believe we will be Alabama some day. A Zips fan dies...Well call him Lieutenant Hopping Guy. Lt. Guy gets to the pearly gates and St. Peter is waiting. The conversation goes like this:
St. Peter: "Lt. Guy. You've lived a good life. You were a good son. You studied hard and worked hard all of your life. You married and had a great family. You supported your community. You deserve to walk through these gates and spend eternity in Heaven."
Lt. Hopping Guy: "Thanks St. Peter. My only request is to stay on Earth for a little longer to see my Zips become as good as schools like Alabama. One day, they will have the right building process and action plans to accomplish this."
St. Peter: "You believe this can really take place? The Zips will one day have a program like a Alabama?"
Lt. Guy: "We're only a facilities upgrade away."
St. Peter: "We have a place already for people who believe as you do. It's called Hell."
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I wonder who the first conference, in a fit of honesty, that will call themselves..."Conference Grasping at Straws (CGS)".
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Really?
Yes. It's how you treat someone who is trying to mooch money off of you.
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The NFL should countersue for malpractice.
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Chase agreed to a contract worth $825,000. He could start this season if the team decides not to move Michael Boley to middle linebacker.
He is a perfect fit for the Giants.
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Consider what Hugo mentioned. In this offense, a lot of times picks are not the fault of the QB, the receiver doesn't make the proper read, the QB does. He throws it right to a defender where the WR should have been. Think Neil O'Donnell to Larry Brown.
I totally understand. However, if a QB is throwing 3 ints a game, at some point it can't always be the fault of the other five guys and that one guy is always making the right read while everyone else is doing the wrong thing. An int can be the result of a DB making a great play, or a poorly thrown pass, or just a brain fart, etc. Either way, ints matter and it falls on the shoulders of the guy throwing the ball. Regardless of the starter next year, if the QB is trowing three ints a game, the rest of the team will lose confidence in him.
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I dread the day of a playoff of any type. Why? Look at the second comment in the comment section. There are too many people in the world who subscribe to the idea that more teams in a playoff is better. A four team playoff won't be enough for the lunatics at the ncaa. Next thing there will be an 8 team playoff...then a 16 team playoff...then a 16 team playoff with a play-in week for four teams. Right now, college football rewards excellence throughout the season and every game matters. On some level, we already have a tournament that starts in August and runs through January. Want to turn it into college basketball where the regular season means nothing, have a playoff and enjoy watching reruns on network tv the week between Christmas and New Years when there is no college football on week nights because the bowls will be gone.
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Pohl didn't have the best day. Williams threw the ball 50+ times. Get used to it. There will be picks running this offense.
Won't matter who is the QB. Main thing is a QB who can make quick decisions,throw over the middle on crossing patterns and throw the ball away when nothing is there. Can't have passes knocked down,can't take sacks. Moore had a couple of nice runs. That doesn't make this offense go. Rythmn passes and runs make this work. Not sacks,batted passes....
There will be some picks, but two in a spring game is a lot. Average it out to three a game when the bullets are flying for real and it becomes a weekly disaster. I'd rather have a batted pass or a sack than an int. Worst case, sacks and batted passes result in punts and favorable field position changes. Ints result in defensive TD for the other team and shorter fields. I don't see how an int is more favorable.
From what we are reading, Bowden isn't going to put up with a player who gives the ball to the other team. He wants smart QBs who play the percentages. If Williams can cut down on the ints, he is the man. If not, he is a liability in the worst way. The QB decision next year will not be a fun one to make as the coach is deciding between who will provide the Zips with the least liability. As happy as we are with the changes, the Zips aren't out of the woods yet and a decsion like this is proof of that.
I know this isn't the NFL, but the comparison is still pretty close. In the NFL, if a team doesn't throw an int, they have an 80% chance of winning. One int and the number goes down to 60%. Two ints and the number goes down to 40%. Three and there is almost no shot at winning.
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"I mean, no, because I never shot up a strip club or nothing like that."
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A really in-depth analysis of Weeden here for those who are up for a long read.
Great read and thanks for posting.
I don't think there is any doubt that Weeden is a very talented player. His problem isn't his talent...Heck, the Browns have had a lot of talented QBs over the years. The problem will be the Browns and what happens to good QBs when they play for Cleveland. After two years, they get run out of town one way or another then they bring another victim in to try to do something with the other 10 sad sacks they have playing for them.
One other thing I would tell Mr. Weeden is this. You say your age doesn't matter. You also say every team talked to you about your age. Translation....Your age matters and they know it...That's why every team asked you about your age. The author has a really good discussion about the age of QBs, but even at the conclusion he admits there really isn't much evidence to support his theory. I'd look at it another way other than QBs going to Pro Bowls, because there are already three QBs in Weeden's Division that will make a Pro Bowl before him. This is how I see age. QBs on bad teams (Browns) take a lot of hits and they get hurt a lot. The older you get, the longer it takes to rebound and the hits add up more quickly. His age is going to matter a lot more in Cleveland than if a better team drafted him. The misconception is talent matters in the NFL. In a world where nobody gets hurt, that would be one of the best indicators if not the best. However, injuries matter just about as much as anything else. The 1977 Steelers were one of the best teams of all times and only went 9-5 and lost in the first round of the playoffs. Why? Injuries.
My advice...Rent, don't buy.
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Not to continue to
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The ints Williams throws scare the crap out of me. Adjusted for the number of times he will throw in a real college game, he could average around three per game.
Moore takes too many sacks, but I'd rather have a sack than an int.
Pohl had the best day, but not by much. Two sacks worry me, but no ints. Tanner Price?
I don't think the #1 question Bowden has before him centers around stats. I think his decision will be more philosophical around the QB position for one year.
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I'd love to have a job with the Plain Dealer writing about the Browns. Every two years, I could just pull up my old QB articles, change the names and dates, then republish. Browns fans have become so desensitized to the stupidity of their favorite team, they don't even know or care about the articles at this point. I could condense eight hours of work into eight minutes writing about Browns QBs. Come to think of it, maybe that's why Terry Pluto had so much time to watch porn and develop a porn addiction....makes sense if you think about it.
That "new" car the Browns just bought has a lot of miles on it already. The guy has not played a down or proven a thing yet and he is less than two years from being on the wrong side of 30. By the time he gets into his "prime", his prime will be over. I know it sounds harsh, but the NFL is a harsh business for young guys in their 20s. Keep all of those PD and ABJ articles written about him in the next two weeks and see what they are writing about in two years.
The answer for the Browns was to keep McCoy and let his body get destroyed over the next three years while they try to turn that franchise into a real NFL franchise (And I don't just mean the guys on the field either). Use him up then cut him. After using up McCoy, you find a franchise QB once there are decent pieces around him. Take it from a Steelers fan...Never get emotional about the players on the field. If there is good, proven leadership in the franchise, the players become replaceable.
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I posted the form for this outing not long ago and I'll never be able to find it. If someone could be kind enough to bump it up so Matt has some help, I think it would help the cause.
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which creates more headaches in posting links than it creates satisfaction in seeing the rival's name morphed into a joke.
I respectfully disagree. Can't State IS an endless joke of a university and alumni base.
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1. Football is very entertaining but it's beyond me how anyone can be surprised that some players will suffer debilitating injuries that will afflict them the rest of their lives, whether high school, college or professional. Shame on all of us collectively for not fully embracing that reality. At least the Roman spectators were clear about the fates of the losers. What does it say about football fans that they are generally unprepared to fully understand that their entertainment causes pain and agony that will last for many years for the entertainers?
I love your posts on this issue. Especially the relation of the Roman fans to modern football fans.
The Romans didn't have products like NFL Films showing them, and glorifying, major violent plays. ESPN is even more guilty than NFL Films. Roman fans had a certain maturity that our society is not capable of grasping. The Roman Gladiators were fighting to the death in reality and the fans understood exactly what was going on in the arena. ESPN and NFL films lead us to believe football players are modern day gladiators and the coaches are great philosophical leaders. They aren't. An alternate reality is created and our immature society is more than eager to embrace that false reality.
The other major difference is the gladiators were killed immediately. Football players are being killed by the game well into their retirement. There came a point in Rome when enough was enough with the killing and the gladiators went away. It is taking us a while, but we are now seeing our modern day gladiators go away in a pathetic manner and we are starting to not like it. Will the NFL go away like the gladiators did in time?
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If the competition is a wash, or Pohl is better, it's time to give the kid the nod and see what he's got. If he can't cut it, then throw in one of the old guys.
If Pohl is better, he should start and they should stick with him all of next season come Hell or high water (see my post on Tanner Price). There is no need to go Cleveland Browns on a young Zips QB if they believe he is the future.
One other thing. Manning, Aikan and 19 win Charlie never had to walk into the disaster of a program this program is in (until they prove otherwise). There is still a lot of work to be done and winning doesn't come easy. Especially at Akron.
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Agreed. I don't have much interest in starting a freshman on a lousy team.
I could watch a frosh start on a lousy team as long as the lousy team was competitive and the QB showed the ability to take the experience of his first season and take a huge leap in results his second season. I know people don't like my Wake Forest comparisons, but I use them because they do so many things right with very little compared to other ACC schools. We do so little with so much compared to even MAC schools, but that is going to change soon.
Tanner Price is Wake's QB. He will be a junior this coming season. Since I go to all of their games, I've seen him play a lot. His frosh year he was a true frosh on a lousy team. Very hard to go to the games and watch them go 3-8. If you read his bio though, he had an excellent season for a Wake frosh QB. Better individual stats than Riley Skinner (rhymes with winner) who was one of the best college QBs I've ever seen play. If we play a frosh QB next season, he has to perform well like Price did his frosh season. If the wins aren't there, but we are competitive AND the potential is there to improve a great deal between his frosh and soph seasons, then play him. A player should improve the most between those two seasons. Look at Price. He goes from a 3-8 QB to a 6-6 bowl season QB at a school like Wake that isn't known for football.
If we started a frosh QB next season and he went 3-9 and then 6-6 his second season, we would all be jumping for joy. It would be what we should expect out of a good coaching staff. Going from 3-9 to 4-8 wouldn't do anything for me and a waste of that QBs frosh season. This program needs to make a huge leap after next year. One game improvements are nothing but "building process" nonsense.
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that's a nice bb league. I'll get to see them play once a year. Went to my first game last year and really enjoyed it. UNCC actually has NCAA Final Four banners hanging in their arena...kind of neat.