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I know. It's part of the fun.

The key what? I'm going to type the remainder of this note very slowly because the brain functions slowly on THC and I want you to understand what I am saying. I hate to do the job that is traditionally reserved for others on this board, but it seams as if I have to when dealing with an OU fans and their low IQ. "Key" can be a noun or adjective. In the sentence above, you use it as a noun. One more word and you would have had a sentence that made sense. OU will make a BCS game when OU girls start shaving their armpits and legs.

You guys are a long way away from making a BCS game and getting run out of the stadium worse than Cincy did a few years ago.

UT will flex their muscles against a non SEC team and then go right back to sucking in the SEC. Look for them to cover whatever line is set.

Great day for the Zips yesterday!!!! They did exactly what they should do against a I-AA team and then some. They went above and beyond the call of duty and I'm so very excited about the attitude of the players in putting out a performance like yesterday. Great job Zips!

Yesterday was a perfect example of how bad the ACC really is in football. VA Tech was once a great college football program and now they can get beat easily by a middle of the road Big East program. Yesterday was no fluke. Pitt had better players across the board than Va Tech. This is why the ACC didn't want WVU. WVU would destroy that horrible league and they knew it and made up stories about academics, foundations, etc. It was all a dodge.

Good crowds next year. Great crowds and a Game 1 sell out in 2014.

Now wait just a minute there Mr. Kangaroo...I resent you belittling my dreams and ambitions of having my own religion (for tax purposes of course) with the express purpose of starting a huge gambling operation.

They aren't taking advantage of sane people. They take advantage of true believers and little old ladies.

Florida State = Penn State (pre-Sandusky disaster) Clemson = Wisconsin Maryland = Purdue I have tickets to an ACC school. It is a bad league, but I enjoy watching college football so I go to games. It's funny watching ND fans get all chesty after wins against Navy and Purdue. Makes me realize why they are all so detestable. Let's see how they do against MSU this weekend.

Working inside the University is certainly a concern. I think a company built off of evangelical cults tied to a public institution is a problem. As far as lying.....maybe. They are stating a fact that relates to the overall fundraising for the non-profit. When a non-profit hires InfoCision to fundraise, the VAST majority of the money raised will go to IC. Of all the money the non-profit raises, around 20% will go to administrative costs. Are they lying? Not really. Is it distasteful and almost lying?....Heck ya! Lastly....Enjoy Lot 9....Brought to you by little old ladies giving $25 at a time....

When I look at ND's schedule, I see Michigan's schedule. Sort of good, but mostly average. Five ACC schools or five Big Ten schools...What's the difference after the PSU collapse is complete? One can put the ACC and Big Ten in a bag, shake them up and they will all come out together at this point. Which gets to your point. Scheduling is the art of illusion in college football. I believe athletic directors are snake oil salesmen....their schedules come in the bottles with the gold lettering. A good AD can make it look like you play good teams by playing teams that were good ten years ago (and may not be now), but not really playing anyone good ooc.

Kids that want to win and be noticed for winning don't interest me. Kids that want to win against the best talent in the country interest me. If ND has had top rated recruiting classes for the last 5-10 years, there is a huge problem with the people rating recruiting classes. ND plays a big ten schedule with USC thrown in. There are "names" on their schedule, but little substance.

I would think so as well. The worse thing UofA could have done was to decline the request for filming. If they decline, it could have been worse. UofA has done nothing wrong. They just took a bunch of money that used to be property of little old ladies and built a football stadium with it.

they aren't doing a very good job of recruiting because good players want to compete against the best, not the ACC The big ten is better than the ACC in football. I don't know about, nor do I care about the other sports. Changes in college athletics have everything to do with football. Nobody really is making moves for academics. Playing Pitt va tech, eats may not be bad, but it isn't far away from bad.

You got that right. Their billing per completed call, at least around ten years ago, was making them around sixty dollars per hour while normal companies were making around thirty five. Basically, info inion makes money for itself while developing donor bases for their clients. They started out doing this for religious groups scaring little old ladies out of twenty five dollars at a time. It later branched into other types of fundraising where they still scare people out of money with hyper inflated rhetoric. The management of the company is a strange breed. Gary Talylor had a sort of cult following within the company. Honestly, I think a lot of the groups they deal with are cults themselves, but that's another discussion. The upper management of the company all lives next to each other out in bath. I know someone who called it a compound It's very cultlike. I think that's the way they want it. Our stadium was built with very strange and dirty money.

Keeping their independence is their last gasp effort at being important in the alumns minds. In addition, they can make more money off of NBC. If a playoff happens, being an indy gives them a back door into the playoffs. ND wants nothing to do with the Big Ten. I have no respect for the Big Ten, but it is a better conference than the ACC.

I do. One can only swallow so much crap before they get sick of it. They are now entertaining. I'll take that at this point. Before the Zips get winning, they need to get competitive. I think they are almost there but more games will prove it out. To make any comparison between this team and a team Ianello would have coached is just silly.

Coaching based upon cliches also prevents winning as well.

I dont know about you guys, but I love watching Shark Week on Discovery. It never gets old watching a shark attack a plastic seal floating behind a boat. Sharks are largely mindless animals who are extremely destructive when they do their job. Sort of like Athletic Directors. The discussion on this board about the coach at Pitt got me thinking about the destruction athletic directors can leave behind them at the schools they are employed. It got me thinking that a network could have a week long documentary on the destruction athletic directors unleash, aided by their willing dupes in university presidents, at the schools they work. I think I have Monday-Wednesday lined up, but Im having trouble closing out the five days with two more candidates. Actually, Im too lazy to put too much thought into it so Im asking the board for help. I was thinking on Monday we could warm up the audience with Kevin Anderson at Maryland. In one of the worst coaching decisions in recent years, he fired Ralph Friedgen, who in 2010 went 9-4, finished second in the Atlantic Division (highest finish since 2006) and went to a bowl. Friedgen also went 5-2 in bowl games, had a 75-50 record overall. Friedgen was fired for Randy Edsall.... only 4 games over .500 at UCONN and was 22-26 in the Big East. Edsall entertained the fans last season with a stunning reversal of Marylands fortunes with a 2-10 record. Way to get after that plastic seal Mr. Anderson! Tuesday....Lets see....Well, Steve Pederson should draw huge ratings. Mr. Pederson has had several shots at the plastic seal and university presidents keep allowing him to come back for more. He is more than happy to smile for the camera, as he does in the attached link, as he fully breaches from the water while attacking the seal. He is the AD who gave Nebraska Bill Callahan and Pitt both Mike Haywood and their current coach. Wednesday could feature an AD near and dear to Zips fans hearts. You know him...you love him....you cant live without him....Tom Wistrcill. If ever a great white shark of athletic directors breached and landed on the shores of Lake Superior, our own TW has done that. Along with his personal Remora in Rob Ianello, he successfully took a struggling Zips football program with promise and turned it into a 2-22 team over two years. In watching this shark swim the waters of the ncaa, we see all of the worst traits in an AD as he hired a friend in lieu of a person who actually knew how to coach football. Truely everything that is wrong with athletic directors. Somehow though, he remains in the water to strike at the plastic seal again. Ive filled up three days. See if you can fill up two more so we can have a real "When Athletic Directors Strike" week. Anyone going to the game tomorrow, have fun and everyone else, have a great weekend.

Its amazing what one can forget in a year. We had a 7-3 lead and then a 10-3 lead in the second quarter last year. The game was close until the fourth. Kind of gives me more confidence about this year.

With any luck, Wistrcill is working on three envelopes as well. I try not to dwell on it on this board, but the guy absolutely destroyed a football program with one decision.

With any luck, Wistrcill is working on three envelopes as well. I try not to dwell on it on this board, but the guy absolutely destroyed a football program with one decision.

I saw Duke play in person last year. Their offense is either really good, or horrible. There is little in between. They moved the ball well, but hurt themselves a lot in the game I saw. They have a good returning senior qb in Renfree and some players around him, although not many. Duke is good enough to get on a roll against a team like FIU and put up a blow out in the first game of the season. I wouldn't dismiss the ability of FIU because they got blown out by Duke...Duke is better this year and has some good players in the right spots. It looks like FIU has trouble with their red zone offense. In playing a team like FIU, our bend, don't break defense may do well if we can force them into longer fields and keep the D off the field in the Miami heat (no pun intended). Doesn't look like they get much pressure on the QB. I'll be interested to see if they blitz early and what success they have blitzing. Our QB has a good grasp of the offense and gets rid of the ball quickly, which can neutralize a blitz. If he can neutralize the blitz, THEN the issue will become whether or not he can complete passes against greater numbers of pass defenders. Could be an interesting chess game. It also doesn't look like they may be a very physical team. Another issue that could help our smaller defenders. Should be a fun game. I expect the Zips to compete much better this week.

I agree completely and can only add to it. Miami's qb is an nfl player. I don't know if he is a starter or not because that depends on where you go, but I dare say he is more suited for the nfl at this point than roethlisberger was his last year at miami. Catching..... I said this the other day after the Zips game. Full scholarship = catching the routine passes. If the Mac wants to be taken seriously, the players in this league have to stop pooping their pants in big games. It happens too much. Field goals...... Full scholarship = making 25 yard field goals in perfect weather. I'm sick of watching mackickers miss field goals. I hate the field goals too, but if the coach decides to kick it, the players should at least make the easy plays. Maybe my demands are too much for MAC players. I don't think doing the basics is too much to ask out of a player who is getting a full scholarship to do something. Catch the ball. Don't fumble. Make easy field goals isn't too much to ask.