Bowl Games? Bowl Games! Game thread 2016-17

twibnotes

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the b1G quarterbacks all pretty much suck. Michigan, tosu, PSU, Iowa....only the Wisconsin kid didn't suck but he didn't have to do anything but throw to his TE all night

This USC QB can play for my team any day

What!? Mcsorley most certainly does not suck. Young and mistake prone? Sure...but the kid can play

Speight was good pre injury and Barrett, while he has flaws, is solid
 

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Maybe Penn State should just stay home and suck Zombie Joe's moldy cock next time.
I'd love to see one of the west coast teams have to play in East Lansing or Happy Valley or Ann Arbor on January 1st. It's a joke. I know it's a bowl, and Pasedena is where the bowl is, but to discount the massive advantage the west coast teams always get is silly.
 

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I'd love to see one of the west coast teams have to play in East Lansing or Happy Valley or Ann Arbor on January 1st. It's a joke. I know it's a bowl, and Pasedena is where the bowl is, but to discount the massive advantage the west coast teams always get is silly.
Sending a west coast team to the north/northeast on New Years is prohibited by the 8th amendment to the US constitution
 

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I'd love to see one of the west coast teams have to play in East Lansing or Happy Valley or Ann Arbor on January 1st. It's a joke. I know it's a bowl, and Pasedena is where the bowl is, but to discount the massive advantage the west coast teams always get is silly.
The Rose Bowl has been played in the Rose Bowl forever. Penn State made a fuckton of money for showing up. You start bitching about the HFA now, you're basically just bitching about the price.

Which is understandable, since those PSU icons are used to getting it for free in Happy Valley.
 

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I'd love to see one of the west coast teams have to play in East Lansing or Happy Valley or Ann Arbor on January 1st. It's a joke. I know it's a bowl, and Pasedena is where the bowl is, but to discount the massive advantage the west coast teams always get is silly.
But people actually enjoy coming to Southern California, so the crowd is always split. I've never heard this crazy complaint before. Look at the overhead shots of the stadium. It's a neutral crowd, nothing like coming to the Coliseum for a regular season game.
 

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Ugh, good game, really wish Penn State pulled it off.

They should be taunted for eternity

School is fortunate the program wasn't given death
I'd argue the NCAA was lucky they didn't get screwed over more for stepping in front of what should have been a civil and criminal punishment. The case was disgusting on both sides and the NCAA was just covering their assess with both the sanctions and the reductions. Let's see if they do anything for Briles or the other shit they sweep under the rug that shouldn't be football punishments but long jail sentences.
 

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But people actually enjoy coming to Southern California, so the crowd is always split. I've never heard this crazy complaint before. Look at the overhead shots of the stadium. It's a neutral crowd, nothing like coming to the Coliseum for a regular season game.
The overhead shots clearly showed at least 65 percent of the stadium in red, approx. 35 percent in white.

And yes, that is the price of the ticket. And the Big Ten teams pay that price every year. They know it. That's the way it goes. No bitching, just acknowledging that the Big Ten team plays at an accepted disadvantage every year. It is, as you say, the price of the ticket. But for a bowl game in a supposed neutral site every year, it should be acknowledged.
 

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The overhead shots clearly showed at least 65 percent of the stadium in red, approx. 35 percent in white.

And yes, that is the price of the ticket. And the Big Ten teams pay that price every year. They know it. That's the way it goes. No bitching, just acknowledging that the Big Ten team plays at an accepted disadvantage every year. It is, as you say, the price of the ticket. But for a bowl game in a supposed neutral site every year, it should be acknowledged.
A 65-35ish crowd is neutral. Do you want it played in silence at Wimbledon?
 

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I'd love to see one of the west coast teams have to play in East Lansing or Happy Valley or Ann Arbor on January 1st. It's a joke. I know it's a bowl, and Pasedena is where the bowl is, but to discount the massive advantage the west coast teams always get is silly.
It's not changing, nor should it, but I don't know how anyone can disagree with this. It's definitely a big advantage. Same applies, to a lesser extent, when northern teams go south.
 

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It's tough to argue against the fact that college football diverts much-needed resources from education, when Auburn can afford Dr. James Andrews as its team doctor.
 

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It's tough to argue against the fact that college football diverts much-needed resources from education, when Auburn can afford Dr. James Andrews as its team doctor.
What, you mean you don't think he's there as a tutor for the players on biology?
 

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Yeah, I was both weirded out by Brent's thoughts on Mixon, but also thought the Twitter reaction was overblown. But that doubling-down was completely unnecessary and uncomfortable.
 

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I'm not sure if Saban was that pissed about Kiffin's public comments (which were inappropriate, but arguably not worth such an extreme reaction), or if the public comments were just the tip of the iceberg.

It's also possible that Saban liked Sark better than Kiffin all along, and the public comments gave him the pretext to make the move he wanted to make all along. (This would also explain Kiffin jumping at the FAU job -- maybe he was out as Bama's OC after the season regardless.)
Saban came out and said in a presser weeks ago that LK wanted to get a head coaching job and he, Saban, wanted him to get one.

LK is buying, not renting, his new home at FAU.

LK is a different personality type than Saban and most of his staff.

To illustrate how different he and Saban are, he pulls up a graphic on his phone. The text comes from Dr. Chenavis Evans, a psychologist who works with Alabama, NFL franchises and other colleges in her job as the owner and CEO of Critical Insights Consulting. Evans profiles the personalities of the coaches and players to help maximize how they work together. Kiffin’s profile comes up as a conceptual thinker. “You’ll like this,” Kiffin says with a smile. “It means I’m imaginative, intuitive about ideas, visionary, enjoys the unusual and learns by experimenting.”

He laughs: “Doesn’t that explain me and everything that’s not in the staff room at Alabama?”

He then points out that Saban and a majority of the Crimson Tide staff are labeled structural: “Practical thinker, likes guidelines, cautious with new ideas, predictable and learns by doing.”
I'm on mobile. See more at http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/12/28/lane-kiffin-alabama-usc-fau?xid=socialflow_twitter_si. Kudos to Saban for hiring a guy who was an obvious "poor cultural fit" who could help his franchise. I've worked for, and with, a lot of people who wouldn't do that.
 

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In all seriousness, if it isn't loud enough for one side to be affecting snap counts, the crowd means absolutely nothing.

The Rose Bowl is not a loud stadium even when it is 100% UCLA fans. A 65%ish crowd favoring USC today had zero impact on the game.
This is true
 

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The overhead shots clearly showed at least 65 percent of the stadium in red, approx. 35 percent in white.

And yes, that is the price of the ticket. And the Big Ten teams pay that price every year. They know it. That's the way it goes. No bitching, just acknowledging that the Big Ten team plays at an accepted disadvantage every year. It is, as you say, the price of the ticket. But for a bowl game in a supposed neutral site every year, it should be acknowledged.
Oh hipster please. Are you even serious?