So full of win. And loss.Sticking with today's theme of technical troubles, I ran across this 404 page on NCAA.com of all places.
For those not wearing pocket protectors or just finding their way to the internet, 404 is of course the error code returned when a page (or image or other asset) cannot be found on the server. The pages sites use to handle this can be informative, clever, funny or just downright strange -- there are even galleries of some of the finer examples out there.
And here is the staid NCAA with Adam Morrison on their 404 page.
On the ground.
Most likely crying.
Awesome.
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[...] A superb discovery on the NCAA home page by Eleven Warriors. [...]
Hey guys, don't look now but USC is looking like a 404 page in their prime time contest against the seemingly hapless Beavers of Oregon State. It's OSU up 7-0 after one quarter of play. Can you say "letdown"?
Perhaps, we just aren't very good, especially on both lines of scrimmage.
OSU 14 USC 0, 7:38 remaining in the 2nd Quarter.
with Boeckman at qb with no beanie we are below avg on offense. Put T Pryor at Qb and Beanie in and you will see one of the best and hardest to stop Offenses in College football. BTW 14-0 wtf!!!
It's early... And Ore St. has always played USC tough. They have won the last 2 of 3!
Got any more of that kool-aid? Neither one of those 2 play left tackle or d-tackle.
J.B., I hear what you're saying, but this team was absolutely thrashed by Penn State a couple weeks ago.
Whoops! USC was moving the ball and suddenly McKnight fumbles it away while he's trying to avoid a loss on one of those direct snap plays. This is smelling more and more like an upset.
Wow. I'm shocked, to say the least, but still a ton of time left.
Gives me hope that we'll get some back when the Trojans visit Columbus at least.
TLB... I have seen Pryor play on the other side of the ball in high school and he actual was just as much of a freak rushing the passer as he was being a passer!
I agree though, Pryor taking all the snaps with Beanie in the back field wouldn't have changed the outcome 2 weeks ago...
How bad did PSU beat the beavers?
Your comparing apples to oranges. You can't campare an OOC game with a Conf. game...
PSU beat them 45-14.
OSU just got a first down at the USC 8. First and goal Beavers, :58 left in the half.
a but whooping is a but whooping , conference game or not!
You're right... It means nothing when an opponent knows everything about you since they play you every year.
TD Beavers!
PSU 45-14, I believe
Wow.
OSU 21 USC 0 at Halftime. All this and Erin Andrews is on the sidelines!
How does USC get themselves in this position versus every mediocre team? If the score holds up, does that mean Penn State could beat Ohio State by 52?
Yes.
Hmmm, PSU may be pretty good. I feel worse about our loss to USC watching this 1st half sack-kick. But I feel EVEN better watching the men of troy go head case trying to tackle that mighty midget tailback. Ahhh, I love college football.
Bollman/Tress, you see what good playcalling and line play do? Let's get some of that going the rest of the way...
If we can get past Whisky the PSU game is gonna be a doozy.
Here's to hoping 21 is enough.
Looks like Sanchez is going to have to load it up and fire in the 2nd half. OSU is not giving up much on the ground but the downfield game is definitely there.
And here they come...
shocking
Nice stop there on 3rd down. The difference I see in the 2nd half is that USC is not afraid to go downfield but OSU apparently is. This might be a good time to sneak a hitch-and-go into the gameplan.
I'm completely jealous of Ore St.'s line play on both sides of the ball... Very impressive!
Is it just me or was there a memo sent out to all Punt Returners letting them know they can't fair catch? I have seen more balls take LONG bounces inside the 5 that should have been fair caught....OR JUST GETTING LITE UP, AGAIN BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CALL FOR THE FAIR CATCH!
Holding on USC!
2 of 10 on 3rd down? Yikes.
Good points about the lines J.B. I'm more convinced than ever that Ohio State's problems rest with their coordinators (who incidentally also handle the respective lines).
That's why I call that penalty "the drive killer". 5:26 left in the game, OSU has the ball first and ten from their 22, leading 21-14. Time for the long 14-play drive to kill the clock.
Little man is killing them.
98 yards to go, 3:15 on the clock. Incomplete on first down. If Sanchez gets out of this one, he'll be a true big-time QB.
amazing what happens when you put pressure on the QB
Oh snap.
OH SHYT!
Scratch that thought. Looks like Bobby Stoops and the boys from OU are gonna be numero uno.
Too bad this was the only OSU that showed up to play USC this year. Sucks to be us.
Way to go, Beavers.
Getting back to the original post topic, I think that shot of Sanchez stomping off the field with his head hanging low would make a nice 404 page for USC's team site.
Easy come, easy go Trojans
Penn State looking scarier than ever---but of course when the Nittany Lions start to smell the MNC, they inevitably implode under the weight of their all too high expectations.
Pete Carroll's legacy. Stanford, Oregon State (x2), UCLA.
What was the line on this one anyway?
Some of you guys piss me off(tlb). You still don't get how bad Todd Boeckman was during his time as starter. The O line would give him all day and he would get happy feet and move from the pocket into the sack everytime. The d line could be very good with the move to a smaller faster line up. Of course it never hurts to play tight man coverage and bring a blitz every once and awhile.
I want to know when this kind of thing is going to start costing USC significantly when it comes to national respect the way our last few losses have.
Think about it: that's four times in 2006, 2007, and 2008 (so far) that the Trojans and Surfer Pete have lost TO UNRANKED TEAMS. OHIO STATE HAS LOST EXACTLY FOUR GAMES TOTAL IN THE SAME SPAN.
Not to mention that our FOUR TOTAL losses have included games vs. a #1 team and TWO #2s. NOT unranked teams. Not two consecutive road losses to a fair-to-middling conference rival like Oregon State. Not any defeats against the worst team in the conference, a la Stanford.
You watch, though. I just this FUCKING SECOND heard Scott Van Pelt say that you can't exclude USC from the National Championship picture, and the hell of it is he's probably right.
BUT: what if Beanie is really able to come back strong and runs wild the rest of the year? What if the O-line starts playing up to its potential/reputation, and LiC becomes VY2? What if we run the table, including a tough road game @ Camp Randall and beating what looks to everybody like a very good Penn State team? Will the Buckeyes get to be in the mix? NOT ON YOUR FUCKING LIFE. Even though that in that event, it will be clear that that Buckeye team will have been a far different and better one than the one whose only loss was IN SEPTEMBER to the nation's #1 TEAM AT THE TIME. Meanwhile, the Trojans (assuming they win out) WILL be in the mix, despite having merely won what is clearly the weakest of the BCS conferences and having lost to a team that ABSOLUTELY NOBODY expected to beat them. What a bullshit system this is.
I've said it before: there should never be any rankings until every single 1-A team has played at least one conference game. And those rankings should be used to compile a seeded, 16-team playoff where the 1st round is played at the higher seed's field.
How bad are we? Seriously. I don't care what level of bad we are, but someone please find the answer!
El, I'm a huge playoff proponent, but knowing USC's methods, they'd probably sweep every year because all of the games would be big ones/worthy enough of their attention and preparation.
With a 16 or 8 team playoff, there's room for them to lose that one game each year to a major dog and then get in and wax everyone at the end.
We killed our first two drives vs USC that should have went for td's. If we had beanie there is no question he breaks atleast two big runs. If Pryor plays the whole game we might of had a shot.
Jason we need a Sanchez pic of throwing his mouth peice against the wall as the Beavers dominated the Mark May USC tem. Anybody, which all of us are guilty of watching Gameday should tell Mark May to F*** OFF and go coach the PITT OFF line and Lou Holtz to go to speech class or help Bill Parcells sorry Charlie Weiss coach Norte Dame back to Divison 1.