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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Hope that you all get a chance to take some time off, see some family and tune into some football this weekend. Please add 7-1 to the long list of things to be thankful of.
We’re going to take the a few days off, but the action on the television should have you covered. And next season, we can all look forward to watching the streak run to six with a belly full of turkey.
Texas A&M @ #2 Texas
Thurs. 8:00PM ET – ESPN
The Longhorns, Oklahoma and Texas Tech have that whole BCS love triangle thing going on and you have to imagine Tech and Sooner fans will have their Aggie hats on for this one. A&M already has a loss to Arkansas State and blowout losses to Miami and Baylor on the books, so they don’t have a chance in hell, right? Weirder things have happened in this rivalry.
West Virginia @ #20 Pittsburgh, Fri. 12:00PM ET – ABC
The 101st edition of the Backyard Brawl will be played on Black Friday this year, so the men and women in that region will each have something to do that day. The women, naturally, will be queuing up at Wal-Mart waiting to get their hands on that Travis Tritt box set, lawn ornaments and other Christmas gifts, while the men will be getting drunk and watching bad football. Hatred meter: charged.
Georgia Tech @ #13 Georgia, Sat. 12:00PM ET – CBS
Paul Johnson’s Yellow Jackets rushed for 472 yards against Miami last week. Granted, it is Miami, but 472 is pretty rare against a BCS program. Georgia has held the upper hand in this series for a while, but this Tech team is playing with a bit of confidence and the Dawgs do like to take Saturdays at home off. Some highly optimistic Tech fans are even thinking blowout.
Syracuse @ #15 Cincinnati, Sat. 12:00PM ET – ESPN360
A home win against a terrible team away from a BCS berth. You’re all growns up now, UC.
Auburn @ #1 Alabama, Sat. 3:30PM ET – CBS
What do you know. It’s another Iron Bowl with nothing on the line. Well, technically, the Tide are playing to keep MNC hopes alive, but they’re already guaranteed a spot in the SEC championship game. Auburn, meanwhile, needs a win just to get into a shitty bowl, but that hasn’t prevented them from counting down to a butt-kicking.
#2 Florida @ Florida State, Sat. 3:30PM ET – ABC
Myron Rolle is a Rhodes Scholar! That’s honestly a pretty remarkable accomplishment. Hopefully he spent this week devising a way to stop Tim Tebow. I’m not holding out hope, however. Trying to solve Tebow is what put Hawking in his wheelchair.
#21 Oregon @ #16 Oregon State, Sat. 7:00PM ET – Ham Radio?
The Civil War figures to get the best ratings in Ohio out of any of these games. Duck fans are feeling it and so are we.
#3 Oklahoma @ #10 Oklahoma State, Sat. 8:00PM ET – ABC
Bedlam, I tell you. Mike Gundy will get another chance to prove his manhood and his DC, Tim Beckman, can put together a good gameplan, but this Sooner team has too many weapons and too much confidence to stop right now.
Notre Dame @ #5 USC, Sat. 8:00PM ET – ESPN
Charlie is on life support after that loss at home to Syracuse last week. Tune in to this one only to see how out of hound the game will get. I’m guessing 56-0.
i’d be happier for UC’s success if their fans weren’t incredibly irritating
The Civil War between the Ducks and Beavers will be on Versus. Watch and cheer accordingly (if you have it).
Im actually rooting for UC, I feel bad for them for not being able to keep a good coach.
Can anyone see a scenario where Mark Dantonio one day takes the helm for our beloved Buckeyes??
I think he’s roughly ten years younger than Tress, so it would work out perfect.
I just think hes one hell of a football coach and will improve with experience.
iball, i had the same thought, but it turns out dantonio is actually only three years younger than Tress (he’s 52, the senator is 55). still relatively young guys, but for dantonio to take over and coach for any length of time, Tressel would have to retire somewhat soon, which no one wants to see happen.
apparently luke fickell is the guy they’re grooming for the HC job, and from what i’ve read about him, he’s some kind of holy terror defensive genius. which is AWESOME
Yeah he’s the current linebacker coach, and he’s got a bit of fire in him.
Happy Turkey Day!
Yeah, my money’s on Fickell. I’d like to see him get the DC job in a year or two. Figure Tress is 3 years away from retiring whenever Luke does get sole possession of DC.
Saw Corey posted on Club Trillion. I love that blog…
Everyone, who hasn’t already, should check it out: http://www.clubtrillion.blogspot.com/
Chesseburger Charlie has been WAY over-rated since he took the job. It was pretty easy to win Superbowl rings when your head coach tapes the opposing defenses and give you the tapes to prepare your offensive gameplan. Not so easy now — what happened to “outscheming your opponents”. The only thing this dude is to outscheme everyone to the front of the line at the Golden Coral Buffet line.
This joker has not won ONE big game… period. He has been emabarrased every time he has tried and been outclassed by every good coach in America that had a mid-level or better team. Tressel really exposed his genius in their bowl match-up and it has gone downhill from there.
This guy is such a genius, that he pissed off Terrelle Pryor’s High School coach and TP himself, and told the coach that TP could play WR for him if he couldn’t cut it at QB…. wow, what a rocket-scientist.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-14-greenstein-charlie-weis-nnov14,0,7497934.column?page=1
I am going to out on a limb and say that Weis is gone after the 77-3 buttkicking he gets at USC saturday and that Urban Meyer will accept the position — he turned it down once, but will accept it this time. Notre Dame, OSU and Michigan are his dream jobs and he has no where to go but up. His kids are older now and the cross – country recruiting requirements wont be such a burden on his family now. Weis has pissed everyone off at ND and alienated media. His Bravado was never backed up and that tends to backfire when you cant put your money where your mouth is. Bye Bye Charlie!
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20081120/COLUMNISTS0306/811200343/1065/SPORTS
Good find on the Meyer article, Palm Beach Buckeye. I would never have thought Meyer would leave Florida. When it comes to Notre Dame, it’s pathetic that they get attention when they’re this bad. But guess what? The attention isn’t going away, and it apparently never will. It’d be better if they were really good so it’ll be more fun to hate them, and rooting against them wouldn’t be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Anyway, Charlie Weis sucks. I’d like to see ND get the right guy, even if it leads to more hatred towards them.
I agree Steve…. ND being this bad is not good for College football…. the only good thing about them sucking so bad (besides laughing at Weis) is freeing up a BCS slot for a deserving team. It is ridiculous they get in under special terms … they should be forced to join a conference or not get consideration under the BCS format. That big $$$$$$$$$$ deal with NBC is the reason they don’t… they don’t want to share that $ with 9 or 10 other teams.
I think it’s even more possible if Tebow goes to the draft after this year.
Hmm, Meyer to Notre Dame? It’d be great for Notre Dame if that happened, but mostly because Urban Meyer burning them in 2005 is haunting them to this day. It’d be some kind of weird closure.
Still, I can’t imagine there’s any benefit to Notre Dame over the University of Florida at the moment. Sure, someone will bring up that, at Notre Dame, you can schedule much more creatively (for better or worse) than you can at the helm of any conference team, but the SEC schools still find creative ways to pad schedules.
Further, the recruiting nationally thing nowadays basically means that Notre Dame would die as a program if it recruited its own home state exclusively. With the way we discuss fuel shortages, fiscal crises and so on, that might be a hindrance down the road. Moreover, this isn’t the 1960s and 70s anymore, where prep school superstars aspired to play at Notre Dame. That sentiment is mostly gone and it’s never coming back. Sure, Notre Dame, unlike the University of Florida, has the benefit of instant name recognition (like a University of Michigan, sadly) and being an instant attention-getter on the recruiting trail. Yet, I think whatever benefits of jetting out to California, Texas or wherever else these 5-stars grow from and having the Notre Dame name in tow for Meyer can be offset by recruiting the hell out of Florida, Alabama and Georgia and being a regional attention-getter. There might be less glory in the latter route, but when all is said and done, it’s probably easier. Further, Florida is one of the wealthiest athletic departments in the country, so I’m not convinced Notre Dame’s resources, while ample, could be that enticing.
Of course, if The Urban Meyer “really, really, really” wants the Notre Dame job (per the article) because it has that much mystique to him, and the only reason he turned down the offer earlier was in consideration of his young’ns, then it says a lot about a man who makes formal inquiries into ACT scores of recruits that he doesn’t get and who also speaks of himself in the third person. He’d thrive at Notre Dame and the Domers would fall in love with him. In a weird way, I hope it happens. Still, I think there’s all sorts of incentives to keep The Urban in Gainesville.
btw, Urban, way to support the place where you got your masters by referring to Michigan as a dream job. Dick. Does Earle Bruce know you feel that way about Michigan?
Isn’t Fickell like Heacock’s padawan learner or something? I think you’d only like Fickell as HC if you like Heacock as DC. Anybody?
I absolutely love Heacock as DC. He has amazing instincts and always plays aggressive with his personnel. He is the epitome of go-for-broke defensive philosophy. In fact, I know first hand that he’s never even heard of zone pass coverage. He possesses the greatest college football defensive mind in the history of the sport.
Also, he’s cool with me pounding his daughter like it’s going out of style. That gets him points, too.
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5757/heacock2rb3.jpg
On Fickell, remember: his defensive coordinators in college were Bill Young (currently at Miami, in the mold of showing both linebackers in the A-gap before dropping zero, one or two off into coverage to keep the offense guessing) and Fred Pagac Sr. He again interned under Pagac as a grad assistant (I think John Tenuta was a supervisor to him as well), and, as an assistant coach, worked under Mark Dantonio.
Further, the consensus on the defense is that he’s the scariest dude on the staff.
Welcum to the EW versiun of Larry King’s old colum…with just as menny eelipseez butt without spel-chek…allow me to summareyes severul articlez inaccurately….and then furrnish links….if I was a fan of a different team I would call Ohio State tO$U…and laugh @ Coach Tre$$el….I think it’s a mega-burn to quote Weiss as braggging about “outscheming your opponents” (when hee akshally talked abowt a “decided schematic advantage”)….even though I’m trying to rag on Weisz for Spygate I’m going to fail because I’m going to describe the legitimate coaching activity known as “scouting”…I hate apostropheeeez….blargh flarn blargh… ….. …..
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i’ve also heard about fickell that he’s been pleading with heacock to get more aggressive on defense. aj hawk, the man himself, said that fickell raised his game, which is about the highest praise you can get.
LOL @ PB-
3:59 am post eh? Somebody needed another slice of pie!
Wow, somebody was doing a bad imitation of me, drunk probably. I guess I should be flattered.
………and Weiss has proven himself to be an incompetent, overindulgent, bragger who has done nothing to improve the Notre Dame Football program. Spygate was certainly a reason that Cheeseburger Charlie did well as a coordinator and I am sure we will never know the entire scope of that affair. Weis is nothing but an empty suit (one of the few D1 coaches to never play football) and the ND universe was duped into hiring him.
“Welcum to the EW versiun of Larry King’s old colum…with just as menny eelipseez butt without spel-chek…allow me to summareyes severul articlez inaccurately….and then furrnish links….if I was a fan of a different team I would call Ohio State tO$U…and laugh @ Coach Tre$$el….I think it’s a mega-burn to quote Weiss as braggging about “outscheming your opponents” (when hee akshally talked abowt a “decided schematic advantage”)….even though I’m trying to rag on Weisz for Spygate I’m going to fail because I’m going to describe the legitimate coaching activity known as “scouting”…I hate apostropheeeez….blargh flarn blargh… ….. ”
Almost as funny as your miserable program. Enjoy the prison-rape you will receive in LA.