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  1. 7 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    I hope you guys are excited for some huge realignment news I heard about today!

     

    Apparently, Austin is getting a new Arena Football League (v3.0) team next week! You'll be happy to know that they will have close rivals in *checks notes* Lake Charles, Louisiana and Odessa, Texas. There's also the Chicago Rush that play in Rockford, Il which is 75 miles from real Chicago. That gives me hope that the new Austin Wranglers will play at the Bell County Expo Center.

    Damn, I loved me some Arena Football back in the 90s when the Predators played in the old Orlando Arena.

    I went to a game like 5-1 years ago after the decline. They were playing in the UCF arena and their dance team were clearly the B-Team from some local strip club.

    It was so sad.

    Edit: I see that the Preds are back under new ownership and will be joining this AFL 3.0.

  2. 6 hours ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    I don’t really remember what happened in 1994 when the SEC split into divisions,  but Saban has certainly been complaining about possibly having to play Tennessee, Auburn, and LSU every year going forward. 

    1992 and Bama came out OK on the scheduling deal because at the time, the SEC went with a 5-2-1 format where everyone had 2 cross division permanent opponents and only one rotating game each year (took 8 years to play everyone at least twice). Bama was given the weakest SEC program as their other permanent rival.

    Of the Big 6:

    Alabama - Tennessee and Vanderbilt
    Auburn - Georgia and Florida
    LSU - Florida and Kentucky
    Florida - LSU and Auburn
    Georgia - Auburn and Ole Miss
    Tennessee - Alabama and Arkansas

    It wasn't until 2003 that the SEC shifted to a 5-1-2 (played everyone at least twice every 5 years) and everyone dropped to just one cross rival opponent (removing the second team listed above).

  3. 1 minute ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    solved for everyone but the coaches trying to figure out which play number they need to send in - I thought that was 42... that was 1st qtr it's 23 now, you just called for a fake punt on 2nd down

    They should probably get a sheet with the plays and numbers as well.

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  4. 20 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    Give every player on offense and defense a wristband with all of the plays numbered.

    Send the play number in from the sidelines which can by done by three or four guys with only one of them being "Hot".

    Change the wristbands every quarter.

    Problem solved.

    Just don't grab the wrong wristbands

    -2019 Florida vs Georgia

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  5. 18 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

    You’re quoting a guy who has an ax to grind against the media because they bring all the shitty stuff he does to light.

    He's always had an adversarial role with regards to the media.

    Back at Florida, he verbally attacked an Orlando Sentinel reporter for quoting a Florida player comparing Tebow to Brantley and threatened to ban the paper from practice for 5 years.

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    What I found funny was 12 of 13 teams we’re about to pinpoint Stallions buying tickets…

    So my question was who was 13? Who didn’t rate scouting? Or was he scouting at CMU game from the sidelines so no need to send him to Michigan State…. Or was it Rutgers because, well Rutgers…

    Wisconsin is the 13th team, but only because they don't have full access to the records sold from SeatGeek so they simply don't have proof.

  7. 13 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    This isn't just sign stealing within the confines of a game you dumb mother fucker. How do you even conflate the two? It's a clear obvious advantage judging from the results of the spread before and after for Michigan. 

    It has to be intentional obfuscation at this point.

    Can't tell you how many people I've seen on various boards defend Michigan using this technique.

    "Look I've got experience with football and this  <proceeds to describe normal sign stealing> is done all the time. <Other comments about it that carefully ignores all of the actual rule breaking> I don't think this is a big deal. It's just being blown out of proportion by people who don't know football like me."

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  8. 2 minutes ago, JBJ said:

    Also, it's a dumb business decision that's going to cost them money when they to fire him for cause.

    Honestly it depends on the contract.

    The smartest thing for Michigan to do would be to push the extension as a PR move as a "sign of faith" but strengthen the clauses for what defines "for-cause."

    They may not have known about the sign thing, but his recruiting violations were certainly a known factor when they started this extension process.

  9. 2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

      Try living there. Almost 20 years ago I lived up there. Being there around all those Ohio State fans was miserable. Seriously. They acted like there was no way Texas could hold up against them. Like we were some directional school you schedule for a early season tuneup. That is why nothing was sweeter than beating them in their stadium in 05, then again in 08, and then watching them get their ass whipped regularly by SEC teams. They are the most arrogant fanbase I have ever been around.

    I went to a watch party for our BCS title game against them. One of the guests was an Ohio State fan. This wasn't the kind of group that did any sort of trash talking or ribbing. Just a generally friendly group. They scored on the opening kickoff and he pulled out his keys and was telling everyone to go home. I don't think he made it to the end of the game.

    Their fans were also a bit surprised after the fact when they took the "academic high road" to find out that Florida is a much better school than Ohio State. It just wasn't something they could comprehend.

  10. 7 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Relative. We don't give a shit about either one of yall past what it can do to help our ranking. Living out west, no one gives a fuck about their own team much less yall. The Carolinas will tell you the best rivalry is UNC-Duke. If its cold, there is rust on the vehicles, and someone is wearing jorts, then they care about Michigan-OSU.

    I'm entertained by the audacity of the two schools.

    THE Ohio State and if anyone else wants to use THE, they're gonna sue you.
    "The Game" - there are no other rivalry games. It doesn't matter that the rest of the country considers it just another rivalry week matchup.
    Michigan for years bragged about how they were better than everyone else because they didn't have stadium lights, because they were too good for night games. 
    Ohio State's president writing a letter about how OSU is a better school than Florida and that explains the curb stomping in '06.

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  11. 33 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    One woman based in Jacksonville said she was friends with Stalions from their time together in the military but hung up abruptly when asked about attending last year's Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville.

    I knew there had to be a reason for our late season losses.

    Let's go ahead and put FSU, and of course, Vandy on probation.

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