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the official 2011-12 college football thread! part 1 ver. WHERE IS SMOTPOKER??

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i've been watching the combines at work all day lately (horray for waiting tables somewhere that will pay for NFL Network! :|) and can I say hot damn Julio Jones! I watched his combine in awe, knowing that he was running, jumping, at top form, with a fucking broken foot. And it's not like he's a little thing or anything, he's like 220 and 6'3. It was most impressive and I think I was also watching because you finally get to see all these players constantly, run and jump and throw with no helmets on. Ryan Mallett always looks like he's gonna ralph, but Julio Jones was quite handsome <3. AJ Green also looked fantastic and so did Mike Pouncey. Also, Cam Newton did terribly, but that was to be expected.
 
College Football and Crime



Code:
The Top 25
The number of players on each team in the study who were found to have police records
School 		Players charged SI preseason rank
1. Pittsburgh 		22 	16
2. Iowa 		18 	6
2. Arkansas 		18 	23
4. Boise State 		16 	3
4. Penn State 		16 	19



3-Point Stance follow up:
Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports performed strong journalistic legwork in their piece last week on the number of college football players who have a criminal record. But the response from Iowa, which had 18 players with a record, provided perspective that muted the sensationalism. Hawkeye athletic director Gary Barta said of the 18 players, 15 had a record because of underage drinking. That’s an issue, yes, but if underage drinkers are a large percentage of college football’s “criminal element,” then the athletic department isn’t so different from the rest of campus after all.

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In other news

Stanford halts class list for athletes
Stanford has discontinued the practice of distributing a list of "courses of interest" only to student-athletes, according to a report by the "California Watch" investigative reporting project.

The course list, which was not advertised to the general student population, was widely regarded by Stanford student-athletes as an offering of easier classes. It was discontinued last week after reporters inquired about it, according to the report.

Soccer player Kira Maker, who made use of the list, said classes on the list were "always chock-full of athletes and very easy A's," according to the report.

"I never used it before this year," crew team member Ryan Sudeck said, according to the report. "I was trying to get my requirements done. But this quarter it was like, 'Oh, I need an easy class to boost my GPA.' "

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...c'mon, buck-eye fans, did you know this was coming?

Tressel knew of gear scheme last April



lol...

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Tressel already hoodwinked the NCAA into allowing Pryor and the other suspended players to participate in the the Allstate Sugar Bowl, instead of starting their five-game suspensions immediately. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany even went to bat for the suspended OSU five.

Without them, the Buckeyes probably didn't stand a chance against Arkansas. With them, the Buckeyes won a 31-26 thriller.

After nine straight losses, the Buckeyes finally beat an SEC school. Apparently, Tressel even learned to cheat as well as they do.

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hahaha :) the only way you beat dirty is to play dirtier

go get em Tress! I hope he's going to start using words like "cock-sucker" in his motivational speeches now. I would love to see this start a new JT, sort of like in Spider-man 3 when willy nilly Peter Parker gets all bad-ass thru Venom
 
i've been watching the combines at work all day lately (horray for waiting tables somewhere that will pay for NFL Network! :|) and can I say hot damn Julio Jones! I watched his combine in awe, knowing that he was running, jumping, at top form, with a fucking broken foot. And it's not like he's a little thing or anything, he's like 220 and 6'3. It was most impressive and I think I was also watching because you finally get to see all these players constantly, run and jump and throw with no helmets on. Ryan Mallett always looks like he's gonna ralph, but Julio Jones was quite handsome <3. AJ Green also looked fantastic and so did Mike Pouncey. Also, Cam Newton did terribly, but that was to be expected.

Julio Jones is an interesting story. He's built to be a great athlete, but has problems executing in games sometimes. As a Bama fan, I personally would have always preferred if the ball was thrown to Marquis Maze if the catch needed to be a sure one. When Julio is on his game, he's pretty amazing though for sure, and he was on his game much more often this season...

I do think A.J. Green is the best wide-out in this draft, though. He's ridiculously good... I'd take him fairly high in the draft even being a receiver.
 
WHOA DAMN

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WAREAGLE

Here's the story
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday...-auburn-goes-all-in-the-front-door-with-a-gun
AUBURN JUST ENDED THE 2011 FULMER CUP. Four Auburn football players have been charged with five counts each of first degree robbery, one count each of first degree burglary, and one count each of theft of property in a home invasion that took place early Friday morning in Auburn. The bond for each of them is $511,000. Antonio Goodwin, Kowalski Q. Kitchens, Michael McNeil, and Harrison Mosley are all in legal straits that are, per Glennon Threatt on Finebaum just a few minutes ago, the worst in the legal system shy of actually killing someone.

The minimum sentences in theory for these is somewhere between twenty years and life. Put in the bluntest and most accurate terms possible, the four men involved are in horrendous fucking trouble if this all stands. They've been kicked off the team, but that's the least of their concerns right now.


lol wtg SEC.
 
I know it seems that I say this every off-season...

but there have been some noisier Urban Meyer to Columbus rumors resurfacing...

Coach Tressel is a proven winner, but I've never been 100 percent happy with his holier-than-thou moral high ground gimmick he has always stuck with. I'm more of a smack-them-in-the-mouth kinda footbaw philosophizer...
 
Keep.thread.alive....

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College Football and Crime



Code:
The Top 25
The number of players on each team in the study who were found to have police records
School 		Players charged SI preseason rank
1. Pittsburgh 		22 	16
2. Iowa 		18 	6
2. Arkansas 		18 	23
4. Boise State 		16 	3
4. Penn State 		16 	19
6. Virginia Tech 	13 	10
7. Wisconsin 		9 	11
7. Oklahoma 		9 	12
7. Florida State 	9 	25
10. Miami 		8 	15
11. Ohio State 		7 	2
11. Florida 		7 	7
11. Oregon 		7 	8
11. USC 		7 	17
15. Alabama 		5 	1
15. North Carolina 	5 	13
15. Cincinnati 		5 	18
15. Utah 		5 	22
19. Nebraska 		4 	9
19. Georgia Tech 	4 	14
19. Oregon State 	4 	20
22. LSU 		3 	21
23. Texas 		2 	4
24. Stanford 		1 	24
25. TCU 		0 	5

I found this when wandering away from Colin Cowherd's recent teaser about a top 10 program going down hard very soon for recruiting violations...where thoughts ran immediately to TN (Kiffin and Pearl, with pending NCAA response)...but I didn't get Cowherd's context to mean top 10 'football' team (recent success implied), program (meaning they could be down for now), or program (meaning primary sports of basketball and football and who knows what else).

I think it's TN at first guess, then 4,3 has me thinking it may be LSU....though if I had to place a bet it would be on Cowherd being a waste of bandwidth, more noise without a point.


damn how accurate is that list thats crazy atleast my team only has afew ...

i doubt my tigers gonna get in any trouble we run a fairly clean program
 
damn how accurate is that list thats crazy atleast my team only has afew ...

i doubt my tigers gonna get in any trouble we run a fairly clean program

HA....have you met 3,4-dihydroxyphen? He's a cane, so he knows about dirty programs, and he seems to have a less noble view of LoveShackU. ;)


Me, I don't care - Geaux Tigers....except against FL :|
 
how about let's all drop that dirty team quip for this next football thread?

I know it will be most difficult for me, against you dirty assed teams in the SEC, but once a supposed college football prophet-monk such as Jim Tressel shows dirty - can we just lay our cards on the table and give up on cleanliness and godliness??

what say you all? unless you are a BYU fan and a Mormon, how could you say no? (and I even think BYU just got in some minor trouble lolol)
 
i doubt my tigers gonna get in any trouble we run a fairly clean program


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hahaha! damn man, you are new here so I won't try to rip you a new one and scare you off ;)

but an SEC fan who thinks they run a fairly clean program is like saying that Ryan Mallet doesn't have herpes​
 
damn how accurate is that list thats crazy atleast my team only has afew ...

i doubt my tigers gonna get in any trouble we run a fairly clean program

TLB was right, I gotta call out the Tigers.


I didn't say anything when it happened, but did anybody on here catch the Peterson money story on ESPN?


It is nice to feel vindicated every once in a while.


Anyways, I doubt I will have anything new to report for a while, I hardly talk to my brother, and my brother hardly talks to "the guy", and with an entirely new coaching staff in place there is no guarantee that "the guy" gets all the dirt on other programs anymore, not to mention that my team may just as well become as dirty as the SEC in the next few years. Never know what a new coach is going to do.

And for the record, I still do not see what OSU did as that bad. The only team I hate more than them is Florida, and I still do not see what the big fucking deal was.
 
how about let's all drop that dirty team quip for this next football thread?

I know it will be most difficult for me, against you dirty assed teams in the SEC, but once a supposed college football prophet-monk such as Jim Tressel shows dirty - can we just lay our cards on the table and give up on cleanliness and godliness??

what say you all? unless you are a BYU fan and a Mormon, how could you say no? (and I even think BYU just got in some minor trouble lolol)

Well, given the Little10+2's historical reputation as "3yds and a cloud of dust", I expect they're used to a more respectable sense of being dirty. I don't think looking at programs for cheating, and thereby labeling them as 'dirty' is something we can put aside in the next thread - easy pickings, and gives us each a sense of justification of why our sorry assed team lost to those damn cheaters (insert any team name for either role). We could try to avoid the word 'dirty' but I don't think we can stop talking about who cheats, who is running a program to win at all costs (education and moral standards be damned).

I will admit, I see this as a cry of pain from someone who's program, and coach, have put themselves on a pedestal from which they can't stand being embarrassed. The self-proclaimed flagship of the conference, with years of indignation at all those SEC cheaters and other less educated, backwater, lyin' and stealin' schools, can't stand to be put in the same category. I expect that for the next 6-7 months, ALL the suckeye nation will be wanting this all to go away, to get everyone's focus on the good things in football...now that they can't throw any stones, given their sins. ... ... Ain't gonna happen, not when those of us with sin have heard it for so long, for us it's a part of the sport at this point. Welcome to the club, THE O-hiandmightySU.



That said, I personally think this is a lot of bullshit. Seriously. I'd spare the school, given that Tressel seems to have been the stopping point for the information and nobody at the school has blood on their hands. As to the players, if I were them, I'd see if I could go pro...screw this noise, get mine. Those that come back, I expect the 5 game suspension may suffice....or the NCAA goes Dez Bryant on them and they are off the field for the year. Tressel...that's the tough one, what does the NCAA do with him? As much as things have been deflected off the vest for so long....nothing stuck, but it does show a history of 'possible issues'. Maybe the image is better than reality, and while I don't think the NCAA is hunting for a reason to hang him, the dust clouds from the past may be residue affecting their take on him now. I expect they'll come down pretty hard on him, given what they've done to other coaches recently. The big question is how much tOSU stands by him, and for how long. I have a hard time seeing any of this as grounds for removing him, despite the growing media buzz to the effect that 'he has to go (for the school's reputation and sake)'. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, for him and the school.
 
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Spoke too soon...mehbeh I'll get cut from teh team?

Bye-Bye best player on the team :\

A blurb from the article:

On top of Jenkins' second arrest Saturday, it was reported Monday that two other Florida players — defensive end Kedric Johnson and outside linebacker Chris Martin — were arrested in January for possessing less than 20 grams of marijuana. Both accepted deferred prosecution agreements in February.

Those four recent arrests run the UF football team's arrest total to a whopping 34 dating back to December of 2004. In comparison, state rival Miami has had only four arrests and Florida State 16 over the same time period. Georgia is the SEC leader with 42, while Tennessee has had 26.

Figured 3,4 would want to point out Shannon's effort to clean up UM has worked ;) And to show the dirt clouds around Meyer were just (weed) smoke and (cocaine???) mirrors....lol.
 
Spoke too soon...mehbeh I'll get cut from teh team?

Bye-Bye best player on the team :\

A blurb from the article:



Figured 3,4 would want to point out Shannon's effort to clean up UM has worked ;) And to show the dirt clouds around Meyer were just (weed) smoke and (cocaine???) mirrors....lol.


I can give a fuck about drug and alcohol related arrests (not like I have a moral leg to stand on there) but I wonder how it happens so frequently to the Gators. Seriously, can these guys not wait, like, 5-10 minutes to get home before they toke up?

Or do they just go, "fuck you, I'm a Gator and there is no fucking way those cops will arrest me", ignoring the fact that half their team has a drug rap.

My favorite Gators arrest of late was the kids and assistant from the b-ball team that decided to try and come up with an alibi in the back of the police car, with everything they said recorded. I can't find the link to the audio right now, but even a Gator fan has to laugh at the idiocy.
 
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