2009/2010 NCAA Football

[Nester6]

Watch out for Penn State! Tradition like no other school, outstanding returning talent, and Joe Paterno. Enough said.

 

[MILF Man]

The Ol' Ball Coach announced it today during SEC media day. Apparently, he didn't fill out the ballot, one of his staffers did. I don't care what he says though, he deliberately snubbed Tebow. You won't convince me otherwise. ESPN has been hyping this all day long. Does it really matter? He got all the other votes. It didn't really affect anything. Had the ballot been for "biggest douche bag", he would have taken it unanimously.

I'm not buying Spurrier's lame ass excuse at all. Give me a break! If there's any position on the field this guy would find most important about it would be the vote going to quarterback. This makes Spurrier look even more like a total ass than before.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Watch out for Penn State! Tradition like no other school, outstanding returning talent, and Joe Paterno. Enough said.

Um, no. That is not enough said. Penn State plays the worst non conference schedule of any of the BCS schools. They should be embarrassed.

Playing Akron, Syracuse, Temple, and Eastern Illinois is simply a joke.

If Penn St goes undefeated, a one loss SEC or Big 12 School should and will get in over Penn St.

(And I am a Big 10 homer)


Also, what exactly makes Penn St tradition "like no other"?

 

[Ace Bandage]

Also, what exactly makes Penn St tradition "like no other"?

(Chanting) Joe-Pa-terno, clap, clap, clap clap clap!

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Me and 106,000 other people were doing that in Ohio Stadium a couple of years ago, when he shit himself.

 

[Jagger69]

Week 1 Best Games, I nominate:

Georgia @ Oklahoma State

Missouri vs Illinois

Alabama vs Virginia Tech

South Carolina @ North Carolina State

Oregon @ Boise State

Week 1 Biggest Cupcakes:

Charleston Southern at Florida

Louisiana Monroe @ Texas

Good list, BI :thumbsup:, but I'd have to add Miami @ FSU on September 7. I can't wait to see how the Hurricanes will perform this year....should be a great game (always has been! Wide-Right 1 & 2!!! Yes!!!)

Being a Longhorn fan, our out-of-conference schedule is downright shameful. That's the reason we have to go undefeated to have a shot at the national championship. In all honesty, unless we stumble against someone we should beat (and there's always a high probability of that), if we can beat OU and OSU, we have a great chance of going undefeated. Mack Brown will have to make sure that Colt and the boys play at a very high level every week if we are to have a chance but I will say that this year's Longhorn squad looks loaded for bear to me. Only a few weeks to go!!! Can't wait.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

I think you're a little hard on the Longhorn schedule. They play the Razorbacks. It's not like they scheduled like Penn St, whose toughest game is Syracuse (who has not been good in 40 years). How good was Arkansas when Texas made the schedule?

Kinda like a couple years ago when my Buckeyes played a shitty Washington team.

 

[Skyraider22]

That is a good point I remember that Washington came off a pretty good season I would like to see some like a ACC-Big Ten challenge like in basketball or a SEC-Big East challange but that is not going to happen because it might be a rematch in the bowl games so i guess that would led to my next point about a playoff then it would not matter about who you play you just win and you are in plane and simple but that is just a dream.I really like that Georgia-Oklahoma State game that will really set the tone for whomever win that game along with the Flordia State-Miami game :thumbsup:

 

[Ace Bandage]

Well, the big game of the year for me is in West Lafayette on 09/26/09 - Purdue vs. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish. I'll be there four hours early, be pretty buzzed by game time time, and will of course have on my "Fuck the Irish" t-shirt with "Rudy Sucks" on the back. Next to the Indy 500, this game is my favorite sporting event of the year. Damn, I'm getting amped up just thinking about it!

 

[Baill Inneraora]

That is a good point I remember that Washington came off a pretty good season I would like to see some like a ACC-Big Ten challenge like in basketball or a SEC-Big East challange but that is not going to happen because it might be a rematch in the bowl games so i guess that would led to my next point about a playoff then it would not matter about who you play you just win and you are in plane and simple but that is just a dream.I really like that Georgia-Oklahoma State game that will really set the tone for whomever win that game along with the Flordia State-Miami game :thumbsup:

I agree, I love the big non conference games. Recently Ohio State did home and home series with Texas, Washington and UCLA. They finish the series with USC this year and they future series with Miami, Cal, Va Tech, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Well, the big game of the year for me is in West Lafayette on 09/26/09 - Purdue vs. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish. I'll be there four hours early, be pretty buzzed by game time time, and will of course have on my "Fuck the Irish" t-shirt with "Rudy Sucks" on the back. Next to the Indy 500, this game is my favorite sporting event of the year. Damn, I'm getting amped up just thinking about it!

Go Boilers on that day!!!!

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

I think you're a little hard on the Longhorn schedule. They play the Razorbacks. It's not like they scheduled like Penn St, whose toughest game is Syracuse (who has not been good in 40 years). How good was Arkansas when Texas made the schedule?

Kinda like a couple years ago when my Buckeyes played a shitty Washington team.

hmm That would be the Bucks or Michigan State

 

[Nester6]

Um, no. That is not enough said. Penn State plays the worst non conference schedule of any of the BCS schools. They should be embarrassed.

Playing Akron, Syracuse, Temple, and Eastern Illinois is simply a joke.

If Penn St goes undefeated, a one loss SEC or Big 12 School should and will get in over Penn St.

(And I am a Big 10 homer)


Also, what exactly makes Penn St tradition "like no other"?

The schedules are made 10 years in advance. A home game with 110,000 people (all sold out) and the largest alumni association in the world and the greatest college football coach of all time makes the Penn State tradation. Not to mention the highest graduation rate of ALL athletes in the country.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

hmm That would be the Bucks or Michigan State

We were talking about toughest non conference schedule, E Ann.

 

[Jagger69]

I think you're a little hard on the Longhorn schedule. They play the Razorbacks. It's not like they scheduled like Penn St, whose toughest game is Syracuse (who has not been good in 40 years). How good was Arkansas when Texas made the schedule?

Kinda like a couple years ago when my Buckeyes played a shitty Washington team.

You're looking at last year's schedule, BI. Our non-conference games this year are Louisiana-Monroe (I guess the Salvation Army team was booked that week), Wyoming (from the powerhouse Mountain West conference), UTEP and UCF (both from Conference USA). Not a single BCS-conference opponent. That's really weak in my opinion. It's one of the factors that hurts Texas year after year when we play all these cupcakes.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

You're looking at last year's schedule, BI. Our non-conference games this year are Louisiana-Monroe (I guess the Salvation Army team was booked that week), Wyoming (from the powerhouse Mountain West conference), UTEP and UCF (both from Conference USA). Not a single BCS-conference opponent. That's really weak in my opinion. It's one of the factors that hurts Texas year after year when we play all these cupcakes.

My bad.

On another note, the local fish wrap had a pretty good commentary yesterday about the SEC ESPN deal. It should be a concern for fans of schools outside the SEC. (It is written from a Buckeye fan point of view.)

commentary
TV deal gives SEC big boost on, off field
Saturday, July 25, 2009 3:13 AM
By rob oller

The Southeastern Conference, already king of college football, now also rules the kingdom of cable and over-the-air TV, turning other conferences into peasants by comparison and presenting negative implications for a school such as Ohio State.

The SEC, in announcing this week a partnership with ESPN to create the SEC Network, not only has benefited its brand but also ensured that millions of viewers, including future recruits, will be watching on flat-screen TVs in places such as Columbus, Detroit and Chicago. Just as important, impressionable high school prospects will be able to catch SEC football on their cell phones and other digital devices, thanks to the huge electronic umbrella under which ESPN operates. Don't underestimate the power of that exposure come national signing day.

Not that it matters now, but the Big Ten Not-work should take notes, because this is how a win-win deal gets done. While the Big Ten Network opted to be its own boss -- one would suspect with the idea of eventually shutting out the national networks and cable companies by controlling the dissemination of all content, including every Big Ten football and basketball game -- the SEC opted to pay a middleman, in this case ESPN. No 100 percent profit for the Southerners, but no start-up costs, either.

The 15-year, $3 billion contract between the SEC and ESPN Regional Television, along with CBS, Fox and Comcast, means that SEC games will be shown either on regional sports cable networks or on local, over-the-air -- i.e. free -- stations in more than 73 television markets, including Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Games will air on Fox (Channel 28) in Columbus, so anyone watching the Buckeyes play on ABC/ESPN/BTN can click to Fox between commercials. Or they simply may choose to watch Tim Tebow bulldoze defenders and Nick Saban pace the sidelines instead of sitting through an entire Indiana vs. Minnesota snoozefest.

It's not just the Big Ten that will feel the effects. Fans in Los Angeles, Dallas and New York/New Jersey (mostly loyalists of the Pac-10, Big 12 and Big East) will join Uga VII in drooling over Georgia. Tiny tots will grow up experiencing the bayou electricity of an LSU night game. The recent trend of SEC media overexposure will transition into permanence. In popularity, there will be the NFL, the SEC and the rest of college football.

Oklahoma, Southern California and other monsters of non-SEC conferences suddenly must compete not only with a perception -- that college football means more to people in the South and therefore college players receive special treatment unlike anywhere else -- but also the reality that the nation's best football, as proved by four of the past six national championships, including three in a row, is now available on the backup TV in the basement.

Not only that, but because ESPN has such a large family of networks, the SEC will be able to show off its entire list of sports nationally. The Worldwide Leader will show an average of one SEC event per day through the year 2024.

And then there is the money. Each SEC school will net about $17 million annually, about the equivalent of a BCS bowl payday. By comparison, the Atlantic Coast Conference collects about $75 million from its contract with ESPN/ABC, a figure that 2008 SEC doormat Arkansas alone will blow by in five years.

It can be argued that the benefits of the SEC boost in TV exposure are wildly subjective, but the cash can be counted objectively. Ohio State, which has the nation's most varsity sports (36), must fund all but two of them with money from football and men's basketball. LSU (14 sports), Georgia (16) and Florida (17), with far fewer sports to buoy, can pour more of its SEC Network money into its most lucrative programs -- football and basketball -- meaning they can build better facilities, increase recruiting budgets and pay more for coaches.

Florida coach Urban Meyer might think twice about jumping to the NFL if the Gators can match offers from wealthy NFL owners.

Add it up, and no wonder SEC commissioner Mike Slive is smiling. When asked this week how other conferences can possibly keep pace financially with his league, Slive said, "I wish you could print the expression on my face."

Unlike faces outside the SEC, it wasn't an expression of disgust.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...7-25.ART_ART_07-25-09_C1_ADEJ03V.html?sid=101

 

[Skyraider22]

A lot of these great teams have some cupcakes to play but hey they might be looking for style points for there BCS run and then again it could hurt them as well but you never know like i said i would love to see the big time match-ups to really set he tone:thumbsup:

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

We were talking about toughest non conference schedule, E Ann.

whoops... you right! helps to read first! :glugglug:

GO BUCKS!

 

[Jason z]

My bad.

On another note, the local fish wrap had a pretty good commentary yesterday about the SEC ESPN deal. It should be a concern for fans of schools outside the SEC. (It is written from a Buckeye fan point of view.)

commentary
TV deal gives SEC big boost on, off field
Saturday, July 25, 2009 3:13 AM
By rob oller

The Southeastern Conference, already king of college football, now also rules the kingdom of cable and over-the-air TV, turning other conferences into peasants by comparison and presenting negative implications for a school such as Ohio State.

The SEC, in announcing this week a partnership with ESPN to create the SEC Network, not only has benefited its brand but also ensured that millions of viewers, including future recruits, will be watching on flat-screen TVs in places such as Columbus, Detroit and Chicago. Just as important, impressionable high school prospects will be able to catch SEC football on their cell phones and other digital devices, thanks to the huge electronic umbrella under which ESPN operates. Don't underestimate the power of that exposure come national signing day.

Not that it matters now, but the Big Ten Not-work should take notes, because this is how a win-win deal gets done. While the Big Ten Network opted to be its own boss -- one would suspect with the idea of eventually shutting out the national networks and cable companies by controlling the dissemination of all content, including every Big Ten football and basketball game -- the SEC opted to pay a middleman, in this case ESPN. No 100 percent profit for the Southerners, but no start-up costs, either.

The 15-year, $3 billion contract between the SEC and ESPN Regional Television, along with CBS, Fox and Comcast, means that SEC games will be shown either on regional sports cable networks or on local, over-the-air -- i.e. free -- stations in more than 73 television markets, including Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Games will air on Fox (Channel 28) in Columbus, so anyone watching the Buckeyes play on ABC/ESPN/BTN can click to Fox between commercials. Or they simply may choose to watch Tim Tebow bulldoze defenders and Nick Saban pace the sidelines instead of sitting through an entire Indiana vs. Minnesota snoozefest.

It's not just the Big Ten that will feel the effects. Fans in Los Angeles, Dallas and New York/New Jersey (mostly loyalists of the Pac-10, Big 12 and Big East) will join Uga VII in drooling over Georgia. Tiny tots will grow up experiencing the bayou electricity of an LSU night game. The recent trend of SEC media overexposure will transition into permanence. In popularity, there will be the NFL, the SEC and the rest of college football.

Oklahoma, Southern California and other monsters of non-SEC conferences suddenly must compete not only with a perception -- that college football means more to people in the South and therefore college players receive special treatment unlike anywhere else -- but also the reality that the nation's best football, as proved by four of the past six national championships, including three in a row, is now available on the backup TV in the basement.

Not only that, but because ESPN has such a large family of networks, the SEC will be able to show off its entire list of sports nationally. The Worldwide Leader will show an average of one SEC event per day through the year 2024.

And then there is the money. Each SEC school will net about $17 million annually, about the equivalent of a BCS bowl payday. By comparison, the Atlantic Coast Conference collects about $75 million from its contract with ESPN/ABC, a figure that 2008 SEC doormat Arkansas alone will blow by in five years.

It can be argued that the benefits of the SEC boost in TV exposure are wildly subjective, but the cash can be counted objectively. Ohio State, which has the nation's most varsity sports (36), must fund all but two of them with money from football and men's basketball. LSU (14 sports), Georgia (16) and Florida (17), with far fewer sports to buoy, can pour more of its SEC Network money into its most lucrative programs -- football and basketball -- meaning they can build better facilities, increase recruiting budgets and pay more for coaches.

Florida coach Urban Meyer might think twice about jumping to the NFL if the Gators can match offers from wealthy NFL owners.

Add it up, and no wonder SEC commissioner Mike Slive is smiling. When asked this week how other conferences can possibly keep pace financially with his league, Slive said, "I wish you could print the expression on my face."

Unlike faces outside the SEC, it wasn't an expression of disgust.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...7-25.ART_ART_07-25-09_C1_ADEJ03V.html?sid=101

Look for Jeremy Foley too offer Urban a big deal! I'd rather not have a huge deal that way we could pay are really good assistants like Charlie Strong more but Have to give Meyer credit for what he has done not only in the recruiting department but with our special teams. He makes sure we have best special teams in the Nation! If we when again this year ( which will be tough) People should be considering meyer to be one of the best coaches in a long time. I mean look at Pete Carroll, he gets so much publicity and how many Natl' Championships has he won? We will see how this ND charlie weis thing plays out but Go Gators!

 

[Jagger69]

My bad.

On another note, the local fish wrap had a pretty good commentary yesterday about the SEC ESPN deal. It should be a concern for fans of schools outside the SEC. (It is written from a Buckeye fan point of view.)

commentary
TV deal gives SEC big boost on, off field
Saturday, July 25, 2009 3:13 AM
By rob oller

The Southeastern Conference, already king of college football, now also rules the kingdom of cable and over-the-air TV, turning other conferences into peasants by comparison and presenting negative implications for a school such as Ohio State.

The SEC, in announcing this week a partnership with ESPN to create the SEC Network, not only has benefited its brand but also ensured that millions of viewers, including future recruits, will be watching on flat-screen TVs in places such as Columbus, Detroit and Chicago. Just as important, impressionable high school prospects will be able to catch SEC football on their cell phones and other digital devices, thanks to the huge electronic umbrella under which ESPN operates. Don't underestimate the power of that exposure come national signing day.

Not that it matters now, but the Big Ten Not-work should take notes, because this is how a win-win deal gets done. While the Big Ten Network opted to be its own boss -- one would suspect with the idea of eventually shutting out the national networks and cable companies by controlling the dissemination of all content, including every Big Ten football and basketball game -- the SEC opted to pay a middleman, in this case ESPN. No 100 percent profit for the Southerners, but no start-up costs, either.

The 15-year, $3 billion contract between the SEC and ESPN Regional Television, along with CBS, Fox and Comcast, means that SEC games will be shown either on regional sports cable networks or on local, over-the-air -- i.e. free -- stations in more than 73 television markets, including Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Games will air on Fox (Channel 28) in Columbus, so anyone watching the Buckeyes play on ABC/ESPN/BTN can click to Fox between commercials. Or they simply may choose to watch Tim Tebow bulldoze defenders and Nick Saban pace the sidelines instead of sitting through an entire Indiana vs. Minnesota snoozefest.

It's not just the Big Ten that will feel the effects. Fans in Los Angeles, Dallas and New York/New Jersey (mostly loyalists of the Pac-10, Big 12 and Big East) will join Uga VII in drooling over Georgia. Tiny tots will grow up experiencing the bayou electricity of an LSU night game. The recent trend of SEC media overexposure will transition into permanence. In popularity, there will be the NFL, the SEC and the rest of college football.

Oklahoma, Southern California and other monsters of non-SEC conferences suddenly must compete not only with a perception -- that college football means more to people in the South and therefore college players receive special treatment unlike anywhere else -- but also the reality that the nation's best football, as proved by four of the past six national championships, including three in a row, is now available on the backup TV in the basement.

Not only that, but because ESPN has such a large family of networks, the SEC will be able to show off its entire list of sports nationally. The Worldwide Leader will show an average of one SEC event per day through the year 2024.

And then there is the money. Each SEC school will net about $17 million annually, about the equivalent of a BCS bowl payday. By comparison, the Atlantic Coast Conference collects about $75 million from its contract with ESPN/ABC, a figure that 2008 SEC doormat Arkansas alone will blow by in five years.

It can be argued that the benefits of the SEC boost in TV exposure are wildly subjective, but the cash can be counted objectively. Ohio State, which has the nation's most varsity sports (36), must fund all but two of them with money from football and men's basketball. LSU (14 sports), Georgia (16) and Florida (17), with far fewer sports to buoy, can pour more of its SEC Network money into its most lucrative programs -- football and basketball -- meaning they can build better facilities, increase recruiting budgets and pay more for coaches.

Florida coach Urban Meyer might think twice about jumping to the NFL if the Gators can match offers from wealthy NFL owners.

Add it up, and no wonder SEC commissioner Mike Slive is smiling. When asked this week how other conferences can possibly keep pace financially with his league, Slive said, "I wish you could print the expression on my face."

Unlike faces outside the SEC, it wasn't an expression of disgust.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...7-25.ART_ART_07-25-09_C1_ADEJ03V.html?sid=101

Whoa....so this means we have TWO major networks that are basically totally dedicated to the SEC???? (CBS being the other). C'mon man....I totally admit the SEC is the strongest conference in the nation overall but there are a shitload of ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12 and Pac Ten fans that don't really give a rip about the SEC.....at least not to that degree. It's like NBC's ridiculous contract with Notre Dame. Spread it around guys.

 

[Skyraider22]

Whoa....so this means we have TWO major networks that are basically totally dedicated to the SEC???? (CBS being the other). C'mon man....I totally admit the SEC is the strongest conference in the nation overall but there are a shitload of ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12 and Pac Ten fans that don't really give a rip about the SEC.....at least not to that degree. It's like NBC's ridiculous contract with Notre Dame. Spread it around guys.

I agree with you Jagger they should spread it around unless you have CBS Coolege Sports network (They seem to like C-USA) or the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports has the PAC-10 and they sometimes do the Big-12 in some areas Now that is one league I really want to see this year is the Big-12:thumbsup: