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Using the lines on Yahoo! Sports app.
Georgia Southern at State (-20.5)
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 87470374092378 times, shame on me.Texas A&M at South Carolina (-10.5)
Both teams lost stars and both teams are introducing new quarterbacks, but I think TAMU lost too much on offense with Matthews, Evans and what’s-his-face.Boise State vs. Ole Miss (-10.5)
This is basically a home game against a flailing program.Penn State vs. Central Florida (-2)
No Bortles this year. James Franklin starts his tenure with a win in Ireland.UCLA (-21) at Virginia
Virginia covers at home. I want to see UCLA prove something first.Swarbuck already pulling out The Flagship’s playbook, saying it wasn’t just athletes, so they’ll let the NCAA know if they need to get involved.
Seriously?
West Virginia and Mississippi State are exactly the type of home-and-home series we need. It’s not a Lee Fowler mindset, it’s just reality. We’re lucky if we’re considered a Tier 4 team on this landscape. Name five Tier 1 teams that have played a home-and-home (or even a neutral site game) vs. a Tier 3 or 4 over the past decade. It doesn’t happen, because there’s no incentive for them. West Virginia is easily a Tier 2, and just happens to be playing Alabama in Atlanta to kickoff this season. Mississippi State is probably what we could hope to be in the SEC. Like it or not, the only Tier 1 teams coming to C-F anytime soon are probably Florida State and Clemson.
“Never ending search for identity.” The College football world we occupy is ruled by 17 yr olds with stars beside their name.
Gotta say this about that black/red/red combo: if we’re gonna act like a MAC team, may as well look like one.
We’re caught in a catch-22 of sorts at the moment. People aren’t going to be willing to pony up unless they feel like they’re not just throwing their money away, and with our previous brain trust, that’s what they would have been doing. I think once results improve, we’ll see an increase in fundraising. That also assumes we stop scheduling a baker’s dozen of cupcakes in football.
To add to this, college football has become an arms race. See: Indoor Practice Facility.
Martin’s report said the academic fraud was general, not athletics-specific. That alone should’ve opened Pandora’s Box, not closed it — institutionalized fraud. Never could make sense of how that was somehow better.
Who said Fighting Sioux is offensive?
The NCAA did. And as of now, the University of North Dakota has no official mascot because of it.
Who has ever claimed ‘Warriors’ is offensive?
Marquette did, when they changed from the Warriors to the Golden Eagles in the 90s.
This isn’t a new controversy, just the highest profile.
Foose referred to Doc Holiday’s — by multiple accounts, historically accurate — line to Ringo, “I’m your Huckleberry.”
Now, for the rest of the story. The context is usually intended as the tough-sounding “I’m your man.” In fact, what Holiday likely said was “hucklebearer” (he was from Valdosta, so there would’ve been a drawl that made it sound like “huckleberry”), a southern slang of the times for “pallbearer.” So what he was really saying had even more bravado: “I’ll put you in your grave.” Very cool.
Also, “cowboy” was originally a derogatory term for the lawless folk of 1870s territories (such as Curly Bill and his ilk) that eventually changed when Hollywood started making westerns and cowboys were cool.
German U-boat groups were called Wolfpacks.
I don’t offer an opinion on Redskins, I just like history.
As I recall, Florida State recently fought off a challenge by one of the Seminole nations who wanted the name changed. Central Michigan had a similar challenge with the Chippewas.
If that’s the new court in the video, then it’s LRM-approved — they got this one right.
I think the issue many of us have when new ideas are tried is because our admin has a history of “fixing” stuff that isn’t broken rather than focusing on the real problems keeping the program from moving forward. Style over substance.
Interesting. Think maybe Brissett isn’t suited for the spread, or is it just easier to recruit a traditional playbook?
It starts in 2017, not 2015. We’re fine in 2017 (@ Notre Dame).
And there are only so many Indianas, Kentuckys and Kansases to go around. And Wake Forest has already snatched up a recurring Vandy series. It may be tough and/or expensive to get a decent home-and-home.
And for the love of Philip Rivers, scheduling Maryland should be an immediately fire-able offense.
Finally listening to and reading excuses for not attending football games is tiresome. We whine about having to play in the same division as FSU and Clemson and those teams fill the stadium regardless of who they schedule.
Not really. Declining attendance is chronic across college football. SEC attendance was down last year and national champion FSU averaged only around 88% capacity, largely due to their poor home non-conference opponents.
The gripes may be tiresome, but they’re legit and not unique to us.
What’s the worst that happens, we go to Tuscaloosa and lose?
There’s far more upside than downside here for a program that so desperately wants to be on the rise. At some point you have to stop attempting to manufacture bowl eligibility.
UNC fans have no idea what “misery” is. It’s always been easy to be a UNC fan. None of them — not a single one — has the stomach to have ever been a State fan.
For the record, my comment was meant to reinforce yours.
Like App, Georgia Southern was a longtime I-AA powerhouse, and their win over Florida was even more impressive because they did it entirely on the ground. It’s scary to think that could’ve been — or could be — us.
Attendance has been down across all of college football — even the SEC.
FSU is actually a good example of how the watered-down schedules are affecting attendance. They’ve had only a handful of sellouts the past few seasons and averaged only around 75,000 (88% capacity) in their 2013 national championship season.
There’s just so little surrounding our program lately to be excited about. We get a new coach every few years and C-F is expanded but we don’t have much to show for it. We rely on gimmicks.
This is why the little things like an exciting non-conference home game matter to us LTR folks. It’s at least something. Hell, we finally got a fun game in Atlanta and ESPN moved it to Friday night.
One of the main problems for those of us with LTRs and/or season tickets, is that if we don’t go — for whatever reason (for example, many NC folks head to the coast Labor Day weekend) — to a game — any game, really — there’s almost no secondary market for tickets. So we’re stuck with them.
And no matter how much we’ve given, if we’re not in our seat for every snap, we’re a bad fan.
