2009 NCAA Football Thread: Revenge of the Computer Polls

[Immortalfire]

That is horrible

 

[omid17]

thx MJ

yea it sure looks nasty

 

[Byrd Man]

I understand, Halloween and all, but still.

That is an ugly picture.

As bad as the unis are, you could have picked a better picture. I mean, not one where the USC player doesn't look like a JV scrub.

 

[BlackLantern]

Well, I threw that one in for good measure. They're the biggest evil of all.

even Thanos thinks the BCS is evil

 

[Tex]

Longhorns on the rise. Hook Em

 

[RAMORE]

You don't see how faulty that logic is? Tennessee is a good team. Texas squeaked by Oklahoma the week before, does that mean that Iowa really deserves to be number 1?



A win's a win. You look at Alabama's season as a whole and you can't even attempt to argue they have looked inferior to Texas.



Florida will lose to Georgia, count it.

AJ Green will make a Heisman case on Saturday.

So I've got to bring it up. I "counted" it but did you count the points agianst Georgia!

Hey you were half right someone gave a Heisman performance but it was Tebow with 4 touchdowns 2 in the air and 2 on the ground while he beat the great Herchel Walkers old record in the SEC of Rushing touchdowns. Don't bring up playoff rushes because Tebow will truly beat him by the end of the year.

 

[Excel]

AJ Green is the best receiving prospect in a decade at the moment. A combo of elite ball skills (think Larry Fitz, Dez Bryant, Roy Williams) and elite athleticism (Calvin Johnson, Andre Johnson) with an emphasis on ball skills, and there hasnt been one of these guys in college since Randy Moss, though should-be #1 Alabama's Julio Jones falls into the same categorty.

Yall should be checking in on him every week, because we are going to be hearing his name A LOT on Sundays in the coming years and seeing a lot of his jersey's. Any team he is on, to be honest, should win, because he is borderline unstoppable. He is the ultra rare receiver who doesnt have to be open to make the catch (as he actually showed on Saturday). Even if he is covered deep, he is Moss-esque with jump balls because pound for pound he is obnoxiously strong, and can post up on defenders who he cannot beat, and make the catch anyway. Its unfathomable that a team with a guy who can od it as consistently as Green does loses like that. They lost because they were pretty much ignoring him early in the game.

 

[Immortalfire]

Coach Richt prior to the 3rd quarter, told Tracy Wolfson that they needed to use AJ more.

So why didn't we freakin DO IT??! What the hell

 

[Excel]

The Cbs on him are both sub 5'11, and obviously cant jump with him. They should have been doing this:

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all day (and it s what I, and I am sure many others, expected to see). They should be throwing it to him other play, doesn't anybody remember Randy in college?

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Richt needed to go up to Cox and say literally "Forget everyone else, throw it to AJ!".

 

[Arc-Light]

Florida’s punishment of Spikes doesn’t fit crime
Dan Wetzel
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
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Eye-gouging is considered such a foul, filthy act that it’s banned by even our most blatantly combative exercises, including mixed martial arts and pro wrestling.
Sheriff Urban Meyer of the Gainesville PD isn’t as concerned, apparently.
Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes was caught on film purposefully jamming his fingers through the facemask of Georgia running back Washaun Ealey on Saturday in an effort to rip at Ealey’s eyes.
It was about as ugly and unbecoming of a play as there is in football.
For the act, Meyer will bench his star linebacker for the first half of the Gators’ game against Vanderbilt.
Repeat: one half. That penalty isn’t a joke, although the man dishing it out is acting like one.
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There is almost no excuse for Spikes’ conduct. None. It was a dirty play and one with serious ramifications. There’s a reason violently poking your fingers at someone’s eye is a zero tolerance offense. The other guy can go blind. He has no ability to protect himself.
Football is an emotional, violent pursuit and acts like this happen more than the camera catches. “I don’t think that we did anything in that game that they didn’t do,” quarterback Tim Tebow told reporters.
That’s the excuse of a child though. The other-guy-does-it-too is never a justifiable defense. It wouldn’t even matter if Ealey had provoked him (the two had been jawing prior to the incident).
Spikes is the one who got caught.
Meyer ought to be man enough to know this, which is why his decision to dole out such a light punishment is more pathetic than Spikes’ original sin.
UF athletic director Jeremy Foley or SEC commissioner Mike Slive should’ve stepped in and issued a real suspension.
“I don’t condone that,” Meyer told reporters Monday of Spikes’ play.
Gee, really, you don’t condone it?
“We’re going to suspend Brandon for the first half of the Vanderbilt game,” Meyer said. “I talked to him, that’s not who he is. I love Brandon Spikes, the team does. We’re going to move on. He has our full support.”
Florida is begging for an adult to lead them. Meyer isn’t it when it comes to player conduct. He may be a heck of a football coach, great recruiter, perhaps even devout family man and charitable person.
It doesn’t change the fact this was a craven decision.
This is a sport, unfortunately, where you don’t need to run a program the right way to earn massive fame, fortune and support though. A large proportion of Gator fans wouldn’t care if Ealey’s eye had been damaged. It’s like that with every college team.
For too many fans it’s just about winning games. They’ll pretend Meyer is doing it the right way whether he is or not. They’ll justify Spikes’ act and the light penalty somehow.
Meyer and Foley know that. They know football runs the school and, as such, no one who runs the school will mess with football. So they’ll do as they wish and pretend it’s no big deal.
The fans will cheer anyway. The checks will clear regardless. Spikes may even have another 10-tackle, pick-six afternoon like he did against Georgia.
There ought to be more though. Dirty plays are dirty plays. Meyer may be correct that this act isn’t who Spikes is. Fine. No one is saying he’s a monster. Sitting him for a couple of games isn’t disproportionate punishment though.
A lesson needs to be taught. A standard should be upheld. Some discipline has to be displayed – both to those inside and outside the program.
The University of Florida should care about more than the pursuit of a glass football trophy.
This is about winning games by any means necessary, it’s about justifying and enabling out-of-control play, it’s about brushing off concerns about the safety of opposing players.
The timing is interesting that on the same day UF was giving a wrist slap for an eye gouge, Oregon was set to reinstate running back LeGarrette Blount for his sucker punch of a Boise State player and attempted charge at fans back in September.
It took less than 24 hours for Oregon to suspend Blount for the entire season back then.
“There is no place on the field of play for that kind of action, and his conduct was reprehensible,” school president Richard Lariviere said in a statement. “We do not and will not tolerate the actions that were taken by our player. Oregon’s loyal fans expect and deserve better.”
The initial punishment was too severe – you always want to allow for a player to rectify his mistake. Allowing Blount to work his way back to the team through contrition, sacrifice and action was the proper idea. In the end, the running back will have sat seven games.
It’s difficult to argue that Oregon didn’t act decisively and then properly.
Florida just acted in its best football interests. One of its team captains went after an opposing player with the dirtiest of plays.
He’ll sit out a half.
It’s all about blind ambition in Gainesville.

WOW...a whole half......stay classy Urban.

 

[Immortalfire]

Suspended for the first half...against Vandy. Shows me that if Meyer could have gotten away with doing nothing, he would have.

 

[Arc-Light]

Suspended for the first half...against Vandy. Shows me that if Meyer could have gotten away with doing nothing, he would have.

And i just found out that the SEC went along with the punishment.....that is pathetic...the Big ten has suspended players a full game for less.

 

[rdh007]

And i just found out that the SEC went alone with the punishment.....that is pathetic...the Big ten has suspended players a full game for less.

I write this as a lifetime Meeeeeeeechigan (and therefore Big Ten) fan:

Why not suspend a Big Ten player for a full game, no one's left playing football around here anyway...

 

[RAMORE]

I think Urban should have not suspended as opposed to a half that just looks silly. Let's be honest though it happens in every pile and the guy he was doing it too said he shouldn't be suspended.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I think Urban should have not suspended as opposed to a half that just looks silly. Let's be honest though it happens in every pile and the guy he was doing it too said he shouldn't be suspended.

Are you kidding me? I don't care how much it happens it's not football. It doesn't matter if it happens in every pile or not eye-gouging can put someone's eye out. Spikes should've gotten worse.

 

[omid17]

Spikes a ****in *****

 

[Immortalfire]

Spikes suspended for the whole game Sat...http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-florida-spikessuspended&prov=ap&type=lgns

It was “weighing heavy on his heart,”

 

[Kelly]

I don't care.....if it makes them play like they did.....wear the damn black uniforms EVERY game....

 

[omid17]

Spikes suspended for the whole game Sat...http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-florida-spikessuspended&prov=ap&type=lgns

It was “weighing heavy on his heart,”

my ass

 

[Darthphere]

What I like is, he's not being suspended the whole game because it's right, but because he doesn't want to be a distraction. What a joke.

 

[RAMORE]

Haters it happens constantly but this is the youtube generation and they are #1 so why not make a big deal right

 

[NotFadeAway]

The Bearcats are on fire.

Hells yeah!

Who Dey say gonna beat them Bearcats!!!!

I hope the Cats destroy the Huskies this week as revenge for last season. After that, the only game I'm worried about is Pitt, just because there bigger and more powerful. WVU doesn't scare me a bit.

Also, I know Tony Pike is coming back and he will rightfully get his job back, but I would work Zach Colloras into the gameplan. I personally like Colloras more than Pike, he has a stronger arm and he is a true running threat, I dare say the biggest running threat the Bearcats have. I'd line Pike and Colloras up side by side for 20-25 plays a game from here on out.

The Bearcats downfall might be there lack of a running game. They need to get a physical back and some bigger O-Lineman.

 

[NotFadeAway]

Unmotivated, Uninspired, Uncoordinated. Words I never thought I'd hear myself saying when describing Georgia football.

It might be time for Richt to go. I've never been impressed with him as a HC.

 

[Immortalfire]

Never? I fail to see how.80+ wins in 8 years, 32-6 in road games, 34-3 against non-conference teams, 48-19 against the SEC, 2 SEC titles, 2 Sugar Bowl wins.

He's not the problem. Our coordinators are not doing the right things.

 

[BlackLantern]

Hells yeah!

Who Dey say gonna beat them Bearcats!!!!

I hope the Cats destroy the Huskies this week as revenge for last season. After that, the only game I'm worried about is Pitt, just because there bigger and more powerful. WVU doesn't scare me a bit.

Also, I know Tony Pike is coming back and he will rightfully get his job back, but I would work Zach Colloras into the gameplan. I personally like Colloras more than Pike, he has a stronger arm and he is a true running threat, I dare say the biggest running threat the Bearcats have. I'd line Pike and Colloras up side by side for 20-25 plays a game from here on out.

The Bearcats downfall might be there lack of a running game. They need to get a physical back and some bigger O-Lineman.

so you just want to pick on little ol' Connecticut, huh? make you feel like a big man to pick on a small school?