Shameless Plug
by SouthernMan on Dec 8, 2009 11:51 AM EST
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My latest article/series lays out how great a college football playoff would be and why we should have one.
If you feel like checking it out please let me know what you think!
Thanks - SouthernMan
Read this first:
Then this:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/304174-southern-fried-play-off-how-to-make-cfb-better-than-ever
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Well, at least he's forthright and honest...
I was thinking of starting the ‘I read it and it sucked’ treatment, but when the OP isn’t being surreptitious about plugging his product, is it really warranted?
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
I only plugged
you guys since I will be following and posting here (already have a few times) for the next month or so.
Looking forward to a great Cat Fight in the CapOne!
Hope the read didn’t suck that bad! Thanks – HB
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 12:30 PM EST up reply actions
And he's an LSU fan that replied in the "Come On Get Hatty" thread.
Ehhhhh. Okay. Just this once.
Twitter: @scrappled
"When it’s third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time" - Max McGee
by Run Up The Score on Dec 8, 2009 12:28 PM EST reply actions
Clearly erroneous
Where’s Florida, TCU, and Boise? And Notre Dame winning games in December? Oh brother.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
To hell with Princeton!
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
Yes and
It will be discussed until we get a playoff.
Mine is a little different in that I incorporate the bowls AND leave a healthy number of bowls for deserving teams – it really could be the best of both worlds! Check it out.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
Why'd you cross out "1865"? Why not have one for 1865?
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions 10 recs
There is no way
That John Wilkes Booth takes out Joshua Chamberlain.
Further, Chamberlain’s victory would be more accuratly against Hood, at Little Round Top. I would hesitate to give him any manner of victory over Longstreet. Lee beat Longstreet because he was an arrogant bastard that didn’t know when to get the hell out of dodge.
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
It's Herbie Hancock.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
You could also sell a ketchup popsicle to a lady in white gloves
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 9, 2009 7:00 PM EST up reply actions
I could not disagree more
Chamberlain was one of the finest tactical generals in the Union Army, but Booth was an actor. They are untrustworthy. They sneak up on you.
Also, it was Longstreet, not Hood, who was responsible for the attack on Little Round Top. While Longstreet’s meddling with Hood’s plan was probably justified, it still prevented Hood from attacking in the way he saw fit.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
Nerds.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
I’d sooner be a smelly droid, than an ambulance chaser ignorant of his own history.
You’ve been served.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Whatever.
Wilt Chamberlain was a basketball player. As far as I know, he never served as a general in the Union Army.
Was Wilt Chamberlain elected governor of Maine? No.
Does Wilt Chamberlain have a statue? No.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
Clearly you've never seen the AVN awards.
All of them are Wilt Chamberlain’s statues.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
…or…
Served.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
They didn't have ambulances in the 1700s
Served.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
They didn't have Droids either.
Answer’d AND New Matter’d.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
Actually, they did
He was called “John Dickinson”.
But he was more a lawyer.
He sucked.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 5:53 PM EST up reply actions
As a History Prof...
I giggled at this entire picture… loved it and rec’d it cause I couldn’t resist… yay history nerds
by Domin8ing the Big Ten(11) on Dec 8, 2009 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
Indeed.
Grant didn’t do so well in the 1873 playoff against 8th-seeded “over-leveraged speculators.”
by Cairo on Dec 8, 2009 3:55 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
He did even worse against 5th-seeded "corruption"
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 8, 2009 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
Just as good as Custer in the regional semi final at the little bighorn in 76
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 8, 2009 6:41 PM EST up reply actions
Sherman totally blazed through his match with Atlanta in the 1864 playoff
He was on fire that season.
by dawsonPSU10 on Dec 9, 2009 12:29 AM EST up reply actions 10 recs
Thirded Yes I said thrided
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 9, 2009 7:01 PM EST up reply actions
No Cornshoe Hammaker?
Twitter: @scrappled
"When it’s third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time" - Max McGee
by Run Up The Score on Dec 9, 2009 9:18 AM EST up reply actions
Don't gimme that crap
BHGP is so historically inaccurate it pisses me off
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
Maybe Bad Rambler
Can join BHGP as a historical accuracy co-ordinator/consultant?
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
I’d have to create another Rambler, I think.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
Friendly Fire
FTW
I know about your diabolical plan.
by KevinHD on Dec 9, 2009 4:27 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The more I look at this picture, the more I think it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in the comments of this site.
I know about your diabolical plan.
Feed my ego.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 8:34 PM EST up reply actions
The greatest thing I’ve ever seen in the comments of this site was Cairo’s “Coastal Dakota” photoshop.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 8:35 PM EST up reply actions
But what I really want to know is...
Do you need Neil Young around anyhow?
"I'm driven by greatness" - Derrick Williams
All I know is
He better keep his head, and do what the good book says.
"Have I ever told the story of when I met Miley Cyrus?"
by Jeff Junstrom on Dec 8, 2009 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
OK - THIS
is what we call Northern Aggression!!!
And they say we (southerners) can’t let it go. lol
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN scoffs at all things southern.
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
Speaking of letting it go...
I visited the University of Alabama a long time ago, and I swear to god every single building on it’s campus had a sign in front of it explaining that that General Sheridan had burned that building to the ground in 1864 and that it was reconstructed in 18sixty-something. Except of course one, which was a something they called the mound, that had a sign in front it that it was a building that it was the only building on campus that General Sheridan burned to the ground in 1864 that wasn’t rebuilt.
I guess General Sheridan thought as highly of the University of Alabama as most LSU fans do.
But seriously, one of you people needs to get me a gumbo recipe.
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
Huh, that's funny
Especially since Phil Sheridan never left the state of Virginia during 1864.
Southerners aren’t much for historical accuracy, who woulda thunk it?
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
You know it's been 15 years
I may have forgot the name of the General that burned the place down.
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
Don't remember it
I like to think they actually burnt down their campus so they could a) get insurace money and, b) make a lot of cool historical references.
Everyone knows Sherman was in Georgia in ’64, but not everyone knows where Sheridan was in in ’64. So they just randomly picked some guy whose name kinda sounds like “Sherman”.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 10:52 AM EST up reply actions
and thats why Sheridan was the ninja of the shenandoah
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 9, 2009 7:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I rec maybe one post a month.
But that legitimately made me laugh.
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Let’s get one thing straight: Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the ninja of the Shenandoah. Jackson owned the Shenandoah like our basketball team owns Assembly Hall. Jackson would kick Sheridan’s ass if they ever met in the Valley.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
Sheridan was like the Jared Odrick of the Shenandoah
Just brute force.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 10:50 AM EST up reply actions
Sheridan can thank Custer for that.
Autie had no qualms about leading saber charge after saber charge sending lots of cavalrymen senselessly to the grave. To his credit, Custer was pretty much always out front during the charges.
see klilpatrick He was much worst
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 10, 2009 7:08 PM EST up reply actions
I am not sure. Sheridan was not Nathaniel Banks
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 10, 2009 7:09 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, but Sheridan wasn't Jackson
No one was Jackson.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 8:40 PM EST up reply actions
yes no one was jackson and we will all see him in AVATAR
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 10, 2009 9:17 PM EST up reply actions
I have a feeling it was the Tuscaloosa Sign Co
that burned down the campus
by The JuggerNitt on Dec 10, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
Like w was a texian right
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 9, 2009 7:04 PM EST up reply actions
So?
She said “Texan”, not “Texian”. Difference.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
u got me there.
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 10, 2009 7:10 PM EST up reply actions
So that we all might learn something new everyday....
[University] president Landon Garland lobbied and received approval from the legislature in 1860 to transform the university into a military school. As such, many of the cadets who graduated from the school went on to serve as officers in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. As a consequence of that role, [Filthy Stinking Dishonrable -ed.] Union troops burned down the campus on April 4, 1865, which was unrelated to Sherman’s March to the Sea several months earlier and farther east
After Alabama seceded from the Union the following year, it became the "West Point of the South," supplying the Confederacy with 7 generals, 25 colonels, 14 lieutenant colonels, 21 majors, 125 captains, 273 staff and other commissioned officers and 294 private soldiers.
On March 29, 1865 Gen. John T. Croxton with 1,500 cavalry men left Elyton (Birmingham) with orders to proceed directly to Tuscaloosa "to destroy the bridge, factories, mills, university, and whatever else may be of benefit to the rebel cause."
The cadet corps under its commandant, Col. James T. Murfee, marched down University Boulevard and met Croxton’s forces in a brief engagement just east of the intersection of University Boulevard and Greensboro Avenue. Only one casualty was suffered by the cadets when Cadet Captain John H. Murfee, a brother of the Commandant, was shot in the foot.
According to historians, "The cadets averaged fifteen or sixteen years of age and were equipped with muskets of poor quality, while the [Filthy Stinking Dishonrable -ed.]Federal troops were using Spencer repeating carbines which were the best type of gun used in the war. Dr. Garland, realizing the fight was an unequal contest, ordered the cadets to retreat." The town and campus were now left to the mercy of the enemy.
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
Southerners running away? That's unpossible
How dishonorable of them.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
Sherman was the first commandant before the war at LSU. Now thats Irony
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 9, 2009 7:05 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
+1 for trivia
This is TRUE, folks. I don’t know how LSU fans live with themselves.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 9, 2009 8:34 PM EST up reply actions
Cue the OH SNAP photo...
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Dec 10, 2009 6:58 AM EST up reply actions
I can't believe Mike hasn't commented here yet
He is a total history nerd. He reads all those big fat historical biographies.
I really dislike history.
We like our tangents Just wait for a bloodsport tangent
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 9, 2009 7:54 PM EST up reply actions
That was a fun night
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
That was a great thread
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. "
George S Patton
by psu in the w-b on Dec 10, 2009 7:10 PM EST up reply actions
It's a right of passage actually
Somebody spends a lot of time, writes a thoughtful post about something that interests them, and three comments later somebody says “bacon” and it’s all downhill from there.
FWIW, you almost drew an unnecessary “I tried it and it sucked”, which has been known to last for several days, and even spread to other blogs.
At least the civil war tangent was moderately educational.
P.S.: I haven’t seen Morelli’s Wife in a while. Can somebody tell me why I’m looking at pictures of Sam Grant, Jim Mora and John Adams instead of her?
I say let's rock the Orange Bowl, because nobody will remember in five years anyway.
Because most of those pictures have Morelli attached?
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
someone can certainly Photoshop JoePa into there instead, right?
the J.O.E.P.A. system
Just
Own
Egotistical
Passer’s
Awesomelyhotwife
by The JuggerNitt on Dec 10, 2009 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
Not Complaining
I’m kind of in awe of your Blog.
You guys are a bona fide trip.
I can’t wait to tailgate with some Penn State fans in Florida, it could be epic!
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
you really have no idea what you have gotten into here
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Dec 10, 2009 11:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Okay, you'll get an actual opinion
It’s all right, but I don’t like this part:
In addition to the conference champions, five “at-large” entrants would be included based on the composite rankings from the AP, USA Today, and Harris Interactive polls.
I don’t like at large teams and I don’t like the polls.
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 12:39 PM EST reply actions
hypothetical situation
say this year that Penn State and Wisconsin went undefeated. Who represents our conference?
by The JuggerNitt on Dec 10, 2009 12:50 PM EST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure Wiscy's schedule was worse than ours
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
and that matters in this situation how?
and I just used those 2 schools as it was the first group of teams that didn’t play each other that I could think of. Pretend that the strength of schedule was comparable.
by The JuggerNitt on Dec 10, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
I'm ignorant of tiebreaking procedures
And perhaps I should have said “generally opposed to at large teams”. This is a special situation, isn’t it?
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
not necessarily
I mean as far as undefeated teams in the same conference not facing each other, perhaps, but what about something like the Big XII last year? It seems that there are frequent ties for conference champions (in conferences without title games) or division champions (in conferences with title games), and it isn’t that rare for there to be no clear, fair tiebreaker. It is a situation like that which leads me to think at-large selections would be a good alternative. Of course it would significantly diminish the importance of the SEC title game…but that doesn’t really bother me too much :-p
They could still keep it important by perhaps not allowing any at large teams to be seeded above conference champions…or at least BCS conference champions…or make a rule that they don’t get home field advantage (since it would be a bit unfair to the other teams to have to play a tougher team just because they are an at-large, instead of playing the Sun Belt champ).
by The JuggerNitt on Dec 10, 2009 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
It depends on how your
conference determines its champion. I left that up to each conference to decide for themselves. Some may have a championship game (i.e. SEC, B12) others may not (B10, Pac10).
And in that case I would guess the other unbeaten team would be one of the ‘at large’ entrants.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
I don't like
Polls either, that’s why the composite.
At large rounds out the field of 16 and includes the MOST deserving teams.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!
That's what I get for failing reading comprehension
"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09
by ReadingRambler on Dec 10, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
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