Football Schedule solution

by MrBrianPSU on Jun 13, 2009 6:37 PM EDT Comment 21 comments

ESPN.com has a story noting how to solve the scheduling problem in college football, by implementing the conference challenges as seen in basketball. The only thing I don't agree with are his match ups and justifications, but it does pose an interesting idea. Should college football implement the conference challenge idea? Which conference would you want to see the Big 10 take on first?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=4253643

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Here's a better solution

Let’s have preseason bowl games. If you have them on the last weekend in August you don’t have to worry about the players missing class. I’m sure the NCAA and university presidents would go for it because it would mean more money. And with the weather in August you could host some games up north in cities like New York, Boston, Indianapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

They used to have them years ago. It was called the kickoff classic, but the NCAA put a stop to it.

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by BSD on Jun 13, 2009 7:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

why did they discontinue it?

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

12th game

They got rid of all the pre-season games when the permanently added the 12th game, using the “too many games can affect the athletes performance in school” justification.

by Laaaaazzz on Jun 15, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's what I figured, but

why couldn’t they just have the 12th game for some teams BE the Football/Pigskin Classics?

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is allowed

Last years Alabama/Clemson game and this years Alabama/VT game is something called the Chick-Fil-A College Kickoff. Its the 12th game on the teams schedules and not an extra game.

by Brett Brown on Jun 15, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, great,

fall right into the OMG the world’s gonna end (SEC vs Big XII) fuster cluck again.

the battle of two basketball conferences (Big East/ACC)

and the tradition (BigTen/Pac10)

haven’t seen those ideas before, I’d be more impressed if he lined up Pac10 vs. Big East, ACC vs. Big XII, and SEC vs. BigTen or any variation EXCEPT the one he listed

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Jun 13, 2009 7:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Again, why do I read these guys?

Indiana vs. Southern California
Honestly, it doesn’t matter which Big Ten team plays USC. Even the Hoosiers could play the Trojans as well as the rest of the Big Ten teams did the past few seasons.

Maybe I should just stick to watching the games and ignoring these dingbats for good.

by Mr. Rosewater on Jun 14, 2009 3:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ESPN has gone for the entertainment angle

rather then good sports journalism more often then not anyway. I just watch ESPN News to avoid the crap they produce.

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by CptChaosSidekick on Jun 14, 2009 4:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm starting to do the same...

by Mr. Rosewater on Jun 14, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I haven't gone to ESPN other than to look up stats and game-recaps since the OTL piece

it isn’t that I’m boycotting them or anything, I just don’t care what they say anymore.

I do like their E-Ticket stories, though. I like the Sports Guy, too, (but he’s supposed to be a biased, dumbass, media obsessed fan/writer) but I haven’ treally read him much in the past year since he basically started having like 1 story a month

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

OMG. USC will never be beaten again cuz their on a win streek gainst the bigten losers lulz.

I understand living in the moment, but how does no one understand the cyclical nature of college football? Remember when FSU and Nebraska of the 90’s would never lose again, and late 80’s Miami and those old OU and Bama and PSU teams with the crazy win streaks? Guess what folks at ESPN, eventually USC is going to lose 4 or even (gasp!) 5-8 games. ND, UM, PSU, Bama….all juggernauts, all with down times recently. USC sucked in the 90s for most of it, and they will have a down cycle again. Its almost like the refuse to acknowledge that every decade has had a team or couple teams that dominated.

I want to dig up some old-timey article about the 1900’s UM teams that were undefeated and unscored upon, was the media as retarded back then? Im too lazy to do the research.

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by Roland86 on Jun 14, 2009 4:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just found this in an archive

The footballering men of the Univerfity of Michigan played a right fine game yefterday againft the fearfome Tiger of the Univerfity of Princeton. Defpite the abject weaknefs of the fcallywag conference of the biggeft ten, the wolverine fighting men befted the fearfome tiger juft a week after befting the honorable Faban and his men from Alabama. However, Alabama could only be befted by the men of the wolverine tribe when Alabama loft their offensive front of giants. Even with a lofs, the Alabama was clearly fuperior to maize. The foutheaftern conference remains as top of the pile.

Wow. They might have been worse back then!

DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?

"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep

by ReadingRambler on Jun 14, 2009 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Nice try

but there were only 8 teams in the Big Ten at the time. To miss such an obvious detail is really disappointing.

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Jun 15, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the "honorable Saban and his men from Alabama" was the bigger giveawayb

I also liked the random s’s popping in there instead of f’s. I also don’t think that f’s were used instead of s’s during that time period (but I could be wrong)

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The usage of the s's are not random

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

The long, medial or descending s (ſ) is a form of the minuscule letter ‘s’ formerly used where ‘s’ occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word, for example ſinfulneſs (“sinfulness”).</blockquote?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?

"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep

by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fixed

The footballering men of the Univerſity of Michigan played a right fine game yeſterday againſt the fearſome Tiger of the Univerſity of Princeton. Deſpite the abject weakneſs of the ſcallywag conference of the biggeſt ten, the wolverine fighting men beſted the fearſome tiger juſt a week after beſting the honorable ſaban and his men from Alabama. However, Alabama could only be beſted by the men of the wolverine tribe when Alabama loſt their offenſive front of giants. Even with a loſs, the Alabama was clearly ſuperior to maize. The ſoutheaftern conference remains as top of the pile.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?

"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep

by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

“I also don’t think that f’s were used instead of s’s during that time period (but I could be wrong)”

I’m tired of you fruitcakes and your demands for accuracy.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?

"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep

by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh, I don't demand accuracy

if anything I demand inaccuracy, for something for me to mock, and to make the rambles more interesting

By the way, is there a more appropriate name for you than Rambler?

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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DO YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE, DANNY?

"I hope after touchdowns this year all our players just point at Zug." - jtothep

by ReadingRambler on Jun 15, 2009 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

was 1-43 taken?

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Re: long win streaks

Remember when Miami was on their really long win streak in the late 90s early 2000s? Penn State was the last team to have beaten them before the streak.

Remember when OSU was on their really long win streak a few years ago? Penn State was the lsat team to have beaten them before the streak.

by The JuggerNitt on Jun 15, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs