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by Peter Gray on Nov 2, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
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Cruzan for all! Anthony Fera has been selected as a candidate for the Ray Guy award, which goes to the nation's top punter, as well as a semifinalist for the Lou Groza award, which goes to the best kicker. The honors are well deserved, as this team would not be 8-1 without him.
GET MONEY, AL. Al Golden was pretty pissed that Miami hired him without letting him know of the impending NCAA cataclysm. As he should have been. Well, it turns out that Miami is open to renegotiating Al's contract in light of the... rocky start to their relationship. As they should. Whether this keeps him from fleeing to the safety of a new job at the first opportunity remains to be seen.
Numbers, letters, etc. Fresh from the SBN mothership: The Alphabetical, The Numerical, This Week In Schadenfreude (featuring a lot of Iowa and Wisconsin), and Bill's Bowl Projections.
Good on you, Bob. Oklahoma's Dominique Whaley was leading the team in rushing yards as a walk on. Unfortunately, he fractured his ankle last week and will miss the rest of the season. However, starting this spring, he won't have to be paying his own way anymore, as Bob Stoops has decided to give Whaley a scholarship, in spite of the fact that he won't suit up for the Sooners again until spring ball. Well deserved.
Clever girl, Pat. Pat Forde's first column for Yahoo! was released yesterday, and he started off by taking a delightful shot at ESPN.
After careful consideration, The Dash applied for membership and was accepted by the worldwide leader in sports journalism.
I was never a huge fan of Forde's when he was at the WWL, but I'm willing to give him a shot to see if being unmuzzled makes him any better.
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I can never read anyone's column
who refers to himself in the third-person. “The Dash” did this and the “The Dash” did that drives me f’n crazy. he’s a
"Illegitimus non Carborundum!" (Don't let the bastards wear you down)
That is insulting
to Moe-ron’s everywhere.
"It's never a bad thing thing to vote for the suckiness of tOSU." -RWReese
Follow @Paige2PSU
And it's not even a human actor to which he refers.
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Love this typo about the MAC in Numerical
5: MAC East teams within one game of the division lead in the loss column. Temple leads the way at 3-2, Ohio State and Miami (Ohio) are 2-2, Bowling Green is 2-3 and Kent State is 1-3. Temple is by far the statistically superior team of the bunch, but a couple of losses have left them with quite a bit of work to do.
My grammer skills need improved.
by BMAN13 on Nov 2, 2011 12:37 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
So what happened with Forde and ESPN?
I take it there was no Feldman-esque conflict. Did he just get a better offer?
ESPN.com is still my primary site for general sports news and scores. But their journalistic practices of late have me turning to other sites (especially Yahoo) for more in-depth commentary.
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by newenglandnittanylion on Nov 2, 2011 12:53 PM EDT reply actions
Precisely.
I use ESPN for a quick box score and some future schedule info.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 2, 2011 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Truf
How about Rittenburg (another of the PSU haters at ESPN) who wrote in his recent posting that “The ideal scenario for PSU is to go two and one in the final three games.” I wrote him a nasty-gram that he obviously doesn’t get the meaning of the word “Ideal” and perhaps Northwestern could have done a better job on educating him. The “Ideal scenario” for PSU is to win ALL three of the final games. The “less-than-ideal” scenario would be two and one. The “worse” scenario is one and two, and the “Worst” scenario is oh-and-three.
"Illegitimus non Carborundum!" (Don't let the bastards wear you down)
by RWReese on Nov 2, 2011 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Easterbrook and UniWatch
Yeah, I get it. Our plan is to show up with our fantastic defense and let the chips fall where they may.
Easterbrook can be...
good, but he can also be a haughy know it all.
Every insult does not require a response.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Exactly.
Every insult does not require a response.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Prehaps.
But so can I, and his “haughtness” is straight in line with mine. If I had my way BSD would have more throw away paragraphs about black holes and Battlestar Galactica.
Yeah, I get it. Our plan is to show up with our fantastic defense and let the chips fall where they may.
by jesse. on Nov 2, 2011 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The black holes..
and Battlestar Galactica stuff is actually the best part of his TMQ article. His takes on NFL football are the haughty part. Drew Magary of Deadspin does a pretty good job of destroying his “logic”.
Every insult does not require a response.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
He's loose with the facts in his asides, too.
I assure you, if Jack Crawford’s performance in November is great, I’m not going to screw up the references to Doctor Who if when I make them.
OH MY GAWD, THAT'S MOYE'S MUSIC!
Frank Easterbrook is a hack.
And don’t get me started on Dick Posner.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 2, 2011 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Not a fan of...
the Chicago folks?
Every insult does not require a response.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Kidding.
Love the 7th Circuit. Not for any perceived bias, they just write some great opinions.
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by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 2, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Posner is a good writer...
can’t recall anything written by TMQ’s official brother.
Every insult does not require a response.
by Esteban d' Amur on Nov 2, 2011 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Any credibility that I thought ESPN had went out the window
when they let Ashley Fox write for that website
Defense wins championships
Has anyone ever won both the Guy and Groza in the same year?
Also, LOLGEORGIARUNNINGBACKS.
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Well Forde's initial column on Yahoo is no different than his ESPN column
Bash the Big Ten? Check
Reference some pretty girl? Check
Make presumptuous, broad-brush statements about entire conferences based on a limited data set? Check
Be a general, all-around grating dickhead? Double check.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
yeah, I kinda felt like Forde and ESPN went hand in hand
pretty much perfect for each other. Though some of Yahoo’s college football guys (aside from Wetzel and Robinson) are really no different.
I'm on the Internet cause I'm an Internet thug.
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And that NFL guy
Chris Chase or something like that is a giant flaming dickbag.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
He gets a lot of shit, perhaps somewhat unjustified
but he’s basically TMZ for Yahoo. And if that wasn’t bad enough, he throws out these stupid opinions on it based on half truths and general stereotypes.
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I don't understand how he keeps a job
I should try for that job. I can write snide comments and general drivel about random NFL players on any given Sunday.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
Me thinks he commits the "Sin of Onan" much too often whilst looking in the mirror
"Illegitimus non Carborundum!" (Don't let the bastards wear you down)
Wait till the next time PSU goes 11-1
Forde will sing the praises of Joe/PSU
and as soon as another 9-3 season returns, he’ll be back to PSU-bashing.
by Artiefufkin10 on Nov 2, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds like
A lot of our own fanbase.
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right
- A.Lincoln
by SarcasmJam on Nov 2, 2011 1:50 PM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions 6 recs
To be fair to Forde
He did one of those Yahoo! Sports videos and he said that Penn State had the best defense in the nation. (Mentioned how the defense plays entire games with no room for error.)
I closed the window before hearing what Eddie George said. I’m sure it was either LSU or Alabama, and he’s probably right. But he started talking, and all I heard was some lofty/dickish comment about Forde’s pick of Penn State that I’ve come to expect from any Ohio State football player, past or present.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
#OccupyESPN
Forde is still not very smart
If the Big Ten gets two teams in the BCS it will be a travesty.
Why is that, Pat? Do you realize that the B1G currently has 5 teams in the top 24 in BCS computer average? The SEC has 6. The Big 12 has 4. The ACC and Pac-12 have 3. The Big East has 1.
So let’s examine some facts:
—The B1G has more teams in the top 24 of BCS computer average than 4 BCS leagues.
—The BCS can take a maximum of 2 teams from any given league.
—Assuming the teams in the BCS CG are BCS conference champs, the BCS will give out 1-4 at large bids. The only way 1 is given out is if two teams qualify under the Kansas State rule (ranked in the top 4 of the final BCS standings but did not win their league, assuming the team ranked #4 isn’t in the same league as two teams ranked in the top 3) and a non-AQ qualifies. That’s possible, but not very likely, Pat. What’s more likely is that there will be 2-3 at large bids.
So let’s go ahead and assume there are only two bids and the SEC gets one of them. Why would the 2nd best Big Ten team be less deserving than anyone else? And even if they are, why is that a travesty?
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
Because good offense + no defense = good ratings
bad offense + good defense = shitty ratings. He would rather see a 56-50 shootout than a 20-14 game because ZOMG TOUCHDOWNSSSS!!!!!!
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
by jman07 on Nov 2, 2011 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I've got another formula the BCS cares more about
Big Ten = ratings and ticket sales
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Amen brother
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
Forde is still not very smart
Nor honest.
Likely neither.
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Well, here it is....
Forde is an asshat…as above — B1G = ratings and tix sales….Bob Stoopes is a Jagov, 1st Class no less, no matter what perceive good deed that he may do…some say that Golden should have been aware that there was "somethin’ " going on at the U for 5 or 6 months prior to his hiring. Hey if he’s able to get out of it with some casheroonie then good for him. Is there anyone else in the Div1 ranks that is the punter and PK too that has impressed the voters? Then he sould be considered for Guy and Groza….AND I pray that we go 11-1 just to make the haters heads explode if for nothing else….it may be difficult, but from where we ( using the 3rd person)sit, it’s still doable.
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God." The Government is like the Mob, you can check out, but never leave.
by DerryPharmer on Nov 2, 2011 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
SBN's search isn't as great as it once was, for some reason
That, and I can’t think of the right terms to plug in to find our Pantsian friends’ satire of Forde’s dumb style. I remember it was hilarious. Anybody remember or got link?
BHGP is a string a moments,
moments in which the all of the internet’s awesome becomes concentrated in one place.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
YEAH MAN TITS
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
by ckmneon on Nov 2, 2011 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Also
Remember when Jacobi was the meanest sumbitch on the internet? The worst I ever got from him was being called a psu honk, but Chazz used to get just murdered.
‘Jesus fucking christ you fucking suck at reading and thinking’ was one of my favorites.
POW OPPS SERPRISE
Or something like that is what he said impersonating PSU fans once
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
I was right and he was a dick.
And I never posted there again.
Yeah, I get it. Our plan is to show up with our fantastic defense and let the chips fall where they may.
I would kill for it's search function...
to differentiate jesse. from every other permutation of Jesse there is in SBN land. There is one guy that writes about MMA [shudder].
Yeah, I get it. Our plan is to show up with our fantastic defense and let the chips fall where they may.
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