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2 hours ago, hskrfan4life said:
Oh I never said the virus itself is a crock of sh*t. I know it's a real thing. I just think that the cancellation of the game isn't warranted as a non-forfeit. Every team knows the rules. And yes things happen, but that's why there are standards in place. You can't play you forfeit. I realize I should've expanded on what I thought was a crock of sh*t my apologies.
I don't know what the Big Ten's rules are on this but plenty of teams are having games postponed or cancelled without it counting as a forfeit.
The following games were postponed or cancelled due to COVID:
Postponed
ND @ Wake - postponed to 12 Dec 2020
Cincy @ Tulsa - postponed to 5 Dec 2020
Houston @ Baylor
Rice @ Houston
North Texas @ Houston
Tulsa @ Arkansas State
Central Ark @ Arkansas State - Postponed to 10 Oct 2020 and played
SMU @ TCU
FIU @ UCF
Marshall @ ECUUSF @ FAU
Oklahoma State @ Baylor - postponed to 12 Dec 2020
Louisiana Tech @ Baylor
Rice @ Marshall
Georgia State @ Charlotte
FIU @ Charlotte
FAU @ Southern Miss
Jacksonville St @ FIU - postponed to 23 Oct 2020 and played
UAB @ Rice
BYU @ Army
Southern Miss @ UTEP
LSU @ Florida - postponed to 12 Dec 2020
Vandy @ Mizzou - postponed to 12 Dec 2020
Troy @ South Alabama
FAU @ Georgia Southern
Cancelled
Charlotte @ UNC
New Mexico @ Colorado State
Old Dominion all games
UConn all games
New Mexico State all games
UMass all games
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "postponed" games without dates set will likely turn in to cancelled games. None of these, postponed or cancelled, have been counted as forfeits.
But I get where you're coming from and if it's just three players then I'd like for the game to be played, third string QB and all. Football is better than not-Football, and no matter how we may feel about it this whole season is probably going to end up with a gigantic asterisk next to it.
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22 minutes ago, runningblind said:
Pretty sure Coan is hurt for the year. Remember folks that the B1G rules say you have to sit out 21 days, so if enough of the team has it so that they have to cancel this weekend, they'd have to cancel the next 3 as far as I can tell. Do calls come for the conference as a whole to reconsider at that point?
Yea you're right, forgot about the foot thing.
Well the line should move quite a bit now. I'm not even going to get mad about these cruel turns of fortune, having football this year was a gift as it is so whatever happens happens.
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21 minutes ago, hskrfan4life said:
I flipping hope not because it's a crock of s#!t.
How do you figure? If just Mertz has it and it gets cancelled I'd agree but that's not going to happen. If all the starters get it this week or something than IMO it should be cancelled.
It's also not the end of the world for UW if the game is played without Mertz, Coan is his back up and was decent last year. He won't light you up but he'll do well enough.
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It should be an interesting game. You guys kind of got dealt a bad card drawing OSU in the first week. I'm excited to see how Mertz looks against a team with a pulse as opposed to Illinois. Our run game was pretty anemic last week so that's another thing to watch from UW's perspective. I wouldn't put too much stock in Vegas lines or experts this season as anything can happen in 2020, the only consistent teams so far seem to be Alabama and Clemson. There is no outcome to this game that would surprise me.
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Long time no talk jaws, hope you're doing well. Ohio State played a hell of a game today.
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3 minutes ago, Army_Allen said:
Nebraska nice
What is that?
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So you're quoting the Nebraska Football's official twitter? Ok, I'm not a Nebraska fan so that carries no weight with me, I don't care what their twitter says. They're also pretty far from being objective on this issue.
I have a very clear conscience on this particular issue. UCF had a heck of a year, but it was not CFP worthy. Good luck in the future, I think you all made a great hire and I'll be rooting for your program.
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30 minutes ago, ATS Knight said:
I think the thing that P5 fans miss is that we CAN'T schedule better teams.
What? That just simply is not true. UCF played Ohio State in 2012 and Stanford in 2015.
Just this year AAC teams played games against Oklahoma, TCU, and two games against Notre Dame. Last year AAC teams had games against Penn State, Florida State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Oklahoma....and in both of those seasons I'm just listing P5 opponents that ended the regular season in the CFP top 15.
UCF and AAC teams definitely do have the ability to schedule quality P5 teams but instead you scheduled Georgia Tech and Maryland. You have nobody to blame or complain to but yourself.
QuoteTop tier schools schedule creampuff teams for OOC in arrangements that are unacceptable for any decent team. The only P5 teams that will schedule 1and1s with us are the GT's and Maryland's of the world.
They make way more money that way. If I'm a large school and I book an FCS school for a one off and pay them $1 million I get to keep whatever profit from ticket sales I have except for that $1 million, and then I get to do it all over again next year. If I schedule a 1 for 1 with an AAC school I'm loosing an entire game's profits for that away year. It doesn't make financial sense. It has nothing to do with being afraid to play you and everything to do with money. Your solution for that is to go to them or schedule neutral site games, you're in Florida, there are plenty of good neutral site venues and three prestigious power programs within a few hours drive of your campus. Make it work.
The bottom line is that you guys went 6-6 last year as a G5 school. String together a 10+ win seasons and play some good teams and your chances improve. You did not deserve to be in the playoff this year.
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25 minutes ago, ATS Knight said:
You're basically saying that there is no possible way for a Group of 5 team to be better than a P5 team and you're pretty happy with that. .I'm not saying G5 teams have no chance, just that they have very little chance. If you want a shot at that chance you have to have multiple seasons of sustained success and a willingness to schedule quality P5 opponents as your out of conference opponents (see what Boise and TCU used to do). GT and Maryland are two tiers beneath what you would need to schedule.
25 minutes ago, ATS Knight said:All season it's been, "If you played a SEC team, you would see what real football is," "Alabama and Georgia didn't go undefeated, but they had to play teams like Auburn, not SMU". Then we beat Auburn and it's "your strength of schedule was too low".
Most of the criticism was based on SoS, I saw very little of that talk you're citing. I'm sure it happened and you can link it, but at the end of the day they're the same argument and it's still valid. You didn't play nearly a difficult enough schedule.
...and of course there's a P5 bias, look at the committee composition. G5 schools/conferences have nobody at the table.
QuoteAnd the team that should have exposed that we didn't belong got exposed.
It was your Super Bowl and their consolation bowl. Malzahn has a history of under-performing and coaching letdown games, even in a good season like they had this year they still had Mercer and LSU games...but congrats just the same.
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And your strength of schedule was terrible. Your ranking should have been higher and you played a great game today but you did not deserve a playoff spot.
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UCF still didn't deserve a playoff spot.
58 minutes ago, HuskerNBigD said:Should post the same thing on SECRant! Personally, I think UCF should've got a shot. Also, would love to see how Finebaum responds to the loss, I'm sure he'll give an SEC trademark response about the game not meaning anything, since it wasn't a playoff game.
It's been posted several times today.
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Can we stop talking about Fitzgerald? Not trying to be a jerk but it's sort of off-topic.
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12 minutes ago, Michiganball said:
Thought I would read some Miami forum, found "cainesinsight". It's another world gents. It's like a post apocalyptic thunder dome with people who time traveled from the 80's.
lol, link please.
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If only we could load at QB. It's the only piece we're routinely missing.
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I guess he felt the refs missed a holding call? He probably has a history with this officiating team given his time in the SEC, that may have also played in to it.
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Taylor is mad now.
That draw was BEAUTIFUL.
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13 minutes ago, Michiganball said:
I want to say something movie trailer like. Like "Miami, Wisconsin is coming and so is winter" or, No more hurricanes, just Frost(that one would be for Huskers playing). But cant get to cocky with those wanks playing at home.
Yea I don't feel good about this game at all, I wouldn't get that cocky.
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First possession TD. Great start.
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14 hours ago, Mavric said:
I mean ... there were two national guys I quoted saying the same thing. So it’s not just Husker fans.
I don’t have anything against him. I just don’t get why some people insist he’s such a great coach. He’s done a very good job at NW. But he’s in a win-win situation - if he wins he looks great, if he loses it’s all “it’s such a tough place to win”. He hasn’t even won a division title. And he routinely makes boneheaded decisions in games. That’s an above-average coach at best.
The difference is that they're talking about one particular game while you're talking about the entirety of his career. I only see criticism of Fitzgerald in this sense from Huskers, that's not to say others don't do it - I'm sure that they do, but I've only seen it, and it's especially prominent, from you all. I get it, he's beat you all a couple of times, he's beat Wisconsin and Iowa as well and it's annoying as hell.
QuoteHe hasn’t even won a division title
You're thinking like a Nebraska fan. A 10 win season is success for Northwestern.
Fitzgerald is a great coach. What he's accomplished at Northwestern proves that.
- Most total wins at 87, next closest is 49.
- Most bowl wins at 3, next closest is 1
- Most bowl games coached at 8, next closest is 3
- Highest win percentage in the modern era (since 1945)
- Highest win percentage by an HC to have coached more than 3 seasons
- Fourth highest win percentage behind W. H. Bannard (coached 1898 team), Alvin H. Culver (coached 1895-1896 teams), and Walter McCornack (coached 1903-1905 teams).
He hasn't had a Gary Barnett, Rose Bowl type season, but his record has been impressive. Is he Nick Saban? No, but he's got to be among the top 20 active coaches in the country.
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Hey knapp, I sincerely hope that you and all the Husker fans here are doing well. Plz don't ban me, I'm a good boy now. I've mellowed a lot since those, dark, early days.