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And I thought Bell was pretty much done to Tennessee?

 

Mike Farrell of rivals has picked Bama, OSU and Rocky Top as the destination for Bell in the past month or so...

 

People don't know what the hell is going on!

Two more of the Rivals guys have switched their prediction from Tennessee to Ohio State for Bell (so now 4 of 8) and both of Scouts (Newberg & Simmons) are predicting he ends up in Columbus. But as Woody said I don't think anyone really knows as Bell has really played his cards close to the vest.

Possibly (or not) related to Clark & the Ohio State WR derby...It looks like long time verbal Taivon Jacobs may be thinking about staying closer to home (Maryland).

FWIW I take Chung's tweets with a big grain of salt.

Sounds like an OSU lean but could very well end up at Florida. We are no longer in the running.

I think most Ohio State insiders would say he's probably a Florida lean right now.

And the funny thing is that multiple conferences use GORs with their teams. Any chance that a GOR makes it to court to be scuttled will be headed off by all of the other conferences just telling that conference to just 'let it go', lest their GORs be inadvertently undone.

I've never really bought that line of reasoning. Do you really think the B1G & Pac are worried about GORs being 'undone'? Nobody in either conference is at risk of going anywhere (no, not even PSU).

Holy.... The Michael Oher situation was nothing even close to cheating if the movie was anywhere close to portraying what actually happened.

Sorry couldn't help but laugh at that (in regards to pretty much any Hollywood movie).

That being said I agree that there's little to suggest the Oher situation was shady.

And being from Crete, Illinois (whatever that is) those girls are probably the hottest girls that he has seen in his entire life.

It's a somewhat affluent suburb south of Chicago.

FWIW a number of SEC schools have official 'welcome girls' whose job is to escort recruits and make them feel... well ...welcome. They get away with it by also using them as chaperones for other prospective students. When I was thinking about coming back east from California, UK was one of the schools I contacted about transferring to (mostly because a buddy was in school there) and one of their Wildcat Honeys (or whatever they're called) was my campus guide.

b12 schools arent going anywhere unless the conf disolves. They have all their rights tied to teh B12 conference. If they leave, they get NO money for years to come. The B1G isnt going to take a school that doesnt own their own television rights.

If Kansas (or whomever) decides to move a deal will be made. The Big 12 isn't going to leave money on the table just to spite a school who wants out. They'll arrange to return the rights for some percentage of the paper value of the media rights. They're not going to turn down cash in the tens of millions just to sit on rights that no longer have much value to them.

These are business decisions & pragmatism (usually) rules the day.

Who's Pat White?

One of Denard's future arena league opponents.

Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Kansas State, West Virginia

None of those teams are academically acceptable to the Big Ten and only one of them (Oklahoma) brings any actual value.

Which match ups do you think we can win?

 

Your best shots:

 

133 - Nagel vs Conaway

141 - Kelly vs Pearsall

157 - Green vs Alton

174 - Brown vs Kokesh

285 - Gingrich is beatable

 

I believe both Alton brothers are both supposed to be in the lineup otherwise I'd add 149 to the list.

 

The big problem is that PSU has guys that are likely to score bonus points in most of the other weights.

Final 33-9

125 - Megaludis - forfeit

133 - Conaway over Nagel - major dec 14-5

141 - Pearson over Kelly - 2-0

149 - Sueflon over Alton - pin (5:33) - Huge win for Jake

157 - Alton over Green - 3-1

165 - Taylor over Koehn - Tech fall 16-1

174 - Kokesh over Brown - 10-7

184 - Ruth over Ihnen - tech fall 18-3

197 - Wright over Kolb - maj dec 10-2

285 - Gingrich over Johnson - 7-4

If UVA is already in, what's the meeting about Tmw?

They just wanted a chance to say no to Missouri again.

Or as Mavric said for the vote or just to make sure everyone is on the same page going forward.

I couldn't imagine right now if we were still in the Big 12, hoping that the BIG would show interest in us, still dealing with Texas, wondering what is next for the Big 12, adding more teams or implosion, heading west with Colorado and joining the PAC if the BIG doesn't invite?

Oh come on the Big 12 is stacked with teams that everyone wants to watch & is going to laugh all the way to the bank forever! Don't you read shaggybevo?

Plus, Northwestern seems to be the one team in the conference that is our nemesis in almost everything.

Well there's a phrase you don't see every day.

Which match ups do you think we can win?

Your best shots:

133 - Nagel vs Conaway

141 - Kelly vs Pearsall

157 - Green vs Alton

174 - Brown vs Kokesh

285 - Gingrich is beatable

I believe both Alton brothers are both supposed to be in the lineup otherwise I'd add 149 to the list.

The big problem is that PSU has guys that are likely to score bonus points in most of the other weights.

Kansas has been to a BCS bowl. More recent that a certain school in Lincoln, at any rate.

 

Just sayin'.

 

So has Cincinnati, Northern Illinois & Wake Forest. That doesn't mean anyone is begging for them to join eit...wait what side of this argument am I on?

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Ninja'd by one minute by another Buckeye on a Husker board on Saturday afternoon...crazy.

ESPN ticker said "Ronaiah had dramatic voice training."

 

They are turning into Fox/MSNBC (pick your poison).

Turning into?!

ESPN was nothing more than tabloid entertainment long before either of those entities existed.

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Why again did Indiana and Penn State play in Maryland a couple years ago?

The short story is that PSU bought it from Indiana.

PSU fans don't travel well and Indiana attendance is normally weak anyways so it was financially a better move from them.

St. Louis is #21 and Kansas City is #31

Two contested cities in Missouri aren't going to pay the bills for Kansas.

I think his point was with Duke being so close to UNC, it doesn't add any new TV markets. Chasing the almighty dollar.

And my point is Kansas doesn't bring enough markets to pay for itself either.

Duke is worthless like Pitt is worthless.

 

Duke is 7 miles from UNC.

 

We get UNC then Duke is just another mouth to feed.

 

 

The question is do we NEED to add Duke to pull in UNC? That might be worth using the extra spot.

If you are using the cable/viewers model then Kansas is equally worthless. Duke brings the same thing to the table that Kansas does, it's a national brand. It's arguable that it actually brings more value because there are far more casual fans following Duke nationally than Kansas. It's the same model that brought us Nebraska (waves to all the locals) - national brands can trump local markets.

I'm certainly not pushing for Duke to make it in I just don't see how you can blast Duke when you are using the same argument that makes Kansas a non-target.

I think it will work out in the end but for those who might want Kansas(me being one) will be disappointed and we might be stuck with worthless Duke.

How can you pimp Kansas in the same sentence that you call Duke worthless? Both are primarily BB brands with little FB history. The only real difference is that Duke is academically elite while Kansas is among the group most likely to be next on the AAU chopping block. Kansans may be nicer people than anyone connected with Duke but doesn't pay the bills.

Innocent until proven guilty. They dont "have" to prove theyre innocent. We just have to prove he's guilty. It's the OJ Theorem, except Manti didnt actually commit murder, or a crime, for that matter.

We need do no such thing. This isn't a criminal court.

Some rumors going around that he might not visit Florida or OSU if that's the case it's a Clemson NU battle I would have to assume. Either way i see Clemson winning this one.

I know it doesn't help you guys but...

GatorSports

The New Smyrna Beach receiver told me he will know Wednesday whether he visits Florida or Ohio State this weekend for his last official. Nothing has been scheduled as of tonight.

 

Clark said it's possible he could visit one of the two schools on Feb. 1. He added that if the Gators don't receive an official, it doesn't hurt Florida's chances because he's visited UF five times already.

I think the Maryland reaction might be a better comparison (although still not perfect). Most Terrapin fans were pretty negative about the move until the ones in support of it took the time to break down the positives. The general mood changed rapidly after that point.

If UNC does join the B1G I don't see anything like an A&M style revolt happening.

The biggest fear seems to be a belief that NCST would jump to the SEC and immediately become some sort of FB dynasty. I find that rationale pretty weak. UNC in the B1G would be on equal footing financially (at the very least), the only thing preventing them from maintaining their position would be an athletic department that doesn't utilize it's strength.

IMHO, Duke > Kansas. I'm admittedly biased.

You must really hate Kansas because seriously F' Duke.

I count 66 on our 2012 roster, but there are also a couple on Iowa's team. Incidentally, there are also a few at Kansas state and Iowa state and a half dozen or so playing for solich at Ohio.

Despite Flounder Hoke's confusion, the Bobcat's are not members of the B1G.

Seriously though thanks for doing that legwork. It's certainly plausible that whoever made the map just looked at the official rosters on every school's website, most (if not all) of which make no distinction between scholarship players & walk-ons.