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Glendower

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  1. Dropping the ban hammer is pretty extreme. Their dissent will be more useful and interesting in conversations next season; people are still venting and preparing their "I told you so" portfolios just in case things do go absolutely miserably in the coming 12 months. However, they are also giving the Rilievers (sorry! I'll never type that again!) ample quotes to throw back at them in case things work out. You know, like, "Everything you say can and will be held against you..." This is why we have message boards.
  2. They are all I-N-S-A-N-E-!!!!!!!! To believe that they were left out because they are a christian school is the epitome of ridiculous. I actually don't think they are insane, I think there is something to it. Especially how DHS calls christians terrorists on their websites nowadays, and how obama's ring that he always wears says "there is no god but allah" We would be very naive to believe that politics dont play into these decisions. I think 90% of it is political to be honest I'll bet you ten million dollars that they don't declare "Christians" to be terrorists, but identify Christian terror groups who, I don't know, kill doctors in church. Yep, and the ring thing is bogus too. Somebody listens to too much right wing radio. I just took that for granted but didn't want to engage it because it's akin to arguing about what a third party thinks. One of the central problems with the "secret Muslim" line of reasoning is that it assumes that being Muslim is something that a devout Muslim would be ashamed of. That's a pretty shaky premise that seems more appropriate for the pages of a Chick Tract.
  3. I don't recall Banderas's leg falling off when he was replaced by Roach? But we watched Cotton fall on national TV and didn't get replaced That was funny and all, but the guy was off balance. It was either try to hold still until the snap, lunge forward, or put a foot back. Of the three, the first is the only one that had the possibility of not drawing a false-start penalty. Granted, the odds weren't great (as we saw) but the other two options that he had were 100% certain to draw a flag; it probably took a lot of self-control to not make any blatant attempt to right himself. It's still hilarious.
  4. I can't discount that entirely, but I really do think it's because FSU has continually escaped from games and has just generally looked "weird." While they have won every game, which is no small feat *at all*, they have just barely won many against teams that aren't all that great. It's just strange. I think if I were on the committee, I'd say that they definitely belonged in the top four (that wouldn't really even be a question), but I'd see how other teams have just dominated their opponents and carefully consider where I thought FSU belonged among those top four. If they win their first round (and I'm afraid they will by 1-3 points), then they should go into the final round as number 1. FSU is a real head-scratcher this year. One close win-- sure. Two? Alright... But they have FIVE close or very close wins, and three of those shouldn't have been any trouble. Again, I know that strong teams "drop the ball," so to speak, against weak opponents; but FSU does it with such regularity that it seems inevitable that they should lose to a team that is on equal footing with them at the end of the season. Of course, this reasoning rules out the apparently distinct possibility that satan is on their side.
  5. Its script can only be revealed by fire, so it's pretty hard to see on a day-to-day basis. When he wears it, it makes his Muslimnity invisible.
  6. Let's not forget that Missouri already has a not-all-that-quality loss to a Big Ten skoo.
  7. No way would we have been able to kick 6 field goals.T_O_B Did you mean 8? I assumed there would be a TD followed by a failed 2pt conversion.
  8. I don't know-- I think we can make it. I worked it all out, but it would require several natural disasters and probably at least one nuclear explosion (accidental or not). But just watch-- it will all play out in our favor, but 'Bama will survive the apocalypse and mop the floor with us as corpse ash falls from the sky.
  9. They are all I-N-S-A-N-E-!!!!!!!! To believe that they were left out because they are a christian school is the epitome of ridiculous. I actually don't think they are insane, I think there is something to it. Especially how DHS calls christians terrorists on their websites nowadays, and how obama's ring that he always wears says "there is no god but allah" We would be very naive to believe that politics dont play into these decisions. I think 90% of it is political to be honest I'll bet you ten million dollars that they don't declare "Christians" to be terrorists, but identify Christian terror groups who, I don't know, kill doctors in church.
  10. You just can't recruit guys to Nebraska who can wrap up or stay at home on the outside. It's all the players and their genetic inability to execute.
  11. WHY is it meaningless? Did people get in for losing all of their games? Did any non-champions get in? Did a 4-8 team get in?
  12. Wisconsin's one strength lined up perfectly with Nebraska's major weakness. All OSU had to do was stop the run, force the QB to throw, and they were basically unarmed. Yeah, they completed some passes, but there was no consistency. Bo and Paps were either unable to change the D or didn't have the players available to do this relatively simple thing (I mean, it's simple in that there was really only one aspect of the game that needed to be controlled). I think that Nebraska's D backs are good enough to have taken care of Wisconsin's unreliable passing game, so they should have just moved more resources to the run-stopping game. It was almost like Paps was on the phone with Beck asking, "Okay, what would YOU do next if you were their OC?" "After breaking off that 50 yard run, I'd start passing! They're going to HAVE to start passing any second! They're using the run to establish the pass!" OSU looks like a complete, real-deal team, though.
  13. On Wisconsin('s throat)! I was hoping for a game, though and was kind of expecting it to be close... This is a surprise.
  14. You act like he had anywhere near the same resources at Oregon State that we have here.
  15. Yeah this. HOW ELSE were they to be notified? Was Eichorst going to call each player and personally notify them? Of course it's an email. They have a big room with stadium seating, and a projection screen.. hell, he could've teleconferenced from there if he's to chickens hit to do it in person. Some people would have complained about that, too. This is just singling out one thing that seems bad (for no actual, discernible reason) to be upset about. Might as well be angry about the typeface of the email, too.
  16. Confirms what I've heard from a buddy in the program. Where there's smoke, there's fire! Guys, I think Riley is going to be the next head coach at Nebraska! I think he's just coming to try to sell some Advocare.
  17. I want Frost here, but I would be really bummed if this were his first job and he blew it because he couldn't get the coordinators he wanted or needed at this point in his career and they had to let him go. That would have really sucked.
  18. What's with all the phallic stuff lately? Name-Comment synergy! I have wondered that, too. A lot of talk about getting erections about coaches. Kind of... different.
  19. Jesus. If I'm Eichorst, I call a player meeting every time I do any mundane thing around the office until, eventually, the players go, "Okay, Shawn. You win. Please just send us a damn e-mail from now on." "We are out of paperclips on the second floor. I had the office assistant there order some more; it looks like... hmm.... 50 boxes from Office Depot. A printer is jammed in the financial department, but someone will be getting right on that. There will be cake for Linda's birthday, but there is no word on whether it is gluten free; I will have a meeting to let you know if it is. Speaking of Linda, she's engaged, too. It's a real tremendous month for Linda!"
  20. Short form of what I've said elsewhere-- people would have complained NO MATTER HOW they informed the team. Team meeting while some of them were away on break? Complain. A slow letter? Complain. Group Skype or a Go To Meeting type thing? They'd definitely complain. Email made the absolute most sense. I've been hearing past players saying that they learned from the news or their parents when their coaches were fired. I think it was the right thing. People just see "email" and freak out because there is something in the culture that says email is always the wrong way to do anything.
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