RedDenver

I'm not sure about this one. Hopefully he proves me wrong, but I think he'll be a problem more than he'll help.

This is ridiculous. I hope he goes elsewhere.

In the dictionary under redundant, it says, "see redundant".

The butthurt is strong in this thread.

Then don't follow his twitter feed.

Good points. If you go to the article I linked above the very first line mentions the map as an inspiration and has a link to where it was put up by a random poster. The discussion where it was originally linked has no further information about the source of the map itself so it's hard to say exactly what it covers (perhaps it is listing where B1G players were from during years 'x to y' rather than those on teams right now). FWIW the numbers in the article do not come from the map, instead they were independent research by the author & cover current rosters. Good to know. I still think 66 may be too high even counting the entire rosters of B1G teams. It's possible though.

Here's a link a quick google search gave me: "If the transfer student is attending a bowl sub-division football school and transfers to a championship sub-division football school, he may be eligible for this one-time transfer exception only if he has two or more seasons of competition remaining in football." Here's a better description of the rules. It appears Hedley is correct - you can get a waiver for transferring down but not up. 4-2-4 transfers through a JUCO may apparently get waived as well. Edit: And the graduate student and hardship waivers are also available.

You have to sit a year when moving up divisions but do not have to when moving down divisions. This kicker is set up just like Russell Wilson. He has one year of eligibility left and does not have to sit regardless of where he goes. I don't think that's correct. It's the entire reason why guys transfer to 1-AA - to not lose a year of eligibility. I'll see if I can find an example or the NCAA rule.

66 seems pretty high for Nebraska. I doubt there's that many players in all of D-1 football from Nebraska, let alone the B1G.

RE 5). After watching the 30 for 30 on Marcus Dupree I was wondering how widespread pay for play is. From that program it sounded like Dupree's services were for sale according to a few of the people close to Dupree. And then his mother got a double wide to keep him happy after he started playing. Maybe I'm naive but I thought that NCAA sanctions were a sufficient deterrent from this happening. The only sanction that really slowed done pay-for-play was the SMU death penalty. I think it's going to take something like that again to reign things in for a while. Until the punishment is worse than the crime and the odds of actually getting caught are high enough, rampant cheating will continue. I'd think many coaches and administrators who saw what happened with Cam Newton would make the decision to cheat. The chances of getting caught are low and the punishment if caught is usually less than the benefits of something like a national title or even just a really good run.

I don't think it is wrong, in fact, I would think it was wrong if he did not go after him. Exactly. For Marrow to not go after a kid is simply not doing his job for Kentucky. I think recruiting circles use the word "commit" incorrectly. The kid isn't committed to a school in the usual sense of that word. Signing the scholarship paper work is a commitment. Whenever I hear a recruit has "committed", I instead think "plans to attend". Like when you make plans to meet your friends for dinner or a movie - you can always change your mind depending on circumstance.

HAHAHA!!! One of my favorite movie lines of all time.

Why would you want him to go to Oklahoma?

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Good points, Paul. Shuttle time is probably the most overlooked stat, but IMO pure numbers from a combine setting mean far less than what players do between the lines. Also interesting Suh was only 266 lbs out of highschool.

IMO the last couple seasons there's been an epidemic of bad tackling throughout college football, and especially at NU. I can't even count the number of times I've yelled, "Don't dive at his legs - run through the tackle!!!" In addition to the injuries it looked like the Huskers just ran out of steam against Wisky. So many close, tough games in row seemed to finally catch up to them.

I was never good at story problems. If a train leaves Albuquerque at 12:30pm MST and averages 102 Kmh and is pulling 53 tons. Heading towards this train on the same track is one from Venice, Italy leaving at 6pm Rome standard time the same day averaging 95 Kmh and pulling 32 tons. What time moscow standard time will they collide? Kmh? Is that a unit of space-time? Any new word about Willis?

aTm fitting into the SEC quite well, I see.

Here's an excellent blog post by Frank The Tank about why Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers are prime B1G targets: http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/fear-the-turtle-the-big-ten-invites-maryland-with-rutgers-on-deck/

That's not quite accurate. The BTN negotiates for higher fees in B1G states. So far they've been successful, but that's because a large segment of the TV viewers want the BTN. If TV viewers in NYC don't really care, then those cable companies can tell the BTN to go pound sand.

This is a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE move. Even forgetting the teams being added, the Huskers will only now rarely play tOSU and Wisky. Here's the breakdown: 8 games conference schedule and keeping crossovers (6 division games and 1 crossover every year and only 1 non-crossover team): home and home in consecutive years (like it is now) means tOSU plays Huskers 2 years in a row (2011-2012 for example) and then not again for 11 years (next game 2023 in the example - Wisky not until 2025). This is the scenario is Rutgers and Maryland are added to the east and Illini move to west and everything else is unchanged. Removing the crossover game haves the time to every 6 years, but destroys existing rivalries like tOSU-Mich being played only every 6 years. Could keep the crossover but only play one game (instead of back-to-back home and home) which would also reduce the time to every 6 years, but then tOSU would play at Lincoln and then not see the Huskers until 6 years later in the Shoe. Looks like 8 conference games is untenable. So I'll look at a 9 game schedule: home and home in consecutive years (like it is now) means tOSU plays Huskers 2 years in a row (2011-2012 for example) and then not again for 5 years (next game 2017 in the example). Not nearly as bad but still sucks since some players could play a full 4 years at NU and never face tOSU, Wisky, etc. A redivisioning for a straight east-west split makes this even worse as Mich, tOSU, and PSU would all be in the east and only Wisky would be in the west with NU out of the power teams. And the majority of the population centers are all in the east minimizing any improvement to recruiting for NU (although it's a big advantage to the east teams). The only real advantages here are a few more dollars (only about a 5-10% increase to the athletic budgets of each team for the most optimistic outlooks) and possibly getting rid of the terrible division names (I call them the Chutes and Ladders divisions). That's about it from my perspective. Rutgers and Maryland are about as exciting an add as most of the MAC, Big East, or Conference USA. Maybe the powers that be will redeem themselves with some sort of fancy scheduling or adding actually interesting teams for getting to 16 team conference. I'm very depressed and angered by this move. This is the first time I've thought that the move to the B1G wasn't a good idea. B12 still needs 2 teams to get back to 12, so maybe that'll happen sometime in the future. Or maybe when the SEC goes to 16. Or maybe when this oversized conference splits up we'll end up with the "good" remnant. <sigh> Bad day for college football fans.

With the addition of Maryland to the B1G, and probably Rutgers tomorrow, it might be a long time before we play tOSU again. I enjoyed NU playing tOSU and would love a rematch this year or next.

Jan. is usually a pretty big recruiting month for us.

It is actually Lavon Hooks, not Hands. And yes he is a beast. it used to be Hands until a terrible accident, now its Hooks. Well played.

AR had 1 false start but the second one MSU had clearly jumped offsides. Other than those 2 penalties, did anyone see anything that suggests AR played poorly?