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You'd be pissed too if you were taking a paycut, with little chance for future raises because you are unable to even talk about them with your boss.

Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan State, Ohio State, USC, UCLA, Cal, Oregon, BYU, Utah, Virginia Tech, Florida State, there are many "decent" two-sport schools that have ups and downs. They all see the dance more than us and conference titles nearly as much as our "recent" run...

Statistically, 13 of them being hospitalized means something is fishy. Math doesn't lie. What is that, a few % of the athletic population of Univ. of Iowa?

Northwestern doesn't play Ohio State or Wisconsin next year. This could mean we beat them and lose the division...

This may be a case where someone would struggle in the classroom and turn out academically ineligible anyways. All props to Braylon for potentially working his ass off to pursue his dreams, and I hope he continues to better himself in whatever ways he can. However, we are talking about a University system here, and that may not be in his immediate future.

You'd think players would relish the opportunity to take their game to the Big Ten and see a whole slew of new stadiums and play a whole set of new teams.

Probably just pushed himself into the first round

They need to go with the regions, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic.

 

Yes. For all the talk of it not being geographical, throw up a map of the states (as miami did in a previous thread) and it's pretty strikingly not randomly distributed across the map. Ah, here's a map, from HI. Non geographic split? C'mon, Big Ten guys...did you even look at the map first?!

 

 

 

Northwest and Southeast Divisions.

 

A conference with 12 teams being called the Big 10 should have no problem with one team (Wisconsin) being out of place.

I had to look to see if someone had said this so I didn't post it again. Seriously though, Northwest is awful, just choose north or west.

Because Wisconsin and OSU are in the WCHA and Michigan/MSU used to be?

Couldn't the Devaney accomodate a hockey rink?

If it is scored unlike the SAT, still picking C may not be the best choice. It's similar to the Monty Hall problem. It's always better to switch your answer if you are shown an incorrect answer. If you can eliminate some non-C answers, but you have entered into the problem with your choice as C... you are reducing your chances of scoring the correct response by limiting yourself to C in all situations. You are hamstrung to a 1/4 chance on any problem where you cannot eliminate C with this method.

Of course this assumes an equal distribution of correct answers to all choices (A, B, C, D)

These tests generally offer partial credit equal to 1/4 of a correct answer for any left blank. In the event that you can leave all you do not know blank and get a 17, you would be better off guessing on the remaining problems. You have a 50% chance of doing better and a 50% chance of doing worse. Over a few attempts, you are bound to hit an 18. Answering all C, however, on those you do not know is not advisable. You are essentially assuring yourself the same score as if you had left them blank as the test (if appropriately derived) would not have a larger number of correct answers constituting "C" than other answers. You would be shooting about 1/4 as always. It is generally best to eliminate any answers you are sure are incorrect and guess among the remaining answers. This should statistically raise your score most of the time over leaving them blank.

A better choice in regards to answering all the same letter would be to count the answers you have indicated for each letter and use the least used answer for the remainder of the problems. This still is not the best test-taking strategy as noted above.

Some people forget we are playing worldbeaters at DL often and are still not allowing a tremendous amount of sacks. Taylor also needs to learn to throw it away. Many of the DL we see will be starting on Sundays in the near future.

This could really drop a bomb on Texas. Lets say, for instance, that Muschamp pilfers some of Texas top assistants to fill roles as OC and DC at Florida. Who does Mack Brown replace them with? How many recruits were deciding between schools who will be swayed? Texas A&M could be a big beneficiary of this. Implementing a new system means another loss in the south next year to Oklahoma? Brown begins being questioned next year and they go for a new face possibly. In the end, this leads to a 2-3 year rebuilding cycle and Texas A&M as a rising program takes over the top talent recruitment in the state of Texas. They are on a precarious perch here.

This is a great question that the local HS beat writer for the Omaha World paper asked earlier this year. Although I coach in SWI, we are a smaller class, but my brother lives in Harlan (powerhouse) and he saw Ebertowski play in person and says he seems to be the real-deal. In fact, he said that looked better than Brandon Wegher (from Heelen, started as true frosh for Iowa last yr)...

 

He is bigger-faster than most of the RB at Iowa and Iowa State.... Is his put together well and is a mean SOB...large class 100 meter champ...

 

My only GUESS is it has to be a grade issue...but really not fair to the kid for me to suggest that.

Haha, well, I hate your brother. I graduated from Denison last year... They kick our @sses in pretty much everything.

 

Anyway, assuming this kid somehow qualifies, I cannot vouch for his talent level being better than Wegher's, but let's hope he has more staying power...

Denison? My pops is from Denison

It's worse than that year Illinois played USC in the Rose...

I just looked at the bowls and I'll watch maybe 5 of them, sigh...

the Cotton Bowl, Insight Bowl, Capital One Bowl and maybe even the Las Vegas have better matchups than 2 out of 5 of the BCS games...

Wait until they have an away game to Boulder...

I think the staff puts the pedal down on a good JUCO TE if there is one to be had... We need someone in the system yesterday. Or maybe a December grad...

Yeah, what he said ^ You think they are going to hire a bad coach at the U? They will bring in someone to give the program some promise and probably look better in these recruits eyes anyways. Plus they are on equal footing with returning starters if they can graduate in december due to implementation of a new system.

Two conferences without a clearcut winner. 3 deserving teams come out of the Big Ten this year that all deserve a share of the crown. 3 teams in the South and two in the North share the same conference record after the regular season finishes for the Big Twelve. How can you clearly state any given team out of these 6 or 8 (depending how you look at it) truly deserves the title over any other one? Quite a year in terms of parity in two powerful conferences which have proven their case in being some of the best in the NCAA.

They have a much better passing game and possibly a better running game this season than Nebraska did. They do not, however, have as good of a defense. If they had a Nebraska defense, they'd be winning the national title this year.

Leach is what you call in the biz, a lawyer. No legal fees!

The refs thought they were doing him a favor by calling the PFs so that he couldn't be suspended for his actions on those plays, regardless of their legality

Unfortunately there were a number of penalties (6-7) which were legitimate. The issue mainly is with 1) The Pass Interference which Herbstreit commented was a bad call 2) Courtney Osbourne's Legal hit 3) Eric Martin's unexplainable penalties which were believed to be legal play by Pelini. Pelini got in Cotton's face about his kicking, do you think he wouldn't have done the same if Eric Martin had been making poor plays? I'm not so worried about them picking up the flag, that was questionable. I would have wished they hadn't thrown that intentional, but it was in the questionable area as well. The procedure and false-start penalties were pretty normal. Mostly it is the opinion calls (PI, personal fouls) which are the issue. It was obvious that they were interested in making this a hard day for Nebraska. Pick up the 3 bad flags and maybe the fourth and you are talking about 60 yards. Considering two of them (PI and Courney Osbourne's hit) led to extended drives which resulted in 6 points, it is game-changing. We had you on 4th down in 3 cases in which 2 of the calls were legitimately bad calls and the 3rd was still not a cut and dry case. We're not talking about 1st down penalties. All of the calls came at inopportune times. Pinning us on own our 5 or 2 yard-line and extending your drives on 3rd downs.