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You can't just look at the home state's population and say that's that. The surrounding population near Michigan is way bigger. They get a lot of recruits from Ohio.Nebraska borders Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas. You forget Missouri though I didn't forget it. I didn't mention it but I've actually gone and added up the populations from surroundig states for different teams before and Nebraska's is way smaller. I think I did it for Michigan. (I seem to recall they have 8 million people but I don't want to look it up).

You can't just look at the home state's population and say that's that. The surrounding population near Michigan is way bigger. They get a lot of recruits from Ohio. Nebraska borders Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas. But what's the draw? Climates similar. Current prestige of the program is, well, equal I guess. Probably just my bias. But I guess I just dont see what Michigan has to sell. Why cant we compete with those guys in recruiting? Everyone just seems to write us off. If everything else is even, distance from home still gives Michigan a big advantage. Closeness to home is important to a lot of recruits, and Michigan is closer to home for more recruits than is Nebraska.

You can't just look at the home state's population and say that's that. The surrounding population near Michigan is way bigger. They get a lot of recruits from Ohio. Nebraska borders Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas.

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Agreed.

Wish people would quit with this nonsense. I sometimes have all my classes on MWF or all on TTh.

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That's true to a large extent in the Omaha metro but I think that it is more location based rather than specific policies that have the effect of being a barrier to minorities. How do you suggest fixing location? Equally fund all public schools.

So, we have these lopsided recruiting classes and have for a long time. I get why. We have a certain # leaving each year and it just kind of turns out that way. Then it continues because 4-5 years later that small class graduates. But here's what I don't get... Last year we took 24, which is a big class. This year we can take... I dunno how many, I just know it's small. Wouldn't it have been wiser to save a couple of last year's scholarships for really good players this year instead of offering 6 2-star players? (Let's just assume for a minute that stars mean everything and those players aren't all diamonds in the rough... and obviously we needed Brown. Then there's Bush when we needed a QB last minute because Darlington got injured). Or does every team just stack and take the max each year even if they get a lot of less-talented players to top off the years where they have a lot of scholarships?

It's 1 extra game for 2 teams and 2 extra games for 2 other teams. It's more exposure for those players than anyone else is getting.

I always thought he was kinda homely but he's gotten a lot better with age.

After watching Cardell play against Alabama and Oregon...I wouldn't be surprised to see somebody take him in the 4th round...Still very raw, but with that size and arm... He has the arm and the accuracy. But he needs the vision. Too many times he missed the wide open receive in the flats and just threw the ball away. I'd love it if our QB would throw the ball away sometimes. (To the out of bounds players and not the opposing team).

Is it that much different anywhere else? The more money you have, the better neighborhood you live in, the more tax money there is and the better the school your kids go to. Since a higher percentage of Blacks and Hispanics are poor, a higher percentage of those minorities go to crappy schools.

It would be one more game than what we currently have, for a small number of teams. (For the four losers of the 1st round, it'd be their bowl game). The lower divisions already do this. NDSU played 16 games this year. Ohio State played 15. The first round could be played 2 weeks after the conference championships. Then they'd get another 10 days or so before the semi-finals.

If a 2 loss team, for example Michigan State this year, is better than a team with no losses, Florida State, who cares? I want the best teams in the field. There's no one on earth that can convince me that FSU was better than TCU. 8 teams fixes that and doesn't "water down" the regular season. If anything the regular season was heightened this year and prevented the awful BCS matchup of Alabama and FSU based on media hype. Taking 8 teams out of 125 does not diminish the regular season IMO, it's not close to the NBA or NFL ratio. I wouldn't be against doing away with the conference championship games to enable 8. Having the first rounds games at campus sites of the higher seed eliminates any travel concerns. IMHO Playoff teams should never be awarded home field advantage. It's how a lot of playoffs in a lot of different sports work.

That's why the 1st round would be played at the top 4 seeds' home stadiums. It would be like a normal game, not many visiting fans. Just like the regular season.

"When Urban Meyer got back into coaching at Ohio State, he made it clear what kind of program he wanted to build. SEC North." http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?id=12104125 Still haven't been able to find a quote of Meyer saying anything like that.

Can we move this to the deleted forum?

Uh, no. Baylor lost their bowl game. And don't give me that crap about them not being motivated.

This certainly helps the B1G out with their ongoing TV contract negotiations...looks like ESPN's sandbagging attempts blew up in their face...Brace yourself for an offseason devoted to 'is it fair that they didn't have to endure the SEC regular season gauntlet?' That argument has already been put down on account of the SEC's abysmal bown season. The argument was that their bowl season was bad because they had such rough conference schedules.

They stuffed them twice before that. I wouldn't say they look "lost." Oregon made them look silly on that first drive. Some big runs too. Shoosh child. They're way past their 1st drive at this point. Ohio State isn't looking lost, imho. If Oregon only scores on every other drive, they're doing well.

They stuffed them twice before that. I wouldn't say they look "lost."

I will be residing in this National Championship Game thread. Not the other one. It smells over there.