CornHunka

I was hoping that someone would dig this up. It was funny then and it's funny now.

I'll be doing my part! I know you guys travel well. What percentage of the stadium do you expect to be red?

Hey TCUfan09, Can you give us some good places to eat and nightlife near the stadium. We are staying within walking distance of the Jerrydome.

Each Big 12 team regardless if they are playing in the game at all gets an allotment of tickets, can't remember how many there are, but they will offer them to season ticket holders, then the unsold tickets will be returned to the conference to be divided among the participating teams.

Brokers and corporate sponsors will eat up the rest.

Here are some of the names getting tossed around to replace Mangino by moronic KU fans.

Jon Gruden (get real)

Frank Solich

Turner Gill

Randy Edsall

Skip Holtz

Tommy Tubberville

Gary Patterson

Gill to KU seems to have a bunch of steam, Gill has a relationship with KU's AD and his daughter is a student there. There is no way they get Patterson from TCU, but Tubberville is intriguing, but I doubt it'll happen.

as you know, everything on the internet is true, right?

The Charlie Weis clock is now ticking to its preverbial ending. It all started on Saturday night after the Irish lost to Pittsburgh 27-22 and it's long flight back to South Bend. Sunday morning Weis was called in to Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick's office at 9:30 am, where he was told something. Whether he is staying or going, has not been made publicly, but the final nail seems to have been nailed shut.

Here are a few tidbits which should uncloud the Irish Nation's mind about the future of Coach Weis:

~ Weis calls off his Sunday media press conference. This is the first time in five years he has called off a press conference.

~ The media try to contact both Swarbrick and ND President Fr. Jenkins for comment on Weis future, but are not able to be reached, due to both being away from campus.

~ 12:00 p.m. South Bend Private Flight carrying Swarbrick and Jenkins is headed South to Florida.

~ The same plane also has scheduled flights this week to Cincinnati and Oklahoma.

~ Bob Stoops of Oklahoma has been reported as being intersted in the Notre Dame job if it becomes available, according to Brian Hamilton of the Chicago Tribune.

According to one of the Board of Trustees and a source inside the Athletic Department has both confirmed that both Swarbrick and Jenkins have put a package together to lure Urban Meyer back to South Bend. Here are the main details that are on the table as of yesterday:

1.) A 10-year $50,000,000 base salary, which doesn't include endoresment and university incentivies.

2.) 3 "special" projects a year, which may include JUCO transfers.

3.) A contract with Nike (football only)

4.) Additional incentives:

(a) $550,000 for Top 10 Finish

(B) $750,000 for BCS Bowl appearence

© $1.2 million for BCS National Championship

(d) $400,000 for 90% or better graduation rate

The carpet is ready to roll out for Meyer for the taking, whether Swarbrick and Jenkins can get it done, will be the trick. If not, Brian Kelly, seems to be the next logical choice.

These next two weeks will be a roller coaster for media and Irish fans alike. But one thing is for sure, the Weis era clock is about to hit midnight!

We'd be all over RB Gio Bernard, but from what I've heard, we really haven't backed off him too much since he verballed to ND.

Steve Ryan said yesterday on 1480 that if we take a RB, then it would have to be a serious talent, such as G Bernard. With the number of backs we already have on the roster, taking a back, just to take one doesn't make sense.

What he said.

Wow, $90 for a ticket and you get to sit in their high school stadium. Why do Big 12 North opponents feel the need to rip off their opposing fanbases?

Because they can! They jack up the price to keep the opposing team's fans away, but we pay it anyway.

Couple of points in Watson's favor

1. I maybe wrong here, but isn't Watson the same guy who turned last year's offense around and got this team to 9 wins?

2. I don't understand some of the plays that are being called, but lots of time, those plays aren't ran (the pick 6 was an audible by Cody Green).

3. Give the guy some ammo. We have true freshman starting at quarterback (blame BC). We were down to our 4th or 5th running back due to injury and the Helu is the only upperclassmen of the group. (blame BC)

4. We are 2-2 in the conference. Even if we lose to OU, we still control our own destiny to get the Big 12 Championship game.

Couple things not in Watson's favor

1. He could open up the underneath by throwing it deep. (did a couple of times yesterday)

2. If you are going to run the zone read, you have to have a viable running threat at qb. (started Green over Lee)

3. Find a way to get Mike McNeil some touches. TE is a strength and it's being under used.

4. 8 games into the season, he should have been able to figure out what this offense does well and adjust to it (like last year).

I'm sick and tired of Jason Peter bringing up the his playing days and comparing every team to the Husker teams of the mid 90's.

I don't listen to his radio show anymore, same ole, same ole.

it is not just this journalist it's the whole state who think the same way! Include Kansasx ans Missuri!

 

And he is a fairly decent sports journalist, and, really these are the facts, they do not lie.

 

So it about time we do something about it!

It is after all Missouri the show me state!

 

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/story/1487357.html

 

that "times have changed thing" it is about to happen again MU!

 

"Meanwhile, Missouri battled through some disappointment in Pinkel’s first two seasons, gritted its teeth through a fifth-year gut-kick and has reaped rewards with two straight trips to the Big 12 title game.

 

Kansas, currently the highest ranked of the three North contenders, is on a similar path. Mark Mangino made enough progress in his early years to forge ahead, and the payoff has been the most successful successive seasons in school history.

 

This is the season Nebraska figured to make up ground. The Cornhuskers were the preseason choice to win the division, and except for the final minute against Virginia Tech they have been everything advertised.

 

But Missouri has more than delivered on its expectation. The 4-0 start led by the play of quarterback and former Husker recruit Blaine Gabbert has Mizzou thinking division three-peat.

 

So what happens Thursday? Nebraska’s line play has been better, and the Cornhuskers clearly weren’t intimidated by a frenzied enemy environment.

 

In Gabbert and wide receiver Danario Alexander, Missouri has superior playmakers.

 

Something else works for Mizzou. There’s not a player in the program who has ever thought of Nebraska the way Tigers, Jayhawks, Wildcats and everybody else did a few years ago.

 

Times have changed."

 

 

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Other than his opinion that Gabbert is a big advantage over Lee and Mizzou's win over Illinois is not as big now as it was when the season started, there's not much to argue here.

Almost every thread talking about the defense eventually gets to the play of the safety. Why? I realize that the safeties are supposed to be the last line of defense between us the the goal line, but most of the time the breakdown occurred long before the safety gets involved.

O'Hanlan, Hagg, Asante and Thernarse are going to be just fine this year because as Carl Pelini says in the OWH, "“Breakdowns were an issue (last season),” he said. “You've got 10 guys on the same page and one guy not. When you're playing team defense, you can't have that. Those seem to be going away. More and more, we're seeing 11 guys on the same page. You're not perfect, because they've got great athletes, too. A receiver might make a great catch. But you're not seeing people run wide open. You're not seeing a running back break through a gaping hole because someone went the wrong way.”

Here's the link to the rest of the article.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20090830/SPORTS01/708309850

Compton's gonna be a good one! Fisher will be a star! I have never been too high on Theanaurs, he spends too much effort at trying to lay the lumber every play. If he can control that urge every single play and take care of his assignment first then I'm all for it. He is a super star on speicial teams though!

I couldn't have said it better myself

Holt

Kinnie

Bell

I have 4 tickets to the September 12 Arkansas State game.

Section 33, row 42 the players come out for the Tunnel Walk, right under your feet.

Face Value. email me at JHunke@yahoo.com

I've lost a lot of respect for CFN over the last two years. They used to be great, now it's just garbage.

They were giving away free tickets on KFAB this morning, hopefully a member who attends will give us report

He took his first loss of the season yesterday vs Creighton Prep. "It wasn't our day," Westside coach Bob Greco said. "I didn't think Chris threw particularly well for us in the first four innings, but we made other mistakes out there, too."

But he's a solid arm and with what's on the staff right now, he'll have a chance to compete for innings next year, like all incoming pitchers.

The World Series of Golf is an annual golf competition. The competition differs from traditional golf tournaments in that the winner is decided not by the lowest stroke-play score or by winning a bracket-style elimination in match play, but by winning wagers bet on each hole in a betting scheme similar to poker.

Each hole is conducted in a manner similar to a hand of Texas Hold 'Em. Each player begins the round with a stake, and a playing group consists of three to six players. In the inaugural tournament, the buy-in for each player was $10,000, just like the WSOP main event.

Before teeing off for each hole, each player bets an ante. The ante starts out at 1% of the opening stake for the round, i.e., $100 on the first hole of the opening round, and doubles every three holes.[1] After the tee shots, players then check, raise or call bets, or fold and do not play the rest of that hole. Betting and follows a prescribed order that rotates on each hole, just like "the button" in Hold 'Em, and playing of shots follows the same order, unlike traditional golf where the player whose ball is furthest from the hole shoots first on each shot. The pot is won by the player with the lowest score on each hole, or by the remaining player if all others have folded. A tie score on a hole ("halved" in match-play parlance) results in a split pot, much like a tie hand in poker.

If a player does not have enough money remaining in his or her stake to cover the ante for the next hole, he or she is eliminated and the remaining stake goes into the pot for the next hole.

The round ends when one player has won all the money from the others in his group, which may take more than 18 holes.

My golf buddies and I will be giving this idea a try, but we ain't putting the buy-in at 10 LARGE, maybe closer to $20 bucks.

 

north stars coach left? where's he transfering to? please be east...please please please...

No, I think you got it backwards, he's transferring from LNE to the North Star

6'0" 180 pounds

from www.myhitnews.com

"Yusef Wade is a sure tackling very instinctive DB that if he doesn’t punish his opponent on initial contact, he will attempt to do so while driving him into the ground—he plays defense with an attitude and appears to be a very good run stopper.

Wade’s keen football instincts, good hips, very fluid movement, balance, and quick feet combine to allow him to make the kind of plays on ball–in the air or on the ground–that you expect to see from a legit D-1 defensive back prospect.

Shows good anticipation and reaction to QB and can close ground on receiver in a hurry when ball is in the air, which gives him the proven ability to deflect or intercept balls."

Just got back from the HYE.

They didn't allow us to watch any of practice, I don't know if that was because it was inside the Hawks Center and there wouldn't be room for everyone, who knows, but it was disappointing to me.

My son loved all of it, He couldn't stop talking about him being able to catch passes from Cody Green, taking handoffs from Roy Helu and Q Castille and blocking against DJ Jones.

I'll be there for the 3rd straight year. It's one of the few things that the previous staff did that was held over by Bo and company. It's great.

I like the idea of Mendoza being on the field as much as possible and getting about 10 touches per game on end arounds, catching passes and in the return game. We've got to get the ball to our playmakers.

Sounds to me like the coaches are trying to light a fire under his a$$ or he didn't report to camp in shape.

Being out of shape will get you in any coach's doghouse in a big hurry.