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January 3, 2009
Link Dump: January 3rd, 2009
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good morning all
ah, change is afoot at the Geek….
Morning.
I feel so bloggy.
It doesn’t look like we’ll see the sun for a week here :(
Bama did a horrible job of representing the SEC. Nice job preparing your team Saban. Way to respond to the Utes public announcements the last two weeks of being the only underfeated team in NCAA by publicly knocking them by saying a week before the Sugar bowl that Bama was the only undefeated regular season team in a powerhouse conf in NCAA. And then after losing to them last night you blame the loss on the fact that although you told your team “100 times” how good Utah was that your team might have taken them too lightly. GEE I WONDER WHY NICK!! Way to think that all you had to do was show up since you were playing Utah in the Sugar Bowl and not Texas. Way to dissapoint your fellow SEC teams Nick!!! Ole Miss stepped to the plate for the conf. and destroyed Texas Tech, one of the most prolific offenses this year.
Again, Nice job Nick, Houston Nutt put his Ole Miss team in the right frame of mind to play a previous #1 and a BIG 12 team no less!!! Now I will have to hear Utah fans in addition to Trojan fans wanting a piece of the Gators title when I wake up on Friday. Well, on the bright side Saban might have taken a few points off the Gators line against OU, making it easier for me to cash in….thanks D-bag!!!
SEC fans must be the only college FB fans who so fervently root for their conference brethren out of conference
yay, my gravatar is showing up! life is good :)
I rooted for the Pac-10 teams, like I always do, but that’s because we don’t play in a stupid sissy conference that has unbalanced schedules, every teams plays each other. With every Pac-10 Bowl victory, it made USC look better. I rooted against the SEC with a passion.
Its not only SEC, most other conf do also. Your conference is your family. Internal fighting all the time but when someone picks a fight against a family member you have their back. (Ole Miss) You also get on them when they disgrace your family (Bama)
Look at March Madness. If you are a Syracuse fan, or St. John’s fan, etc. you are pulling for the BIG EAST to dominate the brackets.
I rooted for the Pac10. I hate USC but I rooted for them because it only strengthens the conference. I hate the SEC and have only really ever rooted for Ga. It is nice to look at the conference I follow and see them knock of four ranked opponents (Penn St., Oklahoma St., Pittsburgh & BYU) and beat the U
The Bowl season makes it easy, because you want the conference to do well, and it doesn’t effect your team at all.
You want the conference to be as strong as possible.
LOL…Hey, just a reminder, the SEC has a championship game for their two divisions. And BTW…Gators played all 7 bowl eligible SEC teams this year, nice try.
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And out of the 7 SEC bowl eligible teams not named Florida this is how they faired in the bowls.
The Bama v Utah (31-17) loss sucked for the SEC, South Carolina’s QB(s) sucks had no chance against a good Iowa team (31-10) (thanks again for beating Penn St)
However:
Unranked LSU spanking #14 Ga Tech 38-3 at a de facto Ga Tech home game 3 miles from their campus.
#20 ranked Ole Miss dominating #8 Texas Tech 47-34 in Dallas (Ole Miss held the explosive TT offense to ony 27 points)
SEC’s avg Joe’s Vandy beating BC, the ACC’s runner-up.
Kentucky beating East Carolina (who beat Virginia Tech- ACC Champ)
#16 Georgia beating #19 Mich St soundly 24-12
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This is how all 7 SEC bowl teams did against Florida this year(check out the lop sided scores) :
Ole Miss (L) 31-30
Alabama (W)31-20
South Carolina (W)56-6
LSU (W) 51-21
Vandy (W) 42-14
Kentucky (W)63-5
Georgia (W)49-10
And some still think Florida should not be playing in the BCS Championship???
I don’t think anyone should be playing for a championship unless they’ve made it there through a playoff.
Florida beat one top team all season, Alabama. Alabama has shown they were a pretender who feasted on a soft schedule.
Florida lost at home to Ole Miss. USC lost away at Oregon State. Which loss is worse? USC beat Ohio State. It’s not USC’s fault that they scheduled usually solid OOC teams like Virginia and Notre Dame and those teams were poor this year.
USC also could have benefited if they were in an SEC system to avoid playing either Wash or WashSt, which would have brought their SOS up.
I’m an ACC guy and I just don’t root for anyone besides my own team (MD), not even in basketball where it actually means something (since conference strength has some effect on tournament bids and the ACC is usually the #1 or 2 conference)…I just get the impression that conference pride means much much more for SEC football fans than others, JMO though
I root for the Pac-10 teams in basketball too, though I have issues with UCLA of course.
Basketball is a little different, 65 teams theoretically have a chance to win the title. Football is way different and the polls mean so much because they actually determine who plays where.
Although I rooted for Georgia in this game, they did not win that game soundly. It was a 6-3 Mich St score at halftime and was a one score game in the 4th. For the weapons they have on offense and Michigan St’s lackluster defense, this should of been a blowout. A win is a win though.
Florida is my favorite to win the national championship. I’m rooting for Oklahoma but I don’t think they will win. I don’t think the Big 12 knew how to play defense this year. I watched Texas Tech and Okla St go down to teams they should of beaten based on their ranking.
Kentucky shouldn’t of been in a bowl. 2-6 in your conference should be a disqualify any team from playing a bowl.
I personally can’t root for Arizona State in anything. Even if it is for conference pride
Here are my predictions for wildcard Sunday
Cardinals over Falcons
Colts over Chargers
Ravens over Dolphins
Vikings over Eagles
I am rooting for Arizona, San Diego, Minnesota and Baltimore. I just worry about the injuries of San Diego
Tomlinson is out against the Colts.
I would completely understand this if I was a USC, Texas, or Utah fan. I agree, going forward their should be a playoff. I would love to see a 6 team playoff, think AFC or NFC playoff. #1 and #2 BCS ranked teams at the end of the season get first round byes.
First round
#3 plays #6 (ROSE BOWL)
#4 plays #4 (FIESTA BOWL
Second round
#1 plays better seed (SUGAR BOWL)
#2 plays worse seed (ORANGE BOWL)
BCS Championship BOWL Game
(these bowl games would rotate each year, the Rose bowl, etc. would have to obviously give up their traditional opponents to use this method but I think a 6 team playoff would be better than a 4 since a team like USC would of got snubbed. This way a #1 and #2 would be rewarded with a bye week and you get the same amount of BCS bowl games.) In this format first round would pair: Texas v Utah and USC v Bama. Not bad.
Its a tough one. You can defend Oregon State by saying they only lost to Penn St Utah and I can’t recall. However I can tell you that Ole Miss won their last 6 games and their 4 losses were only by a total of 16 points with no one beating them by more than one score (7 pts) And for whatever this is worth Florida had no idea Ole Miss was that good, they completely overlooked them at home after spanking Tennessee in Tenn. Meanwhile USC has stumbled before to Oregon St and still lost to them anyways.
I agree. Whether its an east coast biased or not USC has more added pressure on them to go undefeated each year to make it to the Championship, especially when ND sucks and even with destroying Ohio State.
you know what I meant…
#4 plays #5……#1 plays lower seed, #2 plays higher seed.
I would seriously love to have this.
Play the first round on Christmas. Play the second round 7 dayslater on Jan.1, then wait till the NFL off week (Between the AFC/NFC Conf and Superbowl in late Jan) to play the BCS Bowl. Or if that is too long just play a week or 2 after New Years
I dont think you can extend the season that long into January without starting the season later due to some NCAA rule.
Fast Fact: Washington played 8 bowl teams this season
yo Confused-
if you wander back on, I bought the plasma HDTV today and I ended up with the 1080p model!!
Gators will have played 11 Bowl teams after Thursday this season (7 in conf, 4 out of conf)
Hawaii
Miami (FL)
Mississippi
LSU
Kentucky
Georgia
Vanderbilt
South Carolina
Florida State
Alabama
Oklahoma
Only 3 teams on their schedule this year did not make it to a bowl (Vols, Arkansas, Citadel)
congrats 71.
how is it so far?
what changed your mind?
thanks!
I’m picking it up Tues or Wed, PC Richards has to get it from another store (they sold their’s out)
I went in and they had the 720p model for $597 - but right above was the 1080p model for $799!!
so I sprang for the extra $$ considering everywhere else I saw the 1080p for $999 and up
I’m very psyched!
I think with so many bowl games the term “bowl eligible” needs to be reviewed. Going .500 for a season does not make you bowl worthy.
I have to say, PC Richards has great prices right now….
they’re even beating some of the online guys
71, if you don’t mind me asking how much did it run you? brand?size?
yeah it’s pretty fucking empty when your team’s bowl victory is over a 7-5 team from the WAC
CLow-
It’s the 42″ Panasonic TH-42PZ80U 1080p Plasma….$799 + tax
Alright guys, I am heading to the Chargers game now. Love to all, now root for the Chargers. I will be wearing my Mets hat at the game.
So if you see an Indian guy wearing a Gates Chargers jersey, that would be me.
great deal 71. nice job.
I didn’t originaly bring it up but added to it. You are right though, when Florida is beating a WAC bowl team in Hawaii 56-0 at the end of the 3rd quarter with Tebow on the bench that is a walk in the park.
Have fun Future. Good luck!
i sure you are pyched. i was.
tuesday seems so far away. :)
you do cable? if you dont have it already, prepare to upgrade your box.
30 min after hooking up the tv, i ran off to twc to change one of my cable boxes to the hd version. no extra cost.
I’m with Chris on those 4 wild card picks.
In case anyone needs a reminder about how awesome my predictions are:
well done on the TV 71, now you need BluRay, a new TV stand, HDMI cables, a new cable box, new BluRay DVDS and surround system….the TV is the first step.
Uk wins again.
Utah should be national champs
so true, so true.
my new ps3 will take care of blueray.
do blue ray via netflix.
i do hdmi when its an option.
eventually, my new stand. then again, maybe not at $500.
blasphemer.
Saban overlooked the Utes.
He unnecessarily benched his left guard which made it impossible for them to rebound from a quick 21-0 hole.
Utah would get smoked if they played Florida.
BTW….if it wasn’t for Florida beating Bama and showing Utah Bama’s underbelly they wouldn’t have had that much success. Plus, although Urban Meyer is an SEC coach, no doubt he got a call from Utah (his old team)and spilled some beans on how to beat them. Urban Meyer is ALL about speed. He recruits SPEED DEMONS. Gators have 14 guys that run under A 4.4. He did the same while coaching Utah. Those seniors that beat Bama last night were Urban Meyer’s players he recruited!!! Utah is a step behind the Gators, although they have a greta plan.
vedy nice confused.
Hey, I went to a party last week and the dude had his HDTV mounted on the wall and there were no cables or anything. He showed me a small ass transmitter on the side corner of the HDTV that relays a signal to his DirectTv/music entertainment system that is hidden away in a cabinet on the other side of the house. Crazy stuff; I’m just getting old but technology is sick. I don’t think he has PS3 or game stuff hooked up to it though.
my sony can do wireless, if i buy another part. is expensive right now, but that should come down.
my sister re did most of her house, they set it up so that all the cables go between the studs.
I’m in the process of gutting my downstairs. My brother is an an electrician and will be setting me up the same way. Although I can’t afford this extra he will also run wires through my vinyl siding of my house so that when I can afford it I can install outdoor Bose speakers on my deck and along my garden/ exterior fence in my backyard so that my whole backyard will be in surround sound for parties.
yep, yep….I have an order in with Amazon for a Monster surge protector and TWO sets of HDMI cables (this stuff is so much cheaper at Amazon than BestBuy or CC - thanks for the tip, Doc)….Cablevision is pretty local for me, so I’ll trade in the digital box for the HD box before I get the set or on my way there!
thanks Tim (and thanks for the buying advice on email)….I’m happy I went for the extra 200 bucks for 1080, can’t beat the price….I have a good stand for now, will upgrade later….yes, BluRay is definitely next! Amazon has a decent Sony player for about $250 that I’m eyeing :)
I read up a lot on HDTVs, but have no clue what to look for in a BluRay player, LOL….back to reading the reviews and stuff
predictions:
Falcons over Cardinals
Colts over Chargers
Ravens over Dolphins
Eagles over Vikings
ok, ok, so the Cardinals won….
I would continue to wait this out, but if some team wants to give Lowe $16M a season, Ollie is looking more realistic.
“The finest, most exciting football player in the nation” Lee Corso - ESPN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt68j3UjyZI&feature=related
For all those not following, he did not play against Bama but has already been upgraded from questionable to probable for OU this Thursday. OH BOY!!!
dont the phillies have their five?
do the braves have money?
Smells like a typical Boras bluff. Obviously if the Phillies are involved it would tip the scales and make the Mets shell out more wampum and from what I’ve heard the Phillies are content with pitching.
Well, if the Braves had money to go after Burnett, they probably have at least some cash floating around. Unless they’ve spent it on someone I’ve forgot. Or if they’ve tied up a lot of it with Javier Vazquez.
Dude, the Braves owners parent, Media “something”, has hit the financial skids since Burnett. They would be happy if they could afford their cuurent payroll. Don’t worry bro, I know this.
I trust CLow on this one.
I believe that those teams would go after Lowe, yeah… IF the price went down to the range the Mets are offering in or lower.
Anyway, if it backfires, I prefer Ollie’s youth anyway.
Busy, busy holidays! They last about 2 months and then they are gone in a matter of days.
So glad.
Hope everyone enjoyed theirs!
haha you like my ghetto 71.
Hey, just caught the end of the Colts/Charger game. What a crock of BS. They called holding on the Colts. In the replay he was holding the receiver until 6 yds after the line of scrimmage. How the F do you call a penalty on a hold that goes one yard over what is defined as a penalty with 2 minutes left???? That was BS!!!!!
That is why I hate the NFL. Thats was not holding!!! He held for not even a ful extra yard…..and they call a penalty with less than two minutes on a 3rd down play???? Thats BS.
who is the new dr?
C-low…you can jam a guy for 5 yards, but you cannot hold him anywhere….I thought it looked like he got his arm around him…
@littlefallsmets:
maybe they start talking to ollie to get lowes attention? who would he have if not the mets?