NCAA Football, 2016

[CountDeMoney]

Kudos to the Navy.  Greatest upset since Midway.

[Berkut]

I think Rich Rod is going to be getting a bit warm by the end of the year.

Arizona just looks terrible. The defense has improved a bit, but the offense looks lost.

Really, I think it all comes down to recruiting. You can scheme and scheme and scheme until the cows come home, but at the end of the day you have to line up the guys you recruited against the guys the other teams recruited. And Arizona consistently is in the bottom third of the conference in recruiting, year after year after year after year.

He has not managed to change that, and the occasional diamond or two from the rough might get the occasional outlier successful year, but sustained succeed in college sports is the result of sustained wins around the recruiting tables of the 4 and 5 star athletes. Without winning more than your share of them (or in Arizona's case, winning even your share of them to begin with), your results over time will track with your results recruiting.

[Ed Anger]

Huh, RichRod sucking. Couldn't see that coming.

[alfred russel]

If I was to consider the results of Saturday rationally, I think I would have to kill myself.

[alfred russel]

I think Rich Rod is going to be getting a bit warm by the end of the year.

Arizona just looks terrible. The defense has improved a bit, but the offense looks lost.

Really, I think it all comes down to recruiting. You can scheme and scheme and scheme until the cows come home, but at the end of the day you have to line up the guys you recruited against the guys the other teams recruited. And Arizona consistently is in the bottom third of the conference in recruiting, year after year after year after year.

He has not managed to change that, and the occasional diamond or two from the rough might get the occasional outlier successful year, but sustained succeed in college sports is the result of sustained wins around the recruiting tables of the 4 and 5 star athletes. Without winning more than your share of them (or in Arizona's case, winning even your share of them to begin with), your results over time will track with your results recruiting.

Are you not entertained?

If Rich Rod was really a gladiator, he would be dead by now. If somehow he was still alive at this point, he would need to commit seppuku, in the gladiator tradition.

[grumbler]

I think Rich Rod is going to be getting a bit warm by the end of the year.

Arizona just looks terrible. The defense has improved a bit, but the offense looks lost.

Really, I think it all comes down to recruiting. You can scheme and scheme and scheme until the cows come home, but at the end of the day you have to line up the guys you recruited against the guys the other teams recruited. And Arizona consistently is in the bottom third of the conference in recruiting, year after year after year after year.

He has not managed to change that, and the occasional diamond or two from the rough might get the occasional outlier successful year, but sustained succeed in college sports is the result of sustained wins around the recruiting tables of the 4 and 5 star athletes. Without winning more than your share of them (or in Arizona's case, winning even your share of them to begin with), your results over time will track with your results recruiting.

Spell his nickname correctly, please:  it's "RichRo;"  no D.

[grumbler]

Best Rutgers fan quote I've seen

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Secondaries on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched fullbacks glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like our offense offense...in...rain. Time to punt."

[Rasputin]

Four weeks ago, for the first time in 26 seasons , I watched my boys quit before the clock ran out and long before the echo of the whistle. Who were these clowns? Where had our swagger gone?

I had entered the wasteland. I even considered Phlebas the Phoenician who was once tall and handsome as me. Perhaps our day had come and gone? All hope had left my soul.

With our shot at the national title gone and a shot at the acc title gone, I could barely get up in the morning. I debated whether to put all of my tvs up for sale on Craigslist and spend the proceeds on heroin to numb the pain.

Then with one blocked pat my season came back into focus. I will root for the canes to win out and finish fifth in the nation. All of my Jewish cousins from New Jersey partying in coral gables on dad's dime to earn their sociology degree after six hungover years and all of my gangsta thug brothers who so love the u (not understanding it's ostensibly a school) and my dear comrade dorsey4heisman could all feel the pain of knowing one blocked point after kept them from a shot at the title.

I now have something to fight for, a karmic mitzvah twenty five years in the making. O lord revenge surely is a dish best served cold.

Go canes.

[alfred russel]

Rasputin, there is zero chance Miami is being kept out of the national title by a blocked PAT. I was and still am excited about the team, but the team was 8-5 last year. The defense is starting 3 true freshman linebackers and the O Line isn't all that great in pass protection. The recruiting has been softish for a while.

If they win the ACC Coastal, I'll be thrilled, but fully expect a raping by either Clemson or Louisville should that come to pass.

[grumbler]

Four weeks ago, for the first time in 26 seasons , I watched my boys quit before the clock ran out and long before the echo of the whistle. Who were these clowns? Where had our swagger gone?

I had entered the wasteland. I even considered Phlebas the Phoenician who was once tall and handsome as me. Perhaps our day had come and gone? All hope had left my soul.

With our shot at the national title gone and a shot at the acc title gone, I could barely get up in the morning. I debated whether to put all of my tvs up for sale on Craigslist and spend the proceeds on heroin to numb the pain.

Then with one blocked pat my season came back into focus. I will root for the canes to win out and finish fifth in the nation. All of my Jewish cousins from New Jersey partying in coral gables on dad's dime to earn their sociology degree after six hungover years and all of my gangsta thug brothers who so love the u (not understanding it's ostensibly a school) and my dear comrade dorsey4heisman could all feel the pain of knowing one blocked point after kept them from a shot at the title.

I now have something to fight for, a karmic mitzvah twenty five years in the making. O lord revenge surely is a dish best served cold.

Go canes.

Good to see you!   

Sorry it is on such terms.

[Rasputin]

Thanks grumbler. Likewise. Glad to see Michigan doing well.

At Dorsey, I will dream big because seven in a row does not taste as sweet as spoiler.

[Ed Anger]

If Ohio State loses, I knew they weren't playoff material. If they win, ignore my first sentence.

I do know they stink right now.

[Ed Anger]

This game sucks. Time to take a pain killer and sleep it off.

[Valmy]

Great win for Ohio State. Game of the year so far.

[Ed Anger]

Watched the second half this morning. I came.