NCAA 2009

[PDH]

I think TCU might be for real...

[katmai]

Huskies look played out for this season, were spanked by zee Beavers.

Watching the zona-cal game ATM with bears up by 5 late in 3rd....zona lucks out and picks ball in end zone.

[derspiess]

I understand schadenfruede against USC, but Iowa? Why does anyone care?

I have a hard time respecting teams that don't play to win, that's all.

edit: Now if you want to really talk about schadenfreude, let's talk about the Pitt-ND game

[Berkut]

Wow, not only does Arizona lose, they lose EXACTLY in the manner I said there was no way they could lose. Foles looks terrible, the offense disappears, and Cal wins ugly.

Sigh.

[katmai]

Still can win the Pac-10 with win next week.

[stjaba]

Syt has been touting Dion Lewis all year long. Now that Lewis shreded up the Notre Dame defense on the national television, presumably the US can catch on to what apparently Austria already knew: the Pitt RB is a stud.

[PDH]

The great running backs always get the press in Vienna.

[stjaba]

Notre Dame's Golden Tate had a nice kick return for a TD. With the failed two point converison, they are 5 down to Pitt. I hope Weis can pull a victory somewhere out of his fat ass. Not that I'm a fan of Notre Dame or anything. I'm slightly paranoid that Weis will be fired at the end of the year, and Pope Urban II Meyer will be lured up to South Bend.

Come on Charlie, fight for your job!

[stjaba]

Pitt almost blew it completely by coughing up the ball, but they recovered their own fumble. Notre Dame is down 5 with 3:30 to go on their own 20.

[sbr]

Notre Dame's Golden Tate had a nice kick return for a TD. With the failed two point converison, they are 5 down to Pitt. I hope Weis can pull a victory somewhere out of his fat ass. Not that I'm a fan of Notre Dame or anything. I'm slightly paranoid that Weis will be fired at the end of the year, and Pope Urban II Meyer will be lured up to South Bend.

Come on Charlie, fight for your job!

Why in the hell would Urban Meyer ever leave Florida to go to Notre Dame of all places?  Granted it was his "dream job" at one point but UofF is arguably the best college job in the country, and ND has fallen pretty damn far.  Florida has better homegrown talent, state tax situation, academic requirements for recruits, weather, recent success and almost any other factor that comes into the equation other than long-term tradition and maybe big money boosters.

Notre Dame has ridiculous fans who don't understand they have been passed by, a school that the top athletes can't get into academically, shitty weather and is in Indiana.  I think ND will end up with either Kelly from Cincy or Chris Peterson from Boise State.

[stjaba]

Why in the hell would Urban Meyer ever leave Florida to go to Notre Dame of all places?  Granted it was his "dream job" at one point but UofF is arguably the best college job in the country, and ND has fallen pretty damn far.  Florida has better homegrown talent, state tax situation, academic requirements for recruits, weather, recent success and almost any other factor that comes into the equation other than long-term tradition and maybe big money boosters.

I'm wondering the same thing myself. All those factors are 100 percent true.

Still, it's been a long time rumor. And Meyer himself said in December 2008, a few weeks before the national championship that he was interested in the Notre Dame job at some point down the line. He said the main reason he took the UF job was that he could do all his recruiting within a 5 hour radius of Gainesville, and that was attractive to him since had young kids. If Weis is fired in January, it will be 5 years after Meyer was hired at UF. His youngest kid is now 10, and his oldest kid is in college. He may be more willing to go to Notre Dame now that his situation has changed a bit.

You can't discount the competitive factor either. Meyer definitely seems like the kind of guy who thinks he's the smartest, best coach out there- one who can win at any school. I definitely could see him taking the challenge and winning at Notre Dame, especially since Tebow is leaving after this season. Add that to the fact that if the ND job opens up now, and is filled by a Brian Kelly or a Chris Peterson, it may stay closed for a long time... too long for Meyer to wait again.

Plus there's the emotional connection. I mean the guy is a devout Catholic named after a Pope.

Sometimes people do irrational things. It happens. Think about how every year, some schools recruit and sign 2 highly talented quarterbacks in the same class. I never understand why one stud quarterback would want to play for a team with another stud quarterback in the same year. The reason, I suppose, is these guys are arrogant athletes- they assume they will be beat out the other guy for the job. Of course, what ends up happening most of the time is that one of the guys ends up leaving after a year or two.

[Admiral Yi]

You forgot to mention the trim advantage.

[PDH]

The fighting Wyoming Wyomingites, down 27-6 at the start of the 4th quarter, rally to put 24 unanswered on the San Diego State Empty-Stadiums and pull out the win.  Oh, the tanatalizing effect of 5 wins with two games left to play...

[Eddie Teach]

Do MWC teams with 6 wins always get bowl bids?

[PDH]

Do MWC teams with 6 wins always get bowl bids?

I believe there are at least 4 and maybe 5 bowl tie ins.  TCU is going to leave one of those empty...

Of course, the last 6 win team to NOT get a bowl was...Wyoming...