NCAA 2009

[jimmy olsen]

Wow, I am not surprised that Oregon is beating USC at home, but the "take them out behind the woodshed and kick the shit out of them" treatment is rather unexpected.

Barkley is looking like a freshman, and the vaunted USC defense is looking like WSU.

Two things after that game:
1) Nothing pleases me more than Pete Carroll getting 392 yards rushed up his ass donkey-dick style.
2) I am now a Duck believer.  You're welcome, sbr.

The Ducks have looked really good the last month.  Assuming something silly doesn't happen to put them in the Championship game I really like their chances to run the table and smack Iowa in the Rose Bowl and end up with a Top 5ish ranking.  I have no doubt they are now a better team than Boise State but that loss should keep them out of anything more than the Rose Bowl.

A pity about that thing called really life where Boise State smacked them around like a bitch.

[sbr]

The Huskies scare me; if they get the right coach, which may or may not be Sark, they should get very good again pretty quickly.  Hopefully they will lose Locker after this year.

I think Sark is on right track, and i'm hoping Jake comes back for one more year, but as all the "pundits" are touting him as best QB available it is iffy if comes back.

That would be a damn shame as  I think with another year of learning the pro system and his surrounding crew as juniors and sophmores I think they could contended for Pac-10 title.

If he does leave I'm curious to see if Ronnie Fouch or the incoming Nick Montana would step in.

I agree that Sark has looked good so far but a lot of coaches do well with the previous guys players but can't seem to get/coach their own.  His ties to SoCal should help him out a lot.

I would be surprised to see Locker come back, especially with what has happened to Bradford.  If the scouts and advisers tell Locker he is a first round pick I think he (or any one else) has to leave.  That is too much money to leave on the table in a sport as violent as this one; I do agree that the Huskies would be in the running with a senior Locker next year though.

[jimmy olsen]

TCU is quite high, who is left on their schedule?

EDIT: Looks like Utah is the only #25 left on their schedule.

[Valmy]

TCU is quite high, who is left on their schedule?

EDIT: Looks like Utah is the only #25 left on their schedule.

I'm glad Tim is a fan of TCU because they sure do not seem to have any fans in Fort Worth.  Man that was just pitiful attendance at that UNLV game I remembered one of the main reasons I hated the old SWC so much-nobody outside of Texas, Baylor, A&M, and Tech had any fans. 

[PDH]

Tim fucking taints TCU...

Yeah, they have built a pretty damn solid program there, they have recruited nice athletes (a lot of speed on that team), and they get Wyoming like attendance...

I hope they run the table and keep the blue turf pukes out of the BCS.
(oh, for the record, Valmster, Wyo had a 10-3 lead at half, then stopped playing...sigh)

[Valmy]

(oh, for the record, Valmster, Wyo had a 10-3 lead at half, then stopped playing...sigh)

Yeah I was in the home of the Deadskins this weekend so I missed the football except for flipping on the Texas-Oklahoma State game just in time to see Zac Robinson throw a 77 yard touchdown pass to Texas corner back Curtis Brown.

Wyoming has had trouble on offense all year especially on the road.  Outside of the Florida Atlantic game they have 10 points in three road games.

This is especially concerning considering they pretty much HAVE to beat San Diego State and Colorado State on the road to avoid a losing season.

However...BYU at home...if Wyoming can shut down Utah for most of the game...

[MadBurgerMaker]

I'm glad Tim is a fan of TCU because they sure do not seem to have any fans in Fort Worth.  Man that was just pitiful attendance at that UNLV game I remembered one of the main reasons I hated the old SWC so much-nobody outside of Texas, Baylor, A&M, and Tech had any fans.

The Pigs had fans back in their SWC days.  Houston did too when they weren't utter crap.

[Valmy]

The Pigs had fans back in their SWC days.  Houston did too when they weren't utter crap.

Yeah I meant in the dying days of the SWC.  Once Arkansas left the league really had no chance.

Even in the 80s when Houston was awesome and Texas was shit, the majority of the fans in the Astrodome for a Houston homegame would still be Texas fans.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Even in the 80s when Houston was awesome and Texas was shit, the majority of the fans in the Astrodome for a Houston homegame would still be Texas fans.

Aside from Horns fans travelling well, I'd be willing to bet there are more people in Houston who are associated with/graduated from/dropped out of/whatever UT than there are Coogs types.  TAMU too, for that matter.  Lots of Aggies in Houston.  Its not that they dont have fans, its Just that theyre outnumbered by the enormous state schools.  This was a bitch to post on the phone.  Hope the formatting and spelling arent too fucked up.     

[Valmy]

Aside from Horns fans travelling well, I'd be willing to bet there are more people in Houston who are associated with/graduated from/dropped out of/whatever UT than there are Coogs types.  TAMU too, for that matter.  Lots of Aggies in Houston.  Its not that they dont have fans, its Just that theyre outnumbered by the enormous state schools.  This was a bitch to post on the phone.  Hope the formatting and spelling arent too fucked up.     

I am aware there were good excuses for why the smaller schools had so few fans but it was still demoralizing to look over at the other leagues and see even their crap teams filling their stadiums and then flip on the SMU or the Rice game and see the Cotton Bowl or Rice Stadium with 15,000 fans rattling around in it.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I am aware there were good excuses for why the smaller schools had so few fans but it was still demoralizing to look over at the other leagues and see even their crap teams filling their stadiums and then flip on the SMU or the Rice game and see the Cotton Bowl or Rice Stadium with 15,000 fans rattling around in it.

I know that's just a number you randomly picked, but 15,000 is something like double the current undergrad enrollment at both of those schools combined.  Rice will always have trouble selling tickets with a shitty program (no bandwagoners, they're all with Houston right now haha) and a really small number of people associated with the school.  SMU is just....well they're getting better, I guess.  There haven't been many good reasons for SMU fans to go to Mustangs football games since that NCAA headshot though.  Yeah, it's too bad about TCU only getting 30 or 35,000 people to show up to games, but then again...for a school in Ft. Worth, of all places, with less than 10,000 students, that's really not too bad.

Really though, I'm not sure why any of this would have an effect on you as a Texas fan, aside from meaning it's easier to get tickets to road games. 

[Valmy]

Really though, I'm not sure why any of this would have an effect on you as a Texas fan, aside from meaning it's easier to get tickets to road games. 

Well it had a huge impact when UT's fate was still tied to those schools.  It killed, I mean destroyed, TV coverage of the SWC.  TV cameras do not like empty stadiums and the resulting boring games.

Now we only have Baylor left who has a low level of support....and Baylor was one of the most followed teams of the old SWC.

It also answers the question as to why TCU was not invited to join the Big 12.  We don't need that shit here.  We have a hard enough time getting the alumni of the crappier state schools to attend the games.

for a school in Ft. Worth, of all places, with less than 10,000 students, that's really not too bad.

Sorry Man Fort Worth should support that team more.  That is the only sports team of any significance in the entire city.

[Eddie Teach]

Mavericks, Cowboys... They are just a larger than average suburb after all

[MadBurgerMaker]

Well it had a huge impact when UT's fate was still tied to those schools.  It killed, I mean destroyed, TV coverage of the SWC.  TV cameras do not like empty stadiums and the resulting boring games.

Teams being shitty had a lot to do with that.  Teams getting put on probation and one of the programs getting shut down also fucked that up.   Of course, Texas was always on TV every Saturday that I remember, and they got to go to the Cotton Bowl, and played OU and TAMU, and blahblahblah, so who cares?  I'm not the AD or anything of one of those schools. 

Now we only have Baylor left who has a low level of support....and Baylor was one of the most followed teams of the old SWC.

So?

It also answers the question as to why TCU was not invited to join the Big 12.  We don't need that shit here.  We have a hard enough time getting the alumni of the crappier state schools to attend the games.

Houston would fit better than TCU and Baylor, at least size-wise.  They're a commuter type school though, which is where a lot of the old attendance problems came from.  People go (or went, it may be getting better) there in order to transfer to UT or TAMU or some other place.  It's like a better version of UTSA.

But once again, why the hell do "we" care?  I don't give a damn about Colorado's declining attendance for the same reason I don't care about Eastern Michigan only getting 3 or 4,000 people to show up for their games:  They're not Texas, so fuck them.   

Mavericks, Cowboys... They are just a larger than average suburb after all

I'm thinking more Sooners, Longhorns, notDallas Cowboys, Aggies, Mean Green (YEAH BABY), and whatever other universities that aren't private and are pretty close by that people in the DFW area go to and care about.  Hell..there's the U of Arlington too.  Forgot about them.  Southland Conference goodness.

[Valmy]

Teams being shitty had a lot to do with that.  Teams getting put on probation and one of the programs getting shut down also fucked that up.   Of course, Texas was always on TV every Saturday that I remember, and they got to go to the Cotton Bowl, and played OU and TAMU, and blahblahblah, so who cares?  I'm not the AD or anything of one of those schools.

I care because football is pretty fucking lame when the other fan bases are apathetic losers who do not attend the games.