ashroy01: I think the Pac 10 only had 4 teams bowl eligible, LOL That's probably why Oregon got by-passed for the BCS bowl games. Weaker conference? Here in the USA,college football has to be one of the best sporting events.. I really like the instant replay that the NCAA is trying to implement-courtesy of Joe Paterno-Waaa!. Until last night,those college refs wouldn't take too long to review them,unlike the NFL. All amateurs in the NCAA-or suppose to be. No millionaire pros playing sports thinking they are too good to do certain things to help out a team effort.For American football,you have to have a total team effort,unless you have a vince young, LOL Pro baseball:every player is a millionaire. Too many strikes/watching the yankees load up on all the best free agents-basically try to buy the world series every year-no salary cap, and steroids. Pro basketball: Too many players choking their head coach/jumping into stands and beating up fans/and too many millionaires.Salary cap keeps most of the teams on an even keel. NCAA basketball: March madness is awesome! Pro Hockey: Too much icing! Every minute there's at least one icing call! Any soccer: Pretty boring. A 1-0 score is an a** whooping! Anyone think Vince young will turn pro next season? Watching the trojans try to tackle him,he made them look like midgets! USC should have taken a good look at how A.J. Hawke handled him. BTW, Spring practice is just a few months away. Can't wait to see the new freshmen studs coming up. Edit: The biggest hurdle of division 1 playoffs is Tradition!Years and years of Bowl games.Last nights rose bowl being the grand daddy of them all. Before the BSC-aka BS-Majority of the bowl games were played on new years day. I'd turn the tv on at noon,watch up to 4 games at a time/4 o'clock rolls by,3 or 4 more bowl games. 8 o'clock,2-3 more bowl games. I was in channel surfing heaven. This year, there were 0 bowl games on new years day. 3 on jan 2/1 on jan 3/and the final championship game last night on the fourth!
Lol what is it with people and bowl games. I mean come on, those bowl names are funnuy as hell. Now if you wan't a real bowl game how about the super bowl where they actually play playoff games to make it all the way up there instead of a group of people deciding which teams get to play for the championship.
Soccer's good. Maybe I should go see a D.C. United match. Vince Young leaves early: 50/50 -- he'd be the first Texas player to leave early under Mack Brown.
damn texas! USC should have won. their first touchdown was totally incomplete, but they didn't review. then for BOTH USC's 4th and 1 conversions, they went for it, and didn't make either! arggg! reggi bush hardly did anything the whole game either.
yeah, good old(young) adu, he's like 16 right? plays for the columbus crew. @scoop, u know what i think, reggie bush is great and all but when he really needs to perform...he doesn't @saugmon, GO MARCH MADNESS!!
Did someone mention AJ Hawk? Go Bucks!!! Fiesta Bowl is their home-field advantage they win it so much. The national championship game is there next year, I hope Vince Young doesn't go pro so we can meet him again in that game and finish the job we didn't get done this year.
anyone know that Brady Quinn from ND have a sister Laura Quinn that dates AJ Hawk from Ohio State isn't it ironic.
yea i knew that, did u see her during the game? she was soo dramatic, i mean u could tell she wanted ND to win...the whole time she was holding on to her friend's arm and everytime hawk or quinn touched each other she would gasp. she's soo fake, and the cameras kept going back to her
Yeah, in that game Hawk not only banged up the QB Quinn pretty well, but then went and banged his sister!!! What a badass.
Brady's sister also works for Fox sports. They showed her quite a bit. She had a jersey on that was half OSU and half Notre Dame. I laughed my ass off when AJ hawke sacked brady twice and the camera went right to her holding her hands to her face saying UGGH! LOL Then the announcers would say Hawke sacked his future brother in law. AJ's a stud. He was under rated compared to the other linebackers that were in his recruiting class like Mike D'Andrea. Just imagine if Bobby Carpenter played that game.He broke his ankle on the first play of the Michigan game. That guy hits just as hard and flys almost as fast as Hawke. Hell of a 1-2 punch.His stats for some of those games were better than hawkes. If vince young leaves early,that NFL draft will be loaded for the first 8-10 picks.Santonio holmes is also leaving, UGGH! The pros will tear up reggie bush.He will probably be another heisman flop drafted in the NFL. Hawke and carpenter will fit right in the NFL. Both hit hard and do under 4.5 in the 40.No showboating,just class. Vince Young would have to go as the first pick for the texans or maybe they'd trade down for more picks. Big/fast/and a strong/fairly accurate arm. He'd be like a michael vick with accuracy. The pros do have trouble with big and fast quarterbacks. I can't wait for next season to start! Edit: BTW: Did anybody get that email sent by Lauren Bowden's ex boyfriend, Naked and Clean Shaved! Sweeeeeeeeeeet! I got it! Lauren is Tommy Bowden's-Auburn's coach/ daugher-according to that email,thus making her Bobby Bowden's grand daughter-head coach of the Florida State Seminoles!
Yeah that's him. He's gonna become an exceptional talent in a few years time. Just hope he doesn't choose Chelsea to play for as he'll be wasted.
Quote; "West Virginia dropped back to punt on fourth-and-6 at the Bulldogs 48. Phil Brady hauled in the long snap but took off running, gaining 10 yards on the fake and a game-clinching first down." What the hell does all that mean?
Team A didnt gain enough ground in their first 3 tries so on the 4th there are 2 choices. risk it, or give a kick to try and gain field position, but giving the other team at least 4 tries on the offense. Team A faked the kick, caught all unaware, and gained enough ground to sustain offense.
Quote; "Team A didnt gain enough ground in their first 3 tries so on the 4th there are 2 choices. risk it, or give a kick to try and gain field position, but giving the other team at least 4 tries on the offense. Team A faked the kick, caught all unaware, and gained enough ground to sustain offense." You might aswell write in Japanese, at least I can use Babel fish to translate! Quote; "It's American college football -- real football, not soccer!" I find this statement particularly ironic, I rarely see anyone using their feet to kick the ball. It should be called "handball". Football means ball contacted by a foot. Real football is what is played in Europe, not a glorified rugby match with lots of padding, because the tarts that play it do not wish to get hurt! I have not heard a decent argument to contradict the above. You are quite welcome to try. That should provoke a reaction.
[bold]4th-and-6[/bold] - 4th down, 6 yards to get a first down. [bold]first down[/bold] - in football you get 4 downs (or plays) to gain 10 yards, if you do, it's first down again, and you get 4 more chances to gain the next 10 yards, and so on [bold]punt[/bold] - punting is kicking the ball farther into your opponents territory, so they have farther to go to score - this is usually done on 4th down because if you run a traditional play on 4th down, and don't make the required yardage, the other team gets the ball where you were stopped. If you [bold]fake[/bold] a punt, the same rules apply, but it's disguised, because it looks like you're about to punt, but then you can pass or run out of it, which is what this guy did. What makes this a [bold]game-clinching[/bold] first down, is that there was still time left on the clock for Georgia to score, but since the first down allowed West Virginia to run more plays, they ran the rest of the time off the clock, and the game was over. [bold]Bulldogs 48[/bold] - A football field is 100 yards, but since there's more than one yard-marker for each number, they refer to it by using the team's name who is defending that half. [bold]Long-Snap[/bold] You can download a 15-min. clip of Sugar Bowl highlights from iTunes for $1.99. I'm sure they'll show the play there.
