College Football Thread 2011 (Actual Season!)

Originally posted by TheAlum

Originally posted by jzzbassman
Cheese appears to be lucky. It doesn’t look like I can give him shit during the game because I will be in Memphis until around kickoff and doubt I can watch the game live. How bad does it suck to be Boise and Stanford to watch Alabama lose and still be on the outside looking in? As much as I hate to say it...because my dad is an OSU grad and I always root for them.....OU will beat OSU like a rented mule. Happens every time when OSU has something to play for.

You don’t think a Stanford win over Oregon will vault them over Bama? If Stanford wins out their remaining 3 games (Oregon, Cal, and ND) will definitely boost their weak area (Computer component).

You are only ahead of them by less than .01 overall in those BCS components average.

Just for the record: I hate the two-QB system LSU has had in the last few years. Lee had major troubles as a freshman and Jefferson has trouble with game management. Both have improved, despite Lee’s bad breaks against ’Bama. Miles needs to just stick to one and the team get behind them. Honestly our DEFENSE is what is getting us anywhere this year. We don’t need a great QB, we just need one who won’t f’ up. Our last 2 BCSNC winning QB’s were not even close to being highly ranked, but they got the job done. Matt Mauck and Matt Flynn!!



Mais! I just figured it out.... we need to recruit someone named MATT! My Matty will be ready in 2026!

This Penn State shit is disgusting.. has anyone else followed it.. we’ve got a timeline set up:

Originally Posted by the CNN article
The child sex investigation against retired Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky began in 2009 with the first report of allegations to law enforcement. But allegations and eyewitness accounts, some known to university officials, date back as far as 1994.
Here’s a look at the timeline, drawn from the grand jury report, the Pennslyvania attorney general’s office and a statement from The Second Mile, a charity founded by Sandusky to help troubled youth:

1977 -- Sandusky founds "The Second Mile."

1994-1997 -- According to the grand jury report, Sandusky allegedly engages in inappropriate conduct with three different boys he met separately through the Second Mile program. One boy was 7 or 8, another was 10 and the third was 12 or 13 at the time. According to the grand jury report, the now-grown men said Sandusky engaged in inappropriate conduct ranging from touching to outright sexual encounters, including several incidents during the night before Penn State football home games, when the team, staff and boys Sandusky had allegedly invited were staying at a hotel.

1998 -- Penn State police and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare investigate an incident in which the mother of an 11-year-old boy reported that Sandusky had showered with her son and may have had inappropriate conduct with him. In a June 1, 1998, interview with investigators from both agencies, Sandusky admits showering naked with the boy, admitting that it was wrong and promising not to do it again, according to the grand jury report. The district attorney advises investigators that no charges will be filed and the university police chief instructs that the case be closed, according to the testimony included in the grand jury report of the police detective who investigated the incident.

1999 -- Sandusky retires from Penn State after coaching there for 32 years, but stays on as a volunteer and retains full access to the campus and football facilities.

2000 -- Sandusky allegedly showers with a young boy and tries to touch his genitals during overnight stays at the coach’s house, according to the now 24-year-old man’s testimony included in the grand jury report.

2000 -- Tim Calhoun, a janitor at the Lasch Football Building on the Penn State campus, tells his supervisor and another janitor that he saw Sandusky performing oral sex on a young boy, according to the grand jury report. A second janitor reported that he saw Sandusky and a boy leave a shower room and walk out of the building hand in hand. No one reports the incident to university officials or law enforcement, according to the grand jury report.

March 2, 2002 -- According to the grand jury report, a graduate assistant allegedly tells Coach Joe Paterno that he saw Sandusky in the locker room shower the night before, performing anal sex on a young boy he estimated to be 10 years old.

March 3, 2002 -- Paterno reports the incident to Athletic Director Tim Curley, saying the graduate assistant had seen Sandusky "fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy," according to the grand jury. Later, the assistant is summoned to a meeting with Athletic Director Tim Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz..

While the assistant insists to the grand jury that he told Curley and Schultz that he saw Sandusky and the boy engaged in anal sex, Curley and Schultz told the grand jury they had not been told of such an allegation. Instead, Curley said he had the impression the conduct amounted to non-sexual "horsing around." Schultz said he couldn’t remember details, but seemed to recall that "Sandusky might have inappropriately grabbed the young boy’s genitals while wrestling," according to the grand jury. Sandusky’s locker room keys are confiscated, he is told not to bring his Second Mile participants to campus and the incident is reported to the charity, but no law enforcement investigation is launched, according to the grand jury.

2002 -- The Second Mile learns of the shower incident. Curley tells them that "the information had been internally reviewed and that there was no finding of wrongdoing," the group said in a statement Monday.

2005 or 2006 -- Sandusky allegedly befriends another Second-Mile participant whose allegations would form the foundation of the multi-year grand jury investigation.

2006 or 2007 -- A wrestling coach at the high school where Sandusky was volunteering allegedly surprises Sandusky and the boy "lying on their sides, in physical contact, face to face on a mat" in a cramped weight room. Sandusky jumps to his feet and told the coach the two were just working on wrestling moves, the coach later recalls in grand jury testimony. As time goes on, Sandusky allegedly begins to spend more time with the boy, taking him to sporting events and giving him gifts, including golf clubs, a computer, cash and clothes. During this period, according to the grand jury report, Sandusky allegedly performs oral sex on the boy more than 20 times, and the boy performs oral sex on him once.

2008 -- The boy breaks off contact with Sandusky. Later, his mother calls the high school to report her son had been sexually assaulted and the principal bars Sandusky from campus and reports the incident to police. In grand jury testimony, the principal, Steven Turchetta, recalls Sandusky’s behavior as suspicious, and said Sandusky was often "clingy" and "needy" when a student no longer wanted to spend time with him. The ensuing investigation reveals 118 calls from Sandusky’s home and cell phone numbers to the boy’s home.

November 2008 -- Sandusky informs The Second Mile that he is under investigation, and he is removed from all program activities involving children, according to the group.

September 2010 -- Sandusky retires from The Second Mile, according to the grand jury.

Friday -- The grand jury report is released.

Saturday -- Authorities arrest Sandusky on seven counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and numerous other charges, including aggravated indecent assault, corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of a child. He is freed on $100,000 unsecured bail. Curley, 57, and Schultz, 62, are each charged with one count of felony perjury and one count of failure to report abuse allegations.

Sunday -- Curley asks for and is granted administrative leave to deal with the charges, while Schultz steps down from his post to retire.

The GA in question is buzzing at McQuery.. the red headed QB Coach and former Penn State QB.

Yeah, I thought Paterno, at least initially, might survive this. Now, I think we are seeing him coach his last team.

Originally posted by Guyute_Pig
Monday morning "Golden Era" musing... Does anyone give a shit about the UM/FSU game any more? How sad that rivalry game has become soo irrelevant. Wake Forest leads Florida State in one division, and Virginia is ahead of Miami in the other.

VIRGINIA!

Originally posted by mgumby10

Originally posted by Guyute_Pig
Monday morning "Golden Era" musing... Does anyone give a shit about the UM/FSU game any more? How sad that rivalry game has become soo irrelevant. Wake Forest leads Florida State in one division, and Virginia is ahead of Miami in the other.

VIRGINIA!

Random "Why Miami is the shit" post:

- 9 National Title appearances
- 5 National Championships
- 58 game home winning streak
- 2 Heisman Trophy winners
- 14 consecutive years with a first rounder drafted (record)
- 6 players drafted in the first round in one year (record)
- 148 and counting consecutive NFL weeks a former Cane has scored a TD
- NFLU - ridiculous NFL tradition with All-Pros and Hall of Famers
- Running through the smoke
- Uncle Luke
- The Rock
- Bob Marley’s son
- Starting the tradition of holding 4 fingers up at end of 3rd quarter
- Jimmy Johnson
- Howard Schnellenbeger
- The Orange Bowl
- The "U" brand
- Ray Lewis
- Michael Irvin
- Its a Cane thing, you wouldnt understand.....

Just straight badass cool fucking tradition.
I love this team!

You all can keep hating, but you dont see ESPN knocking down Iowa’s, MSU’s, WVU’s, UCF’s doors to film an ESPN 30 for 30 special, which was bad ass by the way. People just wanna see and watch the U in action. Couldnt imagine being an Iowa fan. What a boring program to root for wow. Nothing cool about those muppets in corn city.

Yeah thats right Alum, Im calling your boring ass program out just for being boring. Name some cool shit about your program and see how it stacks up. My guess is, it doesnt.

Go.

Us against the world, thats how we like it.

You forgot:

-playing in front of 12K fans, unless FSU is in town
-268 arrests
-25,000 gold chains
-15,000 lbs. of hair gel
-nothing to talk about in the last 10 years