NCAA Football 2006

[The Grim Reefer]

Looks like Notre Dame will have one of th nastyest schedules in the country next year.

How would you like to break in a new QB facing this to start the year:

GEORGIA TECH
at Penn State
at Michigan
22 MICHIGAN STATE
at Purdue
at UCLA
BOSTON COLLEGE
USC
NAVY
AIR FORCE
DUKE
at Stanford

They finish up sorta easy but DAMN, after the gimme at Ga Tech it gets nasty for 7 straight games

[ECEKatko]

But the freshman is the "Lebron James of football" according to some stupid article I read. If he wins the starting spot, going to be plenty of dumb ND hype next year about the QB again.

55 - he meant the regular season, in which USC and OSU WILL be playing.

It's about time for the game to get here. 50 days of waiting is more than enough.

[The Grim Reefer]

LJ is over hyped anyway.

[55semireef]

Originally posted by The Grim Reefer
Looks like Notre Dame will have one of th nastyest schedules in the country next year.

How would you like to break in a new QB facing this to start the year:

GEORGIA TECH
at Penn State
at Michigan
22 MICHIGAN STATE
at Purdue
at UCLA
BOSTON COLLEGE
USC
NAVY
AIR FORCE
DUKE
at Stanford

They finish up sorta easy but DAMN, after the gimme at Ga Tech it gets nasty for 7 straight games

Wow.

[Old Yeller Tang]

Originally posted by Treg
07' looks like a pretty lame non conference schedule for us.

Same with SC. Other than road games at Nebraska and Notre Dame, the only other toughies will be PAC 10 mathcups. I guess the SEC got tired of getting whooped by SC that they couldn't get anyone of them to play them.

[ECEKatko]

Russell is gone early, so I guess that settles that debate.

[Treg]

Good Luck tonight 55.


I hope its a good fun clean game but more importantly I hope we win! (By a Butt Load!)

I've got the biggest damn pot of Chili cooking, a crock pot full of BBQ wings, a couple cases of beer on Ice and a house full of people coming.

[The Grim Reefer]

House full of people, damn, how do you scratch your nu-.....Nevr mind. Luck Treg, just not too much

[Old Yeller Tang]

"John Henderson"
'Bama's bid for Saban setting sad standard
By John Henderson
Denver Post College Football Beat Reporter
Article Last Updated: 01/06/2007 08:18:53 PM MST


Scottsdale, Ariz. - If Alabama wants to sell its soul to win football games, let it. I have seen enough of that school's operation and the whole Southeastern Conference to know the sleaze factor down there is unmatched. Every time I leave SEC country I want to take a long, hot shower.

And there I was Thursday in the media headquarters here watching that unabashed liar Alabama hired at his introductory news conference on TV, and I nearly jumped, clothes and all, right into the resort's swimming pool.

Alabama is paying Nick Saban $4 million a year plus incentives to leave the Miami Dolphins. That's understandable. Winning football games is the most important thing in existence in that state, and Alabama is on its fifth coach in eight years trying to find the right one.

What the Crimson Tide bought was a bald-faced liar, a man who lied to his players, fans, the media, all forgiven by the panting Crimson Tide faithful because of that championship ring he wears from his days at Louisiana State.

Alabama made Saban the highest-paid coach in the country, topping the $3.45 million of Oklahoma's Bob Stoops. The bar has been raised. Place your bets on how fast it goes up again.

My concern, and a concern that's sweeping across the country from campuses to Congress, is the repercussions for future contracts and for the forgotten people: the nonrevenue sports athletes and the longtime middle-class boosters. When will coaches' astronomical salaries reach a point where schools thirsty for quick glory start cutting programs to pay for them?

And imagine how high season-ticket prices go up in order to pay these guys. All across the country, new basketball arenas are being built for greater revenue, and the insurance agent who has followed ol' State U. since it was Division II in the 1960s is getting pushed out in favor of the well-heeled booster jumping on the bandwagon.

Don't think that won't happen when universities start selling their new big names in football.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith is one of the many ADs appalled at what Alabama did. Smith said: "You're talking about a number that would require a lot of schools to drop programs." He is just hoping other schools don't take Alabama's lead.

"I think it will have an impact long-term," Smith said Thursday. "No doubt. In the immediate time frame, most athletic departments, most institutions, if they have a coach who wants to go to the NFL, go. We're not going to pay you that kind of money. We're not interested in chasing an NFL coach who's making the kind of money Nick Saban made at Miami.

"But that's just us."

Smith paid attention to Saban's obscene dance with Alabama. Smith's top-ranked Buckeyes meet second-ranked Florida for the BCS national championship in nearby Glendale, Ariz., on Monday night, and if Ohio State wins the national title, coach Jim Tressel can renegotiate his contract.

Saban won the 2003 national title at LSU. This would be Tressel's second in five years at OSU. He is making $2.6 million a year. What would Tressel be worth? True, he never coached in the NFL, but some say Saban didn't, either. He went 15-17 at Miami.

"Alabama felt it had to be in that neighborhood," Smith said. "I'm not going that way. I know Jim's not thinking that way. I'm confident in our relationship. That doesn't mean five to 10 years from now it might be different."

The big difference between Alabama and Ohio State is the three most popular sports at Alabama are football, spring football and football recruiting. Ohio State offers a broad range of athletics. No other state university offers close to the 36 sports financed at Ohio State. Alabama has 21. Ohio State has 900 intercollegiate athletes and spends $12 million in scholarship money.

Alabama can certainly afford Saban. In the 2005-06 school year, the football program generated $44 million of the athletic department's $68.6 million in revenues. The athletic department spent $61.5 million. But coaches' salaries have become the new arms race in college athletics. Schools who try to join the war might get burned.

This could get ugly. NCAA president Myles Brand says coaches' salaries will be the most important issue he faces in 2007, and the House Ways and Means Committee has asked Brand to explain the coaches' salaries and why athletic departments deserve tax-exempt status.

Keep in mind Saban has an unusual résumé. Only he and South Carolina's Steve Spurrier won national titles, coached in the NFL and returned. But when Pete Carroll's agent renegotiates with USC, how fast will he bring up Saban's 15-17 record against Carroll's 2003-04 national titles and two playoff appearances with the New England Patriots? Then again, Saban could win his second national title at Alabama.

He'd better.

[55semireef]

Originally posted by Treg
Good Luck tonight 55.


I hope its a good fun clean game but more importantly I hope we win! (By a Butt Load!)

I've got the biggest damn pot of Chili cooking, a crock pot full of BBQ wings, a couple cases of beer on Ice and a house full of people coming.

Thanks, I am ordering pizza and wings. But you guys are the ones that need the luck.

[InvaderJim]

Less than 3 hours boys.

[55semireef]

InvaderJim, I see your from Gainsville.


GET EM GATORS.

[bluerug]

30 mins and counting. Got wings, ribs, steak, and chicken, and a whole load of publix sweet tea, its gonna be a fun night.

[55semireef]

pizza and wings here.

[jeffbrig]

Go Gators!!

[55semireef]

[55semireef]

Priceless first quarter...


GET EM GATPORS

[The Grim Reefer]

This could get UGLY

[ronkent]

this is gettin really ugly already, save the kick return ohio hasnt done squat

[ronkent]

bout time they can do something, need a great defensive stand now!

[drewfish]

well this game is over. goodnight

[The Grim Reefer]

This game is getting


(butt ugly)

[InvaderJim]

How bout them Gators?

[The Grim Reefer]

They saved their best performance for the right game.

[InvaderJim]

The only one that matters.