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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 26, 2007 16:20:38 GMT -5
Hmmm, I'll wait for the official announcement on Nutt, but it's probably time for him to go.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Nov 26, 2007 16:36:11 GMT -5
I'm gonna miss ole Chan for obvious reasons. With the Big 10, I think that they do want to add a 12th team....but who meets their requirements? Lets narrow the list Iowa State-They already have Iowa in there Notre Dame-They play Michigan, MSU, and Purdue every year Missouri-Recent rivalry with Illinois Cincinnati-Uprising program that the Big Ten would love to have Pittsburgh-PSU and them both are in Western Pennsylvania Any MAC team except Buffalo-MAC is Big Ten Jr.
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Post by normcoleman on Nov 26, 2007 16:38:19 GMT -5
Hmmm, I'll wait for the official announcement on Nutt, but it's probably time for him to go. I have zero sympathy for him....how he did Mahlzan and Mustain
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Nov 26, 2007 16:39:22 GMT -5
I'm gonna miss ole Chan for obvious reasons. With the Big 10, I think that they do want to add a 12th team....but who meets their requirements? I'm pretty sure if Notre Dame wanted to, the Big 10 would gladly welcome them. But i don't know if they want that. Then they have to have a Championship game, which would then, in a sense, override the Big Game. But I do agree with the rest of that list.
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Post by Lancers on Nov 26, 2007 16:39:45 GMT -5
I'm gonna miss ole Chan for obvious reasons. With the Big 10, I think that they do want to add a 12th team....but who meets their requirements? Several schools actually. Of course, it starts with Notre Dame. They've been going back and forth on the possiblity for years. But that won't happen until they lose their network deal with NBC. I thought they were still under contract until 2010 or 2011 last I checked. They were also looking at a few Big East teams like West Virginia, Louisville and Pittsburgh. I don't know exactly where their academic standards are, but they need to be pretty high. If there's one thing the Big Ten does pride themselves in, it's that they have solid academic programs. The dark horses are Nebraska, Missouri and Texas. Nebraska would make much more sense geographically speaking, but they have longtime rivalries with many of the Big 12 schools, so it'd be harder to pull them out of that conference. If you ask me, I'd say Notre Dame should join up, force the Big East to grab a school like Memphis (to replace ND in college basketball) and C-USA adds Southern Illinois (who'll have a solid basketball program and a very good football program who should join the FBS in a few years).
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on Nov 26, 2007 16:41:47 GMT -5
Big Ten is academic? Pfft, the conference has 11 teams in it.
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Post by Lancers on Nov 26, 2007 16:44:46 GMT -5
Big Ten is academic? Pfft, the conference has 11 teams in it. I didn't say the commissioner and the board of trustees were smart.
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on Nov 26, 2007 16:46:00 GMT -5
Big Ten is academic? Pfft, the conference has 11 teams in it. I didn't say the commissioner and the board of trustees were smart. Touche. Besides, the Big 12 as dumb enough to select Baylor over the more deserving Houston Cougars or if you really needed a private/religious school, SMU Mustangs.
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Post by The Wraith on Nov 26, 2007 16:50:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I doubt Notre Dame will join the Big 10. Being an Independent lets them play Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Navy, Boston College, Stanford, and USC just about every year.
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Post by Lancers on Nov 26, 2007 16:51:07 GMT -5
Seems like every major conference has one of those teams. You got Stanford in the Pac-10. Northwestern in the Big 10. Vanderbilt in the SEC.
And as for SMU, there was no way they were going to join the Big 12. Not after receiving the 'death penalty' back in the late 80s for all of those recruiting violations. It completely destroyed their program and it doesn't seem like they're going to ever recover from it.
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Post by normcoleman on Nov 26, 2007 16:56:19 GMT -5
I'm gonna miss ole Chan for obvious reasons. With the Big 10, I think that they do want to add a 12th team....but who meets their requirements? I'm pretty sure if Notre Dame wanted to, the Big 10 would gladly welcome them. But i don't know if they want that. Then they have to have a Championship game, which would then, in a sense, override the Big Game. But I do agree with the rest of that list. EXACTLY. Columbus and Ann Arbor run the confrence.
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Post by normcoleman on Nov 26, 2007 16:56:51 GMT -5
I didn't say the commissioner and the board of trustees were smart. Touche. Besides, the Big 12 as dumb enough to select Baylor over the more deserving Houston Cougars or if you really needed a private/religious school, SMU Mustangs. You can thank Ma Richards for Baylor
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 26, 2007 19:45:00 GMT -5
Press conference from Fayetteville is on right now- Houston Nutt is now officially out as Arkansas coach. The official line is that he resigned..
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Post by Brick Killed a Guy on Nov 26, 2007 20:04:27 GMT -5
Nutt's gonna find another job soon. He may not be an "elite" head coach, but I could see him rebuilding some mid-major.
Then again, there are several jobs open in BCS conference teams.
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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Nov 27, 2007 14:07:14 GMT -5
Nutt's gonna find another job soon. How about a few hours later:JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Houston Nutt wasn't out of a job for long: He was hired as Southeastern Conference rival Mississippi's football coach just hours after resigning at Arkansas. Nutt agreed to a contract late Monday night, and replaces Ed Orgeron, who was fired Saturday after the Rebels lost to rival Mississippi State to finish 3-9 and winless in the SEC. The school announced the hiring through a three-paragraph e-mail Tuesday sent out by athletic director Pete Boone. The school said a news conference will be held Wednesday in Oxford. No contract details were made available. Ole Miss was searching for a proven winner after years of mediocrity. Nutt neatly fits the description. He is 111-70 in 15 years as a head coach at Arkansas, Boise State and Murray State. And he's been a winner in the SEC. The Little Rock, Ark., native rebuilt the Arkansas program, going 75-48 since his hiring in 1997 to replace Danny Ford. He was 42-38 in conference with one of his biggest wins coming last week when the Razorbacks beat then-No. 1 LSU 50-48 triple-overtime win. While Arkansas is likely headed to the Cotton Bowl, Nutt will be going to the homes of recruits attempting to hold together the promising class Orgeron was assembling. Nutt, 50, said Monday he left Arkansas to help mend a split among fans after off-the-field problems were compounded by a difficult season. The Razorbacks started the year ranked and were expected to contend for the SEC West title against the Tigers. Arkansas lost its first three SEC games and dropped out of the poll in September, fueling fan discontent over last year's transfer of quarterback Mitch Mustain and the loss of offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, who left for Tulsa. A call to Nutt's agent, Jimmy Sexton, was not immediately returned. Nutt takes over a program that has foundered since a 10-win season in 2003 under David Cutcliffe. The Rebels won a share of the SEC West that season with Eli Manning at quarterback. Since then Ole Miss has had four or fewer wins in four seasons. Boone fired Cutcliffe in 2004 for a lack of effort in recruiting. He had hoped Orgeron, who helped build two national title teams at USC as Pete Carroll's recruiting coordinator, would bring the kind of energy needed to compete in the nation's best football conference. Orgeron finished 10-25 and was routinely the target of fan discontent. Boone and Chancellor Robert Khayat endorsed Orgeron midway through the season, but decided to go in a new direction after the Rebels lost five of six to end the year.
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Post by Lancers on Nov 27, 2007 14:14:10 GMT -5
Something seems strange to me about Houston Nutt resigning at Arkansas and a day later, accepting the job at Ole Miss. It almost seems like it was planned all along. I don't think it was though.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 27, 2007 17:01:58 GMT -5
See, that's just crazy. In Nutt's press conference where he resigned he blew smoke about how Arkansas was such a dream job and how he felt it was time to step down so the fanbase could come together and the university could move forward and how he'd never do anything to hurt Arkansas etc etc.
.. and then a day later he signs up with a conference rival.
Man the local media is gonna have a field day.
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Post by #Classic Hi-Definition X on Nov 28, 2007 17:33:23 GMT -5
Some Week 14 matchups:
Rutgers at Louisville (Thursday)
MAC Championship- Detroit, MI Miami (OH) vs. Central Michigan
Conference USA Championship- Orlando, FL Tulsa vs. UCF
Navy vs. Army (in Philadelphia)
ACC Championship- Jacksonville, FL Virginia Tech vs. Boston College
SEC Championship- Atlanta, GA Tennessee vs. LSU
UCLA at USC
Oregon State at Oregon
BYU at San Diego State
Pittsburgh at West Virginia
Big 12 Championship- San Antonio, TX Oklahoma vs. Missouri
Arizona at Arizona State
Washington at Hawaii
And USC's home games may be moving to the Rose Bowl next year.
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Nov 28, 2007 18:02:37 GMT -5
So assuming WVU doesn't pull of the biggest choke job in a while by losing to Pitt in the Back Yard Brawl, what NC matchup would be better, OSU/WVU or Mizzou/WVU?
Just based on last year's NC game, the Buckeyes can't stop a spread offense and got totaled by Florida. Now, they'd be going against an even more explosive offense this year. So even though OSU brings in the name power and ratings, they'd get demolished.
On the flip side, Mizzou/WVU would be insane to watch. We could see one of the highest scoring games in bowl history the way those two play offense. The game would definitely be more competitive, but the problem is no one will really care, at least once the media is done doing the dirty work of the other major conferences in pointing out how these aren't the "big" schools playing.
I'd much rather see the second game, just from the perspective of a casual fan, but how do other people feel about two non-traditional powers (WVU is kinda one, but not at the level of the other schools) duking it out for a National Title?
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Post by extremek on Nov 28, 2007 20:47:34 GMT -5
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