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by irish1611
on Nov 4, 2008 10:09 AM MST
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The Omaha World Herald examines the third year's of Ron Prince and Dan Hawkins, saying that usually coaches get two years to sift through the mess and the third year needs to show improvement. They compare former Nebraska coach Bill Callahan to Ron Prince in terms of their mentality and say this about Hawkins:
At Colorado, the gregarious Hawkins — known for his supposed offensive wizardry — has grown quieter week by week as his offense continues to sputter.
In five years at Boise State, his teams averaged 41.6 points a game. But at Colorado, his first two teams — which finished 2-10 and 6-7 — were 107th and 62nd nationally in scoring.
How true is the first statement. Hawkins has indeed grown much quieter and more short winded. Right now those doubters that say the WAC isn't the Big 12 are proving true.
I understand staying PC is important for bulletin board material purposes but Iowa State coach Gene Chizik and Dan Hawkins describing each other's teams is comical. Here is Chizik describing the CU offense:
Said Iowa State coach Gene Chizik: "Offensively right now (CU does) a lot of things. They can run the football. They have a controlled passing game. It’s just one of those games that is going to be physical, and you can tell Dan wants to run the football. "When they get clicking, they can move the ball with anybody."
Move the ball with anyone? He must have gotten tapes from the early 90's.
Hawkins is a little better but to say Iowa State has play makers is also stretching it:
"They have a really solid group up front; they have play makers," CU coach Dan Hawkins said about Iowa State. "They had opportunities against Texas A&M; they pushed Kansas to the brink. "They have the makings of a really good club, they just haven’t had some things go their way."
We’re getting our Ph.D. in dealing with adversity
No explanation needed for today's TRR DJ choice. Interesting that Obama tried to buy the college football vote with talk of a playoff last night. Please, please, please don't give college football a playoff. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
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I have no idea if a playoff is a good idea or not. I think the +1 idea is sort of cool, but I know for sure that I HATE the current system. Is it better than just a bunch of people voting and letting obvious bias (Ahem, Tom Osborne) effect the polls who determine the champions every year? Absolutely it is. That doesn’t make the current system any good. When I was on the newspaper staff in high school, I got a golden opportunity to write about the BCS when some team from up north made the national title game despite not even winning their own division, let alone conference. Naturally, everyone knew they didn’t deserve to be there, and they got waxed (hahahahahaha). I didn’t think Colorado deserved to be there, but I sure as hell wanted to see Joey Harrington lead his Ducks against that Miami powerhouse. I hated the system back then, I hate the system now. I think an 8 team playoff might be a bit much, but at least it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what we have now.
by SlamDunkTheFunk on
Nov 4, 2008 3:05 PM MST
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I do think a playoff would be better than now, but I also do not think what we have now is any better than what we had before (pre-BCS). In pre-BCS it was still chaos as far as bowls, you debated the champion based on the bowl games, there was never a clear winner. Now, you do the exact same thing except there is some official system in place that is masquerading as determining a national champion. I honestly would prefer the old way to what we have now. At least then there is debate based on what happens on the field as opposed to in some computer. I say go back to the pre-BCS bowl system where conference champs always go to the same bowl, you don’t have this Hawaii, Utah, Boise crap, and you may have 1, 2 and 3 in different bowls so every bowl is a lot more exciting than this pseudo fake national championship game now where every other bowl is meaningless nationally.
by BVaz on
Nov 4, 2008 3:20 PM MST
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I was hoping this would start a playoff debate
Im not saying the system works, but I love all of the discussion/debate/heart wrenching that it causes. Think about how boring the last few weeks of the NFL season are once you know if your team is in or out… I love college football just the way it is.
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by WoodrowWilson on
Nov 4, 2008 3:25 PM MST
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Victory!
I appreciate what you’re saying about how college football is exciting until the end, but there has to be a better way of doing it. There’s a reason I really liked the +1 system, and that was because it wasn’t exactly a playoff, and it keeps that excitement you’re a fan of, but it can cut some of the groaning out. Think about it. The undefeated Auburn team would have been given their chance, as would the Miami and USC teams that were “slighted” right before their dominating runs. I hate how it is now, but like I said earlier, a full-blown playoff isn’t something I want. Why can’t people just agree on a +1? Nobody really loses any money, and some school/bowl game are going to gain a little more from the extra game. I guess I just don’t see the downside to it.
by SlamDunkTheFunk on
Nov 4, 2008 3:41 PM MST
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It would be fun
but there would still be the same moaning and groaning. The 5th and 6th teams that just miss making the playoff would hate it and you would still have the same arguments about conference and schedule strengths. But then again maybe that’s a good thing because I imagine a lot more teams would be in the discussion.
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by WoodrowWilson on
Nov 4, 2008 4:01 PM MST
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The difference is
Every year, you can usually make a case for more than two teams being the elite teams, whereas it’s harder to find 5 elite teams in one year. I do realize that some years there are really no elite teams that are smoking everyone, and it’s just a lot of really good teams. Those would be the tough years, but there is never going to be a perfect way to do it. The +1 system makes sense to me, because it would satisfy the thirst for a “playoff” -esque format, It don’t see how anybody would lose any money (a huge, HUGE factor in this, let’s be honest), and it would likely pit the four best teams against each other in some fashion.
No sport has a perfect playoff system. Look at baseball this past year. Hank freaking Steinbrenner was crying like a little bitch because his overpaid whiners couldn’t hack it against the upstart Rays. The past few years in the NFL, 9 or 10 win teams haven’t made the playoffs, whereas the NFC has allowed mediocrity to prosper. This year, it looks like 9 wins is a playoff number in the AFC. All of the sports have their issues (except college basketball), but college football is the only sport in which there is consistent unhappiness with the system, and I think it’s fair.
by SlamDunkTheFunk on
Nov 4, 2008 7:13 PM MST
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