CFN makes me larff

Submitted by SFBayAreaBlue on

Aside from the just plain stupid things they write, and their terrible grammar, and their lack of a spell checker, CFN just makes me shake my head and cross my eyes with most of their material.  

Right now they've got a roundtable discussion going on with such luminaries Dennis Dodd and Teddy Greenstein.  I don't even know who Teddy Greenstein is.  And Dennis Dodd is the stupidest sportswriter to ever pick up a pen.  

Meanwhile they've got matt zemek and dick criminal having a competition on who can be the most worthless writer ever.  At least that Peter fiutak guy is funny once in a while, but since it seems he never passed 3rd grade english, you can't be sure if its intentional.  Seriously, the dude leaves out words in the middle of sentences, uses the exact opposite word of what he means, and has no command over simple words such as "a, the, and, but, to, with, etc., etc. "  I can't count the number of times I've been reading one of his COW's but stopped halfway when I just got sick of the grammar mistakes.  

And then there's the flawed logic.  They've got a ND preview up saying the line should be much improved with an extra year of experience.  Right, sure.  Because 4 years of experience for Sullivan and John Carlson and a year for Sam Young going into last year helped them become soooooo much better. If they're still being coached by the same morons who turned them into the worst offensive line EVAR, then I'm going to guess it won't matter who is playing QB, just like it didn't matter last year.  

They say that Clausen will be better because he's healthy.  So I guess that means that Weis would rather lose games with an unhealthy QB so that he can get experience while at the same time exposing him to possible further injury or complications to the unhealed one because he had an eye towards the future??!?! 

So let me jump on their tails and make a stupid prediction too.  I predict that Charlie Weis will pull a Charlie Weis.  He'll forget to teach the line how to block, Clausen will suck, and Weis will pull him in favor of the hot new recruit.  Clausen will throw a tantrum, transfer in the middle of the season to Tennessee, where he and Mallet can finish out their rivalry in the SEC.  

Comments

Will Number 2

July 12th, 2008 at 10:51 AM ^

are there any good ones out there?  All of them seem to be intent on presenting the "your favorite team sucks and heres why" article.  They are so scared of being called a homer that they will villify the home team.

National Sportswriters aren't any better.  They either state the obvious or cling to a pet theory that takes Brian all of five minutes to debunk.

 I cannot remember the last time a read an article in the newspaper and thought it was well written.

 

 

SFBayAreaBlue

July 12th, 2008 at 12:18 PM ^

Isn't so much stupid as he is an ASSCLOWN. He's negative on purpose and plays loose with the facts to make things negative. So basically he's a liar and an assclown. Dodd is just freaking stupid.

SFBayAreaBlue

July 12th, 2008 at 12:33 PM ^

"6. Make your case why the BCS is better than a playoff (without using the “every week is a playoff” cliché).

Stewart Mandel: Because a playoff would turn the sport into a facsimile of the NFL, where, instead of rewarding greatness over the course of an entire season, it's about whoever gets hot over a three-game stretch. See: the New York Giants."

Because if 16 teams out of 120 made the playoffs you know some of them got in with a 6-6 record. Math. F(*&^& MATH! F)&*(^*( LEARN IT YOU F*&^*& IDIOT SPORTSWRITERS!!!!

In the NFL 12 of 32 teams make the playoffs so the last few to get in always have 9-7 or sometimes 8-8 marks. Look at last year's top 16, do you see any teams that were 7-5 going into the postseason? NO YOU DON'T MOTHER F*C***! because no one in the top 25 had more than 4 losses.

cougar blue

July 12th, 2008 at 3:08 PM ^

The sports writers are becoming no different then the rest of the print (and tv for that matter)media, it is always America that is the bully or the assclown or what have you. No different than someone ripping M all the time in the paper.. whatever BS they can get away with they will right. For instance USA Today has at least 10-15 negative articles to one positive (regardless of section). Where has the optimisim gone...?

Jim Harbaugh S…

July 12th, 2008 at 3:48 PM ^

But I took the NY Giants line to not be about a 9-7 team winning it all - but to be about a team that underachieved during the regular season and wins it all. How pissed would the majority of CFB fans be if UM had a shot at the NC in 2007? I really think the point was to show that with playoffs there is always a shot of a totally "undeserving" champion - but with the BCS it is always "1" v. "2."

SFBayAreaBlue

July 12th, 2008 at 7:15 PM ^

say that LSU was rewarded for an underachieveing season. They lost twice, to mediocre teams. There's no way an 8 team playoff would diminish the importance of the season when if you have 3 losses you'd be out of it. You'd have to go 10-2 to assure yourselves a spot in the BCS, with a playoff, you'd have to do the same. Even a 16 team playoff would only be the the conference champs and a couple 'wild card' teams that would be selected based on quality wins. You'd have an incentive for teams to schedule better non-conf foes because winning the conference would be an automatic bid and if you don't win the conf, you'd need those big-time wins to sneek in. Plus, you'd stop seeing 1-AA, 1-AA, Mac, ConfUSA non-conf schedules because that's just a terrible way to prepare for the conference schedule. Realistically you'd probably see 3 cupcakes and one good non-conf game because of the money issues, but at least that's one more good game than we're getting now from most teams.

SFBayAreaBlue

July 12th, 2008 at 7:24 PM ^

another way to look at playoffs isn't that they reward teams for getting 'hot' at the right time, but rather for getting better as the season progressed. We're not rewarding Michigan for having an 8 game winning streak in the middle of the season, we're rewarding them for IMPROVING their players, (and their coaching scheme) so that they can beat quality opponents that have played well this season, not just some team they scheduled by nefarious backroom contract negotiations. And isn't education what college football is nominally about? If it really is '1 loss means you're season's over' (which it isn't because there's almost always a team with one loss in the bcs championship) Then, other than pride, what's the motivation to improve?