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definitely not good if you're a Hokie. I think it's good news for us though.

What does their roster look like the year after a death penalty? I wouldn't expect many players to sit around. With a class limit of 25 they would be playing mostly walkons. It would take 4-5 years to restock the roster and get back to normal.

who you could argue is from slightly outside the region, then Anthony Thomas or Jerod Ward in basketball may be it. Sam McGuffie was a 4 star.

He was committed elsewhere and had already told OSU he wasn't interested. I find it impossible to muster any sympathy for Meyer, who I highly doubt flew down there just to see him.

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Tressel was asked about the incident in the post game presser and repeated the lie that it was their standard practice. That struck as very suspicious as to his involvement.                        http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bigten/2004-11-24-carr-osu-dogs_x.htm

While his comments might have been forgiven, they weren't going to be forgotten any time soon. The risk of that hurting his fundraising ability is real.

No self-respecting hockey league would have ever thought that could work. 

the constant use of "scum" over there makes it hard to give them the benefit of the doubt.

He was the first player that came to mind after reading your analysis. He has good speed and size, but while he plays several positions he doesn't sound like an ideal fit for any of them.

when they leave John L. off their list.

is close to Morris, you redshirt Morris and put them in the same class? I fail to see any logic to this approach.

Didn't they recruit several highly ranked WRs a couple of years ago? Oops. All those transfers are really coming back to bite ND.  Wasn't Cam Newton expelled form Florida for cheating?

It turned out that a tie was almost the same as a loss, so how could sacrificing one opportunity to take the lead be correct?

But I would consider Stanford if they canceled their series with ND to play us.

1. PAC-12 picked up Utah and Colorado before negotiating with UT, OU et al.                            2. The Big 12 needs to add schools just to have a championship game. I'd be shocked if they turned down someone like FSU because they are too far away.                                                   3. UVA as a "crown jewel" seems like a reach, as does their relationship with UNC and the idea that they are tied to VT.                                                                                                                4. GT was supposedly very interested in joining the Big Ten. They would be a viable candidate if the finances of leaving the ACC can be worked out.                                                5. I don't understand why the ACC would collapse if they lost a couple of schools to the Big Ten. Losing UNC would be tough, but what about losing UVA and GT? UConn would love to join and, as you pointed out, they already have 15 teams.                                                          6. Other conferences haven't exactly been following the Big Ten's lead in expansion. The SEC went to 14 before us. The PAC-12 was negotiating to go to 16 while we were at 12 and the Big 12 is sitting at 10. The Big Ten going to 16 may mean nothing to them, or they may decide to expand first.                                                                                                                                  7.  Oklahoma and OK St. reportedly approached the Big Ten about membership. I don't think OU is necessarily all that tied to UT. In fact, if the SEC were to expand I think they would take a run at OU first.                                                                                                                                 8. Expansion may well be dead for now for the Big Ten, but it would be because all of the attractive candidates (other than ND) are in the ACC and signed that rights deal.                      9. The SEC wanting Duke was a joke, right? 

I'd recommend he start making music videos. It shouldn't be hard to make something that will get his release in a "mutual" decision.

I would add MSU to your list. It's got to be tough to hang onto recruits who are hoping for a better offer.

at least according to one of my old shirts. 

It asks whether "athletics" have too much power at PSU, not "athletes".

Feb 2012 - Bill O'Brien brings in a long time NFL trainer to be the new head trainer. Jan 2013 - PSU hires an outside law firm to investigate complaints about the new trainer. Feb 2013 - O'Brien recommends the school replace the team doctor. Now - After reassigning the doctor as O'Brien requested, PSU is trying to make the move sound like a promotion. 

Sam Webb said he will be eligible to play right away as a grad student transfer.

about 15 different schools, every one of them lacking Nebraska's geographic disadvantage.

Getting the actual penalties was a relief. The period of waiting for them was extended and painful, affecting our ability to hire a coach and recruiting. We should have done better than Ellerbe, but our options were severely limited. I still remember Roger Reid turning us down and his other prospects were nil. 

The whole idea that the coaches needed to push Ringer out because they oversigned is very irritating. At the very least, they only need to not offer Mike Jones a fifth year. Does anyone really think they are pushing Ringer out so they can keep Jones around?  

or was trying to get fired. He was hardly in a position to make contract demands after this season and did anyway.

University of Kansas = KU, Univeristy of Missouri = MU, are two examples.

Not questioning anyone's reporting, but I will be shocked if we only take 1 DB in this class.

I can't picture any NBA team being intimidated by any of the team names.

Sorry, but that's just ridiculous. We are aware that there are risks, yes, but we are still learning just what they are. Were we worried about sub-concussive blows a decade ago, a year ago? I don't think very many were. Some people don't seem to be today. Beyond that, a step to limit hitting in spring practice sounds like an excellent example of how to reduce risks without changing the game.

Geno Smith was supposed to go #1 according to some of the mock drafts. Damontre Moore was considered a possibility for the Lions at #6. He went at #81. There's no way to tell where Barkley would have gone once teams looked at him closely, but I suspect this year's draft is a better indicator than the early mocks.

even after he explained the simple system he devised. Now he's just using 247's composite rankings, but that hardly makes a difference.

You don't need to go back nearly that far.

OP, why the quotation marks around realignment?

that you can't criticize a kid's behavior without immediately resorting to namecalling that does not reflect badly on you. I can't  Perhaps you should look in the mirror before continuing this argument. You wouldn't let the kid play for you. OK, maybe his coach isn't teaching him the same things you would.

I think the last couple of years every single one of our graduating scholarship seniors got them. I wouldn't be surprised to see Kovacs make a roster.

For the long time frame they can look at the academic fit. If you're looking past 10-15 years then you have to make a lot of guesses about revenue models and competitiveness. Given the medical research being done today, even the long term future of college football is murky. If expansion proves to be very profitable over the next 10-15 years then the Big Ten should be in darn good shape.

was in the same situation when he transferred to Wisconsin last season. It's pretty impressive for a football player to graduate in three years.

schedule press conferences on consecutive days. I see your point.

A joint press conference is a very good sign.

Football is at 86, yes, but they don't need to cut anyone. They can easily get to 85 by not inviting one player back for his fifth year. There is nothing unethical about that. Defend Crean all you want, but there is no need to drag our football coaches into this.

Cornish miners brought them over and you will also find them in some other mining areas like N. Wisconsin and Montana.

Beilein didn't recruit him. The possible reasons have been discussed here occasionally.

You point out that there is no guarantee he would be brought back for a fifth year under scholarship, but wouldn't you like to have that option? As a walk-on he would have to pay his own way. As a greyshirt he could defer his enrollment until his scholarship was available.

You don't seem to understand what second guessing someone means.

Pernetti came out and said their president had seen the videos in November. The president then contradicted him and said he hadn't seen them until a few days ago. Blindsiding his boss by dragging him into this mess was the dumbest move Pernetti made. At least he was given the opportunity to fire Rice on his way out.

McCallum won't be playing when Zeigler is eligible.

He took transfers at SDSU.

If the calls were easy to make it would be harder to rig games. I'm not so sure about your comparison to other sports either. There are far more opportunities to squeeze or expand the strike zone in baseball and more close calls for holding or interference in football. As to your second point, the fans, announcers and players complain all the time, but leagues fine coaches that publicly criticize the officiating. NBA games have been rigged and probably still are. Refs will always make some bad calls, but there are also some made on purpose. What we don't know is how often it happens and we often have to guess as to why. 

You don't announce or necessarily decide on redshirts at the beginning of the season. Morris will play if he's needed. If he isn't, it makes sense to preserve a possible redshirt. At this point, nobody knows where Morris will be on the depth chart in 2014.

the two years to go on his previous contract. I think his extension is right around five years for $150mil.

I'm pretty sure that the initial redshirt season has to be due to an injury. I don't think that was the case with Ryan.

A friend of mine who is a spartan fan wouldn't be caught dead wearing green on St. Patrick's day. I have no problem wearing green any time,except on a week we play them in football or basketball.

about cars and said he would never buy one built in the USA. Then he insulted autoworkers that called in. I thought he was going to get fired for that. I pretty much stop listening to his show after that.

He was running with the ball, so that play wouldn't fall under the new rule.

The other elements are hitting above the shoulders and a defenseless player. They just need conclusive evidence that one of those is absent to overturn an ejection.  

There are radio sports talk hosts who claim MSU is our biggest rival. 100% of MSU slappies do that and nobody else. Sayng that Wisconsin is a bigger rival than MSU is even sillier. MSU may not be our rival on the national stage, but UM is not only a national program. A fair proportion of our fan base live among the sparties and we are a state school. We may look down on them as a local rival, not to up to par with our national rivalries, but those games against MSU consistently mean more to our fanbase than MSU's standing as a program would indicate.

we're always happy when the recruit's parents accompany them on trips here.

In game one Nix went from 6 of 9 with 3 assists and zero TOs. He was the most efficient player and along with Harris, MSU's most productive. I don't think anyone can't dispute that he had an outstanding offensive game.  

In game two he goes 2 for 9 with 6 TOs and 2 assists. That's worse than going 2 for 15 without the TOs. By any measure it's horribly inefficient and dramatically worse than the first game. While Harris was also more productive in the first game, neither the difference nor the effect on MSU's overall offense was nearly the same. I'm not sure what the claim about Harris being so much better than Nix is supposed to mean. Nix was good enough that we didn't have anyone who could stop him in the first game.

damn triples

Is this the Andrew Gaze rule? It's hard to know where to draw the line sometimes. Would it be different if he had played a larger role for their national team or played a full season for a club team?

Yes. Yes, you did.

The fact that he was only at Purdue for a very short time makes him easier to replace, not harder. Also, is there really a better time of year to leave?

How long did Purdue think they were going to keep OSU's former OC as a position coach? In all seriousness, if I am Purdue's head coach and one of my position coaches gets offered the OC job at a better program for 2x-3x the salary, I'm not asking him to stay. I'd tell him he'd be a fool not to take it. Hazell, Dantonio and Bollman all worked together at OSU. I'd be very surprising if this move caused any hard feelings among the coaching staffs.

about a photo taken on Saturday not including a recruit who visited on Sunday.

Nor did Beilein. Here's the relevant quote from Wojo's article:

Back on the screen, there was a brief tale of the gazelle and the lion. Beilein read it aloud, that the gazelle must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. And the lion must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.

Why someone would completely mangle the quote and then claim to be confused by it has me baffled. Did Wojo edit his article?

The BTN is on the standard cable packages statewide in every state they have a team. That's how they make a lot of their money and it's driving them into new states. That's why Pitt was never going to get invited. Dollars to doughnuts the SEC network is going to aim for the same kind of deals. Adding FSU and Miami would boost ratings a bit, but it wouldn't add significantly to their subscriber base. Adding NCSt and VT would. I think the SEC would prefer UNC and UVA, just like the B1G, but VT and NCSt are the obvious second choices.   Aside from that, UF would be dead set against adding other Florida schools. USC doesn't want Clemson and UGA doesn't want GT. Those schools would almost certainly vote as a block against adding FSU and MIami.

I use the "new" tab and threads never get bumped by comments.

we can't hire another coach. There is an NCAA limit and we keep a full staff.

LOL at the idea that Hoke has only been coaching for two years.

You're coming off as someone who thinks they know a lot, when it appears you know very little about the subject at hand. I'm not advocating trusting the coaches no matter what, but you seem to very sure in your own assessment of a potential DL recruit who you know practically nothing about. So much so, that you can use it to make broad statements about the future of the program.  I think we can all acknowledge the possibility you may be correct about this players' future. After all, the percentage of recruits who wash out is not insignificant, regardless of their recruiting profile. But by all means, come back in five years and remind us how much better you are at judging the potential of recruits than our staff. Expect some extra credit for the handicap of never seeing the players in person or working with them in a camp.

You have got to be kidding. Read up on the kid Saban offered to find a job at Home Depot.

Are you purposely trying to make a thread so stupid that people will regularly reference it when criticizing future threads? If so, you may have a winner.

At least if she was committed, I'd know who the competition was.

not counting those influenced by a coaching change

Didn't we just hear this about the 2014 QB offers?

What did you mean by this?

Even without money problems, is it really fair to the other students?

is a phony issue. One division has every team get five one year and four the next. It works very neatly with 14 teams. It's not quite as neat with 16, but it should still work.

Frankly, I can't see any reason for Freeh to be working with the NCAA.

The criticism isn't directed at Meyer for poaching recruits. It's for telling the coaches they need to recruit better for the sake of the league - after poaching their recruits. Too bad Bielema left. I'd like to see his reaction.

That's what the pundits were saying last week, using KU as an example.

Yes, but did he lose interest in Michigan before deciding to commit to Ole Miss?

for an obvious reason.

Fisher forging Perry Watson's name on passes for Ed Martin unfortunately took our scandal to a higher level. It's not fair to call it a Fab Five scandal since only one of them was implicated. To my mind the bigger culprits were the players who came along later who had been warned to stay away from Ed Martin and especially Fisher and any other coaches in on it.

First, coaches are going to leave when jobs are open. That part isn't up to them. It's nearly always going to be around the same time of year. Second, it seems far worse to stay just past NSD. I'd much rather see a school scrambling to replace or hold on to recruits than the alternative; recruits finding out the coach they committed to is leaving just after it's too late to go elsewhere.

You do realize your criticism was directly entirely towards the color?

His enthusiasm for his job is obvious. He certainly could have gone back into coaching if he wanted. Also, he is immeasurably better at announcing than being an NBA GM.

You're making some assumptions that may not be based in reality. He was disciplined by the school after their Legal Affairs department was called in. The discipline included a pay freeze. That leads one to ask why. Would that be SOP if she was some random student? According to the school's written policy, that does not appear to be the case. http://policies.utexas.edu/policies/consensual-relationships

is that adding Johns Hopkins would in no way preclude the Big Ten from adding any of the schools you mentioned.

I looked for a link that may have been hidden in the op. I should have known better. 

but now you're just being a jackass. Forget your locked topic and stay with this one.

Sam Webb has more than once suggested that there could be as many as 29 in this class. Since 28 is the max scholarships we can offer, that strongly implies one of the commits could either be a walk-on or a greyshirt.

Of the guys we were really recruiting, Glenn Robinson Jr and Tim Tebow would have been the most interesting to land. Kareem would have made the biggest impact.

That account was in the South Bend Tribune. Who do you think their source was?

Are you saying that bundled TV is going to die, therefore cable networks will make less money, therefore they will pay less for some of their most popular shows? While not agreeing with your first premise, I would think an al a carte system would put a premium on networks keeping their most popular programming.

LOL

I know you were initially answering someone else's assertion. I'm inclined to think his story is calculated and fishy. I'm interested to see what happens after his statements get checked. My guess is that he didn't try to visit because he never really felt that close to her, not because he was a callous boyfriend.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8859544/highlights-manti-teo-interview-jeremy-schaap

Te'o says that he was planning to see her on his way home in May. He was expecting to meet her in San Diego before flying to Los Angeles. But since she was in a hospital in Los Angeles he didn't see her. Apparently that idea never crossed his mind?

He's not an attack journalist. He makes his living writing feel good stories. Plus, as the op points out, he understands about taking liberties to make your story sound better. 

helps a great deal for the Heisman race when you play a position where stats aren't too important. Te'o got a lot of coverage during the broadcasts I watched. I am willing to bet it would have been less without the dead gf. That's the type of story announcers love.