I totally disagree that punting on 4th and 1 on the opening drive was a bad idea. The crowd was nuts you and didn't want to give away an early lead. If they don't get that 4th down they are giving Penn State momentum and a short filed. Instead Harbaugh made them earn it. I was pleading at the TV for us to punt and was relieved when we did. If we were at home I would feel differently.
Your hypothetical about the car dealership paying a player for advertising rights sums up my concerns as well. Its seems like the schools that have boosters with the most money will just be able to buy players. Maybe I am missing something and this isn't a valid concern, but until I hear this specific scenario addressed I am going to have my doubts. Some booster with more money than I can even dream of would absolutely agree to pay some big-time recruit a ton of money to come to come to their school for their advertising rights. I have no problem with players being able to make some money for their likeness -- or for selling beanies or whatever. Heck, if this means the Return of NCAA football video games and the players get a cut, then great. But this also seems to be opening the door to allow what is considered cheating today and needs to be done in the shadows to be completely OK, and I can see a lot of possible problems.
Whether it is technically a part of their name or not, I refuse to use 'the' when referring to them. They emphasis it, so I don't use it. IF I even say their name, it is usually AN Ohio State University (even though it really doesn't make sense). Screw 'em. Go Blue
Indiana was actually the 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, not the 4 seed. And I don't think there is any question that was unfair. They won the B1G Outright by 2 games!? I thought the tournament selection committee did an overall terrible job and Indiana was one of many teams with poor seeds. How Cal who finished 4th in the weak Pac-12 (and who was 3-8! on the road) was a 4 seed still hurts my brain. The interesting thing I saw was that pretty much the entire B1G had an awful BPI/RPI and the selection committee obviously weighed heavily on that. I am curious as to why those two metrics were very unfavorable to one of the better conferences in college basketball. Could be an interesting break down.
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I totally disagree that punting on 4th and 1 on the opening drive was a bad idea. The crowd was nuts you and didn't want to give away an early lead. If they don't get that 4th down they are giving Penn State momentum and a short filed. Instead Harbaugh made them earn it. I was pleading at the TV for us to punt and was relieved when we did. If we were at home I would feel differently.
Your hypothetical about the car dealership paying a player for advertising rights sums up my concerns as well. Its seems like the schools that have boosters with the most money will just be able to buy players. Maybe I am missing something and this isn't a valid concern, but until I hear this specific scenario addressed I am going to have my doubts. Some booster with more money than I can even dream of would absolutely agree to pay some big-time recruit a ton of money to come to come to their school for their advertising rights. I have no problem with players being able to make some money for their likeness -- or for selling beanies or whatever. Heck, if this means the Return of NCAA football video games and the players get a cut, then great. But this also seems to be opening the door to allow what is considered cheating today and needs to be done in the shadows to be completely OK, and I can see a lot of possible problems.
Whether it is technically a part of their name or not, I refuse to use 'the' when referring to them. They emphasis it, so I don't use it. IF I even say their name, it is usually AN Ohio State University (even though it really doesn't make sense). Screw 'em. Go Blue
LUIJI VILAIN should be called Waluigi . Starting it now.
Indiana was actually the 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, not the 4 seed. And I don't think there is any question that was unfair. They won the B1G Outright by 2 games!? I thought the tournament selection committee did an overall terrible job and Indiana was one of many teams with poor seeds. How Cal who finished 4th in the weak Pac-12 (and who was 3-8! on the road) was a 4 seed still hurts my brain. The interesting thing I saw was that pretty much the entire B1G had an awful BPI/RPI and the selection committee obviously weighed heavily on that. I am curious as to why those two metrics were very unfavorable to one of the better conferences in college basketball. Could be an interesting break down.