...still keep the bonus and double bonus thresholds, but give the victimized team the option of taking free throws, or just keeping the ball with a fresh shot clock.
I love the idea of the delayed foul call, but they ought to get an "and one" to make it a little more comparable to the old intentional foul.
Less time outs is great, too! And, no coaching during referee stoppages. There were at least a couple games in the tourney where teams got free timeouts even after burning through all they had.
...whatever happened to the old "intentional foul", anyway. Aren't 98-99% of all late game fouls just thinly veiled intentional fouls? If it's arguably flagrant, but undoubtedly intentional, just call it intentional. 2 shots and the ball, but no ejection.
...who was in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" with Peter Weller (yes, Robocop), who I saw at Brennan's restaurant in New Orleans on the eve of last year's Sugar Bowl.
FWIW, the team came over to the wall to celebrate after they beat PSU in 1993 at Beaver Stadium. Granted, it was an away game...but man was it a great finish to the day!
...Elmer Fudd and the sheriff in Cool Hand Luke. "Fust down" sounded like "touchdown." I so wanted to hear him say "what we have here is a failure to communicate."
...hasn't Urban Meyer already gone on record as telling Brionte Dunn that there'd be no more NCAA sanctions? Has he made the follow-up call yet...as required in the NCAA penalty...to tell Brionte about the specific details of the penalties?
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<br>Heck...an intrepid Michigan recruiter should call and ask if he knows. If he doesn't, OSU is violating the terms of their probation.
Would believe Delaney would go to bat for Michigan. We'd be the last back that he'd scratch in this conference.
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<br>More likely, the networks and consumer electronics giants are conspiring to keep Boise down until they replace that atrocious turf. They've gotta be losing billions in TV sales and viewership on BSU home game days.
...that next-to-last 4th down play by OSU should've been marked where Miller landed, instead of at the forward progress of the ball.
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<br>I kept watching the replay thinking: but if they overturn it, they've got to spot the ball halfway across the white line.
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<br>If the replay decision takes as long as a full Journey song, can it really be conclusive and indisputable?!?! If it were conclusive, they'd see it on the first replay, like Denard's fumble. Right?
...they should've stood a sheet of paper on the goal line and butted the tip of the ball against it. Instead, they spotted it behind where his knee came down.
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<br>I think Brady Hoke needs to insist that Michigan games are called by non-conference officiating crews...so that we can enjoy some impartiality.
...that has to be one of the most godawful cities and venues for a bowl game. Absolutely dreadful. They put up both fan bases at the same hotel, and there's nothing to do in the town, unless you've got something to pawn or need a bail bond.
...on the ground mean that the play is over...explain Junior's non-TD. He caught the ball with one hand, secured it to the body with the second, and then the knee touched the ground in the end zone. Catch + down in the end zone = TD.
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<br>By the logic of the down by contacting the ground with any part other than the hands or feet...Junior's play was dead the moment his knee hit the ground. Anything that happened after that is irrelevant. Right?
...so by the commutative law of football mathematics, when Junior's knee touched the ground--after securing the ball with both hands--the play was over. TD. Anything that occurred after the knee being down is irrelevant.
...if Roundtree hadn't been handcuffed, that was a completion at the 5 instead of a pick. The ball bounced off of his chest because his hands were locked down by the defender.
...but if they had called it a touchdown on the field, the replay would have let it stand. There would not have been conclusive evidence to overturn a TD call.
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<br>Somebody should go back through the history of replay calls. I'd bet that the clear majority go against us on the field, leaving it to Jim Delaney's assistants to divine conclusive reasons for screwing us.
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<br>If you wear the Maize and Blue, the ground CAN cause a fumble.
...heard it from a friend that on the walk back upfield, the Iowa DB was telling the ref he knew where he lived, and he'd be paying a visit if he didn't pick up the flag and never throw another the rest of the game.
bag of dog poop on Jim Delaney's front porch should do the trick.
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<br>Second...find out what it was that the Iowa DB said to the ref to make him pick up his flag and never throw another the rest of the game. If we can find out what that was, we should be golden in our last three games.
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...yesterday was the first day they did NOT play the Pop Evil crap in that 5 seconds before the team takes the field. Come to think of it...I don't remember any Pop Evil! That's a huge improvement!
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<br>But do we really need Seven Nation Army before the first snap of the game? Pump up music with 3 hours of play left?! Let me drink my $8 hot chocolate in peace fergodsakes.
Until the BCS is completely objective, why don't you make it something fun, like Blogpoll ranking, or Oiuja Board ranking. Does the BCS not use the Coaches' Poll...and has the Coaches' Poll not been gamed in the past by less-than-scrupulous coaches?
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<br>Division champ should be:
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<br>Division record
<br>Head to head
<br>Conference record
<br>Overall record
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<br>Putting conference record first rewards teams with weaker interdivision schedules. To put division record at #3 minimizes the point of divisions, in the first place.
...they've got perhaps the best Packaging Engineering school in the country. You may know how to build the next Dreamliner, but without MSU, you wouldn't have proper garbage bags for the cleaning crew.
...if five MSU players had simultaneously punched Lewan on one play, we would expect five suspensions. Gholston had one punch and two more egregious penalties...three suspensions worth.
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<br>So, in the first case, is it okay if they just suspend one guy and call it time served for the other four?
...whereby smiling after a play could get a technical foul. If memory serves me right, he told Jalen Rose if he smiled again (at the NU game) he'd get a T. Surely Denard provokes his opponents by smiling after a tackle, and giving them a little-brother pat-on-the-head.
For the retaliatory punch (more of a head slap), yes I do want the B1G to enforce a level playing field. All other 11 teams should be held to the same standard. Delany set the precedent...now he's got to enforce it.
You're benched for one play...for getting caught. Then you're back in the game. Loved the Bush fist-bumps with his teammates after taking out Denard. Sportsmanship...that's what they coach in East Lansing.
I read that the policy...developed post-Mouton...is up to 50% of the games. The punch, per Mouton, is a one-game automatic. Per policy, looking at the arm-bar and head twist, could've been up to three games total. If the B1G cared to curtail this kind of behavior, that is.
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<br>Basically, the B1G is encouraging teams to coach 60 minutes of unnecessary roughness, so long as they don't throw punches.
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...that's what deputy director Heisenberg told me.
...good enough to get you into Meechigan?
...still keep the bonus and double bonus thresholds, but give the victimized team the option of taking free throws, or just keeping the ball with a fresh shot clock.
I love the idea of the delayed foul call, but they ought to get an "and one" to make it a little more comparable to the old intentional foul.
Less time outs is great, too! And, no coaching during referee stoppages. There were at least a couple games in the tourney where teams got free timeouts even after burning through all they had.
Makes no diff...his shot hit the glass but caught no iron. Ya gotta hit the rim to reset the clock.
Darn. Big win for the good guys, I'm sure.
I predict Mateen Cleeves was in the house for the noon JV game.
...how did ESPN know to cue the muppet?
...whatever happened to the old "intentional foul", anyway. Aren't 98-99% of all late game fouls just thinly veiled intentional fouls? If it's arguably flagrant, but undoubtedly intentional, just call it intentional. 2 shots and the ball, but no ejection.
I retract "punch", but it was a deliberate swing to the head with no discernable intent to go for the ball. Minimally flagrant; in no way accidental.
...it should go in the books as 76-74*** considering the post-buzzer three, the goaltending no-call, and the no-touch foul.
...had thrown Craft's punch, he would've been ejected, and it would've been 2 shots plus the ball. Hands down. It's a clear double standard.
...who was in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" with Peter Weller (yes, Robocop), who I saw at Brennan's restaurant in New Orleans on the eve of last year's Sugar Bowl.
P.S. Try their Bananas Foster!
...we did need some beef on the interior.
Wolverines 83 - Mildcats 61
This will be the final score. But, the fine print dashes any hope of swag, dang it all.
FWIW, the team came over to the wall to celebrate after they beat PSU in 1993 at Beaver Stadium. Granted, it was an away game...but man was it a great finish to the day!
I'm still waiting for my Man U tickets. Surely, we got an ownership stake in the team since we bailed the heck out of AIG. Right?!?!
...Elmer Fudd and the sheriff in Cool Hand Luke. "Fust down" sounded like "touchdown." I so wanted to hear him say "what we have here is a failure to communicate."
...now explain why they spotted the ball behind where his knee hit the turf.
Does anybody remember seeing basketball games in Yost?
...hasn't Urban Meyer already gone on record as telling Brionte Dunn that there'd be no more NCAA sanctions? Has he made the follow-up call yet...as required in the NCAA penalty...to tell Brionte about the specific details of the penalties?
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<br>Heck...an intrepid Michigan recruiter should call and ask if he knows. If he doesn't, OSU is violating the terms of their probation.
Would believe Delaney would go to bat for Michigan. We'd be the last back that he'd scratch in this conference.
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<br>More likely, the networks and consumer electronics giants are conspiring to keep Boise down until they replace that atrocious turf. They've gotta be losing billions in TV sales and viewership on BSU home game days.
Deja vu all over again.
...that next-to-last 4th down play by OSU should've been marked where Miller landed, instead of at the forward progress of the ball.
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<br>I kept watching the replay thinking: but if they overturn it, they've got to spot the ball halfway across the white line.
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<br>If the replay decision takes as long as a full Journey song, can it really be conclusive and indisputable?!?! If it were conclusive, they'd see it on the first replay, like Denard's fumble. Right?
...more than 6 and less than 10, right?!?! I'm thinking there's a replay official that made some money on Saturday.
...they should've stood a sheet of paper on the goal line and butted the tip of the ball against it. Instead, they spotted it behind where his knee came down.
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<br>I think Brady Hoke needs to insist that Michigan games are called by non-conference officiating crews...so that we can enjoy some impartiality.
I don't think so.
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The sparty loss to Northwestern.
...that has to be one of the most godawful cities and venues for a bowl game. Absolutely dreadful. They put up both fan bases at the same hotel, and there's nothing to do in the town, unless you've got something to pawn or need a bail bond.
No Gator Bowl. Ever.
...so we don't have to listen to those doggone cowbells again.
FYI, you wouldn't believe how many heads turn when you yell "hey, Goober" at a Mississippi State game.
...on the ground mean that the play is over...explain Junior's non-TD. He caught the ball with one hand, secured it to the body with the second, and then the knee touched the ground in the end zone. Catch + down in the end zone = TD.
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<br>By the logic of the down by contacting the ground with any part other than the hands or feet...Junior's play was dead the moment his knee hit the ground. Anything that happened after that is irrelevant. Right?
...so by the commutative law of football mathematics, when Junior's knee touched the ground--after securing the ball with both hands--the play was over. TD. Anything that occurred after the knee being down is irrelevant.
...if Roundtree hadn't been handcuffed, that was a completion at the 5 instead of a pick. The ball bounced off of his chest because his hands were locked down by the defender.
...that was a TD.
...but if they had called it a touchdown on the field, the replay would have let it stand. There would not have been conclusive evidence to overturn a TD call.
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<br>Somebody should go back through the history of replay calls. I'd bet that the clear majority go against us on the field, leaving it to Jim Delaney's assistants to divine conclusive reasons for screwing us.
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<br>If you wear the Maize and Blue, the ground CAN cause a fumble.
...PI non-call vs. Round tree on a slant over the middle. So make it four non-PIs and the one non-TD.
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...heard it from a friend that on the walk back upfield, the Iowa DB was telling the ref he knew where he lived, and he'd be paying a visit if he didn't pick up the flag and never throw another the rest of the game.
bag of dog poop on Jim Delaney's front porch should do the trick.
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<br>Second...find out what it was that the Iowa DB said to the ref to make him pick up his flag and never throw another the rest of the game. If we can find out what that was, we should be golden in our last three games.
<br>
...yesterday was the first day they did NOT play the Pop Evil crap in that 5 seconds before the team takes the field. Come to think of it...I don't remember any Pop Evil! That's a huge improvement!
<br>
<br>But do we really need Seven Nation Army before the first snap of the game? Pump up music with 3 hours of play left?! Let me drink my $8 hot chocolate in peace fergodsakes.
Until the BCS is completely objective, why don't you make it something fun, like Blogpoll ranking, or Oiuja Board ranking. Does the BCS not use the Coaches' Poll...and has the Coaches' Poll not been gamed in the past by less-than-scrupulous coaches?
<br>
<br>Division champ should be:
<br>
<br>Division record
<br>Head to head
<br>Conference record
<br>Overall record
<br>
<br>Putting conference record first rewards teams with weaker interdivision schedules. To put division record at #3 minimizes the point of divisions, in the first place.
...they've got perhaps the best Packaging Engineering school in the country. You may know how to build the next Dreamliner, but without MSU, you wouldn't have proper garbage bags for the cleaning crew.
...for a harsher penalty. Shouldn't the victim have their day in court?!?!
...if five MSU players had simultaneously punched Lewan on one play, we would expect five suspensions. Gholston had one punch and two more egregious penalties...three suspensions worth.
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<br>So, in the first case, is it okay if they just suspend one guy and call it time served for the other four?
...good precedent. He would've had $25k fines by the NFL for all three of Gholston's offenses. And he would've been ejected after the punch.
...whereby smiling after a play could get a technical foul. If memory serves me right, he told Jalen Rose if he smiled again (at the NU game) he'd get a T. Surely Denard provokes his opponents by smiling after a tackle, and giving them a little-brother pat-on-the-head.
For the retaliatory punch (more of a head slap), yes I do want the B1G to enforce a level playing field. All other 11 teams should be held to the same standard. Delany set the precedent...now he's got to enforce it.
You're benched for one play...for getting caught. Then you're back in the game. Loved the Bush fist-bumps with his teammates after taking out Denard. Sportsmanship...that's what they coach in East Lansing.
That'll get you suspended. Anything else...OK per the B1G.
I read that the policy...developed post-Mouton...is up to 50% of the games. The punch, per Mouton, is a one-game automatic. Per policy, looking at the arm-bar and head twist, could've been up to three games total. If the B1G cared to curtail this kind of behavior, that is.
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<br>Basically, the B1G is encouraging teams to coach 60 minutes of unnecessary roughness, so long as they don't throw punches.
Followed by a 330 lb belly flop!
...he's a stupid asshat.