Orange Bowl open thread

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The Orange Bowl. (RIP Miami Orange Bowl)

This is the scene at kickoff. Tickets were going for $3.25 on stubhub.

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sierragold

December 31st, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^

I agree especially after TCU kicked Miss but in the bowl. We kind of need bama's ass kicked tomorrow in the bowl game. If not they are really going to beat up on the BIG. It is better if Bama stays home.

State over Baylor Too.

 

That being said, Go Blue!

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tolmichfan

December 31st, 2014 at 10:56 PM ^

I do enjoy watching GT, but they are more old school than unique. Defenses have a hard time against them because as a defender you are taught to seek and destroy. When you play a team like GT its assignment football. Do your assignment and don't worry about what anyone else on defense is doing. That's very hard to do.

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alum96

December 31st, 2014 at 11:04 PM ^

So in the end Mullen beat a down LSU who was a team on par with ND and Wisconsin this year -  a down year due all the offense they lost.  A fraud Texas A&M.  And a decent Auburn team.  So in retrospect their close loss to Alabama was probably their best performance. But Big Bert did the same with Arkansas.

I think Bert is better than Mullen and as I outlined in a diary scared like hell of Mullen. He is this year's Sumlin.  I think this will be MSU's peak if Prescott leaves.  Even if not - Arkansas is for real and LSU will have an offense next year.  Auburn will have a DC.  Mullen is playing for 5th place.

Thank you Harbaugh for avoiding (potentially) this 1 year wonder in his 6th year.  And that year is not so wonderful after all.

And Michigan State avoided a landmine with GA Tech who was supposed to be their bowl opponent; kudos to FSU who beat them.  They are a very difficult offense to deal with.

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unWavering

December 31st, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^

I had a sneaking suspicion that the Mississippi schools were overrated this year. Looks like I was right. The SEC has been wholly unimpressive so far in bowl season. If Bama goes down tomorrow it'll be interesting to see what the talking heads will say about SEC dominance.

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alum96

December 31st, 2014 at 11:11 PM ^

This was the year of lack of QBs in the SEC.  That position still dominates the sport. 

Prescott was probably the best.  He or Marshall.

Bama has a decent one, Ole Miss has a DERP one, LSU is breaking in fresh meat, Arkansas has a mediocre one (if they had a good one they'd probably finish 2nd), South Carolina's was not that great, Georgia is a running team, Florida has a LOL one.  Maybe I am underselling Bama's but for a 5th year senior (I think he is a RS) he was just solid.

Now compare to Boykin or Hundley or Barrett or Mariotta or Petty.  Nada.

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ThadMattasagoblin

December 31st, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^

We are so lucky that we didn't get Mullen. The SEC is getting pasted. This makes me think that Bama will lose tomorrow. I want those unsufferable douches out tomorrow. I don't want them to have a shot at the NC.

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alum96

December 31st, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^

I was leading the anti-Mullen bandwagon just due to data points but he is a decent coach.  But he'd be a guy that would have gone 1-4 v Meyer and 2-3 v Dantonio and we'd be starting this fucking clown show all over again in 5 years. 

Kyle Whittingham is better.  Subtantially IMO. And a guy like Gary Patterson is 2 deviations better.  For an offensive guru he's had 5 years of sh&& offenses.  He is Adazzio of the south - both lived off Meyer.

I don't care what backwater you coach at, you can develop a dual threat QB in your first 4 years, esp in the SEC where football players fall off trees.  It took him 6 years to find a QB.   Jim will have one for us within 18 months.

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treetown

December 31st, 2014 at 11:56 PM ^

At the end of the Orange Bowl, Paul Johnson of Georgia Tech was asked about his team by the sideline reporter - to paraphrase, he thought his QB did a great job, and that his team should be considered a top ten team but best of all, was his closing line "that for at least a week we don't have to hear about the SEC". Clearly even the professional football people find that grating.

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