Va Tech is gonna spank Miami.
Beamerball baby. My upset special of the week.

I told yall Miami was going down. Va Tech
special teams and defense was going to get it
done. Jacory Harris is gonna have to eat some
crow. Win a few more games before you talk about
being unstoppable. What the hell happened to FSU?
What an enigma of a football team. I'm glad LSU
won. I look forward to the LSU-Alabama matchup
down the road. The SEC will dominate college
football this season.

I'm more of a Michigan fan, but as I grew up in Iowa, I think I'll root for them to beat Penn St. tonight.

My Scarlet Knights (now 3-1) beat Maryland today!

phunkdaddy said:

Miami looked like ass today..but they certainly have a chance at a great season...

Alabama looks better every week...

the SEC, as always, will dominate...

jone70 said:

Ha. Thanks, Iowa, for reminding me why I'm a Michigan fan. They are not playing well at all.

chocolate1 said:

Towson State is beating Maryland these days.

[Edited 9/26/09 20:01pm]

phunkdaddy said:

I don't care... I love my Knights!
I was going to the games back in the 80s when we SUCKED and they used to give the students 2 free tix in our mailboxes.

PRINCE was starting for UCLA

jone70 said:

Spoke too soon?

roodboi said:

I am a hardcore LSU/SEC fan!! However, I don't see my Tigers as being a legit #4 in the country...I've seen all four games (the beauty of direcTV) and I am NOT impressed!! UGA or UF will expose my boys....I hope that doesn't happen, but they haven't been very dominant at all this year!!

As for the SEC, as much as it makes me physically ill to say it, the road to glory still runs through Gainesville....but as f**ked up as it may sound, I really enjoyed the first part of that hit on Jesus...I mean Tebow....the knee to the back of the head, not so much!! 'Bama looks like a lock for the BCS, but ya neva know.....

at any rate...GEAUX TIGERS!!!

SUPRMAN said:

Yeah. But that's okay. And Michigan won, too.

chocolate1 said:

Good luck in Big East play which kicks back in this week . At least you got your hard game out of the way already .

reneGade20 said:

LSU was a little shaky saturday but sometimes in the SEC,
there aren't easy victories. LSU and Alabama are my favorite
teams in the SEC West while i root for South Carolina and
Georgia out of SEC East. Alabama as long as they stay healthy
i think will be the team to win the SEC championship.
I think they are the one team that can take Team Tebow down.

newpower99 said:

We're off this weekend. Our next game is Texas Southern: HOMECOMING!
Next Big East game is against Pittsburgh on the 16th.

Johnson giving thumbs-up to mom after surgery

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Southern California tailback Stafon Johnson probably wouldn’t have survived his weightlifting accident without his muscular athlete’s neck, which helped maintain his airway when a weight bar crashed down on it, a doctor said Tuesday.

Johnson could communicate non-verbally with his family members and teammates on Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours after his bench-pressing accident in the Trojans’ weight room. The bar crushed his neck and larynx, which required seven hours of surgery.

Johnson’s fitness helped him survive, said Dr. Gudata Hinika, the trauma medical director at California Hospital Medical Center.

Johnson is unlikely to play again for USC, but coach Pete Carroll is grateful for the team leader’s improved health.

“He’s not talking, but he was doing his wave and writing,” Carroll said. “It’s very uplifting for his mom and his family and all the guys who got a chance to go down there.”

Hinika said Johnson is recovering well and is in stable condition. Johnson, who was taken away from USC’s campus wearing a neck brace, woke up Tuesday morning after undergoing an emergency tracheotomy, followed by reconstructive surgery.

Johnson’s mother, Kim Mallory, happened to be working at the same downtown Los Angeles hospital where her son was transported Monday.

It’s unclear when Johnson will be able to speak again, but he’s expected to fully recover. The news was greeted with sighs of relief at USC’s Heritage Hall, where the seventh-ranked Trojans gathered before Tuesday’s practice in preparation for Saturday’s key game at No. 24 California.

“We’re connected. This is a very tight program and a very tight team,” Carroll said. “Stafon has been a spiritual leader and a leader on the field for a long time here. We’re going to do everything we can to support him and his family. This morning, everyone has been encouraged.”

roodboi said:

They did look the part didn't they (lmao).
I knew it would be tough going into Blacksburg, VA and leaving with win..
It's part of the learning curve for Jacory, I hope they put this one behind them, and are focusing on the Sooner's Looner's of OU...

Let's go LSU!!!

. . . and Baylor!
[Edited 10/10/09 11:13am]

Syracuse names field after Ernie Davis

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)—The Carrier Dome field was named Ernie Davis Legends Field in a halftime ceremony Saturday featuring former Syracuse great Jim Brown and Martin Luther King III.

The tribute to the 1961 Heisman Trophy winner comes a year after the release of a movie about his life called “The Express.”

Davis was the first black player to win college football’s highest honor. He died of leukemia before playing a game in the NFL.

“Ernie Davis represented three things to me. He was a great athlete, a proponent of education and he was a great human being,” Brown said. “Thank God this will be a tribute to him for the rest of our lives.”

What a cutie








[Edited 10/10/09 11:17am]

Just got back from HOMECOMING...
Rutgers beat Texas Southern 42-0. (4-1)




Anyway... I have a question for Ya'll....

My friend has been raggin' on me since yesterday about Homecoming weekend because I volunteered as an Alumni last night at the Pep Rally and went to the game today.
His exact words: "Get a Life". He told me it was childish and that it was time to grow up and let go of college things...
When I tried to tell him about how there were Alumni there old enough to be our GRANDPARENTS, and that it was about SCHOOL PRIDE, he and said that NONE of us had lives.

He went to College. But he believes that was in the past and people should move on. He hurt my feelings, and won't let it go. He told me it's not "normal".

Also... he said if I like football so much, I should have gone to a PRO game and not cling to Rutgers.

Thoughts?

chocolate1 said:

He's a dumbass. Alumnis are what keep many of these college programs going. Tell him to kiss your ass.

SCNDLS said:

yeah, tell him to kiss my ass too...

and remind him the pro game wouldn't be shit if it weren't for college programs...your friend sounds like an anus....

roodboi said:

Hook 'em, horns!!! Bradford is a wrap, good luck with the draft.

Texas now dominating Sooners in Dallas

DALLAS (AP)—Five years ago, a Texas win, let alone Texas dominance, was unthinkable.

Oklahoma and coach Bob Stoops had whipped Texas every year from 2000-04, including humiliations of 63-14 and 65-13 and a shutout. Many wondered if the Longhorns and coach Mack Brown would ever catch their border rivals who were rolling up Big 12 titles and playing for national championships.

How things have changed in half a decade.

Once a Dallas punching bag for Stoops and gang, Brown is the new Red River King.

Texas’ 16-13 win Saturday was the No. 3 Longhorns’ fourth in five years, turning this streaky rivalry on its head. The series is now so lopsided in Texas’ favor that some Longhorns fans wanted a rout Saturday, not just a win.

Brown has been on the bad end of enough of these games to know that’s expecting way too much. He was all smiles after a dominant defensive effort helped Texas (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) survive one of the worst games of senior quarterback Colt McCoy’s career.

“This is a hard game. You try to win. You don’t try to blow out,” Brown said.

Texas’ run of success started with a rout. In 2005, Vince Young led Texas to a 45-12 victory on their way to the national championship.

Since then, McCoy has led three Texas victories, joining Bobby Lane and Peter Gardere as the only Longhorns quarterbacks to beat the Sooners three times. Oklahoma’s only victory against McCoy came in 2007.

And while Stoops’ teams used to slam the door on Texas once they got the lead, McCoy rallied the Longhorns from halftime deficits each time.

“I thank God that I have been able to play in this game for four years and stay healthy. Just to be able to play is such an awesome feeling. It is one of the greatest games in college football,” McCoy said Saturday, his voice hoarse from a cold he caught earlier in the week.

What Texas is still missing is a trophy case that can match the Sooners. The Longhorns’ winning run hasn’t resulted in Big 12 titles.

In fact, it’s the Sooners who keep winning them.

From 2000-04, Oklahoma beat Texas five times and won three Big 12 titles. Even when they lost the Big 12 title game in 2003, the Sooners still played for the BCS championship.

Brown and the Longhorns won their only Big 12 title in 2005 and let the Sooners sneak past them twice.

In 2006, Texas beat Oklahoma 28-10, then dropped two late conference games. Last season, Texas won 45-35, then lost at Texas Tech. The Big 12 tiebreaker once again bumped the Sooners over the Longhorns.

Saturday’s loss leaves Oklahoma only one game behind Texas in the South Division. “Big Game Bob” might not apply to Stoops any more, but “Big 12 Bob” still fits and the Sooners could strike again if Texas stumbles.

Texas already beat Texas Tech in September, but still has Big 12 road games at Missouri, No. 14 Oklahoma State, Baylor and Texas A&M and a home game against No. 24 Kansas. The Jayhawks were undefeated before Saturday’s upset loss to Colorado.

That’s why Brown said his latest win over the Sooners is just a start.

“This is where we start, not where we finish,” Brown said. “We were sitting here in this same position last year and after we lost to Texas Tech we let it go back into a system and the system kept us out. Now next week’s game becomes bigger than this one and it’ll progress like that for the rest of the year.”

Too bad about that UConn player that got stabbed to death. Shit was fucked up.

uPtoWnNY said:

Fucking ridiculous.

Coach says 2 teammates with victim during stabbing

STORRS, Conn. (AP)—One teammate performed first aid while another comforted a University of Connecticut football player who was fatally stabbed during a fight outside a school-sanctioned dance over the weekend, their coach said Monday.

Coach Randy Edsall wouldn’t identify the teammates or say how many players witnessed the fight that led to the death of 20-year-old Jasper Howard.

“One had Jasper in his arms and the other was pressuring where the wound went in and had blood on his hands,” Edsall said. “And those two young men are pretty deeply affected right now.”

The state’s medical examiner’s office said Monday that Howard died from a single stab wound to the abdomen. The death was ruled a homicide.

Howard, a junior and starting cornerback, came to the school to get away from the violence on the streets of his hometown of Miami. He was the first person in his family to go to college.

Joanglia Howard said she got news of her son’s death about 4 a.m. Sunday, and described him as a “good kid” who never got into trouble.

“All I wanted him to do was go to school and get an education, and he was doing what I asked him to do,” she told WSVN-TV in Miami.

Edsall planned to meet Howard’s parents at a Connecticut airport later Monday. They planned to visit the surgeon who tried to save his life, and the medical examiner who has custody of the body.

Police interviewed dozens of witnesses on Monday but said there were no suspects and no arrests, although around 300 people were in the area when a fire alarm sounded and students evacuated the building.

A second student also was stabbed and was treated and released from a local hospital. UConn police would not identify the student.

“We’re pursuing active investigative leads,” UConn police Maj. Ronal Blicher said. “The investigation will continue into this week.”

Police arrested a Hartford man, 21-year-old Johnny Hood, after the stabbing and charged him with interfering with an officer and breach of peace. Hood was identified by witnesses as being involved in the altercation, and gave police a false name, according to an incident report. Hood was arraigned Monday.

He has not been charged with Howard’s death. Blicher said authorities are not anticipating any “significant changes in the investigation” Monday.

Blicher said Howard was wounded during a fight between two groups that included students and non-students. The altercation broke out just after a fire alarm went off in a student center, forcing around 300 people to evacuate from the party and dance sponsored by the school’s West Indian Awareness Organization.

The violence came less than 12 hours after UConn’s 38-25 homecoming victory over Louisville. Edsall identified Howard’s body at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford Sunday morning.

The team will wear a sticker with Howard’s initials on its helmets for the rest of the season and will carry Howard’s helmet or jersey to away games, Edsall said.

The coach said he doesn’t know if the two teammates who helped Howard will play when the Huskies visit Big East foe West Virginia on Saturday.

“I’ve talked to both of them each day,” he said. “I’ve got to see where they’re at today, see where they’re at tomorrow and I will tell them if they don’t feel they are mentally ready to play, that’s their decision, and I’ll honor whatever decision they want to make.”

Blicher said officials do not believe the stabbing was premeditated, nor do they think anyone else is in danger.

Some students on Monday said they’ve never considered their campus unsafe. Some, like freshman Alexander Wegh of Terryville, stayed indoors on Sunday as police gathered evidence.

“I kind of just stayed inside (Sunday) because they really didn’t tell us what was going on,” he said. “I didn’t come here thinking about safety, because it’s not like when you pick your school you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be really safe or not.’ You assume it’s going to be safe.”

Howard’s death was especially tragic, because he was about to become a father, Edsall said. Neither police nor the university provided any additional information about the expectant mother, whom Edsall identified as Howard’s girlfriend.

Howard had a career-high 11 tackles Saturday and made perhaps the game’s biggest play, forcing a fumble as Louisville was driving with UConn up 21-13 in the third quarter.

“He played a great football game against us,” Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe said Monday. “I had a lot of respect for him coming into the game and even more coming out of the game.”

A student memorial service was being planned. The campus co-op store sold out of Howard’s No. 6 jersey Monday morning.

Administrators from West Virginia, Connecticut and the Big East Conference talked on Sunday but postponing the game was not discussed, school officials said.

West Virginia coach Bill Stewart said plans are in the works to honor Howard at Saturday’s game in Morgantown, W.Va. He said he expected the game would be very emotional for both teams.

“The youngsters from our Miami area took it very, very, very hard,” he said. “Our guys were quite shaken, as they should be and they really, really liked that young man immensely.”

Edsall said his team will resume practicing on Tuesday.

“It’ll be good for us to be getting back on the practice field tomorrow and getting a little bit of what in this tragic situation, back to a little bit of normalcy with what we have to do,” he said.
[Edited 10/19/09 12:02pm]

BCS Standings

1 Florida 0.989
2 Alabama 0.959
3 Texas 0.891
4 Boise State 0.808
5 Cincinnati 0.787
6 Iowa 0.787
7 Southern California 0.77
8 TCU 0.714
9 LSU 0.708
10 Miami (Fla.) 0.627
11 Oregon 0.585
12 Georgia Tech 0.57
13 Penn State 0.498
14 Virginia Tech 0.495
15 Oklahoma State 0.404
16 Brigham Young 0.299

newpower99 said:

Imago said:

Texas QB says thumb will be fine to play Missouri

AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Texas quarterback Colt McCoy says he plans to play Saturday against Missouri, despite a bruised right thumb that will likely lose its nail.

McCoy hurt his throwing hand in the second quarter of the 16-13 win Saturday over No. 25 Oklahoma. He struggled through one of the worst passing games of his career, completing 21 of 40 for 127 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

Team trainers checked out the thumb to make sure there wasn’t more significant damage.

“It’s sore but it’s not going to keep me out,” McCoy said. “It’s football.”

McCoy had limited range of movement with the thumb Monday. No. 3 Texas (6-0, 2-0 Big 12) didn’t practice, giving him an extra day’s rest before he needed to throw again.

Although the nail didn’t look discolored, McCoy says he’s been told it will fall out.

McCoy had a few passes look wobbly and misfired on others in the second quarter against Oklahoma. The thumb didn’t seem to bother him on a third-quarter touchdown pass to Marquise Goodwin.