Warrior General Games

Originally posted by RayRay99
Oh yeah, and just wait until the other shoe drops in the Bev Kearney/Ol' Freak Nasty clusterfuck

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2013/3/9/4083566/bev-kearney-texas-longhorns-scandal-athletic-department-cleve-bryant-deloss-dodds

You are probably right, Rick Perry has already begun to fire off scud missiles at Bill Powers:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/23630857/texas-report-that-deloss-dodds-stepping-down-absolutely-not-true

I am guessing Texas will be hunting for a new Prez, AD, and HC by years end and Bev will be swimming in $$$.

The ASU/Wisky finish was a joke!
The refs blow it, denying the Badgers a chance to kick a winning FG. The ref took forever to put the ball down after ASU sat on the ball, he held Wisky back from running the play, then cowardly ran off rather than rectifying their mistake?

EDIT: I am not a follower of either team, but as a CFB fan I felt robbed by the horrid officiating at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhycfXqO99I


2nd EDIT: They also blew the ending of Akron-Michigan by waiting 9 seconds to review a ball placement that gave Akr 1st and goal, reversing the spot to make it 3rd and goal and not putting any time back on the clock.

Or how about TxTech-TCU? They waited until after a play had been run to review the previous play, then reverse it and count the play that was run? What is going on????

Officials totally fucked up the end of the Badgers/ASU game, and like you I am not a fan of either. The ASU player laid on the ball, and the ref stopped them from hiking it until the clock expired. I will also say though that the Badgers should have just kicked it with the clock stopped instead of trying to get cute. With no timeout, you don't want something stupid happening at the end.

i thought he fumbled tbh
did his knee touch the ground?
i don't blame the ASU players. to me, they recovered the fumble. if anything, it's ASU's football. and i HATE todd graham.

Officiating is absolutely terrible anymore. I am sadly starting to believe these guys have money on the games. If it keeps up, I won't be watching it much more. Remove all the pussification rules and let defenses play. Stop adding more zebras on the field when the ref pool is already sufficiently depleted. The game is becoming garbage.

Lots of bad officiating in all of those games, I didn't see the ASU/Wisc finish until that link, for that not to have been reviewed is insane. I do agree that they should have just kicked the FG though.

I think if the Ags would throw our young guys on the D-Line, LB, and Safety out there the defense would improve a lot and we would have been able to beat Bama. The offense is unstoppable, but if the defense is gashed every play it doesn't matter. Our safety Honeycutt is out of position 80% of the time; we should have just gone to straight man coverage and blitzed him every play because he wasn't anything but a liability in coverage and at least maybe he could have got in Yeldon's way in the run game. We may have lost, but it was a hell of a game and I think we showed everyone we have the capability of beating anyone.

As for our friends in Austin...

Originally posted by Sugar Kapaa
i thought he fumbled tbh
did his knee touch the ground?
i don't blame the ASU players. to me, they recovered the fumble. if anything, it's ASU's football. and i HATE todd graham.

QB killed the ball according to NCAA rules. The moment he touched the ball to the ground, the play was dead.

The ASU player knew exactly what he was doing as he laid on the ground, not moving or anything. Had he known it was a fumble, he'd have picked it up and tried to run or celebrated by running to his sideline, ball in the air. As it was, he lay there, motionless, killing the clock as he was preventing it from being spotted. (Technically a Delay of Game penalty on the Defense)

To compound matters, when the ref finally got the ball from the defender, he inexplicably stood over the ball holding his arm out like a traffic cop, effectively forbidding Wisconsin to snap the ball till time ran out. The topper is the refs convened for around 6-8 seconds and ran off the field like cowards, no explanation, game over.

20 seconds to kill the ball in the center of the field, line up and spike the ball to stop the clock, takes all of 8-10 seconds, maybe 12. Wisky had 20 seconds, so that was a simple decision on their part. Then they could calmly have the FG unit trot on to attempt the game winning FG. No guarantee they'd have made it. However, to be robbed of the opportunity to attempt it was a travesty!

Ray I will tell you like I tell all my Aggie friends. Get your licks in now, because we will shortly have a new HC, and go back to being Texas, where as yall will always just be Aggies. An interesting point as well, as bad a coach as Mack Brown is, he was 10-4 against the cult from cstation.

Originally posted by jtrav21
Ray I will tell you like I tell all my Aggie friends. Get your licks in now, because we will shortly have a new HC, and go back to being Texas, where as yall will always just be Aggies. An interesting point as well, as bad a coach as Mack Brown is, he was 10-4 against the cult from cstation.

LOL, those were the same things I said from the end of R.C.'s tenure until Sumlin came to town. It seems that since A&M became a "normal" university (allowing women, non-mandatory Corps, etc.) it has been cyclical between us in 15 year spurts (which is why in my lifetime the series is basically .500). Sips were on top from 70s-mid-80s, Ags on top from mid 80s-late 90s, Sips on top from late 90s-early 10s, Ags on top from early 10s-? If this trend continues, expect the state to be dominated by Maroon until 2025 or so

Originally posted by chron.com
Alabama’s win Saturday over Texas A&M at College Station produced CBS Sports’ top-rated regular season college football game since 1990, excluding SEC championship games, in the 56 major markets.

The game had a 9.0 rating and 21 share in the 56 major markets, CBS’ best for a non-SEC title game during the regular season since a 10.1 rating for a 1990 game between Notre Dame and Miami.

Last year’s SEC regular-season opener produced a 3.0 rating for Alabama-Arkansas on CBS.

In Houston, the game recorded a 17.3 rating and 36 share on KHOU (Channel 11), which ranked fifth among the major markets. Birmingham led at 47.0/73, followed by Austin at 24.0/48, New Orleans at 20.3/33, San Antonio at 18.3/39 and Houston.

Rounding out the top 10 after Houston were Spartanburg, 17.2/32; Dallas-Fort Worth, 17.1/35; Oklahoma City, 16.3/32; Atlanta, 16.0/33; and Memphis, 15.6/27.

A paltry 10.4 million viewers turned in to see the epic battle between SEC Juggernauts

http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2013/09/alabama-texas-am-delivers-good-audience-for-cbs/

Middle of football season and no post for 2 weeks? Y'all suck.

Anyway, Kiffen got the boot. If texas gets rolled by OU for the 3rd time in a row, would they fire Mack mid-season?

Originally posted by RayRay99
Middle of football season and no post for 2 weeks? Y'all suck.

Dunno about everyone else, but I could only take so much Aggy/Sip talk. Was nice to not see the NEW tag on this thread for awhile tbh.

Looking forward to seeing Washington at Stanford this week, then at home against Oregon if they beat the Cardinal. Huskies haven't played anyone good yet, but they haven't played anyone terrible either except Idaho St who they led 42-0 at the half. UW is one of the most experienced teams in the country. They have pretty good balance right now although I still don't trust Keith Price a whole lot.

Was hoping LSU would knock off Georgia because the Bulldogs are undefeated in conference play despite the loss to Clemson. Florida plays at LSU, at Carolina, and a neutral game against Georgia... a very tall order even if Tyler Murphy steps up. Even if UF can upset UGA I'd still be surprised if Georgia doesn't win the East.

Originally posted by TrevJo
Dunno about everyone else, but I could only take so much Aggy/Sip talk.

So bring something else up!

Originally posted by TrevJo


Looking forward to seeing Washington at Stanford this week, then at home against Oregon if they beat the Cardinal. Huskies haven't played anyone good yet, but they haven't played anyone terrible either except Idaho St who they led 42-0 at the half. UW is one of the most experienced teams in the country. They have pretty good balance right now although I still don't trust Keith Price a whole lot.

You think USCw is going to poach Sarkisian after the season?

Originally posted by TrevJo
Was hoping LSU would knock off Georgia because the Bulldogs are undefeated in conference play despite the loss to Clemson. Florida plays at LSU, at Carolina, and a neutral game against Georgia... a very tall order even if Tyler Murphy steps up. Even if UF can upset UGA I'd still be surprised if Georgia doesn't win the East.

Yeah, we were going for LSU too so if they beat Bama and lost to us it would be a 3 way tie at the top of the West standings. now we have to hope for 2 Bama losses, and with Ole Miss getting their asses handed to them I don't see anyone else challenging them other than LSU

Originally posted by RayRay99
You think USCw is going to poach Sarkisian after the season?

I'm sure they will try, that's a good point. It's a tough spot for UW because they are overdue for a good season so they certainly want to have a big year this year, but if they do then Sark will be that much more in demand.

Originally posted by RayRay99
Yeah, we were going for LSU too so if they beat Bama and lost to us it would be a 3 way tie at the top of the West standings. now we have to hope for 2 Bama losses, and with Ole Miss getting their asses handed to them I don't see anyone else challenging them other than LSU

Right now it is pretty shitty that Alabama's permanent East matchup is Tennessee and Georgia's permanent West matchup is Auburn. The Vols are awful, and Auburn may not suck as much as they did last year but they are still not a fitting opponent for the East's current top team. I think they should have gotten rid of the permanent cross-division matchups when they added A&M and Missouri, and gone to 9 conference games.

I agree Trev, I don't trust Price either.

As far as Sark goes, I'd be more interested in keeping Wilcox for the long haul. UW has big bucks and top facilities etc so they should be just fine, thank you very much