This article from Dodd has something for everyone to get excited about: http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/10364449 The part about Wisconsin's coach feeling the need to say how the Citadel will give AppSt a "run for their money" is interesting to say the least. :lol:
yada, yada, yada...lotsa talking.....Lemming? Please..... Here's an article that looks at the numbers.....dominance? :roll: Not based on the facts..... http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2007/Northwestern/bcsreport.htm
The 7-4 record vs. BCS opponents is the most impressive stat for the Big Ten but it drops to 5-4 when you remove Notre Dame from the equation and after all....ND has been about as far from being a BCS team this season as you can get.
Maybe you can get a job writing for CBS; you use the same hard hiiting type of reporting they do by stating the obvious ad nauseum.
Maybe there are some SEC wins over teams that have underperformed as much as ND has but I'll let BT show me who they are. ND only factors in here because it is the 7 wins that BT hangs his response on and ND gave up two of those wins.
I'm not hanging my hat on anything in isolation......only showing by reference that when you eliiminate the rhetoric and focus on the evidence that the facts would seem to be contrary to CBS's Dodds assertions.....the evidence to date would not lead any rational analyst to conclude dominance on the part of any conference. That further, the Big 10 compares quite favorably with any.....out of conference records parsed or not. Or perhaps you're suggesting 4-3 -v- 7 or 5-4 is clearly superior....? That said, of course Dodd is a shill for the SEC.....I would expect nothing less.....who does CBS televise again? It's in his best interest to puff the SEC and dog the Big 10. No shocker there.....
Good point on Dodd being CBS friendly. Same as the ESPN boys tend to be Big Ten friendly. In any event beating ND so far is no great shakes for anybody. The Big Ten losing to Iowa State, FIU and of course AppSt doesn't do much for the conference either.
Surely not as much as the results of head-to-head bowl match-ups. It won't be long before the SEC gets a chance to redeem itself and reverse the disappointment of last year-v- the Big 10. Until then....it's just meaningless rhetoric......
Buck T, I can't wait for Saban to once again dominate the SEC and bring Bama back into the spotlight as it truly deserves. Bama is my favorite SEC team. I liked the long storied tradition, the Bear, the PSU/BAMA series, Bama's NC victory over Miami, Forest Gump and Phyllis. It was too bad that at best he was a middle of the pack coach in the Big 10, but now that he's in the SEC it should be easy pickins in a year or 2.
He He He, Jethro Tull it is. Sitting on a park bench -- Eyeing Big 10 teams with bad intent. Snot running your nose Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes Hey Gatorfan :lol:
LOL!!! Gatorfan, my friend don't persist in "Gatorbation" you poor old sod let others have their fun. j/k :wink:
AJ, that is priceless...... :lol: I, too think its only a matter of time before Saban has his way with the SEC.... Nice work MCG, your SEC brothers salute you, a great comrade-in-arms.....start a conference topic then conveniently throw your boys from SEC runner-up Arkansas and Tennessee under the bus when the going gets tough......very nice.
Good one Rick! Do you still remember November's foggy freeze -- when the rats who rank college football’s best chose Gators not Wolverines And you snatched your mythical championship From the top seeded Big 10 team For the poor ole fans who must endure the madness of this dream This brings us to the next Tull song which is Living in The Past. :wink:
Sorry ... wrong song. Tooooo bad!! :lol: The correct answer was Living in the Past. But now, I hear another Tull tune ..... In the shuffling madness of the locomotive breath, runs the all-time loser, headlong to his death. He feels the piston scraping -- steam breaking on his brow -- old Charlie stole the handle and the train won't stop going -- no way to slow down. He sees his children jumping off at the stations -- one by one. His woman and his best friend -- in bed and having fun. He's crawling down the corridor on his hands and knees -- old Charlie stole the handle and the train won't stop going -- no way to slow down. He hears the silence howling -- catches angels as they fall. And the all-time winner has got him by the balls. He picks up Gideons Bible -- open at page one -- old Charlie stole the handle and the train won't stop going -- no way to slow down.
AJNJ - "when the rats who rank college football’s best chose Gators not Wolverines And you snatched your mythical championship From the top seeded Big 10 team For the poor ole fans who must endure" ....surely you jest..... :lol: :shock:
Hey Terry I don't agree with MCG that you can just discount BCS opponents just because they may be having a bad year! However o hold out to me an article that is supposedly a credible analysis but holds a comment like this Kind of sad. Now being an old Ohio boy from Southern Ohio, not to far from Ohio State, I can assure you there are as many people there missing at least one tooth as there are here in the south! :roll: :roll: :roll: Maybe an updated version by an author whose bias isn't so clear might be better! :roll: :roll: :roll: Other than that they whole argument is kind of meaningless to me and these things do run in cycles.
.....that is southern Ohio right Bill? That's where we have to go to recruit all our speed! :wink: But I agree with you Bill....no need for him to throw in such a gratuitous wisecrack in the piece. The guy is a homer no doubt but also very knowledgeable and usually reasonabley objective....a former college player and coach, he writes analytical pieces such as this regularly for the O-Zone.
Thanks Terry, actually he made some good points. However when I read something like the teeth comment I usually don't read much more as the credibility is gone for me. As far as speed in Southern Ohio, you sure couldn't prove that by me. I had a couple of problems as far as being an athlete when I was younger. I was to small to slow to weak Bad combinations!