The Navy will have the home field advantage against San Diego State in the Poinsettia Bowl: Qualcomm Stadium is under water. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/dec/22/crews-to-pump-water-out-of-qualcomm-all-night/
:shock: San Diego State 35 Navy 14 The game was never close. The Aztecs obliterated them. Brady Hoke has awakened the sleeping giant down there. Very few areas of the country produce the kind of high school football talent that San Diego County does, year in and year out. Off the top of my head, I can think of three Heisman Trophy winners from there: Marcus Allen, Rashan Salaam and Ricky Williams. None of whom played for SDSU. In fact, a lot of great athletes have come from there, like basketball player Bill Walton and baseball player Ted Williams. If Hoke can keep the locals home, he might take over the world, but the real question is: can SDSU keep Hoke? The Aztecs averaged only 22,000 per home game, despite losing only 4 games by a total of 15 points. I suspect that before Hoke can convert them, he'll be gone to a higher paying job. There's no way they can pay him what he's worth with attendance like that. ........JO'Co
ND <r>I watched this game and found it particularly gratifying for some reason. Maybe it was that the last play Ricky Dobbs ever made on the college football field was an interception. goodbye Mr. Dobbs. <br/> <br/> I must admit he was a real pain the past couple of years. <E>8)</E></r>
You forgot Reggie Bush. Granted he gave the trophy back, but still, he won it and was the best player in college football. (Maybe we can just call those guys the "Newton Award" winner in the future?). Anyway, he's from Helix HS which is right down the road from SDSU.
8) Just think. San Diego State finished in a three-way tie for 3rd place in the Mountain West. If they'd played in the Big East, they would have landed in a BCS bowl against Oklahoma...
lol wait... you didn't get the memo? Big East plays real football. This isn't some wussy ass Mountain West conference
Didn't you guys hear? The self-anointed Gods of College Football (known as ESPN to the rest of us) are questioning the Big East's BCS status. I like the idea of there being NO auto-qualifiers, but then I want a PLAYOFF so I'm just a member of the crazy fringe.
I think we can all agree that the situation is getting a little silly when TCU, a team thousands of miles away, joins the Big East to get the automatic bowl bid. We've also seen BYU give up on getting any fair opportunities and join the depleted WAC as Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Fresno State and Boise State play musical chairs. The only move that makes any sports/academic sense is Nebraska to the Big Ten. All the other moves are about football money. It's chaos. Something has to be done.
Critics of the move want to talk about TCU being so far away from the Big East schools. Has anyone bothered to look at the distance between Ft. Worth and several of the MWC schools, like Wyoming, for example? There is very little, if any, difference in total distance between the two conferences. If they had moved to the Pac10, the distances would have been much greater than to the Big East schools. Also, they will be playing before much bigger crowds than in the MWC and in the most populous TV markets in the country, which can only help their recruiting. It looks to me like a smart move for TCU.
Sid's right I posted the distance to MWC sites for TCU and Big East sites and there isn't much difference in mileage, but Big East sites have better air access than Laramie Wyoming!
:idea: All of the western conferences are like that. In the 12Pac, Arizona in Tucson is more than 2,200 miles from Washington in Seattle. My point, was that TCU made this move for football reasons only, as did all of these other schools.
On that we can agree, it's a football move and a money move. The MWC TV contract is terrible, much more money in the Big East. TCU has an excellent baseball program and should be able to immediately win the Big East as well. They will be in the bottom of the BE in basketball though.
So West Virginia gets butt raped and quits on the field. The bobbleheads on ESPN are joking about 'having to watch that' Why does this conference get an auto-bid again?
:? West Virginia was a co-champion of the Big Least, but I picked them to lose in the contest. If they played in the MWC they would have had a losing record...