OT - Spurrier Don't Care

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I suppose you guys know you sound slightly crazy to outsiders. [:D]

I am quite sure that I have no idea what you are talking about.

[geofflambert]

Y'all realize that that garage is his house?

That bag of clubs you see is for playing his backyard 9. It was carefully crafted by moles.

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Y'all realize that that garage is his house?

That bag of clubs you see is for playing his backyard 9. It was carefully crafted by moles.

There is more truth to that than you know. And that isn't a bag of clubs, it is a folding chair. [8D]

Moles, and possums for that matter, are not an issue of mine. Meet Tiger and Aubie:

[geofflambert]

Ship them to me, I have possums and raccoons trying to live in my attic.

Plus, they eat my kittens before I can get to them.

[Cribtop]

@Cap Mandrake - I have always said that College Football is the most ardently practiced religion in Texas. That is saying something given the high concentration of churches here. The same is true for the southeast.

FYI, as a fanatical Gooner, I am simpatico with the other kind of football too. On that note, so far the mythical 70 million pounds haven't bought Arsenal much this summer. Sigh.

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: Cribtop

@Cap Mandrake - I have always said that College Football is the most ardently practiced religion in Texas. That is saying something given the high concentration of churches here. The same is true for the southeast.

FYI, as a fanatical Gooner, I am simpatico with the other kind of football too. On that note, so far the mythical 70 million pounds haven't bought Arsenal much this summer. Sigh.

35,000 tons of munitions in the Aresenal? WOW!!!! [X(]

[:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: MineSweeper

Well, he did not do anything for my Redskins except to sign his checks ....def should have stayed in the college ranks during that time.

As a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, I really appreciated the fuss 'n bother associated with his coming and leaving the Redskins. I wish he had stirred up another year's worth of controversies to bring the team to its knees for another year too. Alas, his time was too short-lived and he had other contracts to void.

[rockmedic109]

Was it Spurrier failing in Washington or Spurrier not getting what he needed from Snyder?

[Bearcat2]

No, Spurrier pretty much was terrible as a pro coach.
He is considered one of the best COLLEGE coaches in the game, he is considered a failure as a pro coach.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Was it Spurrier failing in Washington or Spurrier not getting what he needed from Snyder?

It was all good from my perspective. Details don't matter. Bring him back! [:D]

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: Termite2

No, Spurrier pretty much was terrible as a pro coach.
He is considered one of the best COLLEGE coaches in the game, he is considered a failure as a pro coach.

That may be true, but the NFL does not make it onto my radar. I honestly cannot remember the last time I sat down to watch a pro sport of any kind.....

[Canoerebel]

I don't think I've watched a cmplete pro football game since the early 1980s. However, I do love the Atlanta Braves. I listen to their games on radio all the time. I'd watch 'em on television, but I don't have television.

I am a big fan of college football, but that has been in decline in recent years. To wit: the last time I went to a college game was around 1998. And this level of disenchantment will increase. It looks like the colleges will begin giving stipends to football players. Since college football is a mega-mega-business built on the shoulders of these lads, that seems fair. But it also opens a pandora's box that eliminates whatever feeble vesitgal resemblance the game has to the era when a bunch of guys who attended a university gathered together to play a sport against logical rivals. The chasm between pro and college football is narrowing rapidly. That may be entirely fair under the circumstances, but I don't like the circumstances.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: AU Tiger

ORIGINAL: Termite2

No, Spurrier pretty much was terrible as a pro coach.
He is considered one of the best COLLEGE coaches in the game, he is considered a failure as a pro coach.

That may be true, but the NFL does not make it onto my radar. I honestly cannot remember the last time I sat down to watch a pro sport of any kind.....

Can I interest you in the Professional Curling Program (PCP) I'm developing? I'm certain it will be a real blast (read horse tranquilizer).

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I don't think I've watched a cmplete pro football game since the early 1980s. However, I do love the Atlanta Braves. I listen to their games on radio all the time. I'd watch 'em on television, but I don't have television.

I am a big fan of college football, but that has been in decline in recent years. To wit: the last time I went to a college game was around 1998. And this level of disenchantment will increase. It looks like the colleges will begin giving stipends to football players. Since college football is a mega-mega-business built on the shoulders of these lads, that seems fair. But it also opens a pandora's box that eliminates whatever feeble vesitgal resemblance the game has to the era when a bunch of guys who attended a university gathered together to play a sport against logical rivals. The chasm between pro and college football is narrowing rapidly. That may be entirely fair under the circumstances, but I don't like the circumstances.

I agree with you, however I believe that the stipend, if it happens, will do incredible harm to Collegiate sports in general. The equality laws under Title IX will easily be interpreted that all scholarship students will be entitled to the stipend also. Very few schools turn a profit from their sports programs, so this will translate to fewer students receiving athletic scholarships, except for the big programs. The rift between the Haves and the Have-Nots will widen greatly IMO, but the bottom line is that fewer kids will have the opportunity to earn collegiate scholarships. Economics, meet the Law of Unintended Consequences......

[geofflambert]

Add to everything else how absurdly expensive it is to be educated as well as how hard it is to get any kind of starting job after you get that education. Needs fixing. Who's going to do it?

[bradfordkay]

I haven't attended a college football game in person since November of 1980. I've always figured that nothing could beat the experiences I had having my student season tickets as a senior that year, so why bother?

[Cap Mandrake]

Been to a few USC and UCLA games. I think I have been spoiled by HD and slow motion and the cameras over the field.

Even if you have great seats at the Colosseum you are still on the other side of the track and the rake of the seats is low so you cant see much. Not to mention you need a concealed carry permit to get to your car afterward.

The Rose Bowl has similar issues although the neighborhood is fine. It's in BFE. The party crowd outside the stadium is a bit like a biker convention and I have a hard time believing those people were admitted to UCLA or even ASU. The Rose bowl has concrete bench seats and I had a hard time concentrating on the game because of all the thong underwear on the coeds.

This concludes my review of college football in LA

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

Go to a big SEC game sometime. You can smell the religion in the air.

[&o]

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
I haven't attended a college football game in person since November of 1980. I've always figured that nothing could beat the experiences I had having my student season tickets as a senior that year, so why bother?

Brad got spoiled by the '80 Georgia Bulldogs, who featured Herschel Walker, the greatest college football player ever. By November of that year, Brad had seen Hershel run over Tennessee's Bill Bates and around the entire South Carolina defense despite the optimal angles of attack for the whole secondary. Then, to cap it off, he saw Belue to Lindsay Scott, the most exciting single play in the annals of Georgia (and therefore American) college football. I don't blame him for retiring. However, I stuck it out, because I am virile and resolute in a winsome yet modest way, and saw the Dawgs beat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to win the National Championship.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: AU Tiger

Go to a big SEC game sometime. You can smell the religion in the air.

[&o]

I've been to a lot of ACC football games. It's airborne bourbon there.