The Roundup: Anger at College Football
Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, Media Gossip/Musings, NFL, NHL, Politics, Randy Teachers, Video, Women's Sports May 1st. 2008, 8:00am
If a hockey player’s dating her, does that make us posting this photo of Hillary Duff ok? … this guy must have been class optimist: Dude, where’s my recession? … Thursdays are the best night for TV, and the Office, plus Lost, really completes us … anyone up for an afternoon movie discussion? It’s coming … have you seen a missing inflatable pig? …
Busty teacher (from Florida, obviously) with bad tats is fired for her after-work job. (Daily Mail)
Anyone else thinking the same name we are on this seemingly sports-related blind item? (Page Six)
College football suits suck. (Wizard of Odds)
We’ll never get a real national championship. (Hakim Drops the Ball)
It’s early in the season, and there are some unknown statistical leaders. (Legend of Cecilio Guante)
Yup, the Bills drafted some real characters. (Beast Mode)
Remember how commenter KC Resident wrote about Greensburg, Kansas? The Jayhawks went there. (CBS News)
Most emailed story to us this week: Softball? (ESPN)
Current Yankees on the DL: Posada, A-Rod, Hughes. (NY Post)
More Buzzy ruminations: Joe Posnanski, Throwing into Traffic, What’s Alan Watching, Salon, Sporting Blog.
Hope that knee’s OK, Bobby, because the Heels will need you next year. (Rush the Court)
Sidney Crosby meets art. (PSAMP)
Naming a drink after a recruit. (Loser with Socks)
Obama hoopin’ with the Heels was not an NCAA violation. (News & Record)
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May 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
Do they hold teaching job fairs in strips clubs in Florida? What’s going on down there?
Never been a big Hilary Duff fan. Not bad, but there are about a million hotter 20 year old girls walking around college campuses.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:21 am
What is with the question mark on the softball story? It is something nice to read..and I guess I am not sure who the blind item refers to..
May 1st, 2008 at 8:23 am
Must be Lupica, right?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:25 am
I am not in favor of a playoff or “plus one.” I belive that traditional bowl tie-ins and the excitement of the regular season are more important.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:25 am
Kudlow isn’t an optimist, he’s a realist.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:29 am
at least the hot teacher didnt bang any students.
from Florida obviously lol
May 1st, 2008 at 8:36 am
I have gone over and over how bad a playoff in college football would be. Do you see D-II and what is happening there? It would become a ten year dynasty for one team and every recruit would go there so unless you are a USC fan you wouldn’t like a new playoff system.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:38 am
i am a fan of that teacher!! she hasn’t slept with anyone yet, which you can’t say for most female teachers in FL. let her have her job back.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am
The only problem with that link you sent in, Matt, is that numbers can be interpreted any way the author choose. For instance: This piece.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am
I really think we’re past trying to justify the women in the roundup.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:43 am
I’m fine with no playoff, I could probably talk myself into a plus one, but absolutely no 8 team playoff.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:44 am
Agreed
May 1st, 2008 at 8:44 am
I’m sure Ole’ Roy is loving the questions about his star player jumping off a 15 foot porch. Imagine the conversation with “any” girl that has her arms around Psycho T. I’m going to leave that up for discussion, but I can’t imagine it going past 10 words.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:45 am
lost fans (aka not irish) - i don’t know if I got this site from someone on TBL, but it’s hilarious.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:48 am
those UNC pictures make me wish i went to college in a warm place
May 1st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Lupica really is a horses ass.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:57 am
But none with her bank account!
May 1st, 2008 at 8:59 am
of course PSU and Purdue fans wouldn’t be in favor of a playoff…and im not trying to be an asshole even tho i know i sound like one.
but all the recruits wouldn’t go just to one place like in DII. DII is relying on a totally different recruiting system than DI is, and there’s a much wider talent pool that DI dips into before DII schools can get their guys. not all 5-star recruits would go to USC or whomever, but all the top recruits would go to major schools regardless, which would kill off middling schools that dont go to major bowls every year.
im completely in favor of a playoff system, it would make for a more entertaining product, and it would force coaches to actually do their jobs instead of act like mack brown and mark richt and actually coach rather than just shake hands and suck recruit parent ass. how could you honestly believe that having the top 8 or 16 teams square off against each other in a 3 week tourney is a bad thing?
to be honest, it’s probably the big 10 and pac 10 schools like Michigan State and Oregon State who go to the middle-tier bowls that are the ones taking the firmest stance against the playoff system. they have the most to lose, the top teams will always be there and these middle schools are the ones who are losing out the most on the benefit of the shitty bowls that nobody really gives a shit about.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:04 am
Why cant you have the emerald bowl and an 8 team playoff?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am
Spence you beat me too it. Plus I will add even if a Dynasty did happen, who cares.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am
@Spencer - watch that Mark Richt talk, son.
/spoken in creepy southern accent
May 1st, 2008 at 9:12 am
The system now is a beauty contest. It is the most ridiculous system of determining a champion in sports. You have to consider strength of schedule, the conference they play in, how they looked against this opponent, where did they begin the season in the rankings, etc. It is complete and absolute horseshit. Last year was the most entertaining season in a long time because so many upsets happened every week, but yet, the same team ended up winning the championship with two losses. Why? Because they had the most pub all season and scored highest on the myriad of ridiculous criteria they use to determine the best teams. It’s a garbage system, and it is amazing how flawed it is, yet continues to not be corrected by a seemingly simple solution.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
It’s bad because I don’t want to hear arguments about who the #16 team is, hell it can be hard to find a team that’s #2. So you really want to sit around and debate whether Tenn or BYU (16 and 17 in the final BCS last year) is “more worthy”. Thats not a discussion I ever want to have.
What’s the point in watching Pitt/WVU or USC/UCLA, those games wouldn’t have mattered one bit.
I’m hardly saying I love the current system but any more than 4 teams is ridiculous, which is why I said I could live with a plus one but no more.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Sean Jean I take it you are not a Tiger fan.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:17 am
My vote would be for a plus 1 game.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:19 am
atl…i apologize for nothing!
Sean Jean…totally. the system is designed TO EMBRACE BIAS!!! what the fuck is that about? for all the flack OSU gets, every buckeye fan i know all would LOVE a playoff system, why? because we would the chance to shut up everyone else ON THE FIELD, not on some arbitrary poll. it’s absolutely retarded that delany and the pac-10 and big east people are ruining it when it’s so painfully obvious they’re the ones who are going to be most effected.
tho i dont really understand why the ACC was so eager to accept the playoff system…they’d get crushed.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am
Not trying to start any shit Spence but OSU hasn’t shut anybody up on the field except Michigan. But i do think this years team could be better than last years team.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am
coop…so youd rather the argument be about whos more worthy to play for the natl championship than whos more worthy to have a chance to play for the NC?
a playoff system would have an effect on traditional rivalries…ill give you that. but imagine if something was on the line? the 2006 OSU Mich game was one of the best games i ever saw because of everything riding on it, that’d happen a lot more often if both teams were playing for a playoff berth.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:23 am
jb: I basically dislike all SEC teams equally, except Alabama and Florida, who I loathe especially.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:23 am
jb…i never said they shut anyone up, but that theyd have the opportunity to.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:24 am
Do you hate last in/last out for CBB too? To say it makes certain games during the season irrelevant is just not true. How can you possibly say that when its the difference between a top seed and playing a team like Tenn or dropping a few seed and maybe having to face OK. Also Did you know those games would be meaningful before the season? Because I know all of the playoff games will be right now.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:28 am
It was so intense, because we didn’t know which Big 10 team was gonna get the chance to be blown off the field by an SEC team!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
@coop: I think 16 is too big a field, but I’d rather have the debate over whose #8 or #9 than whose 1 or #2. Debating the top team is just too important. It would be like if this college basketball season, Memphis didn’t get a shot to play for the title because they lost to Tenn in favor of UNC (media love) and Kansas (tradition).
The Pac-10 and Big Ten hide behind their “traditions” but the only real reason they won’t support a playoff system is money. They have their own seperate contract with the Rose Bowl and ABC, and if they entered a playoff system, they would lose that.
@coop: I’d rather
May 1st, 2008 at 9:31 am
oh man, that’s extremely creative and not a cliche at all. that must’ve taken YEARS to come up with.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:34 am
I do agree with you though Sean Jean the current system is shit. A plus one would give us a true champion.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:35 am
I dont think anyone ranked below 4 has any argument as to why they deserve to even be in the picture. SM, has one of those last in/out teams ever won the title, I’ll answer that, NO. So why would I want them in the discussion.
And not to start a tangent, but where are these magical playoff games taking place, Neverland? If you think LSU is going to play at Wisconsin in December you’re on crack. College games are not pro games, 100K people don’t just show up in Athens or State College. It takes months of preparation and planning to pull off a game in these small towns, it can’t happen in a week.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:37 am
that may be the best photo i’ve ever seen of hillary duff.
i’ve written this before: as a brunette, she’s average at best. as a blonde, she’s cute.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:40 am
My biggest complaint is ranking the teams in the preseason as a starting point. I wish they’d do away with rankings until halfway through the season (kind of like when the BCS data comes out). That way, teams aren’t ranked on tradition/recruiting classes and given a head start in the BCS rankings.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:40 am
My Hillary Duff spank bank account has been in the red for some time…so thanks for the deposit, TBL.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:40 am
I’ll make no mention of the person who sent this over … but thanks. It helps explain the blind item. Note the date.
http://www.darienlibrary.org/connections/children/archive/2008/04/mike_lupica_aut.html#trackbacks
May 1st, 2008 at 9:41 am
@Roeth - I’ve been saying the same thing for a long time. As much as it pains me (as a Georgia grad) to say this, Auburn got hosed because of preseason rankings in ‘04. They were ranked somewhere in the 20s in August, so there was no way they were getting into the top two, even though they had a dominant season and went through the SEC undefeated. Whether you hate the SEC or not, that’s some feat.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:46 am
Wait… Mike Lupica wears a ring on his neather regions?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:46 am
TBL - Whitlock?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:52 am
I admit that our claim to the top 2-loss team was questionable. But I’m also not offering to give our trophy back. But why should the Big 10 and Pac 10 agree to a playoff? Because their one precious game won’t be as important, and there’s a pretty good chance that they can get an unbeaten or one-loss team pretty much every year (unbalanced conferences at the top and no championship game). Assholes.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:56 am
Auburn got screwed. Big time. And the people who keep saying that USC was better and would have clearly killed are:
The same people who said USC would kill Texas
And Florida didn’t deserve to be there in 2006
And Miami was going to kill Ohio State
The only time the “experts” were ever right was when they said Nebraska didn’t belong there when they lost to Miami. I wouldn’t be bragging that my “sure thing” batting average was below most MLB players.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Jay…i was waiting for you to show up here. couldnt agree more. we just need a fucking playoff already, god damnit.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:59 am
spencer: I keed. I ain’t got no quarrel with them Big 10.
Except for Northwestern. Those smarmy fucks.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:00 am
I get up late every day. I watch the baby until 2 or 3 every night. It is killing my routine. At least I get to go into work late.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:03 am
clown…werd, i just get testy whenever i read someone knocking OSU (the rest of the b10 does indeed suck) esp when OSU wasnt even supposed to be there last year.
Jay…that’s rough.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
That sucks Jay my son is 3 and he has a crazy habit of waking up at 3 a.m to talk to daddy and watch Alvin and the Chipmunks.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:28 am
It sucks for my sleeping habits, but you know it’s worth it.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
@Jay: Of course it is. It’ll get you an extra $300 from the stimulus!
May 1st, 2008 at 10:37 am
The 2004 Auburn team was freaking stacked. Hell the two teams before the 2004 team at Auburn were great, they just got off to rough starts. That 2004 team was the best team that year in my opinion. They didn’t have a weakness.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Is it wrong to say that Hill looked better at 16 than she does now? I’m very disappointed in how she has aged…
May 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Thats maybe the only good picture I’ve seen of Hilary Duff.