Week 6 is here. College Football Saturday featured a couple of upsets seeing Boise State and Ole Miss losing. Bama rolled the Aggies. LSU held off Florida. Michigan lost on a stupid unforced error. I missed out on seeing that one live, god damned binge drinking. Crazy Harbs is going to flay the long snapper for that one.
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Here’s the updated broadcast maps.
Arkansas continues to baffle me, but as one of you mentioned, I shouldn’t question that.
Carl picks Dolphins-Titans today.
Carl’s on 3 week win streak and is 3-2 for the year.
Afternoon everyone. . Did A-Rod really take out a screen with an overthrow? I mean, he is out of practice, but seriously?
Anyone else see the Fox pregame show when A-Rod threw the football to Glazer and hit the 60″ monitor instead?
Looks like he over-estimated Glazer’s height. The guy’s a garden gnome.
When aromas intermingle.
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I have a brother who is a Memphis alumni, I want to get him a t shirt that says “We am Memphis”.
AND YOU CAN TOO!!
Also, fuck Ole Miss.
And fuck Dixie.
but, but, but heritage not hate amirite??
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I was reminded this morning how much I like old Soundgarden. Particularly “Burden in My Hand” and “Blow Up the Outside World”
See, I see “‘Old’ Soundgarden,” and I think Rusty Cage and Outshined. Which isn’t “old” compared to the hipster grunge kids who were into Soundgarden in ’91.
One could also note that a properly blocked/thrown Hail Mary (out of bounds to the sideline) should take 10 seconds off the clock, and be less dangerous than a long snap to the punter.
Harbaugh’s reaction to the botched snap (artist’s conception)
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Goddamnit, still no PeyPey for North Cakalaky. Into the outside world I shall go, which is a lose-lose proposition for all involved.
I hope Carl is right, especially if it involves a Titans D/ST score or two. My money league team needs that.
So, I guess we all root for Michigan when The OSU goes to the Big House this year. I mean, rooting for Meteor is soooo cliche.
I dunno. If OSU is undefeated when they get to Michigan, a loss would mean lots of arsons, some of them near where I live.
I’d rather not have my house/neighborhood burn down, so I guess I’d have to root for OSU, or else.
Chicken! This is College Football. Don’t worry about your house when there’s peanut butter and chocolate flavored schadenfreude on the line!
And I’m an Ohio State fan saying this.
When Arizona played Ohio St in March Madness this year, my OSU friend hosted a viewing party. I was one of only a couple Arizona fans there. When I showed up with a Buckeye Bars labeled “Wildcat Bars”, it was surprisingly not well received.
Besides, Meteor NEVER comes through, smh.
Longtime meteor fan here. smgdh indeed.
I just won’t watch, much like when Notre Dame plays U*NC.
Sparty needs to be the unbeaten B1G team now. Screw everyone else.
Hopefully, a school in Ohio wins on some bullshit, and Harbaugh loses it and beats the shit out of Urban Meyer.
Are you sure it wasn’t Winston that fumbled?
Anybody watching the rugby?
I’m watching Daniel Tiger with my almost 3 year-old.
It beats Curious George, though. That chimp is an asshole.
Don’t blame the long snapper. Had the punter just fallen on the ball, Sparty would’ve gotten the ball back on the 40 with time for one play, needing a TD to win.
As it was, the punter threw the ball right to a MSU player. I still wouldn’t be surprised if the punter took some money.
Though I remember when Harbaugh was the Bears QB and they were down by 5 or 6 to the Jets with less than 2 minutes to go, the Jet’s RB somehow fumbled (forced by McMichael, if I recall), the Bears recovered, and Harbs led the Bears to a last-second victory. Now he can feel it from the other end, I guess.
Ahh, here we go:
“On September 23, 1991, in a Monday Night game between the New York Jets and the Chicago Bears, the Jets were leading 13–6 and had the ball with two minutes remaining. With thousands of fans already having given up and headed to the Soldier Field parking lot, running back Blair Thomas took a handoff. Bears defensive tackle Steve McMichael stopped Thomas cold and then proceeded to wrestle the ball from his grasp, falling on the fumble at the Jets’ 36-yard line with 1:54 remaining. On the final play of regulation, Jim Harbaugh threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Neal Anderson; Bears kicker Kevin Butler tied the game with the extra point. In overtime, Harbaugh scored from the one-yard line to clinch the win for Chicago.”
That’s the thing. Kickers tend to be about 80 pounds lighter than everybody else, and completely unprepared mentally for a shitstorm like that. It’s a coaching taboo to instruct them what to do in case of the worst case scenario, because of “power of positive thinking” bullshit.
You can see from the replay there is 100% no chance that ANYTHING that kid does there is the least bit calculated. Pure fucking panic.
This is why betting college sports is so fun. Nothing like placing my finances on the nerves of some 18 year olds.
My favourite thing from yesterday was the sideline reporter interviewing the tiny Cajun LSU placekicker who scored the winning TD on the fake FG. He told her “I’ve never been so scared my entire life.” And that was a play that was CALLED and PRACTICED.
The Penn State kicker is 5’10”, 259. No chicken legs there, except embedded in his colon.
And as a guy who was the backup P/PK on every team I played, maybe I benefitted from realistic coaches. We practiced bad snaps. We practiced broken protection.
Not a lot, but we practiced them. Granted, a top-flight Div-1A program probably is so good at kick protection, FG attempts and punting, that they get on autopilot when it comes to practicing that shit. But then again, Harbs reminds me so much of my high school offensive coordinator… I can totally see him punishing a kicker by making him practice bad snap recovery.
Ultimately, I think this will be the test of Harbaugh as a coach. In the pros, you’d go full-on drunken stepfather on that punter. Beat him, cut him, etc. In college, it’s a student-athlete who is a young man developing into a grown man. So if Harbs can control himself, good on him.
I know I’d beat the crap out of the punter. To me, it’s inexcusable. Shit like that happened twice to me on punt block/return teams. I recovered one fumbled snap and caught crap from my coach (weeks later) that it was one of those times I should have attempted to scoop the fumble and run, instead of falling on it the way we were coached ALL THE FUCKING TIME. The other time I ran into the punter at full speed and he ate the ball. It was one of the best feelings of my football career, crushing a guy who was totally unprepared for it, and having NO chance of fucking it up.