College Football Thread -- The Fun Never Ends

[SlowwHand]

Re: Maybe

Originally posted by pchang
the Badgers need to crush lowly regarded teams...

like Texas????

Just whom are you referring to? TCU was no slouch.

How is Texas worse than others?
Be a little more specific if you're going to flap your lips.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Which I feel is a load of crap. They won. They have beaten everybody they were susposed to.

The ranking system is a bunch of crap.

PLAYOFF!!!!

They struggled against Citidel. Sorry, I just don't think Wisconsin is a good team. At all.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Re: Re: Maybe

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Just whom are you referring to? TCU was no slouch.

How is Texas worse than others?
Be a little more specific if you're going to flap your lips.

I think Cal is better than Texas. In the AP Cal is ranked higher, but not in the Coaches' Poll. I also think Penn State may be better, but who knows in the battle of patsies. I also think that Boston College and South Carolina both have a claim that they are better than Texas at this moment as well.

And to be a total homer, what about Rutgers?


And don't forget that TCU lost to Air Force this week as well.

[SlowwHand]

South Carolina, as I remember, is usually competitive.

[snoopy369]

Air Force is typically pretty good

[Guynemer]

The poll system is crap. I don't see anyway that can be denied.

However, it is what we are stuck with, since there is no way on god's green earth that we'll ever see a playoff.

[pchang]

How many

players can a team have arrested before it starts to show on the field? I'm talking to you Texas, and you LSU.

[Lord Avalon]

Notre Dame's best play was a QB sneak. It occured before the Michigan game when Demetrius Jones transferred to N. Illinois and didn't show up for the bus trip.

Now at Northern Illinois, Jones said he was misled by Weis

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Demetrius Jones, the Notre Dame quarterback who lost the starting position after a poor performance in the season opener, expects to play next season at Northern Illinois following his quick decision to transfer.

Jones surprised Notre Dame's coaches by not showing up Friday for the bus trip for the team's game at Michigan.

Jones said he was stung by coach Charlie Weis' comments that freshman Jimmy Clausen had been the team's top quarterback but was not named the opening game starter as he was recovering from surgery to remove a bone spur from his throwing elbow.

"When I heard Jimmy was the No. 1 all the way through spring and that the only thing that was keeping him out of the lineup was his surgery, well that's not what I was led to believe going into the summer," Jones told the South Bend Tribune for a story Monday. "I thought I was getting a chance because coach Weis believed in me. Then I didn't know what to believe anymore.''

Jones, who is from Chicago, said he attended Northern Illinois' 21-19 loss to Eastern Michigan on Saturday in DeKalb, Ill., but had not yet been in contact with the school's coaching staff and did not know when he would begin practicing with his new team.

"My plan is to practice with them this year and be eligible to play next fall," he said. "I'd then have three years of eligibility. That's how I hope it works out."

Northern Illinois spokeswoman Donna Turner said Monday that she had no word that Jones was yet part of the team.

"Everything so far has taken place outside the athletic department," she said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3024549

[SlowwHand]

From Notre Dame to Northern Illinois? Isn't that retarding his progress both athletically and academically?

[snoopy369]

NIU is a fine school... and if he was a scholarship football player in a skill position, what are the odds he really was up to Notre Dame standards?

On the other hand, he could end up in the NFL if he gets to NIU and actually starts and such

[DanS]

Jones was a fine player and student, who was well up to ND's standards.

That said, he blew his first chance at the QB position, got embarrassed about doing it in front of the weekly national audience that ND enjoys, and heard what he wanted to hear in Weis' comments.

Weis didn't say what Jones thought he did. Rather, Weis said that Clausen was #1 going into the summer, but couldn't win the job in the Fall due to injury. The way Weis set it up, you couldn't win the job in the spring. Jones won the job in the Fall, but played himself out of the job. I can understand why it's tough to take the fact that you had a chance and blew it.

Jones really compounded his screwups. He won't have a hundredth the good will from NIU as he would have being a backup QB all 4 years at ND. And it seems quite possible that he would have had at least one more chance at the starting job at ND.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by DanS
Jones was a fine player and student, who was well up to ND's standards.

At this point I'm up to ND's standards.

Pathetic.

Isn't Weis supposed to be an offensive guru?

He was good with Willingham's players, but he obviously can't recruit worth a damn.

ACK!

[DanS]

That's rancid bait, Tubes. I'll not take it.

Suffice it to say, a few minutes of research on your part would prove it otherwise.

[DanS]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Notre Dame's best play was a QB sneak. It occured before the Michigan game when Demetrius Jones transferred to N. Illinois and didn't show up for the bus trip.

If only ND started off the season playing I-AA teams...

Oh wait, you strike me as a Michigan State kind of man, after all.

[Lord Avalon]

With the crappy start to U-M's season, I have to find what enjoyment I can.

And I certainly will enjoy MSU continuing ND's 0-fer season.