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8/5/2008 9:15:55 AM

http://server6.theimagehosting.com/album.php?album=33964

8/5/2008 9:17:30 AM

they should have put a piece of Riddick there instead of a stupid statue

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"trying to fix the red x's from ^"

you cant fix that...no hotlinking



[Edited on August 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM. Reason : someone needs a lesson on crazy code]

8/5/2008 9:18:10 AM

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"Kentucky kicks QB Pulley off team for rules violations LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks says quarterback Curtis Pulley has been kicked off the team for violating team rules. Brooks made the announcement Tuesday at the team's preseason media day. Last week, Brooks had said Pulley would miss playing time for his recent brushes with the law but still had a chance to win the starting job for the Wildcats. Pulley was arrested on traffic charges last month in Hardin County. In June, he also received a citation for marijuana possession in Louisville. Pulley missed last season because of academic reasons. Pulley had been competing with sophomore Mike Hartline to succeed Andre Woodson as the Wildcats' starting quarterback. The dismissal likely moves Will Fidler to second on the depth chart. Fidler also was arrested last month on a disorderly conduct charge for an incident outside a Lexington restaurant."

Poor poor 'Tucky... also lost a starting CB and OG, muwhahahaha

[Edited on August 5, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : d]

8/5/2008 4:49:54 PM

and this CBS College Sports channel is badass...

LSU vs. Kentucky from last year is on right now


thanks NyM410

8/5/2008 6:56:58 PM

that statue is kinda cool

If we ever got good it could be like a lesser version of Clemson's rock

but I bet someone trips on it and sprains their ankle before that happens

8/5/2008 6:59:19 PM

^ Knowing us it would more likely be a knee injury.

8/5/2008 11:04:33 PM

http://tinyurl.com/5q732r

SI ranked all 119 I-A schools. Some notables:

11. Clemson
24. Virginia Tech
26. Wake Forest
32. Maryland
34. UNC
44. ECU
62. N.C. State
79. Duke
80. Georgia Tech

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 11:59 AM. Reason : tinyurl]

8/6/2008 11:58:19 AM

In all seriousness, how the hell is San Diego State always so freaking bad? I've been there dozens of times, and if I was an 17 year-old recruit I'd have a hard-on for days. Very hot girls (and dumb too, as it is an easy school to get into), it's 5 miles from the best beaches in SD, 1000's of things to do, always sunny and between 65-85 degrees 365 days a year. There are hundreds of 3,4, and 5 star players coming out of So. CA every year. WTF is the recruiting team doing?

I understand the best of the best go to SC,UCLA, any where else in CA, even UT recently(Clausen's/Nunes), etc. So. CA has the best Community College football programs of any region nationwide, wtf are they doing?

8/6/2008 12:10:41 PM

put em in the Pac-10, that would help a lot

8/6/2008 12:12:18 PM

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"http://tinyurl.com/5q732r SI ranked all 119 I-A schools. Some notables: 11. Clemson 24. Virginia Tech 26. Wake Forest 32. Maryland 34. UNC 44. ECU 62. N.C. State 79. Duke 80. Georgia Tech [Edited on August 6, 2008 at 11:59 AM. Reason : tinyurl] "

Did it say what they based their rankings on? Was it last year's performance or player's coming back or likelihood of winning against the teams on your schedule?

I guess I'm just trying to figure out why UNC is consistently rated higher than us when we would have beat the dog piss out of them last year had it not been for Daniel Evans' pick 6s. If it's based on each team's respective schedules and how well they are predicted to fare based on that, then this list makes a little more sense.

8/6/2008 12:17:21 PM

Yeah, but it would make the regions uneven, there's two teams close to each other in every region.

IIRC Tramain Hall was a So. CA Juco transfer, how did NC State find him and SDSU was just like durrrr

8/6/2008 12:19:13 PM

^^ I would imagine, as a preseason ranking, it takes all of those things into consideration. But I don't know for sure, and as you can see by the link, it certainly doesn't specify.

When I saw the link, I was hoping for a sentence or two about each team (I've seen SI do that before), but no such luck this time.

8/6/2008 1:10:17 PM

how the hell is duke #79?

8/6/2008 1:54:18 PM

aaaaaand those rankings have lost any semblance of credibility

8/6/2008 1:57:42 PM

it's always a tossup who the fuck knows outside of top 15 teams or so every year.

8/6/2008 1:59:43 PM

I heard that spurrier didn't vote for duke this year b/c an NCAA official asked him not to b/c it "risks compromising the integrity of the poll"....The problem is, that would imply that the pre-season poll has integrity to begin with.

8/6/2008 2:11:29 PM

hahaha

GT below Duke? Ouch... I think Tech will be pretty damn good this year if they can keep from turning the ball over when pitching on the option. I actually went and watched a few of their practices over the last week and they fucked up the pitch over and over

8/6/2008 2:18:42 PM

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"how the hell is duke #79?"

because the media think that Cutcliffe will magically turn Duke around in a single offseason without even a single recruiting class of his own

8/6/2008 2:19:13 PM

^ I did read an article where all the players are so much more excited than they were in the past, worked out really hard this summer, lost a lot of weight etc., but I agree it will take a few years before they are even close to be a .500 team

8/6/2008 2:22:54 PM

I think that goes for most teams who get a new coach

I do think they will be better in a year or two, but not this year

8/6/2008 2:24:27 PM

scratch that

we got their number

GO PACK

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM. Reason : pessimism ftl]

8/6/2008 2:27:35 PM

^^better, yes.....but then again, for Duke, 3-9 is "better".

if he just gets them to a bowl game in the next 4-5 years, he will be working miracles

the short term goal should be to just not finish last in the conference.

^with our schedule this year, we must beat duke if we want to get into a bowl.

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 2:31 PM. Reason : .]

8/6/2008 2:30:06 PM

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"IIRC Tramain Hall was a So. CA Juco transfer, how did NC State find him and SDSU was just like durrrr"

do you not remember the whole tramain hall fiasco?

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM. Reason : e]

8/6/2008 3:25:52 PM

I can't remember all of the details but I know it was a clusterfuck... Actually this was probably a bad example now that I think of it, as I can't remember if he went to JUCO only for a semester so he could become eligible or what- bottom line is SDSU still sucks.

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM. Reason : d]

8/6/2008 3:30:59 PM

I know it has been a while since we played Duke, but they always give us a hard time. I think the last time we beat them by less than a touchdown...

There was one game (may have been that one) that came down to Duke kicking a long field goal (as time ran out) to try and win the game. This was a home game.


plus...it doesn't surprise me that UNC is ranked higher than us preseason. Preseason rankings really don't mean much anyway, but UNC returns more talent than us.
Their QB is above decent, stand-out WR, etc....

8/6/2008 3:36:48 PM

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"I know it has been a while since we played Duke, but they always give us a hard time. I think the last time we beat them by less than a touchdown..."

You're right that the series has been strange and we have tended to lose games to them that we had no business losing, but that was all under Amato/O'Cain, hopefully TOB will change all that

8/6/2008 3:44:16 PM

dear God I hope so

8/6/2008 3:49:53 PM

haha, was anyone here at Duke in 2003 when there were about 500 Duke fans in attendance until the start of the 4th quarter, and then the whole student body showed up?

8/6/2008 3:54:41 PM

Amato never lost to Duke. We haven't lost to Duke since 1993, which was a 1 point loss. The overall series record between State and Duke is 35 State wins, 39 Duke wins, and 5 ties. Most of Duke's wins though came early on when they were actually a good program and we didn't even have scholarship players. Since the inception of the ACC in 1953 Duke has won 19 games in the series, State has won 28 games, and there has been 4 ties. Again remember that we didn't have scholarship players until the late 50s/early 60s. Duke got 9 of their 19 wins in the years of 1953-1956 and 1958-1962 (there was a tie during 1957). Since 1988 we've only lost to them twice and tied once. I was at the 2002 game which is the one in which Duke tried to kick a late field goal to win the game. The kick was like a 62 yarder. The kick sailed to the left and hit the field on like the 5 yard line.

We will continue to beat them under TOB.

8/6/2008 3:58:27 PM

no...but i was at duke's last acc win

over clemson.

that was fun. took them a good 30 minutes to tear down the goal post...guess they hadn't had much practice.

8/6/2008 3:58:54 PM

Also Mike O'Cain only lost to Duke during his first season as head coach. He even beat one of their better teams in 1994 when they were ranked 15 iirc.

8/6/2008 4:00:45 PM

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"and we have tended to lose games to them that we had no business losing, but that was all under Amato/O'Cain,"

Jesus H. Christ...get the fuck out of sports talk.

8/6/2008 4:03:05 PM

The 'H' stands for Heaven.

8/6/2008 4:03:51 PM

^^dude, go fuck yourself...it's not like you're contributing anything worthwhile to sports talk

8/6/2008 4:21:59 PM

Spurrier had Duke playing really good, beat Tennessee... assholes.


Is Cutcliffe as good as Spurrier? maybe. He can recruit a lot better, Spurrier hates recruiting. Spurrier is better at X's and O's. The main thing with Cut is that he is really really stubborn. He does not game plan based on the opponent, his outlook is "We are going to do what I taught them to do, and if they execute it right then it doesnt matter if the defense knows what we are going to do or not, we will win more often than we lose"

This can be good or bad. But, he did this at Tennessee and Ole Miss where he had a LOT more talent than he will ever have at Duke so who knows, maybe he will change things up a bit now that he will almost have to...He is really good at developing pro skills and technique (Peyton, Eli, Clausen, Ainge) were all 'pro-style' QBs but I dont know if Duke will have the talent at O-line to enable that... whoever is the QB will probably have to create opportunities both inside and outside the pocket

8/6/2008 4:30:36 PM

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"Is Cutcliffe as good as Spurrier? maybe"

Spurrier's National Championship would probably disagree...honestly Cutcliffe's tenure at Ole Miss strikes me as Amato-like, he had a great QB and they were good for a while and after Eli left things started to go downhill. He was 4-7 his last season which was a pretty big drop off from 10-3 the year before. He's definately an upgrade for Duke but whether he can win there is an open question.

8/6/2008 4:37:57 PM

It took Spurrier 11-12 years to get that National Championship, so thats not really a fair comparison since Cutcliffe didnt have that long at Ole Miss

8/6/2008 4:45:32 PM

It was actually 7 seasons, but whatever

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM. Reason : you probably included his time at Duke too]

8/6/2008 4:52:50 PM

no it wasnt... he was at Duke alone for at least 3 years, 4 I think... then went to Flawda in 89... didnt win until 96

8/6/2008 4:54:22 PM

If you count total seasons being a head coach then yeah it took him 11 years or so, but it only took him 7 seasons AT Florida to win the NC which coincidentally was the same period of time Cutcliffe was head coach at Ole Miss. Spurrier obviously did about as good as one could possibly expect at Duke, no one was going to win a National Championship there.

8/6/2008 5:00:21 PM

I never said otherwise... just pointing out what Cutcliffe did in his tenure at Ole Miss cant be compared to what Spurrier did during his 'prime' at Florida... it takes a while

8/6/2008 5:07:29 PM

i just got my Clemson Alabama tix in the mail, and holy jesus... got section 135 row 20. thank you IPTAY gods! they're going for $500 a PIECEEEEE. unreal

8/7/2008 7:31:28 AM

tickets plural huh.... got any you want to get rid of?

8/7/2008 9:21:46 AM

Yep. IPTAY just sent us our tickets for Clemson-Alabama too. Can't believe the game starts in less than a month.

8/7/2008 12:24:44 PM

JB or whoever else.... if you were an oddsmaker, what would your odds be on BYU reaching (not necessarily winning) the BCS Championship game?

My pops in Vegas right now and one of the books has it at 150:1. I def. think they can go undefeated this year in the weak-ass MWC. But I also think that a one-loss UGA, USC, OSU, OU, UF etc team would be taken over BYU even if they were undefeated. Thoughts??? Just wondering if I should throw down $10 or $100.

[Edited on August 8, 2008 at 1:44 PM. Reason : g]

8/8/2008 1:34:18 PM

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"But I also think that a one-loss UGA, USC, OSU, OU, UF etc team would be taken over BYU even if they were undefeated."

8/8/2008 1:39:43 PM

Yeah, I'm guessing the only chance BYU would have is if all BCS teams had one loss, I have another idea on what I'll bet though.

8/8/2008 1:41:43 PM

Greco named No. 1 at UCF
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orl-collegeqbs1808aug18,0,4573748.story



Michael Greco's college football Odyssey is finally over.

Greco graduated from Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons High in 2005 and made two stops at other colleges before settling in at UCF last year. He worked in the shadow of starter Kyle Israel last year, and then found himself locked in a battle with redshirt freshman Joe Weatherford for the starting job this season.

Greco collected the reward for his long journey Sunday afternoon when Coach George O'Leary named him UCF's starting quarterback.

"I think he was consistent more often and made better decisions," O'Leary said of Greco.

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O'Leary added a significant caveat to his announcement.

He said both Greco and Weatherford will play this season.

" . . . As I spoke to them I said, 'Fellas, whoever goes in has to move the team and win football games,' " O'Leary said. "And that's the way it should be. I've always run with one quarterback, if I can. If I can't, then the second guy gets an opportunity."

When asked how he felt upon learning he was the starter, Greco replied, "Satisfaction."

Greco said he took O'Leary's warning to heart and understands he has to do a good job as the starter or he will quickly be replaced by Weatherford.

"You gotta get the offense down the field," Greco said. "If you don't move the chains, then you're going to get pulled and someone else is going to come in and move the chains."

He said that means there will still be plenty of quarterback competition at practice every day.

"Really, it don't change nothing," Greco said. "You just gotta keep coming out, practice working hard and just keep getting better."

Well, it does change a few things.

Greco said he felt immense pressure to look good at every practice and live up to expectations. He knew he was being watched closely and any mistake could cost him his spot on the depth chart.

Now, he feels slightly less pressure.

"It's like a big release on me and Joe, just to know where we stand," Greco said. " . . . I feel like I can relax a little bit and have a little more fun at practice, but I'm still going to give it 110 percent and give it all I got every day."

After speaking with reporters for the first time as UCF's starting quarterback, Greco showed a little more emotion. He embraced his parents, who watched practice and were on hand for UCF's fan day.

They have watched Greco take a long, winding road to earn a major college starting job.

Greco's first stop after high school was N.C. State. He seemed to be off to a good start, earning most improved quarterback and best offensive newcomer awards during N.C. State's 2006 spring practice. Greco wasn't happy at the school and decided to transfer to Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Miss.

"It just wasn't a good fit for me at N.C. State, and I knew I needed to find another school," Greco said.

He played three games at Pearl River in 2006 before he suffered a season-ending injury.

"It was just a lot of bad luck," Greco said.

Greco said he decided to transfer to UCF because he thought he would fit in well with the offense, and he liked the team. Once he joined the Knights for a few practices, Greco said he realized he was finally home.

"I love Florida and I was miserable everywhere else," he said. "I'm so happy to be back in the state, and I'm real happy to be here. I think it's going to be a real good year."

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im glad the kid found a home and a system to play in.

8/19/2008 10:57:22 AM

From EDSBS, on preseason predictions....

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" –North Carolina State will lose to South Carolina when Steve Spurrier, down 17-3 at the half, inserts Steven Garcia into the starting lineup. Garcia will lead the Gamecocks to 28 unanswered points, but will be lost for the season when he becomes involved in a barfight in the early fourth quarter. –Colorado loses to Colorado State when players discover that Nike’s new “resin dots” on their uniforms will, when eaten or smoked, get you high as fuck. –UCLA loses three quarterbacks in their matchup to Tennessee. Causes: scabies, misfiring orbital laser, coyotes. "

8/19/2008 12:12:31 PM