So, when do college players who never finished high school go back to play ball there?
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Now the Presidents and General Counsels from some of the SEC schools are discussion possible ways to kick LSU out of the conference if they put these former NFL players on their roster. Also talk of declaring LSU’s games forfeits if they put those guys on the roster and not requiring conference schools to play LSU in other sports as well.
There is a hearing on Friday before the judge that issued the TRO. Going to be interesting.
Chances are those guys won’t show up on LSU’s roster for this week anyway since they haven’t really had time to join the team and practice with them much. And LSU is probably not going to want to test the other teams resolve if the guys either wouldn’t be playing or wouldn’t play much anyway.
Seems like a great way to create a nothing story:
Yeah, a million-run simulation will come up with unusual results. Newsworthy? Not IMO.
A better use would be to track important match-ups to see whether the outcome will change anything.
tOSU v IU, for example. How often does the loser make the playoffs? How much does the loser have to lose by to drastically change its playoff odds?
Or, for GoA interests: what is the frequency distribution on the number of teams making the playoffs from each Conference?
My prior post must have gone to the ether.
Anyway, USC seems very butthurt that its attendance was low. Now Lincoln Riley has to defend his program:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49799272/lincoln-riley-rejects-criticism-usc-crowd-false-narrative
Just wait until they see a half-empty Rose Bowl.
Suggestion: if you are in the B1G and you lose to Massachusetts in football, you are kicked out of the B1G for football and relegated to 1-AA FCS and have to win the title at that level before applying for readmission to 1-A FBS, and then you still have to earn your way back into a Power 4 conference.
Isn’t being in NJ punishment enough?
That punt just now by WIS vs ND was one of the greatest ever. It’s rare to see an excitable punt, but that was it.
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What a shitload of college football, none of which really affects the season.
There are, maybe, signs of greatness or shittiness. But who can tell?
CFP issued a statement in support of conferences banning former professionals coming back to college. It would be interesting to see them punish a team that actually uses one.
I’m continually disappointed in the use of replay to determine timing at the end of games, ala WMU vs MI. If you watched that game, when MI made the first down in the middle of the field from where they ended up throwing the 2 Hail Mary’s, and extra 2 seconds ran off the clock between the time the receiver was down and they set the ball for the 1st down. Why only check that one play at the end? Why not go back are review every play to remove the reaction time of the refs in signaling the clock to stop and the reaction time of the clock operator in actually stopping the clock?
What was the over on personal fouls by U-Dub, and who was in on that?
Here is a couple of pictures that show that they should have added 2 seconds back on the clock when Michigan got their first down to set up their Hail Marys. This clearly shows that the receiver was down with 13 seconds on the clock but the officials allowed an additional 2 seconds to run off when they set the ball for play. And then after the incompletion to stop the clock after the 1st down, they put 2 seconds back on the clock because it took that much extra time for the clock operator to stop the clock. And I have always thought soccer had the worst time keeping in all of sports.
Well, maybe you have always been wrong.
Referee keeps time. Seems that every other sport with separate people keeping time is a lot worse. Makes those sports unwatchable.
I meant until now. But you may be right, that I’ve always been wrong.
My problem is that I have seen situations where soccer refs will wait until an attacking team loses the attack before ending the half or game even if “time” or “extra time” has technically ended. I don’t believe I have ever seen a soccer ref stop a game when the attacking team is in a reasonable position to score. So it seems there isn’t any strict time limit for a soccer match. They would never end a game because time ran out just before a player kicked a shot on goal.
I have enjoyed all the memes about the extra second though. Pretty sure it will go on for quite a while.
You will agree that some time has been wasted during the half leading up to that last attack, yes? How much? Probably A LOT MORE than however long that attack takes.
Seems that American Sports have programmed the viewer to believe in exact time measurements.
Probably gone on long enough, but Sports People will believe in the conspiracies more than the fact that the game didn’t mean much. Michigan still has to win another 10 games at least (as does every other team aiming for CFP invite). This game showed either that they probably won’t, or it showed them not to fark around, to prepare better, and to play better the rest of the season.
But I thought the wasted time was supposed to be what is included in the “extra time” that is added at the end of each half. It annoys me but no where near as much as I am annoyed by football and basketball using replay to determine seconds at the end of a game and not accounting for human reaction time in those timing situations when totally ignoring human reaction time throughout the entire rest of the game.
Why not have soccer go to a timing clock like all other sports and have the ref stop the clock when there is excessive wasting of time on stoppages or injuries or VAR reviews and then starting the clock when play resumes and adding time at that point if the ref determines that there should be more time added?