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The USA mini camp is around the corner plus other national games with spurs players playing this month.
It should keep us busy.
Basketball is pretty much the only thing that I regularly watch, so consider yourself lucky if you watch the NFL...You'd have to something to watch while waiting for the season :lol
I asked my doctor the other day about putting me in a medically induced coma until mid October. She promptly referred me to a different kind of doctor...
I've had a busy summer so I don't feel this way at all. Damn, we are almost in mid August already. :lol
Oh the irony
63 more days before pre-season games...:depressed
Eurobasket will make for 2 weeks of good bball fix, then it's almost October.
NCAAF is so lame... the land where being in an average conference (C-USA) and/or losing ONE game renders the rest of the season unwatchable because your team is pretty much thus eliminated from playoff contention. Even if you go 11-1 and dominate an elite division including beating the other 11-1 team in your division, you still don't get in in favor of a 10-2 team because there's no conference title game. Stupid shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by FkLA
I'm pumped for the Cowboys, honestly. Go 3-1 with Hardy and McClain on the pine, then they come back and crush the Brady-less Patriots offense in week 5. Maybe lose a couple more games all season, but I REALLY want to win the @ Packers game this season. Always hated Green Gay and their shitty fanbase
Speaking as a European who pays attention to the NFL, the whole NCAA football Bowl and Rankings system must be the stupidest 'playoff' system i've ever seen. Sorry guys.
They need to expand to 8 teams tbqh. The fact that a power 5 champion has the potential to be left out every year is ridiculous. And that doesn't even speak to the injustice of a dominant non-P5 champion. They could rectify it so easily tbqh.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Did you live under a rock last year? It was pretty interesting, but the main problem I've always had with the system is weighing strength of schedule so heavily when teams do all they could do and go 12-0, winning nearly every game in a blowout, but never get to the promised land because of a situation out of their control. Boise State in their golden era of last decade would've made the new "playoffs" at least twice, even if as a 4 seed.Quote:
Originally Posted by dweaver99027
EXACTLY!! A team who goes 12-0, even if in an *average* D1 conference, is made up of young men who know how to win. They deserve a chance to fight against the bigger conference schools to prove their worth in the national light, even if as a lower seed. If they get crushed? That's fine, it proves they were ultimately pretenders all along that benefited off the easy schedule. If they do win? It's a major smack in the face to decades of "experts" who perennially say such teams don't belong in games against elite conference schools.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFBlue
a lot of time to worry about becoming bald and jerking off on pictures of dat sexy auntie tbh...Quote:
Originally Posted by apalisoc_9
I wasn't talking about last year's changes. Just a statement. The Bowl and Rankings system must be the stupidest system i've ever seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
The old system f'd the sh** out of BSU. That last year that their kicker missed the FG to blow the game at Nevada; they were easily the best team that year. They most likely win a playoff.
There's a unique bond between universities and it's alumni/students, that's why from the moment UTSA started the program I was more drawn to them than to the Cowboys who aren't even based in SA. Don't get me wrong I like the Cowboys but it's not the same way I feel about the Spurs/UTSA. But I know UNT has a horrible program so that probably sours your NCAAF experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
There's other things to look forward to outside of just the playoff btw. I'd be ecstatic with just a conference championship or a bowl win.
Yeah, 8 would be ideal. Should've been 8 from the get go but I think it's only a matter of time before they change it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFBlue
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Originally Posted by AFBlue
The problem I have with 8 is there will be some instances in which the so-called power conferences (who really run college sports) will squeeze out legitimate so-called mid major contenders. They don't have the power to do that in a 16 team system. They still have power to screw them in the seedings and make the mountain tough to climb; but at least teams then get something of a shot to control their own destiny.Quote:
Originally Posted by FkLA
In any given year, I don't think there are 16 teams that can realistically win it all. Maybe it's more than 8, but I think that's the minimum tbqh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurtacular
I don't think season opener is ever coming niggas
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Originally Posted by timtonymanu
Eh. It's erratic. Their heyday was in the 60s and 70s as NTSU but they're like a box of chocolates every season. I wouldn't call the program horrible, it's just not elite and they're pretty much one of those teams that needs a lot of things to break right to have a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by FkLA
Did you miss the 2013 season where UNT went 9-3, best team in C-USA, & won the 2nd-tier bowl game? That team was pretty amazing, and honestly had the capability to go 12-0 or 11-1. Got a few bad breaks early on, tore up the rest of the season for the most part, then had that weird home loss to UTSA at the bitter end (who seems to have their number) after having won the last 10 home games. That team was very well coordinated and had chemistry and had several solid wins on the year (Rice, Ball State, etc.) If only they had it to do over again... especially the painful @ Tulane loss caused by a questionable 15-yard penalty on a 3rd down play near midfield with about a minute left. Even the @ Georgia game they were tied about a third of the way through the 4th and had the Bulldogs facing a 3rd & long situation in their own territory; UNT had the momentum, so if they force a punt there, who knows what happens. But some guy blew a coverage and Georgia got a huge play out of that, got a TD later in the drive, and UNT never recovered. But after the Tulane loss, the rest of the season up until the UTSA loss UNT was scorching and locking down teams. Take for instance, Rice (who had played more competitive games against teams like Manziel A&M that year) who came to Denton and got demolished by UNT after the first quarter, including getting stopped 8 downs in a row from the 1-yard line on a drive in the 3rd. Bottom line is, that team had everything going for it but kind of wasted their opportunity and who knows when UNT will ever get that sort of a chance again. There were a lot of seniors that year, including the quarterback (Thompson, an Alex Smith-like game manager) and most of the defense and receiving corps. The 2014 team went through atrocious freshman quarterbacks and was lousy, going 5-7.
SMDH
still over two months..
8 is a fair number. Power 5 conference champions + 3 discretionary spots, I think the rule should be to take the top 2 group of five teams every year + 1 wildcard power 5 team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurtacular
:lol UNT wasn't the best CUSA team that year, if they were they wouldn've won conference. Yall also got the bowl win against a shitty UNLV team. Y'all had a good team though just not as great as you're making it seem. I went to that game in Denton and I was expecting a loss but UTSA put a beat down on them. Playcalling got conservative towards the end but UNT didn't do shit before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Anyways I say UNT is horrible bc they hadn't done anything in like a decade prior to '13 then went back to sucking last year. When you have a winning season every 10 yrs you're a shitty program tbh.
But you know it won't happen that way. It will be the top group-of-five team and two wildcards.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
I agree that 8 is the way it will be. There is so much money to be made from an extra round that it is inevitable.
I think the difference between the grizz series and the clips series is that we never had a chance against the Grizzlies, they fucked us up every which way possible. The clips series, we fucked up and lost off a prayer shot by Paul. We actually could have beaten the Clips whereas there was no way we were beating the Grizzlies. But I feel your pain old sport, after that series against the Grizz, I was ready to say goodbye to basketball as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dex