2011 College Football "The Real been hacked!!!!" .

[trelvis tha thrilla]

Originally Posted by Furrell

Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla

TCU's 2012 Big East Schedule

So if things hold up, TCU's 2012 schedule is looking like this so far...


Home: OU, Virginia, Pitt, USF, Cincinnati, Syracuse
Away: WVU, UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, SMU

I still

at this.

On pace to ruin the lifeblood of the conference, basketball.

How is adding TCU going to ruin the basketball? It wont effect the other teams, not like we are going to be stealing recruits or something. Plus, as good as the basketball is, football always matters more, no matter how you want to look at it.

 

[trelvis tha thrilla]

Originally Posted by Furrell

Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla

TCU's 2012 Big East Schedule

So if things hold up, TCU's 2012 schedule is looking like this so far...


Home: OU, Virginia, Pitt, USF, Cincinnati, Syracuse
Away: WVU, UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, SMU

I still

at this.

On pace to ruin the lifeblood of the conference, basketball.

How is adding TCU going to ruin the basketball? It wont effect the other teams, not like we are going to be stealing recruits or something. Plus, as good as the basketball is, football always matters more, no matter how you want to look at it.

 

[furrell]

Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla

Originally Posted by Furrell

Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla

TCU's 2012 Big East Schedule

So if things hold up, TCU's 2012 schedule is looking like this so far...


Home: OU, Virginia, Pitt, USF, Cincinnati, Syracuse
Away: WVU, UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, SMU

I still

at this.

On pace to ruin the lifeblood of the conference, basketball.

How is adding TCU going to ruin the basketball? It wont effect the other teams, not like we are going to be stealing recruits or something. Plus, as good as the basketball is, football always matters more, no matter how you want to look at it.

Just because of money its the only reason it matters more. At most Big East schools, football isn't the top dog at all and people don't care for it. People only care when they are winning and when they do they still can't sell out arenas w/ the exception of West Virginia. College football will never be important in the Northeast.

Because of the TCU expansion there are rumors swirling that parochial colleges will be dropped if we further expand in the event that the Big XII collapses to make room for schools like Kansas, K-State and Missouri; schools w/ both basketball and football. It ruins the basketball side because some of the most storied rivalries are that of parochial schools and non-parochial schools.

 

[furrell]

Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla

Originally Posted by Furrell

Originally Posted by Trelvis Tha Thrilla

TCU's 2012 Big East Schedule

So if things hold up, TCU's 2012 schedule is looking like this so far...


Home: OU, Virginia, Pitt, USF, Cincinnati, Syracuse
Away: WVU, UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, SMU

I still

at this.

On pace to ruin the lifeblood of the conference, basketball.

How is adding TCU going to ruin the basketball? It wont effect the other teams, not like we are going to be stealing recruits or something. Plus, as good as the basketball is, football always matters more, no matter how you want to look at it.

Just because of money its the only reason it matters more. At most Big East schools, football isn't the top dog at all and people don't care for it. People only care when they are winning and when they do they still can't sell out arenas w/ the exception of West Virginia. College football will never be important in the Northeast.

Because of the TCU expansion there are rumors swirling that parochial colleges will be dropped if we further expand in the event that the Big XII collapses to make room for schools like Kansas, K-State and Missouri; schools w/ both basketball and football. It ruins the basketball side because some of the most storied rivalries are that of parochial schools and non-parochial schools.

 

[39478]

Originally Posted by Caerus

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Ducks unis vs LSU

It's not even fair anymore, their jerseys are too piff!

I posted this %%! six pages ago 

I think these are their unis, save the numbering font, I think it's still gonna be Bellotti-Bold, regardless, it's piffery

 

[39478]

Originally Posted by Caerus

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Ducks unis vs LSU

It's not even fair anymore, their jerseys are too piff!

I posted this %%! six pages ago 

I think these are their unis, save the numbering font, I think it's still gonna be Bellotti-Bold, regardless, it's piffery

 

[n ll k 3]

Simple & Clean:

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That Muschamp PS contest. ;dfsfsssjfskjnc

 

[n ll k 3]

Simple & Clean:

---

That Muschamp PS contest. ;dfsfsssjfskjnc

 

[furrell]

From Big East media day:

[h1]Big East considering expansion[/h1]

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[h5]Big East Media Day Recap[/h5]
Ivan Maisel and Andrea Adelson break down Big East media day.Tags: Big East Media Day, Big East Conference, John Marinatto, Ivan Maisel, Andrea Adelson

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Big East is still considering expansion as it prepares to negotiate a television rights deal that commissioner John Marinatto called the most important in its history.

The conference will add TCU as its ninth football member, and 17th member overall, in the fall of 2012. The move gives the Big East another huge television market, along with New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, but could further complicate the relationship between the schools that play football and those that don't. The football members would like to add another school, but that choice has to appease the basketball members, too.

[h4]Big East blog[/h4]

ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson writes about all things Big East in the conference blog.

• Blog network:
College Football Nation

Marinatto said he will only consider adding a school that brings "value."

"There is no magic number for us," he said. "We want quality. We're a nontraditional conference. We find ways to make things work. We keep defying the odds.

The expansion issue will have to be settled before the Big East can dive into its TV rights negotiations. The Big East has separate TV deals for football and basketball with ESPN. Each expires in 2013.

The other conferences have been scoring staggering deals over the last year, the latest coming last month when the Pac-12 signed a 12-year, $3 billion deal with Fox and ESPN.

Marinatto said the Big East was close to signing an extension with ESPN but decided to test the market instead. That market is expanding with NBC now stepping into the cable sports network game and Fox looking to add to its inventory.

"Having last bat, last dance, provides us an opportunity to evaluate what everybody else has done," Marinatto said. "Our agreements four years ago were negotiated in a very different marketplace and during a difficult time for our conference.

"We now have a golden opportunity to secure our long-term security," he said. "We can again achieve equity with the other major conferences. ... We can't make a mistake this time."

[h1]High expectations in Big East[/h1]

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[h5]Big East Media Day Recap[/h5]
Ivan Maisel and Andrea Adelson break down Big East media day.Tags: Big East Media Day, Big East Conference, John Marinatto, Ivan Maisel, Andrea Adelson

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Big East is a conference in which struggling programs can get well quickly, big turnarounds are common and every team can legitimately start the season figuring it has a shot to contend for a BCS bid.

The league's members tout its competitiveness constantly. Five of the eight Big East teams have won a football championship since the league reconfigured in 2005 -- a fact brought up several times by commissioner John Marinatto and his coaches during the conference's media day.

"I doubt if there is anybody in this league that starts out with the idea that we're just trying to get to a bowl game," Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Pederson said.

[h4]Big East blog[/h4]

ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson writes about all things Big East in the conference blog.

• Blog network:
College Football Nation

It makes for a nice talking point, but balance can be both a blessing and a curse.

With no perennial national heavyweight to fight through since Miami and Virginia Tech departed, good isn't quite good enough anymore in the Big East.

Just ask Bill Stewart and Dave Wannstedt -- if you can find them.

Neither was at the Viking Hotel in Newport on Tuesday, both having been replaced even though their teams had compiled winning records and multiple bowl appearances during their tenures with West Virginia and Pittsburgh, respectively.

Now Dana Holgorsen is running the Mountaineers and Todd Graham is in charge of the Panthers and neither is getting a grace period.

In the Big East preseason poll, West Virginia was picked first and Pitt was second.

"The expectations are what they are," Graham said "At the University of Pittsburgh, they're about winning championships. Anything less than that is not going to be acceptable.

"You walk in our building and it says nine-time national champion, it says expect 10," he said.

For the record, the last time Pitt won a national championship was 1976 and the rest of those came between 1915-37.

But when Cincinnati reaches consecutive Bowl Championship Series games as it did in 2008 and '09 under Brian Kelly, it's easy to see why athletic directors in the Big East lose patience with coaches who can't seem to get their teams past the second-tier bowl games.

And with TCU set to enter the league in 2012, the competition is about to get tougher.

"I think we're realistic in term of our expectations and we have historically given people time to establish their programs but if you look at the league everybody here wants to win," Pederson said.

Pederson took a circuitous route to end up with Graham as his football coach.

He first hired Mike Haywood away from Miami, Ohio, but Haywood was fired after he was charged with domestic assault in South Bend, Ind. Prosecutors in St. Joseph's County agreed in February to not take the case to trial and for the charges to be dismissed in a year if Haywood meets conditions set in place by the court.

After Haywood was let go, Pederson lured Graham away from Tulsa, where he had three seasons with double-digit victories in four years. Graham brings with him an up-tempo style of offense that has become all the rage in college football. In his first two seasons at Tulsa, Gus Malzahn was Graham's offensive coordinator.

Malzahn left for Auburn, but Tulsa remained one of the most productive offenses in the country using the no-huddle that Pitt fans will see quarterback Tino Sunseri direct this season.

West Virginia AD Oliver Luck took a similar approach when he decided his program needed a jolt, bringing in a coach with an impressive offensive resume. And, just like Pitt, West Virginia's coaching change was far from smooth.

Initially, Holgorsen was hired away from Oklahoma State to be West Virginia's offensive coordinator and coach-in-waiting behind Stewart.

But it was obvious from the start that arrangement was awkward. Eventually, Stewart was ousted with three 9-4 seasons to his credit.

Holgorsen, who learned his spread offense coaching under former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, understands that there will be no honeymoon for him in Morgantown.

"Myself and my staff understand that," Holgorsen said. "We're working as hard as we possibly can. I can't have a little staff meeting with them and say 'Hey guys, we got to work a little harder now' because we're already doing everything that I feel like we can to be winning that first game."

After West Virginia and Pitt, South Florida was picked third in the media poll followed by Syracuse, which was last season's big turnaround team in the Big East, reaching a bowl for the first time since 2004. Cincinnati, which slipped to 4-8 last season, was picked fifth.

Defending Big East champion Connecticut was pegged for sixth, followed by Louisville and Rutgers, which tumbled back to the bottom of the Big East last year after an unprecedented run of five straight bowl appearances under Greg Schiano, by far the longest-tenured coach in the league at 11 seasons.

Paul Pasqualoni is back in the Big East, taking over UConn to replace Randy Edsall, who left for Maryland. Pasqualoni was coach at Syracuse for the first 14 seasons of Big East football and remembers the days when the rest of the league was chasing Miami.

"This league today is a very different league," he said.

Whether it's changed for the better probably depends on who you ask.

[h1][/h1]

[h1]Syracuse football players happy to get some respect at Big East media day[/h1][h5]Published: Tuesday, August 02, 2011, 4:25 PM     Updated: Tuesday, August 02, 2011, 4:35 PM[/h5]

By Nolan Weidner / The Post-Standard

Syracuse University quarterback Ryan Nassib at Big East Media Syracuse University quarterback Ryan Nassib talks to Post-Standard football beat writer Nolan Weidner about the offense's most significant off-season improvements.At Big East media day in Newport, R.I. on Tue., Aug. 2, 2011.

Finally, some respect.

Syracuse University’s stretch of being a Big East bottom-feeder, at least as far as the media is concerned, has come to an end.

The Orange — picked to finish last in the league four consecutive years from 2006-09, and seventh of eight teams last year – was elevated to fourth here Tuesday in results of a poll of two dozen media members who cover the Big East.

While the newfound status was welcome, it didn’t touch off any celebratory dances by SU head coach Doug Marrone or the four players he brought to the league’s annual preseason bash.

“It’s definitely a little different than what we’ve had in the past,

 

[furrell]

From Big East media day:

[h1]Big East considering expansion[/h1]

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[h5]Big East Media Day Recap[/h5]
Ivan Maisel and Andrea Adelson break down Big East media day.Tags: Big East Media Day, Big East Conference, John Marinatto, Ivan Maisel, Andrea Adelson

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Big East is still considering expansion as it prepares to negotiate a television rights deal that commissioner John Marinatto called the most important in its history.

The conference will add TCU as its ninth football member, and 17th member overall, in the fall of 2012. The move gives the Big East another huge television market, along with New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, but could further complicate the relationship between the schools that play football and those that don't. The football members would like to add another school, but that choice has to appease the basketball members, too.

[h4]Big East blog[/h4]

ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson writes about all things Big East in the conference blog.

• Blog network:
College Football Nation

Marinatto said he will only consider adding a school that brings "value."

"There is no magic number for us," he said. "We want quality. We're a nontraditional conference. We find ways to make things work. We keep defying the odds.

The expansion issue will have to be settled before the Big East can dive into its TV rights negotiations. The Big East has separate TV deals for football and basketball with ESPN. Each expires in 2013.

The other conferences have been scoring staggering deals over the last year, the latest coming last month when the Pac-12 signed a 12-year, $3 billion deal with Fox and ESPN.

Marinatto said the Big East was close to signing an extension with ESPN but decided to test the market instead. That market is expanding with NBC now stepping into the cable sports network game and Fox looking to add to its inventory.

"Having last bat, last dance, provides us an opportunity to evaluate what everybody else has done," Marinatto said. "Our agreements four years ago were negotiated in a very different marketplace and during a difficult time for our conference.

"We now have a golden opportunity to secure our long-term security," he said. "We can again achieve equity with the other major conferences. ... We can't make a mistake this time."

[h1]High expectations in Big East[/h1]

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Associated Press

[h5]Big East Media Day Recap[/h5]
Ivan Maisel and Andrea Adelson break down Big East media day.Tags: Big East Media Day, Big East Conference, John Marinatto, Ivan Maisel, Andrea Adelson

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Big East is a conference in which struggling programs can get well quickly, big turnarounds are common and every team can legitimately start the season figuring it has a shot to contend for a BCS bid.

The league's members tout its competitiveness constantly. Five of the eight Big East teams have won a football championship since the league reconfigured in 2005 -- a fact brought up several times by commissioner John Marinatto and his coaches during the conference's media day.

"I doubt if there is anybody in this league that starts out with the idea that we're just trying to get to a bowl game," Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Pederson said.

[h4]Big East blog[/h4]

ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson writes about all things Big East in the conference blog.

• Blog network:
College Football Nation

It makes for a nice talking point, but balance can be both a blessing and a curse.

With no perennial national heavyweight to fight through since Miami and Virginia Tech departed, good isn't quite good enough anymore in the Big East.

Just ask Bill Stewart and Dave Wannstedt -- if you can find them.

Neither was at the Viking Hotel in Newport on Tuesday, both having been replaced even though their teams had compiled winning records and multiple bowl appearances during their tenures with West Virginia and Pittsburgh, respectively.

Now Dana Holgorsen is running the Mountaineers and Todd Graham is in charge of the Panthers and neither is getting a grace period.

In the Big East preseason poll, West Virginia was picked first and Pitt was second.

"The expectations are what they are," Graham said "At the University of Pittsburgh, they're about winning championships. Anything less than that is not going to be acceptable.

"You walk in our building and it says nine-time national champion, it says expect 10," he said.

For the record, the last time Pitt won a national championship was 1976 and the rest of those came between 1915-37.

But when Cincinnati reaches consecutive Bowl Championship Series games as it did in 2008 and '09 under Brian Kelly, it's easy to see why athletic directors in the Big East lose patience with coaches who can't seem to get their teams past the second-tier bowl games.

And with TCU set to enter the league in 2012, the competition is about to get tougher.

"I think we're realistic in term of our expectations and we have historically given people time to establish their programs but if you look at the league everybody here wants to win," Pederson said.

Pederson took a circuitous route to end up with Graham as his football coach.

He first hired Mike Haywood away from Miami, Ohio, but Haywood was fired after he was charged with domestic assault in South Bend, Ind. Prosecutors in St. Joseph's County agreed in February to not take the case to trial and for the charges to be dismissed in a year if Haywood meets conditions set in place by the court.

After Haywood was let go, Pederson lured Graham away from Tulsa, where he had three seasons with double-digit victories in four years. Graham brings with him an up-tempo style of offense that has become all the rage in college football. In his first two seasons at Tulsa, Gus Malzahn was Graham's offensive coordinator.

Malzahn left for Auburn, but Tulsa remained one of the most productive offenses in the country using the no-huddle that Pitt fans will see quarterback Tino Sunseri direct this season.

West Virginia AD Oliver Luck took a similar approach when he decided his program needed a jolt, bringing in a coach with an impressive offensive resume. And, just like Pitt, West Virginia's coaching change was far from smooth.

Initially, Holgorsen was hired away from Oklahoma State to be West Virginia's offensive coordinator and coach-in-waiting behind Stewart.

But it was obvious from the start that arrangement was awkward. Eventually, Stewart was ousted with three 9-4 seasons to his credit.

Holgorsen, who learned his spread offense coaching under former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, understands that there will be no honeymoon for him in Morgantown.

"Myself and my staff understand that," Holgorsen said. "We're working as hard as we possibly can. I can't have a little staff meeting with them and say 'Hey guys, we got to work a little harder now' because we're already doing everything that I feel like we can to be winning that first game."

After West Virginia and Pitt, South Florida was picked third in the media poll followed by Syracuse, which was last season's big turnaround team in the Big East, reaching a bowl for the first time since 2004. Cincinnati, which slipped to 4-8 last season, was picked fifth.

Defending Big East champion Connecticut was pegged for sixth, followed by Louisville and Rutgers, which tumbled back to the bottom of the Big East last year after an unprecedented run of five straight bowl appearances under Greg Schiano, by far the longest-tenured coach in the league at 11 seasons.

Paul Pasqualoni is back in the Big East, taking over UConn to replace Randy Edsall, who left for Maryland. Pasqualoni was coach at Syracuse for the first 14 seasons of Big East football and remembers the days when the rest of the league was chasing Miami.

"This league today is a very different league," he said.

Whether it's changed for the better probably depends on who you ask.

[h1][/h1]

[h1]Syracuse football players happy to get some respect at Big East media day[/h1][h5]Published: Tuesday, August 02, 2011, 4:25 PM     Updated: Tuesday, August 02, 2011, 4:35 PM[/h5]

By Nolan Weidner / The Post-Standard

Syracuse University quarterback Ryan Nassib at Big East Media Syracuse University quarterback Ryan Nassib talks to Post-Standard football beat writer Nolan Weidner about the offense's most significant off-season improvements.At Big East media day in Newport, R.I. on Tue., Aug. 2, 2011.

Finally, some respect.

Syracuse University’s stretch of being a Big East bottom-feeder, at least as far as the media is concerned, has come to an end.

The Orange — picked to finish last in the league four consecutive years from 2006-09, and seventh of eight teams last year – was elevated to fourth here Tuesday in results of a poll of two dozen media members who cover the Big East.

While the newfound status was welcome, it didn’t touch off any celebratory dances by SU head coach Doug Marrone or the four players he brought to the league’s annual preseason bash.

“It’s definitely a little different than what we’ve had in the past,

 

[caerus]

Originally Posted by N ll K 3

Simple & Clean:

Legends

 

[caerus]

Originally Posted by N ll K 3

Simple & Clean:

Legends

 

[gunna get it]

Nate Dorch switches his verbal from UNC to Miami

 

[gunna get it]

Nate Dorch switches his verbal from UNC to Miami

 

[gunna get it]

Adidas Lightweight Joints

 

[gunna get it]

Adidas Lightweight Joints

 

[n ll k 3]

Adidas Lightweight Joints

Yup.  I'm slowly warming up to U of M rocking Adidas (thought the day would never come).

They KILLED the throw back joints (

) and these adiZero 5-Stars are the best football cleats in the world at the moment.

 

[n ll k 3]

Adidas Lightweight Joints

Yup.  I'm slowly warming up to U of M rocking Adidas (thought the day would never come).

They KILLED the throw back joints (

) and these adiZero 5-Stars are the best football cleats in the world at the moment.

 

[nako xl]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Ducks unis vs LSU

ill

 

[nako xl]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Ducks unis vs LSU

ill

 

[5am6oody72]

Originally Posted by Nako XL

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Ducks unis vs LSU

ill

 (In a good way). It will be interesting to see how they look in stadium lighting without a black BG etc. The way my monitor was angled I thought the tops were black at first, which I actually would have preferred. 

 

[5am6oody72]

Originally Posted by Nako XL

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Ducks unis vs LSU

ill

 (In a good way). It will be interesting to see how they look in stadium lighting without a black BG etc. The way my monitor was angled I thought the tops were black at first, which I actually would have preferred. 

 

[10508 cardo jr ln]

You are watching a master at work
Dude needs to be anointed Team Captain. 

 

[10508 cardo jr ln]

You are watching a master at work
Dude needs to be anointed Team Captain. 

 

[weaponry expert]

Stephen Garcia reinstated at USC.


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