Goodbye, 2010 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON - twas a great year,

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The video is on YouTube...not sure if you're on your phone or whatever, but the video is in the spoiler at the bottom.

He was basically just talking about the struggles of freshman year, and trying to get adjusted to a shaky beginning between the freshmen and the upperclassmen. He said they started to come together as more of a team during bye week practices and the week of practices before the Georgia game. He also said that it was hard for guys that were "the man" in high school to come into a program where you have to earn what you want. He said that it was tough to earn the trust of the players that had worked so hard and done so much for the program over the past few years. He said he doesn't know who is coming in next year, so he's not sure how the players already at Florida will welcome those players and try to smooth out the transition. He said he's hit a wall a few times (typical freshman struggles of being away from home, etc.), but that he's loving his time there.

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That was actually free content, you just have to make a free user name to read the boards. They have some stuff that is "VIP" access only, but there are ways around it. I don't have a subscription, but have read all of the VIP content on A&M's site.

Check your inbox.

But to answer your question, subscriptions are either $10/month or $108 for the year.
 
I think it's roughly the same as Rivals, Gunna... A lot of free content right now, though.
 
Originally Posted by GuttaGetsBusy

Steven Morris to start this Saturday?
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Yea he is. Freshman QB's usually don't do too well against us but our D is down this year (although the secondary is our best unit) and Morris has been playing pretty well.
I'd honestly like our chances better if Jacory was starting because A) He takes more chances and throws more INT's B) Our run D sucks and Whipple will run the ball a lot more than he would with Jacory in there to make things easy for Morris. Morris seems to play more within the offense and has a stronger arm.

Game is a tossup IMO. If Miami plays their best game and their O-line blocks well they'll probably edge us; our front 7 is pretty small. If they are smart they'll overload to whichever side Lyndell Gibson is on and run right at him.
 
Thank Nowitness for that 24/7 tip, Gunna. He's the one that told me about it.

The band playing during the game
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Kinda like Baylor blasting some music over the speakers during the TAMU game last week
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People are getting out of control with the Wrecking Crew #!#% right now, though
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You don't give up 400 yards and 30 points in one half of a game and start yelling "Wrecking Crew" during the 2nd half. Granted, we kicked the hell out of Baylor in the 2nd half. RGIII had over 100 rushing yards in the first half, and finished the game with around 94
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That defense back in the day was on a completely different level, though. For that matter, so was Kyle Field. This place is gonna be rocking on Saturday night. I can't wait...

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While I'm reminiscing about the old days...My roommate and I were talking about this play the other day, and trying to decide how big of a penalty it would draw in today's game:


The picture quality is horrible...but Andre Ware still takes any chance he gets to trash the Aggies because of this play
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On an somewhat related sidenote, I've heard that if TAMU, OSU, and OU have a three-way tie for the Big 12 South, and whoever wins the North wins the Big 12 CG, the Cotton Bowl would take TAMU over both OSU and OU.

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It's unbelievable how interested some people become once you start winning. TAMU students have pulled over 25,000 tickets already, and the freshman start pulling tomorrow morning. We have a student allotment of about 28,000. They suspended student guest ticket sales until Friday morning, after all of the students have pulled
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Some freshmen are gonna get lucky as hell, and get to sit down on the track, right behind the NU bench.
 
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Originally Posted by 5am6oody72

Anybody else seen this Auburn piece? I only skimmed it because it's so damn long, but it sounds pretty bad.

Clearly coming from an LSU fan it's gonna be biased, but it looks pretty damn well put together
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http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=22778676
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Wow at how long that post is... and he still has 4 more slots reserved to lengthen it! 
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If true, Auburn is done. Sounds pretty damning...
 
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[h1]McMurphy's Law: Ohio State Still Big Spender With Alabama, Irish Closing Gap[/h1]
By Brett McMurphy
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Once again, Ohio State features the nation's biggest spending college football program, but Alabama and Notre Dame have closed the gap.

Last summer when FanHouse reported the amount of money schools spent on football programs, Ohio State easily had the deepest pockets of any school in the country for the 2008-09 school year.

Even though the Buckeyes spent about $500,000 less in the 2009-10 school year, the Buckeyes are still the nation's biggest spenders. Ohio State had expenses of $31.76 million last year, according to figures FanHouse obtained from the U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics.

The 2009-10 school year is the most recent data that is available.

While Ohio State put the most money in its program for a second consecutive year, Alabama moved up to No. 2. The Crimson Tide spent nearly $5 million more than the 2008-09 school year, reporting expenses of $31.11 million.

However, the biggest increase was at Notre Dame. The Irish's 2009-10 expense of $29.49 million was a whopping $10 million more than the $18.74 million the school reported in 2008-09. The Fighting Irish, which ranked 20th nationally in 2008-09, zoomed all the way to third for the 2009-10 school year.

Like FanHouse's 2008-09 study, the SEC remained as the conference that literally puts its money where its mouth is. In 2008-09, the SEC had five of the nation's top 10 spending schools, but this year's study finds the SEC with six of the top 10: No. 2 Alabama ($31.11 million), No. 4 Auburn ($27.91 million), No. 6 Florida ($24.45 million), No. 7 South Carolina ($22.79 million), No. 8 LSU ($22.74 million) and No. 10 Arkansas ($22 million).

The Big Ten had two schools in the top 10 – Iowa was ninth ($18.46 million) – and the Big 12's top spender was No. 5 Texas ($25.11 million).

The other top spending football programs in the remaining automatic-qualifying BCS conferences and their national rank: the Pac-10's USC (11th, $21.37 million), the Big East's Rutgers (15th, $19.49 million) and the ACC's Boston College (24th, $17.97 million).

TCU, which FanHouse reported last week would be a perfect candidate as an expansion candidate for the Big East, ranked a surprising 12th nationally. Currently in the Mountain West, TCU spent $20.6 million, an increase of $4 million from the previous year and doubled the second-highest spending MWC school (San Diego State).

Other programs, besides Notre Dame and TCU, which reported significant increases from 2008-09 to 2009-10 include: Minnesota ($8 million, moving up from 72nd nationally to 29th), Arkansas ($3.5 million), Memphis ($3.2 million), Oklahoma State ($3 million), South Carolina ($2.9 million), Pittsburgh ($2.5 million), Texas ($2.5 million), Oregon ($2.2 million) and Temple ($2 million).

Not all programs spent more in 2009-10. In fact, every school in the ACC either spent less or the same amount than it did in 2008-09. The ACC was the only conference that did not have at least one school increase its expenses from 2008-09.

The biggest cutbacks in the ACC were Miami ($3.1 million less), Boston College ($2.5 million), Clemson ($2.5 million), Maryland ($1.9 million) and Virginia Tech ($1.9 million).

The nation's largest decrease in spending was at Iowa. The Hawkeyes reported $8 million less in expenses, compared to 2008-09. The Hawkeyes, who were the nation's third-highest spending program in 2008-09, only ranked 18th nationally in 2009-10.

Tennessee was another program that saw a significant dip in expenses for its football program. The Volunteers, who ranked No. 5 nationally in 2008-09, only ranked eighth in the SEC and 30th nationally with the Volunteers reporting $5 million less in football expenses in 2009-10.

Syracuse also reported a decrease of $2.5 million in 2009-10, the largest dip among Big East schools.

Not surprisingly, the least successful conferences also feature the programs with the least amount of funds. Of the nation's 18 football programs with the smallest budgets, six are in the Mid-American, six are in the Sun Belt and five are in the Western Athletic Conference.

Here are the 117 Football Bowl Subdivision schools – data for the three service academies are not provided – and their football expenses for the 2009-10 school year. Schools are listed by their future conference membership along with this year's overall national ranking, followed by last year's national ranking in parentheses. Expenses are in millions of dollars as reported by the U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2009-10 school year.

SEC
Rk. School (2009 rank) Expenses in millions
2. Alabama (4) $31.11
4. Auburn (2) $27.91
6. Florida (6) $24.45
7. South Carolina (13) $22.79
8. LSU (7) $22.74
10. Arkansas (23) $22.00
21. Georgia (15) $18.30
30. Tennessee (5) $17.35
45. Vanderbilt (43) $14.15
47. Kentucky (50) $13.90
69. Miss. State (52) $9.95
74. Ole Miss (71) $9.51

Big Ten

1. Ohio State (1) $31.76
9. Wisconsin (
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14. Penn State (17) $19.78
18. Iowa (3) $18.46
20. Michigan (25) $18.32
25. Nebraska (26) $17.93
27. Mich. State (36) $17.46
29. Minnesota (72) $17.43
36. Northwestern (38) $15.73
54. Indiana (57) $12.82
62. Purdue (53) $11.82
65. Illinois (64) $11.09

Big 12

5. Texas (9) $25.11
13. Oklahoma (12) $20.15
32. Texas A&M (33) $16.59
38. Okla. State (56) $15.47
41. Texas Tech (45) $14.68
46. Kansas State (44) $14.01
48. Missouri (38) $13.75
52. Iowa State (42) $13.36
53. Kansas (49) $13.33
57. Baylor (62) $12.46

Pac-12

11. USC (10) $21.37
16. Washington (21) $19.20
17. California (18) $18.51
19. UCLA (22) $18.39
22. Oregon (35) $18.07
23. Arizona State (29) $17.97
49. Arizona (54) $13.68
50. Stanford (47) $13.51
55. Colorado (51) $12.55
61. Oregon State (55) $11.98
72. Utah (68) $9.84
75. Wash. State (74) $9.18

ACC

24. Boston College (14) $17.97
26. Miami (11) $17.86
31. Virginia (28) $17.22
33. Florida State (30) $16.34
34. Clemson (19) $16.30
35. Virginia Tech (24) $16.30
37. Georgia Tech (32) $15.51
39. North Carolina (40) $15.36
44. Duke (37) $14.31
51. Wake Forest (48) $13.41
66. N.C. State (61) $10.48
70. Maryland (58) $9.86

Big East

15. Rutgers (16) $19.49
28. Pittsburgh (41) $17.44
40. Syracuse (27) $15.30
42. UConn (46) $14.40
43. West Virginia (34) $14.33
59. Louisville (59) $12.22
60. South Florida (65) $12.17
63. Cincinnati (63) $11.59

Independents

3. Notre Dame (20) $29.49
67. BYU (66) $10.31

Conference USA

56. SMU (60) $12.49
58. Rice (70) $12.35
64. Memphis (76) $11.55
73. Tulsa (69) $9.78
76. East Carolina (75) $8.56
77. Central Florida (81) $8.50
80. UTEP (80) $7.58
81. Marshall (85) $7.46
83. Houston (83) $7.33
89. Tulane (90) $6.68
91. UAB (92) $6.51
99. Southern Miss (95) $5.60

Mountain West

12. TCU (30) $20.60
71. San Diego State (67) $9.86
79. Colorado State (79) $7.84
85. New Mexico (78) $7.01
87. UNLV (86) $6.87
88. Boise State (98) $6.85
92. Fresno State (84) $6.49
93. Wyoming (97) $6.42
101. Nevada (93) $5.53

Western Athletic

78. Hawaii (73) $8.25
102. New Mexico State (82) $5.51
103. Utah State (109) $5.31
106. San Jose State (108) $5.25
109. Louisiana Tech (107) $4.78
114. Idaho (106) $4.28

Mid-American

68. Temple (77) $10.09
82. Ohio (89) $7.38
84. Northern Illinois (104) $7.18
86. Miami, Ohio (99) $6.90
94. Central Michigan (87) $6.05
97. Akron (117) $5.73
98. Western Michigan (94) $5.60
100. Toledo (91) $5.53
104. Buffalo (101) $5.27
105. Ball State (103) $5.25
107. Eastern Michigan (100) $5.03
111. Kent State (105) $4.39
115. Bowling Green (116) $4.05

Sun Belt

90. Middle Tennessee (96) $6.63
95. Florida International (88) $5.97
96. Western Kentucky (102) $5.76
108. Troy (110) $5.02
110. Florida Atlantic (111) $4.61
112. North Texas (112) $4.31
113. Louisiana-Lafayette (113) $4.21
116. Arkansas State (114) $3.76
117. Louisiana-Monroe (115) $2.98

Budgets by conference

The average spent on each football program per conference team using each team's future league membership as listed above.

1. SEC $19.51 million
2. Big Ten $17.88 million
3. Big 12 $15.89 million
4. Pac-12 $15.35 million
5. Atlantic Coast $15.07 million
6. Big East $14.61 million
7. Conference USA $8.69 million
8. Mountain West $8.60 million
9. Mid-American $6.03 million
10. Western Athletic $5.56 million
11. Sun Belt $4.80 million

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2009-10 school year.
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