NCAA Baseball
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Baseball America:
1. Virginia (40-4)
2. South Carolina (31-8)
3. Oregon State (29-8)
4. Vanderbilt (35-5)
5. UFlorida (31-10)
USAToday:
1. Virginia (40-4)
4. UFlorida (31-10)
5. Texas (30-10)
|
TEAM |
SEC |
PCT. |
OVERALL |
PCT. |
|
UFlorida |
14 – 4 |
.778 |
31 – 10 |
.756 |
|
South Carolina |
14 – 4 |
.778 |
31 – 8 |
.795 |
|
Vanderbilt |
14 – 4 |
.778 |
35 – 5 |
.875 |
|
Georgia |
11 – 7 |
.611 |
21 – 20 |
.512 |
|
Tennessee |
5 – 13 |
.278 |
22 – 17 |
.564 |
|
Kentucky |
4 – 14 |
.222 |
19 – 22 |
.463 |
|
TEAM |
SEC |
PCT. |
OVERALL |
PCT. |
|
Auburn |
9 – 9 |
.500 |
22 – 17 |
.564 |
|
Arkansas |
9 – 9 |
.500 |
28 – 11 |
.718 |
|
Ole Miss |
9 – 9 |
.500 |
24 – 17 |
.585 |
|
Alabama |
8 – 10 |
.444 |
25 – 18 |
.581 |
|
Mississippi St |
7 – 11 |
.389 |
24 – 16 |
.600 |
|
LSU |
4 – 14 |
.222 |
24 – 17 |
.585 |
| Big Ten | Overall | |||
| Team | Record | Pct. | Record | Pct. |
| 1. Purdue | 7-5 | .583 | 27-13 | .675 |
| Michigan State | 7-5 | .583 | 24-12 | .667 |
| Penn State | 7-5 | .583 | 24-13 | .649 |
| 4. Indiana | 6-6 | .500 | 25-15 | .625 |
| Minnesota | 6-6 | .500 | 14-15 | .483 |
| Ohio State | 6-6 | .500 | 16-18 | .471 |
| Illinois | 6-6 | .500 | 14-21 | .400 |
| Michigan | 6-6 | .500 | 13-25 | .361 |
| 9. Northwestern | 5-7 | .417 | 13-23 | .361 |
| 10. Iowa | 4-8 | .333 | 15-22 | .405 |
You may notice that there’s a team missing from the BIG10′s usual 11 teams (right!)….Yeah, Wisconsin does not field a Baseball Team. They haven’t, in fact, fielded a Baseball team for 20 years now! The move was done, along with dropping both Fencing and gymnastics’ teams, to save $2 million. The ironic part of Wisconsin NOT having a team? - MLB Commish Bud Selig is an alum!! Odd why they haven’t promoted the notion of getting back into the game….they were a 105 year member of Big 10 Baseball prior to dropping the sport!…With only 4 of 10 teams above .500, it shouldn’t be all that difficult to get back…uh…”into the swing” of things?
Ohio State University Rocks!
Is this OSU Dance Video totally pimp or what? Move over High School Musical, let the kids from Buckeye nation show you how it’s done! I love how the dancers come in from everywhere, then when it’s over they just dispurse as if nothing happened! Congrats, you totally rocked this video!
Anyone that can get the hot OSU girl at the :48 second mark to be a Locker Room Hottie gets a free FatGuySports T-Shirt!
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Ohio State Going Home
With 3:00 left in the game, didn’t shit just feel wrong? Yeah Ohio St. had the lead, but only by a few points. Could you feel it? Could you feel it? I sure as hell could. After they were up by 9, with like 8 min to go, Turner just went cold. Listen, when you’re hot you’re hot, but when you’r not – PASS THE ROCK! There was several times I saw him ‘dancing with the stars’ under the bucket, while Buford and Lighty were wide open. However, Diebler was only 1 of 7 from downtown, so I wouldn’t of passed his ass a box of chocolates much less the ball on this night! Not taking anything away from Tennessee, it was a good game all the way to the end. But Ohio State needed to slow the game down and run some time off, instead they played right into VOL school history by sending them to the Elite 8 for the first time in school history!
And before Michigan fans start running their mouths, where was Michigan prior to the game? Oh yeah…HOME ALREADY!
PS – We teach Michigan hatred early to our young! 
The expasion talk, again….
The “OLD TEN” has watched their once mighty (well, it was in the 40′s – 60′s I hear) conference fall further and further behind everyone else, for years!
Before you think this is a “bash-the-Little-1(1)0″ piece, it really isn’t. The Big10 in trying to stick to its “traditions” has been slow to do most things other conferences have. The most progressive thing they (as a group) did, was UMichy’s hiring of Dick Rod – and unfortunately they are 2 years into that move and looking back on it with raised eyebrows. Think about OSU’s hire of Vesty…that’s NOT a move most other BIG schools would have made. It turned out well for them, but can you see Notre Dame or Oklahoma reaching out to an in-State small townie-Coach like that? You’re gonna have some success anyway, because of that old brand name, but still….low wattage. Paterno wasn’t part of the conf when he was hired,…back in 1921, or when he won Nat Titles; Making Tress the only hire who worked it all out. Though his EPIC failure against Florida in that Title game kinda took a shine off those earlier accomplishments.
The Big-Whatever conference has long been a 2-man race (No disrespect intended towards Wiscony, but really…until PENNIState got there, and got good again – boom, it was just OSU and Michy). Michy is struggling now, so its made PENNIState better. Two National Titles in the last 40 years, a losing record in the Rose Bowl, and 7 teams that dont instill fear in any MAC team, will do that.
Now they are looking like, or at least saying they will fill in another team, round off to 12 teams and get something new in the mix. For 15 years they’ve been waiting for ND to fall in their ranks, they resisted. (Mostly because the NCAA is filled with enUFf ND alum’s to keep the “gifts” coming.)
They missed out on Cincy, which would have been a super pick up (but who knew until a few years ago?)…now they are going to have to reach out to a Central Michigan, or try to pull some other ACC-like heist. Central Michy will need stadium/facility upgrades, but they are regionally a good fit. They also boast the best potential for quality, though they’d never win the Title…..which may be the plan, and it shouldn’t be. Waiting for ND to fall in line just ain’t happenin’!
Alvarez was always a good coach, hopefully he can rally enUFf supporters to get this done quick….A BIG10111? Conference Title Game?….YEE-hah!
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez says the Big Ten will soon make a more aggressive push toward adding a 12th member.
Speaking to Wisconsin’s athletic board on Friday, Alvarez, the former longtime Badgers football coach, said the conference already has investigated possibilities for expansion “from all over the country.” And though he places no timetable on the search, Alvarez thinks conference commissioner Jim Delany will respond to a group of athletic directors and coaches who want expansion.
“I have a sense he is going to take this year to really be more aggressive about it,” Alvarez told the board. “I just think everybody feels [expansion] is the direction to go, coaches and administrators.”
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has been the most vocal advocate of a 12th Big Ten team, and he has support from several of his fellow coaches.
A 12th team would allow the Big Ten to split into divisions and hold a conference championship game. The Big Ten typically ends its football season two weeks before the other BCS conferences, though the addition of a permanent bye week in 2010 will shrink the gap by a week.
“We’re irrelevant for the last three weeks of the football season because we’re not playing,” Alvarez said Friday.
Paterno has stumped for expansion several times, but Delany — who was unavailable for comment — told ESPN.com this spring that the league has no immediate plans to add a 12th team.
“There’s not an obvious move,” Delany said in May. “There might be to some coaches, including Coach Paterno, but it’s not as obvious to the university presidents and to the athletic directors.
“There are a lot [of schools] that could take a lot away, but there aren’t a lot that could bring so much to make the choice an easy one. You have to have a lot to make something go like this, and it’s broader than really a championship game or a basketball tournament.”
The Big Ten most recently expanded with Penn State, which began competing as a league member in football in 1993. The league has made runs at Notre Dame but hasn’t had serious discussions for several years.
UC falls to #8 in BCS Poll????
This’ll tick off some locals!….and maybe it should. I can’t get over USC being allowed to lose to HORRIBLE teams year after year, and still getting the highest ranking a one loss team can get! Washington?….Losing to Washington should discount them down to a 2 loss team. SURE,..the National Championship game in IN the Rose Bowl this year, and ooooh how nice that would be???….but WASHINGTON?….whew! The also (only) beat Oregon State by 6 points!?!?….UC thumped ‘em!
BCS Standings
Then there’s the IOWA love…which to a degree is valid, but a 4th and goal TD pass with no time left to beat Michy State?..If Florida or Alabama had done that, they’d have been blasted…..yet for Iowa?…They’re treated like Royalty for a BUNCH of really ugly wins, and one strong win at PSU. LOOK . They beat Northern Iowa by one?,..and beat Arky State by 3?……Florida beat REGULAR Arky by three and were beat down for it! I understand the love, to a point, but the hate for some teams and the global love for “anyone else” is a bit over the top. Particularly when you use a double standard like that.
Alabama Tennessee….THAT was a finish there!….UCLA beat those Kiffin’s? Hhhmm, maybe they were a little too pre-occupied with their next game to give UCLA the respect they should have given them???? Does that mean Meyer is responsible for 2 of Kif’s losses this year?
FGS top 10
1. Florida: Pros; Undefeated, beat a top 5 team on the road Defense very strong. Cons; Winning close games against teams they should beat by more. Offense not playing well, horrible turnovers.
2. Alabama: Pros; Beat Virginia Tech (neutral site), great D and POWERFUL RB in Ingram. Cons; have been close at times, including 2pt home win against Kiffin’s Vols 10.24.09.
3. Texas: Pros; Big win against Mizzu, strong D and Spl teams. Cons; horrible schedule, barely beat Okly in a game Okly lost 4 of 5 lineman and their QB. The BIG12 has no team in the North, the Title game will get ugly. conference is down.
4. UCincinnati: Pros; Explosive offense, beat Oregon State (away game) by MORE than USC did playing the game in LA! Cons; Haven’t hit a top team yet, big games are UWV and Pitt.
5. Iowa: Pros; Undefeated, beat PSU in Happy Valley. Cons; all wins are ugly/lucky. This is a negative when other teams do it, so it is here too. Also tOSU will beat them in Columbus.
6. TCU: Pros; undefeated, beat BYU like a drum on the road. Cons: barely beat Clemson (but it was on the road), weak schedule, any of the teams above them would also be undefeated here.
7. Boise State: Pros; Undefeated, took out Oregon -though Oregon was lost on opening day. Oregon wasn’t going to beat ANY team on that day, so a win, but more based on super timing.
8. Oregon: Pros; super offense, beat Utah, great looking uni’s and defense is playing well. Cons; lost on the road at BSU, RB sucker-punched a player on live TV, have won big, but not against a biggie (yet)….Cal was a phony!-but they did destroy them!
9. LSU: PRO’s; Beat Washington on the road (same team that beat USC) great defense, maturing offense. CONS: lost home game, but that was to #1 Florida. Still has to show up against Alabama.
10. Southern California: Pros; Great fan support, beat Ohio State on the road, beat over-rated Notre Dame on the road. CONS; Lost to 3-5 Washington!..should be -’nUFf said! Any loss to a team that bad, should disqualify this team. They lost to Washington after LSU beat them in the same building! No excuse can cover up this loss. They beat Oregon State by less than UC did IN Corvallis. They should need a LOT of help to make the BCS Game, even though its in their media market this year!
Mix in to the next five : Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State, PENNiState, Miami(U), and Pitt…. Not sure how ANYone can rate USC higher than UC at this point. They lost a game, and it was against a nobody. UC played a common opponent and destroyed them (OSUw).
What’s wrong with tOSU?….NOTHING!
NOTHING?…Ok, maybe not “nothing”, but ts not as bad as Miss Herbstreit is making it out to be today (on ESPN), either! Nor is it time to BENCH Pryor!
Vest Tressel might not be quite the Coach he was made out to be earlier in his career, perhaps more suited to the old time game than the newer versions? How do you take ANY kid who is 6’4″ 240 and runs a 4.3 forty,..and NOT get him to play better than this kid has so far??? I guess I’m siding with the scores of fans who are upset with Tressyball, as it applies to this years team, specifically. Tress should be aware of his shortcomings from a year ago, and maybe get the 2009 offense to cater to Pryors’ ability! Really, some of this is Pryor NOT being as good as the hype-machine “said” he’d be (or “was”), and part of this has to be Vest-man NOT adapting.
In Pryor’s “defense”, didn’t he play Div III Football in Pennsylvania? Not that there is ANY THING wrong wit hDIV III Football….nothing! Its just, he went from being a gawd in DIV III to playing in a BIG STAGE!….Maybea conference that was down, bt still a big stage (Program). Think about what a DIV III Coach will/aould do with a beast of a kid like T-Pry!….yeah, he knows there are huge mis-matches at that level when you have a shtud like Pryor going up against those teams. Not to take away ANYTHING from Pryors ability, and I understand he only rode the hype-machine (he didn’t write it!). Still, how many kids with his size and speed would be this average; at this level? Tressy is either wasting this kid, or he’s not that good?…or, maybe he can’t mentally absorb the plays?
WHAT IS IT???…and what will/can be done?…..yeah, nothing!…Tressel has a lot of built up credits in Columbus, so….deal with it and go. Still, fans are gonna vent,…but like we’ve seen in Cincinnati for 20 years, it doesn’t matter!
My opinion is, the only thing wrong with OSU is they lost a game they should have won. Nothing more. Think how USCw fans feel most years!, when they lose to a bad PAC10 team nearly every year. OSU will win this game today, and all those excited fans will feel a whole lot better!…..Then they’ll beat Iowa and Penn State and talk about how they should be in the Title game again!
Its Pryor’s turn now??
Tim Tebow will NOT be an NFL QB!…Its been said, and said and, to a large degree, ENJOYED by millions of fans who hate either the Gators, or the kid himself. Like pigs rolling in sh.t, I’ve heard and been told directly that many “In the Know” Football “people” had/have discounted the Florida QB’s chances of turning Pro, AND being a Quarterback (in the NFL).
Double “T” has lived with this kind of press for about 4 years now, and has done pretty well anyway. He’ll never, of course, do enUFf for ALL those ”kind” of fans, but!; He was a decent part of the ’06 Champions team, won a Heisman in ’07, then directed/led his team to a 2nd Natty Title (in 3 years) as a Junior ’08(a true Junior, at that!). Each year he was met with great media hype, but also great media gripe too! He’s marked by some outstanding defensive player, in nearly every game he’s played since 2007-usually for nothing more than “who” he is. He’s never disrespected another player, or talked up the smack. He’s never been arrested, or suspected of cheating in the classroom, or even gotten a parking ticket. He gives more of his time in a month, than anyone discrediting him will in 10 years (on average) STILL, he’s hated and marked for death (so to speak)….Yet until one of his own Line-mans knee went crashing into the back of his head (in the UK game) he generally made it out OK in every game (He did break his hand against F$U in 2007, but played out thru the Bowl game anyway). Each year Tebow has done,…OK, for himself, despite the Hate Nation!
NOW, following the unlikely loss by the Terrelle Pryor led Buckeyes, to lowly Purdue!….Mr Pryor is finally facing some critics of his own. Coach Vesty Tressy is too, it seems. Pryors High School Coach, Ray Reitz has taken a few passing shots at Columbus and Mr Vest recently, going as far as to say Pryor would be doing better had he gone to Michigan!…..Can you almost HEAR Richie Rodsmiling from here? Now, Pryor and OSU are far from dead, and I still bet he has a lot of good days ahead of him….BUT, the chatter now among the “experts” is that Pryor projects as a WR, not an NFL QB…..Funny to see how the Tebow haters, and Pryor lovers are going to sound off about this, latest twist of irony. y’all cursed him!
Bucknutts shouldn’t take this as a blast on them, Pryor OR Tressy!…No,…more like this is the same GOING, as it was COMING!..There’s no sense of “happy” over here, only pointing out what’s topical these days!
DOES this live up to the hype!?!?!?
OSU/USC….is it payback, or just another BIG game failure?
DATELINE: The Horseshoe, Columbus Ohio
The men of Troy invade Home Buckeye! EVERYTHING is on the line, for the Buckeyes and the BIG1(1)0! Terrell Pryor’s legend is made today, in this one as the Buckeyes take out their years of strain against the Frosh QB and re-tooled PAC10 defense. Prediction, Bucknutts 23 – USCw 17
WHY?…..WHY NOT?!?! The game against Navy was just an abberation, for one. And I dont buy into that “Ohh, but they run a unique offense” crap. Bullshtyie. It was game one, you should have been ready, They were just BORED!…it happens, get over it. Quality Football teams have these moments. You hold on to win, and you ALWAYS play better your next game! Proof?, just LISTEN TO THE SPEECH! The stUFf works. You know they will be coming out with pride and fire in this one, so just BOOK IT. The Frosh QB (Matt Blarkley) for the Trojans will falter, and they will have trouble getting scores today. Its nothing against him, he sure has the look of a great great QB, but as a Frosh in this environment, I just can’t see it happening. He may go on to to be one of the best passers in this game, and will certainly take home a closet full of hardware before he leaves (after his Junior season)…still, this will be a learning experience, not a win!;… and ooooh what a set up in N(h)appy Valley this will make for!!!!
So go ahead, jog on with your bad self!….you just KNOW she’s listening to the game.
How many games will Michigan win, in 2009?
Richie-Rod, BitchRod, or Dick-Rod, will have his hands full in ’09, but even if he repeats a horrendous 3-9 record, he’s still “THE MAN” in Ann Arbor. Or, it looks like it to some! Some “fans” are saying 9-3/6-2 is possible, while others (some rank Michy in the high 50′s Nationally!) actually think 4-8 is more in line with the reality. So,…of these games, where are the wins? (only 4 road games?…who do they think they are?…tOSU?) (* – a weak OOC schedule should help)
2009 schedule:
Sept. 5 Western Michigan*
Sept. 12 Notre Dame*
Sept. 19 Eastern Michigan*
Sept. 26 Indiana
Oct. 3 @ Michigan State
Oct. 10 @ Iowa
Oct. 17 Delaware State*
Oct. 24 Penn State
Oct. 31 @ Illinois
Nov. 7 Purdue
Nov. 14 @ Wisconsin
Nov. 21 Ohio State
Illinois Head-Coach, Ron Zook could spoil Richie’s day on Halloween!?
Can Richie and a true Frosh QB (and 15 total returning starters 105) navigate their schedule and reach a Bowl game in ’09?…Or will they be hoping to play spoiler by November 21st, and end the 5 year run of OSU dominance over them…???…Personally, I just hope they chump Chunky on Sept 12th!…It will be the only Irish game I have interest one, in….