The Official College Football Thread

[germs]

also, I 100% disagree with the Hoke hate.

Hoke is a better fit for the recruiting style Michigan should have than Les. Les can be the crazy scientist when he keeps amazing athletes year after year to save him on stupid calls. The expectations behind Les at Michigan would have been unrealistic and it probably would have ended in disaster.

Hoke recruits intelligently and tries to get the most out of whatever talent pool he has. I watched him literally turn around one of the shittiest programs in football. He also was a key assistant for Michigan back when they were having much more success.

[nassah]

I just found out that Hoke worked eight years in Michigan. I really don't remember him anyway. Now, I support the decision. I think it's a great move.

[nassah]

Texas, ESPN announce new network


AUSTIN, Texas -- ESPN and the University of Texas will combine on a 24-hour television network showing Longhorns sports as well as original series, studio shows, historical programming and other academic and cultural events.

There also will be an online component to the network offering content not featured on the linear TV feed.

ESPN will help develop, launch and operate the network. It will also handle distribution of the network, which is unnamed as of now. The deal is worth $300 million over 20 years. The network will launch in September.

Included in the coverage will be at least one exclusive football game, eight men's basketball games, women's basketball coverage of games not televised elsewhere, and Olympic sports coverage. There will also be pregame and postgame shows for football and basketball games, coaches' shows for every sport Texas sponsors and other daily programming. Plans call for 200 events a year.

In addition, there will be university news, coverage of lectures and visiting speakers along with commencement ceremonies, and even high school coverage on an authenticated online/broadband site.

"This is an extremely exciting new venture for our university," University of Texas president William Powers said in a statement. "With our partners, we are now able to increase the exposure of our outstanding athletics programs and our first-class academic and cultural communities. This agreement provides significant new resources to enhance faculty and academic support."

Later, at a news conference, Powers said: "We want to define what it means to be 'the' public university. The challenge is to create new sources of revenue to support our mission." At least $25 million will go to the academic side of the university over the next five years, Powers said.

"What an exciting day for Texas athletics," said Texas football coach Mack Brown. "I applaud DeLoss [Dodds, the school's athletic director] and president Powers for all of their work in getting this done. Any time you can partner with ESPN on a project, you know it's going to be first class and that it will present unbelievable exposure opportunities for all of our sports and the university."

"This network is a testament to the school's remarkable, tradition-rich success and widespread, devoted fan base," ESPN president George Bodenheimer said in a statement.

Powers said Texas is "firmly committed" to the Big 12 and that league officials knew Texas was pursuing a network deal even conference realignment threatened to pull apart the Big 12 last summer. Texas started researching a network deal in 2007.

sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6037857

[duckywolf]

sweet, everyone gets to watch them suck now

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Jan 14, 2011 0:01:51 GMT -5 Tmacz - UOSL4 Champions said:

Jan 13, 2011 23:59:43 GMT -5 nassah said:

Cam Newton looks like a nice kid. I don't trust African-American quarterbacks. I don't mean to be a racist.

You are being racist. Statement #1 and #2 contradict each other.

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Jan 14, 2011 0:43:06 GMT -5 germs said:

well, to be fair, the %s of top tier black QBs vs white QBs is pretty heavily skewed. Too small of a sample size when trying to compare the two.

[duckywolf]

Jan 14, 2011 0:05:42 GMT -5 nassah said:

When was the last time an African-American quarterback to win the Super Bowl? And who?

McNabb? ya but thats cuz black QBs usually have great running / athletic skills. Not many NFL teams utilize that skill. Most teams just care about passing really. IMO that's why you see a lot more black QBs in college football, and less in the NFL.

When was the last time an African-American QB played in the championship? Uhhh last I checked, last championship had 2 blacks starting at QB.

lol dumb statement.

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Jan 20, 2011 14:38:12 GMT -5 duckywolf said:

Jan 14, 2011 0:05:42 GMT -5 nassah said:

When was the last time an African-American quarterback to win the Super Bowl? And who?

McNabb? ya but thats cuz black QBs usually have great running / athletic skills. Not many NFL teams utilize that skill. Most teams just care about passing really. IMO that's why you see a lot more black QBs in college football, and less in the NFL.

When was the last time an African-American QB played in the championship? Uhhh last I checked, last championship had 2 blacks starting at QB.

lol dumb statement.

+10

[nassah]

Jan 20, 2011 14:38:12 GMT -5 duckywolf said:

Jan 14, 2011 0:05:42 GMT -5 nassah said:

When was the last time an African-American quarterback to win the Super Bowl? And who?

McNabb? ya but thats cuz black QBs usually have great running / athletic skills. Not many NFL teams utilize that skill. Most teams just care about passing really. IMO that's why you see a lot more black QBs in college football, and less in the NFL.

When was the last time an African-American QB played in the championship? Uhhh last I checked, last championship had 2 blacks starting at QB.

lol dumb statement.

LOL. I ain't talking about NCAA. Actually, McNabb didn't win by the way. It was Doug Williams. There are 100+ teams in the NCAA football. You can find many different ways to win a championship.

[Tmacz - UOSL4 Champions]

Garrard, McNabb, Campbell, McNabb, Troy Smith, Vick, Young.

All those guys started the majority of their teams games. 7 is pretty good.

Not to mention the amount of black QB's that are now coming out of HS/College are much higher than they were a few years ago.

[Tmacz - UOSL4 Champions]

Sure, they have won any championships, but I think the game is changing in favor of athletic QB's and you'll see them have more success.

[nassah]

No doubt. They are getting better and better. Doug Williams, Warren Moon, and Randall Cunningham opened people's eyes. They need a great icon. That's all.

[nassah]

Cunningham and the Vikings went 15-1 in 1998.

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