ShallowsNole

I hate to sound like a broken record, but

Texas A&M at Miami(Florida)
Georgia Tech at Virginia
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Alabama
Kentucky at Arkansas
New Mexico State at Auburn
South Carolina at LSU


Fuzz tells me that Tebow's roomie gave Timmy some saliva. Is that true?

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whiteyfunn

ESPN GameDay will be in Ttown this weekend for the Bama-Jawga game. Alabama is 0-4 when ESPN is on campus.

From ESPN web site:
Unfortunately for Alabama, GameDay appearances have not been all that kind. The last time the show was here was in 2005, when LSU downed then-No. 4 Alabama 16-13 in overtime.

Before that, Alabama went 0-3 in games that the GameDay crew broadcast live from campus. The show also emanated from high-profile Alabama games at Birmingham’s Legion Field.


Just a little pick'em insider tip...

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30A Skunkape

I don't know how many of you listen to 'Southern Sports Tonight' a radio sports talk show that broadcasts out of the Florida Panhandle. The format is simple-the host fields calls from a pool of football fans and there is neverending rumination regarding Tim Tebow, Nick Saban, the Bowdens and all the other movers and shakers of southern football. The host had been predicting Florida to go 7-5 this year and furthermore predicted a Tennessee win last weekend. As the game neared, the Florida fans (sounding Alabama psycho about never losing again) became increasingly irritated and voiced their displeasure with the prediction. We all know what happened Saturday, and one of the engineers at the radio station (who was supervising the station's broadcasting of the Alabama game at about the time the Florida game was over) said the station phones began ringing with Florida fans demanding to speak on the air with the weekday host, who of course was not in the station. I think the host knew what was coming when he hit the air yesterday, so as a goodwill gesture he ordered 500 free buffalo wings for the Florida fans that would be available at the Destin Hooters, site of yesterday's remote broadcast. So I am listening to this driving home yesterday, and while he is talking, he just stops, and the engineer back at the studio asks if everything is alright...the host says yes, but you could tell he was really distracted by something. Then he laughed a bit, and said a group of Florida and Florida State fans had come to blows in the parking lot of the Destin Hooters. I wonder if this sort of thing happens at the Cambridge Hooters when Harvard and Yale fans start talking smack? If you have not heard this radio theater, you should tune in from 3-7 PM on 98.1FM.

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Lady D

The actual Commercial Appeal article in Sundays paper after the game didn't mention anything about the fans accusing Florida of running up the score, and there were two articles, both of which I read. It was some of the players on Tennessee and the Offensive Coordinator who made a comment about it, and I believe that was in the article by Ron Higgins, not Geoff Calkins. The very last paragraph. David Cutcliffe said no coach likes seeing a team continue to run up the score on someone.

Kimmifunn

It is Florida...They got it from Spurrier. You almost have to just let them do it. It's all they know.

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"Let's face it: We live in state infested with rubes and rednecks, particularly among Alabama football fans."- Paul Finebaum

Kimmifunn

Oh, Joe has a new one- 200Saban He was on FIRE this weekend.

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"Let's face it: We live in state infested with rubes and rednecks, particularly among Alabama football fans."- Paul Finebaum

whiteyfunn

That's not new. We've been saying that since Jan 3rd.

Joe- I can only imagine what he was saying. Probably a good thing I wasn't anywhere around him. We would have

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Lady D

Yeah, you are right Kimmifunn.

kurt

Sounds like sour grapes and ducking responsibility - isn't it the UT players and coaches job to stop the other team from scoring? What exactly do UT players and coaches mean by "running up the score"?

kurt

kathydwells

Exactly.

Good question. I am sure Fulmer wouldn't ever do such a thing.....EVER.

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Kimmifunn

Muahaha!

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gotothebeachmom

Is it against the rules to do this?

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Lady D

Lady D

Not that I am aware of, but I don't find it very impressive, and probably alot of other people don't either. I was just quoting exactly what the CA article actually mentioned as to this. If the players and Offensive Coordinator have issues with it, that is a problem they have to deal with, not me.

gotothebeachmom

I didn't know. Being Ga. Tech fans this is not a term that was that familiar to me.

So I guess what it boils down to is a matter of opinion, based on which side of the field you are sitting. Great if your team is the one "running up the score". Not so good if you are not. I guess there are debates for either side here.

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kathydwells

Just a little History from the VOLS.

At what point do you tell another team not to score? I mean, how many points are too many points?

Let me give you some examples of UT scores over the years. Do you think Fulmer told those boys "Now don't you go out on that field and score a touchdown".

2004
Sept. 4
UNLV
Knoxville
42-17
W


Sept. 25
La. Tech
Knoxville
42-17
W


Oct. 30
South Carolina
Columbia
43-29
W


Jan. 1
Texas A&M
Dallas
38-7
W


2003
Aug. 30
Fresno St.
Knoxville
24-6
W


Nov. 15
Mississippi St.
Knoxville
59-21
W


Nov. 22
Vanderbilt
Knoxville
48-0
W


2002
Aug. 31
Wyoming
Nashville
47-7
W


2000
Nov. 11
Kentucky
Knoxville
59-20
W





Nov. 18
Arkansas
Knoxville
63-20
W








I could go on....but you get the picture.

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kathydwells

Thank you.

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~He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is and inexorable, indisputable law.~ Pablo Picasso.

Lady D

Well, to be honest I find it boring to watch a game that is a blowout. If Tennessee were to run the score up big on an opponent I would still find it unimpressive. People can believe that or not, but that is actually how I feel. I don't care for it, I don't care who it is. Games like that bore me.

30A Skunkape

Florida certainly ran up the score, there is no other explanation for playing the starters all game and not running more when the outcome was determined (especially considering the Tennessee secondary was so thin due to injury and a patchwork unit). But I can't fault Urban at all...poor Florida wins the NC and has to start this year ranked (I think) 5 or 6? He has to get poll votes however he can to get BCS positioning, and hanging 50+ on people gets the job done.

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Kimmifunn

JUST what I was going to say. That boy Urban ran quite a campaign for the National Championship. If they go in with LSwho, WhoSC, he'll have those big numbers to poo poo them.

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BeachSiO2

This is the point. Although I would have GREATLY preferred it being the other way around, I don't blame Florida at all. Without a playoff system it all comes down to the OPINION of a bunch of voters, some of which who have probably NEVER suited up and played the game. To that end, you have to score big points against all the teams, just ask undefeated Auburn from a few years back.

Congratulations Florida, I hope you lose the rest of your games.

30A Skunkape

WhoSC really hacks me off because they don't have a conference championship game.

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kurt

UF did not play their starters all game. They played their starters until UT did. And then the UF backups scored rather easily by running the ball. The score might have been worse if the backups had played sooner. It's fairly customary to keep your starters in until the other team surrenders. UF trailed by 15 at the end of the 3rd, and still Uf threw only one pass in the last 12 minutes of the game.

The week before, Troy scored 28 points in the 2nd half and there was a lot of noise about that so maybe there was a point Meyer was trying to make to his own team, which is young and inexperienced.

Maybe it was about trying to get better with a sophmore QB in his first SEC start. Whatever the reason, if you're UT or anyone else you don't whine about another team scoring on you in the last 10 minutes, you do everything you can to stop that from happening.

Or maybe it was about playing within the rules to gain votes to give give your team a chance to play in the last game of the season.

Again - I ask what is the definition of RUTS? And why don't you hear about it in other sports?

Lady D

If they didn't play their starters the entire game including Tebow why did the announcers make mention of the fact that they didn't take Tebow out!

kurt

Meyer took Tebow out when Fulmer pulled Ainge. A lot of UF's second and third string played in the 2nd half. Cam Newton, the backup UF QB, played a couple of series and scored easily. Were the UT coaches and players upset that Tebow played in the 2nd half? The score was 28-20 in the 3rd quarter. At what score should tebow have been pulled? What do they mean by RUTS? Sounds like they are trying to save face when they are actually doing the opposite.

Kimmifunn

He's about to go pro, they just wanted to enjoy him while he's still around.

Please note, I am just kidding. I know that I "can't talk".

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Miss Kitty

LadyD...this is Miss Kitty, the football genius. I have a question...you don't like it when your team is behind and now you say you don't like it when they win big... ? You sound like Goldilocks looking for the game that is "just right"!!!

gotothebeachmom

This is why I go for the tailgating and use the binoculars to people watch.

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Miss Kitty

The football genius sez...

Texas A&M at Miami(Florida)
Georgia Tech at Virginia
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Alabama
Kentucky at Arkansas
New Mexico State at Auburn
South Carolina at LSU

Beach Runner

For two weeks I did my daily four-mile runs around the MIT Steinbrenner Stadium (football) before I realized it was a football stadium. It's just a football field with enough metal bleachers to seat at most 100 people.

Harvard and MIT do talk smack when it comes to other sports, like swimming and crew. But instead of fighting, they do pranks (like adding chemicals to the Charles River to fog it up and cause the crewing event to be canceled, or reprogramming an electronic street sign so that it says, "Harvard Sucks."

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Lady D

Yeah, I like games that are just right. I just don't find blowouts exciting. I like games where the team has to work for the win once in a while. A blowout game is not very exciting.

Beach Runner

I'll bet you win big in Vegas, too!

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Lady D

Miss Kitty, I hope I can get more games right this week so I can be up there near the top for a change. I did not do well at all the second week, did two better the 3rd week. Maybe this week I will have 6 pts. Upsets get me every time.

30A Skunkape

Kurt-RUTS is like porn;you know it when you see it, and Florida Field has often resembled a smut stand in the last 15 years

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kurt

I don't know much about porn but I didn't see anything unsportsmanlike in the UF v. UT game. It feels odd being accused of running up the score by an SEC east team who many fans and writers predicted to win the division.

It's one thing for a fan to get upset about a blowout, but how would you feel if your players and coaches blamed the other team for beating them too badly?

30A Skunkape

You know I was making a comparison to the Supreme Court's famous definition of porn

It is a sticky situation. I didn't pay full attention to the game once it became a rout, but I do know Florida scored its last TD with less than 3 minutes from something like 3 or 4 yards out. They already had 52 points on the board, so one could argue they could have knelt the ball four downs and let the clock run to nothing and give UT 95 yards and a few seconds. But, I know from my playing days () the benchwarmers work just as hard as the starters and there isn't much joy to going in a game in the waning moments and being told to take a knee when you spend so much time doing drills learning how to block, run, etc. Like I said, I don't blame Urban for doing what he did.

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kurt

Yes - the backup QB, Cam Newton, very much wanted to score his first career TD. Freshmen are like that.

Personally, I would have put him in the game earlier because he needs the reps. But as I said, the score might have been even worse. Maybe Meyer doesn't want a QB controversy.

Lady D

Thanks Skunky. Tennessee has run out the clock on several occasions not scoring anymore. Kathy hunted up all these games of UT's where most of them were blowouts but some she listed were not. I could find out when those games were but I am sure they were back around 1998 probably from when they won the National Championship maybe. I am mad at the Tennessee players themselves for the way the game ended up. Their defense didn't show up late when needed. For a while they had some good defensive stops, but it was just like they gave up. I think they need to get rid of Fulmer and the entire bunch of coaches and start fresh. And they just gave each assisting coach a extension of their contracts I believe, or something, after the Southern Miss game. Maybe we can beat Arkansas State this week. But it is pay per view only. So I won't be paying for that.

Miss Kitty

How about 'dem Mizzou Tigers!!!! #25 in the polls!

gotothebeachmom

Give a cheer for Mizzou's Tigers!

We will show 'em how to play.

Give a cheer for Mizzou's Tigers!

And our Tigers will win today.

We've got the team that will never retreat;

We've got the team they can never defeat!

Give a cheer for Mizzou's Tigers!

And our Tigers will win today!

Give a cheer for Mizzou's Tigers!

And our Tigers will win today!

GO TIGERS!

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Miss Kitty

...you're the best gttbm. My $$ and my son go to Mizzou!

bamabeachbum

Texas A&M at Miami(Florida)
Georgia Tech at Virginia
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Alabama
Kentucky at Arkansas
New Mexico State at Auburn
South Carolina at LSU

whiteyfunn

For the frustrated fans...

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Adult playground equipment...it's called a barstool.

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30A Skunkape

Texas A&M at Miami(Florida)
Georgia Tech at Virginia
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Alabama
Kentucky at Arkansas
New Mexico State at Auburn
South Carolina at LSU

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30A Skunkape

Reminder- Miami vs A&M is tomorrow (Thursday) night. Get your picks in. And c'mon, none of you Auburn haters want in on some New Mexico State action?

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Arkiehawg

Texas A&M at Miami(Florida)
Georgia Tech at Virginia
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Alabama
Kentucky at Arkansas
New Mexico State at Auburn
South Carolina at LSU

kathydwells

Arkiehawg, did you have a good week?

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~He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is and inexorable, indisputable law.~ Pablo Picasso.

Beach Runner

I'd call my sister's husband (a Mizzou grad) and congratulate him, but from what I've seen from him, he doesn't care about Mizzou football -- as is true of my fellow Tulane alums.

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cp

Texas A&M at Miami
Georgia Tech at Virginia
Florida at Ole Miss
Georgia at Alabama
Kentucky at Arkansas
S Carolina at LSU