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Yes they are. Have to say, this performance looks like a team that is good enough to be in the final 4.. Very impressive for sure. The question is, will the committee see it that way? Guess we will know tomorrow..

Got to say, Jones has looked good so far. Still a lot of time to go but he is doing a good job..

Yep. Congrats to Alabama. Good performance. They, Oregon and TCU have all done what they needed to do. It'll be fun to see who handles business the best tonight..

By that definition, I may never even sniff real golfer status....

A friend of mine has that heater. He said it doesn't work well if you don't have an enclosure of some kind because it will go out. He is looking to replace it with one of these .

I was listening to the local ESPN radio broadcast today while I was out and about. The likable factor was something they kept talking about. They kept saying he was far more likable than Pelini. If all other factors were identical (or really close), I might understand choosing him over Pelini but something just doesn't seem right about firing a guy with a real winning record because he hasn't won a conference title and then hiring a guy who is barely above .500... There almost has to be more to this than the conference title thing.. That, or Nebraska has become as stupid as Michigan was when they fired RichRod just as he was turning the corner with that program. I won't be surprised if Nebraska isn't looking for a new coach again in 4 years or so too.

To me, the two teams who look the most vulnerable are the ones sitting at 5 & 6. OSU because of the aforementioned QB situation and Baylor because K-State is a pretty good team and they rarely beat themselves. Anybody can schedule top 25 teams but beating them is another story. Auburn has won 3 games against top 25 teams. IF OSU wins this weekend, they will also have 3 wins against top 25 teams. And BTW, I am most decidedly NOT an OSU fan. I don't think that will happen. I suspect FSU has a loss in them yet but I am thinking they will win this weekend, jump TCU to be 3rd and lose to Oregon. At the same time I think TCU loses to Alabama. Ultimately, given the way 'Bama struggles with mobile QB's, I think Oregon is going to prove to be too much for 'Bama in the NC game.

This is why I didn't think OSU should move up this week. Barrett was 9/29 against VT before turning on the afterburners. Jones doesn't have the luxury of some tune up games. He basically gets one shot to give OSU a chance at the playoffs. If he shines this week against Wisconsin, then we can revisit their ranking. But having one week to prepare a guy who has 17 attempts on the year to replace a guy responsible for 34 touchdowns AND do this for an absolute must win game is a tall order.

I think OSU is overrated, but I don't think 6-6 is necessarily accurate. Everybody (including me) said Mizzou would be bottom feeders in the SEC too and clearly that hasn't been the case. Urban has a little experience with that conference. I suspect he could prep a team well enough to win the SEC east.

I know nothing about this situation other than what you have posted, so I can only go by what you have said in these posts. Above you called this guy OSU's best pass rusher, which implies he is an active member of the team. If he is not, and OSU has decided to let him keep his scholarship, that is their decision and I have no problem with it, provided he is not an active member of the team. I would also not have a problem with it if they had revoked his scholarship and dismissed him from the team. Either way, making statements such as, "Not like the convicts at UM" and then throwing up two players who were dismissed from the team as evidence that UM has "convicts" on their team is more than a little misleading since they in fact, are NOT on the team..

Not condoning either instance but "has" is present tense, implying the guy is still on the team. Whereas "kicked off" implies the two UM players are no longer with the program... No coach can keep track of their players 24-7, so the only gauge we can put on them is their choice in how they handle the situations once they are made aware of them. We aren't talking about weed, which is pseudo-legal in some places. We are talking about a drug that is illegal in all 50 states. IF the OSU player is still on the team, then.you and I apparently have different definitions of which coach made the appropriate choice.

But we are talking about crowning a national champ. You have to be in the playoff to have a chance to win the NC. So who gets in and why is very important. Leaving that up to a beauty contest or other bias is what is wrong with the current system. Set up specific criteria and eliminate the polls and human bias altogether. You think OSU should be in there regardless of the fact they are on their third string QB. Many disagree. Ultimately, it could be decided based on a guess made by a committee. But the Giants got into those playoffs because the NFL has a specific criteria for determining who is in. Everybody knows what that criteria is and what they have to do to be in the playoffs. No beauty contest, no human bias, no guess about future performance. There are 8 times as many teams in FBS as the NFL, so we can't really stand to have wild card teams as there could be way too many teams with identical records and no real definitive system to choose who should be in among those. Since the object should be to elminate the beauty contest or bias that is inherent is a system where the participants are chosen by potentially shifting criteria, we restrict it to conference champs, which also limits the field to a manageable number. No need for polls until the season is over (and that would only be for seedings if there were multiple champs with identical records). Hell, we could even consolidate conferences and come up with just 8 (there are 128 teams, which divides up evenly to eight 16 team conferences), leaving you with the 8 team playoff you want. Problem solved and injury or not, OSU would be in the playoff if they beat Wisconsin, even if that meant their punter had to play QB in the playoffs.

Ok then, let's just forget the whole playoff system and hand the trophy to FSU now. Would that satisfy you? After all, they are the only undefeated team in FBS. Why bother playing anymore games if beating them doesn't make you deserving of being called champion. Qualified means you met a set of specified criteria, as opposed to some objective criteria that seems to shift each week on the whims of some committee. Furthermore, saying that a GT team that beats FSU in the conference championship game wouldn't deserve to move on in a champions only playoff is absolutely dumb. That is like saying the 6 loss New York Giants didn't deserve to be Super Bowl Champs after beating the previously undefeated Patriots (who had also beaten the Giants during the regular season). Ludicrous.

Because in all of those cases, the teams are not picked by a committee or some computer, they get there by qualifying. You don't see weekly rankings on them either, just wins/losses. Thanks for making my point that the ranking system should be eliminated and the playoffs should be limited to conference champions! BTW, the baseball analogy isn't a good one. No pitcher at the MLB level pitches every game and in fact, it is very rare for them to pitch a complete game. QB's typically play every game and every offensive snap unless they game is out of reach..

First, to address the italicized parts... I didn't see this game. I saw highlights and read some stuff online. You are trying to convince me that with a 7 point lead in the middle of the 4th quarter, in a rivalry game against a team that , as you put it, "was keeping it close", your coach was just trying to run down the clock? Really? That doesn't sound like a smart strategy if you really believe the team is just as good with this backup as they were with Barrett. Furthermore, if I recall correctly, OSU got a rushing touchdown (that, according to the highlights I saw was real close to a tackle at the line of scrimmage) and recovered a fumble to get the two scores that happened with the replacement in the game. That doesn't on face value sound like domination to me but again, I didn't see the game.. On to the other highlighted comment... Benefit of the doubt is not what the committee is after. They are attempting to come up with the best 4 teams. So they are going to have to take a lot of things into consideration and yes, the loss of a key player is one of the things they have to look at. Given that all three teams ranked 4-6 are very close, it would be anything BUT fair to give "benefit of the doubt" to a team that loses it's star, over another team who hasn't and thus is a known commodity. BTW, according to those Sagarin rankings you seem so fond of (updated to reflect yesterday's results), every team currently above OSU in the CFB rankings is also above OSU in those rankings as well. Correct me if I am wrong (and admittedly I don't know for sure) but those rankings don't reflect injuries or benefit of the doubt either. And it is complete BS to say if they lose next week they shouldn't drop. Losing would be absolute proof they should drop as they clearly will not be the same quality of team that won the other games. You can stop talking about logic and reason now because you have resorted to just being a homer and grasping at straws...

Nothing is 100% certain. But you knew that and you also know that you really have no clue whether they can continue to play at the level they have done this year either, so your argument is no more "legit" than his. What we do know is, Barrett's replacement has 17 attempts and less than 120 yards all season in game conditions. The fact Urban had to tell everybody his name at the post game presser is pretty telling about how much experience he has up to now. Maybe OSU comes out next weekend and plays just as good or better than Barrett and if that is the case then you can argue your point and whether or not OSU is just as good and deserves a place in the top 4. But as of now, OSU just lost a guy responsible for 34 touchdowns and replaced him with a guy responsible for 2. Say what you want but when you change QB's, you change the make up of that team if for no other reason than the change in production and experience (there is always a reason the backup is the backup). Bottom line is the OSU team that will take the field next Saturday is NOT the same team they were this time last week and they should not be ranked this week as if they are.

That just goes to show how very different feel is for different people... I didn't like the feel off my putter at all and it didn't spin any more for me than the Hex Chrome I usually play.

I knew you played them because of your posts about them. When I saw he had them, I said I had heard they were a really good ball. As a 16hcp I wasn't really surprised that it wasnt a good fit for me but I was a little surprised the other guys (two 4's and a 3) said they didn't like it. You just nailed the balls they play (well the one of the 4's and the 3 actually play the Pro V1, not the x). I should see him Tuesday, I will ask him what he is going to do with them.

I swear I really wasnt drunk when I wrote that.................. Damn...... Stuff is missing from what I originally wrote................ That orginally said Baylor barely getting by Texas Tech, while TCU easily handled Texas......... I see Nebraska fired Pelini today. I have to admit I didn't see that one coming, though after reading the article, I guess it shouldn't be surprising.

No, what's worth repeating are her Carls Jr. (Hardee's down by you I imagine) commercials.

A buddy of mine got some of these given to him. He was passing them out today so we could all try them out. Out of the four of us, nobody was impressed. At the end of the round, he offered the whole dozen to anyone that wanted it and nobody took him up on it.

Not sure what to do about the flat finish drivers but I have removed many an idiot mark off of gloss ones with Meguiars NXT car wax.

Props to Mizzou for making it back to the SEC championship game for the second year in a row!! After not doing much in the first 3 quarters, they put on a clinic in the 4th to pull that out.. Gonna need to play better next weekend if they don't want to be embarrassed (notice what I said and didn't say there).....

I played last Friday and Saturday. First time I had played in almost 2 weeks. Temp on Friday was 42 with 15-20mph wind. Saturday it was 59 with 5-10mph wind. Shot 83 on Friday and 87 on Saturday. Saturday, I was better off the tee and in the fairway but was worse on the greens. Can't really explain that one but it is what it is.. At least I was playing golf!!

Matrix makes some shafts in a "firm" flex. I have seen them on their site. They appear to be similarly positioned between regular and firm.