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Brett Bielema is saying what he is saying to make it more acceptable to have an 8-4/7-5 season and "if only they were in one of the easy conferences this team would be in the playoff" Big Ten fans get upset about comments like this and cry and scream "O the unfairness! Oh how mistreated we have been". No big ten winning team has ever had any slight remotely comparable to recent big 12 teams or wac. People cry about strength of schedule of the big ten, but you never actually lose out compared to other conferences.

Is there a talking points memo sent out to Big Ten fans of the weekly items for complaint against the SEC?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 10, 2015 -> 08:46 AM) I think Sox fans are though. Yeah terrible for anyone to find any sense of joy through this miserable season. A player actually outperforming his talent? Let's pop this balloon! We must only have players performing at historically awful levels!

Honestly that article is dumb and makes me hate baseball. How many people are even paying attention to the white sox now? 5? 6? Definitely required a self-righteous "let me counter this overwhelming hype machine for a white sox late season call-up that no national baseball reporter even mentioned"

Glad to see JJ cooper did comment on sox players, when i followed it on twitter seemed like it was all comments on cubs prospects.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 06:08 PM) While funny, I feel like an old man in saying it's truly despicable to do something like this with potentially thousands of kids in the stands. Well, the good news then is very few fans are ever seated high enough in the stands to ever be able to make way of what band formation shape is.

Trey must have seen my power concern. I motivated him.

Yeah, but sometimes players are injury prone until they aren't. Hopefully that happens here.

Alshon practiced today. I hope he is 100% and not going to be banged up like last year.

That's what I thought he would look like but instead his at bats have been very patient and not pull heavy. So I'm sure long-run they are right but he's been very pleasant so far.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 02:49 PM) What is your take on Kansas State's band forming a giant D--K and penetrating a Jayhawk's mouth in the home opener last Saturday? League fined the Cats $5,000. Do you think it's funny or in this day and age of PC, unacceptable? They denied it was a d--k, said it was the starship enterprise. League still fined them. Yeah pretty sure that band performance would always be unacceptable.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 02:10 PM) Currently has a bWAR of 1.2 and fWAR of -0.1. Is that not large?

why does bwar and fwar vary so greatly with alexei.

Not to say Rodgers weren't insane, but it was just so demoralizing going up against a top ten qb, especially if they had a tight end.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 9, 2015 -> 10:54 AM) Every year is different, but Aaron Rodgers vs Bears last year was insane. 40 of 55 for 617 yards, 10 TDs, 0 INTs. Passer rating of 149.0. Only played in 6 quarters. Any accurate QB was basically given the entire middle against the bears last year. Tannehill, Brady, Rodgers, Romo...god last year was terrible.

Greg I'm pretty sure you'd love every George Will column and all columns.

Who is Michael bloomberg's constituency beside weekly columnist hacks?

I would like to see young players actually develop aside from Alshon.

I really don't think it's the headache. I just think most coaches don't want to suddenly become a read option team when their QB goes down, especially since the read option has not been effective in NFL for 3 years.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 11:08 AM) Maybe the other garbage QB's are given a shot because there's at least a very small chance of hitting a higher ceiling whereas everyone evaluates Tebow's ceiling to be pretty low? Also remember how the Broncos completely changed their offense mid season to suit Tebows strengths. Most teams want a QB who can come in and run the offense, and there just aren't that many that suit his strength. Where he has been signed it's been people trying to get him for a specialty role, but it's tough to have such a limited player.

Well that's probably why people should read things before commenting on them.

I wish Trey didn't fade so much in the second half. Really hope he starts to show power next year, as that slugging % is really low (honestly, surprisingly low to me considering the HRs/Doubles)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2015 -> 10:27 AM) If it is an NFL dump, it makes Goodell look like a bumbling idiot. Does it? I guess part 2 changes things. Part 1 just seems like an outline of "the whole rest of the league thought the patriots had it coming after spygate and so this was a makeup call, here's how bad the Pats cheating was".

It was a good read on how organized spygate was, and I didn't read all of it to see the stuff on the rams, however: - To me it's annoying with the timing I can't help but find it to just be an NFL dump to espn to gain favor - Honestly, I am not sure I followed spygate that well, as I thought it was all about the Rams not about taping defensive signals. I'm a little surprised that is illegal. Otherwise why do coaches cover their mouths as they talk, or try to obscure the signals at all?

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Sep 7, 2015 -> 07:31 PM) Who can beat Ohio St? Maybe vatech