College Football 2014-15

Intrinsic

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Come support Auburn, you have a ton of choices. If you don't like Tigers, we have Eagles. If you don't like Eagles, we also have Plainsmen. We have some trees that were poisoned that we like to throw toilet paper on, after game parties at only the finest house trailers where almost no one gets stabbed, and a little brother complex that we overlook by staying classy and playing by the rules!
 
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Intrinsic_sl said:
Come support Auburn, you have a ton of choices. If you don't like Tigers, we have Eagles. If you don't like Eagles, we also have Plainsmen. We have some trees that were poisoned that we like to throw toilet paper on, after game parties at only the finest house trailers where almost no one gets stabbed, and a little brother complex that we overlook by staying classy and playing by the rules!
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dont forget the buck tooth cheerleaders.
 
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CaughtCross_sl said:
USC is such a question mark right now. Sark really was a middle of the road coach at Washington with some okay wins sometimes. Will the better talent SC is able to pull change things? Stanford game in early september should really show where the team stands. Would be nice for both UCLA and USC to be top teams at the same time so that the game actually means something when they play.
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Well you need to enjoy your relevance while it lasts so it's certainly understandable to want to actually have a meaningful game for you as it's so rare when the teams meet.
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Chanur

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Everyone here is a Cowboys fan so there is the benefit of following that as OSU Cowboys and OSU Beavers also have similar colors. Sooners just have a better name and colors though.
 
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Kiffin even made the goddamn Song Girls to go downhill, WTF! Sark better have this as the #1 fix for the new season:

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Chanur

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I don't even know who that is. Black + Cross + tats = survey says rapper?
 
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joeboo_sl said:
The other fun part of college football is the roster turnover. Does your team have an all-world QB that can do everything? Well, you only got him for a couple years, tops. The fortunes of teams can drastically shift in short periods of time. This always gives bad teams hope, that they are 1 or 2 key recruits away from turning it all around.

The total mystery and sometimes randomness of new recruits is interesting too. Nobody really knows anything about most kids coming into college as Freshmen, only the really top-end recruits have much research done on them that is available to the public. So a college team is much more likely than an NFL team to have a guy seemingly come out of nowhere to be an incredible player. Also, a persons maturity and physical development changes much more drastically between the ages of 17-22 or so than they ever do at any point after that. If you have a team that you actually start to follow, seeing 17 year old puny recruits come in as Freshmen, and then put on 50lbs of muscle and grow a couple more inches by the time they are seniors is cool to see. Personally, I met Aldon Smith(pro-bowl DE for the 49ers now, former DE for the Missouri Tigers) when he was a 17 year old kid, his senior year in high school. Met him at a Mizzou recruiting event. He was a 6'2" beanpole, looked like a basketball player or WR he was so skinny, but had HUGE hands and long arms, so you knew he wasn't done growing. I bet he didn't weigh more than 210 lbs at that point. Fast forward 3 years and he's a stud player who is a top 10 NFL draft pick, doesn't even look like the same guy anymore once he got into a big time college weight and nutrition program for a couple years.

An NFL team might have 6 or 7 draft picks each year, 7 new guys out of a roster of 50+, but a college team is generally turning over 20-25% of their roster every single year.
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The downside nowdays is with the new NFL draft rules and salary more and more juniors go out each year. So you really are looking at having 2 years if they don't play much as a freshman. Our whole program now is geared to knowing players that actually play will be gone before the senior year. A huge portion of the players now who are seniors are players who didn't play much.

Not all of course but the number of them gone in the junior year is getting larger and larger with the salary changes. No reason to stay the last year if you think you can be drafted.
 
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