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My ideal solution is Bowden stays one more year, Fisher signs long-term, Andrews retires, Amato just goes away, and Fisher gets to hire a new defensive staff of his choosing this offseason and a new OC when he becomes head coach in January 2011. Make Bowden's last year about him and his legacy, not about all this infighting and drama, while still addressing the need for continuity and actually giving Fisher some power rather than just talking about doing so in 2011.
So the whole FSU-missed-the-boat and FSU-screwed-up-by-not-offering-this-kid story is predicated upon Daniels signing with a school that already had FOUR quarterbacks active, two of whom were Mr. Football award-winners in their states, and had a top-2 recruit already coming in. If Daniels wanted to come to FSU that badly, then good for him, but you know what? He STILL probably wouldn't be playing, and that's not a bad thing given Ponder's leadership and accuracy. Manuel may be great, or he may suck, the jury is still out, but either way you can't second-guess BowdenFisher for signing a big-name recruit at a position at which they were already pretty full. You know every other program including South Florida was getting in Daniels' ear and reminding him how far down the depth chart he'd be, and they were right. Not a knock Daniels, who has the makings of a great player, but the reality behind the numbers.
Also, I like watching Daniels play and I wish him the best, but he's not the reason South Florida beat FSU. South Florida's D-Line, George Selvie and FSU's crappy secondary were the differences in that game. The Daniels story is a dead issue, and a misinterpreted one at that.
I never said it SHOULD be in New Jersey. What I said was that, if people are going to invoke Canton and Cooperstown in their arguments to not move it, that they need to recognize that by that logic the appropriate locale would be in New Jersey. You've miscomprehended my post in assuming that I'm advocating moving it to NJ.
And, whether South Bend is a "dream destination" for "every college football fan" is nothing but subjectivity. Yes, Notre Dame is an iconic program; yes, Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen are legendary and had a transformative impact on the game. Absolutely correct. But should the HOF really be a vanity accessory for one program? Notre Dame is iconic, yes, but hardly the only icon in the history of college football.
Personally, I could care less where it is. My point, which I will make AGAIN, is that money talks, whether you like it or not. If it makes sense to keep it in South Bend, more power to them. I have no problem with it being there, just like I'd have no problem with it being in Ann Arbor, Lincoln, Los Angeles or Syracure. But it's hardly the birthright of Notre Dame fans to have the HOF in their living room as you seem to suggest, and if a larger market puts together the right package, the HOF people may very well listen.
Like it or not, money talks, and if not Dallas, it'll be talking from somewhere else. How do you think the College HOF was relocated from Cincinnati?
Can one of you please tell me, then, why the College HOF isn't in New Jersey, which is where Rutgers and Princeton played the first College game? If you can't give me a solid answer for that than you can't use the "baseball is in Cooperstown and football is in Canton and therefore college football should be in South Bend!" argument any longer.
I'm betting other cities come out with bids before its all said and done. Unless South Bend has the economic muscle to put together a comparable package, start boxing up the memorabilia.
If you're going to throw around words like "treason", at least know what the hell they mean. Calling someone names and being disrespectful is NOT treason, be it Obama or Bush. That's called "dissent", and while it may be petty, spiteful and not at all constructive, it's hardly treasonous. "Treason" is things like, say, questioning the full faith and credit of the US government as Bush did when he declared T-Bills to be "worthless" (his Parkersburg, W. Va. speech at thre Bureau of Public Debt -- look it up). But that's a whole 'nother story.
I'm a middle-school teacher, and I heard a lot of negative personal attacks on Bush and both Presidential candidates during this election, and I repsonded to them all the same way: "<insert name> is a person who, though their vision of what would make this country great might differ from yours or mine, is someone who has devoted their entire life towards achieving it at great personal cost to themself, and is therefore to be respected, not ridculed. Learn to separate the ideas from the person."
That holds true regardless of the candidate, and rather than throwing around insults and whining about how Bush was treated you might want to stop and think, because your "they did it so I will to!" makes you something I think is even worse than unpatriotic or treasonist, and that's a HYPOCRITE. And if you can't see that, well then, you're a dimwit as well.
Bitter partisans like yourself (and Pelosi, for that matter) who are so blinded by their own ideology that they can't speak in terms of anything other than tearing down the opposition are the problem here, not Bush, not Obama. You make me sick to my stomach.
And THAT's what I have to say about that.
Envy is such an unappealing trait.
Also, does the fact the Reid strongly considered 'Bama seriously warrant "Truth & Rumors" status? I think the rest of the country knew that a week ago. Must be a slow news day.
Re: Marve, he's lucky to have gotten any release at all. Miami didn't act fraudulently in recruiting him or during his career, and even with UM's restrictions he can STILL pay his own way to UF or anywhere else. Can't Marve Sr. swing that, with all that ex-NFL player loot? Either way, I'm sick of this story.
I don't think that we 'Skins fans rate our secondary any higher than Cowboys fans seem to be rating a receiver who has caught all of one pass for them.
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Amazing.....do you seriously think that, with Rodgers, Springs, Smoot, Landry, Doughty, et al., the 'Skins would need to put a guy they signed eight days before the game on Roy Williams??? Really???
Also -- none of that in one little bit puts a better light on T.O.'s reaction.
That being said, yes, the Cowboys playcalling was horrendously bad, but the biggest issue was that the 'Skins offense made the Cowboys D look like 11 Make-a-Wish kids whose wish was to play for the Cowboys. If not for stupid penalties Washington probably would've dropped 40 on them.
T.O.'s "clarification" changes nothing, and it speaks volumes that this team has reacted to a 2-point loss to a previous-year playoff team with this much finger-pointing (Phillips throwing Romo under the bus for calling too many passes, Me-O throwing Romo under the bus, Tank Johnson throwing his own DL under the bus and having a hissy fit over Cartwright standing on the star, etc). I love it! More, please!
Please, please, please keep underestimating the 'Skins. Please. 5-of-7 is great, but 6-of-8 sounds even better.
What the story SHOULD be is Romo's bush-league comment about how disgusted he was and what it's like "to lose to a team like that". Well, Tony, "a team like that" has beaten yours 5 out of the last 7, "a team like that" obviously is young, hungry and has no fear of you, and now you've given bulletin-board material to "a team like that" for when you go to their place in six weeks. What absolute crap that was.
racinwlf | 09/04/08, 04:24 AM
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Maybe not a proud man, but a smart one. If you can't learn from your mistakes and utilize the counsel of others to make yourself better, you're worthless to begin with. A previous poster said it correctly -- this is a no-lose for T Bowden; if he runs the table and goes 11-1 it's brilliant, and if he goes 6-6 he's gone and it's most likely forgotten anyway.