Many years ago it was a common practice for teams like OSU, Bama & ND to oversign recruits when there were no limits to the number of scholarships a school could offer.
You have a point about being gracious about other teams. I'll try to live up to that.
Can I like this 10 times??? Great, great punchlinemeyers7, I am going to assume that your tongue is firmly planted in your cheek.I truly enjoy the wit and wisdom of most BY posters. I also enjoy a respectful debate, even one that includes some good natured ribbing. As our outgoing President has said, "We can disagree without being disagreeable."
With that said, there are some who feel compelled to denigrate the success of other programs such as ND, MD, Baylor, Tenn, Bama football, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the ____ (fill in the blank).
When you are a fan of the Huskies, one of the most successful teams in the history of sport, you can afford to be gracious to other, less successful programs, such as Alabama football.
Lots of them: the Steelers, Patriots, Packers, Giants, Lions. In fact, even the Browns might have given the Tide a game.
My father was from Boston and my Mom lived in Worcester but took her nurse's training in Boston. It was my Mom that was a huge Red Sox and Bruins fan and I inherited the Boston bug from her.
I haven't strayed. I do enjoy football. But we watch virtually nothing live - so - we skip the blah - blah hype and pre-game nonsense. Read, surf the net, do something around the house while I watch the game. Listen (briefly) to the announcers for insight, wish they would shut up most of the time.
For me it's Tennessee women. Hate them more than the Yankees, Duke men, UNC men, PSU football, NY Giants, and ND women combined....
That isn't a fair comparison. Football is different. I like that some conferences (could be all the P5's?) are insisting no more (nonD1?, non FBS?) OOC games. But in football, you can't afford a bad day against anyone. In WBB, you can. If, realistically, UConn had lost one of their strong OOC games - would they not still be ranked #1 or #2 depending on who they lost to? If UConn had lost to one of the strong opponents, based on everything else, would they not still be a favorite to be in the FF. In Football, you get at most one loss. I can understand not wasting the potential out of conference.
You point out a very real problem in college football. 1 loss teams may not make it into the playoffs and it's virtually impossible for a 2 loss team to make the playoffs. As much as I don't like the idea of extending the season for another week, I would like to see an 8 team playoff, with AQ's for the P-5 conferences and then 3 at large bids that could go to either secondary conferences are runner-ups from P-5 conferences. That might promote better OOC games.
I am sure one team was wearing their white unis and one was wearing orange but I can't for the life of me remember which was which.
