Week 8 - Dec 25 to 31

[LETTERL]

Let me know if you find the secret to getting excited about traveling thousands of miles to play Pitt, Clemson, Boston College, Wake Forest, and oh joy now SMU as well.

Us southerners still have yet to find the secret to getting excited about traveling just hundreds of miles to play Pitt and BC and that pitiful funeral parlor called the Conte Forum. Good luck to all the Stanford and Cal fans as they maneuver a new terrain...although I am salivating over a potential Stanford/NC State rivalry in WCBB.

 

[baggerbob]

Well, when it happens to one of the teams you follow, please let me know how you feel about it. I wasn't happy. It was stupid...the officials insinuating themselves into the game.

A well officiated game, you don't realize the officials are there. They should never come up in talk after the game is over.

 

[Vowelguy]

A well officiated game, you don't realize the officials are there.

Unless play dictates it.

 

[Figurehead]

Oregon is failing at one basic key to playing basketball... they can't put the ball in the basket very well. After scrolling through several pages of NCAA stats I finally found Oregon sitting at #152 in FG % and #175 in 3 pt %. That's a big ouch. This is despite playing against only two P5 teams so far (@ Baylor, @ Oregon State) and a largely in the paint offense against smaller front lines.

Things only get worse with two games in LA next week. Revamping the offense and/or lineup not likely until after those two but I wouldn't be surprised to see some major changes for the home stand against the Arizonas.

The current outlook is bleak. I expect the Portal will be calling many names and attendance is drifting away. A shame really.

Maybe the AD needs to go? They are already facing a huge volleyball title 9 lawsuit for neglecting the sand volleyball program.

 

[Figurehead]

Are there any murmurings as to who might take over for him?

No idea but the rumblings are growing by the week against Graves. He is getting combative towards the medias questions. We have all seen similar situations like this, Not a good situation to feel isolated. No way anyone can withstand that sort of rejection through a season. Someone saw the AD Mullens watching the last home game and they said he did not look happy with Graves passive atitude. It is more than just rejecting a coach. I hear the backlash on Graves is getting ugly. The heat is on him from many different sources.

 

[newfrontier]

Let me know if you find the secret to getting excited about traveling thousands of miles to play Pitt, Clemson, Boston College, Wake Forest, and oh joy now SMU as well.

The whole state of affairs is such an indictment on the venality and inanity of the cartels that traffic in college athletics.

The coast to coast and heartland travel schedules for all sports for former Pac-12 schools Stanford, Cal, OR, WA, UCLA and USC are going to drive the players and coaches bonkers. I think Stanford and Cal should have stuck it out with OSU and WSU, but maybe their academic snobbery didn't allow that. At least in the ACC they have Duke to cuddle up to.

 

[visitingcock]

The coast to coast and heartland travel schedules for all sports for former Pac-12 schools Stanford, Cal, OR, WA, UCLA and USC are going to drive the players and coaches bonkers. I think Stanford and Cal should have stuck it out with OSU and WSU, but maybe their academic snobbery didn't allow that. At least in the ACC they have Duke to cuddle up to.

Add UVA, Notre Dame and UNC. Yeah, I know UNC ‘s history of athletic cheating on academics in football and mbb but they are a fine academic institution otherwise. BC and GTech ain’t shabby.

 

[TheFarmFan]

Add UVA, Notre Dame and UNC. Yeah, I know UNC ‘s history of athletic cheating on academics in football and mbb but they are a fine academic institution otherwise. BC and GTech ain’t shabby.

If we're talking purely academics, the ACC is an undisputed upgrade from the Pac-9* for Stanford and Cal. Outside of fUCLA and U$C, the rest of the Pac were fine but not notably academic schools, and schools like Wake Forest and Boston College, while not athletic powerhouses, are much closer to "peer" schools academically than ASU et al...

 

[Gamecockfan77]

The coast to coast and heartland travel schedules for all sports for former Pac-12 schools Stanford, Cal, OR, WA, UCLA and USC are going to drive the players and coaches bonkers. I think Stanford and Cal should have stuck it out with OSU and WSU, but maybe their academic snobbery didn't allow that. At least in the ACC they have Duke to cuddle up to.

I don't think it's a big deal in football at all, but the other sports are going to have problems.

Still, long flights are probably as good a study hall opportunity as anything. And it's not like they weren't already making trips and missing class.