College football 2018 Week 3 thread

They also open the season against USC, FWIW.

 

Ohio State plays Bowling Green and Buffalo in 2020.

(Oh and also Oregon.)

It's so dumb, guys. Teams are going to play one high-level non-con game and schedule filler for the rest. Every team. Every conference.

 

The makeup foul after Herbie demanding his boots be licked last season?

 

There is an AD known as "Jen"?

 

Colgate and Furman canceled their game today. Colgate donated its hotel rooms and meals to evacuees.
Class move.

Colgate-Furman Football Canceled -

 

Tech fans seem to think their program is in the same level as Michigan, Alabama, Texas, USC, Penn State, Oklahoma, FSU, Ohio State and a few others when it comes to national prestige.

Altering a famous movie quote... 20 years before Vick they were a bunch of hillbillies crashing their pickups trying to be Dale Sr. and 20 years after Vick they are still a bunch of hillbillies crashing their pickups trying to be Dale Sr.

It’s a good football program that doesn’t understand its place.

 

Please don't equate that tweet with Tech fans in general. Tech hired an incompetent boob as its lead media relations guy, and he continues to cover himself in shit in the way he conducts himself on social media. I'm far removed from my days of covering Tech, but I've heard nothing but bad things about the way Pete Moris runs that department. It's sad, really.

 

The way in which Whit Babcock and company kept stepping in crap and its incredibly tone-deaf attitude toward East Carolina and what it is facing in Greenville was mind-spinning.

IIRC, Jim Weaver was AD when ECU was the first home game following an ugly incident in Blacksburg. ECU brought a $100,000 check for the victims and showed a great deal of compassion.

Then Babcock and Co. completely show their butts (Cosmo, I mean those particular folks, not the school, Justin Fuente, Frank Beamer, etc.). They've been properly flogged in this corner of the world. Hopefully, lesson learned.

 

Reaching back a few pages to answer this, since I just saw it today. The answer, apparently, is to just ask nicely and repeatedly.

How Toledo unbelievably got Miami to visit the Glass Bowl

 

Whit should have kept his mouth shut. None of the inside baseball stuff about the contract, etc., needed to be aired in public this week.

 

Curious if they really try to exercise the "whoever backs out first pays $500,000" clause in the deal.

I understand the intent of it, but because of an impending hit from a hurricane is not a flimsy excuse. It's a real reason.

 

The Tech fans I've met attending games have all but nice folks. But when you have ESPN verbally fellating you every season with the same narrative -- lunch pail! Beamer Ball! (even though Beamer isn't there anymore), Bud Foster's D (which has allegedly has an on and off season meaning), Enter Sandman AND HERE COME THE HOKIES!! -- it's hard to not buy into the idea that you're someone special. Seriously, is there any other program who has done less that's benefitted from media hype like they have? They won a couple of ACC titles before Clemson became Clemson and Florida State was declining under Bowden, not much since.

It’s very much like Michigan, which hasn’t won an outright Big 10 Title in 15 years, but it’s the same bullshit narrative with Big House and Bo and whatever nonsense they’re pimping about Harbaugh.