College football week 15 thread: The Low Sparky of High Heeled Boys

[Sam Mills 51]

Agree with that sentiment, Dixie, but the flag-planting on your rival's logo at midfield isn't about celebrating in the least. It's about taunting and provoking and escalating every step of the way. If it's OK to ban the finger guns and throat slash and horns down and getting in someone's face after a touchdown or a big sack, etc., then it's OK to ban the flag-planting.

Or let ALL of it go. And after the game, if a player wants to pull their deck out and stick it in the face of the losing quarterback as he's trying to walk off the field, then that's OK. Because if you don't want the guy's deck to be rubbed in your face, then beat them on the field.

I still go back to the point where SOMEONE has to be the adult in the room and decide it's OK to not be an asshole. It's been the expectation (obviously not always followed) for how many decades, for long before flags were being planted. It can be again.

It's as if winning the game and having bragging rights isn't enough. As if planting a flag just means more (and funny ... this didn't just occur at SEC games). Yeah, this pretty much starts with "don't be an a_shole," IMO.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I don't remember which game it was, but one of the losing coaches whose team got in a fight over the winning team planting a flag said "Oh, so now you want to fight?"

 

[justgladtobehere]

Hawaii Bowl is set: San Jose State returns to play USF Christmas Eve.

I'll start whipping up the eggnog now. Do people prefer Scotch or Bourbon?

 

[SixToe]

How much will USF lose by traveling to Hawaii? That payout can't be a lot, and even with a (maybe) slimmed traveling party of players, managers, staff, wives, side pieces, admins, it's a heck of an expense to fly from Tampa to Haavayee.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Through the power of ESPN+ I just watched the North Dakota State/South Dakota game from a couple of weeks ago. SD won 29-28 and it was one of the best 4-5 games I've seen this season.

South Dakota should have been South Dakota State too, but missed a game-winning field goal inside of 40 yards. Some bad late-game management there too.

FCS is a four-team race IMO with the three Missouri Valley powers and Montana State. South Dakota has the best defense of the bunch and this might be its best shot to win the FCS, but beating NDSU, SDSU or Montana State in the postseason is a whole different animal. Last year South Dakota upset NDSU in the regular season and got destroyed at home by the Bison in the playoffs.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Why mess around with a flag, just demolish a helmet at halftime.

Ducks smash Husky helmet during halftime of UW-Oregon game | The Seattle Times

 

[Deskgrunt50]

The comments on the Post story are frightening. It makes you wonder how much of the current crisis in America comes down to dudes not getting laid and unable or unwilling to put in the work to fix that.

Maybe there is more context that I'm missing, but I didn't take her tweet to be "Look what this awful person did to me!" It felt more like "Funny thing happened at work," and she took a playful jab back at the mascot shooting their shot.

The shirtty New York Post's comments sections are among the most vile areas on the internet. Ranking more vile? The shirtty New York Post itself.

They also turn off comments on stories that might fall slightly out of line of the lunatic-right agenda.

 

[tapintoamerica]

If Alabama makes the playoff, it will be the first selection to have lost a regular-season game by 15 or more points to a team that finished the season unranked by the AP.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Alabama will get in every time there is any excuse, any way they can make it happen. Stats, SoS, record, comps be damned. It's Alabama, Jake.

 

[dixiehack]

Long story short, I think there are 11 worthy teams under this format, which is the perfect number to cause nationwide gnashing of teeth.

 

[dixiehack]

February: Mississippi State decides to stand up a creative media team.

December: Hours after signing day wraps up and all the fancy graphics have been posted, Mississippi State wipes out its creative media team.

Merry Christmas! At least you have a mortgage in Starkville to remember us by!

 

[Neutral Corner]

This is a wild punishment, never heard of such a thing. It's not even that the coach ignored what the players did. /boggle

https://footballscoop.com/news/ncaa...ad-coach-of-back-to-back-d-ii-national-champs