College Football 2017

So Bama puts freshman qb from Hawaii in the second half. Not many coaches would have the guts to do that. Bama ties it up. They go into overtime. They get sacked. So the kid throws a 41 yard rainbow into the endzone for the win.

Given the amazing play by Bama it is an absolute mystery why Bama can’t get a great field goal kicker. Astonished in Aspen.

 

I'll bet this little party was fun.....

https://mobile.twitter.com/RoundersUA/status/950600986871128065

 

It's college ball...I'm never really impressed with freshmen play as the coaching and players in college football for the most part is bad and it why 99% amount to nothing and never make it pro. Even those that do, don't become a superstar/HOF and SB winner. The older I get, the more I can't watch any college sport. Even last's night game the players and coaching calls were poor on both sides. The Browns would annihilate any of those teams and it's why I have a hard time enjoying it...it's like high school.

The only good kickers btw are in the pros. Most people knew he would likely choke big just seeing him shaking on the sideline prior to the play.

 

You are correct but keep in mind that EVERY player on an NFL team is a pro. Like back markers in an F1 race, they are still the best of the best.

I was 100.00% sure he would miss that kick. Not 99%. 100% and it was ALL in his head. If he were screwing around at practice with that distance between the hash marks, he would nail it every time, like a layup.
That kicker from Auburn is the best in the country in my opinion. Why Saban can't get a good one is just beyond me.

 

Yeah I get that they are all pro, but some don't last more than a couple seasons even though they "made it."

I was texting my buddies (I'm currently in Bham) saying it's going to OT and that guy going to miss it before Hurts even moved the spot on the 3rd down attempt. I'm glad Bama won. I'm a UF fan and hate UGA as much as FSU. I was hoping for a blowout win for Bama, but honestly this ending was way way better to see the Dawgs go down like that.

 

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I'm a Gator fan, too, but this time I had to root for Georgia only because their last championship was so much longer ago. I have a lot of respect for Nick Saban but his teams win too often.

After the penultimate play, I was convinced that UGA would win because I didn't think their defense would allow 'Bama to convert a 2nd-and-26 and the Tide placekicker was shaky. Shows what can happen!

 

This championship is just another drop in the bucket for bama. It won't help their recruiting which is already great. If anything it may lead to more staff turnover and make it harder to win again.

If uga won, it would make it more difficult for uf to get back on top in the East.

The only sec west team I don't want winning is LSU as they're our annual rival and they have too many troll fans I can't stand. I'm glad they overpaid for their head coach and gave a long deal and now have the highest paid assistant. They're not smart...

 

Did you feel the same about Spurrier at Florida ?

 

GO SEMINOLES!

Hey you can't beat the toilet bowl or whatever it was called in Shreveport.

But I'm old. My last year at FSU was Bobby Bowden's first year.

 

Shreveport bowl is really the most depressing one of them all. I can't imagine any player looks forward to going to that.

Uab got to go to the Bahamas which is awesome. They probably don't even care they were blown out as they still won with that trip.

 

Hmm... let's see which bowl did UF go to?

 

Bowls outside of the playoffs are meaningless except for the players that get to travel and the various goodie bags at the events. Either you win a national title or the season was a failure.

 

Isn't a pro football player's average career like 4 years or something?

 

Yeah it's pretty short and I think it is closer to 4 like you say than a "couple" like I did. Pretty sad considering how much of their bodies they sacrifice going back to high school and pop warner to only make money for that long. Salaries are pretty low, too.

Median salary in NFL was around $800-850k between 2006 and 2014 (that's in 2014 dollars adjusted for inflation). The average salary in 2011 was $1.9 million as it's skewed by a few big contracts so the median is more accurate. Average career is 3.5 years.

Forbes has a good graph on the median salaries through 2014. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2015/10/09/the-typical-nfl-player-made-less-last-year-than-in-2007/#6a188c097c6b

Best to be in MLB. Other than pitchers, you don't have big risk for injury or physical issues later in light (soccer players' knees get jacked up). Plus you can make a ton for all those years. That's what I'd do if I had a kid that was deadset on being a professional athlete. I suppose golf, too, but that's not as fun to watch.

 

Look at JJ Watt. I have serious doubts as to whether he will ever play again.

 

3.4 years

 

Remember, in 12 years there, he only won ONE national championship.

To me there are six "elite" teams in the SEC, which seem to be a cut above the rest. Of those six, the only one that hasn't won a championship in the last 25 years is....UGA. The wealth needs to be spread around. (Personally, I wish Saban had stuck with the Miami Dolphins.)

 

To paraphrase the Terminator, "We'll be back!"

 

More depressing than Boise? Or Detroit?

 

Yep. Detroit bowl let's you play at Ford Field. Maybe only time a lot of those players will be able to play on TV in an NFL stadium.

Boise and Idaho is a nice place for outdoor stuff. Ski trips that time of year are great.

Shreveport is a fly over city with garbage casinos and trash.

 

And this has always been surprising to me. He and his program should have had more back then but for whatever reason, he just bagged that one. As good as he was he just could not get over that hump.

 

But before he showed up in 1990, we had never even won an official SEC championship in all the years the Gators had been playing football. There were a few near misses (like 1969) and a couple that we won on the field but not officially (including 1984), but none that stuck until 1991. I think that our fans were satisfied at that for the time being. But after 1996 even the SEC titles became hard to come by, which is probably why he eventually left.

 

P.S. Gator fans still consider us to be the 1984 SEC champs, because even though we were officially stripped of the championship, it was not awarded to anyone else. So if they didn't want to award it to anyone else (which they could have done), we still consider it ours. I even have a commemorative Coke bottle that says so!

 

Funny, how I have similar feelings about pro football, which, unless DeShaun Watson is playing this year, absolutely bores me to tears. Of course, nothing outside of watching paint dry, matches the level of boredom perpetrated by pro basketball. Yawn, is it over yet?