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NCAA / College Football 2012 Discussion
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JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »Honey Badger has been kicked out of LSU
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JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »Honey?
Doubt he gives a sh*t?
Looks like it could be marijuana again after a bit of a search. To be fair, I know it's a drug and athletes should look after themselves but it's everywhere over there, in college and out of colleges. Went to Boston for a bit last year and everyone (well.. a large amount of people - much larger than over here) was smoking the stuff.
Edit: lol - "After his 3rd failed drug test, Tyrann Mathieu appears to be well on his way to becoming a member of the Detroit Lions. "0 -
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UnitedIrishman wrote: »Doubt he gives a sh*t?
Looks like it could be marijuana again after a bit of a search. To be fair, I know it's a drug and athletes should look after themselves but it's everywhere over there, in college and out of colleges. Went to Boston for a bit last year and everyone (well.. a large amount of people - much larger than over here) was smoking the stuff.
He is stupid. 30 days is all you have to stay off the stuff for so it doesn't show up in your system. Most smart athletes stop smoking weed coming into Spring camp to avoid getting caught. So you are looking around Jan/Feb when most of them stop. The fact he was caught shows he was smoking while back on the field. What a moron.0 -
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I'm no advocate for banning weed and I think it's a bit harsh seeing as weed definetly doesn't boost a guys performance but rules are rules and any college has to have a set of standards for students who represent them and Mathieu has ****ed up royally here - 2 years left at college and he's already been noted as one of the top prospects in college football.
If it was 1 failed drugs test maybe it would be harsh - but after 2 strikes and being banned for a game last year you'd really think he'd cop the **** on - and as CoachTO has pointed out he probably still has a good chance of making the NFL albeit he mightn't be the round 1 pick he could have been but there's a good chance he'll end being one of those guys that we will be giving out about for being arrested in the off season etc etc
There's so many kids over in America who'd give anything to get the opportunities he's gotten to play at LSU, even just to get a scholarship to a top college but there's just so many guys that end up in college football who don't seem to realise the opportunity they've been given to set themselves up for life but just seem to want to piss it down the drain. Matthieu is probably good enough to make it regardless but still - you have to wonder what goes through their heads.0 -
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^^ red one isn't too bad in fairness, red and black just generally look awesome in my book even if a 2 year old designed it
White trim around the letters saves it though - without it even I'd say it was ****e
but the white one - is that Arial font 0 -
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Fighting Irish Throwback. They are awful especially the helmet. The iconic Gold helmet lost to this abomination.
http://www.lostlettermen.com/new-nd-uniforms-irish/
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Onecoolcookie wrote: »Really liking that one aswell, where did you order it from TO?
A friend in Wisconsin got it on pre-order in Madison for me. Don't think they are on General sale yet or if they are planned for general sale. He knows a guy who knows a guy
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2 days to go, woohoo!
To celebrate, here's a cracking read on the boy wonder.He was barely into this journey when the gift arrived. A picture from a newspaper in a simple wood frame with a personal note attached.
Dear Matt:
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young. Timothy 4:12.
Best,
Louie
Louis Zamperini is 95 years old, marching toward another milestone of a heroic lifetime. His body is frail and his voice gravelly. But his mind is as sharp as it was during those awful 47 days spent lost at sea during World War II and those 25 months after as a prisoner of war, enduring atrocities no man should live through.
So this gift three years ago to Matt Barkley was unique. Not only because of who had sent it but also because of what it represented. Somehow, it told the story of a life 18 years in the making.
For years USC quarterbacks have been lavished with hype and praise and a white-hot spotlight that can expose every quirk and any flaw. They’ve been the face of a championship program, and Barkley, only months removed from high school, was following four of the best quarterbacks in USC history.
Then the gift from Zamperini arrived, and the message couldn’t have been more fitting: Your youth is your strength.
“It was weird,” Barkley says. “It kind of made everything make sense.”
How could Zamperini, who ran track at USC, have known that a coach had told Barkley in sixth grade that he couldn’t play quarterback because he was too young, that he should play guard instead? Young Matt Barkley played quarterback the next day, started every game that year at quarterback and has started every football game he has played since at quarterback.
How could Zamperini have known that the first true freshman to start a season at quarterback in USC history was the same kid who had won the starting quarterback job at legendary Mater Dei High—as a 14-year-old?
How could anyone have known that after three years at USC, after sitting through NCAA sanctions the last two seasons and playing for nothing, Barkley would become a shining example of what’s right in college football—despite so much wrong at every turn?
An All-American who stayed for his senior season and turned down NFL millions and a missionary who spreads hope in Third World countries. A player whose decisions have likely saved a program and a young man whose actions have saved lives.
A modern-day Renaissance man. And he’s only 21.
“He’s probably too good to be true,” says USC coach Lane Kiffin.
Earlier this year, with the reality that Matt was entering his final season at USC and would soon be leaving for the NFL, the Barkley family set off for a mission trip to Haiti. This wasn’t unlike the last trip to South Africa or the trip to Nigeria before that.
Four years earlier, Barkley had graduated early from high school, gotten on a plane the next day and flown to South Africa. After serving for a week, he had left South Africa and flown to Orlando to play in an All-American high school football game—and then flown home and enrolled early at USC.
“Matt likes to take a big bite of life,” says Barkley’s mother, Beverly.
So it should come as no surprise that this time around, with the Barkley family set to serve together one more time before their son’s life turned really hectic, Matt added another curveball: He would invite 15 USC teammates to Haiti. So he graduated with a communications degree from USC in the spring, hopped on a plane a few days later with his teammates and served again.
After the great earthquake of 2010, more than 400,000 people still live under makeshift shelters in Haiti, a country utterly devastated by a natural disaster and continuing the struggle to rebuild. One family, like many others, had lost everything. The father had died in the earthquake. The mother had raised her three children alone under a tarp for 24 months until the USC group arrived and built a home after donations secured the necessary supplies.
“It’s just so humbling to gain that perspective,” says USC center Khaled Holmes, a childhood friend of Barkley’s. “Matt said it would be a great team-building exercise. It was a life-changing moment.”
"Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young. But set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”
— Timothy 4:12
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They still keep his room at their Orange County home, about a 45-minute drive—on a good day in L.A. traffic—door to door from the USC campus.
At one point during his first season at USC, when Barkley would often return for home-cooked meals and fresh laundry, Beverly walked her son into his room and showed him a corkboard. On that corkboard was a mini No. 7 jersey.
“I said, ‘Look at this, Matt—someone wears this,’ ” Beverly says. “ ‘Remember, someone’s little boy wears this.’ ”
He was the little boy once. He was the 5-year-old who walked into a kindergarten class and first met a cute classmate who made a clumsy boy feel happy. He and Brittany Langdon have known each other ever since, a bond that has stretched from playing musical chairs to figuring out the logistics of attending universities 1,100 miles apart.
He’s an All-American quarterback at USC; she’s a soccer player at Seattle Pacific University. They’d be married right now if Barkley had left USC early for the NFL. Instead, he says, they’ll wait until after the season and after he is drafted in April 2013 to put a ring on a 17-year relationship.
“I couldn’t go on a date with her until she was 16,” Barkley says. “The week after she turned 16, I asked her out.”
He was the young quarterback once—one who almost wasn’t. He was 11 years old when his Junior All-American coach in Newport Beach told him he was too young to play quarterback.
So the boy who used to wear the USC No. 3 jersey of quarterback Carson Palmer, who says he knew from the day he picked up a football that he wanted to play quarterback for the Trojans, who this year will likely break every significant passing record in USC history, was penciled in at guard.
That’s when Brent Melbon changed the course of what could have been. The longtime California high school assistant was asked to run the offense of the JAA team, and he threatened to quit if Barkley couldn’t play quarterback.
“We joke about that with Matt all the time,” says Matt’s father, Les. “But in Orange County, with all the competition at such an early age, you never know what would’ve happened had he not been able to play quarterback.”
Three short years later, he was the young boy standing on the varsity field at Mater Dei High School ready to do the unthinkable. The same field where John Huarte, who would eventually win a Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame, led the Monarchs in the 1960s. Where USC All-American Matt Leinart played before he went on to win a Heisman. Where Colt Brennan played before he was a Heisman finalist at Hawaii.
Barkley wanted to play quarterback. Mater Dei coach Bruce Rollinson wanted him to play quarterback. But the California Interscholastic Federation forbade it; he was too young.
So Les Barkley got letters from everyone involved, including the principal at Mater Dei and Matt’s pediatrician, asking CIF to allow this boy to play for one of the most powerful high school programs in the nation. The waiver was granted, and a few weeks later, Barkley won the starting job and was sitting in a locker room in Santa Ana, Calif., ready to play football in front of 10,000 fans.
“One of the things that has separated Matt from the others is his innate ability to stay calm and take on each challenge,” says Robbie Boyer, Barkley’s cousin and teammate at Mater Dei and USC. “He has never been one to be overwhelmed with anything.”
The Monarchs lost that day to Orange Lutheran, Barkley’s last-minute drive ending in Orange Lutheran territory. The quarterback on the other side of the ball that day? A future five-star recruit named Aaron Corp.
Barkley’s main competition at USC in fall camp of his freshman season? Aaron Corp.
“I won that time,” Barkley says with a laugh.
Not without more doubts and second-guesses. Not without Trojans coach Pete Carroll doing the unimaginable and placing his powerful program in the hands of a true freshman.
It had never been done before at USC, and Corp had waited patiently like the quarterbacks before him: Mark Sanchez, John David Booty and Leinart. Carroll was breaking his own process, introducing dramatic change to a method that was merely the foundation of the best college football team over the previous decade.
Two weeks into that 2009 season—less than a week after Barkley turned 19—USC traveled to play at No. 8 Ohio State in front of 106,000 fans and won. Barkley engineered the winning drive as calmly and coolly as Palmer or Leinart ever could.
“Matty was different from Day 1,” Carroll says. “I remember telling our guys this kid is going to do things (at USC) that have never been done before.”
But little did they all know the full extent of his impact on a program, a university and a sport.
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He had two chances to leave, you know. Could have walked away from USC and no one would have blamed him.
The first time: when the program was hit with harsh NCAA sanctions after his freshman season.
The second: when NFL millions flashed before him.
He stayed each time, his actions of two years ago likely saving a program from the deep funk of NCAA probation. His decision last winter to wait on the NFL setting up the possibility of a national championship run this season—and setting up future USC teams to navigate significant scholarship losses from NCAA sanctions.
Set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
“It’s not a stretch to say we’re not where we are right now without Matt,” says Kiffin. “In every sense of that statement.”
They’re not a preseason favorite to win the Pac-12 and advance to the BCS national championship game. They’re not a program that, despite scholarship cuts that would debilitate most teams (10 per year for three years beginning last February), has the best chance to end the SEC’s recent domination of the sport.
It’s fairly simple, Kiffin says. If Barkley had left after his freshman season and transferred to another school without the penalty of sitting out a season, how many others would have followed? If his quarterback—his 19-year-old team leader—had bailed, there’s no telling how ugly it could have gotten.
Kiffin has used the Barkley story—an elite player standing his ground and standing up for his team despite having nothing to play for the past two seasons because of an NCAA bowl ban—frequently on the recruiting trail. And it’s pure gold.
Kiffin’s three recruiting classes at USC have been so impressive and so complete—and his fourth is currently ranked No. 1 despite having 10 fewer scholarships to give—the sanctions that should have leveled the program are now merely a hiccup.
Kiffin isn’t shy about saying it, and it can’t be overstated: By staying, Barkley saved a program, even though it really wasn’t his intention. He stayed because, more than anything, he was finishing what was started.
“I’m not a huge sports fan, and personally I think people who live life vicariously through athletes is lame,” says Taylor Nichols, Barkley’s longtime friend. “I don’t yeehaw for something I see on TV or care about what recruits are coming to USC. But I know this: Matt is the most loyal guy I know. He’s always willing to do someone else a favor, even if he doesn’t have time. He puts other people first.”
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A few days before fall camp began, before the chaos of life as a college student and athlete kicked in, Barkley and Zamperini met again to talk about life.
Not the beauty of sport, not the fog of war.
They talked about faith and friendship and the little things only friends share. They talked about life, and as much as anything, living it like you’re never too young or old.
“There’s a lot more to a person than just what they’re doing at the moment,” Barkley says. “My impact can last longer than football. It’s a great platform for a lot of things, but ultimately, it’s not going to keep me satisfied forever.”
Two years ago, Barkley heard that the man who sent him the framed picture with the fitting and foretelling Bible verse on the back was speaking at USC. He went to the auditorium and sat in the first row, staring back at a century of a life lived at its fullest.
They had met before, had spoken at length and had developed a close friendship.
“But once you talk to Louie, you want to be around him as much as you possibly can,” Barkley says.
When Zamperini was finished, he took questions, and the hero of so many was asked over and over again who his hero was. He looked down at Barkley in the front row, smiled, and shouted, “Matt Barkley!”
“Matt Barkley is a wonderful young man who can change the world,” Zamperini says now. “He just happens to be a good football player, too.”
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What games are live this week? I can see on the ESPN listings website that there's live college ball but it doesn't actually say what games specifically. Thanks
Thursday Night
South Carolina @ Vanderbilt 12am
Texas A&M @ Louisiana Tech ESPN 12:30am
Washington State @ BYU ESPN America 3:15am
Friday Night
Boise State @ Michigan State ESPN America 1am
Saturday ESPN America:
ND @ Navy 2pm
Ohio @ Penn State 5pm
Viewers Choice at 8.30:- Miami (FL) at Boston College
- Southern Miss at Nebraska
- Bowling Green at Florida
Arkansas st @ Oregan 4am0 -
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The wait is finally over:D:D
This guy makes the best hype videos on the net for college football.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=679_qOeN13Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHVV5sErt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL2N3E8fnjw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C94i9J3TkC8
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