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I have to wonder if this year's set of "consolation games" will provide a pattern for the future, where every team in the conference will get a 13th game.
For the 7th place teams in each division to play an extra game in December, I think they'll get as many attendees this year as they would most years; so they might just do it for the 2nd and maybe 3rd place teams in each division, going forward.
For the 7th place teams in each division to play an extra game in December, I think they'll get as many attendees this year as they would most years; so they might just do it for the 2nd and maybe 3rd place teams in each division, going forward.
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Why would anyone want to do that? Bowl games are now more or less meaningless, why would anyone want to play in another meaningless game?
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Why are there so many meaningless bowls? Might have something to do with money, but I don't think the path to the payoff is as direct as a lot of people think.
I think there might be money in games for the 2nd and maybe 3rd place teams (depending on which schools were in which position).
More than anything, I'm trying to abide by the #1 purpose of the internet, which is a place to toss idle speculation
I expect that this year will create a large number of precedents that will cause people to think differently about things going forward; I thought this might be another one.
The best example of a precedent is The Game... Before this summer, how many of us would have thought that we would EVER be ok with The Game being anything other than the last game of the regular season. Now that this season has cracked that, there will be more open debate about it moving forward, whether we like it or not.
I think there might be money in games for the 2nd and maybe 3rd place teams (depending on which schools were in which position).
More than anything, I'm trying to abide by the #1 purpose of the internet, which is a place to toss idle speculation
I expect that this year will create a large number of precedents that will cause people to think differently about things going forward; I thought this might be another one.
The best example of a precedent is The Game... Before this summer, how many of us would have thought that we would EVER be ok with The Game being anything other than the last game of the regular season. Now that this season has cracked that, there will be more open debate about it moving forward, whether we like it or not.
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Fuck that shit. I like noon games...no better way the get a Saturday started than by watching your team kick ass. And if you ain't drunk by a noon kickoff anyway you're a pansy to begin with...
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Aactually, a noon kickoff in The Shoe is 6:00 AM in the early season, and then 7:00 AM once DST kicks in...but I do gotta start drinking at 5 AM.Especially true since noon for most of us hits at like 5 AM for you.
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So, am I correct here? Everyone who plays this year doesn't lose the year of eligibility? Is that still the NCAA's stance?
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ohio State wasn’t working alone.
And, just for the record, the Buckeyes certainly weren’t just fighting just for a national title and their own personal interests.
But make no mistake about it: The Big Ten wouldn’t be playing football in October without Ryan Day and Ohio State.
Yes, Nebraska proved to be a worthy ally, with that program working in lockstep to apply public pressure on the Big Ten. For a moment, Jim Harbaugh was on the same side as the rival Buckeyes. Penn State coach James Franklin, the Iowa athletic department and Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez all refused to back down as tireless grinders in the push to bring football back.
The Buckeyes, though, were leading the charge.
And while nobody in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center will want to take any credit for what has transpired over the last five weeks, they certainly deserve a tip of the cap from anybody and everybody invested in a return to football. Ohio State will no doubt instead focus on the conference-wide decision that was ultimately reached and simply celebrate that the emotional rollercoaster for the players is now over, but the program’s work shouldn’t be ignored.
The fact that he wasn’t the only coach involved doesn’t change the fact that Ryan Day refusing to stop swinging was absolutely critical in the public-relations battle. Or that Gene Smith and Kristina Johnson kept up their administrative support when many presidents and chancellors were willing to simply kick the can to January. Or that Dr. James Borchers emerged as the leading voice for the safe return of the support. Or that the Football Parents at Ohio State were willing to rally twice to pressure the Big Ten to answer their questions about the lack of transparency, once in Chicago and once at the Horseshoe. Or that Justin Fields almost single-handedly changed the tenor of the conversation with a petition that was signed over a quarter-million times shortly after he posted it.
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