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Gatorubet;1640702; said:
It doesn't???? The Big Ten has to recruit players that are physical because when it's cold and snowy, we have to run the ball, we can't always spread it out and throw it all over the place. Maybe these Offensive linemen aren't always quicker or whatever, and that might hurt us against the SEC where they can recruit speed out the ass because there is no snow or bad conditions to deal with.
But yea, you're right. It doesn't matter in the eyes of the NCAA.
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Gatorubet
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Dammit Jwins, when the propane heaters are in moth balls, you can't just get them all working as soon as it drops to 50 degrees!!jwinslow;1640704; said:Yeah, Miami looked rather unphased
Normally you get some advance notice, like the egrets and Ibis fall over dead - or the Burmese pythons start to float to the top of the golf water hazards....but this damn cold front just sort of invaded Orlando!!
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Nutriaitch;1639980; said:
Yup. LSU has also been willing to play teams out of region, if I'm not mistaken.... unlike UGA before recently released schedules who had not been out of region since 1980 or some such...
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Don't give us that crap about no advance warning, Gator. Didn't yore daddy's knee start aching days before the storm hit?Gatorubet;1640710; said:Dammit Jwins, when the propane heaters are in moth balls, you can't just get them all working as soon as it drops to 50 degrees!!
Normally you get some advance notice, like the egrets and Ibis fall over dead - or the Burmese pythons start to float to the top of the golf water hazards....but this damn cold front just sort of invaded Orlando!!
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cincibuck
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KingLeon;1640685; said:
Hmmmmm, speed, strength and talent count no matter where the game is played. Why would Big 10 teams gear themselves only for the final two weeks of the season? With the exception of the ultimate Tresselball game - at Michigan in 07 - both the Bucks and the Weasels have played a wide open game, hardly any different than that played anywhere else.
SEC teams have been well coached and at worst their talent has been equal to that of the Big 10 and Big 12 teams they've played... but they seldom play a bowl game out of their time zone, cultural region, in front of a hostile crowd. There are historical/cultural reasons for that go far beyond the game of football that led to that, but those are in the past and just as these are no longer mere exhibition games it's time to put an end to the imbalance.
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cincibuck;1640920; said:
I agree that talent counts no matter where the game is played. I think that Ohio State is equally talented as anyone in the NCAA and the NFL draft numbers prove it. I also think that Ohio State's sheer physicality and power would give anyone a hard time in the winter, in the cold and and snow of the North where throwing the football might cost you the game.
There IS college football played in the cold and snow. And that weather CAN and DOES have a major affect on the game and how you play it.
No the Big Ten wouldn't win every single game in the North, just like the SEC doesn't win every game that's played in paradise. But I like our chances playing defense and pound it out physical football and forcing our opponents to play our style, just like the SEC probably likes their chances if the game is a track meet where you can drop back and pass every time.
It's OK and it won't happen anyways, Ohio State will still get its wins and its National Championships (hopefully), but I just believe that it would more fair to the game of football to play the bowls everywhere and in all kinds of conditions because the game of football is played in all kinds of conditions. Not just warm weather. And it does make a difference on the game a lot of the time..
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cincibuck;1640920; said:
Why would the coach of tOSU gear his team towards being at their best for the biggest games of the B10 season, one of which is TSUN? Seriously?
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cincibuck
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BUCKYLE;1641024; said:
Because he has to win a bunch of games in August, September and October in order to have any meaning attached to the final weeks of the season, because he needs to win a bowl game in a warm climate against a team that wants to throw the ball.
My argument is not that SEC teams can't win outside the South, it's that they very seldom have to play outside the South. I would also add that the North and East get short changed by a system that asks/demands that their teams ALWAYS play out of region and the region gets shortchanged by the loss of economic opportunity... and it's economic opportunity which is the real reason why the SEC/Big 12 feels obliged to play a CCG.
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