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DCBuckeye07;1048036; said:
I too am a playoff guy. But in a way this season didnt do much for the playoff argument. I mean, who would want to do anything to deter from the amazing season we had? If we all knew stanford beating usc wouldnt matter because sc could just redeem themselves in the playoffs, then who would give a shit?
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I don't think a playoff system would take anything away from the weird and fun season this year. As much as we love to give USC or Georgia shit about a bad loss, things happen. I think a 16-team would allow that fun to continue. Think about it. Missouri lost twice to Oklahoma yet killed Arkansas while Oklahomo got incested by West Virginny. Some team just line up better against others...no one knows who'd win in a playoff matchup, and that's the fun of college football. Whoever was able to win their 4 games in a 16-team playoff would have a clear claim to being the best overall team in college football.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1048192; said:
I don't think a playoff system would take anything away from the weird and fun season this year. As much as we love to give USC or Georgia shit about a bad loss, things happen. I think a 16-team would allow that fun to continue. Think about it. Missouri lost twice to Oklahoma yet killed Arkansas while Oklahomo got incested by West Virginny. Some team just line up better against others...no one knows who'd win in a playoff matchup, and that's the fun of college football. Whoever was able to win their 4 games in a 16-team playoff would have a clear claim to being the best overall team in college football.
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Dont get me wrong, im all about the a playoff for all of the reasons you just mentioned. Im just saying that, although faulty, the current system does have its own upside. How thrilling is it knowing that on any given week if you dont play with perfection your team could be out of it with one loss. You cant deny it doesnt produce a muuuch more exciting regular season. With that said, would the amount of damage the reg season would take be offset by the added bonus of a playoff? Who knows? But maybe if we try and make every sport fit the prototypical mold (ie playoffs) we might start to miss the old, unique, system. Or not.
 
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DCBuckeye07;1048210; said:
Dont get me wrong, im all about the a playoff for all of the reasons you just mentioned. Im just saying that, although faulty, the current system does have its own upside. How thrilling is it knowing that on any given week if you dont play with perfection your team could be out of it with one loss. You cant deny it doesnt produce a muuuch more exciting regular season. With that said, would the amount of damage the reg season would take be offset by the added bonus of a playoff? Who knows? But maybe if we try and make every sport fit the prototypical mold (ie playoffs) we might start to miss the old, unique, system. Or not.
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Yes but if the media keeps trying to give NC out to teams *cough* USC *cough* then doesn't that pretty much get rid of what happens in the regular season too?
 
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If nothing else, the DVD has fired up Alex Boone's grandmother. :wink2:

official.site.press.conference

Q. All three of you, you took this DVD
home over break. How much did you guys
watch that over break and what was each of
your favorite parts of it?

ALEX BOONE: I'm going to say this, okay,
so I watched the DVD with my grandma, right?
She's a crazy lady. But I love her to death. And
we watched it together because she said she
wanted to watch it. So we're watching it and she
was going off at the TV. I mean, 10 minutes of
straight bashing us. I mean, someone is going to
get pissed off, right? And I didn't really take it to
heart. My grandma is folding clothes and going
nuts. I gotta remind her she's a little older, calm
down.

Obviously you watch films like that and you
realize just how much everybody hates you. But at
the end, who cares? Who cares what anybody
thinks but us. This is our team. None of those
people are going to play come Monday night. So
anything they say, do, I mean, it doesn't matter.

This is our team and we're going to play. I think it
was a great thing to watch because it made us
more humble. Right before we went home for
Christmas break, everyone was feeling good. I
think everyone was getting ready to go home and
make some bad decisions with eating and stuff like
that.
So it made us more humbled, I think.

BRIAN HARTLINE: The only thing that it
made me think was sitting there looking at it,
listening to it, I'm thinking, okay, so if we win, how
many of these guys are going to actually accept it
and actually apologize or admit they were wrong?
And I would say probably the majority of them
never would. So I kind of laughed at it wanted to
shrug it off.

But if we lose, there's going to be a lot of
big-headed people out there that think they're
geniuses or there's going to be a lot of liars. So I
couldn't really decide which one to go with. So I
just kind of hope -- that's what catches my mind,
how everyone acknowledges how much of a crazy
season it's been. But they can't acknowledge that
we have a chance to win. I don't understand it.
Because Pitt can beat West Virginia and West
Virginia can destroy Oklahoma, but we can't have
a chance to beat LSU.

So, again, we just want to play the game.
We're anxious, we're here, but overall we can't
really listen to the outside things. We just took
care of within and that's kind of the mentality we've
had anyways.

BRIAN ROBISKIE: I think the biggest
thing for me, what I got from the video, I think just
watching it, I think our coaches obviously said
that -- I mean, this is what people are saying about
you. This is what people have to say. I mean, we
didn't need a video. I think any of us could turn on
the TV every day and they're saying something.
All they did was take it, put it into a little 10-,
15-minute video.

But I think the biggest thing we have to do,
and we all realize it, is that while we want to get
caught up in proving a lot of these people wrong,
we can't do that.

We know that all we have to do is do what
we've been practicing this past month, continue to
focus on what we've been focusing on and try to
reach this goal. And that's it.​

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OregonBuckeye;1043408; said:
Here's a link to supposedly the first 90 seconds of the motivational DVD Tressel sent out to his players.

Note: Ivan Maisel is an ignorant hick. Michael Robinson? Seriously, I don't think Ivan has ever left the south in his life.

Rep Blogs ? Blog Archive ? Motivational DVD
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USA Today: Ohio State using putdowns to get fired up for LSU

Ohio State using putdowns to get fired up for LSU

By Kelly Whiteside, USA TODAY

NEW ORLEANS ? One present the Ohio State staff gave to its players before Christmas break was a 10-minute DVD full of insults, slights and putdowns taken from TV and radio clips. Haven't you heard? The Buckeyes don't belong in Monday's Bowl Championship Series title game after the schedule they played. They have no chance against speedy LSU. At least according to this lowlight film, which motivated the players as intended.

"My favorite part of the DVD?" Ohio State offensive tackle Kirk Barton said Thursday. "I'm a big Mark May fan. He's not a big fan of me, but I have my Mark May poster on the wall in a Redskins jersey." Barton, the team's resident smart aleck who can break up a room with his deadpan delivery, was kidding. He then listed other ESPN analysts who have been especially critical of the Buckeyes, adding, "I'm thankful for their support."

Offensive tackle Alex Boone watched the DVD with his grandmother. "My grandma is folding clothes and going nuts. I've got to remind her she's a little older, calm down," Boone says. Now if the video had this type of effect on a kindly grandmother, what impact might it have on hulking football players? "Obviously you watch films like that and you realize just how much everybody hates you," Boone says. "But at the end, who cares? Who cares what anybody thinks but us? This is our team."

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Seems to Float Both Ways Folks

UWeekly---Covering The Ohio State Community

Glad I wasn?t born on the bayou
By Lyndon Collins

Louisiana State University is an abhorrent, repulsive, abortioned version of a real football school. Everything about that puke bucket sends pulses of hate and rage down my spine. If LSU were only half as important as they thought they were, some one might give a shit about them. But they?re not ? and we don?t.

I could go through all the standard sophomoric rips on the mascot, the colors, the head coach?.blah, blah, blah - but I won?t. I don?t need boring, ad hominem attacks to get a point across. I?m smarter than that. I?m a Buckeye.

Firstly, I?d like to congratulate LSU?s students for reading this column. By virtue of having the ability to read, they are already among the brightest minds at LSU, and probably the smartest people in the entire state. Getting a degree from LSU is like being named valedictorian from the Baton Rouge school for the mentally challenged. We?re all very happy for you, but that piece of paper they hand you is better suited for wiping your ass with.

In a state that is responsible for plaguing the world with things like the lynch mobs, the Creole language and the entire Spears family (Britney, not Marcus) LSU students find themselves at the top of the Louisiana intelligence mountain?err, molehill. Let me guess, you turned down Tulane and Loyola because you didn?t like the campus, right? Right.

As if being the putrid armpit of the nation wasn?t embarrassing enough, each week they put themselves on public display as they support their Johnny-come-lately football team.

Listen, kids. You?ve got a cute little football team. You even managed to win a couple national championships. Good for you. Even if you do beat Ohio State (and you won?t), that puts you in the elite company of schools like Pitt, Army, Minnesota and Michigan State. I guess what I?m saying is: you?re just not that big of a deal

LSU has a long, long way to go before they have the tradition and pageantry that accompanies a historic program like THE Ohio State University. But that doesn?t stop their fans from acting like anyone besides the sweat glazed, swamp rats that live in that state actually care about them.

Although, LSU fans are not without redeeming qualities. They are the passionate sort and turn out in droves to emphatically support their team. I went to the circus once and sat next to a group of retarded kids. They screamed and cheered in ecstasy as a pack of clowns walked through the audience. Welcome to an LSU home game.

So enjoy it, LSU!! The BCS National Championship game puts you one step closer to being a mediocre program.

By they way: ?Mike The Tiger? Seriously? My uncle?s name is Mike. My butchers name is Mike. The guy that installed my cable?s name is Mike. That?s the best you could do? Oh yeah, you went to LSU. I forgot.
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Glad I wasn?t born on the bayou


Just FWIW.
 
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