MililaniBuckeye;1840645; said:
Check the name of the website, specifically the first two syllables.
Frankly, we don't need to be counseled on the integrity of college football by fans of programs that blatantly oversign recruits when they know ahead of time they can't keep 15-25% of them, and boot their asses to the curb without a second thought. That's their football program itself doing very shadey [censored], not a small cadre of 19-20 student-athletes.
I dunno Mili - maybe you could use a little - if not counseling, then call it a different opinion...because saying that tatgate "taints"
the game somewhat - for the reasons expressed (that if you suspend the 5 and lose - or you don't and win - people will talk about the suspension issue and its effect on the game, and not what happened between two fine ball clubs, including one that hasn't been to a BCS Bowl - ever, and was looking forward to playing a perennial BCS power), is
not a slap at y'all - and while I can see why you see it as a slap at your program, he was talking about
the game.
The whole idiotic controversy, which has directed almost all of the talk away from the game itself (and so away from talk of the Hogs and their players and accomplishments this season), has also resulted in total disagreement on
this site - by Buckeyes - as to the propriety of not suspending the 5 guys.
Nobody nationally has been talking about Arkansas and tOSU about to do battle. Which means that NOBODY has been talking - at all - about the Piggies. Which is a damn shame. The game
should have been entirely about Xs and Os, and calling the Hogs, and dotting the "I", and personnel match ups - all of the fun stuff you look forward to in a BCS bowl...and
not the [censored] sandwich of ESPN/etc. coverage that it has become. That it has become this cluster[censored] happens to fall, unfortunately, on y'alls side of the stadium. Mili, this problem was not caused by one fricking hawg - or hawg fan. For them to say that this whole mess "taints" the 2011 Sugar Bowl is not a slam at the Buckeye program that requires a "
Oh yeah - but you guys are dirty this way...." response.
Rather than an insult or slam directed at the Buckeye program, it is - IMO - an absolutely accurate, cold, hard, fact. A fact that flat sucks for everybody. But it sucks for them more in a way, because y'all have been BCS Bowling every damn year for quite a while. These guys have not. If they happen to win, people will say you were distracted. That sure as [censored] "taints" a hypothetical win. If I were them it would make me rather unhappy.
Starting this oversigning [censored] on the game thread to "get back" at them for somebody using the word "taint" looks petty. I get the BP part Mili. BP also has a FAQ section about guests, and I do not know if we are following it to the best of our abilities, is all. I don't think these guys were looking for the type of discussion y'all are eager to engage in as a result of that offhand comment.... I mean, I would assume that they can bring some kind of smack game if they truly wanted, but this does not seen like an attempt to do so. To me anyway.
Now, if they compared Arky running backs to your D-line play "like Paris Hilton's taint" -
then you could get [censored]ed. I'd assume that meant anyone coming near could find a hole. But this.....