Championship Week

[chbright]

10 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I like this little KSU RB. Like wish.com Maurice Jones-Drew 

I mean he's light as a feather at 176? He isn't a bowling ball like drew. Now kstate can  absolutely run the ball and he has good patience and vision. Idk if he's an NFL guy though.

[kungfoodude]

Just now, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Does this TCU QB know he's allowed to throw short passes?

Chick's dig the long ball, bruh.

[LinvilleGorge]

Duggan looked fantastic in the first two drives. Like a high first rounder. He hasn't even looked like a priority UDFA since. Crucial throw on 4th down, but man he's been bad.

[kungfoodude]

Just now, chbright said:

I mean he's light as a feather at 176? He isn't a bowling ball like drew. Now kstate can  absolutely run the ball and he has good patience and vision. Idk if he's an NFL guy though.

Sproles had a 14 year NFL career at roughly that size.

[MasterAwesome]

5 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Honestly, by and large college games have been a lot more entertaining than the NFL this year and I'm not just saying that because the Heels have been pretty good and the Panthers have sucked per usual. There's just been a lot of bad football played in the NFL this season.

 

 

I’ll be completely transparent in saying that I’ve never actually given college football much of a chance to grow on me. Even as a UNC student ~15 years ago I only went to a few college games already trashed and not actually paying much attention to it. But I just feel like there are so many goofy Madden-esque stats being put up routinely by college offenses, like running backs getting 200+ yards with 10 ypc and QBs putting up 400 yards and 6 TDs. I can see how that’s entertaining and even the NFL seems to be wanting to trend in that direction which is why they’re continuously making it harder for defenses with the changes to some of the rules and becoming more and more trigger-happy with defensive penalties like roughing the passer and pass interference. I dunno, just seems more flash than substance for me with these college games.

At the end of the day, college football feels to me in many ways like the JV to the NFL’s varsity, and I just ain’t getting all that excited about JV football. But to each their own…I think finding passion in anything in life is almost always objectively a good thing unless it’s doing harm somehow.

[chbright]

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

Sproles had a 14 year NFL career at roughly that size.

Yeah at more like 190-195

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, chbright said:

Yeah at more like 190-195

He was listed at 180 in college, so he added the 10 lbs at the pro level. Something that this guy could easily do(and probably would anyway with age).

[LinvilleGorge]

Props to the Big 12 refs. You don't see potentially playoff bound teams get calls like that go against them in situations like this.

[kungfoodude]

8 minutes ago, MasterAwesome said:

I’ll be completely transparent in saying that I’ve never actually given college football much of a chance to grow on me. Even as a UNC student ~15 years ago I only went to a few college games already trashed and not actually paying much attention to it. But I just feel like there are so many goofy Madden-esque stats being put up routinely by college offenses, like running backs getting 200+ yards with 10 ypc and QBs putting up 400 yards and 6 TDs. I can see how that’s entertaining and even the NFL seems to be wanting to trend in that direction which is why they’re continuously making it harder for defenses with the changes to some of the rules and becoming more and more trigger-happy with defensive penalties like roughing the passer and pass interference. I dunno, just seems more flash than substance for me with these college games.

At the end of the day, college football feels to me in many ways like the JV to the NFL’s varsity, and I just ain’t getting all that excited about JV football. But to each their own…I think finding passion in anything in life is almost always objectively a good thing unless it’s doing harm somehow.

College football is absolutely JV. In a lot of ways it is much closer to middle school football than even JV in comparison to the NFL.

College football is fine but it's an inherently and WILDLY unfair system without any shred of parity at all. It's the equivalent of a league with unlimited money to spend and no salary cap. It's very easy to cover up some incompetence and mismanagement by just out talenting the team in front of you.

The NFL inherently does have parity. The way that typically gets fuged up is incompetence and mismanagement. You can't outspend your issues or take advantage of the decades long systems of advantages built in.

Edited December 3, 2022 by kungfoodude

[LinvilleGorge]

TCU staying aggressive. I like it. I hate when teams take their foot off the gas and try to rely on their D to hang on. The Fox/Rivera approach.

[Shocker]

Question is does TCU get in with a loss here.  I guess so but dunno 

[LinvilleGorge]

Well, let's see if they stay aggressive on 3rd and 6.

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Question is does TCU get in with a loss here.  I guess so but dunno 

I don't know either. Brand name matters. If they were Oklahoma I'd say definitely yes. But they're not.

[LinvilleGorge]

Well, KSU stayed aggressive but no dice.