Comments on: College Football 2012 Bowl Game Schedule: Knee-Jerk Reactions

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:52:46 +0000

But yes I think the only group of people which Churchill disliked more than the Communists was the Nazis.

Or the Bengali people

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:49:36 +0000

Jerry Kill has enacted an impressive turnaround, but this has definite #BEATEMDOWN potential.

Kill’s work has been a stroke of genius…

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:41:00 +0000

And oh yeah – the uproar here in Atl about uga not getting a BCS invite is comedic.

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:40:16 +0000

Sagarin Strength of Schedule Ranking:

Oklahoma – 6
Northen Illinois – 127

I know I’m repeating myself, but there are way too many teams and not enough cross-conference games to make strength of schedule mathematically accurate or relevant at all. Some SOS include current rankings, making them completely flawed immediately.

By: ms621

ms621 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:20:37 +0000

The stuffed tiger?

He was important too. He was the one who kept Calvin’s intellect grounded.

By: Wide Word of Sport (?)

Wide Word of Sport (?) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:14:05 +0000

the importance of Thomas Hobbes

The stuffed tiger?

By: Nada

Nada — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:11:26 +0000

Damn, I can’t think or type for shit today.

“Succinct”

By: ms621

ms621 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:11:11 +0000

I’m really hoping that was intentional.

Unfortunately I’m not that good.

By: Nada

Nada — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:10:43 +0000

Nothing about the Pirates and the Rajun Cajuns going at it in New Orleans

It was addressed thusly: ” …. ”

Quite succint.

By: Nada

Nada — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:09:37 +0000

the approach of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and that as a consequence Hobbes went through life a nervous wreck

I'm really hoping that was intentional.

By: roger from oz

roger from oz — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:07:00 +0000

Nothing about the Pirates and the Rajun Cajuns going at it in New Orleans. Don’t sleep on that one. It will be a hell of a party if nothing else.

By: ms621

ms621 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:04:51 +0000

Htown I would also listen to those who wanted to argue the importance of Thomas Hobbes. While Locke established the philosophy behind our form of government, Hobbes established the need for government in the first place and the nature of the relationship between the governed and the governors; i.e. the Social Contract. I still think Locke more important and Hobbes loses points for being a high strung loon. There’s a probably apocryphal story that Hobbes’ mother went into labor a month early when she heard about the approach of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and that as a consequence Hobbes went through life a nervous wreck.

By: HtownHacker

HtownHacker — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:00:59 +0000

Thanks MS. A little TBL education never hurt anybody.

By: PeerLessPrices

PeerLessPrices — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:58:11 +0000

That was good. Thank you.

/starts USA chant

By: sousedbergin

sousedbergin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:56:47 +0000

Is it cheating to choose Dirt as my pick?

No and noted.

By: ms621

ms621 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:56:20 +0000

Common Sense is truly important, but without the context established by John Locke in Second Treatise Thomas Paine would have no frame to even have those thoughts. The American idea of full representation as Englishmen and colonists was born out of the notion during the reign of James II and the subsequent Glorious Revolution that the power and whims of an executive (the King in this case) could not trample on the rights of the people to be heard in a representative body; Parliament. Locke framed this concept in Second Treatise and even more importantly than that he recognized the importance of property and the inviolability of ownership of property. Without this Thomas Paine wouldn’t even know what to be complaining about.

By: knifeyspoony

knifeyspoony — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:53:04 +0000

The Mac has 7 teams going to bowl games. Kent State, who lost to NIU in the Mac title game (and was undefeated in regular season play) housed Rutgers a few weeks ago. the MAC isn’t some pathetic conference like the sun belt. It has some good teams. It was a better overall conference than the Big East this year by a long shot.

I don’t disagree.

also, the notion that NIU will get blown out by a team that let Georgia Tech hang around til the final minute is kind of funny to me.

By: Nada

Nada — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:51:26 +0000

I’d go with Commom Sense

A choice made by unsurprisngly few commenters on this site.

/ I include myself

By: cleet

cleet — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:49:31 +0000

Of course they’re going to lose money, they’re giving students a free ticket.

Love the reaction video in that link. I think they are banking on increased donations and such from appearing in the game. Tough for them that the coach is leaving, though.

By: Nada

Nada — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:49:31 +0000

Northern Illinois is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in its lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Mid-America under its heel, or else terrorised into various forms of abject submission, it must now carry its work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of the Big 12 and of the Big 10. The terrible athletic machine – which we and the rest of the civilised world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the MACtion gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing – cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces. … So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch its shoulder-padded armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.

/ History’s new greatest monster