OFFICIAL 2017 COLLEGE FOOTBALL OFFSEASON THREAD - Spring Game schedule on first page

[JustBlaze.]

at A&M still in the Top 10.

 

[kdslittlebro]

Tf are they doing? Big 12 getting way too much love

 

[DeadsetAce]

OSU's going to be #4 tonight right [emoji]128514[/emoji]?

Kinda disappointed

I wanted more f'ery 

 

[witnesskb24]

Cool with being 5th

 

[newbs24]

Winner in CBus on the 26th will be in the Final 4 baring a crazy upset

 

[swendro]

a crazy upset huh?

 

[witnesskb24]

If Wisconsin makes it to B1G title game and beats tOSU/UM I wouldn't think of it as a crazy upset. Both games were closely played though I would expect harbaugh and Meyer to make big adjustments

 

[swendro]

It's gonna be cool when Michigan turns down the trip to the white house after winning the championship.

 

[Bobby Layne]

It's gonna be cool when Michigan turns down the trip to the white house after winning the championship.

It'd be nice but it's not going to happen.  Wouldn't be surprised if a large amount of the team declined to go tho if they did win. 

I'm ashamed of this state. 

 

[gunna get it]

The it was damn near a 50:50 split.

Shouldn't be ashamed.

No way Michigan turns trip down

Crazy stat:

Just 2 schools in SEC haven't averaged 400 yds of offense at least once this decade. Vandy is one. Other? Florida. https://t.co/bNy9HKKoTI

 

[dacomeup]

Especially with the Coach being a Trump supporter. There's no way. Maybe some of the team would decline to go. 

 

[nako xl]

Espn wrote an article about Petersen ending up at UW and hownhe almost went to SC:

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post...chris-petersen-uscs-loss-was-washingtons-gain

SC insiders responded:


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[Bobby Layne]

Lane was a curmudgeon to higher ups?

 

[witnesskb24]

The it was damn near a 50:50 split.

Shouldn't be ashamed.

No way Michigan turns trip down

Crazy stat:

I figured Florida would've when Meyer was there, especially that 08 team

Edit, thought they said the last decade meaning ten years

 

[nako xl]

Lane was a curmudgeon to higher ups?

They hated him. He had a weird personality. He was perceived as arrogant and socially awkward. Sark was seen as Lane but a happy go lucky guy. It's why they hired him next.

Lane's players (minus Marqise Lee) also didn't get along with him almost unanimously.

 

[witnesskb24]

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[Bobby Layne]

Lane was a curmudgeon to higher ups?

They hated him. He had a weird personality. He was perceived as arrogant and socially awkward. Sark was seen as Lane but a happy go lucky guy. It's why they hired him next.

Lane's players (minus Marqise Lee) also didn't get along with him almost unanimously.

That's a surprising bit that his players didn't get along with him. You wouldn't think that with his age and frat boy demeanor.

 

[nako xl]

He would pick favorites and play them regardless of work ethic or production. It worked with guys like Marqise who had the talent but he'd do so at the expense of everyone else and players resented him for it.

The most notable I remember especially were Robert Woods, Matt Barkley, and Buck Allen, but also a bunch of guys on defense:

http://www.bruinsnation.com/2012/10/5/3460762/did-kiffin-play-robert-woods-despite-a-concussion

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/31/sports/la-sp-usc-football-notes-20130101

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/05/sports/la-sp-1206-usc-football-20121206

Just a few of the instances I remember

 

[nako xl]

Jeff Tedford to Fresno State.

 

[newbs24]

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[llerraj]

This story angered me reading it. Gotta know who you're sleeping with, and ultimately having a child with.

She wanted more attention from a top football player. So out came boiling water.

The college career of FIU senior tight end Jonnu Smith, the team’s premier offensive player over his four seasons and easily the Panthers’ best 2017 NFL Draft prospect, ended on Halloween when his girlfriend doused him with boiling water. According to the arrest affidavit, Smith suffered severe burns on his head, neck, back, a shoulder and an arm.

Miami Gardens resident Mary Gaspar, five months pregnant with Smith’s child, was charged with aggravated battery. Gaspar has been released on a pre-trial release order.

The early 2017 NFL Draft projections have Smith as either a late round pick or undrafted free agent. He made the midseason John Mackey Award (Best College Tight End) watch list in 2014 and 2015 and the preseason Mackey Award watch list in 2015 and 2016.

The arrest affidavit said Gaspar gave this account at Florida International University police headquarters:

The two argued through the day over the attention Smith was paying her and their relationship. While in Smith’s dorm room and “feeling extremely emotional and stressed,” she told police, she boiled a pot of water. Then, she walked over to Smith and poured it on him.

When Smith didn’t react strongly enough for her, she started hitting him with her open hands, she told police.

The extent of the burns aren’t known, but Smith has been seen back on campus even though he’s not fit for the football field.

The 6-3, 232-pound Smith from Ocala West Port High finishes his FIU career fifth in career receptions (175), career receiving yards (1,936) and third in touchdown catches (17). He holds the FIU records for touchdown catches in a game (three) and a season (eight), sharing the latter with wide receiver Thomas Owens.

Smith quickly shined as a freshman amid FIU’s dismal, abysmal 2013 offense. While FIU went 1-11 in its first Conference USA season and first under head coach Ron Turner, Smith led the team with 39 receptions for 388 yards. Turner doubly embraced Smith — the offense features the tight end prominently and the coach figured he didn’t have to worry about trouble from the low-key, religious Smith.

No tight end in the country owned better numbers in 2014 than Smith, the national leader among tight ends in receptions (61), receiving yards (710) and touchdowns (eight). He had no Conference USA peer for First Team All-Conference honors. SI.com named him an Honorable Mention All-America. Other national websites lauded Smith’s production despite playing with a freshman quarterback and without consistent threats at wide receiver.

In a wild 38-28 win against Middle Tennessee State, Smith scored three touchdowns as FIU came from 21-3 down. Smith barged through two would-be tacklers on a 10-yard touchdown catch; caught a 40-yard “Hail Mary” heave for a touchdown to end the first half; and picked up a teammate’s fumbled reception and ran it the rest of the way for another touchdown.

Smith’s numbers dropped early in his junior season as opposing defenses made stopping him a priority. That allowed for the emergence of other receiving threats, such as Owens. But Owens rise drew defensive attention, thus opening the field for Smith later in the season. He rolled up a career high 10 catches for 183 yards and two touchdowns against Old Dominion and did so partially while playing on a sprained left knee.

He played no more in 2015, his season ended four games early by that knee injury. This year, injuries to starting junior quarterback Alex McGough and erratic play from McGough and redshirt freshman backup Maurice Alexander helped limit Smith to 39 catches for 441 yards and three touchdowns.

Without Smith and McGough, who eventually suffered his own season-ending injury Oct. 29 against Middle Tennessee State, FIU lost to Western Kentucky last Saturday 49-21. The loss ended the 3-7 Panthers chances of reaching six wins and bowl eligibility.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/c...niversity/article113860813.html#storylink=cpy

She will do at least 21 months of prison time due to the charge of aggravated battery. Faces 15 years max. Ended any chance of him earning good income as a pro for her and their child because she wanted more attention. What the ****?

 

[awwsome]

^^^^

Story is so trash man, unbelievable how petty and evil some people can be.

Really feel for that man, he has to raise a child with her after she did this too.

 

[nako xl]

A positive is the article makes it sound like he just won't be cleared in time for bowls this year but will play again.

Also because this is NT

 

 

[Bobby Layne]

Crazy *** chongas 

 

preggo or not I'd still smash tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[elpablo21]

yikes