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Great Googley Moogley.

I think we all agree we needed a massive turnaround from Skippy. Massive doesn't mean a season and a half. We went from being the most unprecedented rise in college football, ever, to one of the bottom ten within a college football generation of players. We are a little bit spoiled since some of the players we signed when we just entered Conference USA took us to #2 in the rankings (with 11 first place votes). We are used to an exponential rise, when the rest of college football improves like a salt drier. The "Newest" team to be among those who actually win National Championships is FSU, and they started in what, 1947? The first year they let in humans who had a testicular sac. 1949? Chill out. Taggart has the best mentors in the football universe and we have just turned the corner from historically crappy to mediocre. Every game is not its own universe. Make an assessment after the year is over, we are obviously in rebuilding stage. *Unless of course you can replace Tags with Dungy or Gruden at six times the cost. Who here will donate for that? Stand up.

We are. I expect only one more fluke loss rest of the year. I'd favor us the rest of the year.

We have no depth. We can't 4th Quarter.

Wow. That look by the ECU coach was internets viral worthy.

#54 for ECU. Whoa. Muffin Top and Blumber' crack.

I missed that. Traditionally its the ref.

Announcers are confused. They should know we've intended to put Flowers situationally in.

Was that supposed to be a first down? He caught the ball beyond the marker, but was in the air. When his feet touched, he was well behind the marker. What's the rule there?

Perfect throw.

We are this much closer to Publix Stadium.

1. Can't 2. Andre Hall. 3. Ramen Noodles. I hate them. I've never atcually ate them. But one of my roomates ate it every day and it smelled quite fowl. 4. Rock Climbing. There is a facility right behind my place. 5. There is only one thing that rhymes.... ECU. Was that sign holder a poster here?

Cause we haven't done anything newsworthy in a while. Besides issue purple homecoming shirts.

I think you have to look at the winners and losers in conference expansion. You trend one way, and stay on that trend. The WAC had 16 teams.... then 8... They lost Boise and now they have none. Losers. The Big 10... had 10... had 11... went to 12... now 14. Bigtime cable deal. Winners. Pac 10. Had 8, went to 10, went to 12. They arent losing anyone. They can go to 14 easily. Huge improvement in earnings. Winners. SEC. Expanded to 12 in 1991. 14 in 2012. Winners. ACC. You can say they started this whole expansion free for all in 2004. Had 10 teams. They wanted Miami. And got them with VT and BC. And futher took 3 more BE schools. 10 + 6 - 1 = 15.5 teams with the quasi member Notre Dame. Winners even though they lost one crappy charter member with horrible finances. Big East: Had 8. Lost the crowning jewel Miami, and two others. 8 - 3, add us and the replacements, 8 - 3 + 3 = 8. An arguably lesser 8 at that. More defections... 8 - 5, eaten up by three other conferences. Minus non-football member Notre Dame. We lost 8 teams, and finally expanded, with some relatively low hanging fruit, compared to the rest. Massive demotion in revenue. Not even known as the Big East anymore. Losers. Big time Losers. Now let's look at the Big 12. Had it's namesake, 12. Lost two. 10. Lost two more. Replaced two. At one time was considering a merger with the Big East. 12 - 2 - 2 + 2 = 10. Love/Hate relationship with the shark and crowning jewel Texas. Status: Trending down, but not out. To quote Ricki Bobby, "If you ain't first, you're last." To paraphrase... if you ain't winning... you are losing. The Big 12 is losing. They need to expand.

http://www.bcsnn.com/aac/777-memphis-shocks-cincinnati-and-the-aac-braces-for-realignment.html Sorry... had to...

Footballwise, Leavitt was a great planner, and was amazing studing tape. His weakness was in-game desicions.

The one kinda out there thing about Leavitt-gate... he probably suffered a concussion during halftime after he head butted a player who had a helmet on. That can lead to memory loss. I believe he did slap a player, but didn't remember, therefore he gave what he thought was a proper defense to people "lying" about him. There clearly was two different camps on the team whether he did or did not. Then there is the, hey, he was just trying to get the kid's attention argument, a proverbial kick in the butt. Leavitt headbutted players for years... technically all instances of battery. Leavitt was responsible for our meteoric rise, plain and simple. He did plateau a bit, but many coaches took a while to get over a hump. I'm sure in time, he would have had us all very happy. What is clear though, is that he let this all get to his head, and thought he was bigger than the program, which clearly Woolard did not like. Woolard won. The battle, that is.

Pow-Zing!

Can we round up everyone who ran smack on Harlan for scheduling NIU, and put them into the Ye Of Little Faith Club? Or maybe ban them from posting for a week if/when we lose to East Carolina?

Yeah... it was like a Green..... Gold.... Green.... Gold.... section vs. section chant. Except I turned to the Wisconsin dude next to me and I asked him what am I hearing, for clarification purposes. It was Eat S*** vs. Eff You.

Did the team leave thursday or friday? Were they affected?

smazza actually likes something USF.

A lot of Alum couldn't make it because of the airport situation, but if you did.... free food.

Wow

I kinda like it because NIU is two hours from here. They have a freakin' CASTLE on campus. A Castle.