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Welcome To The System Quarterback Club, Colt

zizou — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:18:43 EST

@iHaveaRagingTebowner: Michigan loses to Appalachian State, Michigan beats Florida, therefore, Appalachian State is better than Florida.

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zizou — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:17:02 EST

@Walker Told Me I Have AIDS: That's exactly what Kige Ramsey's plan was.

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Satyr Icon — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:23:16 EST

I expected more female Hawaii fans in bikini tops...I mean, whenever they show promo shots for anything about the islands, I see bikinis. Last night, no skin and I think that is why the Warriors lost; fucking with the image.

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Walker Told Me I Have AIDS — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:07:39 EST

About a playoff...

It CAN DEFINITELY coexist peacefully with all of the bowl games. Yes, every last International to the Rose Bowl can live on WITH a playoff.

It's easy. Top 16 team start the tourney in late Nov./early Dec. (BTW teams not in this top 16 but still bowl eligible would still go to the craptacular array of non-New Years bowl games).

When you have two teams left, that's obviously your title game. The other teams are placed into New Year's Day bowl games based on how far in the tourney they made it. For example, if you lose in the first round, sorry... Outback/Gator/Capital One/Cotton Bowl for you!

You make it close to the end but bow out in the quarters or semis, you go to one of the currently BCS Bowls.

See, you get a REAL champ, and the losing teams still get to play in another game and rake in hordes of money.

Problem solved.

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Walker Told Me I Have AIDS — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:02:05 EST

Hawaii getting smashed should do nothing to keep "mid-majors" from playing in the big bowl games.

Sure they lost... by a lot, but they went undefeated and at least they got the oppurtunity to prove (unsuccessfully) that they belonged.

I think a lot of people were rooting for Hawaii last night in that "Jamaican Bobsled Team" kind of way. In fact, I believe Doug E. Doug was one of their WRs (you see the dreds on those guys?)

Finally, if Hawaii were to make the Hawaii 5-0 song their fight song, I'm in favor of putting them in the BCS every year.

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iHaveaRagingTebowner — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:29:04 EST

"I took one right in the mouth today," Brennan said after the game.

In the ass, too.

@preciousroy: fair enough, but that is just the three mop-up weeks every DI team has; hawaii played jokes like that week in and week out.

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VTBen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:04:44 EST

"Maybe if he would have coached as balls-out the rest of his Michigan career as he did yesterday, he might have won a few more bowl games."

Or a few more games against Tressel and OSU. Or a few more against 1-AA opponents.

After this year, if there's not even a "plus-one" system I'll be very surprised.

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Abe Froman's Sausage — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:40:28 EST

@iHaveaRagingTebowner:

That's nothing like Florida playing Western Carolina last year on their title run...

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Michael Bertin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:34:36 EST

@iHaveaRagingTebowner: Western Kentucky, Troy, Florida Atlantic... you sure you want to poke fun at another school's schedule?

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Abe Froman's Sausage — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:31:29 EST

Most of the guys named are not system quarterbacks, just NFL failures. Ken Dorsey didn't play in a system that inflated his numbers... it's just a different game in the NFL then to college.

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Juggernaut — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:30:08 EST

I think Brent Mussberger said we don't need a college playoff because "you'll see him playing on Sundays, soon!"

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PurduePaul — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:30:00 EST

So every bad college quarterback is a system quarterback?

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iHaveaRagingTebowner — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:26:38 EST

@preciousroy: winning 12 games is not hard when one of them is charleston southern.

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iHaveaRagingTebowner — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:25:28 EST

@matt_t: never have i cheered for georgia before, and never have i so much enjoyed doing so as last night. what a fucking joke hawaii is.

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YukMouth — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:19:56 EST

@THEGINOCIMOLICONSPIRACY:
I always assumed he was a LB

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Michael Bertin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:12:54 EST

@preciousroy: Nice grammar. Outside = inside.

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Michael Bertin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:12:00 EST

@That-Dude: Fair enough, but even running the table it's going to be hard to not put any undefeated team outside the top 12. Hawai'i's sched was super weak but they still beat Boise State and Washington (a crap team, but at least a marginally better crap team with a healthy Jake Locker at QB). Winning 12 games is tough period.

Yeah, Hawai'i got destroyed, but Georgia was probably one of the three best teams at the end of the season (along with OU and USC). The problem isn't Hawai'i in a BCS bowl game, the problem is that none of the three best teams at season's end is playing for a National Championship.

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Kid Canada — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:11:46 EST

@katolesce:

Does Andre Ware not count as a system QB coming out of Houston?

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That-Dude — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:04:53 EST

THREADJACK//

Best ESPN comment evr:

This is the worst ESPN article I've ever read. Not only is the reasoning completely moot and unrelated to the amazing season Moss had, Jackson sounds like an idiot. Again thanks EEI for pointing this out so I never have to read anything "Scoop" writes again. Bill Simmons 4evr.

// End Jack

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That-Dude — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:03:59 EST

@preciousroy: @Da_Mang: I think you are both correct, meet the criteria and you are in. The problem is there is still a human voting component to the system that may prevent a team from "meeting the criteria." For example, assume Florida backs out of next year's Hawaii game, Hawaii runs the table again with two D-1AA wins, will any human vote them anywhere close to the top 16, let alone the top 12?

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katolesce — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:58:18 EST

In defense of David Klingler:

There were no other system quarterbacks coming out of Houston, and he played for the Bengals in the 90s.

I've never seen an NFL QB take more of a beating day in and day out. For that, I respect him.

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I Heart Poop — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:58:00 EST

on a side note, hawaii plays at florida to start their 08 season.

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Sliderofdeath — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:56:25 EST

@THEGINOCIMOLICONSPIRACY: There is no greater satisfaction than watching the Christmas verison of that shit-talkin' robot get knocked on his ass by a snowball.

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Michael Bertin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:54:35 EST

@Da_Mang: Uh, seeing how that is written into the rules of the BCS, Hawai'i laying a zero last night has no impact on another non-BCS school's chances of getting in. Meet the criteria, get a bid.

If you're suggesting the BCS rules are likely to be rewritten, that's something else entirely.

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THEGINOCIMOLICONSPIRACY — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:52:03 EST

No system QB club is complete without the Fox robot.

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That-Dude — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:51:39 EST

@Da_Mang: One point about their out of conference, they were scheduled to play MICH ST, but the Spartans backed out.

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Yinka Double Dare — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:51:34 EST

@Mmole: I kept waiting for him to someone to get hurt and for Summerall to say "There's a man down". Of course an ambulance running over Temple out on the field was about the only way Arkansas would have had a chance.

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That-Dude — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:50:35 EST

@Da_Mang: I concur. Very good points. I am not sure what exactly would be the tipping point to encourage a playoff system. Perhaps every bowl game needs to be a blow-out and the championship game needs to be decided by a field goal for a playoff system to gain traction . . .

Re: Missouri. You hit it square on -- I am not sure how they did not get selected before Kansas. It makes absolutely zero sense. If the Big 12 splits their purse on a tiered system, that oversight may cost them millions. *

* Most BCS conferences split the bowl purses evenly, i.e. Miami and Duke get the same share, even though they don't bring in the same revenue.

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Analrapist — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:48:41 EST

System QB? How about facing a defense that has sent 29 players to the NFL in the past 6 years. That's almost half their starters every year. Even more when you consider that some of those 11 are Freshman or Sophomores.

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LilJerrySeinfeld — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:47:45 EST

I like how the BCS stuck it to Mizzou. Awesome.

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Da_Mang — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:47:25 EST

@preciousroy: But that's my point. Hawaii plays in a weak conference and they dialed up an even weaker out of conference schedule and were rewarded handsomely for it.

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twoeightnine — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:43:11 EST

They played football yesterday? Who knew.

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Michael Bertin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:41:39 EST

@Da_Mang: No, it doesn't. Non-BCS schools can still get a bid automatically: If they are:

1) Champion of a non-BCS conference and
2) Ranked in the top twelve, or ranked in the top sixteen and higher than another BCS Conference champion.

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Matt Sussman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:40:30 EST

Chase Daniel isn't a system quarterback. Gary Pinkel just selects plays randomly out of a baseball hat.

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Rusty Cajun Ron — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:40:22 EST

@Da_Mang: DW is a god in Panhandle FL. He's actually genuinely a great person. His dad did my dad's (re) marriage ceremony.

/FWBHS '95

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thesepretzels — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:40:18 EST

@Mmole: Interestingly, Pat said the same thing.

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J-No — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:40:16 EST

On behalf of women everywhere, I would like to thank Georgia for kicking Colt Brennan in the nuts all night long. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

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That-Dude — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:39:09 EST

Tommy Frazier and Eric Crouch were also system QBs.

That-Dude

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Matt Sussman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:38:46 EST

I still have a handful of chocolate-covered News Niblets left over from Christmas.

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Rusty Cajun Ron — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:38:43 EST

@DannyNoonan: might want to wait a few days.

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LostinTheOffice — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:38:20 EST

@Da_Mang:
Or any Husker QB.

LostinTheOffice

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crazyjoedavola — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:37:48 EST

Charlie Ward- Heisman to shitty point guard.

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Tuffy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:37:18 EST

Is "hiding in the WAC" a system or merely a strategy?

Tuffy

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Da_Mang — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:35:22 EST

@That-Dude: A playoff is pretty much a pipe dream anyway. What last night's game did was damage the chances of non-BCS teams getting big bowl payouts by simply dialing up a soft schedule. If I'm Missouri today, I'm really pissed at being shut out of the BCS over two teams that they beat and another that had no earthly business being there.

Da_Mang

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DennyCrane — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:33:39 EST

@Da_Mang: @The Teufel Shuffle: @Phony Gwynn: @UpstateUnderdog: Uhh.....Sex Cannon?

DennyCrane

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Hit Bull Win Steak — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:32:58 EST

Danny Wuerffel has no idea what you're talking about

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Bunkie Perkins — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:32:54 EST

Mike Vick, prison system quarterback.

/showing myself out

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Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah! — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:30:51 EST

@The Teufel Shuffle: bite your tounge.

Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!

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BabyGorilla — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:30:28 EST

Todd Marinovich is a product of his Dad's system...thankfully a much smaller club.

BabyGorilla

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chilltown — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:28:37 EST

More entrants into that elite club:

Sunny Cumbie
Graham Harrel

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That-Dude — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:28:00 EST

Hawaii's debacle of a game, albeit against (possibly) the nation's best team, ensures that an 8 (or 16) team playoff will not come to fruition in the near future. For all the goodwill that Boise State built up last year, the nay sayers will cite yesterday's game as a reason why a playoff system would not be good for college football. The argument, as alluded to in Leitch's Rose Bowl post, would be: is it better to play in a competitive bowl game or get blown out in round 1 of the playoffs? Even if you are stomped in a bowl game, the losing players get a nice bag a swag and the schools receive their payouts. I don't think BYU would get much other than a plane ticket home after getting drilled by Va. Tech in a round 1 playoff game in Blacksburg.

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Da_Mang — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:25:34 EST

@matt_t: I couldn't hear the anthem over my own juvenile giggling over seeing the word "Bonerama" displayed on national television.

Da_Mang

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The Teufel Shuffle — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:24:22 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: In 2 years, we'll be adding "or Tim Tebow".

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complicated wet dreams — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:24:09 EST

@Bob Sheppards Flock: Bryant Gumble makes Dick Clark look like Gus Johnson.

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Phony Gwynn — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:24:03 EST

@UpstateUnderdog: Or Ty Detmer.

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Matt_T — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:23:08 EST

The game was great but the performance of the night was Bonerama doing the National Anthem.

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I Heart Poop — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:22:59 EST

seriously, what is a "system qb" anyway? is it a qb who puts up big numbers in college and then falls flat on his face in the nfl? why not just call them what they really are - nfl failures.

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UpstateUnderdog — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:21:25 EST

@Weed Against Speed: or Ken Dorsey.

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Barry Lutz — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:20:12 EST

@crazyjoedavola: That was Carson Daly.

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JohnCocktosten — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:19:54 EST

@Da_Mang: Tim Couch anyone? How about any Texas Tech QB over the past 6 years?

@DannyNoonan: I am happy with the win. Let me enjoy it.

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Weed Against Speed — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:19:51 EST

@Da_Mang: Or Gino Torretta.

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I Heart Poop — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:19:30 EST

because this season has been so weird, how about they just take a few weeks off for the nfl playoffs, then play straight through the spring and summer. maybe we'll finally have 2 teams worthy of a championship game by august.

I Heart Poop

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crazyjoedavola — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:17:55 EST

@Mmole: I gotta stop as well. I thought I saw a Dick Clark puppet New Years Eve.

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Da_Mang — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:16:27 EST

No "system" QB club is complete without Danny Wuerffel.

Da_Mang

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Bob Sheppards Flock — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:15:53 EST

I'm not sure which was worse - the Fox announcers last night or Bryant Gumbel on Saturday night

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Mmole — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:14:10 EST

Man I got to stop drinking. I actually thought I heard Pat Summerall doing play-by-play yesterday.

Mmole

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Phony Gwynn — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:10:53 EST

"Those dudes in red and black are waaaaaay faster than Samoans, brah."

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DannyNoonan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:10:52 EST

Is Auburn over Clemson really the greatest conference on earth's signature win?

DannyNoonan