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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 289006, member: 289"] Well, that's more like it. I did have spaces between the questions, (and the answers, too), but when I hit "enter", they disappearred! My answers? I don't have them for every quesiton. That's why i asked them. 1) I think there may have been unreported problems in the apst and the players are bigger, stronger sna faster but this "headhunting" style of play is a new development. Danny Parkins once claimed Dick Butkus made his living with helmet to helmet hits. I then looked at three different highlight films of Butkus, (from different seasons) and never saw a single helmet to helmet hit. Dick always had his arms out to control the man. The rough stuff came afterwards, when Butkus woudl roughly throw hit man to the ground. But none of this "flying missle stuff". 2) Some coaches may have bounties but I think players are trying to get on Sportscenter with their hits. 3) I think Doug needs to get back to a bowl game to get a contract extetnion this year. I'm scared of the impact of him being left hanging the way P and G-Rob were. We cold be in a vicious cirle where the way one coach was dealt with sewed the seeds for the failure of the next guy. 4) I think when the current round of raids fainlly come ot an end, the big conferecne will kiiss the NCAA goodbye. it won't take 20 years. 5) It may have been easier to win a title in the Big East than it will in the ACC. Virginia Tech played competitively for the title in 1999. West Viringia wopuld have played for it in 2007 if they had beaten a medicore Pitt team in their own place. And they would have played Ohio State, not LSU. Cincinnati would have played for the title in 2009 if Texas hadn't been given a second chance at a game winning field goal vs. nebraska in the Big 12 title game. Brian Kelly might have stuck around for that one. The current system, as unsatisfactory as it is, only requires that you win one game. That Auburn team that beat Oregon looked an awful lot like our teams of the 90's if Freeney had been at his peak at the same time as McNabb. Now we will be in a tougher conference, (I think), and we may be heading into a playoff that will require winning multiple games. 6) We've had some bad lucky with injuries, match-ups and missed free throws but I still think our record over the years should have been more like those other schools. We have the alrgest arean and crowds, no competion from pro sports and lots of prime recruting areas nearby plus a hall-of-fame coach. 7) It's true that we don't recruit a lot of 5 star guys, at least not as much as the other powers. I think the probation held us back. We were recruting on eggshells for years afterwards, not wanting to get in trouble a second time, (even though the other schools were doing worse things than we'd been rung up for). I think the zone defense has helped us win a lot of college games but probably isn't the best preparation for the pros. 8) The Nationals may be more committted to winning here than the Blue Jays but I'll beleive it when I see it. I also think it sucks to be in a 6 team division when the others are 4 team divisions. 9) I might have been a Bills fan if they'd cultivated this area by favoring SU players for at least late round draft choises or free agents. But they haven't. It's all about who they think can win games for them and I guess that's the way it should be. The Colts like our guys because they are used to playing in domes. They will continue to interest me more than the Bills for that reason. 10) I think American football and hockey are too expensive and violent to someday have the entire human race as their talent pool. Hockey is also limited to the nrothern hemisphere because it's a winter sport. Baseball and lacrosse have potential because they are not expensive or very violent. Poor people can play the sports with makeshift balls and sticks. Football might solve it's injury problems if the players wore less equipemtn and played the game more like rugby. Then it might have a shot at becoming a truly international sport. [/QUOTE]

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