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No no. No. You don’t understand You can’t make a deal with him. Even if you gave him the money he’d still kill you. He’s a peculiar man. You could even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that. He’s not like you. He’s not even like me.












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Comment by Jeff from LA — May 29, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
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Rose Bowl = Joke
Comment by UgasTexan — May 29, 2008 @ 10:12 am
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MikeLew @ 23 — you’ve got the process wrong. The Rose gets first pick (because of OSU at #1) and can take any eligible team that isn’t locked into another game because of a conference championship tie-in. The Rose could have taken Georgia, Missouri, Kansas or West Virginia. Any one of those would have been a better choice than Illinois.
Comment by ChemE93 — May 29, 2008 @ 8:44 am
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I’m not blaming Illinois, just frustrated with the system.
Comment by bk — May 28, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
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USC vs LSU or Georgia would have been a very good game. With the way USC was playing at the end of the year, anyone else would have been crushed.
Comment by oc phil — May 28, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
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Although I was optimistic about the game at the time, Illinois was not a match for USC talent wise last January, whether or not there was a better option to play USC i don’t know, but I don’t think any of the teams mentioned with the possible exception of UGA would have been able to beat the trojans. USC had talent from top to bottom last year and would have been in the championship game had it not crapped its pants and lost to Stanford. And to you bitter Mizzou fans, OSU was originally going to go to the Rose, not us, and had the Tigers beaten OU in the Big XII championship game Mizzou would have been in the BCS champ, not OSU. Don’t blame Illinois for benefiting from circumstances beyond their control.
Comment by Illini FTW — May 28, 2008 @ 6:26 pm
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@22-
Unfortunately, there really weren’t any better choices for the Rose….
BCS NCG- OSU & LSU
Sugar- Georgia & Hawaii
Fiesta- Oklahoma and WVU
Orange- Kansas & VaTech
Rose- USC & ???
No more SEC teams, no more Big XII teams, so you need an ACC team, a Big East team, a Pac 10 team, or a Big Ten team…..so, the options are Boston College(10-3), UConn(9-3), ASU(10-2), or Illinois(9-3).
BC had played poorly down the stretch, UConn played no one, and ASU would have been an all Pac 10 game. Then, consider that Illinois had just beaten the #1 team in the nation, and had looked pretty impressive in the second half…..they were really the only choice- it was just a funny year.
Comment by MikeLew — May 28, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
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To clarify, I am fully aware of the only 2 schools per conference rule and, rest assured, I am more bitter about Kansas selection than Illinois selection. But the only reason Illinois made the Rose was because of the “tradition” of having a Big 10 team. There were more worthy candidates for the spot than Illinois.
But, that’s over, and now I can look forward to a schedule free of Oklahoma. But Kansas gets them this year, so that will be amusing.
Comment by bk — May 28, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
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Exactly. It is about the Sugar Bowl and not the Rose.
Besides, Mizzou beat Illinois by only 6 points without their starting QB playing.
What makes you think that Mizzou would have been a better pick for the Rose Bowl.
Comment by cmw — May 28, 2008 @ 3:17 pm