EDSBS THE MAGAZINE | VOL. 2 ISSUE 14

Poor clock management was one of the theme to this season.

The Nebrasocalypse has begun.

(well not really yet, but hopefully soon)

Not that it’d have mattered. Poll voters have been fine stating the Big 12 Championship game is a non-factor in their voting decisions. (Example 2003 Oklahoma Sooners)

Texas would be in the MNC game even if the clock had run out.

I got 99 problems, but Suh is not one.

Techie,

In 2003, the voters had USC at #1, LSU at #2, and Oklahoma at #3 after the final Saturday. It was the computers and SOS component that put the Sooners in the Title Game, and the formula was changed the next year.

Ndamukong Suh is 300 pounds of raging awesome. Chuck Norris sleeps with a nightlight because he’s scared of Ndamukong Suh.

If there were ever a year for a d lineman to win the heisman, this is it. No overwhelmingly special offensive players.

If Ingram is passed over for anybody, I would prefer it to be Suh. Gerhardt would not be a horrible selection(though, my granny could go for 150 yards against ND’s pitiful defense). Honestly, I think Ingram, Suh and Gerhardt should be in NYC. McCoy is a good QB but he has been no better than our QB, McElroy, when faced with a good defense.

Nebraska: Nice game. Enjoy the Holiday bowl.

TCU fans: You’re FUCKING TCU, STFU! You are irrelevant.

Alabama: We’ll see you in Hell! (Pasadena that is)

Everyone else: Bitch and moan all you want. The Longhorns are in and you’re not.

Suck it.

OLS continues his one man quest to become the most hated EDSBS regular poster.

I hope Alabama beats the dog out of Texas. Aside from Oklahoma State (minus their best player), the Longhorns have underwhelmed in every big game this year. With Bradford, Oklahoma exposes them and we get TCU vs. Bama.

Here! Here! OLS

So, Orson, when does the sangin commence ?

During Internet rage, spare a thought for ACC punters. The loneliest job and the warmest spot on the bench in games involving Georgia Tech.

There was a terrible pass interference call where McCoy was throwing the ball away that put Texas into field goal range when it was 7-6 that cost Nebraska that game.
Bama is going to destroy the Longhorns in Pasadena.

… thus ensuring at least another year of media fellatio of the SEC. Thanks, Texas. This is what you’ve earned us.

While I’ll feel Nebraska should’ve won, I applaud Ndamukong Suh’s performance tearing Colt’s ass up and down Cowboys Stadium w/4 sacks, 9 team total. If he doesn’t win the Heisman (like he really needs it w/all the awards he’s a finalist for), 2nd place or even just getting an honorable mention is a-okay…….just so as long as he doesn’t get drafted by Oakland.

As a Detroit fan I’ve been rooting for us to keep losing so we can win the Suh Lottery. We really, really, really need a stud DT and I’m pretty sure I know one.

Texas does not deserve the NC game. The Bearcats do, forced to play in freeze your ass off cold Three Rivers Stadium and they managed to rally back and win from what looked to have the makings of a blowout. The Texans on the other hand are now the Lnghrns.

I can get behind a Heisman for the House of Spears. Damn, he was awesome yesterday. Please COTG, don’t let him end up at Oakland or Cleveland, please, please.

Dan @ 17: Not to nit-pick, but the Bearcats were playing at Heinz Field. Three Rivers Stadium was imploded in 2001.

Screw the Heisman, give Suh the Noble Prize for Ass Kicking. Invent it for him and immediately retire it.

phew dat!….that is all.

Anybody who does not include CJ Spiller in the Heisman discussion is not paying attention. He has scored touchdowns just about every way that you can this year: punt return, kick return(he actually holds an NCAA career record of 7), passing, receiving, and rushing…leaving out forced fumble recovery in the end zone and an interception return for a touchdown. And he has done all of this with an injury.

I cannot stand Clempson, but Spiller is amazing.

Tech offense vs. Clemson

Game 1: 21 pts, 207 yards rushing
Game 2: 30 pts, 301 yards rushing
Game 3: 39 pts, 333 yards rushing

in the Johnson/Dabo era.

Clearly, experience and familiarity with the flexbone/TO eliminates advantages.

The Texas fans are just getting everything out while they’re still undefeated.

At least the Pelinis handled the difficult loss with grace and dignity:

http://www.omaha.com/article/20091205/BIGRED/712069849

Bonus for you Texas fans- “THIS IS ABOUT THE BCS!” gets brought back out. An oldie but a goodie.

wow, is FOX trying hard to sell this BCS shit, or what?

Boise State vs TCU should be interesting, but the winner is still getting fucked, no matter how much lipstick you put on this pig.

Old Guard sticks it to the non AQ teams again.

ShaneTCU-

Have fun playing Boise State in the glorified Poinsettia bowl. Win or lose, it doesn’t matter.

Wow, that one huge COP-OUT by the BCS.

Boise State vs. TCU? Way to go BCS!

The college football season is over. It’s not even worth watching anymore.

I’ll treat this as an open thread: re non-AQs getting screwed over.

It’s hardly like beating a Big 10 or ACC team would have given the non-AQ teams much credit to begin with and would have been considered poor games as well.

The problem is that you have one extremely poor traveling BCS team (Cincinnati), one with a relatively small amount of living alumni (GT), no Big 12 at large available, and one SEC team going to the NC (meaning the SEC at large is in the Sugar).

TCU will probably bring around the same amount of fans as GT, which would probably wind up being a little higher than last year’s 57k if those two had played together.

I doubt Boise would be able to pull off attendance levels similar to those seen in the Fiesta if they were sent anywhere but Phoenix given their local unemployment rate, distance to other bowls, and Poinsettia bowl

At that point, how do you juggle the teams to best have decent match-ups and attendance?
Iowa – Boise State would be a yawner as everyone would expect Boise to run all over Iowa

GT – TCU would only be potentially interesting from the angle of TCU’s defense against GT’s offense but still probably turned off by half-time.

It was possible for both games to be Boise – Oklahoma, but it was also possible for both games to be Georgia – Hawaii or Utah – Alabama.

All this does is give more ammunition to the argument that the BCS money making may not be that much better than the playoffs

A win over a big 10 or ACC team would still provide TCU/Boise with more cred than beating a MWC/WAC team.

Orson’s Love Slave- Thanks for proving my point. And we will have a grand ole time at the glorified Poinsettia Bowl. I hope you enjoy being the glorified sacrificial lamb to Bama. Also, your earlier comments are true regarding TCU being irrelevant, but we’re so irrelevant your beloved Longhorns are afraid to travel up here and play on at our stadium.

Cincinnati jumped TCU in the BCS rankings so TCU probably would not have made it to Pasadena
had the Horns lost.

I don’t know about that Nati, since plenty of people seem to have already concluded that the MWC/Boise State are better than anything from the Big 10/ACC. It would seem to me that either stories get written than the non-BCS teams beat the teams from weak BCS conferences ‘as expected’ or the BCS conference teams beat non-BCS teams ‘as expected’. Either way, there’s minimal credit given.

The point is, either way, the BCS and the teams were in a no-win situation – which underlines all the problems that exist in the BCS and the media

Watching Mack Brown softshoe another second onto that clock last night – I was thinking that the only way to really force the playoff issue is for a Hornfrog or a Bearcat to just win the whole damn thing – Jim Delaney recognized long ago that his conference can’t compete – but all the majors – Big Eleven included – would freak the fuck out if a non-AQ somehow won it all. Alas, Mack can bend the laws of time and space with a simple smile, so not this year. That is, unless someone can demonstrate how a playoff system would generate one dollar more than the current system, in which case we can begin playoff games immediately.

Also, Kizzak – that was a Maginoesque shot at Idaho being straight-up poor. I salute you.

Also, many salutes to the Alabama Crimson Tide. You really fuckstomped the hell out of the boys from old Florida. Your rendition of RJYH and invocation of the tears of unfathomable sadness now have a special place in my “save until I delete” list.

Dammit Nebraska, why must you kick it out of bounds in the most inopportune time!!!

I’m sure TCU/Boise will be a great game as far as entertainment goes. But, they needed to put the big dogs vs the non-BCS schools just for argument’s sake…TCU-Boise benefits no one.

The problem with the BCS is the Rose.

Boise State and TCU vs. the Rose teams would be interesting. I would expect either of them to beat Ohio State, but I’d love to see them playing Oregon on a neutral field.

If two non-BCS teams meet in a BCS game, does the BCS get busted?

ShaneTCU-

What, was that? I can’t hear you. I’m having trouble hearing you over all the celebrations I’m enjoying after my team winning the Big XII Championship. It’s great winning a major conference title and having the entire nation see all of our accomplishments.

I do have empathy for you and your purple band of scrappy rebels. But the fact is, I really don’t want to waste any more of my time talking to a mid major fan. I guess in that way, I’m kind of like the BCS…

Honestly, how many SEC teams could beat Texas, 7, 8 ? I mean seriously, their O has not been tested and Dr. BOOM MF’s D? Gimme a break we’re all adults here and everyone’s seen a blitz before and Upchurch, Ingram or Richardson will bust dat ass on a screen…bring it

The thing worse than Texas playing in the title game, is Texas playing in the title game against Alabama.

Not saying they don’t belong there, I just hate both schools with an unrivaled passion.

@35 I wasn’t making a shot at Idaho being poor, Boise has around a 10% unemployment rate

Per capita income wise, they are at 35k so not all that poor

People keep saying the ‘big dogs’ as if it was USC, Ohio State, or Oklahoma that were ducking the TCU and Boise State. The BCS opposition would have been Iowa and Georgia Tech – neither of which have been considered heavyweights this year exactly nor are they traditional powers.

“5. After completion of the selection process as described in Paragraph Nos. 1-4, the conferences and Notre Dame may, but are not required to, adjust the pairings taking into consideration the following:

…C. whether the same two teams will play against each other in a bowl game for two consecutive years"

When the Separate but Equal bowl goes to air the spotlight will be on the cowards that run the BCS cartel. They won’t even be able to hide behind the Bowls.

The assclowns that argue that the non-AQs just need to schedule better just got undercut by a very public demonstration of BCS scheduling cowardice.

Kevin@LSU-

I’m just gonna decide to like you since LSUFreek endeared me to all of Cajuns. God bless you one and all.

Pachyderms : You have a great team and tradition. I look forward to our game. Two great, storied programs with top coaches and elite players settling college football’s question of, Who is the best?

Orson’s Love Slave—

What celebration? You and Ruck em’ Horns have posted on this message board more in the last 24 hours than anyone else. Get the fuck out your room and go party then dipshit. Unless your partying together, not that theres anything wrong with that.

(Fully expecting you to comeback with a purple joke)

ShaneTCU-

I’m just posting so much to warm up for my usual comments toward Dollar Bill Doug. I’m usually pretty busy during the week but I try to keep up with the usual posts on the iphone.

And nice homosexual slur. Real smooth. Please stop posting on the big boy message boards. I’m sure there is a mid major board around the series of tubes you can find to vent and bitch about the BCS.

Before we bore the non-Texans (too late), is it really Texas that TCU is upset with or the BCS? Both?

Do you also have a copy of 100 Suns, Orson, or did you just rip that off of Amazon’s imgsrv? We should start a club for Bomb-obsessed Atlantans, the Oppemaniacs or something. We could lobby to have Oglethorpe County rechistrined as Oppenheimer county, and to replace the Brown Thresher with the Savannah River Tritium Cloud as state bird.

Frankly, I don’t wanna play Bama, we’d get fucked royally. I’m one of the few on this campus that realize this (HELLO last year in Norman, two years ago in Austin). But at the same time, I don’t wanna play Boise, again. So to answer your question, its the BCS.
Also, I’m a non-Texan (worse yet, I’m a yankee) but mostly I just get a kick out of pissing off Texans over sports, and I knew there would be some on here right now.

You traveled from Yankee land to attend a tier 3 university? Now I see where the problem started.

Nick Black- NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Orson does NOT write the Magazine. It’s HOLLY!
Why don’t you know that! If you make that mistake Holly and Dollar Bill Doug will face rape you interweb style for your mistake.

Pray for your internet safety Nick. Pray.

I dunno why people are surprised, it makes perfect sense to quarantine the ratings vacuums.

Breaking news: Mike London offered UVA job.

You may now return to your bitching.

OLS
The problem was being born and raised in Yankee land. Just like your old governor George Bush.

House of Motherfuckin Spears FTW#@ Texas fans acting like they didn’t get lucky winning this game is HILARIOUS! Have fun getting skull fucked in Pasadena.

@ Brizzle

Yes, Suh is great. If you look at the ENTIRE season, he probably deserves the Heisman. Our D and Nebraska’s D played a great game. Corn had about 100 years total offense against Coach Boom’s boys. We did just enough to pull out a W against a great D.

We did not get lucky. 13-0 is not lucky. The ENTIRE season was not lucky.

Remember: fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering…and sooner football.

Heh to Shane @ 48

1. probably believes Obama is a secret Muslim agent.

And OLS congrats on winning #2 in the nation with a schedule that includes UCF, UTEP, ULM, and Wyoming, (pathetic) because you have no chance vs. Bama. Colt – most wins ever lol – is a Jason White fraud.

Check that…#40 not #38 above.

OLS – “no, no… My teams horns are bigger, hence the name ‘longhorns’ and the conference, can’t forget that – adds to the size… Plus mack brown magically adds length to everything”

ShaneTCU (in cousin vinny talk) – “yous guys are idgiots… proportionately speaking, my team’s horns are bigger…”

Paging Mr. Suh to the Green Room of the NFL draft, paging Mr. Suh…

O’s Love Slave:

“We did not get lucky.”

Keep telling yourself that. I bet you said it over beers with pass-interference-happy BCS-minded referees last night. You’ll repeat it when McCoy watches somebody else win the big trophy because he had yellow socks. And you’ll say it, sobbing, when you shame the Big 12 getting your teeth kicked in at to Rose Bowl.

It’s the truth…and it will really, really hurt.

My question was what’d they give the Fiesta Bowl for falling on the grenade this year, so to speak.

On the London hire….always risky when you get a guy who only won with someone else’s recruits. Winning is winning, but still, seems not ideal.

@40: Two, Alabama and Florida. Maybe LSU on a really good day. No one else. The SEC is Floribama and the Ten Dwarves this year. (Sadly, that still makes them better than any other conference outside of maybe the Pac-10. Down year all around, with a few really good teams and a pile of mediocrity.)

And yes, Suh absolutely should win the Heisman.

As a Texas fan that’s not completely deranged (See OLS) I’d honestly say we got lucky in the Nebraska game. Part of the game of Football is luck and sometimes, even good teams benefit greatly from it. If I had nothing BUT the Nebraska game to base legitimacy for the National Title however, of course I don’t send Texas.

That being said, the Horns did go undefeated, and they were ranked higher than Cinci, TCU, and Boise State at the final gun. It is what it is.

Although almost EVERYONE has written the Horns out of the title as certain to lose, I’d say it’s important to wait until the game itself to criticize. If the Texas I watched all year for the most part comes out at the speed they should, I’d say it’s a very interesting and close game. If the Texas from the 1 game that most everyone else watched comes, the Texas D will need to play as lights out against a GOOD offense as they did against a TERRIBLE offense in order to even keep things somewhat close.

You’d find that most of us Texas fans didn’t celebrate jubilantly after the field goal to win it was kicked. I watched it until Texas won, then turned off the TV and went to bed. There’s no excuse to barely win a game that should have been won by double digits, regardless of how good Suh was.

Now commence with the bashing and what not.

I didn’t know TCU actually had fans. I guess knowing is half the battle.

The problem with all you “national” college football generic fans, and your EA Sports playoff dreams, is that you think college football is a video game. The Fiesta Bowl is a good trip for Boise and TCU, because their fans don’t have to trek to hell and creation in order to get there. The only reason to have to travel out of your own or adjacent time zone for a bowl should be that you’re No. 1 or 2. There’s no objective reason to put TCU or Boise in the title game (they haven’t played enough competition to know if they’re as good as their numbers), and you’d be doing them no favors to send them to Miami or New Orleans.

OK, New Orleans would be a good trip for TCU, but y’all would bitch about them playing Florida in the Sugar, too. and the Sugar Bowl committee probably wouldn’t be thrilled about trying to entice their 30k, Disciples of Christ fan base. Ohio State will at least fill some hotel rooms and run up a bar tab. Boy howdy on the latter.

LSU, Georgia, South Carolina (seriously, do you think Eric Norwood would not eat McCoy’s lunch!) and Kentucky could handle Texas. Auburn would give them a run for their money. Ole Miss after a loss to a Vanderbilt or a scurrilous article about Houston Nutts filanderings…you have to give Nutt some motivation ya know, plain ol W’s bore him. Even MSU would give them a run for their money. The only team TX clearly comes out on top against is Vandy

I get behind Suh if nothing else because he’s from Portland, OR, and damn, how I wish he was playing for
Oregon. On the other hand, I do want to say, “See, Suh, see?”.

With Bradford, Oklahoma exposes them and …

Just like he did the year before?

Please try to pay attention.

Honestly, how many SEC teams could beat Texas, 7, 8 ?

Texas is 3 – 1 against the SEC this decade. See? Saves you the trouble of running all those simulations in your head.

A few things from a Husker living in Texas:

1) I was at the Big XII champ game and it was one of the most fun, yet offensively boring, games I can ever remember. Two great teams, tons of great defesnse. That’s how it should be.

2) Suh should at least get invited to NY for the Heisman ceremony. He won’t win, but let’s at least start giving some defensive players some cred in the future.

3) I’m not ready to say that the Huskers are “back” until we can compete offensively with a Texas, OU, or Okla St. Great teams know how to win, and Saturday night proved it. The call from the refs could have gone either way, but in the end a team like Texas will win because they know how to. Bo and company are heading the right way, and once our guys believe that they can win every game then expect more games like that in the future.

4) Good luck to Texas in the title game – make the Big XII proud!

The Huskers tried to do the fucking Longhorns a favor and those Texas dumbfucks just couldn’t let it go. Everyone in the country except for assholes in Texas and the Dickless wonders running the BCS know that TCU should be playing Bama. Not only that but I actually feel bad for Texas becuase they are going to get raped and murdered by Bama.

I also feel bad for Arizona becuase I think SUH isn’t going to be happy unless he kills someone. With the Husker D getting a month to stew about what might have been we won’t need to offense to even make a trip. San Diego’s streets are gonna run red with blood.

Suh for Heisman, hell yeah.

I still don’t get the Ingram for Heisman talk. He had a great game against Florida, but let’s face it: he wasn’t even the best running back in his division.

Iggy,

You’ve been eating those retard sandwiches again. I know you and everyone else crank it to the SEC (and apparently TCU), and the “only team Texas could easily handle is Vandy”, but I implore you, man, use some cognitive reasoning.

Let’s examine TCU’s last seven games. Quality wins at Colorado State (3-9), a marquee beat down of BYU (that team that lost to Florida State), UNLV (5-7), San Diego State (4-8), Utah (9-3, good win), Wyoming (6-6), New Mexico (1-11).

Texas:
Mizzou (8-4), OK State (9-3), UCF (8-4), Baylor (4-8), Kansas (5-7), AssToMouth (6-6), Nebraska (9-4).

Opp Win-Loss Record:

38-46 (.452) TCU

49-36 (.576) Texas

Let me just say that I have seen TCU play, and I do believe they deserve a shot. They’re pretty nasty. But to say that "Everyone in the country except for assholes in Texas and the Dickless wonders running the BCS know that TCU should be playing Bama.", is just ignent, Blankie.

 I’m sure it’s tough playing in the Mountain West. I’m serious. There is no cake walk conference in big time D-1 football, but San Diego State? New Mexico? Colorado State? These teams are bad. Really bad. I don’t doubt that TCU COULD beat any team in the Big 12 or even GASP… the mythical SEC. This is not the question. The real question, and the reason why opp. W-L records should count for something and why we have the fucking BCS in the first place, (I know it’s a conspiracy and it’s all about money and all that other bull shit people like to talk about) is this. Could TCU play against real competition (Big 12, SEC, Pac-10) WEEK IN WEEK OUT and survive?

I don’t have the answer to that question. I think with the way they play defense, maybe they could, but then again maybe they should schedule someone and see. Those junk ACC teams like Virginia and Clemson aren’t going to cut it as we’re seeing now.

TCU is scary, but pull your head out of your asses and realize that the BCS (skynet) got it right. Does it suck? Yes. Does TCU deserve a shot? Yes. Does anyone give Texas a shot? No. Do we give a fuck? What do you think?

I hope we are 20 point dogs. I remember the last time we got written off at the Rose Bowl.

“Ya, well. That’s just, like, your opinion man.”