2012 NCAA Football Thread

look for USC Trojans to make a run for the national championship

 

OK....

 

Yea, they'll look like a really good team until they play some actual competition.

 

Honestly I think Matt Barkley is a better qb than RG3 and Luck. He did better with less talent around him than Luck did against the same teams and he seems more fundamentally sound than RG3

 

Georgia OLB Jarvis Jones named Collegiate Player of Year.

http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blo...jarvis-jones-named-collegiate-player-of-year/

 

SMURF TURF RULES!!!!!!!



And I agree with PreRunner03 about Matt Barkley.

 

That's gross....

My ag teacher, back in college, played against y'all and he told me that the blue on blue messed with his eyes.

 

Are you serious? I went to stanford, and am a huge supporter, but, USC's WR and TE core is way more talented than stanford's. If Luck was truly great, we would have won against Oregon and in our bowl game. USC will do well this year, but, look for Pac12 titles and Nat. Champs next year and beyond from SC.

 

I am completely serious. Go look at the stats against the same teams this past year. Barkley> Luck. End of story. USC has an over rated receiving core. Why are they overrated? Barkley.

Another reason why Barkley is better is that a good friend of mine babysat him and is close with his family. I am more likely to get an autograph from Barkley than Luck.

 

I said SC's receiving core is better than Stanfords. SC's receivers are good, no matter who throws to them. Also, if your friend babysat Luck, would that make him a #1 pick in the draft?

 

No, but he probably would have won the heisman.

 

He should probably see someone about that vision problem. The other teams in the MWC whined about it so BSU can't wear blue for in-conference home games. Haters.

Kibbie Dome = Worst. Stadium. Ever. Which makes it a fitting place for the Vandulls to play.

 

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer too because I think Robb Akey is a good coach. Dunno why he can't get those knuckleheads in line though.

 

He told me that on the field, chasing around a quarterback in blue on a matching blue field created weird optical illusions. He said it was the worst trying to do zone coverage and pay attention to two receivers.

 

I thought Jordan Jefferson was exposed in the national championship game...

Apparently a lot of others seem to think he was exposed at the NFL Combine. Dude ranked 315 of the 315 players who were invited.

Yahoo.com story

 

Lol, he makes Chris Relf look good

 

I don't like where this is headed. I know he's just a kid but many others have stepped in as a true freshman and prevailed, he on the other hand did not. At least in the toughness category. And to read all the comments after the story by the UGA fans makes me realize how much of "homers" our fans can be and why so many bad mouth us. I don't have much faith in Crowell, but that's not to say he can't be great, but he'll have to prove it to this Dawg fan first.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bfnDd?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=georgia-bulldogs-football


UGA’s Lynch says criticism of Isaiah Crowell ‘unfair, disrespectful’
1:03 pm March 1, 2012, by Chip Towers

ATHENS – OK, just got through with the first round of interviews this morning. The beat corps so far has had interview sessions with WR Malcolm Mitchell, TB Richard Samuel and TE Arthur Lynch.

Lynch had the most noteworthy things to say so far, chiefly because he is close to freshman tailback Isaiah Crowell and was willing to comment on him extensively and candidly.

What started the whole thread was Lynch simply offered that Crowell is one of the players that has impressed him the most during off-season workouts. He said the enigmatic freshman has been “leading his group” during mat drills and weightlifting sessions and said he expects “incredible things” out of Crowell this coming fall.

Lynch, it should be noted, is Crowell’s “Big Brother” within head coach Mark Richt’s “Brother’s Keeper” team concept. That is, all underclassmen are assigned a “big brother” among the upper classmen. So Lynch talks and meets with Crowell regularly and knows him better than a lot of players on the team.

Before we get into that, it should be noted that Lynch, a redshirt sophomore from Dartmouth, Mass., is the projected starter at tight end and is looking forward to becoming a major, every-down contributor for the Bulldogs this season.

For now, here’s what Lynch had to say about Crowell, then I’ll come back with a sort of roundup of the news and notes produced from all of today’s interviews. . . .

“The person I’ve been most impressed with — and the person who I think has been wrongly scrutinized the whole year — was Isaiah,” Lynch said. “You ask these high expectations out of a kid who’s 18 years old, it’s such a different game than high school. Let’s face it, he had instant success and people were so demanding of him to be the savior, this idea of `Oh, the next Herschel.’ That was just unfairly [placed on] him. . . .

“I’ve seen him mature from the day he got here and we had to drag him to workouts to now where he’s the leader of his group during workouts. I’ve talked to him a bit. We have a ‘Brother’s Keeper’ thing and he’s my little brother. I just talked to him, not even about football, but just about regular stuff. He’s really just a quiet, humble kid. He’ll never talk bad about this or that. He just kind of likes to be chill, be low key. . . .

“He’s a kid that I think will make a lot of noise this year if he keeps doing what he’s doing. I’m extremely proud of the way he’s handled the pressure last season and now this preseason moving up to spring and eventually the fall.

“I don’t think he ever had to go to workouts demanding two hours a day. It’s different for everybody. Everybody just used him as prime example just because of the fact he was Isaiah and he was this highly-touted guy and all that. There were other guys who had the same problems he did, they just might have been redshirting or they might not have been playing or had as big an impact on the team. I think just to see him with Coach T working out in the sprints and the mat drills and lifting, you can see he wants to get better and he’s finally getting it. Coach Richt always says `The Georgia Way. The Georgia Way. The Georgia Way,’ which in reality is the right way. He’s understanding how to do it at a speed where he’s comfortable with it.”

Interesting comments from Lynch here on the criticism Crowell endured over not being able to play hurt last season. . . .

“An ankle, as a running back? I don’t play running back so if I had a high-ankle sprain I think I could get through it because I don’t have to make the same amount of cuts he does. But when you play against LSU, let’s face it, they played in the national championship game, and in the SEC championship game they boo him? I thought that was, one, disrespectful, and two, I don’t think anyboidy understood the pain he was going through.

“Richard [Samuel] had a high-ankle sprain and needed surgery. He couldn’t even play. I thinkn that’s the thing, it could have been a little bit worse and Isaiah would have needed surgery, I’m just saying as an example. But you never heard them taking shots at anybody else because of injuries and that’s because of the expectations that were placed on his shoulders.

“As a junior or a senior, maybe he should grind through it. But I thought he grinded through it enough. He sat one game and then he tried to play in that SEC Championship Game when we needed him. You could tell in practice he was hurting. It wasn’t like he was going to cop out in the game because he couldn’t reach the level of success he had in prior games. I thought he was legitimately hurt and fought through it more than anyone could expect. I was proud of him for just going out there and having some carries.”

And finally, Lynch on Crowell’s disposition . . .

“I think he’s a kid who loves football to death, but if he wasn’t a football player he wouldn’t mind that much. When he’s on the field, he’s a competitor and he gets after it, but then when he’s off, he hangs out with Quintavius [Harrow], Q, that’s his high school buddy. He grew up with him, and he’s just fine. All he wants to do is succeed for him and his family back home and obviously for his teammates. He’s realizing how he can do it. He’ll be incredible.”

 

He's a pussy and doesn't deserve to start until he proves otherwise, in my opinion.

 

Hoping all of y'all in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and any other states with tornadoes in the area tonight are okay. Will be praying.