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Manly Thoughts

James Joyner
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3 responses to “Manly Thoughts”

  1. Stormy Dragon Avatar
    Stormy Dragon

    Most of your suggestions for improving college football are ridiculously unworkable. In particular, you seem to be forgetting that it’s COLLEGE football, not minor league professional football.

    Say that Ohio State gets “promoted” to the SEC. Wow, what an oppurtunity, they get to try and do their studies while flying to friggin florida every weekend to play in a conference they’re not anywhere near.

    You also forget that most of the conferences exist in multiple sports and in some cases include academic requirements for elligiblity. The Big Ten isn’t just going to start excepting random basketweaving schools because the NCAA says so.

  2. Stormy Dragon Avatar
    Stormy Dragon

    If you really want to get rid of the cupcake games, there’s one change that you didn’t even mention that should be made: require teams to play six home games and six away games. There real reason schools play those easy games is that they want the extra revenue you get from a seventh or eighth home games, which means they need to find schools willing to agree to 2-1 or all away series. Which isn’t going to be major schools.

    And as for Notre Dame, they really should be in the Big Ten, given both their proximity and how often they play Big Ten teams.

  3. anjin-san Avatar
    anjin-san

    If we torture enough people, will it somehow make a man out of bithead?

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