(08-04-2016 11:12 AM)DownOnRohs Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 11:07 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-03-2016 06:22 PM)payday Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 09:18 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 06:50 AM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  It was fun to watch before ESPN/Fox etc.. and the age of the mega tv contracts. That is the reality we face and schools like ECU and Southern Miss could easily be middle of the pack in any P5 Conference if we had the same money they have and we would probably make more runs for the top of the league than a Vanderbilt, Kansas, California, Wake etc.. ever could because we are both Football crazy schools.
I remember watching Southern Miss back in the day and it was fun. ECU had classic match ups as well. That 83 season when we only lost to Miami(eventual National Champion) FSU and Florida all by a TD or less it was what College Football was all about. We could have won all three of those games if just one play had gone our way or if the refs were not so blatantly bad but you felt like you had every chance to compete with them.

The era of major southern independents. Great time for football. Better football was played then than today.

In 83 we played. Southern miss, ole miss, miss state, bama, unc, vatech, Louisville, cincy, tulane, vandy, arkstate.

Louisville, cincy, and vandy were considered easy wins. Ark state was the best team in d1-aa.

That 6-4-1 team was better than any team that ever played in the american or the big east after its first defections.

Those were good times. Goofball startups schools, made for tv wouldnt last a quarter against the schools back then.

I call bs on this one. In 2010 Cincinnati went 12-0-1 against Oregon St, Louisville, WVU, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Rutgers, and Florida. All P5, 5 Top25, and sans Rutgers, all played in BCS Bowls. Otherwise agree about what ESPiN has done.

In 2010 cincy was 4 -8.

In 2009 cincy was 12 -1, not 12-0-1 and got skull drug by an 7 win regular season florida. Lmao. You lost to the only good team you played. The nation rolled its eyes. Since the be breakup the only team to be ranked from that juggernaut schedule is louisville. Paper bearcats. You probably coulda gone 12 -0 in the socon too. People started getting sick of wasting big bowl spots on big east teams. None have gotten close since. Cincy finished 8th lol and dropped 4 spots, wvu dropped 7 to number 25.

The big east football myth.

Stahp

Mark Dantonio, Brian Kelly, and Butch Jones were not paper Bearcats.

Butch jones is not coaching well, they choke every year. No chsmpionships. brian kelley got to a bcs bowl and got destroyed, mark dantonio rode a lucky bounce and got slapped in the mouth. 38 - 0 on the big stsge.

Lol

(08-04-2016 11:16 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 11:12 AM)DownOnRohs Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 11:07 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-03-2016 06:22 PM)payday Wrote:  

(08-02-2016 09:18 AM)shere khan Wrote:  The era of major southern independents. Great time for football. Better football was played then than today.

In 83 we played. Southern miss, ole miss, miss state, bama, unc, vatech, Louisville, cincy, tulane, vandy, arkstate.

Louisville, cincy, and vandy were considered easy wins. Ark state was the best team in d1-aa.

That 6-4-1 team was better than any team that ever played in the american or the big east after its first defections.

Those were good times. Goofball startups schools, made for tv wouldnt last a quarter against the schools back then.

I call bs on this one. In 2010 Cincinnati went 12-0-1 against Oregon St, Louisville, WVU, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Rutgers, and Florida. All P5, 5 Top25, and sans Rutgers, all played in BCS Bowls. Otherwise agree about what ESPiN has done.

In 2010 cincy was 4 -8.

In 2009 cincy was 12 -1, not 12-0-1 and got skull drug by an 7 win regular season florida. Lmao. You lost to the only good team you played. The nation rolled its eyes. Since the be breakup the only team to be ranked from that juggernaut schedule is louisville. Paper bearcats. You probably coulda gone 12 -0 in the socon too. People started getting sick of wasting big bowl spots on big east teams. None have gotten close since. Cincy finished 8th lol and dropped 4 spots, wvu dropped 7 to number 25.

The big east football myth.

Stahp

Mark Dantonio, Brian Kelly, and Butch Jones were not paper Bearcats.

Butch jones is not coaching well, they choke every year. No chsmpionships. brian kelley got to a bcs bowl and got destroyed, mark dantonio rode a lucky bounce and got slapped in the mouth. 38 - 0 on the big stsge.

Lol

You're right-- MSU, ND, and UT are all paper top-15 programs. Nobody would want what they have.

Kelly didn't coach in the Sugar Bowl. Urban Meyer did though, in what was his and Tebow's swan song.