Weather is too cold up north to be good at sports. Big 10 schools just need to move south.

(08-04-2014 09:46 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:43 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:24 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:02 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:53 AM)ken d Wrote:  I don't believe they would usually be favored against the bottom half of the B1G. But they would probably be favored as often as not.

They have been a little below par for them the past few years. Even so, their average Sagarin power ranking would still put them near the center of the B1G. Some years they might only be ranked ahead of 5 teams, sometimes 7-8. Spurrier's point isn't so much exactly where do they rank, as it is that the added excitement of being a regional rivalry makes them a tougher out than lower tier B1G schools.

Spurrier picked on the B1G because he is a master at getting under the skin of big dogs with overblown egos and he loves doing it. What he said about ECU vs B1G is just as true of the other P5 conferences as well. The only league that doesn't have four or five bottom feeders is the Big 12, and that's only because they have fewer teams than everybody else.

There are years when ECU would beat just as many SEC teams as they would Big Ten teams. Miss State? Ole Miss? Vandy? Kentucky? Missouri has bad years as does Tennessee. Florida has been looking rather mediocre lately yet.....oh it is the Big Ten that has teams ECU could beat.

What a joke. You Southerners have serious head issues.

Not really. We just by and large play better football top to bottom as a conference. The top of the SEC is slightly better than the top of the Big 10 right now, our middles are about the same, and your bottom is slightly larger than ours. I'd say that E.C.U. would have its hands full with Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, or Ole Miss in their recent iterations. Kentucky not so much and Florida wreaked last year. But please Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota, and to a lesser extent Illinois have all had issues! Purdue may have been worse than Kansas last year. So I think that is what Spurrier is getting at.

Minnesota is starting to show some life, I don't think they deserve to be put in the same group as the Indiana schools, Northwestern and Minnesota are moving to the mid-tier of the Big Ten. That said, usually I agree with and side with you H1 but I really can't on this one, ECU could go toe to toe with the bottom of any P5 conference and do well, not just us northerners here in the Big Ten.

Sorry but Indiana is improving, Minnesota is improving. Illinois...I don't know what is up with them. They need to stop hamstringing themselves in recruiting. Maryland the last couple years would have beaten ECU. Rutgers? Well I think it shall be proven that in a few years, they will have impressed.

So who are we talking are the easy wins for ECU? Illinois? Purdue? Congrats. I don't think any others are gimme's for ECU. The person that got ME going was the person that said ECU could take half of the Big Ten with no problem. That is complete and utter horse **** and I am sorry if you are not willing to tell these people what is up but I have watched ECU a bit the last few years and the program is on the slide downward not upwards and really wasn't that impressive.

What impresses me about ECU is how loyal the fans are and how many of them there are for where ECU has been. Their team hasn't been that great lately.

As others have said, Spurrier was trolling. Seems he was trolling these Southern fans as much as anyone else.

So if folks want to go north hating, then by all means go for it. This forum is predominantly Southern and the practice seems to be appreciated by the Admin and many of the mods. Honestly its not a big deal to me but I love to point it out.

People love to bandwagon hate on the Big Ten, even on something as stupid as this that is completely unprovable. Southern Idiots.

How is ECU on the decline in you mind? ECU won 10 games last year and they swept their in state BCS opponents.

You just don't want to admit it. The B10 is just not all of that.

The BIG is has 1 football title outright in 44 years and 1 bball title in 25 years. Great athletic conference, but not elite

(08-04-2014 09:48 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:18 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:02 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:53 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(08-03-2014 09:38 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  I'm sure our coaching staff will use it as motivation. It really is a bit of backhanded coach speak. I imagine that ECU would be favored against roughly half of the B1G on a neutral field.

I don't believe they would usually be favored against the bottom half of the B1G. But they would probably be favored as often as not.

They have been a little below par for them the past few years. Even so, their average Sagarin power ranking would still put them near the center of the B1G. Some years they might only be ranked ahead of 5 teams, sometimes 7-8. Spurrier's point isn't so much exactly where do they rank, as it is that the added excitement of being a regional rivalry makes them a tougher out than lower tier B1G schools.

Spurrier picked on the B1G because he is a master at getting under the skin of big dogs with overblown egos and he loves doing it. What he said about ECU vs B1G is just as true of the other P5 conferences as well. The only league that doesn't have four or five bottom feeders is the Big 12, and that's only because they have fewer teams than everybody else.

There are years when ECU would beat just as many SEC teams as they would Big Ten teams. Miss State? Ole Miss? Vandy? Kentucky? Missouri has bad years as does Tennessee. Florida has been looking rather mediocre lately yet.....oh it is the Big Ten that has teams ECU could beat.

What a joke. You Southerners have serious head issues.

I am a Northerner. I have lived in Chicago for basically my whole life (48 years now), except for the time that I was in the military, away at college or in Los Angeles working for the Feds. So I have been watching the B10, Notre Dame and the MAC schools getting their azzes kicked for over 40 years by southern and western schools.. What you don't understand is that ECU, UCF, USF, Houston, Tulane, SMU, Memphis and Cincinnati have players that are just as good if not better than the average B10 teams. It is probably hard for you to comprehend that point, because you probably see the AAC and ECU the same way that you see the MAC. You never even bothered to notice that UNC (an alleged dark horse national title contender) was blown out on their own field by ECU. ECU also blew out NC State at NC State, but in your mind ECU is not as good as Purdue, Illinois, Iowa or Minnesota. Child please.

You call me a child while completely fabricating your entire opinion of me out of no where. For folks that have been around here for awhile, they would know I have a soft spot for ECU and have followed their progress to some degree.

So keep on making up fables and false stories about people. That is what children do.

Child please is just a figure of speech. What is not a figure of speech is that the B10 minus Michigan State and Ohio State is just not that good.

(08-04-2014 09:57 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:48 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:18 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:02 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:53 AM)ken d Wrote:  I don't believe they would usually be favored against the bottom half of the B1G. But they would probably be favored as often as not.

They have been a little below par for them the past few years. Even so, their average Sagarin power ranking would still put them near the center of the B1G. Some years they might only be ranked ahead of 5 teams, sometimes 7-8. Spurrier's point isn't so much exactly where do they rank, as it is that the added excitement of being a regional rivalry makes them a tougher out than lower tier B1G schools.

Spurrier picked on the B1G because he is a master at getting under the skin of big dogs with overblown egos and he loves doing it. What he said about ECU vs B1G is just as true of the other P5 conferences as well. The only league that doesn't have four or five bottom feeders is the Big 12, and that's only because they have fewer teams than everybody else.

There are years when ECU would beat just as many SEC teams as they would Big Ten teams. Miss State? Ole Miss? Vandy? Kentucky? Missouri has bad years as does Tennessee. Florida has been looking rather mediocre lately yet.....oh it is the Big Ten that has teams ECU could beat.

What a joke. You Southerners have serious head issues.

I am a Northerner. I have lived in Chicago for basically my whole life (48 years now), except for the time that I was in the military, away at college or in Los Angeles working for the Feds. So I have been watching the B10, Notre Dame and the MAC schools getting their azzes kicked for over 40 years by southern and western schools.. What you don't understand is that ECU, UCF, USF, Houston, Tulane, SMU, Memphis and Cincinnati have players that are just as good if not better than the average B10 teams. It is probably hard for you to comprehend that point, because you probably see the AAC and ECU the same way that you see the MAC. You never even bothered to notice that UNC (an alleged dark horse national title contender) was blown out on their own field by ECU. ECU also blew out NC State at NC State, but in your mind ECU is not as good as Purdue, Illinois, Iowa or Minnesota. Child please.

You call me a child while completely fabricating your entire opinion of me out of no where. For folks that have been around here for awhile, they would know I have a soft spot for ECU and have followed their progress to some degree.

So keep on making up fables and false stories about people. That is what children do.

Child please is just a figure of speech. What is not a figure of speech is that the B10 minus Michigan State and Ohio State is just not that good.

Oh, now its just a figure of speech. Child please, no one is gonna believe that you meant it as just a figure of speech and not a trolling comment.

ECU is admirable for their position but they are just not as good as you say.

Of course they play up for North Carolina State or any other North Carolina school. Against others though, I have seen mediocrity. The truth hurts.

But by all means, be a child of propaganda.

(08-04-2014 09:56 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  The BIG is has 1 football title outright in 44 years and 1 bball title in 25 years. Great athletic conference, but not elite

And? What Big Ten teams has ECU played and beaten lately? I don't know and would love to know. Seems to me though to be a lot of bluster and **** talking by some ignorant Southerners that are still angry and have to brag about a brutish gladiatorial event in order to feel better about their past.

Spurrier's comment was just a comment. There is no truth to it and there is no proof of it. Just a bunch of fools and their shepherded propagandic beliefs.

(08-04-2014 09:52 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:46 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:43 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:24 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:02 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  There are years when ECU would beat just as many SEC teams as they would Big Ten teams. Miss State? Ole Miss? Vandy? Kentucky? Missouri has bad years as does Tennessee. Florida has been looking rather mediocre lately yet.....oh it is the Big Ten that has teams ECU could beat.

What a joke. You Southerners have serious head issues.

Not really. We just by and large play better football top to bottom as a conference. The top of the SEC is slightly better than the top of the Big 10 right now, our middles are about the same, and your bottom is slightly larger than ours. I'd say that E.C.U. would have its hands full with Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, or Ole Miss in their recent iterations. Kentucky not so much and Florida wreaked last year. But please Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota, and to a lesser extent Illinois have all had issues! Purdue may have been worse than Kansas last year. So I think that is what Spurrier is getting at.

Minnesota is starting to show some life, I don't think they deserve to be put in the same group as the Indiana schools, Northwestern and Minnesota are moving to the mid-tier of the Big Ten. That said, usually I agree with and side with you H1 but I really can't on this one, ECU could go toe to toe with the bottom of any P5 conference and do well, not just us northerners here in the Big Ten.

Sorry but Indiana is improving, Minnesota is improving. Illinois...I don't know what is up with them. They need to stop hamstringing themselves in recruiting. Maryland the last couple years would have beaten ECU. Rutgers? Well I think it shall be proven that in a few years, they will have impressed.

So who are we talking are the easy wins for ECU? Illinois? Purdue? Congrats. I don't think any others are gimme's for ECU. The person that got ME going was the person that said ECU could take half of the Big Ten with no problem. That is complete and utter horse **** and I am sorry if you are not willing to tell these people what is up but I have watched ECU a bit the last few years and the program is on the slide downward not upwards and really wasn't that impressive.

What impresses me about ECU is how loyal the fans are and how many of them there are for where ECU has been. Their team hasn't been that great lately.

As others have said, Spurrier was trolling. Seems he was trolling these Southern fans as much as anyone else.

So if folks want to go north hating, then by all means go for it. This forum is predominantly Southern and the practice seems to be appreciated by the Admin and many of the mods. Honestly its not a big deal to me but I love to point it out.

People love to bandwagon hate on the Big Ten, even on something as stupid as this that is completely unprovable. Southern Idiots.

How is ECU on the decline in you mind? ECU won 10 games last year and they swept their in state BCS opponents.

You just don't want to admit it. The B10 is just not all of that.

I don't need to admit anything. The statement made was that ECU would beat over half of the Big Ten. There is no proof of such. ECU has no history to say that would happen. You are just trying to state that this is all factual when its not even to the point of theory.

So don't talk to me about not wanting to admit anything.

The Big Ten is all that AND ECU wishes it was in such a powerful conference BUT that will never happen. So sorry...but please continue to brag about a 10 win season earned in a minor conference.

Wow for a rutgers fan you sure talk a turd. Didn't rutgers just get collar dragged through the American ladt season? If you are down on a legit team like ecu what do you expect to happen to you all in the big lol.

(08-04-2014 09:59 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:57 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:48 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:18 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:02 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  There are years when ECU would beat just as many SEC teams as they would Big Ten teams. Miss State? Ole Miss? Vandy? Kentucky? Missouri has bad years as does Tennessee. Florida has been looking rather mediocre lately yet.....oh it is the Big Ten that has teams ECU could beat.

What a joke. You Southerners have serious head issues.

I am a Northerner. I have lived in Chicago for basically my whole life (48 years now), except for the time that I was in the military, away at college or in Los Angeles working for the Feds. So I have been watching the B10, Notre Dame and the MAC schools getting their azzes kicked for over 40 years by southern and western schools.. What you don't understand is that ECU, UCF, USF, Houston, Tulane, SMU, Memphis and Cincinnati have players that are just as good if not better than the average B10 teams. It is probably hard for you to comprehend that point, because you probably see the AAC and ECU the same way that you see the MAC. You never even bothered to notice that UNC (an alleged dark horse national title contender) was blown out on their own field by ECU. ECU also blew out NC State at NC State, but in your mind ECU is not as good as Purdue, Illinois, Iowa or Minnesota. Child please.

You call me a child while completely fabricating your entire opinion of me out of no where. For folks that have been around here for awhile, they would know I have a soft spot for ECU and have followed their progress to some degree.

So keep on making up fables and false stories about people. That is what children do.

Child please is just a figure of speech. What is not a figure of speech is that the B10 minus Michigan State and Ohio State is just not that good.

Oh, now its just a figure of speech. Child please, no one is gonna believe that you meant it as just a figure of speech and not a trolling comment.

ECU is admirable for their position but they are just not as good as you say.

Of course they play up for North Carolina State or any other North Carolina school. Against others though, I have seen mediocrity. The truth hurts.

But by all means, be a child of propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fu2WDtHos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvCt1dpt20

(08-04-2014 10:07 PM)Tigersmoke Wrote:  Wow for a rutgers fan you sure talk a turd. Didn't rutgers just get collar dragged through the American ladt season? If you are down on a legit team like ecu what do you expect to happen to you all in the big lol.

Hey ignorant child, I am following Rutgers temporarily because I am interested in seeing how Big Ten membership helps them.

So once again, we have another idiot showing just how ignorant he is. Seriously, I wish you could realize just how foolish you sound. You are new and are ignorant about my stances and why I have Rutgers in my listing but now you know. Make another statement like the above and you no longer can be called ignorant, you will have graduated to the level of stupidity.

(08-04-2014 10:06 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:52 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:46 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:43 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:24 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Not really. We just by and large play better football top to bottom as a conference. The top of the SEC is slightly better than the top of the Big 10 right now, our middles are about the same, and your bottom is slightly larger than ours. I'd say that E.C.U. would have its hands full with Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, or Ole Miss in their recent iterations. Kentucky not so much and Florida wreaked last year. But please Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota, and to a lesser extent Illinois have all had issues! Purdue may have been worse than Kansas last year. So I think that is what Spurrier is getting at.

Minnesota is starting to show some life, I don't think they deserve to be put in the same group as the Indiana schools, Northwestern and Minnesota are moving to the mid-tier of the Big Ten. That said, usually I agree with and side with you H1 but I really can't on this one, ECU could go toe to toe with the bottom of any P5 conference and do well, not just us northerners here in the Big Ten.

Sorry but Indiana is improving, Minnesota is improving. Illinois...I don't know what is up with them. They need to stop hamstringing themselves in recruiting. Maryland the last couple years would have beaten ECU. Rutgers? Well I think it shall be proven that in a few years, they will have impressed.

So who are we talking are the easy wins for ECU? Illinois? Purdue? Congrats. I don't think any others are gimme's for ECU. The person that got ME going was the person that said ECU could take half of the Big Ten with no problem. That is complete and utter horse **** and I am sorry if you are not willing to tell these people what is up but I have watched ECU a bit the last few years and the program is on the slide downward not upwards and really wasn't that impressive.

What impresses me about ECU is how loyal the fans are and how many of them there are for where ECU has been. Their team hasn't been that great lately.

As others have said, Spurrier was trolling. Seems he was trolling these Southern fans as much as anyone else.

So if folks want to go north hating, then by all means go for it. This forum is predominantly Southern and the practice seems to be appreciated by the Admin and many of the mods. Honestly its not a big deal to me but I love to point it out.

People love to bandwagon hate on the Big Ten, even on something as stupid as this that is completely unprovable. Southern Idiots.

How is ECU on the decline in you mind? ECU won 10 games last year and they swept their in state BCS opponents.

You just don't want to admit it. The B10 is just not all of that.

I don't need to admit anything. The statement made was that ECU would beat over half of the Big Ten. There is no proof of such. ECU has no history to say that would happen. You are just trying to state that this is all factual when its not even to the point of theory.

So don't talk to me about not wanting to admit anything.

The Big Ten is all that AND ECU wishes it was in such a powerful conference BUT that will never happen. So sorry...but please continue to brag about a 10 win season earned in a minor conference.

Child please.

(08-04-2014 10:09 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:59 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:57 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:48 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:18 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  I am a Northerner. I have lived in Chicago for basically my whole life (48 years now), except for the time that I was in the military, away at college or in Los Angeles working for the Feds. So I have been watching the B10, Notre Dame and the MAC schools getting their azzes kicked for over 40 years by southern and western schools.. What you don't understand is that ECU, UCF, USF, Houston, Tulane, SMU, Memphis and Cincinnati have players that are just as good if not better than the average B10 teams. It is probably hard for you to comprehend that point, because you probably see the AAC and ECU the same way that you see the MAC. You never even bothered to notice that UNC (an alleged dark horse national title contender) was blown out on their own field by ECU. ECU also blew out NC State at NC State, but in your mind ECU is not as good as Purdue, Illinois, Iowa or Minnesota. Child please.

You call me a child while completely fabricating your entire opinion of me out of no where. For folks that have been around here for awhile, they would know I have a soft spot for ECU and have followed their progress to some degree.

So keep on making up fables and false stories about people. That is what children do.

Child please is just a figure of speech. What is not a figure of speech is that the B10 minus Michigan State and Ohio State is just not that good.

Oh, now its just a figure of speech. Child please, no one is gonna believe that you meant it as just a figure of speech and not a trolling comment.

ECU is admirable for their position but they are just not as good as you say.

Of course they play up for North Carolina State or any other North Carolina school. Against others though, I have seen mediocrity. The truth hurts.

But by all means, be a child of propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fu2WDtHos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvCt1dpt20

Sorry, I wont be watching. You made it loud and clear that you cannot respond to facts. No more propaganda to spew?

Come on, tell me how ECU would beat everyone in the Big Ten because it sucks! If you are gonna make something up, go big kid!

(08-04-2014 10:09 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:06 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:52 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:46 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:43 PM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Minnesota is starting to show some life, I don't think they deserve to be put in the same group as the Indiana schools, Northwestern and Minnesota are moving to the mid-tier of the Big Ten. That said, usually I agree with and side with you H1 but I really can't on this one, ECU could go toe to toe with the bottom of any P5 conference and do well, not just us northerners here in the Big Ten.

Sorry but Indiana is improving, Minnesota is improving. Illinois...I don't know what is up with them. They need to stop hamstringing themselves in recruiting. Maryland the last couple years would have beaten ECU. Rutgers? Well I think it shall be proven that in a few years, they will have impressed.

So who are we talking are the easy wins for ECU? Illinois? Purdue? Congrats. I don't think any others are gimme's for ECU. The person that got ME going was the person that said ECU could take half of the Big Ten with no problem. That is complete and utter horse **** and I am sorry if you are not willing to tell these people what is up but I have watched ECU a bit the last few years and the program is on the slide downward not upwards and really wasn't that impressive.

What impresses me about ECU is how loyal the fans are and how many of them there are for where ECU has been. Their team hasn't been that great lately.

As others have said, Spurrier was trolling. Seems he was trolling these Southern fans as much as anyone else.

So if folks want to go north hating, then by all means go for it. This forum is predominantly Southern and the practice seems to be appreciated by the Admin and many of the mods. Honestly its not a big deal to me but I love to point it out.

People love to bandwagon hate on the Big Ten, even on something as stupid as this that is completely unprovable. Southern Idiots.

How is ECU on the decline in you mind? ECU won 10 games last year and they swept their in state BCS opponents.

You just don't want to admit it. The B10 is just not all of that.

I don't need to admit anything. The statement made was that ECU would beat over half of the Big Ten. There is no proof of such. ECU has no history to say that would happen. You are just trying to state that this is all factual when its not even to the point of theory.

So don't talk to me about not wanting to admit anything.

The Big Ten is all that AND ECU wishes it was in such a powerful conference BUT that will never happen. So sorry...but please continue to brag about a 10 win season earned in a minor conference.

Child please.

Yep, keep showing you have nothing. You still cant respond to facts. You try to cherry pick because you have nothing, just like ECU and its hopes of making it into a Major Conference.

NOTHING.

(08-04-2014 10:01 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:56 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  The BIG is has 1 football title outright in 44 years and 1 bball title in 25 years. Great athletic conference, but not elite

And? What Big Ten teams has ECU played and beaten lately? I don't know and would love to know. Seems to me though to be a lot of bluster and **** talking by some ignorant Southerners that are still angry and have to brag about a brutish gladiatorial event in order to feel better about their past.

Spurrier's comment was just a comment. There is no truth to it and there is no proof of it. Just a bunch of fools and their shepherded propagandic beliefs.

My statement is fact. Big Ten has 1 outright football title is 44 and 1 in bball in 25 years.

(08-04-2014 10:10 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:09 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:59 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:57 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:48 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  You call me a child while completely fabricating your entire opinion of me out of no where. For folks that have been around here for awhile, they would know I have a soft spot for ECU and have followed their progress to some degree.

So keep on making up fables and false stories about people. That is what children do.

Child please is just a figure of speech. What is not a figure of speech is that the B10 minus Michigan State and Ohio State is just not that good.

Oh, now its just a figure of speech. Child please, no one is gonna believe that you meant it as just a figure of speech and not a trolling comment.

ECU is admirable for their position but they are just not as good as you say.

Of course they play up for North Carolina State or any other North Carolina school. Against others though, I have seen mediocrity. The truth hurts.

But by all means, be a child of propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fu2WDtHos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvCt1dpt20

Sorry, I wont be watching. You made it loud and clear that you cannot respond to facts. No more propaganda to spew?

Come on, tell me how ECU would beat everyone in the Big Ten because it sucks! If you are gonna make something up, go big kid!

Facts? What facts are you even writing about? Are you saying that the B10 doesn't suck?

Who even wrote that ECU would beat every team in the B10? Because I don't remember reading that from anyone. What I did read is some guy writing about how great the B10 is and how stupid Southerners are, but he didn't back up any of his nonsense with facts.

(08-04-2014 09:29 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:06 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 08:54 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Good luck finding me ripping any conference relative to how good they are. However top to bottom the SEC is the best period.
It started when they hired yankee coaches.

Well we did have an inbred coaching pool with everyone being either a disciple of Bear Bryant, Pat Dye (a disciple of Bear), or Vince Dooley (a disciple of Shug Jordan, and Charlie McClendon and all of them were adherents of the philosophy that three things could happen if you passed and two of them were bad. Therefore for a couple of decades the SEC actually played some of the most boring offensive ball in college football, but we did still play the best defense around as a whole. When the former MAC coaches who migrated to the Big 10 before heading South arrived the coaching pool was reinvigorated. And now those are being supplanted by the Malzahn types. So I agree with you. It took some Yankee coaches to shake things up for the good of the game and I am grateful for that.

In the mid 70's I watched an Auburn team struggle to 3 wins and a tie in one season when we had these guys on offense: Byron Franklin (WR, later with the Buffalo Bills), Joe Cribbs (RB, later with the Buffalo Bills), James Brooks (RB, later with the Cincinnati Bengals), and William Andrews (FB, later with the Atlanta Falcons). The place kicker for that team was Neil O'Donohue who later kicked for the Cardinals I believe, but was one of the first Auburn kickers who could consistently hit from 50 yards out. Doug Barfield was the Head Coach and it was a version of the veer that we ran and guess what? We only threw the ball on third and long. I think that this particular Auburn team may have been the greatest waste of all star talent in the history of the game. Chizik's last season came close, but was still solidly in second place.

JR, there have been great Southern coaches, The Bear was the man. But over the past 10 years, Urban, Miles, Saban, even Stoops all Ohio guys. FWIW I really like Tubs and his crew up here and they are pretty much Southern.

All of the guys I listed were great. It's just that their styles were so similar that it led to a decade or so of fairly boring, but still very well played, football. Don't twist my example into saying they weren't good coaches. Barfield on the other hand was terrible. What Saban and Miles brought was a more balanced attack offensively. The defenses for the most part remained stellar. Now we are undergoing another offensive transformation.

BTW, I knew Bear and Shug and my Mom went to school with Dooley. Daryl Royal helped to build and perfect the wishbone. Pat Dye used it effectively, but also made it boring. So boring in fact that it may have cost Auburn a shot at a national championship in '83. We were 3rd in the nation and were jumped by Miami who had a terrific and exciting win against Nebraska while Texas was upset by Georgia. The Canes jumped over Auburn to finish #1 while we with Bo Jackson kicked three field goals to beat Michigan in a snooze fest at the Sugar Bowl 9-7.

(08-04-2014 10:13 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:10 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:09 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:59 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:57 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  Child please is just a figure of speech. What is not a figure of speech is that the B10 minus Michigan State and Ohio State is just not that good.

Oh, now its just a figure of speech. Child please, no one is gonna believe that you meant it as just a figure of speech and not a trolling comment.

ECU is admirable for their position but they are just not as good as you say.

Of course they play up for North Carolina State or any other North Carolina school. Against others though, I have seen mediocrity. The truth hurts.

But by all means, be a child of propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fu2WDtHos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvCt1dpt20

Sorry, I wont be watching. You made it loud and clear that you cannot respond to facts. No more propaganda to spew?

Come on, tell me how ECU would beat everyone in the Big Ten because it sucks! If you are gonna make something up, go big kid!

Facts? What facts are you even writing about? Are you saying that the B10 doesn't suck?

Who even wrote that ECU would beat every team in the B10? Because I don't remember reading that from anyone. What I did read is some guy writing about how great the B10 is and how stupid Southerners are, but he didn't back up any of his nonsense with facts.

This is proof of how short your memory retention is. Why do I even bother with Cro-Magnon? You are such a waste.

(08-04-2014 10:11 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:09 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:06 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:52 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:46 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  Sorry but Indiana is improving, Minnesota is improving. Illinois...I don't know what is up with them. They need to stop hamstringing themselves in recruiting. Maryland the last couple years would have beaten ECU. Rutgers? Well I think it shall be proven that in a few years, they will have impressed.

So who are we talking are the easy wins for ECU? Illinois? Purdue? Congrats. I don't think any others are gimme's for ECU. The person that got ME going was the person that said ECU could take half of the Big Ten with no problem. That is complete and utter horse **** and I am sorry if you are not willing to tell these people what is up but I have watched ECU a bit the last few years and the program is on the slide downward not upwards and really wasn't that impressive.

What impresses me about ECU is how loyal the fans are and how many of them there are for where ECU has been. Their team hasn't been that great lately.

As others have said, Spurrier was trolling. Seems he was trolling these Southern fans as much as anyone else.

So if folks want to go north hating, then by all means go for it. This forum is predominantly Southern and the practice seems to be appreciated by the Admin and many of the mods. Honestly its not a big deal to me but I love to point it out.

People love to bandwagon hate on the Big Ten, even on something as stupid as this that is completely unprovable. Southern Idiots.

How is ECU on the decline in you mind? ECU won 10 games last year and they swept their in state BCS opponents.

You just don't want to admit it. The B10 is just not all of that.

I don't need to admit anything. The statement made was that ECU would beat over half of the Big Ten. There is no proof of such. ECU has no history to say that would happen. You are just trying to state that this is all factual when its not even to the point of theory.

So don't talk to me about not wanting to admit anything.

The Big Ten is all that AND ECU wishes it was in such a powerful conference BUT that will never happen. So sorry...but please continue to brag about a 10 win season earned in a minor conference.

Child please.

Yep, keep showing you have nothing. You still cant respond to facts. You try to cherry pick because you have nothing, just like ECU and its hopes of making it into a Major Conference.

NOTHING.

The B10 hasn't done in years. And you just know that the B10 is not good if they actually added Rutgers and Maryland. Think about that a moment: the B10 didn't even add the best football and basketball programs from the ACC, AAC/BE. The B10 added Rutgers and Maryland.

(08-04-2014 10:15 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:13 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:10 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 10:09 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:59 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  Oh, now its just a figure of speech. Child please, no one is gonna believe that you meant it as just a figure of speech and not a trolling comment.

ECU is admirable for their position but they are just not as good as you say.

Of course they play up for North Carolina State or any other North Carolina school. Against others though, I have seen mediocrity. The truth hurts.

But by all means, be a child of propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fu2WDtHos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvCt1dpt20

Sorry, I wont be watching. You made it loud and clear that you cannot respond to facts. No more propaganda to spew?

Come on, tell me how ECU would beat everyone in the Big Ten because it sucks! If you are gonna make something up, go big kid!

Facts? What facts are you even writing about? Are you saying that the B10 doesn't suck?

Who even wrote that ECU would beat every team in the B10? Because I don't remember reading that from anyone. What I did read is some guy writing about how great the B10 is and how stupid Southerners are, but he didn't back up any of his nonsense with facts.

This is proof of how short your memory retention is. Why do I even bother with Cro-Magnon? You are such a waste.

How could my memory be short when I didn't write it? And I don't recall reading anything from anyone that wrote that. You are slinging insults, but you are sounding more and more foolish.

Hahaha, you are talking about me slinging insults and sounding more and more foolish while needing explanation as to how this whole back and forth got started?

You truly are scientific proof of evolution and previous steps. Thank you for doing your part for science.

As much crying as individuals like you do but I have good news for you. Eventually the AAC will be the premier MID-MAJOR conference in the country and may even end up with a guaranteed spot in the 8 team National Tournament. You will still be in a mid major though and your bowl contracts will still just be mediocre and as much as you try to propagandize the Big Ten. The Big Ten and all of it's alumni will still just be laughing at you and your pathetic musings about how you are better and why that matters.