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Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:32 am
by aknowledgeableperson
TCU absolutely got screwed.
No matter what system is devised there will always be a school or two and it's supporters who will feel they were screwed. Go to 8 teams and teams numbered 9 & 10 will feel they were left out, especially if they were number 2 in their conference and other conferences had two teams or if one had three teams.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:35 am
by beautyfromashes
phxcat wrote:
Big 12 needs to be patient. TCU absolutely got screwed. They seemed to have been penalized for having the best loss of any of the one loss teams. But if both FSU and OSU lose we have two teams in. If FSU doesn't go undefeated, we move ahead of them every time. The ACC is the conference that will be overcome by the four team playoff. But if we are coerced into adding a championship game, part of the deal had better be that the other conferences play nine games.
I agree. Most years we are going to be in. We shouldn't get drastic and start adding lesser quality schools to the Big 12 just because one year the dice didn't roll our way.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:08 pm
by Highlander
It's now 2015-16 but a very strange turn of events for Mizzou's football program
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/ar ... 76292.html
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 10:26 pm
by DaveKCMO
another missouri shit show.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:21 pm
by auntbigdog
If Mizzou hadn't left the Big 12, maybe its administrators could have watched how Oklahoma's leaders handled that school's racist unpleasantness, and maybe they would still have jobs. Also: First black student in 1950? Boggles the mind.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:11 am
by aknowledgeableperson
"First black student in 1950? Boggles the mind."
Why? Given the history of the state and many universities in general no surprise at all.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 1:33 pm
by auntbigdog
Given the history of the state and many universities in general no surprise at all.
My mistake. As a relative newcomer, I am still learning that in many ways, Missouri appears to have more in common with its neighbors to the south than with its neighbors to the north. Iowa State and the U of Iowa were both admitting black students in the 19th century, and I extrapolated that too far.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 2:15 pm
by chingon
auntbigdog wrote: Missouri appears to have more in common with its neighbors to the south than with its neighbors to the north
...or west.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 2:47 pm
by pash
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Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:39 pm
by beautyfromashes
I still don't understand this story. So, the President got ousted because of a poop swastika and some guys in a truck yelling the n-word who might not have even been students at the University. Was it more than that?
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 7:23 pm
by aknowledgeableperson
beautyfromashes wrote:I still don't understand this story. So, the President got ousted because of a poop swastika and some guys in a truck yelling the n-word who might not have even been students at the University. Was it more than that?
YES.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 9:48 pm
by Highlander
aknowledgeableperson wrote:beautyfromashes wrote:I still don't understand this story. So, the President got ousted because of a poop swastika and some guys in a truck yelling the n-word who might not have even been students at the University. Was it more than that?
YES.
I have followed this news event pretty closely and I have to disagree. Unless there is some undercurrent of racial tension peppered by incidents that are not being reported, the incidents that have been reported constitute a very weak case. A lot serious issues take place on other campuses around the country (like a noose on the statue of a black person at Ole Miss last year) that create almost no reaction whatsoever. Furthermore, Wolfe and the Missouri Chancellor have done absolutely nothing wrong. To throw them under the bus so that Mizzou can play a football game on Saturday is frankly unfathomable and shows a lack of integrity that I never thought the university of Missouri would ever stoop to.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 12:12 am
by aknowledgeableperson
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:39 am
by aknowledgeableperson
Well, you lost me after "shit head." After that your argument became meaningless. Too bad you never learned about civil discussion or how to conduct yourself without name calling.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:09 am
by aknowledgeableperson
http://www.themaneater.com/special-sect ... fall-2015/
http://www.thebatt.com/news/missouri-st ... 97391.html
"Elizabeth Loutfi, editor-in-chief of The Maneater, Missouri’s campus newspaper, said while Wolfe’s resignation was a result of recent protests, Loftin’s resignation has been demanded by protesters since this time last year.
“There were a lot of student groups on campus who decided this time last year that administrators weren’t as effective as they wanted them to be at responding to protests and discrimination on campus,” Loutfi said.
Loutfi said when a student group on campus called MU for Mike Brown formed in 2014 in response to the death of Brown, it took campus administration four months to respond to the organization’s efforts. "
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 5:04 pm
by nomadcowatbk
so who's now boycotting the Mizzou football program?
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 5:23 pm
by WSPanic
harbinger911 wrote:Oh and then this.
The student (Jonathan Butler) who went on a "hunger strike" in the middle of all this Mizzou hype is just another privileged college student living off of daddy’s millions. In other words, he’s your typical modern liberal activist. Jonathan Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. His 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Progressive liberalism is a mental disorder.
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/colu ... e05f3.html
So, someone who is willing to go on a hunger strike to call attention to something he views as an injustice, but can obviously afford, is bad?
Would love to know what color the sky is in your world.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 5:36 pm
by shaffe
WSPanic wrote:
So, someone who is willing to go on a hunger strike to call attention to something he views as an injustice, but can obviously afford, is bad?
Would love to know what color the sky is in your world.
Plus I'm sure all that support he found was just a few hundred students who wanted to stir up shit over totally fabricated injustices.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 6:38 pm
by grovester
Frankly, if the MU President isn't nimble enough to navigate this kind of event he's probably not cut out for the job. He'll be fine and making 6 figures in no time.
Re: 2014 - 2015 College Football Season
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:33 pm
by AllThingsKC
Michigan went through something like this last year, but it didn't involved the football team, so nobody cared.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/201 ... y-michigan