Week 8: Netphoria NCAA Top 25 football predictions - Page 6

Netphorian Gadabout · 10-18-2007, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

and this is from my vast experience program building on NCAA Football 2005.

Oh, well if Les Miles doesn't work out, can we hire you?

Trotskilicious · 10-18-2007, 05:14 PM

sure i think my record speaks for itself. three of my teams are in the top five: Tulane, Notre Dame and Arizona.

Trotskilicious · 10-18-2007, 05:14 PM

but it's a bitch to recruit for Nebraska.

jczeroman · 10-18-2007, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Eulogy

you are an Oregon fan, and Oregon is in the pac10. fans always build up their teams' conferences to make it seem like their team is better. this is not a groundbreaking discovery I'm making.

My master plan revealed! I thought no one would figure it out!

Seriously though, Oregon measures how good Oregon is. All the conference chatter is mostly bunk.

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Originally Posted by Eulogy

and the Pac10 is easily #2. but bad losses by USC and Cal knocked it out of contention for #1. and i don't see what defense you've offered against those. i divided up the teams into tiers that match up the two conferences pretty well. if you can address that point and tell me where i'm wrong, i might concede something.

You're "point" is just placing SEC and Pac-10 teams in tiers and matching them up with hypothetical match-ups. It's not so subjective or simplistic. You can only look at on the field results. I've watched all of the pac-10 except ASU and I've seen every team in the SEC play at least once this year. Granted, I haven't seen every game but I can tell you that I have seen the dominant SEC you speak of, only it was last year - this year they look just like any other conference. If it weren't for the parity, they'd be in the middle of the pack this year.

Eulogy · 10-18-2007, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jczeroman

You're "point" is just placing SEC and Pac-10 teams in tiers and matching them up with hypothetical match-ups. It's not so subjective or simplistic. You can only look at on the field results. I've watched all of the pac-10 except ASU and I've seen every team in the SEC play at least once this year. Granted, I haven't seen every game but I can tell you that I have seen the dominant SEC you speak of, only it was last year - this year they look just like any other conference. If it weren't for the parity, they'd be in the middle of the pack this year.

well putting this whole debate aside, i'm wondering why you and trots think the SEC isn't as good.

last year you had Florida and LSU....and....no one else that was all that great, really. right? SC and Kentucky are so much better. Florida and LSU are still great. Auburn is better, I believe.

i mean i'll listen to why you think it's worse, but i don't see it.

Eulogy · 10-18-2007, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jczeroman

You can only look at on the field results.

...and what on-field results place the pac10 ahead of the SEC?

Netphorian Gadabout · 10-18-2007, 05:48 PM

I think Florida is worse then they were last year. I think Auburn is worse then they were last year. LSU is about the same. SC and Kentucky are marginally better, but look alot better because the rest of the league is down. And let's not even talk about Arkansas compared to last year.

SEC 06 > SEC 07

sppunk · 10-18-2007, 07:13 PM

Colin, I changed my USF/Rutgers pick to USF. It is 18 minutes before kickoff. Marking this so no one yells if USF does indeed pull out the win.

Tchocky · 10-18-2007, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

but it's a bitch to recruit for Nebraska.

With NCAA 06, my friend and I started off with crappy teams and built them up. I built up Wyoming, he was either the Air Force or some C-USA team, I can't remember...I kept suffering freak losses when I simmed through part of the season, so I never really got a great bowl game, but I still recruited so well that after I left for UCLA they were preseason top-10 for many years afterwards. My first season with UCLA, the guy I played the season with, who was Alabama by that point, lost in the SEC title game in a win-and-you're-in situation, and I backdoored my way into the National Title game with a 10-2 record. That pissed him off.

You'd think Nebraska would be easier to recruit for than fucking Tulane and Arizona.

Netphorian Gadabout · 10-18-2007, 11:46 PM

This season just keeps getting weirder. The fact Rutgers/South Florida has not only conference title ramifications but national title ones is the strangest thought.

sppunk · 10-18-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by sppunk

Colin, I changed my USF/Rutgers pick to USF. It is 18 minutes before kickoff. Marking this so no one yells if USF does indeed pull out the win.

Get a load of this douche. LOL at you!

sppunk · 10-18-2007, 11:51 PM

Boston College's going to the fucking BCS championship game ... that's going to be awesome.

Netphorian Gadabout · 10-18-2007, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by sppunk

Boston College's going to the fucking BCS championship game ... that's going to be awesome.

I bet Va Tech beats them a week from tonite. And Va Tech isn't very good at all.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

With NCAA 06, my friend and I started off with crappy teams and built them up. I built up Wyoming, he was either the Air Force or some C-USA team, I can't remember...I kept suffering freak losses when I simmed through part of the season, so I never really got a great bowl game, but I still recruited so well that after I left for UCLA they were preseason top-10 for many years afterwards. My first season with UCLA, the guy I played the season with, who was Alabama by that point, lost in the SEC title game in a win-and-you're-in situation, and I backdoored my way into the National Title game with a 10-2 record. That pissed him off.

You'd think Nebraska would be easier to recruit for than fucking Tulane and Arizona.

there's an option under the coach screen that says "recruiting assistance" and its default is ON so I turn it off.

Tulane only got good recruits because I trained them really hard (80%, brought them from a B to a B+) and they won a bunch of games and so it was easier to recruit LA and TX guys. Problem is if you win your shit conference a bunch of times it counts as much with recruits as winning a good conference. Hence the fact that North Texas won 10 of 12 Sun Belt titles and transformed into a national powerhouse.

Arizona took about five or six years to get on a national level and it's pretty much only because I can beat an USC with a solid A with a team that's a B. You win your conference you get top recruits. The Arizona team has a good offense but a really weak defense so...*shrug*

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 01:49 AM

by the way i've never been so happy to get a pick wrong. fuck south florida. ghetto ass team, i'm positive they're voilating ncaa rules.

Tchocky · 10-19-2007, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

by the way i've never been so happy to get a pick wrong. fuck south florida. ghetto ass team, i'm positive they're voilating ncaa rules.

Why? I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, I'd just like to hear your reasoning.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 01:59 AM

i really dislike them. it seems like a UTSA type school, poor education, just raking money off of a huge enrollment that wouldn't last a semester at one of the top tier schools academically.

all their players look like shitheads that couldn't academically qualify for even florida state. Grothe especially looks like a total moron.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 02:01 AM

oh yeah and their fans leave during a blowout in their favor

if texas was beating baylor 50-12 hardly anyone would leave, they'd stay and get drunker.

TuralyonW3 · 10-19-2007, 03:07 AM

so maryland is better than florida

Eulogy · 10-19-2007, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

oh yeah and their fans leave during a blowout in their favor

if texas was beating baylor 50-12 hardly anyone would leave, they'd stay and get drunker.

you said this earlier and i was going to point out that a lot of students can't drink at games. unless they bring in flasks or something.

....

hmmmm........

Eulogy · 10-19-2007, 02:27 PM

and oh yeah, BC is going down to a mediocre VT. for sure.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Eulogy

you said this earlier and i was going to point out that a lot of students can't drink at games. unless they bring in flasks or something.

....

hmmmm........

well that may be true but do you see ND fans leaving if they were beating a team by 40? I can't.

Eulogy · 10-19-2007, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

well that may be true but do you see ND fans leaving if they were beating a team by 40? I can't.

just the old people and the girls that don't like football.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 02:42 PM

yup. but when i saw highlights of that USF game, the entire stadium was empty. It was ridiculous. Fuck that team in its ear. FUCK IT IN ITS OTHER EAR!

Eulogy · 10-19-2007, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

yup. but when i saw highlights of that USF game, the entire stadium was empty. It was ridiculous. Fuck that team in its ear. FUCK IT IN ITS OTHER EAR!

i really wasn't impressed with a lot of what i saw last night.

bah. i was hoping they were for real.

jczeroman · 10-19-2007, 03:06 PM

I dunno if it's their unis or what, but USF looks like a bunch of thugs.

jczeroman · 10-19-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sppunk

Get a load of this douche. LOL at you!

lol...

Eulogy · 10-19-2007, 03:07 PM

for some reason, learning that their enrollment was over 40,000 made me not like them as much.

i thought it was like.....small. beh.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jczeroman

I dunno if it's their unis or what, but USF looks like a bunch of thugs.

Trotskilicious · 10-19-2007, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Eulogy

for some reason, learning that their enrollment was over 40,000 made me not like them as much.

i thought it was like.....small. beh.

that's a massive enrollment, eulogy.

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10-18-2007, 05:14 PM	#152
Trotskilicious Banned Location: I believe in the transcendental qualities of friendship. Posts: 39,602	sure i think my record speaks for itself. three of my teams are in the top five: Tulane, Notre Dame and Arizona.

10-18-2007, 05:14 PM	#153
Trotskilicious Banned Location: I believe in the transcendental qualities of friendship. Posts: 39,602	but it's a bitch to recruit for Nebraska.

10-18-2007, 05:48 PM	#157
Netphorian Gadabout The Broom of the System Location: Michigan Stadium Posts: 4,653	I think Florida is worse then they were last year. I think Auburn is worse then they were last year. LSU is about the same. SC and Kentucky are marginally better, but look alot better because the rest of the league is down. And let's not even talk about Arkansas compared to last year. SEC 06 > SEC 07

10-18-2007, 07:13 PM	#158
sppunk Netphoria's George Will Location: Fenway Park Posts: 37,125	Colin, I changed my USF/Rutgers pick to USF. It is 18 minutes before kickoff. Marking this so no one yells if USF does indeed pull out the win.

10-18-2007, 11:46 PM	#160
Netphorian Gadabout The Broom of the System Location: Michigan Stadium Posts: 4,653	This season just keeps getting weirder. The fact Rutgers/South Florida has not only conference title ramifications but national title ones is the strangest thought.

10-18-2007, 11:51 PM	#162
sppunk Netphoria's George Will Location: Fenway Park Posts: 37,125	Boston College's going to the fucking BCS championship game ... that's going to be awesome.

10-19-2007, 01:49 AM	#165
Trotskilicious Banned Location: I believe in the transcendental qualities of friendship. Posts: 39,602	by the way i've never been so happy to get a pick wrong. fuck south florida. ghetto ass team, i'm positive they're voilating ncaa rules.

10-19-2007, 01:59 AM	#167
Trotskilicious Banned Location: I believe in the transcendental qualities of friendship. Posts: 39,602	i really dislike them. it seems like a UTSA type school, poor education, just raking money off of a huge enrollment that wouldn't last a semester at one of the top tier schools academically. all their players look like shitheads that couldn't academically qualify for even florida state. Grothe especially looks like a total moron.

10-19-2007, 02:01 AM	#168
Trotskilicious Banned Location: I believe in the transcendental qualities of friendship. Posts: 39,602	oh yeah and their fans leave during a blowout in their favor if texas was beating baylor 50-12 hardly anyone would leave, they'd stay and get drunker.

10-19-2007, 03:07 AM	#169
TuralyonW3 Immortal Posts: 25,567	so maryland is better than florida

10-19-2007, 02:27 PM	#171
Eulogy huh Posts: 62,362	and oh yeah, BC is going down to a mediocre VT. for sure.

10-19-2007, 02:42 PM	#174
Trotskilicious Banned Location: I believe in the transcendental qualities of friendship. Posts: 39,602	yup. but when i saw highlights of that USF game, the entire stadium was empty. It was ridiculous. Fuck that team in its ear. FUCK IT IN ITS OTHER EAR!

10-19-2007, 03:06 PM	#176
jczeroman Socialphobic Location: In my house. Posts: 14,465	I dunno if it's their unis or what, but USF looks like a bunch of thugs.

10-19-2007, 03:07 PM	#178
Eulogy huh Posts: 62,362	for some reason, learning that their enrollment was over 40,000 made me not like them as much. i thought it was like.....small. beh.