Most Improved Offense In The Country? And a Few Things We Don't Understand...
by SCM on Jun 23, 2009 3:09 PM CDT
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So Phil Steele has predicted a few things about the 2009 Michigan Wolverines ....
"In his simulation of the 2009 season, Michigan had the most improved offense in the country."
Woo! Wait, even if we improve 50 spots we're still what... 54th? Oh.
"Michigan is his only Big Ten contender that has to play all of the other six."
Doh...
In other news, here's a brief assortment of random questions, feel free to provide me with answers.
1. Why do Purdue fans count to four after a first down? I get on this soapbox time and again and I have yet to see a satisfying answer.
2. Why doesn't Indiana build a BIGGER drum? I contest that if that were a true rivalry, the drum-arms-race would have reached an epic level by this time.
3. Why don't punters use the "coffin corner" anymore?
Eight... I repeat EIGHT minutes on how to properly kick a coffin corner punt on NCAA '09, using cardinal directions nonetheless.
More punting you ask? SURE!
4. Why does the collegiate football have the white stripes on it while the NFL ball does not?
5. Why?
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I know the answer!!!
Well, to one of the questions at least… NFL players complained about the stripes affecting their grip on the ball, so the NFL got rid of it…
by thatzakkid on Jun 23, 2009 10:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Interesting...
Well I definitely learned something today as I had not heard that before. So why are the stripes there in the first place, easier to track the ball in the air?
GO BLUE! http://www.maizenbrew.com/
by SCM on Jun 23, 2009 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
That trophy
The most manufactured rivalry in the Big 10 deserved the most obviously manufactured trophy.
Light a man a fire, he'll stay warm for a day.
Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
by Seer on Jun 23, 2009 11:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Quite right
And that piece of trash is ours.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jun 24, 2009 1:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Answers
1.They’re all engineers and math students. They like to show off.
1b.It’s all that there’s time for in between the blaring clips of Jaws and Braveheart.
1c.It’s not for a first down. They’re counting the # of coeds int the stadium.
2.Indiana is a basketball school and they will never, ever care about football. That said, Purdue brings the drum to the basketball games, too, no? In sum, I don’t know.
3.Since nobody can play defense these days, it makes more sense to just go for it if you’re across your own 30 yard line.
4.Yes, the stripes are there to “see” the ball better.
5.The best thing about this trophy is all the spaces reserved for future games.
5b.Some enterprising student should steal it and turn it into something other than the world’s most intrusive paperweight.
by Reed97 on Jun 24, 2009 7:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Purdue stuff
We actually started the first down cheer when I was a student there and I don’t remember how it got started. I do hate some of the Jumbotron stuff for sure. As for the drum, it doesn’t go to basketball games. From what I have been told by band members, the actual dimensions are a closely guarded secret to prevent someone from making a bigger one, though You could just make an insanely large one to get past that.
A futile crusade to prevent mass ignorance
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by BoilerTMill on Jun 24, 2009 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Addendum...
Indiana has a football team?
A futile crusade to prevent mass ignorance
HammerAndRails, SBNation's Boilermaker Blog
by BoilerTMill on Jun 24, 2009 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of course...
….I was just trying to be a dick. I actually liked the 1234firstdown! cheer when I was there. Jaws was killing me, but most of the fans around me were pretty cool which more than made up for it.
by Reed97 on Jun 24, 2009 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Because who cares about a big drum? It sounds like crap, and Texas has a bigger drum anyway. Purdue probably has the world’s largest cattle husbandry barn, too, and I don’t want IU to build one of those, either.
by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Jun 25, 2009 7:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
After attending...
enough IU basketball games to see how your fanbase reacts to a group of flags running in a circle, I’m fairly certain that a big drum would be an enormous hit in Bloomington.
GO BLUE! http://www.maizenbrew.com/
by SCM on Jun 25, 2009 10:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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