This is my 3rd Season. Here is my Analysis and Prediction and I always give the season a theme.
This year it’s: “TURN THE DEFENSE LOOSE!”
Objectively, since I never mix my heart with my head, BC is not in that bad a shape and once again, there is no team BC can’t beat. None!
TEAM STRENGTHS:
1--Wide Receivers/TE:
Wow! A few years back you could not say this and these guys are bigger, stronger and faster and might give Crane that early confidence and settle in boost with some big plays. This year, can’t have any drops.
Could this be the surprise of the college football world? We have a nice corps of pass catchers and with Logan ’s offense…..Could this be the “Crane Aerial Circus on Commonwealth”?
I hope so!
2--Offensive Line:
I did not think Gosder Cherilus played very well last year no matter where he was drafted. BC has enough coming back and year 2 in the system, BC’s line will be solid.
3—Defensive Line/LB’s:
I combined all the guys. I will go out on a limb but I think BC has one of the best defensive front 7’s in America . BC has size, speed, talent and quality depth like very few powerhouses have in America .
I think from all my years of watching football, the Giants in the 90’s and last year, and the Ravens in 2002, they just shut down teams and let fair to developing offenses come together or just eke out wins with more chances, better field position, turnovers and wearing out the other teams defenses by giving them the ball with loads of 3 and out stops and again more opportunities.
With that said, it’s a double edged sword and you can read the other thread and know that unless Spaz changes his outdated core philosophy, schemes and approach and turns the defense loose with an assortment of multiple blitz packages and moves up our corners to be more aggressive, then the 8 teams rated ahead of BC will be very difficult to beat.
The NCAA Game has changed to a pass happy multiple set offensive circus. It’s time to take the leash off the “Maroon Monster Mash” and make this season something special.
The major key to this season is Frank Spaziani. Spaz can set the tone, get the crowd fired up, give our defense nation wide respect, give birth to 100 nickname contests and maybe trigger a run for the BCS Title.
Same post comments made for years. BC still has no titles. I can’t be that wrong?
How many times has your parents, boss and people told you in life –“Go with your strengths and let the rest happen?”
BC’s enormous synergistic strength is its front 7. Click. That was the leash clasp being released by 74.
TEAM CONCERNS:
1-- Crane.
A 5th Year Senior, so someone has to let Chris know that he has go no where to go and nothing to lose, so use the Logan passing offense and our core of solid receivers and TE and remember one thing…..
…this is it kid…there is no tomorrow…this is your team…..this is your time…this is your year…this is why you took all those 2nd and 3rd team snaps for 4 years…to prepare you to bring BC to Miami, just like when Tennessee won the Title the year after Peyton left!
Hopefully some phone calls and support from Logan, Flutie and Ryan will help guide Crane game by game.
BC’s defense could key a super season by giving the BC offense and Crane better field position and more chances.
2-- Running Backs.
BC has 4 incoming freshman and one sophomore. Is heralded frosh Haden a Tony Dorsett or just a good freshman who needs time? Will sophomore Mulrooney, or the other 3 freshman Reynolds, Kelly or Harris step up since a couple will probably be red-shirted? I say give Haden the ball and maybe pop McCluskey on a 3rd and long like Nebraska did for many TD’s and first downs.
3-- Defensive Backs.
Always a mystery.
BC took in 8 freshman DB’s. The games most natural aggressors and in your face best athletes and BC’s go getters are stifled and give up too much cushion in the Spaz defensive schemes. BC combination of poor pass rushing exacerbated by very few blitzing calls to make up for the lack of pressure and failure to use multiple nickel and dime packages make the key to the BC season again, a true mysterious unknown.
Again, same post I have made for years. Enjoy!
4-- Special Teams.
Big school coaches seem to flock to VT’s Summer School for Special teams. BC Special Team coaches and defensive coaches never seem to go. Ergo, you get the annual BC special teams low rankings and prior year fiascos. Great special teams can make the difference in great seasons and championship seasons.
How did BC do in the kicking game versus VT in the Championship Game? Lost 3 points on a poor snap, and then VT gets a deuce return, along with an early missed a chip shot. -6!
Instead of BC 20-14, its 16-16, and late instead of 21-20 VT and all BC needed was a FG to go squeeze Oranges, but BC got squeezed by the talented, smarter and superior coached VT defense --- early when BC’s offense was smoking hot --- and then late for the Pick 6.
That is my hope for BC’s defense this year, but VT has Beamer and his stellar special teams and defensive coaching crew. By the way, Beamer coaches the Special teams himself. Surprised?
Last year VT’s Special Teams was ranked…..guess… yup, number 1 in America . Yup 1!
Anyone get the message I have trying to convey over the years on why BC has never been to a BCS Bowl Game?
Thank God, long snapper Jack Geiser is back firing bullets and healthy, but Aponavicius is inconsistent after 30 yards and limited in range, maybe 44 and in. This FG kicker is not a concern but a real glaring weakness.
Punt returns and kick returns we should be OK and Robinson is back and we have some freshman speedsters.
THE SCHEDULE AND SEASON PREDICTION:
I assume Frank Spaziani reads this on this site or not, or someone printed him last year’s brilliance and prints this year’s and slides it under his door, or he reads it on this FOX site.
Why don't we make the other teams adjust to our defensive schemes and pressure for just once some year?
Because the game has passed Frank Spaziani by for the last 4 years, or more.
He is a great BC GUY, but he is not the man for the job anymore. In today's world change is the norm with technology and your job. If you are change aversive or a fossil, you lose.
Frank has had ample time to watch countless games where heavy defensive pressure brought by blitzes and attack schemes win games. BC takes itself out of big games with its cushy defense and laying back waiting for a mistake or interception.
As we have the history, that will work on mediocre or even some really good teams, but eventually it will be easily solved and since it hasn't changed in 10 years, it has been solved as we can see from the prior year’s losses analysis.
BC won a lot of games on offensive late game magic and the stellar play of some defensive individuals in a bad scheme.
Frank Spaziani is incapable of radical change and has trouble with in game changes no matter the headset and has a reactive mind. He never forces the teams freshman QB’s or QB to make big plays early and let’s them get settled in and burn BC.
This now pass happy NCAA game is all about heavy rush pressure on the QB. Sacks, hurries knockdowns and forcing the mistake, tempo and the play.
Frank Spaziani does great and will do great versus fair to good competition and maybe even some big games like his tenure with TOB. He is luckier now with the dynamic offense of Jags and Logan scoring more points and capable of comebacks.
I see big trouble after the first 4 games if BC’s defense isn’t changed from the first play to a more radical attack defense, even if the situation versus lesser opponents does not warrant the deal, you still need live game practice and the score starts at 0-0 so start sending in LB’s and an occasional CB blitz and the get to the QB and on the way stop the runner.
As in previous years, this will never come to pass at BC; hence BC will be passed upon and beaten like FSU, Maryland last year and other games in prior years.
I lost faith a long time ago and I my only hope is the offense is so spectacular and will score when Spaz’s defense goes into the turtle or just déjà vus us all over again. What a shame!
This defense could be the best in America with our talent and brains. All ya gotta do is turn them loose.
Here we go:
BC: 6 Offensive and 4 Defensive returning starters and no QB.
The number is my personal ranking of degree of difficulty considering each teams returning starters, QB’s and returning letterman depth.
August 30 at Kent State -- 11
September 6 Georgia Tech -- 10
September 20 UCF -- 8
September 27 Rhode Island -- 12
October 4 at North Carolina State -- 9
October 18 Virginia Tech -- 2
October 25 at North Carolina -- 3
November 1 Clemson --1
November 8 Notre Dame -- 5
November 15 at Florida State -- 4
November 22 at Wake Forest -- 6
November 29 Maryland --7
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1-- BC at Kent State --DNP --- Next Game:
Returning Starters: 8 Offense and 8 Defense and QB.
Kent State is a little better than most think since last year they lost their QB early, but they do have a nice runner and lots returning. BC overlooks this scheduled cupcake and they will light this board up like a Christmas Tree.
BC has too much on defense for this one dimensional offensive team and small defensive line.
BC 37 Kent State 13 --- 1-0 ACC: 0-0
2-- Georgia Tech at BC Previous Game: Jack'ville State -- Next Game: at VT.
Returning Starters: 5 Offense and 4 Defense and a new QB.
New Coach and new QB and tough graduation losses, but Paul Johnson played BC tough with Navy. I expect this game to be dominated by a yet to jell BC team. We have a way better engineering school and much better passing attack and defense. Sliderule this!
BC 33 Georgia Tech 13 --- 2-0 ACC: 1-0
3-- UCF at BC Previous Game: USF -- Next Game: at UTEP
Returning Starters: 5 Offense and 9 Defense and a new QB.
This team knows how to win with George O’Leary and its offense can score versus porous C-USA teams, and came very close versus Texas and beat NC State away. This game should be a barnburner but BC’s defense lives up to the pre-season predictions and crushes the Knights.
BC 30 UCF 10 --- 3-0 ACC: 1-0
4— Rhode Island at BC Previous Game: At Hofstra -- Next Game: Brown
Returning Starters: 9.
This is a very bad Division 1-AA team.
BC 55 Rams 6 --- 4-0 ACC: 1-0
5—BC at NC State Previous Game: USF -- Next Game: at FSU
Returning Starters: 6 Offense and 4 Defense and QB.
Gee, if Chuck left the cupboard bare, why all the NCSU graduation losses. This miserable bad mouthing ungrateful brat continued his banter and slights against BC well after he left and into the first ACC Season, like TOB was responsible for BC’s success. I will hate this guy until the day he dies for what he said about my alma mater after he left. This will be year 12 for O’Brien and yup, TOBlunders0-12. Enjoy!
This year game should be full of venom, trick plays and hard hits. BC has too much on defense and Crane may have settled in by now and BC has better receivers and players and of course…..Amato left the cupboard bare= joke.
BC 26 Wolfpack 19 --- 5-0 ACC: 2-0
6—VT at BC State Previous Game: Western Kentucky -- Next Game: at FSU
Returning Starters: 6 Offense and 4 Defense and QB.
BC and VT are very similar. I think BC and Jags had VT’s defense on it heels in the title game, and I never saw the play sequencing and offense look smoother, until BC stalled in the red zone. Maybe Crane by this time is the surprise efficiency leader in America and BC has an error free, turnover free offense and the Maroon Monster Mash is in full title run mode. Getting pressure and blitzing Glennon on every play will be the key to victory.
BC 26 Hokies 16 --- 6-0 ACC: 3-0
7—BC at North Carolina Previous Game: at Virginia -- Next Game: at GT
Returning Starters: 10 Offense and 8 Defense and QB.
Last year my tipping point for greatness game was Notre Dame in Game 6. Unless NCSU's great recruit QB Mike Glennon gets the helm and is a superfrosh, I think BC will beat VT, and be 6-0.
This year the tipping point for greatness is UNC. UNC will be home and after 1+ years and spring practice Butch Davis is a solid Coach. This is a solid, dangerous and now loaded for bear team, with a new DC and some really speedy, talented players.
Most of BC's losses in the last 4 years have a common theme, BC got no pressure on young QB's and they buried Spaz’s outdated schemes. Do this in Chapel Hill and UNC may use this as a springboard game after already playing VT and Miami .
I see bad things. I see Spaz reverting back to old habits and the UNC QB standing tall and riddling the BC secondary with speedy receivers and underneath routes.
You may all laugh, but UNC will be just as tough to beat as Clemson the next week. BC has a let down after beating VT and NC State back to back. I see this team as a huge surprise team besides BC this year and maybe we get a rematch in ACC Title game?
Tarheels 40 BC 37 in 3rd OT --- 6-1 ACC: 3-1
8—Clemson at BC Previous Game: at GT -- Next Game: at FSU
Returning Starters: 9 Offense and 8 Defense and QB.
Can BC run its streak to 4 versus the Top 10 rated Tigers? JoLonn Dunbar with the dive to block an extra point after Nick Larkin made the two greatest back to back defensive plays in BC history. BC letting another Hail Mary pass get behind Spaz’s missing link nickel and dime packages and Kelly had butter fingers last year and only a corner blitz saved BC.
I see BC playing very tough at home after a UNC butt whupping. I see a close game and then BC pulling away late with a solid QB execution in the clutch and a brutal defensive running stop game. The Clemson luck runs out and Poondamonium breaks out in South Carolina as the Tigers get Eagle clawed since we came into the ACC.
Tigers 22 BC 27 --- 7-1 ACC: 4-1
9—Notre Dame at BC Previous Game: Pittsburgh -- Next Game: at Navy
Returning Starters: 9 Offense and 7 Defense and QB.
Notre Dame has this game circled and their anger and alums anger has the Golden Dome ready to explode with a Titanium Sombrero 6th straight loss at BC.
BC defense plays much better, but the Crane offense is sputtering with a suspect running game but a late bad call gives BC life and a late BC rally nips the Irish and the BC Board invasion has begun.
6 Straight! The Titanium Sombrero!
Irish 27 BC 28 --- 8-1 ACC: 4-1
10—BC at FSU Previous Game: Clemson -- Next Game: at Maryland
Returning Starters: 7 Offense and 8 Defense and QB.
Drew Weatherford has killed BC with bulletproof protection and short quick underneath routes to speed merchants in 2005 and 2007 at BC.
We won in Doak in 2006 and Crane turns the table and BC smothers Weatherford.
BC 27 FSU 25 --- 9-1 ACC: 5-1
BC is now a TOP 7 team and nearing the 2 hole for the BCS National Title bid to South Beach .
11—BC at Wake Forest Previous Game: at NCSU -- Next Game: at Vanderbilt
Returning Starters: 5 Offense and 9 Defense and QB.
Riley Skinner is a polished QB. The big difference is WF has a killer kicker in a close games
As the last ACC Tilt for Wake Forest, and if Clemson stumbles, this could be for the ACC Title shot and a trip to Tampa . Grobe is a tough home Coach. Grobe is the best Coach in the ACC, maybe America! Swank makes 4, Apo misses 3 as one is blocked, but Crane fires 3 TD darts!
BC 37 Wake Forest 26 --- 9-1 ACC: 6-1
ATLANTIC DIVISION CHAMPIONS.
12— Maryland at BC Previous Game: at FSU -- Finale.
Returning Starters: 8 Offense and 5 Defense and QB.
Senior Day. BC’s defense sets a record for sacks and the defense smothers the Terps and BC’s Crane throws for 400 yards versus Maryland for the second straight year. Where was this defensive blitz mania all year as fans pull their hair out. I have no worries there.
BC 37 Maryland 14 --- 11-1 ACC: 7-1 *******************************************
DECEMBER 6: ACC Championship Game
On to Tampa Bay and I see BC in a rematch with UNC and BC winning 38-10 and getting the BCS # 2 spot and a shot at the National Title.
12-1 ACC 8-1 ACC CHAMPIONS.
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Tennessee had a QB like Chris Crane after the Peyton Manning era and won the title. History repeats itself . BC, a 9 point underdog to the USC Trojans who play a brutal schedule and go 11-1, and end up ranked 1st, get upset in Miami by the Eagles, by stopping a 2 point conversion with no time left.
The Great American National Debate on the Division I College Football Playoff is simmering to a boil again and the hypocrisy of the University Presidents combined with the greed of the Bowl Barons is now at an all time high, and the lower divisions just keep on trucking along with all of the other Division I sports with their Championship playoffs.
So, taking into account all the debate arguments, way too many and too trite to list, here is a clear, workable and solid solution implementation:
NCAA Division I College Football Playoff Proposal - TOP 16 TEAMS:
Using a new comprehensive NCAA model type that should use some of modeling paradigms from the present the Bowl Championship Series contributors, but should be augmented and upgraded with heavy emphasis on Strength of Schedule, Conference Strength, Quality Wins, and the other key critical modeling factors that some of the present BCS models do not now use or emphasize.
The Conference Champions of the Big 10, Pac 10 and Big East are (3) automatic qualifiers for the (4) Inter-Conference Championship Games using their own conference rules.
The next 5 at large teams from the other non-BCS conferences and other teams from the 3 BCS conferences/independents are determined by the NCAA Computer rankings for these 4 Inter-Conference Championship games.
The current 3 BCS conferences/independents that have no Championship Game have received a huge advantage by not playing a possible knock-out Conference Championship Game. This is now eliminated.
All the other teams in the other non-BCS conferences that have a conference title game, will have a choice to move up their conference title game one week, since it would be very difficult for that present non-BCS team, unless it was undefeated and had some huge out of conference wins, to make the 4 Inter-Conference Championships games or eventually becoming one of the final NCAA computer 9 at-large ranked teams, after the 7 Conference/Inter Championship winners get automatic bids, due to their non-BCS conferences strength of schedule.
These 4 new Inter-Conference games will be played on the same day as the 3 other Conference championships with the NCAA’s computer rankings of the (4) highest seeds of the 8 teams in these games getting the home field or geographical advantage.
If in a winter weather region, site must be a dome, or a suitable weather friendly neutral site.
Examples:
Notre Dame vs. Cal. -- Stanford Stadium, California
Michigan vs West Virginia – Ford Field, Detroit
USC vs Ohio State – LA Coliseum, California
Oregon vs. Wisconsin -- St. Louis, Missouri
YOU NOW HAVE 7 AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS with the 7 winners.
(Bolded in the Top 16 Final Rankings below).
The new NCAA model for the final 16 playoff seeding process-- including the other 9 at-large teams -- will then re-seed all 16, no matter who is an automatic qualifier.
Example if a team in the SEC loses to 4 TOP 10 or higher teams and then goes 8-4 versus a powerful Top 35 combined SEC schedule with solid out of conference games, that team should be very high in the new playoff computer rankings as possibly one of the new 9 at-large slots, since it probably will not win the automatic bid Conference Championship.
Below is the final example of the TOP 16 re-seeded from the final NCAA Computer, and making adjustments taking into account teams that have previously played in the 7 Championship Games or during the season if possible.
You can bet the future Out of Conference games will not include all the crème-filled cupcakes now being lined up by all the major powers with all the extra home games for them in the new contracts.
You also have the option of re-seeding after Round 1 for upsets and the same adjustment criteria used in Round 1 for the Round 2 pairings, or just seed at the playoff start and make no further changes:
NCAA Division I College Football TOP 16 Finalists in Playoffs:
1-LSU --Winner SEC
2-Miami -- Winner ACC
3-Texas ---Winner Big 12
4-USC ---Winner – Inter-Conference Playoff
5-Florida --- Runner up SEC –At Large
6-Michigan ---Winner Inter-Conference Playoff
7-California --Winner Inter-Conference Playoff
8-Oregon --- Winner Inter-Conference Playoff
9-Nebraska --- Runner Up Big 12 – At Large
10-Ohio State --- Runner up Conference Playoff –At Large
11-West Virginia --Runner up Conference Playoff – At Large
12-Virginia Tech -- ACC – At Large
13-Oklahoma -- Big 12 -- At Large
14-Georgia -- SEC – At Large
15-Missouri -- Big 12 -- at Large
16-Boston College --Runner up Conference Playoff –At Large
02-15 – Capital 1, Orlando----2-7 (Cotton) – (Quarterfinal)
These teams below 17-32, did not qualify in the new NCAA model due to strength of schedule/quality wins, or at-large teams having higher ratings. For this example 2 teams which both lost conference playoffs did not make the TOP 16.
Quite an impressive list to choose from for the other bowl games.
17-Wisconsin -- Runner Up Inter-Conference Playoff
18-Florida State ACC
19-Clemson ACC
20-Kansas --Big 12
21-Tennessee SEC
22-Notre Dame --- Runner Up Inter-Conf. Playoff
23-Louisville Big East
24-Oregon State -- PAC 10
25-BYU -- MWC
26-TCU -- MWC
27-Alabama --SEC
28-Penn State --Big 11
29-UCF -- USA
30-Georgia Tech --ACC
31-Texas A&M – Big 12
32-Hawaii --WAC
Using the December 2012 Calendar for the inaugural year of implementation for a timing example: The 3 Conference Championships games and 4 new automatic qualifier Inter-conference games are on December 8th. The 15th week from the September 1st Saturday kickoff, or a regular season of 14 weeks—2 bye weeks.
The first round of 8 NCAA Playoff games are on Saturday December 15th at the second tier bowl sites from this list below, or add a few more bowls sites.
Capital 1 in Orlando -- Gator in Jacksonville -- Chick-Fil-a in Atlanta – Outback Bowl in Tampa – Insight Bowl in Tempe – Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio -- Holiday Bowl in San Diego -- Champs Bowl in Orlando -- These are 16 great teams and 8 great sites. You could easily geographically place them for easy flying or driving.
Rounds 2 & 3, or the next 7 games get a round robin of the 5 great historical bowl destination stops, and of course, the National Semifinals on New Year's Day. The Rose Bowl will always get a New Year's bowl due to the economic impact of the Parade and its national iconic status -- (that final sticky issue now resolved).
Round 2 lag between the first round and second round will be 6-8 days later or Friday December 21st/Saturday December 22nd, and of course depending on the NFL Playoffs.
The Final Four on New Year's Day, Tuesday January 1st, and of course depending on the NFL Playoffs.
The 5 Premier Historical Sites, plus maybe add some in the future:
Same as the BCS uses now, plus the new Cotton Bowl Palace – The Fiesta, New Arlington (Cotton), Sugar, Orange, Rose, and maybe even a non-premier domed site could be added to the 4 quarter-final games, (Say the new Indianapolis and St. Louis), but the 2 National Semi-finals and 1 National Championship final game have to be in a legacy traditional BCS and Bowl history stomping grounds from one of the above 5 Premier sites. This is not to say some new domed or warm weather stadium could not be included in the future into the sites for the Final 7 games.
Respectfully Submitted,
Stephen J. Salerno, Boston College Eagle 1974, Fort Worth, Texas
This is all BC's and Yawkey's fault. Bob Ryan, Mike Lupica, Doug Flutie, all cash paychecks from Mother Mouse and where is the ACC Media machine for you new little brother??
Like I said, most of the best articles and PR for BC are posted here on FOX by me and do not come from Yawkey, or the la-la Heights, the ACC, it comes outta Texas.
Tell me why no one can see what I can?
6 TEAMS WILL automatically disappear before BC in the rankings by the schedules I have listed in my blog!
>>The SEC is in deep fratracide mode! One will emerge, maybe with 2 losses as the SEC Champ!!
>>Clemson was 10, why are we not 10th? We beat Clemson?
>>Notre Dame was napalmed, why are they ahead of BC?
Who have they beaten and who will they beat before USC? ND schedule is cream filled cupcakes, and they get huge rankings because of PR AND SPIN!!
Good for ND, but where is Yawkey, ACC and the Boston and National Media?
Asleep.
Simple math: BC has to go 12-1 and start shaking the tree a little early just to get on the radar screen if we beat WF, Maryland, Miami, and GT.
No easy task with 2 road games!
Also, our ACC media and Coaches need to list BC in the Top 10 like Clemson. If BC makes no jump, well GDF our AD, needs to start making some phone calls!!
Where is the ACC brotherly love for BC and GT???
Someone besides worthless me needs to sound the Clarion Call and say, BC is way underranked and with the tough #### schedule ahead should be right there with all the other 1 loss teams in the selection for the BCS number 2 slot, and ahead of any possible undefeated Big East cupcake loaded scheduled team, >>> if BC goes 12-1!
I am sure BC will make no significant jump past the 6 teams it should be ahead of this week, but that is why you send in 6 defensive backs with 20 seconds left and not a 4-3-4 defense when the Hail Mary is about to be unleashed. (North Carolina State!)
One incredibly stupid 4-3-4 NO PREVENT defense and 8.5 seconds away from being ranked ahead of a weak-assed schedule WVU at 8-0 and 4th, and now in the big picture of possible 1 loss teams, BC is now NO WHERE??
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
Mark May Says Florida. Flutie says Florida. James says Florida.
Pumpkin Head Holtz says California. I guess he hopes USC beats Cal and pumps up ND's BCS points, and now the leprechaun loser says the loser Michigan-Ohio State should be number 2.
Holtz is such an embarrassing joke. It changes by the hour and calls from people who tell him he looks like a ####!
Again, Boston College is no where.
BC needs 5 straight wins, and some huge PR NOW, and not from me posting at FOX as a lone lunatic, but someone saying, hey BC beat 9 teams, of which 8 were ranked pre or during the season.
>>AT CMU--possible MAC Champs -- not ranked, but nice BCS points! >>BYU--possible MWC Champs --will be ranked soon!
>>AT Miami, Clemson, AT Wake Forest, Maryland, AT FSU, VT, all pre-season or ranked when played --6--
>>GT in Jax and ranked --9--
Boston College gets nary a mention for possibly running the table and going 12-1 and playing in Phoenix. : --> : -->
But.........What is big Charley Weiswhining yapping about?
This is not Strength of Schedule, which is the true indicator, but in either case Notre Dame is a LOSER!
This is just a won-loss indicator, but it does provide one slice of the pie.
I prefer doing it my way below.
Boston College should be amongst the first one-loss teams ranked!
1 Loss team Bolded:
Toughest Schedule (Teams with at least 9 Inter-Division games) Sorted on Past Opposition October 22, 2006 Data Valid Thru : 21-OCT-06 Division IA Rank
Boston College Florida Kentucky Georgia Tech Southern California Michigan Connecticut Ohio St. Cincinnati North Carolina California Minnesota Oregon St. Louisiana Tech Mississippi St. North Carolina St. Tennessee Washington St. Notre Dame Penn St. Texas Auburn Iowa Michigan St. Indiana Southern Miss. Washington New Mexico St. Syracuse San Diego St. Colorado Ohio Arkansas Kansas St. Air Force Wisconsin Texas Tech Army Rutgers Reality Check Comin for Swampers Vanderbilt Duke Illinois Missouri Arizona La.-Lafayette Mississippi Stanford Arizona St. Texas A&M Bowling Green Navy Oklahoma St. Oklahoma Oregon Tulane Temple UCF East Caro. TCU Nebraska North Texas Houston Florida St. Alabama Fresno St. Iowa St. Utah Florida Int'l Memphis Marshall Maryland Tulsa Central Mich. LSU 2 Boise St. --BUH BYE! UNLV Wyoming Fla. Atlantic Purdue South Carolina UCLA Virginia Clemson Toledo Ball St. Hawaii Middle Tenn. St. Baylor Rice New Mexico Kansas Northwestern Pittsburgh Louisville Two Trick Pony Wake Forest Southern Methodist Idaho Troy West Virginia One Trick Pony Brigham Young Akron Northern Ill. Utah St. Virginia Tech Georgia UTEP Miami (Fla.) Western Mich. Nevada Miami (Ohio) Eastern Mich. Buffalo La.-Monroe UAB Colorado St. South Fla. San Jose St. Kent St. Arkansas St.
The bolded teams are the ranking of the teams that that team lost to:
1. Ohio State (63) 8-0 1,575 --Michigan (1) 2. USC 6-0 1,469 Oregon, CAL, UCLA, ND (4). 3. Michigan 8-0 1,454 --Ohio State (1) 4. West Virginia 7-0 1,394 --Louis-- Pitt --Rutgers (3) 5. Texas 7-1 1,308 Ohio State 1 Tech, A&M Big 12 (3) 6. Louisville 7-0 1,205 --WVU --Rutgers-- Pitt (3) 7. Auburn 7-1 1,178 Arkansas 14 GA, ALA SECCG (3) 8. Florida 6-1 1,051 Auburn 7 GA SCAR FSU SECCG (4) 9. Tennessee 6-1 1,046 Florida 8 LSU ARK SECCG (3) 10. Notre Dame 6-1 1,019 Michigan 3 -USC- (1) 11. Clemson 7-1 962 Boston College 17 VT, MARY, NSCU, South Car ACCCG (5) 12. California 7-1 923 Tennessee 9 UCLA USC (2) 13. LSU 6-2 923 Auburn 7 Florida 8 TENN ALA ARK SECCG (4) 14. Arkansas 6-1 700 USC 2 SO CAR TENN LSU SECCG (4) 15. Boise State 8-0 667 -- NONE. 16. Rutgers 7-0 557 -- Louis, WVU, SYR (3) 17. Boston College 6-1 530 NC State NR WTF, MARY, MIAMI, ACCCG (4) 18. Wisconsin 7-1 525 Michigan 3 PENN STATE IOWA (2)
LET THE WHINING AND SPINNING BEGIN EARLY! I was wrong. dead balls wrong!
I said open up the BC contacts and media floodgates when we got to the ACCCG, but keeping your yap shut and keep winning, well that is now a real bad strategy because the BCS is so screwed with SOS.
The Notre Dame 8Pers, or as we know them at Boston College, the Pablum Puking PrimaDonna Panglossian Pollyanna Pathetic Pussie Pricks, or as we also know them, our safety school, is hitting the poll voters and media hard and early.
Why, 4 cupcakes to go for the Irish, and a 1 game season, ND wants to make the only game it has any chance of losing, versus USC, some monumental event to propel them into the BCS National Title Game. That is sad!
Time for Flutie, Ryan, Yawkey, Visser, to start saying hey, look at the teams BC has beaten compared to the Irish and remember the Irish got torched like Dresden by the Wolverines!!!
I have to give Weis and ND credit, they got balls, AND BRAINS!!!
They have a cream cheese schedule left and 1 game left to win at USC and they want to be the number 2 BCS Poll team, or the team with 1 loss ranked second, over all the rest, with brutal and stronger schedules!
Time to let loose some BC PR blitzes.
I was wrong. You have to talk the talk BEFORE, and the win later because ND knew it could mouth off with Navy, UNC, Air Force, Army and then USC.
BC has Wake Forest, Maryland, Miami, and a possible ACCCG match-up!
I tell you one thing, Notre Dame went over its strategy before CW opened his big fat mouth since ND decided to do a little pre-emptive strike on the pollsters and computers knowing ND will or should drop with the next 4 cream filled cupcakes.
ND has beaten no one really tough, just some solid teams in GT, MSU, PSU and UCLA, 3 of which are down from last year and unranked.
To me, ND is brilliant!
This article shows ND knows how to play the game with a weak schedule and make the USC game more than just a great win!
Gotta give the Domers credit. Brilliant strategy and most of the media lemmings think like idiots anyway.
Time and time again, I amaze even myself with my humble genius.
I hope Navy upsets them, just to hear the whining cease!
BC has 26.5K in applications for 2.2K in slots or better than most Ivy league schools, so I wonder why ND calls us their safety school?
I hope USC drills them, but USC has games left where they could lose a few, and Notre Dame has just USC? The Irish are a bunch of big baby whiners.
No wonder why BC has beaten them 4 in a row.
If anyone should be complaining its BC!
We beat Clemson -- BYU and CMU are conference leaders -- and Clemson, VT, FSU, Miami were pre-season Top 20 ranked and Wake Forest will be ranked, so might Maryland and Miami, and BC has a ACC title match if we run the table.
BC might have to beat Miami 2X in 10 days if Miami beats GT and VT in the other division, just to get to the BCS.
The Irish schedule in future years only gets weaker, so you wll hear big Charlie whining more and more in years to come!
You do not see BC whining?
If BC did not get Hail Mary'ed, and was 7-0, I would not be posting, but since the 8P'ers started to whine, here is your just rewards!
If BC goes 12-1, they should be going to the National Title Game way before Notre Dame and many other 1 loss schools, including 2 undefeated teams, one of the 1 game season West Virginia Mountaineers, and Lousiville with a 2 game season if they are undefeated too! Both Big East teams with weak #### schedules.
Now that is real facts kids.
The bracketed number is possible big game losses left.
The bolded teams are the ranking of the teams that that team lost to:
1. Ohio State (63) 8-0 1,575 --Michigan (1) 2. USC 6-0 1,469 Oregon, CAL, UCLA, ND (4). 3. Michigan 8-0 1,454 --Ohio State (1) 4. West Virginia 7-0 1,394 --Louis-- Pitt --Rutgers (3) 5. Texas 7-1 1,308 Ohio State 1 Tech, A&M Big 12 (3) 6. Louisville 7-0 1,205 --WVU --Rutgers-- Pitt (3) 7. Auburn 7-1 1,178 Arkansas 14 GA, ALA SECCG (3) 8. Florida 6-1 1,051 Auburn 7 GA SCAR FSU SECCG (4) 9. Tennessee 6-1 1,046 Florida 8 LSU ARK SECCG (3) 10. Notre Dame 6-1 1,019 Michigan 3 -USC- (1) 11. Clemson 7-1 962 Boston College 17 VT, MARY, NSCU, South Car ACCCG (5) 12. California 7-1 923 Tennessee 9 UCLA USC (2) 13. LSU 6-2 923 Auburn 7 Florida 8 TENN ALA ARK SECCG (4) 14. Arkansas 6-1 700 USC 2 SO CAR TENN LSU SECCG (4) 15. Boise State 8-0 667 -- NONE. 16. Rutgers 7-0 557 -- Louis, WVU, SYR (3) 17. Boston College 6-1 530 NC State NR WTF, MARY, MIAMI, ACCCG (4) 18. Wisconsin 7-1 525 Michigan 3 PENN STATE IOWA (2) ************************************************** *****
Weis questions why Notre Dame is slipping in polls, poor Baby!
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Charlie Weis isn't sure Notre Dame is a top 10-caliber team.
"One of the teams [Tennessee] that jumped us had the same game that we had. Another team [Florida] that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me." -- Charlie Weis He's convinced, though, the 11th-ranked Fighting Irish didn't deserve to be jumped in the polls and the Bowl Championship Series Standings after a last-minute win over UCLA.
"One of the teams [Tennessee] that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal," Weis said Tuesday. "Another team [Florida] that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me."
Clemson jumped ahead of Notre Dame in The Associated Press Top 25 poll with a 31-7 victory over Georgia Tech, a team the Irish struggled to beat 14-10 in the season opener. The Irish dropped two spots to No. 10 in the coaches' poll after Florida, which had a bye, and Tennessee, which came back from seven points down to beat Alabama 16-13 with a touchdown with 3:28 left, moved ahead of the Irish.
Texas, which needed a 22-yard field goal to beat Nebraska 22-20 with 23 seconds left, passed the Irish in the BCS standings, dropping the Irish to No. 9.
"Tell me how that works?" Weis said. "Maybe I'm just stupid. Tell me how that works?"
It was the second time this season the Irish dropped in the polls following a win. After beating Georgia Tech, they fell from No. 2 to No 4 in the AP and from third to fifth in the coaches' poll. They also fell from No. 8 to No. 9 in the AP poll on their off week two weeks ago.
Weis, though, said the biggest concern for the Irish isn't the polls. He said they simply need to keep winning. They can clinch a spot in a BCS bowl -- and the $4.5 million that comes with it -- by finishing eighth or better in the final standings.
They still have an outside shot of making it to the national championship game -- but Weis admits they would need a lot of luck and help, especially with their next four games coming against the three military academies and North Carolina (1-6) before closing the regular season at USC.
"Let's be very practical here. Would I love for Notre Dame to play for the national championship this year? Absolutely," he said. "Is it a chance that it happens? Yeah, there's a chance. Because any team with one loss has a chance of playing for it."
But no team in recent memory has been beaten like the Irish were in their 47-21 loss to Michigan and come back and won a championship. The Irish not only have a bad loss, but they also have two near-misses in come-from-behind victories over Michigan State and UCLA. The offensive line has struggled repeatedly and the defense has given up many big plays.
Should the Irish be ranked in the top 10?
"I think we'll know that in about five weeks," he said. "We might be a top-five team in five weeks. But ask me that at the end of November. Because right now I couldn't answer that question."
Lamar Thomas will be appointed Chancellor of the University of Miami tomorrow.
That would be the Dade County Jail Campus!
Make no mistake, Coker, and Athletic Director Dee are HISTORY.
1--When Miami was admitted into the ACC, it was told by the ACC to make sure the Butch Davis sewer act and clean-up remained in tact , no matter what!
The ACC, full well knowing that Miami recruits players that fit the gansta thug juvenile deliquent profile, and the alumni former players that come back and permeate that disgusting and unsportsmanlike image and persona, wanted an ACC class act at Miami.
Good luck with that!
2--Coker is also feeling heat from Randy Shannon's inside crew since Randy is black and the leading National Contender for all the other Head Coaching jobs and why Miami, the home of the greatest black athletes in college football, has had no black Head Coach?
With Coker having back to back bad seasons, the hot seat is now an electric chair and the only way Coker saves his #### is a table run to a win in the BCS, and not even that might save him.
Many believe Shannon is tunneling and behind a lot of Coker's troubles and no way Larry can fire him. That is the same deal as in Corporate America and big jobs in Sports.
Shannon, a guy I begged for 3 years ago to replace BC's Head Coach, has become a Swamp Snake.
3--Last year's tunnel incident with LSU; stomping on the Cardinal at Louisville and then getting stomped; the riot at the OB Saturday, Coker should be toast.
Miami is a program out of control and the ACC bigwigs have noticed and worse, so has America.
The NCAA and Myles "Worthless Generic" Brand is too busy chasing Indian nicknames and has to worry about the Fighting Sioux owning the NCAA after they win that lawsuit.
4--Lamar Thomas was hired by Comcast with Dee's approval.
Lamar FELONY(s) arrest record of strangling his "fiancee" twice, once in front of a child, brandishing a gun twice, and almost being committed to a mental institution must have looked great on his job application at Miami for gangta thug.
THESE ARE FELONIES, not speeding tickets kids!
• Arrested and jailed for aggravated battery for attacking his pregnant fiancee with a deadly weapon.
• Arrested for violating probation.
• Detained for brandishing a handgun and threatening suicide, prompting authorities to check him in to a mental institution.
• Did jail time for again violating probation related to the battery charges, when he was arrested for choking his fiancee. His six-month old son was present at the scene.
JOB AP at Comcast: If you have ever been arrested, please explain...... well Lamar, must have had a 245 page attachment.
Lamar will be gone by midnight, or the new Chancellor. I say Chancellor!
5--Saturday was "Join a Team, not a Gang!" at the OB with 700 high at risk kids and Metro Dade anti-gang squad police.
What does the kid do now?
Go home and say, "Hey, Mom, I can do both at the "U"?"
--Ergo, a national embarrassment and state of Florida disgrace for the "U!"
6---The problem has been brewing for years and Butch was only a partial clean-up.
Miami has an institutional GANGSTA mentality, and it is a disgrace.
BUT THE PROBLEM, IS DONNA SHALALA 100%
7---Coker was brilliant is his press conference Sunday, saving his job before the School took action. Perfect damage control and a career saving move. Suspend 13 and do it before the NFL kickoff on Sunday. If Miami doesn't win the ACC Title game and the BCS, Coker will be gone for sure, and again, maybe done anyway?
8---My prediction is that College Football America has had enough of the U thugs and U ganstas at the "U" and further actions will be taken.
To me, I do not see how Randy Shannon escapes the purge, because he has been there, but....where is Little Donna?
9--- Just today, Donna Shalala apologized and just like a Clinton flunky appointee loser, nobody will be fired and yadda-yadda.
I still say Coker and Dee will be gone by the end of this season. Not even the President of the U gets it. These guys need to be gone NOW.
Merriweather, a co-captain and stomping people and kicking them in the face, should be in jail not suspended. Just wait, before Christmas these guys will be toast.
10---If Dee was smart he would fire Coker now and half his staff and maybe save his job?
This is my third BC season preview prediction. This post is such a valued treasure and guide for your personal life, that I would print it and save it and cherish it like a Dead Sea Scroll, or an IRS audit letter.
I decided not to wait for Phil Steele and the other so called experts, but venture out on my own, so when you are relaxing on Nantucket, you can have something to read.
The 2004 Theme was “No Excuses”, and we had 3 horror show losses. The 2005 Theme was “Just Get Nasty”, and we had 3 more horror show losses.
This year, in keeping with my message for the ROAD TO THE PHOENIX NATIONAL TITLE GAME, my 2006 Theme is:
“MIX IT UP AND BLITZ IT DOWN!"
Strategy 1: MIX IT UP!
I learned 99.99% of everything I needed to know about life from watching Chuck Conners and the Rifleman. In the opening, Chuck walked down Main Street and let loose with a 12 pack. Looked up, said nothing, and reloaded that bad boy rifle.
None of this pansy Shakespeare soliloquy stuff like, "So you have to ask yourself one question, do I feel lucky, well do you punk ####?” Nope, Chuck just re-loaded.
In case you have been fast asleep, the game and rules of College Football have drastically changed. The passing game advantages has turned mid-range teams into giant killers
We here at BC have a re-loaded rifleman. His name is Matthew, or Ryan’s Express! This kid is a difference maker and luckily for BC, Chris Crane has looked sharp if Matty ever get dinged.
LET THE KID RIP IT!
Start out by putting Ryan in the shotgun and a no huddle scripted 2 minute Offense versus Central Michigan. Give the DVD machines of our future opponents a few new wrinkles to prepare for on defense. Also, run through 3 or 4 trick plays after every practice!
If BC gets ahead 27-0, go back and use the shotgun and snap with 5 seconds left on the clock instead of smash mouth running out the clock and then when you mix it up and run, the gaps will be huge with the other defense tired and confused.
Start a new trend and surprise the world! Use the fullback for maybe some slips through the line over the middle, find a hole in the defense passes and sit for a quick pass and nice gain, or run some drag routes. Maybe a fullback quick pop or draw!
You know maximizing the "alleged" West Coast offense! BC has 3 nice receivers and 2 RB's and the new kids!
BC needs to utilize all the weapons it has at its disposal and become totally unpredictable with Ryan.
BC was demolishing Boise State 27-0, then TOBlunders called off the dogs in his usual stupor fashion, and in the last 20 minutes the lethal passing game of Boise State woke up and if not for one fortunate bounce for BC, BC was undone and humiliated.
Strategy 2: BLITZ IT DOWN!
How do you stop the new College passing Game? Take a page out of a few of last year’s major upsets by defensive coordinators in stopping much better teams. The upsetting team blitzed all day long and stopped the run on the way to getting to the QB. Blitzing disrupts everything and changes the attitude of your defense into attack and aggressive mad dogs.
Blitz until you tongue hits the ground. We had FSU whipped, then our rush disappeared, and BC turned Weatherford into Ward.
BC needs to blitz and get into a in your face nasty assertiveness since the college game passing has been the great equalizer for teams with less than blue chip talent. Blitz two off the corner, mix it up but keep attacking and bringing in new blitz packages every week. Blitz 8 guys with two corners 15 yards deep and a safely in the middle, or any other package, but keep blitzing until you get to Phoenix.
Be the aggressor, since sitting back and waiting in a soft cream cheese zone and you get the Boise State escape and FSU type of defeats.
Strategy 3: Lord, we beseech you, please help our Special Teams!
Besides becoming the new BC, as in BLITZ CRAZY, special teams are where great college coaches make their early career bones and make great teams into Champions and steal games every year, or sometimes, up to 3 games like Frank Beamer of VT did in one year!
Of course the crack special teams of BC, a 9 year nightmare gives up a field long punt return to Boise State and a TD kickoff run by UNC and other missed short chip shot field goals and blocked punts.
My question is why?
Finally can we fix this annual hemorrhoid problem under TOBlunders0-9?
Tell me why, year in and year out in Soccer heaven at BC, 26.5 applications for 2.5 spots we can't block for punts and can't drill 30 yard extra point range type FG's?
Why hasn't some BC Football Team Manager or video wizard who can access the Frank Beamer's VT DVD’s we have on file developed a student-thesis for the BC program on how VT has blocked more kicks than the Rockettes during the Christmas Season?
My greatest fear is BC will be having a miracle year and having appeared to edge out a great gritty win and then blow it on a blocked punt, bad kick coverage, or worse, miss another 24 yard field goal chippie.
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