Uma Pequena Análise dos Calendários dos Times e Seus Jogos Fora de Conferencia

Na minha opinião:

 

ACC

1. Miami: Charleston Southern, at Florida, at Texas A&M, UCF 
2. Virginia: USC, Richmond, at Connecticut, East Carolina 
3. North Carolina: McNeese State, at Rutgers, Connecticut, Notre Dame 
4. North Carolina State: at South Carolina, William & Mary, East Carolina, South Florida 
5. Boston College: at Kent State, UCF, Rhode Island, Notre Dame
6. Wake Forest: at Baylor, Mississippi, Navy, Vanderbilt
7. Virginia Tech: at East Carolina, Furman, at Nebraska, Western Kentucky 
8. Maryland: Delaware, at Middle Tennessee, California, Eastern Michigan 
9. Duke: James Madison, Northwestern, Navy, at Vanderbilt 
10. Florida State: Western Carolina, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Colorado, Florida

11. Clemson: Alabama, Citadel, South Carolina State, South Carolina 
12. Georgia Tech: Jacksonville State, Mississippi State, Gardner-Webb, at Georgia 

 

Notas:

Apesar FSU jogar contra Florida, Tech contra Georgia, e Clemson jogar contra South Carolina, os 3 agendaram 2 jogos contra times da Championship Subdivision e não merecem estar acima no ranking.

 

Jogos contra escolas do BCS: 23 (de 48): 48%

Jogos contra escolas da Championship Subdivision: 14 (do restante 25): 56%

 

Big East
1. Pittsburgh: Bowling Green, Buffalo, Iowa, at Navy, at Notre Dame 
2. Syracuse: at Northwestern, Akron, Penn State, Northeastern, at Notre Dame 
3. West Virginia: Villanova, at East Carolina, at Colorado, Marshall, Auburn 
4. South Florida: Tennessee-Martin, at UCF, Kansas, at Florida International, at North Carolina State 
5. Cincinnati: Eastern Kentucky, at Oklahoma, Miami (OH), at Akron, at Marshall 
6. Connecticut: Hofstra, at Temple, Virginia, Baylor, at North Carolina 
7. Louisville: Kentucky, Tennessee Tech, Kansas State, at Memphis, Middle Tennessee 
8. Rutgers: Fresno State, North Carolina, at Navy, Morgan State, Army

 

Notas:

Porquê Pitt No.1? Por que os Panthers são o único time da liga que não agendou um time da Championship Subdivision.

 

Porque Syracuse não completou a trilogia e agendou Northsouthern ou Northnorthern?

Jogos contra escolas do BCS: 16 (de 40): 40%

Jogos contra escolas da Championship Subdivision: 7 (do restante 24): 29%

 

Big Ten
1. Michigan State: at California, Eastern Michigan, Florida Atlantic, Notre Dame 
2. Michigan: Utah, Miami (OH), at Notre Dame, Toledo 
3. Purdue: Northern Colorado, Oregon, Central Michigan, at Notre Dame
4. Penn State: Coastal Carolina, Oregon State, at Syracuse, Temple 
5. Ohio State: Youngstown State, Ohio, at USC, Troy 
6. Illinois: at Missouri (St. Louis), Eastern Illinois, Louisiana-Lafayette, at Western Michigan (Detroit)
7. Northwestern: Syracuse, at Duke, Southern Illinois, Ohio 
8. Iowa: Maine, Florida International, Iowa State, at Pittsburgh 
9. Indiana: Western Kentucky, Murray State, Ball State, Central Michigan
10. Minnesota: Northern Illinois, at Bowling Green, Montana State, Florida Atlantic

11. Wisconsin: Akron, Marshall, at Fresno State, Cal Poly 

Notas:
Cal Poly? Wisconsin, sem comentários…

 

Utah abrindo a temporada de Michigan. Sou só eu, ou isso está cheirando zebra? Novo técnico, novo QB, novo sistema, novo uniforme...

 

De uma conferencia conhecidamente fraca em jogos fora de sua conferencia, Michigan State fez bonito e agendou um bom time da Pac-10 e o campeão da Sun Belt do ano passado em FAU.

 

Jogos contra escolas do BCS: 13 (de 33): 39%

Jogos contra escolas da Championship Subdivision: 9 (do restante 20): 45%

 

Big 12
1. Colorado: Colorado State (in Denver), Eastern Washington, West Virginia, at Florida State 
2. Oklahoma: Tennessee-Chattanooga, Cincinnati, at Washington, TCU 
3. Baylor: Wake Forest, Northwestern State, Washington State, at Connecticut 
4. Texas A&M: Arkansas State, at New Mexico, Miami, Army 
5. Nebraska: Western Michigan, San Jose State, New Mexico State, Virginia Tech 
6. Texas: Florida Atlantic, at UTEP, Arkansas, Rice 
7. Missouri: Illinois (in St. Louis), Southeast Missouri State, Nevada, Buffalo 
8. Oklahoma State: Washington State (in Seattle), Houston, Missouri State, Troy 
9. Iowa State: South Dakota State, Kent State, at Iowa, at UNLV 
10. Kansas State: North Texas, Montana State, at Louisville, Louisiana-Lafayette 
11. Kansas: Florida International, Louisiana Tech, at South Florida, Sam Houston State 
12. Texas Tech: Eastern Washington, at Nevada, SMU, Massachusetts

 

Notas:
Sam Houston State? Kansas, sem comentáros...(2)

 

Colorado continua sem muito medo de agendar times fora de sua conferencia.

 

Jogos contra escolas do BCS: 15 (de 48): 31%

Jogos contra escolas da Championship Subdivision: 10 (do restante 33): 30%

Pac-10

1. USC: at Virginia, Ohio State, Notre Dame
2. Washington: BYU, Oklahoma, Notre Dame
3. UCLA: Tennessee, at BYU, Fresno State 
4. Oregon State: at Penn State, Hawaii, at Utah 
5. California: Michigan State, at Maryland, Colorado State 
6. Arizona State: Georgia, Northern Arizona, UNLV 
7. Oregon: Utah State, at Purdue, Boise State 
8. Washington State: Oklahoma State, at Baylor, Portland State 
9. Stanford: at TCU, San Jose State, at Notre Dame 
10. Arizona: Idaho, Toledo, at New Mexico

 

Notas:

Quem conversa comigo sabe que eu acho a Pac-10 supervalorizada, mas eles volta e meia fazem um bom trabalho agendando jogos fora de sua conferencia.

 

Jogos contra escolas do BCS: 14 (de 30): 47% 
Jogos contra escolas da Championship Subdivision: 2 (do restante 16): 13%

 

SEC
1. Florida: Hawaii, Miami, Citadel, at Florida State 
2. Tennessee: at UCLA, UAB, Northern Illinois, Wyoming 
3. Georgia: Georgia Southern, Central Michigan, at Arizona State, Georgia Tech 
4. South Carolina: North Carolina State, Wofford, UAB, at Clemson 
5. Auburn: Louisiana-Monroe, Southern Miss, at West Virginia, Tennessee-Martin 
6. Ole Miss: Memphis, at Wake Forest, Samford, Louisiana-Monroe 
7. Arkansas: Western Illinois, Louisiana-Monroe, at Texas, Tulsa 
8. Alabama: vs. Clemson, Tulane, Western Kentucky, Arkansas State 
9. Mississippi State: at Louisiana Tech, Southeastern Louisiana, at Georgia Tech, Middle Tennessee. 
10. Vanderbilt: at Miami (OH), Rice, Duke, at Wake Forest 
11. LSU: Appalachian State, Troy, North Texas, Tulane 
12. Kentucky: at Louisville, Norfolk State, Middle Tennessee, Western Kentucky

 

Notas:

Imagine se esta temporada fosse no começo da década e dê uma olhada no calendário de Florida. Mesmo com a decadência de Miami e FSU, e a reconstrução natural de Hawaii sem Colt Brennan nesta temporada, os Gators ainda tem o calendário mais difícil fora de sua conferencia. Mas é claro que não seria um time da SEC se não tivesse um time da Championship Subdivision enfiado em algum lugar...

 

Jogos contra escolas do BCS: 15 (de 48): 31%

Jogos contra escolas da Championship Subdivision: 9 (do restante 33): 27%

 

NOTAS GERAL:

Conferencia com maior número de jogos contra escolas do BCS: ACC - 23

Conferencia com menor número de jogos contra escolas do BCS: Big Ten - 13

Conferencia com maior porcentagem de jogos contra escolas do BCS: ACC – 48%

Conferencia com menor porcentagem de jogos contra escolas do BCS: SEC/Big 12 – 31%

Conferencia com maior número de jogos contra escolas do Championship Subdivision: ACC - 14

Conferencia com menor número de jogos contra escolas do Championship Subdivision: Pac-10 - 2

Conferencia com maior porcentagem de jogos contra escolas do Championship Subdivision: ACC – 56%

Conferencia com menor porcentagem de jogos contra escolas do Championship Subdivision: Pac-10 – 13%

Teste

Voce acha que manja das regras de Futebol? O teste online dos arbitros de 2008 está disponivel no link abaixo. É só logar como non-staff official.

Divirta-se!

http://www.usafootball.com/ncaa_test/index

It's All About The U! Shannon gains perspective from overseas trip

Muitas pessoas são contra a guerra, eu me incluo nesta lista, mas este texto em particular foi muito bem escrito e não tive coragem de traduzi-lo... Alguns técnicos foram visitar postos de combate e participaram de alguns exercícios. Aqui fala da experiência trazida por Randy Shannon, técnico dos Hurricanes...

 

 

 

 

Randy Shannon is used to seeing kids this age, 19, 20 years old, on their backs in pain. Usually it is on a football field, maybe after one too many wind sprints in practice has sucked the air from a player's chest. Maybe it is when one of his Miami Hurricanes is wincing and grasping at a wrenched knee.

Then again, pain is a relative term.

This time, the young man about that age was prone in a hospital bed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, a bandaged stub below the knee where a whole leg once was. A crooked ladder of stitches crawling across the right side of the kid's disfigured face.

This was the awful work of a roadside bomb (improvised explosive device, or IED) that blasted up through the soldier's armored vehicle and did everything but kill him. This is one way for a kid fighting in Iraq to earn a little R&R.

Shannon approached the soldier's bed feeling a mix of awe, caution and dread. Feeling something he wasn't prepared for, eyelids moistening and pinching back tears.

This is a tough football coach, mind you, a tough man hardened by growing up in Liberty City. This is a man whose father was murdered in a brawl when Randy was 3. A man who saw two brothers and a sister swallowed by cocaine and then die of complications from AIDS.

Yet there was something about seeing a face barely old enough to need a razor torn like that. Something about seeing a leg that wasn't there.

''That was tough for me. That was emotional,'' Shannon recalled Monday of what struck him most about the extraordinary week he spent in late May.

Then the strangest thing happened. You how some things, even as they happen, you know you will remember as long as you live?

''He started cracking jokes. He was funny,'' Shannon said. ``I never heard anything like it in my life.''

Shannon, 42, was one of five college football coaches who toured military bases across the Middle East on a recent goodwill tour designed to lift the spirits of our military personnel, many of whom were back from or headed to combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.

That day, an extraordinary soldier lifted Shannon's spirits instead.

He was a young man who sought nobody's pity, who felt lucky to be alive. He jokingly pointed out the irony of a minesweeper being hit by a roadside bomb. He even kidded about the deep gash that ran nearly temple to chin.

''You like my face lift?'' the soldier asked Shannon with a crooked smile.

The UM coach recalled his experiences Monday to a handful of local media. It was quite a contrast to the throng of reporters and cameras four times as big the day before for a ''news conference'' at which the Dolphins' Jason Taylor worked very hard to say very little.

There is a lesson in there somewhere.

MEASURE OF SUPPORT

We read about the rising suicide crisis among soldiers, and a tour like this is a small effort to raise morale when possible. To let our military stationed across the world know they are appreciated, and not forgotten. You can be anywhere on the hawk/dove spectrum and appreciate the good in that.

So Shannon -- along with Georgia's Mark Richt, Auburn's Tommy Tuberville, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis and Yale's Jack Siedlecki -- flew to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois on May 20 on a journey that never before had involved NCAA football.

A 15-hour flight aboard a windowless KC-135 tanker carrying 100,000 pounds of jet fuel took the coaches to the Landstuhl hospital in Germany, and from there they were at sea aboard the USS Nassau (the Navy's biggest amphibious attack ship); at Al Udeid Air Base and Camp As Sayliaha in Qatar; at a Naval Service Center in Bahrain; and at a U.S. air base at a secret location in Southwest Asia -- some of the shuttles made aboard a CH-53 helicopter.

(Shannon's daughter served in the Navy until this past April, part of her tour stationed outside Bahrain, as a corpsman, similar to a nurse, on a hospital ship).

Along the way, the coaches witnessed examples of military operations, including a midair refueling exercise in which a fighter jet being fueled was a mere

30 feet below the tanker.

Shannon is used to telling his 19-year-olds to protect the football. Now he was among kids the same age protecting something closer to freedom.

''I got a 19-year-old driving a refueling plane? That was overwhelming to me,'' Shannon said. ``A great experience. A great education.

``We got it lucky. All of us, we got it lucky.''

The coaches traveled, slept and ate like soldiers, not generals.

''No stone crabs,'' Shannon kidded.

At all the stops, the coaches handed out shirts, decals, footballs, Frisbees, pictures and pins; signed hundreds of autographs; visited patients; held symposiums to answer questions; conducted a flag football game; and even staged a ''combine,'' at which soldiers could run the 40-yard dash, bench-press weights and so forth. Shannon played dominoes with soldiers who shared his love of the ``bones.''

Mostly, what the coaches did was care.

Everywhere they went, soldiers asked the football men: ``Does everybody back at home still respect us? Do they believe in what we're doing?''

But much of the conversation was lighter.

FAMILIAR TIES

Shannon spoke 25 minutes with a soldier who asked him, ``Coach, didn't you come down to East St. John's?''

It turned out he was a teammate of two guys from a Louisiana high school whom Shannon had visited on a recruiting mission.

One soldier happened to know Shannon's cousin. Another was a Navy SEAL from Miami Sunset High.

Once, Shannon discovered a soldier from his alma mater, Miami Norland High, was seated with another coach in the mess hall.

''Man, get over here to my table!'' Shannon called out.

The trip ended at the White House, with a 15-minute Oval Office meeting with President Bush on Memorial Day.

Shannon returned with some lessons he will share with his Hurricanes.

''About performing under stress at all times. About putting teamwork above all,'' he said. ``About believing and trusting in each other. About character, performance and high standards.''

Mostly, the coach returned with a memory of a kid with a torn-up face and a leg that wasn't there.

It was a memory that might have haunted, if not for the soldier's laughter.

The sound of the human spirit.

By GREG COTE