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    FICTITIOUS FRIDAY IS COMING TO MCU PARK

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    posted on January 18, 2013 at 04:45 PM by The District Attorney to brooklyn cyclones, college football, football, mets, minor leagues  |  23 comment(s)

    In light of recent events involving All-American linebacker Manti Te’o, the Brooklyn Cyclones have announced that June 21st will be Fictitious Friday at MCU Park…

    Anyone who purchases one ticket at regular price will be allowed to bring their make believe significant-other to the ballpark free of charge. Fans will also have the chance to draw a picture of their girlfriend, because obviously something came up and she couldn’t make it, so that their friends can finally see what she looks ...

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    3351. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on January 23, 2013 at 05:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The off-season is about three weeks old and it's already one of the oddest I can remember.
    3352. Tripon posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:27 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    SWATS, the company that outed Ray Lewis now says that Alabama football players used the deer antler spray as well.
    3353. Every Inge Counts posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:31 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    SWATS, the company that outed Ray Lewis now says that Alabama football players used the deer antler spray as well.


    and LSU players. I also think some college players wore some of those Powerbands before a game as well.
    3354. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:38 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    and LSU players. I also think some college players wore some of those Powerbands before a game as well.


    So college football players don't have to take critical thinking classes, is the lesson I'm taking from these stories.
    3355. Darkness and the howling fantods posted on January 30, 2013 at 08:19 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    and LSU players. I also think some college players wore some of those Powerbands before a game as well.


    The "deer antler spray" not only contained growth hormone (though probably unusable by humans) but also was implicated in a positive test for anabolic steroids in the NFL, so it may have done a bit more than powerbands or hologram stickers. But yeah, the SI article makes me think that Nigerian scammers would be better off targeting NFL players than senior citizens.

    I did love the statement from the Alabama spokesman:
    When asked for a comment on their players' interactions with Key and Ross, Alabama officials said, "We've sent them two cease and desist letters, and we are constantly educating our guys on performance-enhancing substances."

    I just bet you are.
    3356. gef the talking mongoose posted on January 30, 2013 at 08:42 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    So college football players don't have to take critical thinking classes,


    Or any other kind, for that matter.
    3357. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 06, 2013 at 11:57 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Come on kids, it's National Signing Day. Time to freak out.
    3358. spike posted on February 06, 2013 at 12:04 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Or in the case of my alma mater, get some good news for a change.

    And speaking of, 12 of the top 25 or so classes (depending on who you like for this sort of thing) are SEC teams. The conference may well be overrated, but even the middling schools still can market themselves to blue chip kids.
    3359. Liver of blaspheming 'zop posted on February 06, 2013 at 12:10 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The conference may well be overrated, but even the middling schools still can market themselves to blue chip kids.


    "Marketing" seems like an appropriate word. You can't spell University of Mississippi without SMU.
    3360. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 06, 2013 at 12:19 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Ole Miss got lucky with some top prospects this year, in that a lot of circumstances came together in their favor. Robert Nkemdiche's brother plays for Ole Miss, and Laquon Treadwell's best friend is also a Rebel.

    Have no idea how they pulled Laremy Tunsil from Florida, however. It's hard not to be suspicious of that program.
    3361. Liver of blaspheming 'zop posted on February 06, 2013 at 12:42 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Have no idea how they pulled Laremy Tunsil from Florida, however. It's hard not to be suspicious of that program.


    There have been rumors floating around about Ole Miss since before this season - and they're clearly not of the sour grapes variety, because Ole Miss sucks. I presume its just gotten to the point that the cost/benefit analysis of paying makes it worth it. What's the downside - turning into Auburn or Miami? Ole Miss will take that for a few years on top of the world . . .

    3362. spike posted on February 06, 2013 at 12:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    One hears a lot of annual accusations, but they seem to result in very few actual cases, let alone successful investigations. Are the NCAA and opposing conferences unwilling/unable to crack the hillbilly conspiracy? How is it possible these hayseed schools can maintain a payroll for HS talent right under the noses of their minders and opponents?
    3363. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) posted on February 06, 2013 at 01:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Highly rated RB prospect Alex Collins verbaled to Arkansas last night, but his Mom apparently has swiped the LOI and is avoiding signing it today. Good times.
    3364. Pops Freshenmeyer posted on February 06, 2013 at 04:22 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    USC went from an amazing class to an absolute tire fire. Not all the dust has settled yet but they may be looking at a ten player class.
    3365. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 06, 2013 at 04:42 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    USC went from an amazing class to an absolute tire fire. Not all the dust has settled yet but they may be looking at a ten player class.


    And might I just say: HA!

    Good day for Florida, filling just about every need and getting some really high quality players. The five receivers were vital.
    3366. Every Inge Counts posted on February 06, 2013 at 04:44 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I think Alabama had a good recruiting class, though I was not following recruiting as much this year as before. Really looking forward to seeing how O.J. Howard pans out.
    3367. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 06, 2013 at 04:49 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Saban always has good recruiting classes. That's what happens when you convince recruits that you will kill their families if they don't sign with you.
    3368. Tom Nawrocki posted on February 06, 2013 at 04:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    There have been rumors floating around about Ole Miss since before this season - and they're clearly not of the sour grapes variety, because Ole Miss sucks. I presume its just gotten to the point that the cost/benefit analysis of paying makes it worth it.


    Wasn't Ole Miss the school that agreed to pay Cecil Newton $180 large if Cam went there?
    3369. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 06, 2013 at 04:59 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wasn't Ole Miss the school that agreed to pay Cecil Newton $180 large if Cam went there?


    That was Mississippi State, I think.

    To avoid future confusion:

    Mississippi State is the crappy team in the crappy campus.
    Ole Miss is the crappy team in the beautiful campus.
    3370. spike posted on February 06, 2013 at 05:05 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    How Auburn managed to hang on to as much of their class as they did is a miracle (insert $/Cam joke here). First good news since last NSD for the program, really.
    3371. Tripon posted on February 07, 2013 at 02:20 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Lane Kiffin probably going to get fired at the end of next year.
    3372. Shooty is in the Trust Tree  posted on February 07, 2013 at 09:18 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Another theory about Ole Miss

    My thoughts...all the top schools in the SEC cheat. It's an open secret. Fans of other SEC schools pointing the finger at Ole Miss because they wrote bigger checks this year is kind of laughable.
    3373. spike posted on February 07, 2013 at 10:11 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    So is positing a secret conspiracy that is tolerated/unable to be detected by the rest of the sport.
    3374. Shooty is in the Trust Tree  posted on February 07, 2013 at 10:20 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    So is positing a secret conspiracy that is tolerated/unable to be detected by the rest of the sport.

    It's not even a conspiracy. What was shocking about Alabama's getting stung by the NCAA a few years back wasn't that they were cheating, but that someone tattled on them. You're not supposed to do that. Big time college football is what it is and I accepted it a long time ago. I have no problem with the athletes getting what they can under the current system, but the idea that this program over here is clean but that one over there is dirty, particularly in the SEC is kind of silly. The quicker the O'Bannon lawsuit works its way through the courts and the sooner the NCAA has to deal with reality, the better.
    3375. spike posted on February 07, 2013 at 11:06 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Well we are certainly agreed that equitable compensation of collegiate athletes is something that should happen. But to shrug one's shoulders and presume that if one conference is out-recruiting others, then QED it is because of payoffs is spurious.

    Why do the other schools outside the SEC tolerate it?
    Why does the NCAA tolerate it?
    How come formal accusations are so rare, let alone actual evidence and consequences?
    Why aren't non-sec schools offering similar payoffs, since it's a non-issue?
    If success is evidence of cheating, is Ohio State ipso facto in the payoff business because they have an SEC coach who has dramatically improved their recruiting?

    //and furthermore just the scale by which the SEC outrecruits the field is immense - are they paying ALL of these players? How much? Where is all this money coming from? Vanderbilt had a top 20 class this year - way better than Oregon for example. Is Vandy in on it too? Sorry to rant, but the Great SEC Payola Conspiracy really sets me off. Is it possible? Sure. But to just offer it as an article of faith is the same logic that concludes Hank Aaron must have been on steroids.

    3376. Shooty is in the Trust Tree  posted on February 07, 2013 at 11:20 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I'm not pointing my finger just at the SEC--though I suspect they're just the best at it--but I think it's fairly rampant across the country.
    3377. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 07, 2013 at 12:17 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Florida is apparently still engaged in one recruiting battle. They have an offer out to a Florida kid named Trevon Young, a potential OL/TE type. However, the Gators will have to sway him from a basketball scholarship. At Eckerd College. A division II school. This is, by all accounts, a genuinely painful decision for Young.
    3378. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) posted on February 07, 2013 at 01:33 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    What was shocking about Alabama's getting stung by the NCAA a few years back wasn't that they were cheating, but that someone tattled on them


    Tattling (especially) in the SEC, has been fairly commonplace over the years. Fulmer was an expert at it. There are no shortage of tattling stories out there.
    3379. Pops Freshenmeyer posted on February 07, 2013 at 01:45 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Apropos of nothing (well, very little) USC signee Ty Isaac said he was offered a car when visiting one of the schools recruiting him.

    Re: Ole Miss; one of their five star recruits tweeted a picture of a bunch of $100s on a coffee table a few weeks ago. Obviously there is nothing to specifically relate that to recruiting. Clemson kids used to be notorious for posting pics of themselves holding wads of cash. It might have just been a "thing" among their recruits to consider posing with money to be cool but it certainly has made people wonder.
    3380. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 07, 2013 at 02:56 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    And Florida beats out hated rival Eckerd College for Trevon Young.
    3381. Pops Freshenmeyer posted on February 07, 2013 at 04:22 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    And Florida beats out hated rival Eckerd College for Trevon Young.

    Florida won the battle but Eckerd is going to neg recruit the #### out of UF's prospects next year.
    3382. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on February 07, 2013 at 04:40 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Florida won the battle but Eckerd is going to neg recruit the #### out of UF's prospects next year.


    Those arrogant Eckerdians have to be put in their place one of these days.
    3383. Pops Freshenmeyer posted on February 07, 2013 at 05:19 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Whoa, the kid whose mom ran off with his LOI got his dad to sign it and now his mom is hiring a lawyer.
    3384. Liver of blaspheming 'zop posted on March 06, 2013 at 07:37 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Double Post
    3385. Liver of blaspheming 'zop posted on March 06, 2013 at 07:38 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0



    Well, ####: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0056805
    3386. zenbitz posted on March 07, 2013 at 02:08 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    PLOS-One is an odd place to publish that.
    3387. you got a STEAGLES? you're gonna need a STEAGLES. posted on April 24, 2013 at 04:21 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    i'm not really a huge recruiting guy, but in the last week penn state has gotten a pair of 4* WRs for their 2014 recruiting class. that follows this year's class which has the top HS QB, the 2nd ranked JC QB, and the 2nd ranked TE in the country.


    it seems to me that if they can keep the coach from bolting to the NFL and pull off another 8-win season this year, they might actually look pretty good by the time the sanctions run out.
    3388. Weekly Journalist_ posted on April 24, 2013 at 04:34 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The Rutgers rivals board is in full meltdown over Godwin going to Penn State. They really thought he was in the bag.

    3389. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) posted on April 24, 2013 at 05:19 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Why is there such indignation over the name of the 'College Football Playoff'. Who ####### Cares what it is called? Of course I'm outraged at the thought of a college football playoff to begin with, but the name of it? Ooh yeah, the NBA Playoffs/NBA Finals is soooo much better.

    Maybe, Godwin wants to play in the Big Ten? No, wait...
    3390. Weekly Journalist_ posted on May 16, 2013 at 08:42 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Rutgers 2014 schedule

    Saturday, August 30 - TBA (speculation is UConn or Syracuse)
    Saturday, September 6 - Howard
    Saturday, September 13 - Penn State
    Saturday, September 20 - at Navy
    Saturday, September 27 Tulane
    Saturday, October 4 - Michigan
    Saturday, October 18 - at Ohio State
    Saturday, October 25 - at Nebraska
    Saturday, November 1 - Wisconsin
    Saturday, November 15 - Indiana
    Saturday, November 22 - at Michigan State
    Saturday, November 29 - at Maryland

    So we get the east slate PLUS Nebraska and Wisconsin form the west. Wow. Welcome to the Big Ten!!
    3391. Every Inge Counts posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Pre-season magazines coming out now. Most of them seem to have Alabama winning their 4th national title in 5 years.

    3392. madvillain posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    So we get the east slate PLUS Nebraska and Wisconsin form the west. Wow. Welcome to the Big Ten!!


    That is a brutal schedule but alas only Michigan and O$U are recruiting at a top 10 level nationally (top 5 really for those two) so in a few years the MSU's and Whiskys and PSU (sanctions gonna hurt the numbers game) won't be so bad.

    But yea, the B1G is a helluva basketball conference and a mediocre FB one, but that's a murderer's row, even with the mediocrity.

    Michigan is starting to pull elite kids out of Jersey, including JBB and everyone's favorite Jabrill Peppers, Can't help but wonder if the new eastern footprint is helping out with the families -- "hey you can come see us in NJ when Michigan visits!".
    3393. you got a STEAGLES? you're gonna need a STEAGLES. posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That is a brutal schedule but alas only Michigan and O$U are recruiting at a top 10 level nationally (top 5 really for those two) so in a few years the MSU's and Whiskys and PSU (sanctions gonna hurt the numbers game) won't be so bad.
    i wouldn't be so sure of that. time will tell, but if they get elite QB play, that makes up for a whole hell of a lot of other deficiencies.

    also, fwiw, PSU has rolled over a few scholarships from year to year by taking advantage of early-enrollment, so there's not as much of a crunch as you'd think. they're still relatively limited, but they do have some wiggleroom if they get a surprise commit.

    3394. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    its not like other teams in the big ten can recruit Jersey, no way Mike Rozier, Irving Fryar or Ron Dayne would go anywhere else except UM or tOSU.
    3395. Weekly Journalist_ posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    3392]
    Don't ignore the flipside though. Rutgers landed a four star QB from Michigan this year. That NEVER would have happened.

    Michigan and OSU have always been players for Jersey kids who were national caliber recruits.
    3396. Weekly Journalist_ posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    But yeah, Peppers stings, even though he only ever paid lip service to Rutgers. This is after two straight years of getting the top Jersey recruit (Savon Huggins, Darius Hamilton).

    its pretty funny to compare Wisky's and Rutgers' schedules for '14 and '15.
    3397. Weekly Journalist_ posted 6 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Wait, Huggins and Hamilton were two and three years ago, respectively. I forgot about last season's mediocre class. Suffice to say that Flood is not recruiting as well as Schiano in New Jersey.
    3398. Cowboy Popup posted 5 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Flood is absolutely not the coach Rutgers need right now for their transition to the big ten. If they don't wise up on him quickly he will give back all the gains schiano racked up over the last decade. Being hyper conservative on offense and expecting your d to give up 10 points a game will get them a 4-8 record.
    3399. TerpNats posted 5 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Maryland's recruiting has improved since the Big Ten announcement; the Terrapins are finally shedding themselves of the weak ACC football stigma. The key question is whether Edsall can take advantage of the better talent -- if not, Maryland at least should have more resources available to finally hire a legit big-time coach.
    3400. Every Inge Counts posted 5 days ago #  hit 0 | hit 0

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