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The 2013 SABR Analytics Conference will be held Thursday, March 7 through Saturday, March 9, 2013, in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.

Thursday’s programming will be held at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, 555 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004.

Friday and Saturday’s programming will be held at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, 340 North 3rd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004.

Joe Posnanski and Bill James are among the featured speakers, and there ...

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1. Milon de Floss posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

West Virginia just scored again.

2. Quaker posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:48 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Did you mean offseason, not postseason?

3. Forsch 10 From Navarone (Dayn)

posted on January 13, 2012 at 10:57 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Derp. Yeah, I meant offseason.

4. Cowboy Popup posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Some way too early preseason rankings:

ESPN (Schlabach)

CNNSI (Staples)

CBSSports (McMurphy)

Boise St. has a pretty severe drop, and is excluded from one of them. Only Schlabach is still buying what FSU is selling (#8), although they are ranked in all the polls. WVU has gotten a huge bump due to the Orange Bowl performance. They all love LSU, USC, Oregon, Bama, and Arkansas next year (who can blame em?). Should be another exciting year in the SEC West.

5. Spivey posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'm a homer, but I think Texas is getting badly underrated in these - quarterback is an issue but they should be good to elite at every other position. I also think Michigan State is getting substantially overrated. I really don't see them as a title contender without Cousins.

6. Barry`s_Lazy_Boy posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

MSU definitely overrated. Different team without Cousins.

7. Forsch 10 From Navarone (Dayn)

posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I also think Michigan State is getting substantially overrated. I really don't see them as a title contender without Cousins.

Maybe, but that defense is going to be one of the best in the nation.

8. Cowboy Popup posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'm a homer, but I think Texas is getting badly underrated in these - quarterback is an issue but they should be good to elite at every other position.

I think Texas is probably going to better then their ranking next year too, but I'm glad to see the polls are intent on making them earn their way back up. After going 13-12 the last two years, they should have to win some ball games before they get back to the top ten or so.

Sparty has Boise and ND on the OOC schedule, both at home though. They get OSU and Nebraska at home and have to go to Wisconsin and Michigan. That's a tough schedule, even with most of the big games at home, to break in a new QB. I guess we will find out how well Dantonio has been recruiting.

9. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:52 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

corrected link For ESPN/ Schlabach

10. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) posted on January 13, 2012 at 04:26 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

When is the national title game? I kinda stopped paying attention a month ago with the conference title games. Don't they usually play it on New Year's Day?

Just kidding. Sorta.

11. Every Inge Counts posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Darron Thomas is leaving Oregon early....kind of shocking really.

Alabama will probably be like the 2010 version of the team, which was still very good and have another veteran team ready for 2013.

12. William Satterwhite posted on January 15, 2012 at 04:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Darron Thomas is leaving Oregon early....kind of shocking really.

Seems like a situation where he knows his stock probably isn't going to get any higher no matter how well he performs and could actually go down if he slips up or gets injured and Bryan Bennett takes his job.

13. Weekly Journalist_ posted on January 15, 2012 at 08:36 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'm glad this thread got bumped, because it's time to go back to the subject that made the CFB thread blow up in the first place.

This is really just pathetic from St. Joe...

" Paterno told columnist Sally Jenkins that his graduate assistant withheld the specifics of what he said he saw Jerry Sandusky doing that day in 2002.
“And to be frank with you, I don’t know that it would have done any good, because I never heard of, of, rape and a man,” Paterno said. “So I just did what I thought was best. I talked to people that I thought would be, if there was a problem, that would be following up on it.”"

WTF. This guy is a devout Catholic and he is unfamiliar with boy buggery? BS.

In any case, repeat after me....Joe Pa knew Sandusky was a child molester. Joe Pa knew Sandusky was a child molester, etc.

That being the case, he really is tarnished forever.

Also, he is calling McQueary a perjurer. I suppose it's possibly that McQ said something like "I saw Sandusky sodomizing a boy in the locker room" and Joe Pa had know idea what sodomizing meant.

14. gef the talking mongoose posted on January 15, 2012 at 09:25 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

WTF. This guy is a devout Catholic and he is unfamiliar with boy buggery? BS.

As a devout Catholic, he probably just doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. Or he's exceptionally good at denial.

Not that those are mutually exclusive, of course.

15. Every Inge Counts posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Biggest thing before signing day is the assistant coach carousel. I think Auburn had a nice grab with Brian Van Gorder as their DC. Supposedly Alabama has hired Doug Nussmeier as their OC.

16. Howie Menckel posted on January 15, 2012 at 11:29 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Paterno is an Ivy League graduate (Brown).

This is an award Penn St offers:

"The Reverend Thomas Bermingham, S.J. Scholarship in the Classics was created by Penn State's football coach, Joe Paterno, honoring his high school Latin teacher. The Bermingham Scholarship provides recognition and financial assistance to full-time Penn State undergraduate students enrolled or planning to enroll in Greek and or Latin studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at University Park. Bermingham Scholarship are awarded on a competitive basis."

Joe in that interview came off like Seinfeld's Uncle Leo, who would act confused whenever he got caught shoplifting in the bookstore, then they'd let him go because of that...

17. Weekly Journalist_ posted on January 16, 2012 at 04:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I do think it's awesome that Joe Paterno sponsors a classics scholarship. Mirabile visu!

18. Bitter Mouse is a genre addict posted on January 16, 2012 at 05:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

What do people think of the Penn State coaching hire? Seems like hiring a sacrificial goat, if he lasts more than 2.5 years I will be stunned.

19. William Satterwhite posted on January 16, 2012 at 05:25 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

What do people think of the Penn State coaching hire? Seems like hiring a sacrificial goat, if he lasts more than 2.5 years I will be stunned.

I think it was really the best kind of hire they could have made under the circumstances and it could actually turn out to be a solid hire down the line. He's kind of anonymous but O'Brien does have a good pedigree (coaching under George O'Leary and Ralph Friedgen to go along with his current Pats work) and I think it helps that most of his previous college experience has been with schools where working conditions are less than ideal but has nevertheless had a generally successful career outside of his tenure at Duke (of course, no one except for Steve Spurrier can ever have success at Duke).

20. Every Inge Counts posted on January 17, 2012 at 04:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Good article on the new oversigning rule in the SEC. The joys of recruiting....especially in the SEC.

Saban destroys another young man's dreams

21. Zipperholes posted on January 17, 2012 at 05:02 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Had Alabama planned to grayshirt Taylor immediately after he got hurt, Taylor might have had more time to find a school willing to take him. Getting the bad news in January puts Taylor in a more difficult situation because most schools have already filled their classes. By the same token, no other schools recruited Taylor hard after his injury.

I don't necessarily agree with Staples's argument. Maybe Taylor didn't entertain other offers because he expected to enroll at Alabama in 2012. Now, because Saban waited until four months after Taylor's injury to inform him he would be greyshirted, other schools that have since filled their classes won't be able to offer him a spot.

22. Every Inge Counts posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:13 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Looks like Joe Paterno is going to die pretty soon. Much like Bear Bryant, coaching may have been something that kept him going....

23. Tripon posted on January 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Joe Paterno passed away today. He was 85 years old. http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-me-joe-paterno-20120123,0,5151888.column

24. Bitter Mouse is a genre addict posted on January 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Paterno's story this year feels like a Greek tragedy, complete with heroic qualities leavened with giant flaws and hubris in all directions. And of course the final act of destruction followed by death.

I am not making light of the whole thing, though, or at least not trying to.

25. Bitter Mouse is a genre addict posted on January 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A question for Harveys - or others connected to Wisconsin Football: What is up with your program and the exodus of coaches?

26. Cowboy Popup posted on January 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Kelly to the Bucs? Am I crazy for be being scared about Oregon coming after Holgorsen if Kelly leaves?

27. Every Inge Counts posted on January 22, 2012 at 10:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

28. Cowboy Popup posted on January 22, 2012 at 10:52 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I think Oregon is going to be on probation or some sort of trouble...there has to be a reason that Kelly leaves for a NFL job with 10 days to go before recruiting is over, especially a job that has been open for a while.

That makes sense. Especially in the wake of Darron Thomas' surprising jump to the NFL.

Edit: But if the ESPN twitter feed is to be believed, Oregon doesn't believe the sanctions will be that bad.

29. Edmundo got dem ol' Kozma blues again mama

posted on January 22, 2012 at 11:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Paterno's story this year feels like a Greek tragedy, complete with heroic qualities leavened with giant flaws and hubris in all directions. And of course the final act of destruction followed by death.

Truth, and until my fellow alums come to understand this, the University will not recover.

30. smileyy posted on January 22, 2012 at 11:18 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Not suprising that Ivan Maisel performs some sort of necrophilia on Joe Paterno:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7487990/joe-paterno-penn-state-legacy-more-scandal

The 409 victories, while record-setting, are not the full measure of the man. The young men he left behind, the campus to which he devoted his life, a campus whose leaders shoved him aside in the panicky, feverish days after the scandal broke, also give testimony to the life of Joseph Vincent Paterno.

I guess I'm thinking of a different set of "young men he left behind" than Maisel is.

31. JJ1986 posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:29 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Greg Schiano is going to coach the Tampa Bay Bucs.

32. CFBF Hates Hyphens posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:48 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Just saw that, JJ. And my first thought was, "This might be just what Florida needs to sign Darius Hamilton on the first." Recruiting really screws up one's sense of perspective.

33. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:13 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A question for Harveys - or others connected to Wisconsin Football: What is up with your program and the exodus of coaches?

Not that surprising, at least to me. Paul Cryst was almost certainly going to take a HC job somewhere, AD Barry Alvarez definitely made it clear that he would support his candidacy for a HC job somewhere else. It was believed that if Cryst would leave, he would definitely take at least one assistant (Bostad, they were joined at hip) and he ended up having two others join him at Pitt (that rubbed some fans the wrong way). The Safeties Coach (also ST coordinator) Cross left for KU (near home), and apparently had BB, and UW support. Another coach went to ASU. I think most were caught off guard that 5 coaches (am I missing another?) took off, it implies instability, but most schools do see an off season which leads to a fair number of departures every 5 years or so. These guys all got promotions, likely more $$$ and another opportunity.

Is there something toxic about being with Brett B? I don't know, not qualified to know (not alum, just follow it closely).

34. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

OH MY GOD! BEST RECRUITING CLASS IN SCHOOL HISTORY GONE IN AN INSTANT!!

#### YOU SCHIANO I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL

35. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:21 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

SERIOUSLY I HOPE HE GETS FIRED IN TWO YEARS AND ENDS UP A DC AT NEW HAMPSHIRE. #### HIM

36. DA Baracus is gritty and hits with RISP posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:31 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Yesterday Schiano landed a 4 star recruit. Today he's leaving for the NFL. He almost certainly said things about commitment to this recruit, so he either lied through his team or he took the job on a whim. I'm guess it wasn't the former. But this isn't surprising, college coaches by and large can't be trusted.

37. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:34 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

SCHIANO SKIPPED HIS FRIEND'S FUNERAL TO NEGOTIATE

classless POS

38. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:35 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The joke is on the Bucs. Schiano's strengths are his recruiting and his father-figure like relationships with the players. Those things mean dick in the NFL. On the field of play, the Man couldn't X and O his way out of a paper bag.

39. Don Geovany Soto (chris h.) posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Weekly Journalist is Murray Chass?

40. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

post of the day on SN

"Kyle Williams officially delighted to no longer be the biggest ####### in the world."

41. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

SCHIANO NO MAN OF HONOR, MR. PRESIDENT

42. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Holy ####, it's really happening.

Welcome to Purgatory, Rutgers. This is going to make Louisville's Kragthorpe era look like the 90s Cowboys.

43. Weekly Journalist posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Congrats to florida on Hamilton.
Congrats to UConn on Brodie.
Congrats to Notre Dame on Fuller.
Congrats to Alabama on Quanzell Lambert.
Congrats to the rest of college football on all our other recruits. Enjoy the bonanza.

44. Liver of blaspheming 'zop posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Did anyone else get the chills reading Posnanski's last column on Paterno? The final paragraph was so wildly off kilter:

"I asked Paterno at one point in that last month if he hoped that people would come to see and measure his full life rather than a single, hazy event involving an alleged child molester. "It doesn't matter what people think of me," he said. "I've lived my life. I just hope the truth comes out. And I hope the victims find peace."

"A single, hazy event?" This is just so. . . bizarre.

45. DA Baracus is gritty and hits with RISP posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Weekly Journalist is Murray Chass?

Until he stopped posting in all caps, I wasn't sure if he was being sarcastic or not.

46. Bitter Mouse is a genre addict posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:56 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

#44, I was listening to sports radio earlier this week (I know) and a journalism prof from Penn State was on. After briefly mentioning the tragedy of the abused kids, he went on and on about the tragedy of Paterno's death, because he was sure JoePa would have spent the remainder of his life working tirelessly for the kids and to raise awarness about the issues. This hypothetical loss was, in his mind, clearly just a hair less significant than what those kids went through.

The whole conversation was just so surreal. It made me nauseous.

47. Every Inge Counts posted on January 26, 2012 at 01:02 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Greg Schiano to Tampa....what an odd hire. I don't think I have ever seen his name linked to NFL jobs. Man Jim Leavitt has to be pissed he got fired like he did, he might have a NFL job today.

48. Rear Admiral Piazza posted on January 26, 2012 at 01:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I feel sorry for some poor schlub of a coach who's better than Schiano but either doesn't have an aggressive agent or isn't in a major media market. For some reason, 9-4 at Rutgers is considered impressive by somebody.

(I suspect the financial issues that the Glazers have made getting a college coach more appealing, but have the terms of the contract been announced?)

49. DA Baracus is gritty and hits with RISP posted on January 26, 2012 at 01:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I feel sorry for some poor schlub of a coach who's better than Schiano but either doesn't have an aggressive agent or isn't in a major media market.

Or have Bill Belichick rant about him all year.

50. Rear Admiral Piazza posted on January 26, 2012 at 01:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Yesterday Schiano landed a 4 star recruit. Today he's leaving for the NFL. He almost certainly said things about commitment to this recruit, so he either lied through his team or he took the job on a whim. I'm guess it wasn't the former. But this isn't surprising, college coaches by and large can't be trusted.

Of course, recruits can't be trusted, either. They'll lie, go to camps to persuade other players to join them at another school, switch a recruitment at the last minute, and so on.

Doesn't make either one right, and the coaches are older and should know better, but it's a game, everyone knows the rules of the game. It is what it is.

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