02Ram54

It was not even close to questionable. Really dumb play.

With the other candidates losing momentum (on and off the field) I'm starting to think AJ gets the "Lifetime Achievement" award.

Gee, I think "poor" is a bit strong, considering they beat three teams ranked in the top 10 and finished with one loss in the SEC. No one thought they were anything less than classic SEC tough until they lost to Louisville. Last year's Florida and this year's are different teams.

At UK, maybe, but not at Louisville. You car say that they're not being honest, but they report tickets scanned.

The 5th does indeed protect you in a courtroom from being compelled to testify against your interest, but there is no constitutional guarantee that people think highly of you. As to this case, who knows? I personally always thought Kobe was guilty of poor screening rather than rape, but that seemed to be at best a 50/50 split on this board at the time.

I'd say something, but I'm pretty sure you'd rather not hear about Cal's players (or Eddie's, or Tubby's).

It's not. From Eric Crawford.

The last thing he said, about not worrying about his image because he's still the same person no matter how he's perceived, is a really healthy attitude IMO for someone who becomes suddenly famous, so I hope that it is true and remains true.

I don't write this stuff for my health, you know, the least you could do is read it.

On the Chane stuff, he's absolutely right. Some people should have maybe checked whether there might be more than one Chris Washington in a metro area of 1.3 million people.

With whom? And when? And where? The other top teams were already scheduled for their big event, and I don’t think a lot of teams after the elite tier are eager to play the mostly returning defending national champions in the first few weeks of the season. Louisville tried to get something worked out with IU, but Dwight isn’t interested. Louisville can’t play in Atlantis/Maui every year. They SHOULD get a chalk game against UNC on a neutral floor (who, again, was supposed to be pretty good) and I’m pretty sure later in the year they have a game against what I’ve heard is the greatest assemblage of basketball talent since Jordan defended the planet Earth with Bugs and Daffy. They play Western, then at FIU in what was supposed to be a more meaningful game when the contract was signed, and then the afore-alluded to unstobale basketball force, on their home turf no less; then it’s on to conference play. To recap: Who? Not Indiana. Not other marquee teams who had no room to play the Cards, and I don’t think Louisville looked like an attractive dance partner to teams outside of the elite, especially since… When? Louisville would only have had room for an early game. UNC is this Sunday, then they have Southern Miss (good not great last year, really a hard luck team that I felt like were a couple of bounces outside of the tournament, even ignoring how that is literally true as they lost in overtime against Memphis in the C-USA tournament), then after a pair of actual cupcakes it’s WKU, cupcake, contracted game @FIU, @UK and on to conference games. Where? Louisville plays UNC in Connecticut and Kentucky in Lexington. WKU is the home headliner until 2014. Outside of maybe IU in Indianapolis, Louisville would have wanted that game at the Yum, which compounds with the above: if you’re a team like Ohio State, do you really want to play at Louisville a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, when you could play Marquette instead and get plenty of big-game hype in the B1G anyway? If you’re Marquette, haven’t you had quite enough of playing Louisville lately, anyway, and maybe it can be someone else’s’ turn?

Personally, I see an "It Factor" with these guys that not even last year's champions had. Last year, they really fed off the press, and at times played with a clear desire to impose their will on the other team; these Cards play like they NEED to dominate their opponents. Just a different group persona. I guess it probably has a lot to do with Siva and Dieng’s personalities as team leaders last year, as opposed to Trezl and Russ.

According to Jody Demling, the info about Chane is wrong. It's not the same Chris Washington that works at Nelligan.

I have an entertaining story involving a young 02Ram54, a 1991 Toyota Corolla, a Full Grown Bear, and the Western Kentucky Parkway at 1:00 AM.

No, Kevin Ware was not Super-Secret-Suspended over the summer for driving too fast in October.

So I guess you see: South- Kansas West- Arizona Midwest- KY East- Louisville To be clear, my list wasn't predictive, I just meant at this moment.

Right now, I would actually fill out the top 2 for each as: Midwest (Indianapolis) 1) Michigan State (Top overall) 2) Ohio State East (NYC) 1) Louisville 2) Duke West (Anaheim) 1) Arizona 2) OK State South (Memphis) 1) Kansas 2) Kentucky

That top 4 would be pretty convenient for the tournament committee as far as filling out the top lines.

Coaches Poll: 1. Michigan State (22) 789 2. Louisville (8) 761 3. Kansas (2) 735 4. Arizona 684 5. Kentucky 658

Also, the unit that Strong actually involves himself with (the defense) is playing very well. I don't think Strong can sleep-walk to holding Houston to 13 points, especially with the field position our special teams surrenders.

Not really. Resembles who he's been from day one, in regards to bottom line messaging and publicly supporting his staff. The cover is just gossamer-thin in this case.

I love Coach Strong, but that's just garbage. Houston had no business scoring 13 points and having a chance to win the game at the end of the 4th quarter against this team. The offense isn't just not entertaining--it's predictable, and not getting the job done. I'm not just talking about the pass-to-run ratio. I'm talking about specific plays and down-and-distance tendencies, things my wife is pointing out from the stands. I recognize the problem with the line, but at some point they need to realize that they're trying to keep Teddy in a case that says "Break Only In Case of Emergency" and that just isn't going to cut it. In fact, more likely than not Teddy will play behind a bad offensive line next year as well, facing much scarier defenses. Babying him isn't going to make that transition any easier.

1st quarter 4:26 tied at 7

Your average comes out even higher than mine (I was including this season's salary, which I agree is ereoneous) By your calculation, Louisville is paying Strong $4.8 million per year through 2016. Retention bonuses aren't rare, but $3.25 million in the first three years of the contract is well outside the norm.

His LOI is in. He's a Card.