This Offseason Has Sucked: 2016 Edition

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2017 College Football Championship Odds: Alabama Favored

 

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Football could be on the chopping block at Eastern Michigan University.

HBO revealed Tuesday that the athletic department has lost $52 million over the past two years, while ranking last in FBS football attendance. And on Wednesday, the Eagles' administration admitted it's been re-evaluating the program for a while now.

"We have been thinking about and analyzing our overall academic and athletic expenditures for at least the last several months," Eastern Michigan regent Jim Stapleton told CBS Detroit. "Any decisions made won't be because of HBO. You don't have to be Kirk Herbstreit or Desmond Howard to know we have a problem with our football program."

An Eastern Michigan economics professor dropped an estimate that's pretty damning evidence as to why the program should be disbanded. The professor claims students pay an annual athletic tax of $1,000 per year for a football team that hasn't posted a winning season in more than 20 years.

 

[Wild Turkey]

How do you lose 52 million over 2 years? That is an outrageous amount and I question the validity of it unless it includes some large facility expansion costs.

 

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2017 College Football Championship Odds: Alabama Favored

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Baylor is getting wwwaaaayyyyy too much love to begin with this year IMO. They lost a ton on both lines.

 

[KnightAndDay]

Baylor is getting wwwaaaayyyyy too much love to begin with this year IMO. They lost a ton on both lines.

Baylor's been overrated for the past 5-6 years.

 

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Florida is the best school in the country at producing NFL draft busts

It’s almost impossible to predict NFL draft busts. While not a perfect indicator of future success, the school a prospect attends seems to be one of the more significant factors. With that in mind, we took a look back at the last 15 years of NFL draft busts and broke them down by school. Here are the results…

 

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Cal LB Hardy Nickerson to join his father at Illinois

Nickerson the younger announced on his Twitter account Thursday he will join his father at Illinois, where he was hired last month as defensive coordinator. The pair was previously in close proximity; the son in Berkeley as a Golden Bears linebacker and the father in Santa Clara as the Niners’ linebackers coach.

Nickerson will graduate from California and receive immediate eligibility at Illinois.

 

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USC O-line gets stuck in elevator. Cries.


















8 USC linemen got stuck in a hot elevator and cried, tweeted and rapped about it

 

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The Firemen aren't helping much Jimmy!

 

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Celebrate Ole Miss 4/25 day. Smoke dope and jump out a window.

 

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Sporting News early top 25:

Alabama deserves No. 1 until someone — anyone — dethrones Crimson Tide

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Oklahoma
4. Ohio State
5. Baylor
6. Florida State
7. Ole Miss
8. Michigan
9. Stanford
10. Notre Dame
11. Michigan state
12. LSU
13. Tennessee
14. Houston
15. USC
16. Oklahoma State
17. Iowa
18. North Carolina
19. Oregon
20. Georgia
21. Washington
22. Louisville
23. Arkansas
24. Texas
25. TCU

 

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Hokies indefinitely suspend Adonis Alexander, Houshun Gaines

The first-year Virginia Tech head coach announced in a release Tuesday that he has indefinitely suspended cornerback Adonis Alexander (pictured) and defensive endHoushun Gaines from the Hokies football program. The punitive measures come a couple of days after Fuente had put the finishing touches on his first spring with the Hokies.

Not surprisingly, no explanation was offered up for the move by the coach, although there appears to be legal reasons behind the twin suspensions.

 

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2019 Florida-Miami opener in Orlando made official

In a press release Tuesday afternoon, Florida confirmed that it will open the 2019 football season against Miami. The release adds that “[t]he Camping World Kickoff is scheduled for college football’s opening weekend at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, which as part of a new naming rights deal, will be known as Camping World Stadium starting Wednesday.”

A specific date and time has yet to be set.

 

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2016 LaTech signee the alleged shooter in armed robbery

According to the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial, David Beasley was one of four men arrested early Saturday morning after another male was allegedly shot during the course of a robbery outside of a convenience store. “Beasley, 18, is allegedly the person who shot the 20-year-old victim, Police Detective Mike Sweeney said in a probable cause affidavit that was presented in district court Monday,” the Commercial wrote. The alleged victim picked Beasley out of a photo lineup and identified him as the shooter.

Beasley has been charged with first-degree battery and aggravated robbery, both of which are felonies.

 

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They set aside half of the stadium as a "smoking" section, complete with free Chips, Crackers, and Pizza delivery, and they would sell out in half a day.

Snoop Dogg could be their new mascot with a student section called the Dogg Pound.

Instead of Wisconsin's "Jump Around" before the 4th quarter, they'd play Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier".