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Fantastic! Excited for some postseason soccer! Great work to the team!

I can't recall ever seeing a situation where officials called a penalty, announced it, played the ball, and then (absent an official review) change their minds about the penalty altogether (as opposed to realizing a coach wanted to decline it or that they initially marked it off from the wrong...

It's amazing how fast things change. We came into the season thinking we had a brutal schedule. As it currently sits, PSU looks great, Illinois looks very solid, but (unless I missed one skimming the rankings) none of our other 10 opponents are even receiving votes.

First step to recovery is admitting you have a problem!

I like when we see the established order upset. Helps give us perspective on what is possible for non-blue bloods.

I still think our chances were less than 50%. Three realistic scenarios after the recovery that wasn't: (1) we score a TD and win in regulation; (2) we kick a field goal and go to overtime; and (3) we don't score and lose in regulation. In my opinion, with the field position and time left, we...

I love throwback jerseys. I'd be happy if we'd have a maroon jersey, a gold jersey, and then a throwback uniform for homecoming. Anything to keep the gray practice jerseys that they called "anthracite" from ever coming back.

But there's no way that one defender was going to get through!

I think you're right in incenting keeping the helmet secured properly. If it was just a game flow issue, they wouldn't need a rule, and could just say that the offense doesn't need to wait for a defensive player to put his helmet back on and the offense doesn't get any extra time other than the...

I'd love this. If B1G and SEC are going to be the dominant conferences, there will likely be a lot of arguments about which conference was tougher when comparing similar records at playoff time. Giving the conferences a bunch of head to head matchups to compare them with would be great data...

For defensive offside or 1 men on the field, since you can take the penalty without a loss of down, it feels like intent of the rule is that the offense gets to do the play over with the benefit of the 5 yard penalty. Allowing the offense to restore the clock to the start of they play seems like...

One fix would be to expand and emphasize the unfair act rule. Empower officials to, in the event of an intentional foul to gain a tactical advantage, craft a remedy that they think is sufficient to undo the advantage gained. There is a rule that says if a player jumps off the bench to tackle a...

Whatever decision the coach makes, he's trusting someone. He trusted the punt team to execute and the defense to get a quick stop. If he goes for it on fourth, he's trusting the offense to convert. His job is to evaluate the scenarios, and decide who he's going to trust and what hill he's...

That's why asking your golf partner "do you exhale at the top or bottom of your swing" is so effective!

Could just be the yips. I know it's absurd to compare D1 football to beer league softball, but one year I was on a team with no pitcher. We kept having different guys try, no one could hit the strike zone and we walked a lot of guys. One day I said "it's just lobbing a softball into a big...

Is there data or is this just a comment? It contradicts the prevailing narrative that the changes to the landscape are widening the gap between the top schools and the next tier. But I tend to think he's right.

After what happened to FSU last year, I'm convinced we could get to 9-3 and they'd take a 6-6 SEC team over us.

That's the nature of close games. Didn't have a lot of margin for error in either USC or UCLA. So one blown or made play by lots of players could have been the difference. Conversely, North Carolina and Michiga. were close losses. Bet there are a lot of individual players where a few less...

What a difference two weeks makes. Before USC, every game on the schedule felt losable, except maybe UCLA (not saying i thought we'd lose all the them, just that there was no individual game i felt confident we'd win), and we were wondering where six would come from to get to a bowl. All of a...

Hopefully we beat PSU, but if told told me we'd come away with 1 win out of those two games before the OSU game, I'd have taken it. I don't care about almost lowing a lead any more than I care about almost winning. It's competitive sports, you either win or lose (or, in some sports, tie)...