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They better.

Well yeah, you can find any opinion you are looking for on the Internet. Anyone that thinks he should be kicked off the team for that alone are complete morons. In a vacuum, my initial thought was Holden would be suspended for 1 game, or perhaps the first half of the next game. What is appropriate is always debatable. I know in the NFL players have been caught spitting on other players and they have received minor fines (relative to their astronomical salaries), with no suspension.

On the surface, that seems like an excessive punishment to me. Of course, there are other things that go on behind the scenes that can influence the outcome, which is why I will just trust whatever the coaches decide is appropriate.

Trench Monster U.

It is truly amazing. Hopefully they stay healthy.

That isn't how the penalty works. The penalty is assessed prior to the kick, meaning the Ducks were kicking from the 50 yard line rather than the 35. The penalty is not assessed after the team recovers the ball.

If you watched Arizona State vs. UCLA last season, you saw Dillingham taking advantage of these penalty/clock rules in their upset of UCLA. It wasn't the exact same situation (Dillingham was more blatant, taking penalty after penalty in order to waste 90+ seconds of clock), but there is no doubt that Lanning is aware of, and has put a lot of thought into, how to use all of these nuanced rules to his advantage. Of course, that doesn't automatically mean everything that happens has a purpose, rather than being a mistake, but in this particular instance, I think it is much more likely than not that it was intentional. Well done Dano.

Yep, I was on the Cam Train also. The only concern with him was being mistake prone, but I felt it was well worth the risk and that the Oregon offensive structure would clean up most of that. That being said, it worked out fine with Gabriel. Dillon is probably the safer choice, but Cam has the higher ceiling physically.

No, it isn't the least bit certain that LSU is better than Boise State. LSU just got beat up by the Nicholls Colonels in the trenches. The Nicholls running back, who isn't even in the same universe as the Boise State running back, ran for 145 yards on a 5.8 ypc average. LSU as a team rushed for 68 yards with 3.2 ypc. Boise State would have an excellent shot at beating LSU on a neutral field.

You mean they are talking about the numerous high profile matchups over the weekend, rather than Oregon vs. Idaho? Yeah, that is the way it works. I couldn't even tell you who Ohio State played without looking it up. Most people across the country aren't going to care much about an Oregon game until they play Ohio State.

The United States might not lose a game in the Olympics with amateurs for one reason....they likely wouldn't qualify for the Olympics at all. No, I am not joking. Simply qualifying for the Olympics at all is particularly difficult in Europe and North/South America (and becoming increasingly more difficult in the other continents as well) due to the limited number of qualifier slots available for those continents. Think if the US tried to send only college athletes to the Olympics in all sports, how competitive would they be? Any of these sports in the Olympics (volleyball, water polo, soccer, etc.),...there isn't a single team sport they would not get crushed in if they sent only college players. Some may think it is different for basketball, which is one of the most popular/competitive sports internationally, but it isn't. Of course, since the United States is hosting the next Olympics, they automatically qualify for every team sport regardless, even if they went the amateur route.

No worries. It was brought up so often during Doug Collins' broadcast career that the year is ingrained in my memory. For a trip down memory lane, here is an interesting look at the controversy surrounding that ending.

The controversial ending was in the 1972 Olympics. But yeah, those days are long gone. A group of college players thrown together wouldn't even be competitive on the international stage these days.

The US would not win a single game with amateurs.

The recruiting sites aren't in the business of predicting when/if recruits will show up at the schools they sign with (for whatever reason, including missions...kids can change their minds when it comes to that also), so they always count towards the class they sign with, regardless. A signee doesn't count towards the scholarship limit until they actually enroll in school and become part of the team. Needless to say, the whole mission aspect makes this verbal far less impactful than it otherwise would have been.