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RE: SC/UCLA - Austroturf - 11-20-2022

(11-20-2022, 04:14 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:  
(11-20-2022, 03:27 AM)Austroturf Wrote:  U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.

Are you really hoping for this? I have bag full of F's that I am not giving about the success of $C!

I am NOT hoping for it.  As the quote says: U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.  Frankly, if they lose to the Domers and get routed by (most probably) Oregon in the Pac-12 title game, I am just fine with that.  But the Pac-12 would, once again, NOT have a team in the CFP.  I am sure the Pac-12 commissioner is sincerely hoping USC makes it.  I am simply undertaking a dispassionate analysis of the different scenarios.

RE: SC/UCLA - lex24 - 11-20-2022

(11-20-2022, 04:19 PM)Austroturf Wrote:  
(11-20-2022, 04:14 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:  
(11-20-2022, 03:27 AM)Austroturf Wrote:  U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.

Are you really hoping for this? I have bag full of F's that I am not giving about the success of $C!

I am NOT hoping for it.  As the quote says: U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.  Frankly, if they lose to the Domers and get routed by (most probably) Oregon in the Pac-12 title game, I am just fine with that.  But the Pac-12 would, once again, NOT have a team in the CFP.  I am sure the Pac-12 commissioner is sincerely hoping USC makes it.  I am simply undertaking a dispassionate analysis of the different scenarios.

If I was the PAC 12 Commissioner I’d want SC to suck.  They are leaving. Perhaps destroying the PAC-12 in the process.  I sure as hell wouldn’t be rooting for them.

RE: SC/UCLA - Austroturf - 11-21-2022

(11-20-2022, 06:43 PM)lex24 Wrote:  
(11-20-2022, 04:19 PM)Austroturf Wrote:  
(11-20-2022, 04:14 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:  
(11-20-2022, 03:27 AM)Austroturf Wrote:  U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.

Are you really hoping for this? I have bag full of F's that I am not giving about the success of $C!

I am NOT hoping for it.  As the quote says: U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.  Frankly, if they lose to the Domers and get routed by (most probably) Oregon in the Pac-12 title game, I am just fine with that.  But the Pac-12 would, once again, NOT have a team in the CFP.  I am sure the Pac-12 commissioner is sincerely hoping USC makes it.  I am simply undertaking a dispassionate analysis of the different scenarios.

If I was the PAC 12 Commissioner I’d want SC to suck.  They are leaving. Perhaps destroying the PAC-12 in the process.  I sure as hell wouldn’t be rooting for them.

Maybe.  But the money is coming in this year; and the Pac-12 commissioner could use that money after they depart.  Fact 1: they are leaving.  The commissioner can do nothing about this now.  Fact 2: if USC makes the CFP, that bumps the rest of the Pac-12 up in the bowl hierarchy.  More money for the conference.  More money is good, and SC will leave anyway.  

If I were the Pac-12 commissioner, I would want SC to suck AFTER they leave.

RE: SC/UCLA - Mick - 11-21-2022

(11-21-2022, 02:18 AM)Austroturf Wrote:  If I were the Pac-12 commissioner, I would want SC to suck AFTER they leave.

I kinda think SC will suck after they leave. Instead of playing Stanford, Cal, Arizona, ASU, the Oregons, they'll be traveling to the Midwest to get their hats handed to them by Michigan and tOSU and Penn State and Minnesota, etc. after 2,000 mile plane rides. The body clock phenomenon will work aggressively against them. USC will be a 6-6 team by 2026.

RE: SC/UCLA - Austroturf - 11-21-2022

(11-21-2022, 06:55 AM)Mick Wrote:  
(11-21-2022, 02:18 AM)Austroturf Wrote:  If I were the Pac-12 commissioner, I would want SC to suck AFTER they leave.

I kinda think SC will suck after they leave. Instead of playing Stanford, Cal, Arizona, ASU, the Oregons, they'll be traveling to the Midwest to get their hats handed to them by Michigan and tOSU and Penn State and Minnesota, etc. after 2,000 mile plane rides. The body clock phenomenon will work aggressively against them. USC will be a 6-6 team by 2026.

Agree with this.  At this stage, Big Ten teams are simply more physical than Pac-12 teams.  Jet-lag and the physicality of playing a full slate of black-and-blue teams will not be good for their record.  They might go the way of Nebraska, which never has been able to repeat the success of their Big 12 days.

RE: SC/UCLA - Maple Leaf - 11-21-2022

(11-21-2022, 01:30 PM)Austroturf Wrote:  
(11-21-2022, 06:55 AM)Mick Wrote:  
(11-21-2022, 02:18 AM)Austroturf Wrote:  If I were the Pac-12 commissioner, I would want SC to suck AFTER they leave.

I kinda think SC will suck after they leave. Instead of playing Stanford, Cal, Arizona, ASU, the Oregons, they'll be traveling to the Midwest to get their hats handed to them by Michigan and tOSU and Penn State and Minnesota, etc. after 2,000 mile plane rides. The body clock phenomenon will work aggressively against them. USC will be a 6-6 team by 2026.

Agree with this.  At this stage, Big Ten teams are simply more physical than Pac-12 teams.  Jet-lag and the physicality of playing a full slate of black-and-blue teams will not be good for their record.  They might go the way of Nebraska, which never has been able to repeat the success of their Big 12 days.

Would be very happy to see USC play Illinois at home, then play at Minnesota followed by the UCLA game. Between the battering and the frost bite they could care less about the baby bears.