Mean Green 93-98

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She's a beaut!

The over the back call on the rebound, which then led to Hurley getting a T. A 4-point call, which was questionable at best.

They got a very nice assist from the refs there.

Very few people care about it anywhere. I'm glad when our ladies win, but WBB matters about a third of what MBB matters, and MBB matters about a third of what football matters. Not sure why this thread had to turn into an embarrassing attempt to troll a troll.

Mean Green for life! Let's go!

I never said that. The same is true of middle and smaller programs as well, and at high schools. Football players in general get away with garbage that the average student does not; and the better the player, the more they can get away with. But to say that the top programs do not care, or that they have less concern about "shady stuff" than lesser programs, is simply not true. Some particular programs at the top have let it slide far more than others, like Florida during the Urban Meyer years. Jameis Winston was the kind of player you just can't replace, so he no doubt got a lot of leeway. But none of that is specific to the elite programs. If FSU would have booted Jameis Winston, you know plenty of lower-level P5 teams and G5 teams would have offered him a scholarship in a heartbeat. I mean, we're the team that has Isheem Young on its roster, when he is clearly a top P5-level athlete.

He's never been a rah-rah, vocal leader type. He could pretty much always be described as "disengaged" on the sidelines, even when he was a key component of the starting O-line.

I assume you're talking about Cal?

How would BGSU or ULL be more interesting than WKU? I can see how ULL would be more challenging, if that's what you mean; but Bowling Green is around the same level as WKU, maybe a little below.

That is simply not true. Alabama will cut a top player in a heartbeat if they get out of line, as they just did a couple of days ago. Penn State kicked Isheem Young out of their recruiting class. Even Arkansas booted this guy right out the door that we're drooling to take back despite what he did to his teammates. Elite teams can easily replace a 5-star player who is a cancer with a 4-star who isn't. It's the lower-tiered teams that feel they have to cling to top players despite their major character/off-the-field issues.

If there's one thing this team can ill afford to lose, it's roadgrader runblocking O-linemen.

5 fabulous seasons?

You mean James Madison. But yes, you are otherwise entirely correct.

That's from the previous staff, under Tom Allen. Don't think Fuente is there anymore.