2011 College Football Thread

[MDS]

For me, its simply the fact that my name is attached to it that makes me work hard.  I don't care if it's school, athletics or digging holes in the ground.  I don't even care if there's some sort of payoff at the end.  If the body of work is going to be identified as mine, then I'm going to put the effort in to make sure it represents me the best way possible.  That isn't intelligence.  It's pride and self respect and the only person who can give that to you is yourself. 

dont think about yourself and how you were raised

think about the environments these kids are coming from. they dont have the same mindset as you did, they dont have the same values and didnt have the same upbringing.

culture raises children. its how you become who you are. and a lot of the cultures in america fail their children.

my middle class jewish one didnt. your (working class military?) didnt either. thats why we contribute to society (sort of, for me) and thats why failed college athletes dont.

[Sgt PSN]

It's actually got nothing to do with how I was raised.  My parents never had any conversations with me about taking pride in my work.  They never had too.  Maybe I was just "born with it."  It's not a complicated issue imo.  You either care about your work or you don't.  I don't understand how a person can take pride in doing one thing but not another.  School, athletics, whatever....it's just one challenge after another and another opportunity for me to compete.   

[MDS]

you were raised in an environment where education was taken seriously from the parents to the teachers. you didnt go to schools where kids bring shivs and uzis and where the textbooks are from 1955. where a day of zero violence and zero arrests is a great day.

other people were.

they only thing they can think of is hitting it rich in the pros. thats how they think theyre gonna do. look at allen iverson. no one worked harder on the court than that little dude. but lets just say he didnt work "as hard" in the classroom. why? why the farg you think.

[Sgt PSN]

And you know about my upbringing and where I went to school because.....??

[MDS]

lets just say that i know you werent raised in west baltimore or southwest philly

[ice grillin you]

i know this is bball but speaking of aau check out these three squads....who is the best?

A
greg oden
mike conley
josh mcroberts
dequan cook
eric gordon

B
dwight howard
josh smit
randolph morris
javaris crittendon

C
ron artest
lamar odom
elton brand
eric barkley

[Sgt PSN]

A. They have 5 players.

[ice grillin you]

yeah everyone had 10 guys...but because they had a fifth guy who was worthy of inclusion...i put it in there

[Sgt PSN]

Rest the Vest

[SD]

A. They have 5 players.

lol

[Don Ho]

USC just stripped of 2004 National Championship.  Go Reggie!

[ice grillin you]

guess who still won the 2004 national championship

[Don Ho]

The BCS ruling vacated the results of the 2005 Orange Bowl -- the national title game for 2004 -- as well as the Trojans participation in the 2006 Rose Bowl, in which USC lost to Texas, 41-38, in the championship game.
As a result of the BCS's Presidential Oversight Committee ruling, there will be no BCS national champion in the record book for the 2004-05 season.

[Sgt PSN]

I could have sworn they did this months ago.  Or was that just them taking Reggie's Heisman? 

[PhillyPhreak54]

That shtein is farging stupid.

Taking away wins and championships and awards is crap.