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  1. Hill HATES SDSU. He would never come here even if we wanted him.
  2. I know losing June Jones was tough, but will you guys PLEASE do something about that current abomination of a football program? After the success Hawaii proved it can have, what's going on now is just really hard to watch.....
  3. Troy- It's been quite a while since I've even perused the board (I used to be a regular). I just now saw your post and I'm sure like most of the others when they first read it, I'm quite shocked and saddened. Most of us who've been around awhile have sparred here and there with your dad, but it was almost always good natured fun with him (except with the Boise trolls pre-MWC admission.....he had very little patience with them and let them know it in no uncertain terms. He and Natty were pretty good like that ). Your dad was one of the few regular AFA posters, and he almost always had something intelligent, interesting, and worth reading to say. He was truly a valued member of this little community here, and he will be sorely missed. My belated condolences to you and your family for your loss.
  4. Three words: Dark Side Defense. Under Kaumeyer, SDSU had the #7 defense in the country. Unfortunately, we had Tom Craft as the head coach and offensive coordinator, which completely wiped out any positives the defense achieved. To this day, Kaumeyer's squads are revered among the Aztec faithful. As one UCLA assistant once said to me when they were preparing to play the Aztecs: "He's never met a blitz he didn't like." Excellent hire. If Norm Chow can somehow muster his magic on the offensive side of the ball, Hawaii will be REALLY good in short order.
  5. I'll take that Illinois matchup........
  6. You'll get no argument from me on that one.
  7. I'm still not ready to declare Alex Smith a bust. I think the guy has had far too many things working against him to have really had an opportunity to show what he can do. From injuries to the carousel of coaches and coordinators to the complete disaster of an offensive line he's been forced to play behind......and a coach who called him a malingerer out in public when the guy actually had a broken shoulder blade on his throwing shoulder..... The guy needs to catch a few breaks. If the offensive line can actually manage to keep him somewhat clean, and his receivers can actually catch the balls they're supposed to and he still fails......well, then the experiment should be declared officially over and we can slap the "bust" label on him. But I'm not there yet with Alex. I want to see what he can do with some stability and continuity within the 49er organization and with some actual talent around him.
  8. Actually, the knock on Gabbert is that he DOESN'T have a great arm.......Locker I think has him beat in that regard.
  9. Which is not a priority for them and will not bring them a huge boost in revenues. That is not a reason to jump to 12. Adding the Denver market, though, is a VERY good reason to expand.
  10. Well, his arguments against adding Utah make perfect sense to me, and I tend to agree on all accounts. Adding Utah seems like it would only be marginally beneficial to the Pac. Realistically the SLC market doesn't have much chance of increasing Pac 12 revenues all that significantly. Just for point of reference, whereas the SLC market (the entire state of Utah) is the 32nd ranked market in the country, the San Diego market (geographically MUCH, MUCH smaller, but much more heavily populated) ranks around 27th or 28th. SLC has a population base, according to the article, of 2.8 million people spread out over a very large geographical area. San Diego adds over 3 million people. It can be argued, however, that the Pac can already claim the San Diego market as its own. But then again, we don't get a couple of the Pac 10 networks down here (Prime Ticket, which carries a lot of the UCLA and USC games, and the Fox College Sports channels), so their games are not as widely available; we get virtually NONE of their basketball games here. I'll readily admit that from an academic standpoint--particularly from the research aspect of it--Utah is a much better fit than SDSU. That's really through no fault of SDSU's; the Cal St. system has long intentionally held us back in that regard, and things are rapidly changing. But if you look at all of the economic arguments specifically, it would appear that SDSU would be the better choice. The Hawaii argument, though, is totally and completely ridiculous. Hawaii is an awful fit academically. And you really need look no further than their commitment to their athletics program: Their facilities are so abysmal and their willingness to pour resources into the programs are so pathetic that they couldn't keep a football coach who was DESPERATE to stay! It really wouldn't have taken much for them to keep June Jones, yet they refused to give him even the most modest of requests. Couple that with the travel difficulties, and their inability to compete at just about everything else......Hawaii just isn't happening.
  11. Seriously, right! I mean, like I said elsewhere, we've got enough of our own problems without having this clown piled on. :blink:
  12. Or for the entire Final Four? :blink:
  13. AWESOME! Nice work, gentlemen! Well done! :lol:
  14. His mom must be so proud........ B)
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