The Goat Pen

Right. I forgot what a football conference the ACC is.

I would think the B1G would only further expand into areas that are contiguous with current members. With Rutgers and Maryland joining, that would include UVA (an academic fit with what the B1G is trying to do) and that's about it. I wonder if Syracuse or Pitt are thinking they may have been a littl...

What do ACC folks think about the Maryland departure? Makes perfect sense from a Maryland perspective. It's not like playing Clemson and Wake Forest were filling up Byrd Stadium.

I don't post much anywhere really. Maybe on the Hoops Dynasty coaches corner, but that doesn't really count. Cappel even left that world recently.

I came to find De Gaulle's thoughts on the Maryland move, but find out that he's missing as well. Anyway, St. John's played Baylor tough until about the five minute mark, then forgot how to guard and shoot. Not a winning recipe. Still, that's a pretty young team that is going to get awfully good thi...

The average score was 65 on the nose per team per game on Saturday and Sunday. Not exactly a bunch of barnburners.

Look at who's left in the tournament, and with a few exceptions it's a who's who of teams that have lots of length and athleticism, but not exactly a ton of scoring prowess. Watching the USF-Ohio game was painful (though watching any USF game can be painful). Kansas has some guys who can score, but ...

Only seven of 16 games played Saturday and Sunday had the winner reaching 70 points. I've never seen more "Team X hasn't scored a FG in 5:00" or whatever scrolls at the bottom of the television screen.

Having watched two separate Kenny Frease games this weekend, I now have a better understanding of why Yancy Gates went Piston Honda on him. What a goon. I restate what I said last night: no way can Kendall Marshall play with any effectiveness this weekend. He'll 100 percent need to be wearing a cast...

If it's his scaphoid, it will literally be impossible to play through it. I had wrist pain for six months, like crippling wrist pain. No way he's playing again this year. This would be like playing through a broken leg.

I broke my wrist (scaphoid/nevicular - same as Marshall) in a pretty similar play when I was a senior in high school. I had to have a cast fully up my arm for three months, and to this day, my wrist still makes a clicking noise when I rotate it. The scaphoid is one of the seven or so bones that make...

I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but a potential Duke-ND second round matchup could earn the highest PSF factor in the history of college basketball.

Also, Hizzy passed away? How? Very sad (and I know I'm weeks late).

An NFL call that history has shown I was completely in the right about - you forgot to mention that.

Am curious how the lot of ye thought Lance Moore's two point conversion in the Super Bowl was a catch, but not a lot of folks are arguing about the Bengals play yesterday. That was about 2,839 times more of a catch than the Lance Moore play. There needs to be some plain, old common sense inserted i...

By the by, I think that if the Lance Moore play happened today, it wouldn't be a catch based on the NFL's rules for making a catch.

Am curious how the lot of ye thought Lance Moore's two point conversion in the Super Bowl was a catch, but not a lot of folks are arguing about the Bengals play yesterday. That was about 2,839 times more of a catch than the Lance Moore play. There needs to be some plain, old common sense inserted in...

Think I'm just going to bite the bullet and pick the Giants this week. According to at least one website, they have a 79.5 percent chance of winning - highest of the week - and really shouldn't be favored to win that many games at all coming down the stretch. If one is to use the Giants, this has to...

No UM-Northwestern? Should at least be an entertaining affair (not to mention the first loss of the Brady Hoke era).

It's not that I don't have other choices, I just want to save my GB and NE for later in the year. Have to take a risk somewhere. Have thought about the Giants, but dangit if I can't see them figuring out a way to lose to Seattle.

I'm also tempted to take the Lions, but even with the energy that is going to be in FOrd Field on Monday, they're so due for a letdown.