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Has there ever even been a point shaving scandal in football? I don't mean just NCAA, I'm including NFL. I haven't done research so I don't know the answer, but it just seems way too complicated to pull off.

Yeah, but how about the RBs and defense? If a QB is point shaving, the D should still dominate a woefully inferior opponent. Just like the RBs should still be able to break at least one or two big runs.

Extremely doubtful. Go back and watch the scene from Blue Chips where Nick Nolte confronts the kid about point shaving. You don't throw the game, you just don't beat the spread. I think the line was something like "Point shaving was easy. We still won, I just had to make enough bad plays to...

Not really sure why. We play AC/DC, Metallica, and Rolling Stones, all of whom have much more impressive records of sex, drugs, and debauchery than Pantera. Outside of lead singer Phil Anselmo, they really not that bad of a bunch. I could see not playing "Goddamn Electric" or "F-ing Hostile,"...

I was actually hoping they would change it altogether. I love tradition, but that song came out I wanna say in 1980, 13 years before the incoming freshmen were born and probably before their parents got married. Not that it's a brand new song, but I've always thought "Walk" by Pantera would be...

Knockout because McCall's dad was a heavyweight boxing champ.

My top 5: Canzeri Hillyer McCall Raymon Law

From what I hear, they plan on restricting Denard's runs. If you recall, he was at least momentarily knocked out of almost every conference game last year. I doubt any coach wants to see his QB on the bench getting checked out that often. I haven't seen their schedule, but I feel confident...

Fox Sports doesn't even have him as a top 50 pick. Frankly, I hope he projects as a FA so we can keep him through his senior year.

You're really cool. If only the rest of us were as funny and cool as you are. So cool.

I think they'll look downfield more if we develop a second home-run threat aside from McNutt. JVB allegedly has a cannon for an arm, but if McNutt is the only one spreading the field, I doubt we take many more deep shots. I've heard that KMM and Shumpert have the ability, but they struggled...

I actually looked at that as an indictment of all the other QBs. Let's remember, the only two who played under center in college were Dalton and Stanzi. The rest will have to learn how to take a snap, 3 step drop, etc. That being said, Newton has "potential bust" written all over him...

I was actually in a really similar situation in HS. As a sophomore, I was called up to play varsity at LT but never saw much playing time. That year, we won one game. It was the season opener and the opposing team had about half of their starters ineligible due to not turning in the first...

Whitlock is a clown. He's basically the Charlie Sheen or Donald Trump of the sports writing community. Most of what he says is to get attention and to be contrarian. I don't put any stock into anything he says

We can use some context clues to flesh this out a little bit. We have two super-successful HS sprinters in our LB corps in Kirksey and Morris (not sure about Hitchens). We also have guys like Lomax and Campbell coming in, but we can't assume they'll play so for the sake of this argument I'll...

Seems like every game in the past two years we were either underdogs or on upset special.

Offensive breakout players will be Keenan Davis and CJ. Defensive breakout player will be James Morris.

Agreed, but I think it was a combination of a bad TV product and a desire to sign up more people for their online services.

That's not exactly true. You're much more likely to draw rival fans to a full game than to a practice with tons of downtime. If you were a MSU fan and tuned in on Saturday you wouldn't really be able to get any useful information. Watching the Michigan spring game, it was clear that Hoke...

I based my McNutt figure more on JVB than anything else. For a new QB, it's easy to lock onto a receiver and throw the vast majority of your passes their way. We saw that in the scrimmage, as JVB went to KD over and over. I assume KD was playing in the #2 spot, but he was still targeted a...