2001mark
-
Posts
4,016 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Posts posted by 2001mark
-
-
On 30/11/2016 at 4:57 PM, CLEstones said:
Debating if I want to post my College Football realignment idea, thus solving all of the CFP issues. But I'm also about 14 teams away from having a 64 team College Football Redesign done, that has easily taken me 16+ months, and would like to submit them as a group. Decisions.
March Madness style tourney might be inevitable for NCAAF, though not soon. Losers would relegate to conference play & regular bowl invites, while winners continue onwards home field advantage until Final Four as we have it neutral fields.
I would mandate 4 super conferences for that tourney based yearly on geography alone. USC & UCLA top 2 in the nation? Tough. 1 & 2 seeds in the Pacific/Western bracket.
-
Here's a doozy... I actually really like the LA Clipper's centre court bright white (not the logo)... the white really stands out neatly & bright. Their future logo should incorporate a white basketball &/or that white as primary colour.
Video game shot, yet I couldn't find tv shots of it nor did the template do it quite justice.
-
Coach Casey for coach of the year. Sure the Raps are just playing to warm up for the postseason, but they could also be scraping by. Some of these score run ups tell me they're playing whistle to whistle, no holds barred.
-
4 hours ago, DG_Now said:
I gave up on SI.com when they did their major responsive redesign, and I haven't really been back. Everything about the site turned to garbage, and it basically unusable.
I thought it was an improvement, even if they're lazy & won't turn off auto vid play. That's still a get off my lawn pov from me, because I don't wanna waste usage on vids I don't want or need. They've at least made it a whole lot simpler to pause & vanish vids, enabling better reading experience.
Alas, I've noticed their headlines are becoming more clickbaitish. Other than a handful of headline games/stories, most of the home page is dotted with clickbait. MLS semi finals & they were still flooding about USMNT stuff - what ifs, hindsight bs, potential cuts/lineups/etc. That needs to stop.
-
10 hours ago, MadmanLA said:
Yeah, I agree...Turner's relationship with Bleacher Report has gradually killed SI.
I can usually hover over a link to see if it's sending me to the FanSided garbage, yet there's been times when there's a bait & switch with terminology.
The issue I have isn't so much that I can't avoid it anymore, it's that si.com simply enables it, on their home page, near the top of headlines.
ESPN.com is all white noise to me, I've been an si.com reader/user(?) since their first few months online- I was a mag subscriber back in the day, I was along when they began promoting their digital footprint via print. I'll surely be with si.com until the end, for better or worse.
-
si.com's linkage with FanSided is horrible. Spam & clickbait from headline links is pathetic.
-
1939 Grey Cup in Ottawa, groundskeepers poured on the field & lit on fire 400 gallons of gasoline to remedy the frozen field. It didn't help for the next day's game & Ottawa wasn't awarded host duties again until 1967.
-
5
-
-
-
Is it weird that I like the graphics of that chart?
-
On 14/11/2016 at 4:57 PM, BlackBolt3 said:
Gotta bring this back just to show y'all Cris Collinsworth just murdered Bill Simmons on Twitter (yes he deleted it but still):
Collinsworth is Bill's latest guest on his podcast... soo... invalid a bit this charade.
-
42 minutes ago, Cujo said:
Never understood the popularity of Bill Simmons. Can somebody fill me in on what makes him so great?
While I don't think he's great on some pedestal, unlike most every single other voice in sports, Bill doesn't have to cater to a party line. Nearly everyone else on an island is a scream yoke like Stephen A. or Bayless. Cowherd is plain & talks too much, I grew out of Rome's schtick.
That, & I enjoy much of his rolodex, namely Chuck Klosterman, Malcolm Gladwell, & Cousin Sal.
-
Edmonton Oilers' orange unis look better in their new brighter arena. Their blues should be secondary.
-
3 hours ago, kroywen said:
2005: After years of flagging attendance, the Montreal Expos relocate to Washington, renaming themselves the Washington Nationals.
I was about to suggest perhaps not had the '81 Expos not lost to the NY Dodgers, yet I see the Dodgers' 36 wins was still more than the 1st half leading Phillies, so they might've lost even earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_baseball#Second_half_of_season
-
1 hour ago, BrianLion said:
The Texans have the worst, most generic identity in the NFL.
I still say the Bills hold that crown.
-
9 minutes ago, the admiral said:
I like Harold Reynolds because he always seems to be genuinely happy to be doing what he's doing. I mean, he rarely provides any insight beyond the most superficial observations, but contrast with the insipid thoughts we got from Joe Buck and Tim McCarver all those years without half the joie de vivre.
I wasn't watching but twitter is enjoying him calling Kershaw's 12-6 curve as a cutter, twice in the same ab.
They also enjoyed his 'no way he's pitching tonight' on Kershaw's walk to the bullpen.
-
Harold Reynolds: "This is a big half-inning." (it's a 1-run game in the 9th inning of game 5)
-
1
-
-
I've rather enjoyed Ernie Johnson doing play by play for TBS this post-season. His is a quieter yet entertaining voice all the same. Not always the sharpest baseball eye, yet it's his lack of hijacking the game with boastful announcing which makes that tolerable. He tends to sound like his priority is enjoying the game he's calling. That's a very welcome trait.
-
Big 12 dissolve into the other 4 power confs, get a move on the 4 super confs. Jigger some geographic logic if we must, just get on with it.
-
2 hours ago, CS85 said:
Jesh, nearly a deal with the devil that - trading your career's voice for more transplanted hair.
-
Some team should just come out with an all white home set.
Numbers only. No trim, no names, no logos, no nothing.
-
Troy Aikman has got to cease talking all the way until the next snap. Every f'n play. Or he just needs to be demoted. Or fired.
'I asked Russ about that earlier this week. He says he wasn't sure, but he's gonna go out there & try those patterns with these select few guys they brought in late spring.' {ball snap}
stfu
-
FIFA realignment:
Oceania:
Canada
New Zealand
Atlantis
Wonder Woman's home island
Smurf Village
Easter Island
The island from LOST
Then maybe we'd have a f'n chance at a f'n result every f'n once in a f'n blue f'n moon.
-
3 hours ago, dfwabel said:
Or to bring it back, if you had 120 schools, which eight schools would you cut?
80 would be nice, except once those 4 super regional conferences launched, everyone else would be left beyond in the dust. I don't think such an inevitable macro/national realignment would want to leave anyone in the ditch- we're still talking about amateur collegiate athletics here.
It'd be those 4 FBS conferences & barely any other program alive.
I thought about promotion/relegation, which could also be a slim possibility.
-
7 hours ago, BlackBolt3 said:
Counterpoint to moving it away from Charlotte:
If you move the game to a location that isn't centralized, this is the risk you run.
I think it's an ACC non-concern which is more of a pride thing for me than it. It just seems ridiculous that they're still seen as a bastard stepchild of the power 5, when the schools they hold + geographic positioning should prove otherwise.
Chicken & egg - they need to become much more mainstream solidified to hold title games up & down the east coast but they need to be a much more valued entity to make it work. fml
Of course, reality would tell me that to see stuff like that occur, the conference would probably have be in the worst shape of its life, grasping at desperate straws to find newness.
On to Charlotte.
Unpopular Opinions
in Sports Logo General Discussion
Posted
I don't hate it, I just think they should downsize/simplify it. It nearly looks like a corporate logo amongst the MLS sheet.
NE Revs, I dunno. The paint brush scheme is nice, that it needs a large area to convey isn't so much.