CFL What If
espn's college football live was on if va tech, miami and BC haden't left the big east.
jist of it (in relation to U of M) is that west virginia would have never won the big east, thus not making RR a hot head coaching candidate.
Found this quite intriguing. thoughts?
But they did, nearly a decade ago...
For most people, "CFL" is the Canadian Football League. If it's absolutely necessary for you to pay homage to ESPN, you can just say "ESPN."
of canada... who is the kid michigan state just got from herman???
What if the CFL sill had nine teams and two were called the Rough Riders? Man, that always killed me - a nine team league, and two have the same name albeit differently spelled.
...I thought we talked a lot about hockey and curling on the site over the winter. I was ready for some Rough Riders or Roughriders debate. The OP had me thinking on the merits of the Ti-Cats...I was ready to talk 3 down football.
Dammit.
FACT: The Ti-Cats were the last non-NFL team to beat a present NFL team. They beat the Bills in an exhibition game in the early 1960s.
(/Dwight Shrute)
Ti-Cats (or really Tiger Cats) came to be due to two teams joining together in Hamilton back in the early days (my father-in-law knows the dates). One pro team (Tigers) and semi-pro (Wildcats) joined together to become the Tiger Cats.
Found that interesting when I heard it, so I thought I'd share.
This is the 3rd time they have included Richh Rod, why?
What was their justification for saying that WVU would have never won the Big East if those teams had stayed?
So West Virginia wouldn't have won the 2003 Big East Title that they won when Miami, Virginia Tech, and Boston College were all still in the conference?!?!
WVU was building up to be a national power. They have a QB who fits the offense perfectly in Pat White and a RB in Steve Slaton. RR would still be a hot candidate even if Miami, VT and BC are still in Big East.
I think you are missing the point. When those 3 were still in the Big East, RichRod and WV actually did take home a Big East title, so the entire premise is stupid. Actually, while the 3 of those teams were still in the Big East, RichRod and WV had more BE championships than VT and BC combined. In other words, this was a complete piece of garbage.
RR being where he is is probably one of the smaller consequences of that happening.
Don Canham's overtures in 1968. Bo would have never coached here, and would have taken another major job instead. Say Bo takes the job at Iowa (Woody wasn't ready to retire) has a very good career but not great since it's harder to recruit to Iowa than to Michigan, wins two or three B10 titles while JoePa goes on to win three NCs in Ann Arbor. Around here it would be "Bo, who?" while the real question would be "when is JoePa going to retire?"
That means there's no Hayden Fry in Iowa City, nor any Kirk Ferentz there now.
You can go nuts pondering the alternate universes.
My Flux Capacitor is in overdrive right now. Have any extra garbage I can use to power her up?
No Hayden Fry means there would never have been a show called Coach, or the main character would have been called Bo Schellenbacher.
Or were the talking heads just blowing smoke as usual? Because, at least in my eyes, the drastic realignment in College Football (Big Ten gaining Neb, Pac 12, etc) probably would have been different - and a bigger deal, than RR's coaching resume
Playing in the CFL right now?
1 - Eric Wilson, DT 300 pounds plays for Montreal
Michigan Universities represented in the CFL include:
2 from MSU
3 from Central
1 from Western
1 from Eastern
Nobody gave my argos a shot- but with new bench boss Jim Barker they really got it together.
Go (double) Blue!
Mind blowing hypothetical ESPN. Here are some future topics for the next 30 days before the start of the season
What if Bo never came to UM, would Harbough be coaching at Stanford?
If Callahan had won a national championship at Nebraska would Texas have joined the SEC?
What if University of Chicago never left the Big 10 and had a legit BCS program, would Northwestern have gone to the 1994 Rose Bowl?
This was the most irrelevant piece of garbage, and the only thing I thought was "What if I could rewind time and never actually see this segment?" All this did was display ESPN at its best: All style, no substance. I love Tony Kornheiser, who always says, "What if my grandma had 3 wheels....she'd be a tricycle". That quote makes people roll their eyes, but it is just as poignant and possible as what these people took hours (sadly) to produce. What is...is. What isn't....isn't. Revisionist history says more about the person telling the story than the events constructed. A great example was the only episode of "Around the Horn" that I've ever seen. It surrounded Barry Bonds' possible record-breaking homerun. The Denver Post's Woody Paige said that Barry should go up to bat, hit the home run, set the bat down, and walk away without running the bases. I'm sure he already had the background music picked our that would play as Barry walked away. Dreck....pure dreck. Go Blue baby....
This was the most irrelevant piece of garbage
This was my first thought when I heard of and saw this completely pointless segment. ESPN could do better by actually analyzing the games or interviewing coaches or players in that time, but no, they had to analyze an alternate universe in which some event occurred that changed the landscape of college football as we know it, and forecasting possible ramifications of said event. Totally worthwhile. It's like Uncle Rico going on about being an NFL QB, it never happened, so who the hell cares?
Eric Wilson, 2000 Grad, is the only current Wolverine in the (Canadian) show.
In looking at teams, I saw 3 bucks and 3 spartans, including former rb Deandra Cobb.
For the lack of blue starpower up north, we do have some recognizable names. Ken Dorsey is backup to Cleo Lemon in Toronto. Remember Cleo Lemon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=430QvbyHG5o
Don't be jealous NFL fans- he's moved on too bigger and better things
Dr Robert Leakey had never discovered that damn jawbone in the Olduvai Gorge?
what if the Civil War never occurred, there would be no state called West Virginia, only one big Virginia. If there was no West Virginia, where would RR have coached? Would there be a Western Virginia? we may never know...
If there was no Civil War then Slaton and Pat White wouldn't have been allowed to attend Western Virginia University, so, there would be a lot of Steven Threet types running RR's spread option, leading to his firing during his Tulane tenure. He probably wouldn't be coaching again until he received his green card to come to the Northern States of America to coach at a "free blacks' school" such as Harlem State or Purdue-East Lafayette.
See, I should be on ESPN because I could answer their hypotheticals with fact-based assumptions.
Beamer Ball would not exist.
just like saban would be at UM with mallet and ingram, right espn? Espn == retarded
How about this instead, if Miami, Boston College, and Virginia Tech stay in the Big East, the Big East keeps its legitimacy (Upper echelon of the BCS conferences) and Rich Rodriguez stays in West Virginia for the long run.