did i just read what i thought i read from Dan @ CU? HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!! that must have been sent by a 3rd grader or a cat that was walking on a keyboard...in 24 hours and about 40 mins i will be DONE!!!!! and i will be somewhere either on northgate or en route to one of my favorite watering holes, or i might just stop by JJs and hang out at the house with jim, jack or jose, either way it'll be a night of drunkenness....

Dan...go molest a buffalo, go rock climbing, go make love to an endangered species of owl, or go do whatever it is you dumbfucks at CU do. If you're an upperclassmen, then I'm surprised you weren't one of the 20% who fail out their freshman year because they major in "Going Skiing". I can tell you're jealous of the hot Texas ladies...I guess ANYTHING looks better than the mangy skanks you have up there with their Birkenstocks and unwashed hair. Nasty.

At my high school we had a guy named Dan. His senior year at the band's banquet he was voted most likely to be run over by a potato truck, honest to god. I just saw Stupid Motherfucker post over there from cu and thought it was appropriate.

Wow, and there I was thinking that their school didn't have many dumbfucks, if any. Oh well.

All together now: Riiiiiiiiight

i read your shitty party story. damn it must suck goin to UT, i mean, shit, your parties probably suck as much as your football team. i swear you texans are fuckin queers, the ladies are nice, but you guys are just lameass motherfuckers. and who names their kid major hahaha major suck ass at football.

oh, i see that now, i did the math, it all works out...

is it just me or does sprint SUCK in CS? i would love to throw my phone off the top of the O&M building but then i would lose the ability to call all my frineds, for you see as most of you can relate, i dont know a single phone number....damn you cell phones!!!!!!!!!

GOD I HATE MY ROOM MATE!!!! Can't wait to get out of this hell whole. I live in a nice apartment, that is just disgusting, b/c when she moved in she moved all of my stuff, and she makes nasty foods and leaves it out. I am redoing the whole place when finals are over.

Adam, it's because bragging rights only last for a year, unless you are from Tech. Because at Tech, self-esteem is measured by the following equation:

IF (football wins from last 10 years + goal posts torn down) > (SAT score + number of times you claim you got into A&M or UT) THEN (Tech student has rational for existence).

i hate this shit! who can study for a week straight? its bull shit! thank GOD i will be on a plane to VEGAS at 6:30 friday morning!!!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!! i needed that...

i just hope all the games are good, no blow outs this year, that just aint fun, more close games and more upsets, thats how i win my $$

if bragging rights only last a year, then why was the A&M/tech game from '98 brought up? just wondering.

OU:

The BCS accounts for a conference champion win just like it does any other win -- as it should be. A WAC team that beats Hawaii U. in the conference championship does not deserve more BCS points then, say, a Colorado beating a Nebraska in the regular season.

As far as # of games played goes -- every team in the Big 12 does NOT play 12 games, only the conference champions and those who choose to play an extra game. As for it making a bigger difference in "strength of schedule" -- why should it? A team that plays three extra games against cupcake opponents should have those have a significant impact on their "strength of schedule"? That is why the BCS takes into account a total of strength of schedule, rather than having the # of games played impact it.

As for a team ranked #4 in the coaches and AP polls playing as #2 in the BCS, it is because the AP and Coaches polls are based on who the press and the coaches believe should be ranked where. This involves coaches bias, west/east coast bias, and so on. I think it was earlier in the year one of the newspaper rankings in Washington that is taken into consideration when forming the AP poll had Washington ranked #1 in the nation when they were ranked #10 everywhere else. That is why the BCS was introduced, to erase that bias and attempt to have an exact formula.

As for that last TCU game having an impact on the national picture, why shouldn't it? It showed that they were a legit team when Nebraska beat them at the beginning of the season, and that they still are. If you don't take into account things like that, then BYU would have a case (if the Hawaii game hadn't of happened). After all, they were undefeated -- but the teams they played were crap.

Lastly, I really don't understand how you can say Nebraska slipped into #2 based on name alone... The BCS is a computer ranking system with little outside influence, the bias that exists in the AP and coaches poll does not exist in the BCS. If anything, Colorado and Oregon moved up in the AP and Coaches poll based on name alone.

OU Guy,
no hard feelings, because i have respect for the sooners as a lifelong nebraska fan, but...what you and most everyone in the nation is missing is that nebraska didn't slip into the number 2 spot "on name alone." if anything, their name hurt them. the media has had it in for nebraska for years, and no one can dispute that. the coaches are usually very objective and fair in filling out their ballots, but this last weekend that wasn't the case. it's hard to blame them, however, given all the pleading they got from fowler, herbstreit, barnett and others to "do what's right"(err...wrong) and vote nebraska down. fact is neither of the 2-4 teams deserve to go, but someone has to. nebraska had the best record and played more convincingly all year. i can't wait for the huskers to prove everyone wrong. only problem is, i'm afraid even a 21 point victory over concensus number 1 miami won't wake up the media and make them realize that neither colorado nor oregon should have ever had a chance.

Life sucks right now. But on December 20th, at approximately 12:30pm, I will be a happy man and the beer shall flow freely.

Damn finals...damn them to hell. And damn UT Law for dragging them out for 2 weeks!!

I think a reason that Nebraska is #4 in both polls is because they haven't played a game for a while. They lost to Colorado and a lot has happened since then. I believe some of the media and coaches are losing sight of what an amazingly balanced team they are. Yes, some teams get the shaft every year, but hey, its college football and drama is the real champ in this sport.

Textbook stores are smart by buying back books from dummies who want to get $10 back for their $100 book. The stores are making a profit three or four times on the same item.

Matt,
The BCS was created simply for a way to make more money at the end of the season. That's the main reason why is has flaws.
They have tweeked it a number of times since it's creation, most notably this year when the "Quality Win / Deduction" was added. I wouldn't have a problem if the BCS acounted for a Conference Champion Win, AND every team played the same number of games. But the fact is they don't. Miami is 11-0 only playing 11 games this season. Every team in the big 12 plays 12 games. Again this should make a bigger difference in the way "Strength of Schedule" is determined, but it has little pull. Same can be said for teams like Fresno St, and BYU who play 13 and 12 games respectively. Say Miami played that one more game and lost horribly. (Example Nebraska's last game of the season) If NU had only 11 games on the schedule than NU and Miami would be 11-0 and real battle for number 1 would exist.

Also how can a team ranked 4th!!! in both the Coaches and AP Polls be playing in the Number 2 spot in the nation when 2 other teams are higher on both polls.

And for that matter what does is say for the BCS that a team in the WAC wins pushes Nebraska's strength of schedule up by winning a rather insignificant game to the rest of the world.

Looks like Nebraska slipped into the Number 2 spot on name alone. Also if 2 writers had swung thier votes to CU, this would all be moot anyways. The BCS won't be fixed as long as they have sportswriters and news columnists deciding rankings instead of the record on the field.

As much as I'd like to make more money selling my books back, I don't have the time or energy... so I'll continue getting screwed by the Man. At least they've yet to not buy back one of my books. The girl next to me at the end of the spring semester had what looked like two or three huge bio books, a chem book, and a few others... they didn't buy any of them back, and she looked like she was about to cry. I look at selling books back as some quick cash for x-mas presents.

Take this for what its worth (considering i go to LCC), but what my friends and I do is find someone who will be taking the course next semester and sell the book to them, splitting the difference between what the bookstore will give us for the book and what they will sell it for used. Take my chemistry book for example: I paid $120 for it and the bookstore offered me $40 to buy it back, but they will sell it for $80 to the next student, so I found someone who will be taking chemistry next year and sold it to them for $60. I made $20 more than I would have from the bookstore, and they saved $20 by buying from me as opposed to buying from the bookstore.

Thats the way we do it, but I'm also open to any other suggestions .

Someone help me come up with some ideas to stop this scam they have running with the bookstores... Buying books every year only to sell them back at 1/5 of what you paid for them, that is, of course, if they don't have a "new edition" (honestly, I'd love to see what the third edition of chemistry has included over the second -- have we discovered new elements?)... Bah.

Since most of yall haven't realized this yet, let me try and explain it to yall. Football fans have a memory span of one season. Nobody brags about what happened in the past (except for those history buffs who have nothing better to do). When your team wins, you have bragging rights until the next time the game is played. You don't see Tennessee bragging about there National Championship a few years back. Neither is Oklahoma. That was history. All that matters right now (as far as football is concerned) is Miami-Nebraska (and Colorado-Oregon for those who want to believe the BCS is unfair). We are in the Alamo Bowl, A&M is in the galleryfurniture.com, and UT is in the Holiday. UT was in the Big XII Championship game, and lost to Colorado. At least they have the sense enough not to bring up the first game as reason to claim they are superior to Colorado.

So everyone remember the Golden Rule of Football Bragging Rights, and keep the bashing to this year. That is, of course, unless your team has not accomplished anything worthy of bragging about this year...

And who could blame him after their behavior this year?

I just want to know where the LCC bowl was last year. Wasn't it the famous galleryfurniture.com bowl?!?! The only reason y'all aren't back there is Mattress Mack probably didn't want LCC associated with his business.

LCC equals lubbock community college. Everyone realizes that y'all offer post-bachelorate degrees (for whatever they’re worth). We are... you know what, I don’t feel like explaining it anymore because the fact that I have to just makes me sad.

Make the football talk STOP!

Man this message board went crazy while I was gone. Regardless of what school you go to, engineering classes don't leave you much time. Reading the last hundred posts to catch up was fun though. The messageboard is always a great source for a few laughs. As for Tech vs. A&M vs. UT, to each his own. I wouldn't have been happy at either of those (for various reasons) and obviously most of yall wouldn't be happy here. But I do have school spirit, and I would put up a dozen Tech students against UT or A&M students in pretty much anything, from academics to girls to beer drinking. Sure our admission standards are somewhat lower than UT and A&M, but what were yalls standards back in the 1950's (approx. 70 years after yall were founded, which is about where we are)? Maybe we will never be just like either of yall, but then again, I really wouldn't want to be. If I had wanted to go to a school like UT or A&M, I would have gone to UT or A&M. I chose Tech, and so far am happy with my decision (neither Tech nor Lubbock has made me suicidal). So just go get drunk like any normal college student and continue to bash Texas Tech. We need our daily source of laughter.

Chris

And as for the whole LCC thing, yall might want to check on what the difference is between a University and a College. Surely people as intelligent as Bluto or YARMY have done this and realize that continuing to call us a College only shows their own ignorance. Then again, the Corps probably doesn't know the difference between an assault rifle and a Daisy.

Guess I got a little wordy....