The dude abides.
They paid him to not coach while he was there, so why not?
Originally Posted by steelerfan
The dude abides.
The dude abides.
Advertising for Arkansas State's new stadium in 1974. This is still our stadium, though obviously a lot of additions/changes have been made and even more are coming in the next couple of years including indoor practice facility (where you see the parking lot below) and enlarging the press box nearly 8 times it's current size (identical to the picture below).
Sexy, but I miss the crystal football.
The dude abides.
Maybe less people will drop this one though....
Yup I like that as well. Nice selection IMO.
That is much better than a crystal ball which was something I only saw in my grandmother's China cabinet.
I'm the opposite.I loved the crystal football and wish they would have kept that incorporated in the new design.
Here is an article from The Patriot-News echoing similar sentiments:
The one part the Bowl Championship Series era got right was the trophy. The American Football Coaches Association's crystal football was beautiful. If it wasn't a design masterpiece, it was close. From the stylized three-pronged tee to the fact that the winner could pluck it off and hold it like the very tool of the trade from which it was modeled. It was a brilliant solution to a design question.
And it had become iconic in the best sense. When you saw Nick Saban or Urban Meyer or Pete Carroll hoist that sparkling football aloft, they looked like not just champions but the royalty of their profession. You know they dug it, too.
But when the College Football Playoff was announced last year, it was quietly also announced that a new trophy would join it. The geniuses who run the playoff decided that, after propping up the nonsense that was the BCS for 15 years, that the crystal football had become guilty by association. It's like they blamed the trophy for their own dysfunction.
So, today we were presented with something that looks like it should be given out at, if not a PBA Tour stop, then some anonymous corporate retreat to a million-dollar salesman. Big and over-stylized and uninspiring and designed by a committee of suits.
However, buried in the article is this:
The AFCA has insisted on still handing out the crystal football after the playoff has determined a champion. Which is great. The BCS was never the crystal football's fault.
The winner will still receive it, but apparently just in private? I wonder which trophy will get the biggest crowd pop when the National Champ heads home in January 2015.
Last edited by cdj; 07-14-2014 at 11:03 PM.
Interesting, Chris. I don't care for the new trophy either, fwiw.
#TeamCrystal
What they said.
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#teamcouldnotgivetwoshitsaboutwhatthetrophylooksli kenottomentionmostofyourteamswillnevergetthechance tohoistitanyway
Neither will yours.
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From OS...
The wheels are turning and Power Conference autonomy could be coming in just three weeks. The restructuring of the Division I governance board is expected to give the five power conferences the ability to set and govern themselves with rules apart from the traditional NCAA structure. The Division I steering committee agreed to allow the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12 , Pacific 12 and Southeastern conferences until October 1 to put together their first proposals that would be considered and possibly adopted when the five conferences conduct a business session at the 2015 NCAA Convention.
“We are not deaf to the din of discontent across intercollegiate athletics that has dominated the news,” said Mike Slive, SEC Commissioner. “We have created the initiative to restructure the NCAA, in accordance with our vision for the 21st century with the support of student-athletes at it’s core … This is not a new effort on our part. The SEC’s call for change was introduced at Media Days in 2011, and will continue until we’ve realized our desired outcomes. Over the last year, we, along with our colleagues at the ACC, Big 10, Big 12 and PAC 12, developed this new vision for intercollegiate athletics for the 21st century. The vision includes the NCAA’s enactment of a governance system that will provide greater autonomy for the SEC and the other four conferences for the benefit of student athletes.”
Basically what Slive and Ohio State AD Gene Smith are saying is that its gotten awful crowded in FBS football and it's time for everyone to recognize the split which does exist in the division.
You might ask why the rest of the schools would go for a plan which, inherently, knocks everyone else down a peg. The answer is simple: If the Power Five doesn't get their way, they're likely to leave the NCAA and do their own thing. That would mean the Golden Goose of the NCAA, March Madness, would go away.
What this means for video games' future is simple: at the very least the Power Five conferences could have rules in place to compensate players legally for their appearances in publicity material, products, and media very soon. It still remains unlikely we will see a college football game officially announced anywhere until next Summer at the very earliest -- but the legal structures for such a product to exist could certainly be in place soon.
I'm not playing "Power Five Football '17." If it's your thing, enjoy. I'm not mad at 'cha. It's just not for me.
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