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25th December 2008 - 02:53 AM
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This topic will be posted in every NCAA thread with teams corresponding to that conference. So go vote for your team. It will be interesting to see how large your teams fan base is on TFP. Do not vote unless its your team. That way we can get an accurate depiction of a teams fan base.
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Beavers-Horned Frogs '10 match-up nearly a goPosted by John Taylor on December 15, 2009 1:41 PM ET
CollegeFootballTalkWith Boise State and Louisville already on the slate, Oregon State was looking at a challenging start to the 2010 season. OK, at least with the former.
Now, both the Portland Tribune and The Oregonian are reporting, the Beavers are poised to --willingly -- add an even tougher foe to their non-conference schedule next season.
With just a little bit of tinkering left to do, it's all but a certainty that OSU will open next season with a game against No. 3 TCU in the new Texas Stadium. The match-up is being brokered by ESPN, and appears to be in the final stages before officially becoming a reality.
"It's looking good, but there are still some things that need to come together," OSU athletic director Bob De Carolis told the Tribune.
While part of the reason for the game is, obviously, money -- the Beavers stand to make upwards of $1 million for the game -- another is the Rodgers brothers. Head coach Mike Riley said he wanted to get a game for James and Jacquizz in their home state, and this was the final opportunity to do it.
"We've wanted to take the Rodgers brothers back to Texas for a game before James graduates," Riley says. "This is our last chance to do that. Plus, I've always liked the big games, and it's a lifetime experience to play in that stadium. I said go for it."
As noted by both papers, it's a risky schedule for the Beavers to undertake, but, as De Carolis puts it, "[i]f you're fortunate to pull off a win, you're in the national conversation."
Especially when you return 19 starters from a team that was one win away from representing the Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl.
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29th November 2009 - 12:28 AM
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Rumor: Mountain West Conference To Expand To 12, Receive BCS Auto BidBy: Bryan Nelson
Bleacher ReportThe latest rumor coming out of Washington DC is that the MWC has invited Boise State, Fresno State, and Nevada to join the nine team MWC.
I will reiterate: it's just a rumor. But given the growing number of rumblings, and the pragmatism surrounding this concept, it seems to have legs. At least at face value.
The only reason the MWC would ever expand is if they were somehow guaranteed an automatic seat at the BCS table.
So if there is any truth to this rumor, it is fair to assume that there is some degree of cooperation from the BCS.
At a cursory glance, this makes perfect sense. A beefed up MWC with four football powerhouses (all of whom have reached a top five ranking within the last 12 months), a 3-0 BCS Bowl record and now a conference championship game, would more than qualify the MWC 12 as a legit BCS conference.
So the practicality of it alone lends credence to the idea. Plus, a careful evaluation of the players involved might imply something may be in the works.
ESPN itself, the network who covers the BCS Bowl games and who dominates college football coverage, has shown a highly uncharacteristic interest in the MWC of late.
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19th September 2009 - 06:16 PM
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Collegefootballtalk.com will present the CFT National Championship Trophy to Utah coach Kyle Whittingham at the University of Utah Friday.
The sister site to Mike Florio's profootballtalk.com believes Utah was deserving of the title, and so do we. CFT cleared the trophy with the NCAA and Whittingham was happy to accept.
Source: Collegefootballtalk.com
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HOUSTON -- Utah's Kyle Whittingham won the Paul "Bear" Bryant College Coach of the Year Award on Thursday night.
Before receiving the award, Whittingham spent the afternoon campaigning for a playoff system after his team went undefeated but didn't get a spot in the national championship because it is not a BCS school.
"I'd really like to see a playoff system," Whittingham said. "I've been a proponent of the playoffs for many years now. It wasn't just this year that put me in that mind-set. I would like to see a level playing field."
Utah finished second in The Associated Press poll and fourth in the coaches' poll after beating Alabama 31-17 in the Allstate Sugar Bowl to finish 13-0.
"We feel like we can play with anyone in the country," Whittingham said. "I think we demonstrated that during the course of the season. We're not bitter. [There's] a little bit of disappointment that we didn't get a chance to play for it all but it was a great season nonetheless."
Whittingham said he was honored to receive an award bearing Bryant's name.
"I'm young enough where I didn't have a chance to ever meet or be associated with him, but he's the icon of college football coaching," Whittingham said.
Whittingham, who also won the American Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year Award, was joined by seven other finalists, including Texas coach Mack Brown and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops.
Former Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer was honored with the Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
He won the three national championships with the Sooners and the 1995 Super Bowl with the Cowboys.
The awards were given in conjunction with the American Heart Association.
Other finalists were Texas Tech's Mike Leach, Mississippi's Houston Nutt, Buffalo's Turner Gill, Alabama's Nick Saban and Chris Petersen of Boise State.
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I really thought he was going to return...
Utah defensive end Paul Kruger is giving up his final two years of eligibility and will enter the NFL draft.
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7th January 2009 - 10:39 AM
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wow, I just think you need the right people in place, not fold a program.
It’s been 15 years since Marshall Faulk graduated from San Diego State and left the school as the greatest football player in the history of the program. He’d go on to play in the NFL for the Colts and Rams and basically redefine what a running back could be in the league. He’s since retired, and is now awaiting his eventual induction into the NFL Hall of Fame. Unfortunately for San Diego State, their football program has not followed the same path as Mr. Faulk. They haven’t played in a bowl game since the 1998 Las Vegas Bowl, and haven’t won a bowl game since 1969’s Pasadena Bowl. In the last five years the team has compiled a record of 18-41, and things don’t seem to be getting any better even with the hiring of Brady Hoke from Ball State.
Which is why Mark Zeigler’s column in the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE this morning so interesting. In the piece, Zeigler makes a pretty good argument for why the school should just cut its losses and drop the football program all together. Considering that the school loses about $4 million annually running the program, doesn’t have it’s own stadium, and Qualcomm Stadium doesn’t really want them back since they lose money hosting games, there are plenty of reasons — those three are just a start — why dropping the program would be the smart thing to do. Of course, writing a column saying that a school should drop football will no doubt cause quite an uproar amongst the school’s fans, right? Well, apparently not.
While some readers left comments on the original column saying the idea was idiotic, it turns out there are a lot more people in the San Diego area who agree with Zeigler. The UNION-TRIBUNE ran another article on its website shortly after in which they shared some emails they received from readers.
Today’s letters are in response to Mark Zeigler’s commentary in the Union-Tribune published Sunday, Dec. 27. Zeigler proposed that SDSU drop football because of its high financial costs.
We received 145 e-mails on the topic as of Saturday night; 89 were supportive of the commentary; 56 opposed Zeigler’s view. The best and most representative are published today, reflecting that ratio of views.
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Thank you, Mark Zeigler, for the finest article I have read in my 15 years of reading the sports section of the Union-Tribune. I am a huge college football fan, but it is obvious that the wisest decision would be to drop football at SDSU. Of the many requirements for maintaining a football program at SDSU, the most absurd is the granting of 20 full scholarships to the women’s crew team in order to maintain equality in the number of scholarships granted for male and female athletes. Aren’t there only eight people in a boat during a crew race? Does that mean that third-string members of an athletic team that very few people know exists are getting full scholarships? These questions are not meant to denigrate the dedicated athletes on the women’s crew team, but to highlight the indirect costs of fielding a football team at San Diego State. It’s not just the millions that the team is losing, but the millions more needed to satisfy all the requirements in order to field a team. Can an institution subsidized by the state of California afford to field a men’s football team during these economic times?
ERIC DAHMS, M.D. San Diego
I’m a huge football fan but I have to admit that the writing is certainly on the wall for SDSU’s football program. Congratulations on a great article exposing the shoddy and academically dishonest way athletic budgets are being manipulated. At any other company these people would be fired, sued, and/or jailed for this kind of bookkeeping. And Weber’s comments tying SDSU’s reputation to their athletics is not only laughable but a huge insult to the academic departments and their faculty. When I think of SDSU I am constantly reminded of their excellence in engineering, biology and business, and not their underperforming athletic departments. This transgression alone should cost Weber his job.
MIKE SNELL, Poway
And my personal favorite, from Dave Sikute of Chula Vista:
San Diego State dropped football a long time ago – but, some people in the organization still haven’t gotten the word.
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5th January 2009 - 12:15 AM
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if we can pull a W this will be the greatest year ever. (for utah football that is). But i dont know about this game, Alabama dominates and were #1 until that loss to florida. but good luck to the team
Go Utes
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28th December 2008 - 02:13 AM
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How will recent coaching changes in the Mountain West affect the football title race next season?
It appears Wyoming, New Mexico and San Diego State are doing everything possible to jump start offenses and recruit at a higher level to compete with Utah, TCU and BYU, the top three finishers this past season.
They're hired to put a premium on explosive offenses — the dreaded spread — now the fashion from coast to coast. Recruiting, as expected, will be top of the list.
They take over three MWC programs that finished a combined 4-20 in the standings in 2008. Their combined overall records, counting patsies and big wins like Wyoming's upset of Tennessee in Knoxville, stood at 10-26.
Wyoming, New Mexico and SDSU. Will they progress enough to overcome UNLV (2-6, 5-7) and move into the middle of the pack with CSU (4-4, 6-6) and Air Force (5-3, 8-4)? Will any of them get six wins and to a bowl like Steve Fairchild did in Fort Collins, turning things around in one season?
What will it take for these three to challenge Utah, 2008's top dog?
Former Missouri offensive coordinator Dave Christensen wasted little time at Wyoming in hiring former San Jose State offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo. He then added former Washington strength coach Trent Greener, a former Cowboy player who was released when Steve Sarkisian took over the Husky program.
"Marcus Arroyo is one of the brightest, up-and-coming, spread offensive coordinators in the country," proclaimed the new head Cowboy.
Christensen, who has yet to stack up all his offensive coaches with Arroyo, hired Northern Iowa defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery under D-coordinator Marty English, who hired Mike Fanoga and Alex Grinch for outside linebackers and the secondary.
In Albuquerque, former Illinois assistant coach Mike Locksley fired up the Lobo base by preaching "attack" offense and "attack" defense. Labeled by Rivals.com as one of the "best recruiters around," Locksley has vowed to scrounge around Pac-10 territories in southern California and Arizona and then hit Big 12 country in Texas to find the merchants that will deliver the goods.
In San Diego, former Ball State coach Brady Hoke has had a conversation with former UNM coach Rocky Long, about becoming his defensive coordinator.
Of all these hires, Locksley may be the most interesting and could have the quickest impact, if he can corral the horses. A former recruiter for Maryland and Ron Zook at Florida and Illinois, he's got a proven track record for signing talent and he sees Albuquerque as a gold mind for bringing in players.
"New Mexico fit all the criteria that I was looking for in a program when I did my research," said Locksley, who has interviewed six times for head coaching jobs.
Locksley is one of only a handful of black head coaches hired in college football.
He liked the idea that the UNM president was the first CEO of a major university interviewing him who actually got involved. "They want football to be the face of this university," said Locksley.
He didn't address why UNM gives its basketball coach more freedom in making schedules and it was hoops that got the first lucrative coaching contract in the department when Long was its most successful coach.
Locksley: "I have an action plan with recruiting; you have to. Each year I look at where the prospects are coming from. We will recruit Texas hard because they produce so many players. Of course, you have to start at home, and we will take the best players from this state. Southern California will pay a big part and so will Phoenix."
Locksley said he will also go into conference geography, challenging for players in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
He told reporters, "People need to understand that Albuquerque has one million people and a great airport with direct flights to so many big cities, so we will have the ability to get recruits here. That will open doors for us."
Locksley said he will identify playmakers and attack on both sides of the ball and will have "tempo" and "balance" in his base offense, the spread.
"Everything about this program will be aggressive and attacking. That will be our defense and that will be true with recruiting. I want to recruit the same way I did at Illinois and I want to win the Mountain West."
According to the San Diego Union, Hoke will soon hire his offensive staff, keeping it close to the vest on who the prospects are. It is rumored one candidate could be former UCLA offensive coordinator (1996-97) Al Borges, who resigned at Auburn after the 2007 season.
Regardless of hype dished out for boosters, these three guys have extreme lifting to do.
Merchants of transformation.
How will they do?
It certainly adds an element of intrigue to next year's season, where TCU, Utah and the Cougars should be placed in a yet-to-be announced pecking order in 2009.
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13th December 2008 - 12:33 PM
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He has lost the team, his recruiting is horrible, he hasn't done anything to improve this team at all. Watching yesterday's game was an embarrassment, the team has given up on him. Start fresh, get a young coach with West Coast ties and try to bring the program back to a respectable level.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Misty-eyed and embarrassed, San Diego State coach Chuck Long was asked if he had lost more than a game Saturday night when New Mexico won in a 70-7 rout.
Had he lost his team?
"I don't know," said Long. "I hope this is the lowest point in our season. Everything is going wrong at once and we have a very fragile football team."
New Mexico (4-4 overall, 2-2 MWC) scored in bunches against the nation's worst rushing defense. Rodney Ferguson scored four touchdowns, and the Lobos' 49 first-half points were the most since 1946, when the school began keeping such stats.
That eclipses the previous high of 46 points against Northern Arizona in 1950.
The 70 points were the most ever given up by San Diego State (1-6, 0-3 MWC), which lost to New Mexico for the eighth straight time.
The game turned ugly quickly after Lobo cornerback Glover Quin intercepted a pass from freshman quarterback Ryan Lindley on the Aztecs' first possession.
The Lobos needed just four plays to go 46 yards after Quin's pick, with quarterback Brad Gruner scoring from the 20. The rout was on from there.
"I have never been ahead that far," Lobos coach Rocky Long said. "We got some big plays and some breaks early and the game got out of hand."
New Mexico's first half scores included a pair of 4-yard TD runs, a 5-yarder by Ferguson and a 13-yard TD run by Gruner after linebacker Carmen Messina recovered a fumble by Mekell Wesley on a kickoff return. Gruner also threw a 19-yard scoring pass to tight end Chris Mark with 23 seconds left in the first half.
Ferguson tied his career high with four TDs, the final one coming early in the third quarter on a 35-yard run.
San Diego State gave up 419 rushing yards and 565 total yards. The Aztecs' only score was on a 15-yard pass to Darren Mougay with 7:30 left in the third quarter.
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Missouri offensive coordinator Dave Christensen will be named the head coach of Wyoming, sources familiar with the agreement told ESPN.com.
Christensen is regarded as one of top offensive minds in the country. In 2007, Missouri's offense scored a school-record 558 points and ranked in the top 10 in the nation in scoring offense, passing offense and total offense.
A press conference is scheduled for Monday.
Christensen flew to Wyoming with his wife Saturday night after Missouri lost to Kansas in Kansas City. He arrived in Laramie via a University of Wyoming private plane. He spent the night in Laramie and met with school officials. He returned to Columbia on Sunday to attend a Missouri senior banquet but is expected back for the press conference.
Christensen has been a coach on Gary Pinkel's staff since starting at Toledo in 1992. He served as an assistant coach at Idaho State and the University of Washington. Christensen also played for Don James at Washington in 1980-82.
He was a finalist for the Frank Broyles Award last season, which is handed out annually to the nation's best assistant coach. Last season, junior quarterback Chase Daniel was a Heisman Trophy finalist, and senior tight end Martin Rucker and freshman wide receiver Jeremy Maclin were both consensus All-Americans. Maclin was Missouri's first concensus All-American and it was the first time in Missouri history the school had two consensus All-Americans in the same year.
Christensen takes over after Joe Glenn was fired a week ago. Under Glenn, Wyoming finished 30-41 (15-31 in Mountain West Conference play), including a 4-8 (1-7 MWC) record this season to finish eighth in the conference after being picked to finish fourth and even contend for the conference championship.
The Cowboys had just two bowl-eligible seasons, though they were only invited to a bowl during the 2004 campaign. They finished 7-5 with a Las Vegas Bowl win.
Nebraska wide receiver coach Ted Gilmore, a former Wyoming player and former Wyoming assistant coach John L. Smith were also candidates for the position.
This will be Christensen's first head coaching job.
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29th November 2008 - 10:14 PM
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I just thought i get the MWC section started off right
I dont know if there are any other fans out there of MWC teams but o well.....
anyways the utes are gonna take the MWC title this year mark it down.
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26th November 2008 - 05:00 PM
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I kind of like the idea of Dennis Green with San Diego State, he could recruit, motivate the athletes, and he did have success at Stanford. (Sorry, correction, 3 coaches, Utah State is the WAC, the website titled it 4 coaches and then I just caught it after I posted)
Down goes Rocky Long at New Mexico.
Down goes Joe Glenn at Wyoming.
Down goes Chuck Long at San Diego State.
Down goes Brent Guy at Utah State.
It's that time of year, when coaches become vagabonds and the name-dropping game begins. University presidents and athletic directors are sifting through a flood of phone calls, text messages and negotiations by surrogates as legitimate and not-so-legitimate candidates seek to turn around fortunes of the unfortunate.
At San Diego State, even a closing win over UNLV at home couldn't save Long from the ax. Names cropping up include BYU defensive coordinator Jaime Hill, a native son of San Diego, who could provide the local touch Long couldn't being from the Midwest.
Hill ultimately wants to return home to San Diego, and he's approaching the same attractive job reviews as current UCLA D-coordinator Dwayne Walker.
Other candidates for the Aztec job include current SDSU faculty member Dennis Green, the former head coach of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals. Green, who teaches a sports management class on campus, might be the front-runner.
Another name is Terry Bowden, who led Auburn to an 11-0 mark in 1993 before retiring to become a broadcaster and football analyst. Bowden has confirmed with San Diego media his interest in returning to the whistle. Another guy who has been out of coaching but has ties to SDSU's administration is former Minnesota coach Glen Mason.
Other names that have surfaced in Albuquerque include former Utah coach and current Florida Gator offensive coordinator Dan Mullen. And word is, it's his job if he wants it. The Lobos are hopeful, if Mullen passes, that the likes of Oregon coordinator Chip Kelly will want it or perhaps Sonny Dykes, the O-coordinator at Arizona. New Mexico has also received permission to talk to Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Curtis Modkins.
In Laramie, what to do?
Like I mentioned, the Cowboys want somebody who can teach, execute and produce an offensive strike-force offense to keep up with the league's firepower. Missouri's Christensen fits the bill, but would he leave Columbia and ignore other offers for Laramie?
Other names for the Wyoming job include former USU, Louisville and Michigan State coach John L. Smith. He's still a hot ticket, even mentioned in Logan as a replacement for Guy.
Wyoming would like to talk to former Colorado coach Gary Barnett, who, like Bowden, has taken up the microphone since leaving the coaching business.
In Logan, speculation is running wild about the return of Smith, an offensive-minded coach who would offset the non-sexy defensive anchor that was Guy. Other names cropping up include Cache Valley native Kent Baer, the current linebackers coach at San Jose State, South Florida offensive whiz and former Aggie quarterback Chico Canales, and even Pac-10 coordinators Steve Sarkisian (USC) and Walker (UCLA).
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24th November 2008 - 05:11 PM
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BIGGEST GAME OF THE YEAR. just hope that the utes can pull this off. it is too bad that i might not beable to get into the game. but...
GO UTES !!!!!!
I am a Utah Man sir and i live across the green...
Our gang it is the jolliest that you have ever seen....
Our coeds are the fairest and each ones a shining star...
Our yell you'll hear it ringing through the mountains near and far...
Who am i sir?, A Utah Man am I...
A Utah Man sir will be till i die...
Ki Yi!!!
We're up to snuff, we're never rough, we're game for any fuss...
No other gang of college men dare meet us in the MUSS...
So fill your lungs, and sing it out, and shout out to the sky...
We'll fight for dear old crimson for a Utah Man am I....
GO UTES!!!!
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7th November 2008 - 04:28 AM
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Biggest game of the year thus far for us utes baby!!!!
if we win this game i think that we will carry that momentum through out the rest of the season
cant wait for thursday
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31st October 2008 - 10:04 PM
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Brigham Young will be next season's BCS party crasher, much like Hawaii last season and Boise State the year before that. With Max Hall at quarterback, the Cougars are set to destroy the Mountain West Conference. The only competition I see the Cougars having is MAYBE, and this is a huge MAYBE, is Texas Christian.
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19th October 2008 - 08:30 PM
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TCU defeated BYU tonight, and easily. This is a huge win for the TCU program, and a good win within the conference. However, this does destroy the matchup of an undefeated Utah team vs an undefeated BYU team, with the winner jumping into the BCS picture.
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3rd October 2008 - 02:16 AM
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Huge game for the utes after oregon state beat USC last week, if we can win this one then i think that our team will gain a boat load of confindence and possibly go undefeated.
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14th September 2008 - 07:18 PM
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Good game, all i really have to say other then HELL YA! is that matt asiata is a pimp.
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11th September 2008 - 01:34 AM
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How about this game? Down to the wire. How do you feel about the celebration call? Justified? Unfair? It's just too bad tha this BYU win will probably be persecuted by bitter Washington fans who say the game was won by the officials.
Thoughts?
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Hell ya baby 2-0!!!! go uuuuuuuuuuuuuuutes keep it rollin'!!!
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