Comments on: Awful Human Being’s Week 8 Picks

By: McLovin

McLovin — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:07:17 +0000

McLovin…

This sure as heck beats reading Playboy in the dark wth a flashlight….

By: The Fan

The Fan — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:16:23 +0000

Awful-
When you pick an Iowa, just base it on one thing. The type of offense their opposing team runs. Wide open, pass oriented offense-blow-out loss. Clock controlling, running/option offense like Wisconsin or Illinois….close game. Iowa has one thing and that is a great defensive line stopping the run. Can’t rush the passer at all, but they cant stop the run. There had better be some coordinators losing some jobs in Iowa City next year of Ferentz better get his resume updated, cause he will be looking.

By: Awful Human Being

Awful Human Being — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:56:56 +0000

Yeah Crowell, picking Notre Dame based on “Divine Intervention” probably wasn’t my best call. Again, that’s what you get for being a homer.

The Iowa game … I was WAYYYY off. I thought my reasoning was pretty sound on this. When I’m picking these games, I look at the following:

Previous 3 games (streaks)
Common Opponents
Next Game (chances of looking ahead)
Coaching match-ups

This is what led me to picking Iowa … in retrospect, not so great.

By: Double C

Double C — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:23:08 +0000

Well, Tim, as Maxwell Smart used to say… you missed it by thaaaat much.

By: The Fan

The Fan — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:02:57 +0000

Lol. I hope you are right about USC getting beat. Can’t stand them and I like Notre Dame.

And I am currently watching the start of the Iowa game. I don’t know how many games I have to watch, with no offensive creativity nor defensive creativity before the people at iowa force ferentz to make a change. It is actually, physically painful to watch them play. Couple those things with Christensen’s piss poor performances week after week and I’ve surprised myself by not committing suicide.

Anywho, good luck to the Irish this week. I hope they win.

By: Awful Human Being

Awful Human Being — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:39:08 +0000

I know, I thought twice about both of them, but here are the reasonings. I would have put this in the column not been so long this week, but I think I made a valid argument for parity.

ND over USC: USC’s team charter almost crashed on their way into South Bend Thursday night. This, coupled with the Joe Montana era throwback jerseys, and I’m chalking one up for divine intervention.

Iowa over Purdont: Purdont has been exposed over the last two weeks by two very good football teams (OSU and UM) while Iowa just beat an up and coming Illinois team. This is that special time of year that we can mark on our calendar’s where Joe Tiller implodes, and the Boilermakers’s season goes down the shitter. Iowa, on the other hand, always gets better as the season goes along.

By: The Fan

The Fan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:34:38 +0000

ND over USC. Come on now AHB….you are just being a homer. And also, there is no way Iowa beats an open, passing offense like Purdues. Not a chance in hell. Iowa will get beat by 14 or more. Any bets this week?