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Post by LOBOFLYER on Sept 15, 2004 20:52:35 GMT -5
I think it will be Oregon, Maryland, and or NC St But if I had to choose only one I would go with Oregon.
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Post by qcomdrj on Sept 15, 2004 21:31:25 GMT -5
Maryland won't be an upset. They should win no matter what. I don't know why WVU is ranked so high. I hope they don't even win the Big Least. Oregon? They might beat the spread.
NC State actually has the lowest spread of them all.
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Post by soonerfan07 on Sept 15, 2004 21:50:58 GMT -5
I think it will be Oregon, Maryland, and or NC St But if I had to choose only one I would go with Oregon. Oregon? Ha! You are just full of stupid posts aren't ya
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Post by LOBOFLYER on Sept 15, 2004 23:20:13 GMT -5
soonerfan your intitled to your opionion being that its a free country and all but just because someone predicts your team will lose does not make them stupid. It just shows your lack of class, Oh I forgot your from Oklahoma you dont have any class.
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Post by qcomdrj on Sept 15, 2004 23:44:25 GMT -5
Oregon has a 28 pt spread. Granted, this doesn't make them infallible, but oddsmakers make spreads as big as they can until the serious players start making them go down. Ergo, the smart people in Vegas think Oklahoma will win by more than 28 points. The other smart people agree by not betting on the underdog.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 0:04:18 GMT -5
soonerfan your intitled to your opionion being that its a free country and all but just because someone predicts your team will lose does not make them stupid. It just shows your lack of class, Oh I forgot your from Oklahoma you dont have any class. The end of this comment also displays a lack of class. Watch the hypocrisy, eh, LoboFlyer? Don't be giving the mid-major fans an even worse image than we already have.
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Post by LOBOFLYER on Sept 16, 2004 0:54:42 GMT -5
A Church of Christ Bible thumping Texan calling me Hypocritical..thats the pot calling the kettle black!
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 1:37:34 GMT -5
HAH! You apparently know nothing about TCU. We are about as far from a "Christian" school as we can be without taking the word out of our name and cutting the monetary links to the Disciples of Christ church (not Church of Christ, the two denominations are VERY different). Although there is a chapel on campus and we have a university minister who leads a prayer at every home football game and a fairly large religion class, the university is on the whole not a religious school. Underclassmen have to take a religion class, but that requirement can be satisfied by an understanding world religion class that, more often than not, makes people a little more doubting of Christianity (that certainly happened with me and several others I know).
TCU has no requirements about attending weekly chapel (like Baylor) and exercises no restriction of the freedom of speech or any other form of expression of non-"Christian" views like supporting gay marriage or abortion (many other religious schools, especially Baptist and Church of Christ schools, do this to a fairly extreme degree). We have one of the biggest percentages of Greek students (i.e. fraternities and sororities, not the ethnicity) of most universities, at about 40 percent of our student population.
Most Christian schools - and many non-Christian schools - would toss students out for any sort of alcohol-related violation. At TCU, even on-campus alcohol violations are little more than a fine, a blemish on your academic record, and a requirement to attend some sort of AA-like program.
I can't think of any other examples of just how wrong that generalization is right now. Just know that there are many generalizations that COULD apply to TCU (a school of rich-kids, a school where diversity means one nonwhite student in a class of 30, a school where frat guys and sorority girls run rampant), but calling us a school of "Bible-thumpers" simply couldn't be more wrong.
Please don't insult my school when you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Post by wordjockey on Sept 16, 2004 1:49:25 GMT -5
Oregon has a 28 pt spread. Granted, this doesn't make them infallible, but oddsmakers make spreads as big as they can until the serious players start making them go down. Ergo, the smart people in Vegas think Oklahoma will win by more than 28 points. The other smart people agree by not betting on the underdog. qcomdrj- You are in the ballpark on odds, but not exactly correct. The oddsmakes in Vegas want to set the spread at an amount that they hope will have people BET equally for both teams, e.g., 1/2 of all dollars for one team to win, and 1/2 of all dollars for another team to win. They make their money when you bet, by the "vig", ( the percentage they keep for taking the bet) and could care less who wins or loses. Obviously, they need to have some ballpark of where the game will go, or any Joe Six-pack would bet his house on say, Slippery Rock being favored over Oklahoma by 30 points. The lines move when massive amounts go to one side or the other, usually by a few large bettors, or an injury report or rumor, shared by large bettors, or a groundswell of folks hearing such a rumor. This is also the reason you see games listed as 'OFF', something, like a quarterback being questionable physically, (like a Michael Vick for the Falcons) in mid-week. Just a FYI.
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Post by LOBOFLYER on Sept 16, 2004 2:26:38 GMT -5
TCU is a Trashy School In a Trashy Town (Ft Wortless) in the Flat Ugly State of Texas. I cant believe yall are going to be in the Mnt West, thats dispicable! Join the Sunbelt where you belong. And I am going to Laugh when Tech Humiliates TCU on saturday! GO RED RAIDERS!
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 16, 2004 3:06:03 GMT -5
Wow, I had you pegged for a decent human being, LoboFlyer. Looks like I was sure wrong.
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Post by soonerfan07 on Sept 16, 2004 8:12:39 GMT -5
TCU is a Trashy School In a Trashy Town (Ft Wortless) in the Flat Ugly State of Texas. I cant believe yall are going to be in the Mnt West, thats dispicable! Join the Sunbelt where you belong. And I am going to Laugh when Tech Humiliates TCU on saturday! GO RED RAIDERS! talk about no class
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Post by huskersrule01 on Sept 16, 2004 10:57:55 GMT -5
TCU is a Trashy School In a Trashy Town (Ft Wortless) in the Flat Ugly State of Texas. I cant believe yall are going to be in the Mnt West, thats dispicable! Join the Sunbelt where you belong. And I am going to Laugh when Tech Humiliates TCU on saturday! GO RED RAIDERS! I cant believe you can say someone else doesnt have class and then you say that. I think you need to learn to treat people with class before you post. I lost all respect for you and your teams fans.
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Post by soonerfan07 on Sept 16, 2004 15:30:09 GMT -5
congratulations lobo, right now u are probably the least liked member right now. Id make a poll, but the mods would just lock it
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Post by fullforce11 on Sept 16, 2004 17:27:53 GMT -5
He's got my vote.
I think I'm rooting for TCU now just because he's so annoying.
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