LaTechIsBetter

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Lulz i was forced to go to the Boise St @ La Tech this past year and Tech couldnt even fill both sides. Not to mention the tarps they have covering up the seats.

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Middle of the week games are a problem when your school is in a small town and your alumni base has to travel to games. If the game were on Saturday, the turnout would have been much better attended. Nevertheless, attendance has been trending the right direction.

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I assure you that neither livas nor any of your other players is as fast as Ambrose.

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Ambrose and Terry Carter (our DB) are pretty close. Here is an instance where Carter beat him in the 100m.

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But we have a number of other speedsters, including one our latest DB recruits who laid down the fasted 110m hurdle time in the nation last year.

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I was referring to recruiting ranking thus far as the thread was about a commitment that tech has received.

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Which year? This year? We only have 2 announced commitments right now, but it is way to early to evaluate a recruiting class.

But what if it is a boy?

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LA Tech never really had a lead on us,

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Check the scoreboard.

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But short of Ensminger, I haven't ever heard of these guys. I would dare say that none of these guys were offered a schollie by LSU. I know Ensminger originally went to Auburn and then transferred to Tech.

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Ensminger is one of the worst players on that list. These guys did not have LSU offers, but many of them have been/will still be very good D1 players.

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And WE think WE have our conspiracy theorists...
So, we need to forget all the replays we've seen, including slo mo and photos appearing even on this site, and believe that La. Tech has re created the video, under laboratory conditions that no one else can see, and concluded: good,clean hit.
Oh...OK!

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Look at where the white wrist bands are. Maybe you are one of those slow driving folks on the road.

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The WAC Commish is "spineless"
Miles is a "Titty Baby"
I wear "purple panties"
Redding is wrong
the WAC supervisor of officials is wrong;
The NCAA is wrong.
Ergo: Boyd made a great, clean hit.
Seems to me there were moral victories and great play all over the field to be found for Tech that nite.
Boyd's flagrant foul, cheap shot was not among them.
Your efforts to lionize Boyd cheapens the efforts of other, more deserving Tech players that nite.
Shouldn't you get along to school now?

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(1) The WAC commish is spineless. This has been the case long before he suspended Boyd. His ineffective leadership of the WAC produced the Mountain West and CUSA-West. The emails that he has sent to LaTech fans have been completely unprofessional. He has always waited for people to tell him what to do and has never done anything proactively. He should have been fired long ago, and that has nothing to with Boyd.

(2) The rest - If you judge the replay on initial impressions, it is easy to see how you may first conclude that Boyd initiated contact with his helmet. If you frame-by-frame the hit, however, (and I doubt Redding, Parry, Blackwood or Benson even bothered to do this), you can clearly tell that Boyd came into the tackle arms out into the chest of Toliver. That is technically not a violation of the rule. The two SEC officials that were right there must have agreed, and we are left with two replay angles that are shot from anglest that will produce a perspective bias (making it harder to judge distances between objects that are closer to the camera from those that are further from the camera). At the end of the day, the officials on the field have the best view. How could something that they think wasn't even a foul now be found to be flagrant???

Here is what happened: Legal hit was made on the field. It was close, they could have thrown a flag. Miles, being a titty baby, and probably hearing complaints from his fans, decided to submit the thing for review. Redding watches the low-definition replay once or twice and sees Boyd launch, make contact with another player's helmet and leave the player lying on the ground for a minute or so. He thinks to himself, this is the type of penalty I wrote that rule to protect against (i.e., does not even look at the rule and analyze whether contact was initiated below the shoulders first; certainly doesn't frame-by-frame the hit). He calls Parry and Blackwood (in some order); they conference call, and he tells Parry and Blackwood what he thinks. They look at the play without analyzing frame-by-frame and agree. Blackwood tells Benson what happens, and Benson - wanting to protect Boise State first and foremost (and having a history of treating Tech has a second-class member of the league) - goes along with the recommendation so he doesn't have to take any political heat.

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Game over...next

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Tell that to Miles.

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Here's the bigger issue:
T1 provides a link above which quotes a NCAA official (Parry)who refers to his discusssions with the WAC and Rogers Redding (SEC supervisor of officials).
Based on this memo,it appears the NCAA intervened on the call, not the SEC.If that is true (and I am not sure it is, it just appears so from the memo), this is quite an indictment of the SEC. The memo also says the official should be disciplined. Was he?
Is the SEC saying ANYTHING about this?

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Miles confesses:

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Enough said.

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You guys just don't understand how spineless the WAC commissioner is.

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Not sure what was so convincing at the 0:36 mark...

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Yes, if you watch from 36-38 seconds, you will see Boyd's arms contact Toliver before H2H contact occurs.