Bowl Week Recap Yr1

Heisman is the debate, is it too much? Should we always use it? Does it even make a difference? We would learn all of this in the first SGLNCAA post-season.

First off we start with Mike Paulus, and North Carolina, who finished 2^nd in the ACC behind the eventual NCAA Champion Miami Hurricanes, The got a strange draw as the headed to the Chic Fila Bowl to face off against the Mississippi St. (SEC #4). It was a strange matchup in the fact that Clemson (ACC#3) got an at large bid to play in a BCS bowl. Feeling Slighted Team G3NS handled M St quickly jumping to a 28-0 lead after the first and never looking back. After the game Coach Gens had this to say, “Heisman, what a joke, feels like varsity to me”, a joke it was indeed.

Syracuse, O the Syracuse Orange, deathly afraid of the Jump to the Desmond Howard level. Quoted as saying I will have no chance on Heisman and it will suck, well when you win the Big East Title as Syracuse, its time to look into it. In the real world we’d be looking at point shaving and possible steroid allocations or money from Boosters. Syracuse played Wisconsin (Big Ten #2) If I knew of the matchup I would have thrown the Big Ten title just to beat on the Orange one more time. The won a close game proving themselves as a worthy team to look out for next year but still a few years off from making a run at the Cup.

Notre Dame, the eternal last place in coaches poll first place in media poll, although they did impress with a record breaking recruiting season( 12 blue-chipper 5stars, next closest was 4) They have been claiming that want to play at the Heisman level the whole time but leading 7-6 late over Florida St (Miami beat’em) FSU continued to drive down the field and hit a Field goal to give them the lead as time expired. This would be the most realistic game in all of the Post-Season. Once again leaving Notre Dame as the laughing stock of the SGL.

Michigan, what a Rose Bowl, with star Freshman slot guy, McGuffie out for the Game early, they start behind but go for a pick 6 as time expired in the 2^nd half, Down 10-7, QB Steven Threet(peat), who was once benched for the remainder of the season, scrambled on third and goal for the go ahead TD making it 14-10 with 1:44 left in game. ASU would drive and end up throwing short in hopes of turning to a big game from just outside the red zone, they would be stopped short. Game Michigan, Rose Bowl Michigan, Tan Everywhere, Jan Everywhere.

The Featured Game was the Hurricanes vs the utes(what a weak squad.). When discussing the Heisman jump with Coach Ackermann, prior to kickoff we had this conversation:

“Lets Jump to Heisman Permanently”

 “let me get my ring first”

“If not now then never”

            “You say get’em I say got’em lol”

And so it was Miami beats the Undermanned Mormans. And the shocker of came in his post game press conference in which he announced he has done everything there is to do, and would be perusing new challenges for him and his ego. I know one happy coach in the Raleigh-Durham Area right now.

Michigan Wins Rose Bowl

Michigan survived a Ridiculous onslaught in the RoseBowl but prevailed proving they are poised for a National Championship Run in 2009

They had a hard fought season and if the injury to McGuffie proves anything, its that he will indeed be red-shirted coming this fall.

Who Wants to be our first Victom?

Mich Beat Wisc, Loses to Illinois

Michigan was able to handle the #6 Badgers, but later struggled to mount any sort of offense against the #10 Illini. (Video)
A win over Juice Williams would have surely pushed the Wolverines into the top 25, who eagerly wait #21 Miami.

Michigan has had a long road but has recently had an awaking in the Practice, they have uncovered a dominate force on the depth chart, who that although will not see time this year, and is expected to redshirt next year, will instantly boost the Wolverines title hopes.

Power Rankings

	Rank	Name	Votes
o	1	JJ	20
Ý	2	POC	9
Þ	3	Yann	8
Ý	3	Gens	8
Þ	5	Grif	6

As of Preseason:

1^st = 4 votes

2^nd = 3 votes

3^rd = 2 votes

4^th = 1 vote

5^th = 0 Vote

Season Outlook

Words from a Carolina Blue Sky type of Guy



The Season is only hours in front of us and I sat down and chatted with the real QB#7 and asked for his input into the SGL's first crack at the NCAA 09 Dynasty.

On Notre Dame coming to town October 11th…
“You can expect a great environment. Both sides will play with a lot of heart, determination and effort. It will be a close ballgame. Hats off to best team that is able to pull it out.”

On early season philosophy of UNC/young quarterbacks. “Sling the rock! A lot of youth and talent mean learning on the fly and under fire. We will be running a lot of spread looking to get the ball in the hands of our playmakers- Specifically #88 and #87.”

Challenge to a young Michigan squad. “Not a lot of people run in videogames but if you can master the new features, it could break the game wide open but more importantly control the clock and put pressure on your opponent to score on the few possessions he gets."

On putting pressure on young quarterbacks like the situation at Michigan “Bring some smoke and heat, bring the blitz and make them throw and make decisions that either make mistakes or be a prime time player.”

Miami

The new rivalry with Butch Davis' former team. “Miami is just like us (UNC)-young and athletic. Being away is always tough, especially in ACC. The new stadium will certainly be an adjustment but it will be louder than ever. George Deleone being there with the Dolphins will also get the juices flowing. Keys to beating Miami on the road is to get up on them early. They could be hot coming off an old rivalry game with playing Florida State in week 3. There defense is young and quick so the key will be to jump on their inexperience like we did last year and just stay up. (that’s what she said) It’s all about getting the W on the road. "

On Syracuse
“You have to hope and believe in the hometown team. Comes down to skill. It comes down to the fingers of the player using the wireless controller. Cuse is very good academic institution, clearly took a lot out of mike Williams and will definitely hurt them as far as having any big play type guys beside Lavar Lobdell. I know teams will try to test that Syracuse offensive line early, as it was tested last season, but if the user can make the right reads and get the ball to where it needs to go early in the game, they could surprise some teams.”
“The big east schedule is always tough. If Syracuse can grab a few wins early against some lower quality teams like northwestern they may have the confidence to scare a power like Penn State like they did in the late 80s. You can’t be afraid to make a mistake early in the game because against the great teams you have to take your shots if you want to slay the giant.”

On Tebow being the 99 overall. “Tebow is a beast there is no doubt about that. There are probably only a few defenders in NCAA that would be able to take him down 1 v 1, specifically Erin Andrews.”

Celebrations
"I would definitely run over to Ramsey’s our Carolina mascot and pimp his jersey because he is also #7. He knows what’s up."

SGL NCAA '09 Preview Coming Soon

SGL NCAA '09 Preview

Race for the heisman will commence Tuesday July 15th as 2 of the top 5 quarterbacks in SGL will play each other "Outlined against a blue, gray October" 11 sky in a pivotal week 7 matchup. Which QB#7 will prevail? blogger.com will host Mike Paulus for a Q+A heading into the coveted matchup and touch upon a possible new rivalry to the mix of irish tradition and also what it felt like to have Jimmy rip away a scholarship offer from Notre Dame on National Letter of Intent Day back in February 2007.

As the season approaches more previews to come as well as pre-season SGL rankings, pre-season SGL players of year, and pre-season SGL coaches of Year. Votes will be tallied Monday July 14 and posted before midnight release.

October 11 Matchup

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quarterback rankings

Heisman frontrunner. Only qb to have their own website dedicated to them.

http://www.jimmyclausenonline.org/

New BreakAway Engine

Video (How the New Jukes work)

Season 2 Playoffs Tonight

2K Season 2 Playoff Format:

(3)Kings vs. (2) Magic

(4) Bulls vs. (1) Knicks

We Have to Make a New Tournament

Tourney Name: SGL2

Tourney Pass: nba

·          5 Game Series

·          After Draft Waivers are closed.

·          Trading is still allowed though, although has to be approved.

·          Draft Time 8:45 Tonight (Thursday)

Once everyone has joined the league, we can go in and set our PreDraft Rankings, incase someone can’t make the draft. I’m planning on playing JJ right after the draft. The West can play whenever they feel.

 

NCAA Team Ratings

Ranking	Team	Overall	Offense	Defense
NR	Syracuse	72	73	78
NR	UNC	79	79	80
NR	Notre Dame	81	83	82
NR	Miami	86	83	92
NR	Michigan	84	81	89
#8	West Virginia	84	90	80
#20	BYU	79	88	73

 

Season 2 Playoffs

Playoffs Begin Monday

• No Awards because of the shortened season
• Seeding done by W/L only. Ties -> strength of schedule.
• Finals MVP
  

Unrelated: Apparently we can do an online Draft League in 2k. if anyone wants to do this on the side a lil while we have NCAA football let me know. cuz those games can be played in anyorder.

NCAA Football 2009

Proposed Rules:

4min Qs

All-American

36hrs for Each Game to be played before Simulated by Commissioner.

10min Recruiting if users waiting for Week Advance (otherwise full)

Trophy Ideas:

http://www.trophycentral.com/handsaward.html

we can get any words we want on and a logo for $40.

Could def be used for All of the SGL sports (ncaafb,choops,nba,madden) or we could get a dif trophy for each event haha let me know what you guys think. I think this one is baller. I didn’t check ebay though