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From: jmh@ltuxa.UUCP (Jon M. Hanrath)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Bowl Results/Conference Strengths/#
Message-ID: <344@ltuxa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 08:28:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 08:28:11 1986
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Reply-To: jmh@ltuxa.UUCP (64lt503310-Jon M. Hanrath)
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Summary: 

>the big-8 is and how penn state was superior to OU.  net.footballers seem to 
>know a LOT about rah-rah-rah my conference is better, sis-boom-bah my team is
>better, but don't seem know much about football beyond what they read in
>the campus newspapers.  half the people in the big-10 probably think
>michigan had the highest ranked defense in college football.  all of
>this regional/conference pride also results in regional ignorance.  most
>of you putting down a different conference know nothing about it.  i've
>lived in new-york, arizona, montana, texas, oklahoma and illinios.
>you all bitch about the same things.  and you all know very little about
>what you are bitching about.
>
>please post the rest of the "my team deserves #1" etc. type postings
>under the subject "more sour grapes" or "we didn't win, so the
>ranking system must be wrong."  you know, every single coach in the UPI
>poll voted OU #1.  did you ever think just for a moment "yes, yes!!  these
>men who devoted their lives to football just might know a tad more about
>it that i do??"  /* minor exception, barry switzer voted for frezno state */
>
>	ron vaughn	...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv

While I agreed with most of your article, I don't think you should say things
like "half the people in the big-10" and "you all bitch".  Generalizations get
you no where with the people you are trying to impress.  I am a Big-10 fan,
and I pull for the Big-10, but at the same time I have posted numerous articles
which go "against" the Big-10, i.e. the past articles "explaining" the Big-10's
failings in the Rose Bowl , I thought, were not true, and I said so.  I also
think that there is no doubt who should be rated number 1, OU, though it's
always fun to hear other netters thoughts.

Maybe next time you could be a bit less severe, as there are those out here
in net-land who aren't totally biased.

Jon Hanrath
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