From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: Miami scheduling again
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:43:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: m.1992Nov18.174303.14522
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL

creasman@cheshire.oxy.edu (Scott Michael Creasman) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov16.181537.1824@m.cs.uiuc.edu> bharat@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>>>Miami can and SHOULD avoid this rematch -- as you said, very little to
>>>>gain, and a LOT to lose... sorry, FSU you had a shot.

>>>>PS: I am NOT a Miami fine, and last year blasted them for ducking
>>>>Florida (no question they did!), but this year I think they are
>>>>entitled to avoid FSU (if the coalition rules allow it) as they
>>>>already trounced them.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I posted this before but it didn;t get through.  I meant to say "BEAT"
not trounced -- don't know how that got in (Freudian:-).

To all the FSU fans who objected note that I had said earlier that FSU
was the only team that could beat Miami 5 times out of 10 today...

But, also said that Miami beat FSU fair and square.  And to the poster
who said FSU outgained Miami etc. that is true -- I watched the game,
and was pulling mightily for FSU -- and I saw FSU domainate for the
first 45 minutes and yet fail to put Miami away -- Miami was always
coming up with the play to force FSU to try for a FG etc.  It shoudl
never have been close, BUT IT WAS and that was as much due to the
Miami defense as it was to the ineptitude of FSU's offense.

And in the 4th quarter Miami just pulled it out and made a great drive
or two ...

>If I remember correctly Florida State missed atleast three very
>makeable field goals during that game.  And a trouncing is not a
>victory by 3 points.  Miami has got to be one of the luckiest teams
>in the country.

Thats sour grapes Scott -- face it FSU LOST; they should and could
have won, but they didn't.  FSU played much better for 50+ minutes,
but their inability to capitalize cost them dearly.  To say Miami is
lucky is plain wrong -- they played well enough to keep it close and
FSU failed yet again.. so, even though I would root for FSU in a
rematch, my hat is off to Miami --- all I can say to FSU folk, try
again next year.

>ScoTT

PS: no one has answered my question -- if Miami and FSU end up ranked
1 and 2, does the boal coalition guarantee a re-match even though they
played before or does Miami have the option of picking someone else?
If that is the case (which was all I said earlier and got obscured by
the "trounced" mis-statement:-) IMO, Miami CAN and SHOULD schedule 
someone other than FSU, and I will support them, even though its clear
to me that FSU is about the only team as good or better than Miami
right now (note: by that I mean IMO FSU would win 5 out of 10 times in
a rematch -- not to say Miami can;t be beaten by another team -- for
example, Syracuse, but the odds on that are much lower -- say 2 out of
10 or so).

Bharat
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