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Gridiron Gurus 2011-2012
The Guru's Locks of the Week (NCAA Edition)
SEC WEST
(1) LSU--Just at the right place at the right time, enough experienced talent in the inexperienced but talented SEC West, and they have the right schedule.
(2) Auburn--Repeat to ATL is attainable, but this year AU travels to the SEC Champ roadblock, Baton Rouge. Coaching and defense gets it done this year for the Real Tigers.
(3) Alabama--Lost 3 best players on offense, but while they have enough talent in the tank to make a run at ATL, they just don't have the right players at the right positions to make this dream a reality.
(4) Arkansas--Key talent at key positions, but the defense is not strong enough to compete for a SEC West title.
(5) Mississippi State--Typical season in the SEC West with the Mississippi teams at the bottom.
(6) Ole Miss--Ditto.
SEC EAST
(1) UGA--Aaron Murray is just too damn good in a wide open East. UGA rights the ship in 2011.
(2) Tennessee--Dooley has his team heading for glory in the near future, just not enough eggs to put in the SEC Champ basket quite yet.
(3) South Carolina--Two extremely dynamic players on offense in Lattimore and Alshan, but Garcia will fox it up and the defense remains a weak area.
(4) Florida--Will Muschamp wishes he was back in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.
(5) Kentucky--Just don't have it to compete.
(6) Vanderbilt--Great baseball team.
SEC AWARDS
SEC Off. POY--Aaron Murray (UGA) (Best QB in nation)
SEC Def. POY--Barkevious Mingo (LSU)
SEC Freshman of the Year--Trevon Reed (AU)
SEC COY--Derek Dooley (Tenn)
SEC CG -- LSU 24, UGA 21
BCS Champ--No SEC team will finish undefeated. Old Big 12 rivals Texas and Nebraska, who benefits from a weak Big 10, meet in the BCS Championship, with Texas coming out on top 31-27.
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Possible GGW Expansion?
GGW Headquarters -- The GGW is looking into possibly expanding the league from 12 to 14 franchises for the upcoming 2011-2012 season.
With the league's popularity continuing to rise annually and what looks like a solid foundation of twelve owners, the league thinks this year may be the best time to expand. The biggest question would be obviously who would join the exclusive league. However, the more controversial factor might be how to keep the established twelve franchises happy with the changes and the new franchises comfortable that they are getting a fair opportunity.
"Our first priority is to make sure we have 12 committed Gurus for the upcoming season. After that is settled, we will do what we do every offseason and that is to go thru the process of improving the upcoming season as best we can." Commishioner Hegarty said in a statement.
"Obviously, the shake up will hurt some teams more than others. However, going to a fourteen team league will also be greatly beneficial for our owners, players and fans," said Hegarty in his office. "Fourteen teams will allow us to have a balanced thirteen game schedule where all teams play each other once. It will make the league more challenging than it is currently, and that's pretty strong when you already had six different franchises in the last three Championship games."
One would think that if the league goes ahead with expansion that there would have to be some sort of expansion draft for the new owners. While some of the current franchises may lose out on a valuable keeper in the draft, will owners accept this rule for the betterment of the league?
Achillies's Boys owner, Anthony Vlahos, seemed interested in the opportunity for the league, "It will definitely need to be looked into with greater detail, but I like where the Commish is going. There has to be some sort of "unprotect" deal," said the Greek.
Possible Solutions:
- Each existing owner designates his keepers like normal, but he then must release 1-2 keepers into the expansion pool. If the expansion owner elects to keep said keeper, then the existing owner can pull back all other keepers. Some may say well.... why doesn't the existing owner just keep someone they don't want and then throw him into the expansion pool? Because the existing owner would then be on the hook for that "undesired player".
-The expansion owner take a look at the rosters and pick 5 players that interest them from each team. Then the Gurus select their keepers and any players that were on the "Expansion List", but not kept by the Gurus are eligible to be selected by the new owners.
With the league's popularity continuing to rise annually and what looks like a solid foundation of twelve owners, the league thinks this year may be the best time to expand. The biggest question would be obviously who would join the exclusive league. However, the more controversial factor might be how to keep the established twelve franchises happy with the changes and the new franchises comfortable that they are getting a fair opportunity.
"Our first priority is to make sure we have 12 committed Gurus for the upcoming season. After that is settled, we will do what we do every offseason and that is to go thru the process of improving the upcoming season as best we can." Commishioner Hegarty said in a statement.
"Obviously, the shake up will hurt some teams more than others. However, going to a fourteen team league will also be greatly beneficial for our owners, players and fans," said Hegarty in his office. "Fourteen teams will allow us to have a balanced thirteen game schedule where all teams play each other once. It will make the league more challenging than it is currently, and that's pretty strong when you already had six different franchises in the last three Championship games."
One would think that if the league goes ahead with expansion that there would have to be some sort of expansion draft for the new owners. While some of the current franchises may lose out on a valuable keeper in the draft, will owners accept this rule for the betterment of the league?
Achillies's Boys owner, Anthony Vlahos, seemed interested in the opportunity for the league, "It will definitely need to be looked into with greater detail, but I like where the Commish is going. There has to be some sort of "unprotect" deal," said the Greek.
Possible Solutions:
- Each existing owner designates his keepers like normal, but he then must release 1-2 keepers into the expansion pool. If the expansion owner elects to keep said keeper, then the existing owner can pull back all other keepers. Some may say well.... why doesn't the existing owner just keep someone they don't want and then throw him into the expansion pool? Because the existing owner would then be on the hook for that "undesired player".
-The expansion owner take a look at the rosters and pick 5 players that interest them from each team. Then the Gurus select their keepers and any players that were on the "Expansion List", but not kept by the Gurus are eligible to be selected by the new owners.
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