Steele

[Toledo Prophet]

Ok, so color me a college football nerd.

Last night, I noticed Phil Steele's annual on the magazine rack at my local grocery store. I said to myself that its too early to start buying preview mags. Heck, it aint even summer yet!

That thought lasted five seconds! Threw it in my cart and off I went.

Might be the earliest I have ever bought a preseason annual, but I want some beach/pool reading for the upcoming weekends, and now I am set.

It just feels good to have that magazine at the ready.....now when does Blue Ribbon come out?!?!?! :142smilie

 

[AR182]

Ok, so color me a college football nerd.

Last night, I noticed Phil Steele's annual on the magazine rack at my local grocery store. I said to myself that its too early to start buying preview mags. Heck, it aint even summer yet!

That thought lasted five seconds! Threw it in my cart and off I went.

Might be the earliest I have ever bought a preseason annual, but I want some beach/pool reading for the upcoming weekends, and now I am set.

It just feels good to have that magazine at the ready.....now when does Blue Ribbon come out?!?!?! :142smilie

hey tp...

already bought steele's magazine. will read it after i finish up lindy's college football magazine. imo lindy's is just as good as steele's without the self-serving nonsense that steele is known for...

 

[Dice34]

hey tp...

already bought steele's magazine. will read it after i finish up lindy's college football magazine. imo lindy's is just as good as steele's without the self-serving nonsense that steele is known for...

Steele is a tool...and I'm a little disappointed with this mag.....when it comes to the team pages and capsules it stinks....he talks too much about the past and himself.....I want to know as much as possible about this years team, not what Barry Alvarez did in 99 with the Badgers....this is my 4th year buying his mag and the info just seems to be rehashed junk.....

 

[Toledo Prophet]

Cant really disagree with either of those critiques, but it still wont damper my enthusiasm to finally have a mag on my coffee table!

Yes, Steele is very self serving......some the first and final pages of the mag is just his ego trip.....like his heisman pages......like he needs to remind us every year that in the late 90s he pegged Ricky and Dayne as the winners......jeebus.

AR, I will also be buying Lindy's. When it is all said and done, I will have Steele, Lindy, Blue Ribbon and probably another one like Sporting News. I might not get all my picks right, but I will kinow all about the back up linemen in the Moutain West Conference! Oh, and I am a sucker for Marc Lawrence's magazine, solely because each team has its past 10 years chronicled ATS. I find that very handy as we plug along during the season.

Dice, I agree that some of the review of the past can be too much. If you're a reader of his mag every year like we are, at times its like 'haven't I read some of this before.' On the other hand, i do find plenty of it useful like trying to determine how coaches/programs respond in years after personnel losses and so forth.

Regardless, the purchase of the first football mag means only one thing----they will be kicking the ball off pretty soon!! :00hour

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

funny Phil Steele analysis of the Presidential election (by SMQ)



Reps have won 4 of last 6 but Dems are 6-0 in bad economy since 1932.
Since 1932 Dems have just 9 losing POTUS elections, unfortunately five of them came from 1980-2004. McCain came to the Senate in 1991 and Gingrich established Reps as a Senate and HOR power from 1993-2000. They finished #2 in the polls in 2000 losing seats in DE, FL, MI, MN and MO. They led Congress for 24 straight months until they fell out of first in Nov 2002. I did not make many friends in the DP in 2004 when I pointed out that Kerry needed to win OH and that it would be a tough task with a young VP and an anti-gay marriage initiative on the ballot. The election was even worse than expected as they finished #2 in OH and FL and were outgained by 35 electoral votes with the campaign basically giving up down the stretch. That 2004 campaign was ?31 in red state turnover and lost NM. The Dems returned 44 incumbents in ?06 and I said they would have the most improved record of any house in Congress and could actually flirt with a winning season. After losing Lieberman and trailing the Reps by 11 they ended their 13-year losing streak. VHT Dem Obama won IL and was Senate Frosh of the Year. Despite the Surge in Iraq the key was a Rep culture that went from criticizing waste and corruption to getting indicted (Abramof) and justifying authorization of torture (Gonzales), and the Dems? chances were the best here since 1976 (Wgate!). After knocking off Clinton 27-14 in IA, Barack suffered a tough loss in NH yielding voters over 40 yo but beat HC much worse than the final score indicated on Spr Tues with 13-9 edge in states and 838-826 delegate edge. BO won the next 11 before economy and latent racism did them in vs. HC in TX and OH, a loss that cost them a shot at locking up the nomination. McCain outgained Rep foes by a national best 26 delegates per state and this year actually brings more than the 1,575 listed delegates as he will add 85 superdelegates at the convention. Despite a winning record in the primaries, JM was outgained by $60m in fundraising. Obama does have Rev Wright but has 1m donors and a 4 pt lead in most polls w/ bigger leads in OH and PA. McCain is experienced and a vet but this is a loaded Obama campaign and 6 of my 8 sets of power rankings call for BO to become the first AfAm POTUS.

 

[Cie]

As cheesily as his info is presented, Steele has apparently been beneficial to my bottom line. I'll have Steele and Blue Ribbon in hand by early August.


Looked this up this morning. My posted ncaafb records the past 4 years (05 and 06 seasons posted at a site that several excellent cappers from here used to frequent and viccer is a moderator):


2005: -2.08 without Steele
2006: +48.85 with Steele
2007: +26.78 with Steele
2008: +57.08 with Steele


BTW, I tend to be a touch supersticious:wall:

 

[Cie]

funny Phil Steele analysis of the Presidential election (by SMQ)



Reps have won 4 of last 6 but Dems are 6-0 in bad economy since 1932.
Since 1932 Dems have just 9 losing POTUS elections, unfortunately five of them came from 1980-2004. McCain came to the Senate in 1991 and Gingrich established Reps as a Senate and HOR power from 1993-2000. They finished #2 in the polls in 2000 losing seats in DE, FL, MI, MN and MO. They led Congress for 24 straight months until they fell out of first in Nov 2002. I did not make many friends in the DP in 2004 when I pointed out that Kerry needed to win OH and that it would be a tough task with a young VP and an anti-gay marriage initiative on the ballot. The election was even worse than expected as they finished #2 in OH and FL and were outgained by 35 electoral votes with the campaign basically giving up down the stretch. That 2004 campaign was ?31 in red state turnover and lost NM. The Dems returned 44 incumbents in ?06 and I said they would have the most improved record of any house in Congress and could actually flirt with a winning season. After losing Lieberman and trailing the Reps by 11 they ended their 13-year losing streak. VHT Dem Obama won IL and was Senate Frosh of the Year. Despite the Surge in Iraq the key was a Rep culture that went from criticizing waste and corruption to getting indicted (Abramof) and justifying authorization of torture (Gonzales), and the Dems? chances were the best here since 1976 (Wgate!). After knocking off Clinton 27-14 in IA, Barack suffered a tough loss in NH yielding voters over 40 yo but beat HC much worse than the final score indicated on Spr Tues with 13-9 edge in states and 838-826 delegate edge. BO won the next 11 before economy and latent racism did them in vs. HC in TX and OH, a loss that cost them a shot at locking up the nomination. McCain outgained Rep foes by a national best 26 delegates per state and this year actually brings more than the 1,575 listed delegates as he will add 85 superdelegates at the convention. Despite a winning record in the primaries, JM was outgained by $60m in fundraising. Obama does have Rev Wright but has 1m donors and a 4 pt lead in most polls w/ bigger leads in OH and PA. McCain is experienced and a vet but this is a loaded Obama campaign and 6 of my 8 sets of power rankings call for BO to become the first AfAm POTUS.

:142smilie :142smilie

 

[THE KOD]

I got Steels mag the other day.

Good reading material when I have to take a healthy crap.

Time does fly when your between grunts.

 

[bej0101]

I got Steels mag the other day.

Good reading material when I have to take a healthy crap.

Time does fly when your between grunts.

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[Skipper]

Had Stoole on my radio show the day and enjoyed the interview. I DON"T think he is a good capper, but love his annual and information galore.

He covers his ass on the most improved teams and surprise teams? They are in my opinion the same thing and I called him on it, but overall he was a good interview and will have him back

Six weeks from glory!!:00hour

 

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Cie Grant, nice record!

Skipper, YOUR show?

 

[Skipper]

Have a couple of shows here in Knoxville. Friday afternoons from 4-6 and Saturday from 11-1
1180espn.com

We try to stay away from the same old fire foolmore shit that you hear. We had calls from Michigan and cali last year. When college ball starts we love getting tips on games:00hour

Shameless plug:mj07: