Samford Rundown – Optimistic Nole Is Optimistic

Something to get you ready for tomorrow: Finally. Finally, the 2010 FSU Football season arrives. Finally, there is joy and hope in Tallahassee. Finally, there is a reason to feel good about the Noles chances. Finally, fans can watch a relevant and up to date product on the field. Seminoles everywhere it’s time to put aside your feelings about the last 35 years, positive or negative  and put forth your heartfelt cheers, your Seminole pride, your intensity and your FANATICISM. It’s time to unite under the Garnet & Gold flags at Doak Campbell Stadium at high noon tomorrow or from the friendly confines of your home or favorite bar in front of the TV. Tomorrow it’s good to be a Seminole football fan again. Let’s be... [Read more]

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Stupid Samford Fans

The title is misleading, I realize. Normally, what would follow is a bunch of YouTube videos about stupid fans of our opponent this week, Samford. However, I’ve come up with nothing. Ab-so-freakin-lutely nothing. Evidently these Samford kids are a stand up bunch and/or are bright enough to not put every stupidity out there on the Internet for me to abuse here on ScalpEm.com. Samford Kids 1 NoleCC 0 – Congratulations on your big victory of the weekend. It ends here. The only thing mildly entertaining that I found was this Uber Creepy Samford Cheerleader video. Since I don’t have anything ELSE exciting, I figured I would get everyone fired up for Saturday with this rendition of the Warchant…  Read More →

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2010 Preseason Jimbotron IS HERE

Finally, the time is here for the JIMBOTRON to go weekly! I’ve run the numbers through the ScalpEm.com Super Computer twice and it’s obvious that expectations for Jimbo Fisher and the 2010 Seminoles are HIGH. Extremely high. Like, can’t go any higher unless the Noles take out Oklahoma in two weeks at which point Jimbotron will break. Also, excitement for the 2010 season is also high. For the first time in years, there’s a feeling of optimism amongst Noles. The next Jimbotron voting period starts Sunday at midnight and runs through Tuesday, with next week’s up on Wednesday again. Don’t forget to vote!  Read More →

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Gameday Tips & Tricks For Noles

There are a bunch of articles about our Noles heading into the Samford game. Let’s be honest though, short of Samford pulling out a miraculous victory the game isn’t a big deal. Yes, it’s Jimbo Fisher‘s first game, but we don’t find out much about the team, the new defense or Jimbo as a head coach until next week when FSU travels to play the Oklahoma Sooners. So instead of me sitting here and telling you about how great FSU is going to be on Saturday and how badly they’ll probably rip the Samford Bulldogs by halftime I thought I would share some tips for those of you heading to Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday. Load Up On The Sunscreen – Thanks to ESPNU’s coverage of the game, the Noles are playing... [Read more]

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15,000 Seats Remain For Saturday

This Saturday, September 4, Seminole fans everywhere have new hope. The Jimbo Fisher era begins, but thanks to stupid scheduling, ESPN and a crappy economic climate there are still 15,000 seats available for the Noles vs. Bulldogs. What I find interesting and somewhat hilarious is that anybody is surprised by this, including Jimbo Fisher and the Orlando Sentinel’s Andrew Carter. AC’s thoughts: As of Friday, about 15,000 tickets remained for the game on Saturday. Fifteen-thousand. When told the number, Jimbo Fisher seemed surprised. And so am I. Amid all the excitement surrounding the start of the Fisher era, I never thought there’d be that many tickets left this close to kickoff. As a longtime fan and attendee of games at Doak... [Read more]

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Ten Days From Now

Ten days from now, I’ll be finishing up the Garnet & Gold slow cooker breakfast. Ten days from now, the Marching Chiefs will be ready to play for 3+ hours strong. Ten days from now, I’ll have the car packed cooler, chairs and food ready to roll out. Ten days from now, you can put the game day flags on your car. Ten days from now, I’ll double check my tickets. Ten days from now, you can put your gameday caps on. Ten days from now, I’ll hang the Booster pass in my car window. Ten days from now, Christian Ponder starts his Heisman Trophy run. Ten days from now, I’ll have the poncho ready… just in case. Ten days from now, Jimbo Fisher will lead the Noles out of the tunnel. Ten days from now, we as Seminoles... [Read more]

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Monday FSU Football Randomness

Hi everyone! It’s less than two weeks until fans like myself can head down to Doak Campbell Stadium to watch the first edition of the Seminoles under Jimbo Fisher play their first game. The program might wear the same garnet and gold as its predecessors, but there’s a whole new process behind them. It’s time to start getting extremely excited for 2010 FSU Football. Randomness: Heads up for FSU Football fans of the late 90′s domination era. I should be having a book review / giveaway for readers in the near future. Interested in what I’m talking about? Check out FSU TE Ryan Sprague’s website. I’ll let you guys know more about the giveaway when I have more info. Judging by the Twitter updates of various... [Read more]

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Fan Confidence Poll Voting Open

This is the first REAL Fan Confidence Poll of 2010. It’s the preseason poll that will debut on September 1. It’s also the beginning of WEEKLY POLLING of the fans. The weekly poll will open after FSU games (generally the next morning) and will run for 3 Days. So, if FSU plays on a Saturday, Sun-Tues will be the voting days. I’ll post the results on Wednesday in that case, so that we can digest how Seminoles everywhere are feeling headed into the next game. The poll is intentionally ambiguous, answer it based on whatever criteria you wish, but here are some suggestions: Recruiting Successes or Disappointments Upcoming Opponents Latest Results Injuries Surprises At Practice Weather Solar Flares (whatever you feel like considering) Leave... [Read more]

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2010 BlogPoll: Preliminary Preseason Ballot

Please check out my first attempt at my ballot for the SB Nation BlogPoll Top 25. If you’d like to see changes explain what you’d like to change and why in the comments section of this post. ScalpEm.com Ballot – Week 1 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide – 2 Boise St. Broncos – 3 Texas Longhorns – 4 Florida Gators – 5 Ohio St. Buckeyes – 6 Virginia Tech Hokies – 7 Iowa Hawkeyes – 8 TCU Horned Frogs – 9 Oregon Ducks – 10 Oklahoma Sooners – 11 Wisconsin Badgers – 12 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets – 13 Nebraska Cornhuskers – 14 LSU Tigers – 15 Pittsburgh Panthers – 16 Miami Hurricanes – 17 Penn... [Read more]

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Noles Magic Number Is 8 Gut Reaction Season Prediction

I’m late to the “Preseason OMG SUPER DUPER Prediction” hype. Why? Frankly, as a long time sports fan I’ve grown a dislike for hype in general. In fact, I probably don’t have a problem with recruiting news but with the hype that surrounds recruiting. It’s nice to be educated about opponents (Tomahawk Nation does this the best imho), it’s nice to understand the outlook for the Noles too, but at the end of the day I just want to watch some football. I think my attitude towards the hype is what keeps me grounded when it comes to my opinions of FSU sports. Preface aside, I humbly put forth my 2010 Gut Reaction Season Prediction (MattD at TN will berate me for the lack of statistics, so for him I will assign... [Read more]

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Let’s talk FSU’s upcoming basketball schedule

OK, I know it’s nearly college football season with our favorite college team putting the toe to leather (as Gene Deckerhoff likes to say) in less than a month and few are thinking ahead to the start of basketball season. But in a week or two the season schedule of FSU’s basketball team will be released. So let’s go over what we know as to who will be on the schedule or who might be. The Mercer Bears will be an early season opponent coming to the civic center on November 23rd to finish that home and home contract. The ‘Noles destroyed the Bears last year 89-50. We know that the Seminoles will play Billy Donovan’s team in Tallahassee on November 28th the day after the annual football clash. Donovan’s... [Read more]

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Late Jimbotron Is LATE

It’s really, really late this month. I’m sorry. The good news is that optimism is running high… prior to injuries and arrests anyway. Voting will open at the end of the month prior to the Samford game on September 4. I’ll spread the word here and on Twitter of course.  Read More →

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FSU Football Items Of Interest

There’s plenty going on around the FSU Football team and plenty of places to read about. I thought I’d share some of the highlights from the last few days: From Andrew Carter’s Blog (Orlando Sentinel) Special visitor at Florida State practice today: Mickey Andrews. He watched about three-quarters of practice. Obviously, the current staff welcomes Andrews’ presence. Andrews told sports information man Bob Thomas that he hadn’t cursed since the Gator Bowl. I think I’m still laughing at that. Bud Elliot (aka Mr. Tomahawk Nation) has a recap of the first full FSU Football practice that only a lawyer could truly love. Seriously, I enjoy Bud’s stuff. I just like to rib everyone at TN about their sickness joy and passion... [Read more]

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FSU Football Returns, I’m Excited

FSU fans rejoice! FSU Football practice starts today! The long doldrums of summer are nearly over. How do I know? September 4, 2010, the first game of the Jimbo Fisher era at Florida State University is less than one month way. Florida State Football Fan Day is this Sunday, August 8 at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center. Tomahawk Nation is putting out previews that are longer than Atlas Shrugged and that’s just for FSU opponent Oklahoma. The Bobby Bowden Show Jimbo Fisher Call In Show is now live from Hotel Duval in Tallahassee instead of in a television studio. This year, more than any other, is the change many FSU fans, including me, wanted. As a fan, I’m excited. Today, FSU Football takes its first step into 21st century... [Read more]

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This Isn’t About Nigel Carr

This post isn’t about Nigel Carr. The story, however, made me think about other similar situations that I encountered throughout my life. I don’t mean the stuff I’ve read about at FSU either. There’s a long list of players that had troubles and were either forgiven quickly or kicked of the team for multiple offenses. In all of those instances many fans argued that the “kids deserve another chance” and that “well it’s ONLY a 3rd degree felony.” I understand that all things are relative and zero tolerance doesn’t work 100% of the time, but I wonder what the motivation is for people to be “good” when much of society is ready to make excuses until the cows come home. When I... [Read more]

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