The greatest college flick of all time
Everyone's a film critic, so here's your chance. We want you to tell us which college flick is the best of all time and why. Did it resonate with your own experiences, make you laugh like a loon on nitrous oxide, or both? There are a bunch of greats, but for our money, we'll go with "Horsefeathers" -- a classic Marx Brothers howler that has the whole of campus life covered. Try sitting through Professor Wagstaff's peashooter-besieged biology class with a straight face. (You'll never hear the phrase "an army of white phagocytes" quite the same way again.) The epic gridiron showdown between good old Huxley College and archrival Darwin makes any Michigan - Ohio State tilt look tame. Need a password to get into the local watering hole? Try "swordfish." And who among us hasn't lusted after the college widow at one time or another? What's your choice? Who is the next Vince Young?
Now that Young has moved on to the Tennessee Titans, his place at the college game's most electric game-breaking quarterback is up for grabs. We see five top candidates -- Troy Smith (Ohio State), Pat White (West Virginia), Drew Stanton (Michigan St.), Brent Schaeffer (Mississippi), and Jeff Ballard (TCU) -- but want to know who your choices are. Do you agree with any or all of ours? Are we overlooking anyone? And, on the flip side: do you think any team has a shot at the title with a less-than-fleet-footed passer calling the signals? What's your take? Madden Nation
"They could easily crank out new editions of Madden every year featuring new rosters, maybe some spiffed-up graphics and nothing else new. But they don’t. Instead, they at least make an effort to change it up and, some years more successfully than others, they always seem to innovate."
Which college produces the best NFL players?
"After copying down every player who appeared on an NFL game roster in 2005 and sorting them by college, we devised a six-point scale and gave every player a score based on what role they played in each game (a start was worth more than a substitution) and the outcome (a win was worth more than a loss). The totals for all players from each school are tabulated in Alumni Success Points. To see how the performance of a school's players squared up with the perceptions of NFL scouts, we also ranked schools by how popular their players have been in five recent NFL Drafts -- a statistic we call Draft Success Points. By dividing a college's Alumni Success Points by its Draft Success Points, we were able to give each school a "Draft Value," which shows whether or not its players have lived up to their draft promise -- in other words, whether a school is overrated or underrated by the NFL." Got all that? If not, the bottom line speaks for itself. Here are the top five schools and their Average Success Points: 1. Florida State – 2,720 2. Florida – 2,450 3. Georgia – 2,420 4. Tennessee – 2,350 5. Ohio State – 2,310 So that's the Moneyball way of looking at the question. Now we want to hear what you think. Our first impression is that any school that produces Santana Moss, Clinton Portis, Edgerrin James and Jeremy Shockey should be No. 1, but the WSJ has Miami ranked No. 7. What's your take?  |
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