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is it 3 games or 6

I was reading espn today and not only did I see the new top 25 which Im not happy about but I also saw somewhere it saying because of the cheeting thing the players will be out for 6 games not the first 3. Anyone know what the deal is with that. If thats the case man next year is going to suck. Also I saw that the only FSU game that is going to be shown on ESPN will be the FUS vs NCST  (Thurs.night game). Dont get me wrong Im glad because thats my house, wifes from raleigh and is a wolfpack fan but come on. I hope miami and fsu kick A@# this year and people remember how we play football in the south. The SEC is not the only conference down there.

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a new start

Well there is one good thing about all the things going on at FSU. They might get a new start. I just feel bad for Jimbo. Hes being set up for failure. Hes going to be given control over a crapy team form a very prestigious football school. whats going to happen to him Im afraid is that hes going to have a hard time with what he has and everyone going to blame him for the out come. I hope Im wrong but I think thats how people see it. I mean look at what we have as a team. Drew Weatherford back at QB. HIS NOT Chris Weinke. At RB we have Antone Smith, who I like but hes not going to run up the gut and get very far. At the same time with the line how is he going to get out side so he can use his speed. There are a few FB and RB with some size that could help out a lot. At WR we lost the MVP, but I think thats a good thing. We still have Greg Carr and a Fr thats like 6'6 also. I dont know about the TE but if you use them they couldnt hurt. I also dont know much about the D but man they could use a lot more speed. I know I dont know very much about the team but I do love FSU. I just hope that Jimbo gets a far chance. I think he will become a great coach and I think we could see the top 25 post season in 2 years. mabye even top 10 but well see this fall how the cards are played. First things first if we can get to the ACC championship then next year win it then start to look at the nat. champ.

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Welcome to the new Tomahawk Nation and SB Nation

Hey Tomahawk Nation,

Today is the big day. We've switched your community over to the new SB Nation sports blog platform. My name is Trei, and I'm here to help you get adjusted to the new home we've built for you. If you have questions or trouble with the new system, post a comment in this thread and myself or one of the team (lovitt, sixfoot6 or odacrem) will try to point you in the right direction.

Before we begin, I want to let you know we still consider this a beta platform, so don't be surprised if you find a few bugs or if everything isn't exactly right yet. We hope you'll take the time to report any problems you encounter at bugreport@sbnation.com. We'll be continuing to make changes and improving things.

Please take a few minutes to read about what's new below. But if you just can't wait to jump in, here are some quick things to check out:

  1. Sign up for your SB Nation network account and claim your old blog accounts
  2. Once you're logged in, press your  Z  key in any thread with new comments
  3. Explore your dashboard and setup your profile
  4. Read the guide to the new FanPost editor
  5. Install the FanShot bookmarklet and post videos to Tomahawk Nation from YouTube or images from Flickr
  6. Click the "Rec" button on posts and comments to help other people find the good stuff.
  7. Customize display options on your Edit Settings page

What Has Changed

SB Nation Network Accounts - the Big Change

Readers across all of our blogs told us they wanted one account to use on every SB Nation blog. To make this work, we're requiring that everyone create a new SB Nation network account. In most cases you should be able to keep your old username, but a few of you may have to choose something new, since every other community in SB Nation will be going through this same transition. We tried to be as fair as possible in deciding who gets to keep which name, using a formula that takes into account length of membership and frequency of activity.

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to participate on all of our blogs, but we don't want to encourage everyone to start visiting rival team blogs and initiating flame wars. To maintain friendly communities we ask that you explicitly join each blog in order to participate. It's a two-click process, but it does means accepting each blog's community guidelines. Just as you join each blog individually, you can be banned on each blog individually.

You can claim old accounts from multiple SB Nation blogs, and your new username will be retroactively attached to all your old comments and diaries. So now you'll be able to access all your writings from your single profile page... like magic.

To get started, click here to claim your old blog accounts and create a new SB Nation network account.

FanPosts (the Section Formerly Known as Diaries)

We changed their name. Why? Because we took this major upgrade as an opportunity to leave behind some vocabulary that never made much sense for a sports blog. SB Nation is the network of, by and for fans, and these are the blog posts we make. So we call them FanPosts. When you're at a bar telling someone to check out your online sports opinions, you don't have to suggest they read your diary.

FanPosts are displayed differently on the homepage - we include your avatar to give more credit for the time you spend writing great posts. The new post editor has a WYSIWYG view that provides easy formatting. It also auto-saves drafts so you don't have to worry about losing your work when you compose a post within the web browser. And you can now associate teams, players and games with your posts: these tools promote your FanPosts on our new team, player and game pages - across the entire network.

The new system does not work like the old diary editor. For example, in HTML mode the new editor doesn't auto-create a new paragraph from two line breaks. But it does offer a whole array of new features. Look for the blinking help button on the right side of the FanPost editor for quick tips, and take a look at our full guide to writing FanPosts on the new platform.

IMPORTANT - if you write your posts in Microsoft Word or some other off-line editor, you will get the most reliable behavior if you cut & paste your post into the HTML view of the FanPost editor. And if you do that, remember to wrap <p></p> tags around each paragraph so your text doesn't run together.

Visual Redesign

This one is probably the most obvious change of all. Like other major websites working to improve readability for their audience, we've adopted a fixed-width layout optimized for the 1024 x 768 resolution used by the majority of Tomahawk Nation and SB Nation network users. Use the switcher below the user menu if you prefer the wider layout designed for 1280 monitors. We've introduced a top navigation bar with quick links into old and new sections of the site. We also polished a few edges, made some things larger, others smaller and moved a few boxes here and there. More changes and adjustments to come.

Search

We've completely replaced the old search engine with a new one. We're excited to make it easier to find old posts and comments, but we've only taken our first pass on the tools we're offering. We're focused on making search even better than what you had before, so please know that we're aware search is missing key features and we're working on it.

What's New

Schedule, Scores, Stats and Roster

Tomahawk Nation now has all the basic information about the Florida St. Seminoles and hundreds of other teams. During games you'll see a regularly updated line score, and as the season progresses we'll track team stat totals and leaders. This is just our first step, so look for us to publish more detailed and archival stats in the future. The best part about all this sports data is that we've integrated it directly into the blog so. We now have special pages that aggregate all blog posts written about games, players and teams.

Recommending FanPosts

Some writing deserves more attention and more conversation. If you want to bump a FanPost up to the top and keep it there for awhile, just click the 'Rec' link under the body of the post. When a FanPost receives enough recommendations it will make the recommended list.

Auto-refreshing Comments

You no longer need to refresh the page to see new comments. If you're logged in, new comments will automatically appear on the page every few seconds. When you post a comment, the page will not refresh either. If you want to quickly cycle through all the new comments, you can press the C key on your keyboard. Unmark a new comment after you've read it with the X key. And use the Z key if you want to umark comments as you're cycling through them.

As you use these shortcuts to cycle through comments, press the R key to reply to the current comment. All these helpful keyboard shortcuts are listed at the top of each comments section for reference.

Recommending Comments

Now you can reward those folks who take the time to look up stats and make smart arguments in the comments. Next to each comment there is an 'actions' link that you can click to find the recommend and flag options.

Flagging Comments

To help the moderators on a site, we've built-in tools that let you flag comments that are spam, trolling or just plain inappropriate. Only moderators can see those flags.

FanShots

Many members of the community just want to post that one link, video, photo or quote, but don't need a full FanPost. We've got you covered: FanShots let you share YouTube videos, Flickr or PhotoBucket photos, quotes from articles, portions of chat transcripts, top 5 lists and simple links. If it's a video or image we'll put a thumbnail on the homepage when you post it.

For those of you who are experienced internet hunter-gatherers of Florida St. Seminoles material, install the bookmarklet onto the links bar of your browser and share FanShots with the community from wherever on the web you find that killer quote or photo.

Archives

It's much easier to find that post about a certain deadline trade or prospect retro feature. You can browse by year and month.

Avatars

Upload an image so folks can see your custom avatar on your profile, your FanPosts, and all your comments.

Network Profiles

Now that we have unified SB Nation network accounts, your profile will be your central hub for all of your activity on any blogs where you are a member.

Network bar

The top bar stays with you on all SB Nation blogs. It's a quick way to login and logout. When you're logged in, you'll see your avatar and screen name which links to your profile. The icon to the right leads to your Dashboard area where you can edit your settings, profile, account details and any FanPosts or FanShots you've published. As we add more blogs to the new SB Nation network, the My Blogs menu will be a handy way to navigate between the blogs you've joined.

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There are plenty more small changes and additions we've made, so please take a careful look around and explore this new system. We appreciate your patience and hope you'll help us improve the new platform for this and all the other SB Nation blogs.

And in case you missed it, you'll want to start by claiming your old blog accounts and creating a new SB Nation network account.

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MMORPG football game

the site is http://goallineblitz.com/game/signup.pl?ref=542252.

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Exciting New Football Team in Florida

All true Florida State Football fans, there is a new Professional football league starting this April that will feature former college standouts from all over Florida.

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Check out this basketball game!

I have been working on this game for quite some time now.  I want to know what everyone thinks, click the link to play (Flash required).

http://www.studiotiga.com/hoops.html

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Jacksonville Lands FSU-Colorado...

The third game in the two-for-one deal will be in Jacksonville on Sep. 27.

Last year FSU defeated Alabama in Jacksonville in a one-game contract with the Crimson Tide.

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Fisher to West Virginia?

Joe Schad immediately threw out Jimbo's name as the replacement to Rich Rodriguez, despite the new title of "Head Coach-in-Waiting."  Guess his new contract with us would come with a $2.5M buyout, so hopefully that deters them from pursuing him.

Allegedly he was going to be in line for the job last year had Rich taken the Alabama job like everyone thought he would.

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ACC Championship Location on the Move to Tampa!?

GREENSBORO, NC -- The Atlantic Coast Conference has awarded its future Football Championship Games to Tampa Bay and to Charlotte, John Swofford, the Commissioner of the ACC, announced Wednesday....

JScott:

This is fairly interesting news. I'm kind of disheartened by it, as I enjoyed Jacksonville and its one of a kind stadium, but as they say, "The show must go on" ..... Tampa isnt a bad site at all, especially since the games will be played in MY Tampa Bay Buccaneer's Raymond James Stadium in '08 & '09..... Not Bad, Not Bad at all, until of course the Championship Game moves to the Carolina Panthers Dome (Charlotte) in 2010 & 2011.... They moved on this issue pretty quick. I can't say I'm that shocked. I know this excites a lot of you...

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Petey Smith: One of FSU's Top '09 Prospects

Petey is a linebacker/defensive end from Armwood and this kid is the truth.

The things that stand out are his ability to go from sideline to sideline and his strength, the kid has legs like tree trunks.

Check out his evaluation

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