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I thought for a second about swapping that game with OU - Miami, but that felt like putting two teams that I thought were better against IU in the second round. I think you could probably drop bama to 12 or 13 for that shit performance in the championship game and then just shift everyone up a notch with just keeping Aggie and nd apart in the 1st round.
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I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the teams that got left out. It’s really hard to say a team with 2+ losses is deserving of a shot at a championship. That said, I think UT and ND are more capable at making a run at it than at least 7 of the teams that did get in. That tells me that 12 isn’t enough. It also confirms my bias that 16 was the right number for a playoff since before they went to 4 teams. This year it could be argued that 4 would be enough. Last year showed that at least 8 is needed to identify a champion. 12 could have been enough this year if bama and 1 of the G6 teams were left out. I think 16 is the right number. It doesn’t discourage compelling early season matchups. It preserves the value of the conference championship games. It includes at least two G6 teams for the occasional Cinderella story. Plus it puts into play the possibility of a G6 team that goes undefeated in their schedule to host a blue blood school for a playoff game delivering the type of event that would only be possible in college football. I think the bids should be: the conference champions of the B1G, SEC, ACC, and Big 12. You win that game and you’re in. That is the biggest piece of not punishing good OOC games. The next two bids should go to the two highest ranked g6 teams. I think including these teams is good for the sport and creates much more interesting story lines for everyone except the fans of the 5th or 6th best sec/b1g team that gets left out. I don’t give a fuck about them. They are probably a better team, maybe, but we know they aren’t one of the best 4-5 teams in their conference. They can get fucked. After those 6 conference champions, give me 10 at-large bids. The committee should be granted some latitude in the seeding to avoid rematches in the first round. My bracket for this year sets up thusly: 1 IU - 16 Duke 8 OU - 9 Miami 5 Ore - 12 BYU 4 TT - 13 Texas 6 Miss - 11 ND 3 OSU - 14 Tul 7 A&M - 10 Bama 2 UGA - 15 JMU IU’s reward, or OSU’s punishment, for the B1G championship game is that OSU and UGA are on the opposite side of the bracket. I didn’t spend much time on seeding, just avoiding 1st round rematches. Looking at it now, I’d get bama away from a second round 3rd game against UGA. But I think that’s the only major flaw I see in this bracket.
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My neighbor’s grandson was the starting center for Indiana last season. Was really happy to see him get a winning season after the seasons he played through before Cignetti got there. Definitely my team for the playoffs this year.
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SATURDAY, SEP 5 Marshall SATURDAY, SEP 12 atTemple SATURDAY, SEP 19 Buffalo DATE TBA atMaryland DATE TBA atMichigan DATE TBA atNorthwestern DATE TBA Minnesota DATE TBA Purdue DATE TBA Rutgers DATE TBA USC DATE TBA Wisconsin DATE TBA atWashington Looks like there’s 3 ranked teams on that schedule at most. Depending on how UM and USC are next year, it’s possible they play the entire season without playing a ranked team. USC plays OSU, IU, UO, UW, and ND. UM plays Oklahoma, Iowa, IU, UO, and OSU.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
I think a lot of Campbell’s success, and really all coaches in the portal era, hinge on how well they are able to instill their team’s character with the number of transfers he’ll have. OSU, UGA, UT, ND, UM all have 5 or fewer transfers starting for them. Ole Miss, Tech, Aggy, Indiana all have 13+ starters that are transfers. How well can you get a team of mercenaries to buy-in when shit goes a little sideways? I expect a lot of the mercenary teams to wilt when the heat gets turned up. Last year’s playoff had all mercenary heavy teams lose before the semifinals. Maybe I’m reading too much into that. ISU unsurprisingly has 4 starters that are transfers. Because of how badly psu bungled the coaching search, they are going to have to buy a ton of players in the portal. -
That angle is very different than the one they showed before the break.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
The way this search played out their AD has no business making as good of a hire as Campbell. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
There’s a segment of the fan base that will only accept someone with ties to Paterno as the next coach, and why they never fully accepted O’Brien or Franklin. It had nothing to do with either of their legitimate failings, only their perceived lack of reverence to Paterno. Those people also assume that anyone who ever had any ties to Paterno is off limits in the eyes of the BOT, and that’s the only reason Terry isn’t getting a look. My assumption why Terry isn’t getting a legitimate look is because, until he was thrust into the role, he seemingly didn’t want to be a head coach. His comments and lack of drive up the ladder seem to indicate that as well. I don’t know the man, you do. Maybe he did want to be DC and Franklin privately turned him down. He seems like a good man, but it also seemed like until a couple months ago he had no interest in being a DC or HC. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
It doesn’t seem like a bunch of offers went out after Freeman and the other top 2-3 choices weren’t interested. One was to Elko who stayed put when it got matched or bested by A&M. Then he zeroed in on Sitake and spent a month trying to convince a Mormon to leave BYU for some stupid fucking reason. Thought he had him so he cut bait on Chesney et al not expecting the hard sell from the LDS and the cookie cash once word got out. By the time he realized he lost him all of his plan Cs had signed on elsewhere because signing day was 2 fucking days away. So he fucked himself because he didn’t give the Tongan a deadline that left him any room to shift gears. Now he has to try to sell a job to someone he never considered after losing almost the entire recruiting class. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Maybe that’s the plan, just contact every coach and get schools to spend all the money on extensions and then psu swoops in and buys all the transfer talent… -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
They only ended up owing Franklin $9 mil after the offset from his VT contract. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
There’s no home runs left but you could call up some NFL OC and pull off a double through the gap with that schedule. That’s about as good as they can hope for at this point. I don’t see any way they don’t end up with a downgrade with their first hire after Franklin, but I thought that was most likely as soon as they fired him. Even with the probable downgrade in the short term after Franklin, it was time for him to go after the back to back losses as 20 point favorites. If he had just lost to Ore, osu, and IU, he probably doesn’t get fired and everyone just says “same old James”. Without a doubt one of the best program builders in the country. Several obvious flaws that showed his peak was 2nd tier in the big ten. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
It’s not as deadly as it would have been before the transfer portal. As long as they have a coach in place by the portal window, there is enough talent on the roster that with enough NIL money they could be ok next year. They have an unbelievably soft schedule next year. USC, Mich, Wash are the only teams they play that are in the top half of the big ten this year. Depending on how those 3 teams are next year, they could feasibly play the entire season without facing a ranked team. OOC is Marshall, Temple, Buffalo. No matter who they hire they can buy their way through that schedule. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
4 star edge rusher from Philly. Had offers from OSU & Michigan. Thats gotta be a weird feeling watching your entire recruiting class evaporate around you. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
heso replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Until Penn state hires Pete Carroll before Vegas can fire him.
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