No. It was bad enough that they restructured CFB to take away the lottery ticket that BYU and Houston had to win a national title. Now they are working to cut off the traditional end of the year celebration bowl. That's telling large numbers of mid tier school alumni that they have nothing to hope for.
Elston was replaced by Al Washington (DL) of Ohio State today.
This feels quite unfamiliar watching former Cincinatti assistants ride a merry-go-round of Notre Dame, Michigan, and Ohio State. We have historically hired from the MAC and smaller BUG10 programs.
Playoff means that Boise St can never win it. There hasn't been a dark horse that got even close to a national title since the playoff was instituted, and very few of them in the 2 team playoff called the BCS.
Why is no one mentioning that they played a meaningless SECCG. It was an elimination game for Bama but UGA would have been well advised to concentrate on avoiding injury.
What does Dennis Dodd know about anything?
BK to LSU is A GAMBLE for both sides, high risk/high pay. It feels of to say that a coach with four consecutive 10 win seasons is a risk but in this environment he is.
Kelly runs a fairly standard shotgun pass fist spread, by now it may be old hat. If the qb makes the perfect read and throws it to the perfect matchup, and there are no other failures to execute, then it's good for 30 points.
I wouldn't worry much about the staff since Kelly will micro-manage. Polian is nominally a special teams coach but actually the ace recruiter. Cooks was very conservative. The S&C man was an assistant, we retained the guy who strongyl upgraded our program in 2018.
I assume Disney will make me watcha share of the SEC. Right now I am worried about Lincoln Riley with SC's skill position talent.
The rap was Denbrock was a yes-man while Kelly was the real OC. Although the offense wasn't the problem in our 4-8 year in 2016; AD Savvy Jack forced BK to hire two real coordinators outside of his inner circle.
Kellys rigidly scripted offense will live and die on the connection between QB and X-WR. It all depends on whom he can recruit to LSU.
The broadcasters remarked that the Dawgs didn't seem to be very happy. That's because they didn't win a real bowl game, they just won a first playoff game.
You could screw Bama by making them play Toledo then Oregon then have to go play Clemson with only a week of prep. The #1 dog is an enormous advantage with a month to prepare but less so in a series.
At least we will go back to seeing Kelly spank the kitten.
Anything I should know about Lincoln Riley's recruiting tactics? ND lost a WR to SC this morning
It was only one year but it was the birth of 'Kelly 2.0' resulting in four consecutive 10+ win seasons. Elko was the preminent example of Kelly being forced to go outside of his circle and hire talented assistants from elsewhere. The change was night (losing to Strong's Horns) and day (beating LSU in the Citrus)
After 2017 season A&M noticed and simply kept bidding. So I guess there was little chance that Elko would stay and get named the new ND coach.
Kelly had some interesting games with both Kiffin and Sark, albeit against a fragile sanctioned SC team. ND stopped both of them on a 7th and goal.
Kelly appears to be moving out long tenured assistants to bring in more of his cronies.
That is not a good sign.