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  1. They fired him after a 9-3, top 25 year. I kind of think they started some of the true unreasonable madness. Ans hired Bill Callahan never to recover.
  2. “State taxes” always kills me as a message board factor for coaches. As if Sexton is negotiating these contracts and then someone comes in and says “hold up, have we factored in the state income tax in these talks?” I promise everyone that these agents are presenting coaches with take-home numbers during this process.
  3. I don’t think it’s as easy to make these lists. And it’s too early in the NIL and portal era. Stuff like money is still super important, location near a recruiting base less so, and a sophisticated NIL system really important. History matters but maybe not as much. Even big programs are still figuring it out. Clearly teams like OSU and Texas are still high up. Whats not clear to me: why not Indiana now that they seem to be committed to winning at football? Why isn’t Notre Fame a tier one job because based on recruiting and performance it sure looks like one?
  4. You can always just not do the interview with Issac Chotiner and I’d expect a WH press secretary to know that. https://archive.ph/2025.10.27-221339/https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-bidens-white-house-press-secretary-is-leaving-the-democratic-party
  5. Good, but too long and too actually injured and defensive. Spurrier would have said something like: “They’re the best team already out of the playoffs, I’ll say that. You can’t even spell “out of the playoffs” without OU.”
  6. Lane wants to be Spurrier so bad but he just isn’t. Spurrier had another level of the rizz.
  7. I was talking about LSU as an institution. Cal and UCLA together probably contribute more to America than all of Louisiana minus refineries.
  8. https://welcome.team/decidingtowin/more
  9. I agree that Texas is a better job but what is this metric you’re using LOL? Why are you excluding their 2007 title but counting Texas 2008 and 2009 as “NC caliber.” What does NC caliber even mean? Why aren’t we mentioning their season they lost to Bama as NC caliber? LSU is a place you can win big. It’s not like they struck genius coaches in Big Ed O and Les freaking Miles. And this also overlaps with peak Bama and later peak UGA in a harder conference.
  10. Real talk, Iowa is a well-managed, affordable, safe, and relatively prosperous state unlike most of the SEC and that leads to people caring less about college football.
  11. Lots of interesting data to pore through that I’m still digesting.
  12. You can also say that Iowa has this shit figured out. They know they are Iowa in a conference of OSU, PSU, Michigan and found a coach who will deliver plus 7 win seasons like clockwork with a few 10+ wins sprinkled in. That’s really about best case. A lot probably has to do with Iowa sensibleness and having other things in life beyond college football. Cig at IU is going to break middling P4 programs brains.
  13. Yeah, look, I think it’s hard to call for the players to sell out for a program when the program shoots its horse in midstream. Perkins is a crazy athlete. A&M didn’t scheme to avoid him, it schemed to target him. Clear indicator that the defensive coaching was crap.
  14. Those NM uniforms are fantastic.
  15. Agree that someone will take a run at Lincoln. SDS even mentioned him for Florida. I think Lanning has a great setup. He’s got all the pieces for an NC. And I think that working for one mega-donor like Knight, is better than fending off the loony SEC donor pool. Knight’s investments in Oregon make sense— he’d love to win an NC but he really wants Oregon football to be a cool brand ambassador for Nike. The schools opening in the South, especially if Auburn enters the chat, are pressure cookers where almost no one will meet the demands.
  16. And some middling coaches are going to get PAID to stay put. If I’m Auburn, I’m doing all I can to stay off this ride. Let it go another year.
  17. Talking about how the landscape has changed— DiNardo never had a plus .500 season when LSU hired him from Vandy. Insane that in the 1990s that was the result of an LSU corching search.
  18. LSU may be the most embarrassing state flagship college in the country. I’m having a hard time coming up with a better candidate.
  19. Kelly would still be there if he wasn’t a colossal asshole. Saban is just a coaching savant and lets remember that LSU was a very middling SEC team coached by Gerry DiNardo when he arrived.
  20. There’s no such thing as “it.” Oregon can win an NC and would have already in 2010 if not for perhaps the second best player to step on a CFB field in the past 25 years. They are recruiting and portaling at a NC caliber level and if they keep doing that they will have a good chance to win it all. Doesn’t mean they will, but there’s no magic “it” stopping them.
  21. Always has been. I struggle to think of schools who upgrade after booting coaches that regularly turn in 8-10 win seasons. I’ve posted elsewhere that it’s easier to turn 10-2 into six wins than 12 wins. I think Nebraska tossing Solích kicked this off. But you’re locked in this spiral even more now with NIL because you are beholden to irrational fans to fund the roster. You can’t wait them out a couple years if they get pissed. And look— unlike pro sports, the NIL donors are not making any money. They are literally paying to win now. There’s not a case to tell them to wait. To me it has all the markings of a bubble that’s gonna burst bigly if the market cools for an extended period. No one except the coaches and players are really making money here. Most ADs are on a razor edge.
  22. Wonder if they’ll do a Michigan-Harbaugh play and tell him to reduce the buyout or walk.
  23. Coaches poll is out. As with last week— I think GT’s and BYU’s records are a bit over indexed. But, I’m not bothered by keeping them there till they lose. I’m ok with A&M in the top 5 although I was skeptical last week. The beatdown in Baton Rouge is how a top 5 team should play. Ok with Bama not getting punished— this stretch they survived is the hardest five games anyone will play this year. ND is a better team than GT, BYU, and probably Vandy. But, the losses are what they are. They have a chance to jump GT, the ACC should not get two teams, but a playoff berth still in question. It is likely good for Ole Miss that they will likely not make the CCG without weirdness, as that lack of a loss could put them in the field of 12. Tennessee can play with anyone but their stumbles leave them out of the CFP barring some weirdness. With their top two QBs out Mizzou is most primed for a late season slump, and OU might fall out as well. Texas has a roster to win 2/3 vs Vandy, UGA, A&M— but I’m not sure they will. Navy and UH? Ok, sure. I don’t have better options.
  24. This one is also freaking hilarious from Barzgate.
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