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  1. The Ivies collectively agreed in the 1940s, before FCS was a thing, not to participate in bowls or postseason play. They also never have offered athletic scholarships. The original justification was that the post-season conflicted with final exams and was helping turn college sports into something that conflicted with academic missions. Really was a turning point in college athletics overall and the Ivies went their own way. As late as the late 1930s they were still collectively playing big-time football at a high level but didn’t like how it was going.
  2. Updating: Yale did indeed knock out Youngstown in a thriller to give the Ivy League its first win in the FCS playoffs. Harvard got drilled by Nova (I mistyped in my first post, Lehigh is the bye team in that bracket). Yale should go down to Montana State. ACU licked Lamar soundly and now has a rematch with SFU, a team they beat once this season. Tarleton has a tough but human 7-5 North Dakota team. Highest ranked Texas school in the field— their one loss coming to ACU. Hoping to see them and ACU advance, two longtime DII rivals making noise at FCS.
  3. No, she is/was a student at Ole Miss, the other daughter goes to USC.
  4. Wasn’t the implication that Freeze was procuring call girls for both himself and minor football recruits?
  5. They’ve employed Houston Nutt, Tubbs, Coach O, Freeze, and Kiffin. Collectively enough grease to form one of those fatbergs you read about clogging the London or NYC sewer. Of course he can’t coach the CFP. Every sideline shot you have an ESPN talking head reading a Sexton script: amazing what he’s done, fantastic coach, he did this at poor Ole Miss imagine the great things in store at LSU, speculating what players will follow him, etc. Fuck that. Whatever narrative Golding sets, at least it will be about Ole Miss and not about the bright future in store for their rival.
  6. To get the howling message board masses at three football crazed schools to demand Lane or no one and drive that contract as stupid as possible.
  7. Also, Ole Miss trying to get a „stay or go” answer is extremely rational. Look at all the up and coming G5 coaches they never interviewed because of Lane’s bullshit. A Sumrall or Golesh would have taken that call.
  8. I promise you that Jimmy Sexton was behind the media circus and the ESPN fellatio and that yes, sending your (EX!)- wife to “tour Baton Rouge” lol on a private jet was absolutely intended to be very public.
  9. Because of how he handled this. He could have easily pulled the old coach move of “I’m only thinking about this season and getting ready for the next game. All that stuff is a distraction” and let his agent take calls. He didn’t have to be a messy bitch who loves drama and shitpoasting on Twitter. His ex-wife and kids could have made it to Baton Rouge quietly-or not at all— instead of flying them to BR on a booster jet. He acted like a messy bitch and created drama because he craves it. Ole Miss isn’t LSU but it wants to be a program on that level. They can’t publicly let their own coach treat them like a safety school. It’s like a wife who can handle a lot of bullshit but not being disrespected publicly.
  10. Look at how he is handing himself. He’s a snake and an asshole. Any CFP run would be just an infomercial for his future at their biggest rival and he’d be undermining their current roster and future class by recruiting them to LSU. He will be doing that anyway but Ole Miss wouldn’t even have someone making the case for them to stay.
  11. I fucking hate Alabama. And you’re right, except for the fact that they win more than everyone else is my argument. Can you point to another program that has an argument to be the best?
  12. No, my example of a destination is the program that has won more NCs with more coaches than any other school. All I am saying is that the program that has been very literally the best program over the past 100 years is a very good place to coach football.
  13. Alabama has had five coaches win an NC, more than any other school. More than Notre Dame. More than OSU. Or Michigan, or USC, or UGA, or UT, or LSU, or Florida. There are two decades (1950s and 1980s) where they didn’t win an NC. The two best coaches of all-time coached at Bama. Stallings won an NC, a CC, and four divisional championships— a record similar to Mack Brown. He’s only not a great coach in comparison to Saban or Bear. @Huckleberry is making a different argument about projecting the future. But it’s just silly to say the most successful program of all time (and maybe 2nd or 3rd most before Saban) hasn’t been a true destination job. More coaches have won bigthere than anywhere else.
  14. You picked a 25 year down period where they won 3 conference titles and an NC, one very good coach and some mediocrities. I can think very quickly of another blue blood program with extremely similar skins on the wall in the past 25 years. This discussion always sends me, on paper everyone explains why Alabama just doesn’t stack up to the “true” destination programs. But they have more hardware than anyone and the consensus two best coaches to EVER do it both built their legacies at Alabama and not those other places. Like it or not that says something about the program. The post-Bear hungry years say a lot about how hard it is to really be a consistent great power and not a lot about Bama not being a great gig and program. Plenty of great programs have streaks like that.
  15. This thread is such great evidence that the playoff has not made being a college football fan even a little bit better and every potential fix makes it worse. Pressing reset and going back to the pre-BCS bowl tie-ins would be the fix. We need a Butlerian jihad against the CFP and ESPN talking heads who try to convince us that the sport is somehow lesser without a PO.
  16. Hell, they were barely even trying.
  17. Well yeah. They sposed to be SEC.
  18. Saban was crazy good and no one will replicate him but Bama was always a top job. They managed to win a conference championship under idiot Mike DuBose. Their issue was boosters who couldn’t get out of their own way and a cultish mania to maintain some sort of Apostolic Succession to The Bear. That led to questionable coaching hires. Lots of blue bloods have gone through lean streaks. They never went more than a decade between SEC championships.
  19. Conferences and the league need to solve this on the other end: schools have to dance with who brung them till a season ends for that team. Want to give up on a season? Ok, that’s what happens. Fire a coach mid-season for anything but criminality or gross misconduct and: - Remaining games forfeited/not played - TV revenue redistributed to other conference mates, pro-rated. The firing school must make-up lost revenue for opponents’ road games and refund the price of all tickets equivalent to a sell-out game. Any lost TV revenue will be made up by the school. - Players get a year of eligibility and Čína either transfer or force the new regime to honor their roster spot the next year. That will reset the cycle to sanity quickly.
  20. For me this demonstrates that character and addiction are separate things. People with good character can succumb to addiction and people with little character can beat it. I of course hope he beats it and is healthy for himself and family. But this is a really low-character display driven by vanity and self-centeredness. He’s taken all the joy out of a generational season for Ole Miss. He’s blown up his own career-defining accomplishment (to this point) and a chance at a championship now for the lure of something bigger around the corner. And he is fantastically, generationally wealthy. This isn’t about security. He lashed out so badly at that “hoe into a housewife” reporter because it hit home.
  21. This dude a an irredeemable piece of shit. And aside from maybe FAU, he’s blown up relationships at every stop. Remember his hagiographic special on ESPN about finding peace at Ole Miss? lol.
  22. The Aggies lost and so I needed to eat my feelings. The best way to eat feelings is with turkey gumbo.
  23. I hope so. Really terrible how he’s handling himself. This could easily be the high point of his career, and he can’t lock in and see it through because he’s focused on chasing a brass ring down the road.
  24. That’s the thing, with Clemson’s implosion who in the ACC is out coaching him? There are no elite teams or coaches in that league. Best coach might really be Lashlee.
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