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  1. 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.
  2. Those NM uniforms are fantastic.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. LSU may be the most embarrassing state flagship college in the country. I’m having a hard time coming up with a better candidate.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Wonder if they’ll do a Michigan-Harbaugh play and tell him to reduce the buyout or walk.
  11. 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.
  12. This one is also freaking hilarious from Barzgate.
  13. Someone needs to explain to me better why Freeman is considered a real candidate for any of these jobs. He’s getting paid 9 million a year. He is sitting on a top 5 recruiting class. He has coached ND to the championship game and has a very good shot at the playoff this year. He is coaching a team that’s on national TV all the time and is college football royalty. Their alum base and boosters are, frankly, a higher class of people and easier to deal with than most other schools. Brian Kelly went off to the bad, bad SEC and a school with all the “advantages” and is running off the road. Maybe—maybe— OSU, Texas are objectively “better” places to win big. They’re also more likely to get impatient with you faster. I cannot at all see what State College or Gainesville offers.
  14. I’m not going to overreact to Alabama’s close-run game against USC. They just came out unscathed against the most grueling stretch of games anyone in the nation will play. They need a bye week. That said, DeBoer has a weird knack for seemingly getting his team to play exactly at the level of their opponent whether said opponent is really good or just mediocre. I am convinced the SEC could easily deserve four, maybe five CFP berths, although the two top Big Ten teams look like the two elite nationwide. Beyond that though— I have a hard time seeing anyone beyond maybe Miami, Oregon and ND really playing with the big group of Bama, UGA, A&M, Ole Miss, Vandy, and even Tennessee. The conference may not have the top team, but it’s clearly the deepest and better by far than the ACC and Big XII.
  15. LSU does not look like LSU anymore. Let’s be real, since Saban left they haven’t been what anyone could call a “well coached team.” They just had stupidly athletic aggressive playmakers and beat you up, an actual link of boudin could have been wearing the headset and under Ogre— basically was. Combine that with the nightmare of Tiger Stadium, where the BAC is higher than the average GPA and it was hopeless unless a Bama or UGA team with similar athletes but real coaching came to play. The stadium was even out of it. You saw flashes in the 2nd quarter, but it was obvious that LSU was not as good athletically or schematically and the only hope was for A&M to beat itself. Maybe booting SC coach Moffitt WAS that big of a mistake.
  16. Based on roster, results, past history under Freeman I think ND is a top ten team or close. I think they’d smoke GT (a very good team but if you want to talk about REALLY playing no one…) and would easily beat BYU. We already know they are competitive with A&M and Miami. They’re competitive if not better than Vandy. They’d be competitive with Ole Miss. Behind them? Tennessee is a team that can play with anyone. Other than that, who? OU, Tech? A top ten has to to have ten teams in it. ND lost to two very good teams early in the top ten and beyond that has played every bit like a top ten team outclassing opponents.
  17. Eh, you can basically pencil in Alabama and Georgia as top tier every season so ducking them is huge. More seasons than not, LSU at home and Florida is going to be a tougher draw than Ole Miss and OU (most thought it would be this year). And we still have UT at DKR which is going to be a brutal game to play. We ended up getting a favorable draw this year, absolutely. There was far from a guarantee that it would actually work out that way.
  18. The dude is doing a bit. He has another one where he claims thet A&M regularly only gets 40k to the stadium and that we are less valuable than Arky or UK when it comes to football tv ratings (A&M was a top ten most most watched team in 2024). https://medium.com/run-it-back-with-zach/which-college-football-programs-were-most-watched-in-2024-6596e696ebaf
  19. I can’t see LSU ditching Kelly unless some sort of social contagion takes over. This is gonna be a sellers market for NCAA HCs, you dont fire a coach at this point unless you have to.
  20. Well, they gave up a touchdown on the opening 2nd half drive, 3-out and a punt return TD, then had another short drive and gave up a TD. Not a big surprise they didn’t lean on the run.
  21. He’s playing hurt. You can tell he’s in quite a bit of pain and limited rotation ability. He’s also behind a line that’s not really good and is missing starters. The Heisman hype for him was never real, but he’s not this bad of a QB.
  22. They’ve built semi-submersibles that will do transatlantic and even South America to Solomon Islands.
  23. Also can be dropped at sea with a beacon and then picked up by a commercial vessel or yacht. Which then might try to go into port or try to get into territorial waters and the then drop again so small vessels that won’t go through customs can do a quick run to pick up. It’s a dynamic, it’s cheaper logistically to do one large shipment but less chance of interdiction to diversify routes. Don’t get the situation wrong, these strikes are illegal and morally wrong but the boats (and for sure the semi-submersible that had survivors) are carrying drugs.
  24. Kind of proving my point with Giuliani. He didn’t spring fully formed into City Hall; his election was a reaction. Colvin’s paper bag is the exact opposite of “zero tolerance.” Low level things like peddling counterfeit shit, prostitution, small-time drug dealing, etc are tolerable when kept discreet and it’s not in people’s faces. You’ve got to leave a direction where people can turn their heads and look the other way. When they don’t have that, you get a Giuliani or worse.
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