2024 Miscellaneous College Football thread

[LouisEly]

Looks like scholarship limits are going to increase for football from 85 to the full roster size of 105.  No surprise, the power conference commissioners finalized it so that the top schools could hoard more of the top recruits.  To offset for Title IX, softball and volleyball scholarships are increasing.

Of course Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, and the usual suspects will be even better because the good players who would otherwise go to other schools will be on their bench.  They get more time to figure out who really is good and who isn't so that the ones who really aren't good transfer out to other non-name schools.  And it puts those kids in a tough spot - stay at that school, maybe their dream school, to get their degree or move on elsewhere.

As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan.

[CheezWizHed]

On 7/25/2024 at 7:06 PM, LouisEly said:

Looks like scholarship limits are going to increase for football from 85 to the full roster size of 105.  No surprise, the power conference commissioners finalized it so that the top schools could hoard more of the top recruits.  To offset for Title IX, softball and volleyball scholarships are increasing.

Of course Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, and the usual suspects will be even better because the good players who would otherwise go to other schools will be on their bench.  They get more time to figure out who really is good and who isn't so that the ones who really aren't good transfer out to other non-name schools.  And it puts those kids in a tough spot - stay at that school, maybe their dream school, to get their degree or move on elsewhere.

As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan.

While it certainly won't help the smaller schools, I'm not sure too many good players will prefer to sit on the bench when they could start elsewhere. 

[HarryDoyle]

2024 College Football Rankings - ESPN

[LouisEly]

On 7/30/2024 at 9:13 PM, CheezWizHed said:

While it certainly won't help the smaller schools, I'm not sure too many good players will prefer to sit on the bench when they could start elsewhere. 

In football most players kind of know they're not going to be playing much their first two years.

But that gives the helmet schools two years to figure out which recruits are going to pan out, and they get 20 more recruits to figure that out with.

[homer]

[CheezWizHed]

6 hours ago, homer said:

 

Well, it is MN... they have to celebrate failure.  #EveryOneGetsATrophy

[HarryDoyle]

You would think that if anybody would know what a missed game winning field goal looks like, it's the people of Minnesota.

[Samurai Bucky]

I think there are a dozen or so stadiums in WISCONSIN that are bigger than the Northwestern temporary home field. 

it will be interesting when the Badgers play there later this year.  

[yourout]

On 8/30/2024 at 1:45 PM, CheezWizHed said:

Well, it is MN... they have to celebrate failure.  #EveryOneGetsATrophy

That one deserves a ring.

[Jim French Stepstool]

On 8/30/2024 at 1:45 PM, CheezWizHed said:

Well, it is MN... they have to celebrate failure.  #EveryOneGetsATrophy

I would think there's some sort of safety ordinance prohibiting setting off fireworks while rowing a boat.😁

[Jim French Stepstool]

7 hours ago, Samurai Bucky said:

I think there are a dozen or so stadiums in WISCONSIN that are bigger than the Northwestern temporary home field. 

it will be interesting when the Badgers play there later this year.  

From what I understand, WAAAAAY back in the day Northwestern played some of their home basketball games at Evanston HS. This may rival that.

Might have to enact measures to keep the crowds down, like extended hours for the campus libraries.

[homer]

 

 

[LouisEly]

On 8/30/2024 at 12:45 PM, CheezWizHed said:

Well, it is MN... they have to celebrate failure.  #EveryOneGetsATrophy

They also brought out all of the flags of the schools in the new B1G but got the wrong flag for USC.

[HarryDoyle]

LMAO!!!

Florida State football fan deletes account after claiming he'd eat 'dog s**t' if Boston College won (clutchpoints.com)

[LouisEly]

Georgia CB Daniel Harris was arrested for driving 106mph in wet conditions yesterday around 8pm.  That was 41 mph over the speed limit.

Since the January 2023 incident that killed Devin Willock - in a vehicle that was going at least 104mph driven by a UGA staffer and that Jalen Carter was allegedly drag-racing - in the last 20 months this marks the 20th UGA football player who was arrested or cited for driving-related violations including DUI, speeding and reckless driving.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41248347/georgia-cb-daniel-harris-arrested-charged-driving-106-mph

[HarryDoyle]

WTH is going on down in Tallahassee? 

[LouisEly]

2 hours ago, HarryDoyle said:

WTH is going on down in Tallahassee? 

Things aren't great in Madison, but they could be a helluva lot worse.

[owbc]

On 9/14/2024 at 1:21 PM, HarryDoyle said:

WTH is going on down in Tallahassee? 

The CFP snub may have killed that program. 

[nate82]

There is a rumor out there that the NFL and the top execs of the power conferences are looking at creating a super league.  It would be similar to European soccer where teams can get demoted.  This would basically be the end of D1 college football.

The top 60 teams would be playoff eligible for a 16 team playoff.  If you finish below the top 60 you are demoted.  This is about as far as they have gotten and it is just in preliminary talks right now.  The players would become employees and not student athletes.

[JosephC]

21 hours ago, nate82 said:

There is a rumor out there that the NFL and the top execs of the power conferences are looking at creating a super league.  It would be similar to European soccer where teams can get demoted.  This would basically be the end of D1 college football.

The top 60 teams would be playoff eligible for a 16 team playoff.  If you finish below the top 60 you are demoted.  This is about as far as they have gotten and it is just in preliminary talks right now.  The players would become employees and not student athletes.

Why would the NFL be involved in this:?  NCAA football has already proven to be the perfect, completely cost-effective (as in no cost) minor league system for the NFL.

I really think it is time for the TV networks to get together and break D1 into 3 tiers.  The former top "power five now four" can be split into (1) the divisions of teams the networks want to show non-stop (USC, Ohio State, Georgia) and then (2) the rest (Wisconsin, Washington, North Carolina).  Then the last tier can be the Mountain West and MAC teams and schools there were not a former power five members.

No use even bickering among ourselves about who is in tier one and who is in tier two.  There doesn't even need to be any discussion among the school presidents as to who goes where.  They are all owned by TV money anyway, they might as well just be mindless pets at this point.  Might as well just skip all the foolish yearly re-alignments and just get to the end game and let ESPN, FOX and CBS set up whatever system they want.   

[nate82]

4 hours ago, JosephC said:

Why would the NFL be involved in this:?  NCAA football has already proven to be the perfect, completely cost-effective (as in no cost) minor league system for the NFL.

Draft eligibility would be my guess.

[LouisEly]

Colorado needs about a 45-yard Hail Mary to tie and send the game into overtime. 

Baylor rushes five(!) and plays man-to-man(!!!) on the back end.  Sanders rolls out on a designed play, leaving all five Baylor rushers chasing after him and heaves one up.  The DB, because of playing man-to-man, is trailing the receiver and can't locate the ball and the receiver cuts from behind him to make the catch in the end zone.

Complete bone-headed call by the DC.  And Baylor called timeout before the play, too, so they had time to set up the prevent zone defense in the end zone to have 3-deep safeties playing zone in the end zone with two more on the hashes just outside of the end zone to keep the play in front of them.

[LouisEly]

Michigan - running the old Wisconsin offense - hung 290 rushing yards on USC with only 32 passing yards for the 27-24 win.

Hopefully Phil Longo was paying attention.

[nate82]

What would be worse getting laid out by a punter or a cheerleader?

 

[homer]

this Alabama Georgia game is insane