LouisEly

Four weeks ago SFO was 6-4. Let's not act like getting those players back hasn't helped their record. And the last four weeks have included wins against arguably the three of the four worst teams in the league.

PIT misses a 37-yard FG that would have put them up by 8, then proceeds to let DET march down the field to the 2 yard line. DET then gives it back with two OPI calls that negate TDs. Packers aren't the only team that can choke away games.

I said this before, but I wonder if that was Kraft's spot on the onsides kick team. Doubs might be the backup.

No Parsons, no Kraft, no Tom, no Wyatt, no E. Williams . Lose Love to a cheap shot. And they should have won. Bears make a 55 yard FG in this wind, Brinson grabs a face mask on 3rd and 20, Doubs can't catch an onside kick. Jacobs fumbles at the goal line. Just s**t-spiffy.

I wonder if that would have been Tucker Craft instead of Doubs on that onside kick.

I hate officials who ref Packers Bears games

I appreciate Jacobs gutting it out but Wilson is clearly the better back and it isn't close

Please rule forward progress stopped

If the wind there is like the wind the last couple of days here the passing game is going to be tough sledding for everyone. I would not expect a high scoring game.

Five Badgers volleyball players entered the portal. Biggest losses are Addy Horner, who was considered the #1 setter in her class but is stuck behind the #1 setter in the country, and Trinity Shadd-Ceres, who had some big moments in the tournament.

That poster always blames the head coach for everything.

As long as you don't look closely. Hudson was on Purdue last year, as well as Kentucky's 6'7" middle blocker Cook. Purdue's other top player, Chloe Chicoine, transferred to Louisville. Where would Purdue have been with those three? So, it looks like NIL and the transfer portal have infiltrated college volleyball, too..

And GB was outscored 28-13 by the Broncos after he left the game.

Did his agent tell Gutey that?

There's only one Giannis, and there's lots of teams who want him. They aren't going to bid down each other.

Zach Tom would like a word as well.

FIFY

Ricky Wagner was a TE in HS. I think David Edwards committed initially as a TE before moving to OT. A number of others were, too. They often are light on their feet and can be a good fit for LT. He's listed at 285, so he may still be bulking up. Could certainly use a backup LT.

I've been saying this for years. We've been seeing it at the college level for a long time. People have complained about UW QBs since Russell Wilson, but Graham Mertz is on an NFL roster and Jack Coan signed as a UDFA (didn't make the Colts' roster). Stave bounced around practice squads for five years. My theory is that a lot of the kids who would have been college QBs 20 years ago are now getting $1M+ to play pro baseball out of HS. Some are playing basketball. But if you have to choose between getting crunched by 320 lb DTs or smoked by 240 lb LBs who can run a 4.5 40 (along with the long-term issues with CTE), or get 7-figures to play baseball as an 18-year-old... you take the financial security and fancy car at age 18.

Michigan has initiated an investigation into their athletic department, led by a Chicago-based law firm: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47294863/michigan-begins-investigation-athletic-department But, of course, the NCAA hasn't launched an investigation. Sherrone Moore, Matt Weiss, Connor Stalions, Harbaugh... You know, you can't sanction the blue bloods like Michigan, Penn State... however, give some discounts on shoes to players at other schools, and that you have to sanction. Like UW, Michigan's AD is a former football player who played for Schembechler in the late 80's.

Almost every starter on the offense that Hornibrook led went on to play in the NFL. They had talent (and health). When Chryst had a zest for the job - and before there was NIL and the transfer portal - he did a great job of recruiting. Then all three of those things changed - there was NIL, there was the transfer portal, and Chryst lost his zest for the job. We've been down this road many, many times, but in college football teams are led by upperclassmen. Upperclassmen are the result of the recruiting efforts of 4-5 years ago. And a fourth thing changed - the B1G. According to ESPN's Football Power Index, the Badgers had the toughest schedule in the nation this past season including conference championship games: https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume/sort/resume.avgsosrank/dir/asc So much has changed, you really can't compare college football today to pre-2020. The transfer portal decimates depth almost everywhere - kids aren't going to sit for 3-4 years now. The development model that UW thrived on is dead; you can count the number of scholarship players left from 2022 on the 2025 team with your fingers and toes, and you don't need all of your hands and feet. Kids are going to leave and go where they think they can play. You can't develop players who are no longer there. We live in an era now where, because of the portal and NIL, there can and will be tremendous fluctuations from year to year in teams, and injuries to key starters, particularly QBs, will completely derail seasons. Success is dependent on deep pockets and injuries now more than ever. A healthy Sam Leavitt and ASU goes to the CFP last year and beats Texas Tech this year; an injured Sam Leavitt, and ASU gets blown out by Utah and Arizona and barely beats a 4-8 WVU at home. Texas Tech is a middling team in a middling conference in 2024 with a defensive efficiency rating of 83rd in the nation; a billionaire spends a bunch of cash, and they now have a CFP first round bye and are #1 in the nation in defensive efficiency. High school recruiting doesn't vault a team from 83rd to 1st in one year. No change in head coach either. It's a different era now, and you can't compare it to pre-2020.

I'm guessing there were philosophical differences between Blazek and Grimes/Fickell. I don't know how you can blame Blazek when they were on their emergency LT, emergency center, and starting redshirt freshmen at RT and RG most of the season. Or his firing was simply because they had an opportunity to get Mateos, who has worked with Grimes in the past.

He committed, decomitted, then recommitted. He was going to enter the portal after last season, but then came back. Now he's in the portal again. Talented player, but there is a point at which you say get in or get out.

Phillips? Riley was getting snaps with Wooden at NT. Bohanna and Stackhouse were inactive.

Yacamelli into the portal. He is the type of player that the portal should be for - one season of eligibility left, has his degree, not going to start, not going to play in the NFL, just wants a chance to play more with his last opportunity left. He has his degree, so he would have been able to transfer before the portal, but he's not looking for a paycheck.