kungfoodude

Tanking is a front office thing. You set the team up to fail. Admittedly it usually doesn't work out as planned. See the Cardinals this year. They are bad but way more competitive than they were supposed to be. Players and coaches don't want to lose.

It's not that, they literally don't watch them. The statistics on that have been very, very clear and for some time. The younger audience is not as interested in traditional sports. There is too much competition. This will all start retracting eventually. We have lived through an MLB retraction, a NASCAR retraction and an NHL retraction. Sports aren't always guaranteed to go up forever.

Another excellent Pac 12 matchup about to start. UCLA vs. Oregon St.

You mean the sports that will be rapidly gone? That's the thing people don't seem to realize. All those sports just became immensely more expensive due to the conference footprints expanding. So that erodes some of those massive TV revenues. Not to mention that the TV revenue model is completely unsustainable. The cracks in that facade are already appearing. Hence why I have predicted this will inevitably collapse. I see a similar fate for the NFL eventually. Depends on their decisions in the next 10-20 years.

The jump to FCS from high school is literally not massive. There is plenty of precedent for that. Are you arguing the results at this point? If so, you are just showing some obvious agenda.

Yeah, that will factor in, no doubt. Still great skillsets.

The idea of conferences has been ruined by the football expansions. Here we sit watching a Pac 12 conference be so far and away the best in all of college football but is literally about to not exist. That is why college revenue sports is increasingly more and more of a joke. It's ironic that after we finally got a playoff and the NIL that it is likely headed towards a complete implosion in the coming years.

Penix and Nix are going to be two very interesting prospects in the 2024 draft. Curious to see how they rank when they start going through the process.

The ACC is, once again, not at all good.

Lol. Absolutely not. Those teams aren't even in the same stratosphere.

I think you would have a hard time really convincing anyone but yourself that Deion "doesn't know how to coach." That's an extremely stupid statement. I can easily buy a "wait and see" argument but "doesn't know how to coach" is laughable.

This Washington/Oregon game should be for all the marbles. Insanely amazing game.

So the guy that assembled these coaches and players, in a way that no one has ever done before and is completely destroying every expectation....gets no credit? So basically Nick Saban is trash? He is just the product of the players and coaches that he selected? Bold take.

Well look at the offensive minds they also brought in with him. They probably thought that would have some impact. In reality Frank was never gonna be comfortable straying from what he knew. He believes too much in what he is doing.

I would be surprised if they were football savvy enough to be making those suggestions. Could very well be on the staff. Vague enough that it is hard to tell.

That is aimed squarely at Frank. Rightfully so. This is an ancient offense. It hurts every single player on our roster.

Well considering he assembled this staff and these players, that would be a pretty bold statement. Maybe taking advantage of the past coach....oh right.

Goddammit. Beat me to it.

They only have a solid poop emoji, not a diarrhea one.

Which basically aligned with every talking head. So no one(definitely not I) was expecting this. You saying you called this shot?

Yeah, I am saying this with an IF. They also arguably play the toughest schedule in the country because they are in the overwhelmingly best conference. So this could all not happen. IF it does and they disappoint next year, it wouldn't take away from what they/he did this year at all.

I don't think he is any worse than most other college head coaches. He is just saying the poo they all say behind closed doors publicly. Most successful division 1 college football held coaches are fuging horrible human beings. They care next to nothing about these kids outside their own goals.

Yes. It is the equivalent of having almost 100% a new team. Only his guys from Jackson State had ever played for him or most of these coaches. It's about as crazy a situation as possible from a continuity standpoint. Again, that is why I am saying this is so crazy. They definitely have talent but taking all these parts and molding them together in that short of a period of time is nuts. Keep in mind what the Vegas books had as win totals for them preseason. It was in the 2.5 to 3.5 range.

Name another situation where you had an 80 player turnover in a year? Literally ever. That is unprecedented without it being a new program.

I don't care at all about the age issue. If you are eligible, you are eligible. I am just talking about the extra COVID years causing records to get broken that aren't very legit, IMO. If you grab a record because you played 5 years versus 3 or 4 years, that isn't valid, IMO.