2024 College Football Thread

[Shocker]

Personally hope UNC doesn’t hire Mullen.  I read he was fired by Florida for player mistreatment and lack of effort on the recruiting trail.

Would rather have a younger candidate like Shumann or Sumrall.  

[CRA]

36 minutes ago, Jaxel said:

I'm not saying you leave them out, I'm just saying that teams with weak schedules should he punished. What encourages teams to play tough if a team with the 105th toughest schedule cruises in?

How do would you punish Indiana then? 

 

[Jaxel]

You can set the expectation that any conference schedule that doesn't meet a sos limit loses consideration for the cfp going forward.

Edited December 1, 2024 by Jaxel

[ProcessBlue2]

35 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Personally hope UNC doesn’t hire Mullen.  I read he was fired by Florida for player mistreatment and lack of effort on the recruiting trail.

Would rather have a younger candidate like Shumann or Sumrall.  

Arthur Smith would have been great but according to reports he isn't interested.

[Bama Panther]

53 minutes ago, Jaxel said:

I'm not saying you leave them out, I'm just saying that teams with weak schedules should he punished. What encourages teams to play tough if a team with the 105th toughest schedule, who gets obliterated in their only meaningful game, cruises in?

FIFY

[CRA]

1 minute ago, Jaxel said:

You can set the expectation that any conference schedule that doesn't meet an sos limit loses consideration for the cfp going forward.

That unfairly punishes teams.  Which I get a SEC fan having little sympathy or understanding.  It’s a problem you are essentially uniquely immune to.  Final poll was Michigan 1 and Washington 2 last year.  Indiana had them both of them this year….they have no control of what they became. 

As a Clemson fan, every year when it was the final 4….everyone argued we didn’t belong because of SOS.  Underdogs in every game, ever played in the CFP.  2nd most wins though and 2nd most nattys.   I’m sure your model would have kept Clemson out almost every year.    No control of what Auburn, A&M, SC, ND, UGA, etc would or wouldn’t be. 

Old model never guaranteed entry.  New one should scrap it too.  It will be silly for Clemson and Iowa St to make it in….way more so than Indiana IMO.  

[Jaxel]

I mean regardless of what anyone argues, objectively Indiana does not belong in the top 12 and the committee should highlight that. Unfortunately that their schedule sucks, but then atleart make your conference championship game. They didn't even do that.

[Bear Hands]

3 hours ago, ForJimmy said:

McCord or Rourke could be two mid to later round QB prospects I’d be interested in. Could develop into high end backups with some starter traits. 

I like him as a mid-round in general (not specifically for us).  Although, we need depth at most spots and have a lot of picks.  Could be a 4th-5th rounder to take a stab at.  Never hurts rolling the dice with backups.

Sidebar - I will say, I am sufficiently confused to what these playoffs will bring.  I can't tell if there's just parody for once in college ball or if, as the draft class is hinting at, there's a pretty big void in talent right now.  I'm not impressed with so many of the offenses around the country this year.  

[LinvilleGorge]

Mack Brown is starting to cry about how he was fired claiming he was going to retire all along but the school wanted it to be announced before the State game and he wanted to wait until after. Surely he doesn't think anyone believes that line of pure bullshit. The man had just been publicly talking about his plans to return next year. Seems pretty obvious they were trying to get him to retire and he refused then tried to pull a power move and talk about returning thinking they wouldn't be willing to fire him and he was wrong about that. Now he wants to play this victim bullshit. fug off Mack. That doesn't make a damn bit of sense that they'd fire you kete days before you were going to retire.

[CRA]

18 minutes ago, Jaxel said:

I mean regardless of what anyone argues, objectively Indiana does not belong in the top 12 and the committee should highlight that. Unfortunately that their schedule sucks, but then atleart make your conference championship game. They didn't even do that.

Well, coaches poll is out.  It was pretty in-sync with the CFP poll last week.  Think the top 12 was all the same outside of the Miami/UGA flip. 

Gamecocks 12.  Bama at 11.  

that puts Gamecocks as first out as of right now.   Lot of SEC fans pulling against Clemson and Iowa St this weekend.  They would knock Bama out too

[CamWhoaaCam]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Mack Brown is starting to cry about how he was fired claiming he was going to retire all along but the school wanted it to be announced before the State game and he wanted to wait until after. Surely he doesn't think anyone believes that line of pure bullshit. The man had just been publicly talking about his plans to return next year. Seems pretty obvious they were trying to get him to retire and he refused then tried to pull a power move and talk about returning thinking they wouldn't be willing to fire him and he was wrong about that. Now he wants to play this victim bullshit. fug off Mack.

Some old people have trouble retiring. Mack doesn't seem like a guy who wants to play BINGO and sit and his rocking chair.

 

He genuinely loves coaching. It was time for him to go, but they could have waited until the season ended to announce it.

[Jaxel]

3 minutes ago, CRA said:

Well, coaches poll is out.  It was pretty in-sync with the CFP poll last week.  Think the top 12 was all the same outside of the Miami/UGA flip. 

Gamecocks 12.  Bama at 11.  

that puts Gamecocks as first out as of right now.   Lot of SEC fans pulling against Clemson and Iowa St this weekend.  They would knock Bama out too

A shame the brand is keeping Bama in. Any objective person watching college football can see that South Carolina is a better football team than Bama, who has played bad the last 6 weeks.

[LinvilleGorge]

18 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Some old people have trouble retiring. Mack doesn't seem like a guy who wants to play BINGO and sit and his rocking chair.

 

He genuinely loves coaching. It was time for him to go, but they could have waited until the season ended to announce it.

I don't think they wanted to risk him beating State and then having to fire him after winning his primary rivalry game. Better to just rip the bandaid off after a disappointing loss on the road when we were utterly uncompetitive. If they had a crystal ball and knew for sure we'd lose to State I'm sure they would've waited.

It's whatever. It's Mack's fault regardless. He could've just retired. He had no plans to and he forced the university's hand so he needs to just shut up and quit whining about it.

[Stuart Smith]

21 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Some old people have trouble retiring. Mack doesn't seem like a guy who wants to play BINGO and sit and his rocking chair.

 

He genuinely loves coaching. It was time for him to go, but they could have waited until the season ended to announce it.

They did what they had to do. If he had not started to talk about returning next year they would have waited. Mack tried to pull a power play. Some very influential and high donors in the Rams Club were irate.