2025 College Football Thread

[OldhamA]

7 hours ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

It's December 12th, 2024.

You have $10MM, you have to hire a coach, then you can divvy up the rest of the money in NIL. 

Who do you hire and what players would you have gotten in the portal with what's leftover?

You're struggling to hire a coach for $10m.

[kungfoodude]

9 hours ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

Will address each comment separately ...

"5 Year Hole": If that happens, it's no different than where we were anyways when Mack refused to retire 2-3 years ago.  BB may not work out, but at least the administration swung for the fences.  Who else would you have hired in mid December last year?  Think about how bad our talent is now, and then multiply that by 10 with what some low level assistant we plucked from wherever would've been able to bring in with no time and no budget.

"Sticking Around / Son as HC": I have to imagine if BB quits before any success, that wouldn't bode well for his son sticking around.  The fan base, alumni and administration aren't going to want to be reminded every Saturday when we are getting beat by William & Mary that there is a Belichick on the sideline. 

"Pivot": In my opinion, there are only two pivots to make if Belichick doesn't work.  1) Dump a truckload into football NIL, although not sure that's even feasible or 2) Take all that football NIL, dump it into being a dominant basketball school again, and relevant in football once every ten years with the luck of getting a Howell or Maye who are in state Tarheel kids.

 

IMO, UNC fans will be lusting after the Mack Brown 2.0 era after what BB likely does to them. The results are already in that vein.

UNC has spent wildly on basketball and recruits for decades. More money is just "inflation" to an extent but I don't think a massive amount of cash is going to cure their ails. They have to get over this "UNC Family" sickness with basketball coaching hires and just simply hire the best candidates available. IMO, that really fixes the "problems" with the basketball side of things.

Another sad truth that UNC fans I don't think have accepted is that it would take tremendously more money than they currently invest to become a relevant football school(something they have literally never been for any period of time). Not just money but the proper architecture. Ask Texass how that worked in the post Mack Brown era. Given the reported internal schism that led to the BB hiring(and current/future fiasco) this sounds very much like that fraught era of Texass football. 

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

6 hours ago, OldhamA said:

You're struggling to hire a coach for $10m.

That was my point.  @LinvilleGorge was acting like there was some magic hire or recruit the administration or Belichick missed.

Unreal how much coaches leading awful programs are making.  Cal, Va Tech, Houston, Maryland, Virginia and many others are paying their coaches $5M+ a year.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

That was my point.  @LinvilleGorge was acting like there was some magic hire or recruit the administration or Belichick missed.

Unreal how much coaches leading awful programs are making.  Cal, Va Tech, Houston, Maryland, Virginia and many others are paying their coaches $5M+ a year.

You're just failing to cope with how atrocious this roster looks. How many players do we have that would be starting or getting significant PT on most other power conference teams? Hell, Jordan Shipp might be the whole list. And it's not because the cupboard was left bare. Belichick and crew used the portal to completely reshape the roster in their vision and much like his moves as GM with the Pats the result is trash.