2025 College Football Thread

[kungfoodude]

11 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I think he'll be fine in the long run. I remember Derrick Brown getting pushed around like he was on skates at first.

Yeah, we will see what happens, I guess.

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, kungfoodude said:

Yeah, we will see what happens, I guess.

It's hard for dudes in the trenches all of a sudden going up against grown ass man strength with everyone on that opposing OL having a deeper bag of tricks than they do right now.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

3 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

WeLl ThEy ArE pRoFeSsIoNaLz!!! YoU cAn'T dO aNy BeTtEr!!!!!

I mean, I can't do much worse either, right?

So why are you wasting your time on a message board and not running a team?

[kungfoodude]

25 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

So why are you wasting your time on a message board and not running a team?

You are missing the entire point of why everyone is dunking on you in this thread. Literally the entire point.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

You are missing the entire point of why everyone is dunking on you in this thread. Literally the entire point.

Ever since the poor mouthing about lack of resources got tackled it's been nothing out of that guy except shitting on sports fans for having the audacity to voice an opinion about sports. LOL

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Ever since the poor mouthing about lack of resources got tackled it's been nothing out of that guy except shitting on sports fans for having the audacity to voice an opinion about sports. LOL

College homers are the absolute worst, I swear. 

Pro sports homers can't touch it.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

You are missing the entire point of why everyone is dunking on you in this thread. Literally the entire point.

I'm not, I get it.

Still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell me what coach and recruits would've made the UNC situation better.  The rabbit hole this has turned into ends with that answer.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

College homers are the absolute worst, I swear. 

Pro sports homers can't touch it.

I mean, there's being a homer and then there's just being completely willingly irrational. We all have homerish tendencies when things are going well but damn... I'm not gonna delude myself into acting like dog poo smells like roses.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Ever since the poor mouthing about lack of resources got tackled it's been nothing out of that guy except shitting on sports fans for having the audacity to voice an opinion about sports. LOL

Why would I be here if I wasn't interested in other fans of my favorite team's opinions.  

Your opinion is Bill Belichick and the Tarheels suck, and I agree with that presently.  Then I asked what you would've done differently given the situation and you said "I don't know".  To me your (or anyone's - online or in real life) opinion doesn't really mean anything without some solution or thought behind it. 

[LinvilleGorge]

17 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

I'm not, I get it.

Still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell me what coach and recruits would've made the UNC situation better.  The rabbit hole this has turned into ends with that answer.

Okay, fine. I'll throw some names at you I would've considered for HC:

Dan Mullen

Matt Entz

The portal is too deep to get into and I honestly don't pay enough attention to do it across the board but let's just stick to the key position - QB. Indiana gave Fernando Mendoza less than we gave Gio Lopez. Hell, speaking of Indiana I would've called Cignetti too. I know he's older than would be ideal but he's still a decade younger than the guy we hired and he's actually a proven winner at the COLLEGE level and didn't have to get lured back into the game off the couch.

[CRA]

8 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

I'm not, I get it.

Still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell me what coach and recruits would've made the UNC situation better.  The rabbit hole this has turned into ends with that answer.

but if the Panthers hired Dabo next year, why would I need to give you a name of a better hire to call the bad Dabo hire, a bad hire?  It's the same thing.  

and you can literally buy almost any player.  Heck UNC could of paid Air Noland that oddly went down to SC to improve their QB situation.   

[Navy_football]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It's hard for dudes in the trenches all of a sudden going up against grown ass man strength with everyone on that opposing OL having a deeper bag of tricks than they do right now.

And one is playing on a relatively weak d line, while the other is playing on arguably the best d line in the NFL. 

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

30 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Okay, fine. I'll throw some names at you I would've considered for HC:

Dan Mullen

Matt Entz

Dan Mullen I could get with.  Matt Entz is a complete unknown.

The one thing neither of those two would've done is have UNC football constantly on Sportscenter, Pat McAfee, 60 Minutes, etc. over the course of the spring and summer.  That isn't translating to wins, so it means nothing, but at the time the coverage was excellent PR and excitement for the program.

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QB. Indiana gave Fernando Mendoza less than we gave Gio Lopez. Hell, speaking of Indiana I would've called Cignetti too. I know he's older than would be ideal but he's still a decade younger than the guy we hired and he's actually a proven winner at the COLLEGE level and didn't have to get lured back into the game off the couch.

Mendoza's little brother plays at Indiana. As soon as he was told he wouldn't start at Georgia (the only other school he legit considered) he was never going anywhere but Indiana, which is why he was cheap.

Cignetti is making $9M a year if you include his retention bonus.  So that doesn't solve your paying a coach big money issue.  And to buy him out would cost UNC a literal fortune, which doesn't help your resources argument. 

I appreciate you at least answering the question finally. 

[kungfoodude]

57 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

I'm not, I get it.

Still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell me what coach and recruits would've made the UNC situation better.  The rabbit hole this has turned into ends with that answer.

You know, I would probably ask the AD and alum that fuged up the current hire so badly. They are supposed to know, right?

Oddly, that didn't work out, did it?