2025 College Football Thread

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

He was good today. 

Yeah, when he wasn't turning it over including the back breaking final INT he was good. That's the problem with Carson Beck. The guy has 6 INTs in y'all's two losses and that's even with getting completely bailed out by a bogus late roughing call on one just to be like "no thanks bros, I'm here to throw picks today" and throw another even worse one like two plays later. 

[LinvilleGorge]

6 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Good. fug this conference.

I agree. fug the ACC. They gambled on expansion years ago to bolster football and the teams they added face planted and all it did was fug up basketball.

[csx]

7 hours ago, OldhamA said:

Good. fug this conference.

How many years has Miami been unable to win the ACC? 22?  Wake has been better. What a flop that was.

Edited 6 hours ago by csx

[kungfoodude]

10 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I agree. fug the ACC. They gambled on expansion years ago to bolster football and the teams they added face planted and all it did was fug up basketball.

Technically this was the correct move for survival. College football greed did ultimately ruin all of college athletics in the end.

But, it was harder to predict that it would be this bad in the 1990's and 2000's. 

The Big Ten is now attempting to put the final nail in college sports with this private equity "investment."

[UnluckyforSome]

3 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Technically this was the correct move for survival. College football greed did ultimately ruin all of college athletics in the end.

But, it was harder to predict that it would be this bad in the 1990's and 2000's. 

The Big Ten is now attempting to put the final nail in college sports with this private equity "investment."

Just imagine how great it will be when they eventually expand the playoff to 24 teams, or more. There will still only be 3 or 4 teams that have a real chance of winning the national championship, but the money-making opportunity will be too irresistible.

[HPPantherzfan]

Mike Shula has destroyed Sellers.  Sound familiar?

[kungfoodude]

45 minutes ago, UnluckyforSome said:

Just imagine how great it will be when they eventually expand the playoff to 24 teams, or more. There will still only be 3 or 4 teams that have a real chance of winning the national championship, but the money-making opportunity will be too irresistible.

The money making opportunities will fade. That era is upon us. 

I have said a collapse is inevitable and I really do believe it.

For college atheltics, a drastic collapse will be the healthiest outcome for the sport in the long term.

[LinvilleGorge]

56 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Technically this was the correct move for survival. College football greed did ultimately ruin all of college athletics in the end.

But, it was harder to predict that it would be this bad in the 1990's and 2000's. 

The Big Ten is now attempting to put the final nail in college sports with this private equity "investment."

Right move with the wrong programs. The ACC bet on the wrong horses. The programs they added to bolster football (Miami and VT) were at the tail end of their runs. Their fans will blame the conference change for their downfall conveniently ignoring the dominant run Clemson had in the same conference at the same time.

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Right move with the wrong programs. The ACC bet on the wrong horses. The programs they added to bolster football (Miami and VT) were at the tail end of their runs. Their fans will blame the conference change for their downfall conveniently ignoring the dominant run Clemson had in the same conference at the same time.

I don't know that better options were available at the time. We couldn't poach Big Ten or SEC programs. The Big 12 was not weak enough yet to potentially make a poach there reasonable. Not to mention the big fish(Texass, Texass A&M and Oklahoma) wouldn't likely have come unless we basically handed them over the keys to the entire conference budget.

I agree that those moves hurt but I don't think there were better options and sitting still was a worse solution. The financial rewards they all reaped were substantial. They only cry and moan about it now because they say "Oh the Big Ten and SEC are more!"

Well, those are also the primary drivers of this insanely rapid inflation that is absolutely unsustainable.

[UnluckyforSome]

24 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The money making opportunities will fade. That era is upon us. 

I have said a collapse is inevitable and I really do believe it.

For college atheltics, a drastic collapse will be the healthiest outcome for the sport in the long term.

Not convinced that it will reach that collapse point, and that is entirely on the fans and consumers of the product.

I think there is something real and tangible to the dissatisfaction from fans about how college football operates in particular with this new age of NIL and transfer portal. 

"There's no loyalty or identity to a school anymore."

"Paid employees."

"Mercenaries and that's all."

Conferences are all done, except for the name. The geography has been obliterated. Historic rivalries are gone and a good chunk of the character of college football has gone with it. Eventually, I see it becoming a set-up akin to how Premiere League Soccer operates, with teams being segregated out. We are very much on that path already.

For years and years, it was operated as a free farm league for the NFL. The only thing that has really changed is it is no longer free. Times change, but it does go against the ethos of what college sports are perceived to be about by the public.

Despite that, consumption remains high. 

[LinvilleGorge]

40 minutes ago, HPPantherzfan said:

Mike Shula has destroyed Sellers.  Sound familiar?

The truth we all knew has been laid bare. Cam completely carried that moron.

[LinvilleGorge]

This guy is such a complete fuging prick.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16bh2nLuGq/

Blamed a receiver for running the wrong route on his 4th INT of their first loss and now he's throwing shade at play calling after he seals another loss with another INT where he had all day in the pocket, the pocket was still clean, and he just chose to throw the football to a defender. How can a Miami fan watch this poo and cry about refs? Your problem is this dog poo asshole playing QB.

[OldhamA]

4 hours ago, csx said:

How many years has Miami been unable to win the ACC? 22?  Wake has been better. What a flop that was.

We'd have won it the last two years if the ACC wasn't hell bent on stopping us.

Best we've been able to do is win the Coastal, which is poor.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

We'd have won it the last two years if the ACC wasn't hell bent on stopping us.

Lord almighty. This is even more delusional than the Bryce stans. LOL 

Last year y'all had a great offense and a JV defense and this year y'all have a great team held back by an egomaniacal jackass of a QB that literally everyone in the football world correctly predicted would be a disaster.