2025 College Football Thread

[WhoKnows]

Man, watching the Jimmy V basketball tourney and it makes me mad to see that wonderful guy speaking while knowing he might not make it to the next ESPY show. Mad about the douches at ND trying to justify why they can’t play in a bowl game and talking about suing because they weren’t voted into the playoffs.

Such a damn shame what college sports have turned into now.

[Basbear]

Screw it give those ban those super smug ND football teams, just let them play D3 schools for the next five years.  

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm glad someone involved in the process here is manning up and saying the quiet stuff out loud.

"I think Pete's [ND athletic director], his behavior has been egregious," Yormark said. "It's been egregious going after Jim Phillips, when they saved Notre Dame during COVID. ... The chair said that as Notre Dame and Miami got closer together, head-to-head would be a factor, OK?"

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47261132/big-12-brett-yormark-calls-notre-dame-pete-bevacqua

Just more absolute cuck bullshit from the ACC though. You need another conference commissioner to step in and say what you should be saying while you continue to kowtow to ND and create excuses for them like a battered spouse? GTFOH... with the "oh he loves me, he won't do it again" ass bullshit while you're sitting there with a black eye and a lump upside your head while he's strutting around saying "yeah, she learned her lesson this time she won't be trying me again like that". The quicker this ends in an divorce the better off the kids will be for it.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Just more absolute cuck bullshit from the ACC though. You need another conference commissioner to step in and say what you should be saying while you continue to kowtow to ND and create excuses for them like a battered spouse? GTFOH... with the "oh he loves me, he won't do it again" ass bullshit while you're sitting there with a black eye and a lump upside your head while he's strutting around saying "yeah, she learned her lesson this time she won't be trying me again like that". The quicker this ends in an divorce the better off the kids will be for it.

I agree with you in theory.  In practice the ACC doesn't gain anything by crapping on Notre Dame.

This year, the ACC was the benefactor of NC State, Syracuse, Pitt, and Miami being on Prime Time linear (which is still massive compared to streaming) network TV BECAUSE of Notre Dame.  You could maybe argue that Miami could get on Prime Time anyways because of who they are, but they were in the opening weekend ONLY game on SUNDAY mostly because they were playing Notre Dame. 

I work with a ton of dipsh*ts, and self-absorbed assholes in entertainment, and while I'd love to tell them to fug off, I realize the reward is worth the tolerance needed to reap it. I think the ACC is in the same boat with Notre Dame. 

The last thing you want to do is piss off Notre Dame and have them take their ball, go home, and call the Big 10 to be their new "friends". Then every ACC game is on the CW Network, or the 11am kick on ESPNU. That's significantly less money, brand visibility, and recruits looking at schedules to see how often mom, dad and grandparents can see them play.

Edited 21 hours ago by HeelsPanthersCanes

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

I agree with you in theory.  In practice the ACC doesn't gain anything by crapping on Notre Dame.

This year, the ACC was the benefactor of NC State, Syracuse, Pitt, and Miami being on Prime Time linear (which is still massive compared to streaming) network TV BECAUSE of Notre Dame.  You could maybe argue that Miami could get on Prime Time anyways because of who they are, but they were in the opening weekend ONLY game on SUNDAY mostly because they were playing Notre Dame. 

I work with a ton of dipsh*ts, and self-absorbed assholes in entertainment, and while I'd love to tell them to fug off, I realize the reward is worth the tolerance needed to reap it. I think the ACC is in the same boat with Notre Dame. 

The last thing you want to do is piss off Notre Dame and have them take their ball, go home, and call the Big 10 to be their new "friends". Then every ACC game is on the CW Network, or the 11am kick on ESPNU.

I think the Big 10 would tell them to fug off. I don't think they'd bend over and take it like the ACC has. Same with the SEC. The ACC is largely willing to deal with it because they're basically just barely hanging on as a major conference in football. But ND beating their largely lower level teams on national TV isn't helping their reputation.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

9 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

But ND beating their largely lower level teams on national TV isn't helping their reputation.

For you it doesn't, for me it doesn't because we don't like (we hate) Notre Dame.

But you are wildly underestimating how many Notre Dame fans are in this country, who would tune into to NBC every weekend to watch them play Northwestern, Purdue, Maryland, etc.  And that's a huge reason for the Big 10 to consider it - money, eyeballs, and recruiting.

Notre Dame would never pursue the SEC.  Notre Dame doesn't want to run the risk of losing to the 8th thru 13th place SEC teams, like a Tennessee, LSU, Florida or Auburn which could absolutely happen to the Irish on any of those teams "good days". See Florida beating Texas this year.

Edited 21 hours ago by HeelsPanthersCanes

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

double post

Edited 21 hours ago by HeelsPanthersCanes

[LinvilleGorge]

43 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

For you it doesn't, for me it doesn't because we don't like (we hate) Notre Dame.

But you are wildly underestimating how many Notre Dame fans are in this country, who would tune into to NBC every weekend to watch them play Northwestern, Purdue, Maryland, etc.  And that's a huge reason for the Big 10 to consider it - money, eyeballs, and recruiting.

Notre Dame would never pursue the SEC.  Notre Dame doesn't want to run the risk of losing to the 8th thru 13th place SEC teams, like a Tennessee, LSU, Florida or Auburn which could absolutely happen to the Irish on any of those teams "good days". See Florida beating Texas this year.

No, I'm saying it doesn't help the ACC and their rep having their largely lower to mid-tier teams getting their asses beat by ND on national TV. The only other major conference their current deal may have made sense for was the Big 12 and that commissioner has basically been the only guy in a position of relevance who had had the balls to basically tell ND to fug off so I don't see that happening. The ACC holds the upper hand here if they're just willing to play their cards instead of panicking and folding every time ND bluffs.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Whoa. Michigan's head coach just got detained by police after being let go by the school for inappropriate relations with a woman (or ... girl?). RUMOR says he broke into her home and threatened to kill himself. 

[LinvilleGorge]

48 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

Whoa. Michigan's head coach just got detained by police after being let go by the school for inappropriate relations with a woman (or ... girl?). RUMOR says he broke into her home and threatened to kill himself. 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

Crazy story

[Murph]

Damn, is it really that big of a disaster to lose to Ohio State?

j/k

[LinvilleGorge]

12 minutes ago, Murph said:

Damn, is it really that big of a disaster to lose to Ohio State?

j/k

Evidently he was banging his assistant something happened that made the assistant go to the university and lay it all put there, they fire him as a result, and then he basically went crazy probably anticipating his life completely unraveling. Wild.

Chasing that strange will make some guys do some outlandish poo. Keep it between the lines fellas. Ain't worth it.

[LinvilleGorge]

Yes please. More of this. A LOT more of this.