The Rest of College Football

[THE_WIZARD_]

5 of the top 12 are B1G schools...

[UMStan White]

So if I win Power Ball I can buy the UM football dept. with the lump some payout!

[edindetroit]

So if I win Power Ball I can buy the UM football dept. with the lump some payout!

Lump sum is $806 million.

[UMStan White]

It'll be higher by Wed

[WM Wolverine]

Big XII will be allowed to hold a CG. NCAA just aborted the rule about requiring both 12 teams AND divisions to have a CCG...

This should allow any conference (ACC) to re-arrange their schedule/divisions and choose the top two teams to play each other in CG.

[Mike]

I wonder how that'll work. They already play a full round-robin. Every CCG will be a re-match.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Big XII will be allowed to hold a CG. NCAA just aborted the rule about requiring both 12 teams AND divisions to have a CCG...

This should allow any conference (ACC) to re-arrange their schedule/divisions and choose the top two teams to play each other in CG.

Per the new language you can play a CCG without divisions but ONLY if you play a full round-robin. The Big10 can't abolish the divisions and just take the top 2 for its CCG, in other words.

[Mike]

What's the sense in having a CCG if you play a full round-robin? We still won't like you, Big 12!

[Dr. Strangelove]

What's the sense in having a CCG if you play a full round-robin? We still won't like you, Big 12!

I guess it's simply to play he same # of games as the other conferences. Oklahoma probably wouldn't have made it this year if Stanford only had 1 loss.

[hack]

Sounds like it's worded to be a lifeline for that one conference but won't let any others change what they do.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sounds like it's worded to be a lifeline for that one conference but won't let any others change what they do.

Pretty much. A different proposal, put forward by the ACC, would've completely deregulated conference championship games. The ACC has a number of teams unhappy with the current divisional alignment. I don't think the SEC, Big10, or Big12 are particularly inclined to help the ACC soothe disgruntled members.

[froot loops]

It wouldn't make any sense for any conference to do that anyway. Having divisions for a championship games helps the conference.

[entropy]

Kirby Smart: Alabama has the largest staff I've ever seen. We don't need that



Kirby Smart admits Alabama probably has more support staffers than it needs.

As Smart puts together his support staff at Georgia, he knows it’s not going to be as big as Alabama’s, but he says it doesn’t need to be.

"Alabama has the largest staff in any capacity that I've ever seen. I don't know if that's a fair comparison when it comes to pure staffing,” he said. “A lot of those issues have been addressed through the last couple weeks. I think they will be addressed in coming weeks with hiring people and developing a staff. To say that it's going to be as large as theirs or comparable to theirs, I don't know if that's necessarily the truth.

“… I think that part of doing that is hiring the best people you can hire in those roles. Do I think we need every one of those roles? No, I don't. I was there for nine years. I don't think you need every one of those roles. But I certainly think we've got to develop that. They're on board with that and we've started in that process. You'll see that come to fruition in the coming months. To say that I'll run out right now and hire somebody before I get out recruiting, I'm not comfortable with that either. I want to get this done right the first time, even if it takes a little longer to get done."

Alabama's massive support staff earns nearly $3 million annually, per CBS Sports, and Smart was happy to have that at his disposal in Tuscaloosa (and the results are there), but he doesn't need all of it. Some of Smart’s off-field additions at UGA include quality control coaches Patrick Doherty (from Arkansas), Blaine Miller (from UAB), Will Windham (from Davidson) and Rafe Maughan (from Snow College).

One area Georgia is still behind in is the indoor practice facility. The plans are in place, but UGA is the only SEC school without one. Smart knows that will have an effect on practice, but he also knows its coming.

"I think you have to take a step back and take two steps forward,” he said. “Obviously, there's going to be some logistical issues of which I don't know all of them yet. I don't know exactly what all it is. I know it's going to incur some problems with practice and things like that, but I'm 100-percent on board with that to get the indoor. … You want it to be done the right way. Logistically, it'll create some problems for the first season. I do think we can overcome that, and they're willing to do it. As we incur some problems, you'll know about it."

[entropy]

[lineygoblue]

Wiz.. Did that hurt?