The Rest of College Football

[hack]

No need to pick on Kearney. I crashed in an RV at the Walmart in Kearney a few years back. I thought it was just as nice as any other Walmart.

[AlabamAlum]

I wish you were in the portal...the portal to HELL!!! Or Kearney, Nebraska. That'd work, too.

I could be a starter on another forum.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Former Michihgan QB and coach Scott Loeffler was hired as BGS HC for the 2019 season. He has hired multiple coaches from the Lloyd Carr era including former Carr DC, Tom Herrmann (LBs), Terry Malone, Erik Campbell and Kevin Tolbert.

I'll have to tune in to watch Bowling Green run a man-ball offense and a 97 version of Jim Hemann's defense ....... and get blown out by teams in that league that long ago gave up that kind of approach to CFB.

[THE_WIZARD_]

No need to pick on Kearney. I crashed in an RV at the Walmart in Kearney a few years back. I thought it was just as nice as any other Walmart.

Pricks. I'm a UNK grad...at least the diploma is signed by someone.

Now kindly STFU

[WingsFan]

"By mid-August the public is hungry for college football, and America is now going to be able to watch the Gators and Hurricanes in a marquee game a week earlier than usual.


Announced on Thursday that Florida vs Miami received approval to have the game pushed up to Saturday, Aug. 24 from its original scheduled date of Saturday, Aug. 31. The game will still be played in Camping World Stadium. in Orlando, Florida.

[Jeff Buchanan]

According to the Associated Press ......

https://collegebasketball.ap.org/art...grad-transfers

"A proposal to require a graduate transfer to count against a team's scholarship total for two years in football and basketball has been rejected by the NCAA. The Division I Council on Friday voted down a proposal that could have tapped the brakes on the de facto free agency created by a rule originally intended to give athletes more freedom to pursue graduate degrees."

My view is that the idea of letting players transfer - a "defacto free agency" - serves to empower the players in a small way. I'm for the gradual recognition that CFB players deserve certain rights given the skills they are providing to the programs they play for - those programs reaping huge monetary benefit from their contributions to the two revenue sports. This is a good first step.

[Dr. Strangelove]

FYI for anyone who might hear rumblings of this

One of the government's witnesses in the college basketball scandal, a guy named Marty Blazer, made a bunch of claims about payments in college FOOTBALL today. He didn't name names but he testified to have personally paid players at Penn State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Alabama, and others between 2000 and 2013. In the Penn State case, he claims a then-assistant coach in 2009 asked him to arrange the payment. Can't find a link to it but Dan Wetzel is talking about it on Twitter.

I mean, take it for what you will.

[AlabamAlum]

2013 is outside the statute of limitations for the NCAA, I believe.

[AlabamAlum]

But if it's Bama and the year 2000, I believe it. We paid Albert Means in that era.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Should follow up-

Based on the description Blazer gave in court, that the assistant coach had a son in the NFL at the time, people have concluded that it could only be Larry Johnson Sr. who's currently on the OSU staff. LJ has explicitly denied it.

[Jeff Buchanan]

This is an interesting 247 article that lists success rates for CFB programs and ranks them according to how many 247 top recruits get drafted.

Aside from the raw data that produces the rankings, which should surprise no one, there are some conclusions that can be made here based on it:

Michigan can not sell to recruits, at least on the basis of the data time span, that it does a good job of getting top talent into the NFL. In fact, it has done a relatively poor job of developing the meager top talent it does get.

Certainly, it's a five-year study so, M is going to suffer from the lack of top recruits under Hoke that would have been included in the study's time frame..... and admittedly, I can't name them if there were any. It does seem to be on the up-tick though with the number of M players probably getting drafted in this year's draft.

I think most observers would argue that Harbaugh's recruiting hasn't been stellar if you compare him to meyer, Saban and Sweeney. I think it can also be argued that the top talent Harbaugh has brought in hasn't been developed well (transfers, drop-outs, etc. affecting any analysis of this).

My gut sense is that this particular measure for M may improve but it is an up-hill battle given the freight train obstacles that are today's football elite programs.

I think there is room for reasonable debate about how long it should take Harbaugh to turn Michigan football into a perennial contended or if he even can do that. My take is that given his particular approach to the football program and then combine that with the recruiting reality for top HS talent evident in the 247 piece - HS guys that have the talent and are principally looking for the big NFL payday, aren't going to go to Michigan - M fans had better set expectations a bit lower than they tend to set them.

https://247sports.com/Article/College-football-development-Top247-2019-NFL-Draft-Alabama-Clemson-Florida-131413816/

[THE_WIZARD_]

2013 is outside the statute of limitations for the NCAA, I believe.

...and if anyone knows how to cheat and get away with it...it's a Bammer fan...

AA:

hello

[AlabamAlum]

We didn't get away with it. Crippling sanctions. Bowl bans, 21 scholarships, forfeiture of wins.

[Dr. Strangelove]

[Jeff Buchanan]

DSL, why do you hate Capitalism and love re-distributive Liberalism?