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If I wanted to watch "professionals" I would click on the NFL. College sports has evolved into a semi professional farm system in so far as the top 30 or so teams are concerned.

The term you are searching for in describing schools like Vanderbilt is "serf". They have and will continue to prostitute themselves for scraps from the elite football factories' table.

I hear you and sympathize with your concerns but it is already "ruined", the genie is out of the bottle as one poster said and the rich will get richer. The top tier of the football factories, the dozen or so perennial playoff contenders will separate themselves, first from the "wannabes" the...

Of course, it is all not due to his incompetence. Much of what has transpired the past three years of football wilderness is due to some factors out of his control. But, whether you are a "good" coach or a "bad" coach the bottom line is winning ball games. It is a tough business which is why...

If we could have figured out a way to replace the bright red UGA uniforms with the blue and white of Auburn, Coach Gailey would have beat Georgia every time. Any time Reggie saw those Auburn uniforms the light would come on and he would play ball as would his teammates. Funny how that works...

Agree. It was time. Coach Johnson was gracious enough to leave on his own terms. Better to do it that way, with class than to hang around too long as happened with Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, and Bobby Bowden among others. I pray that Coach Collins gets this bus turned around this year. The...

I wonder what the record is for most portal entrants (if that is the correct term) by a program? UVA must be close to holding it.

Did it ever occur to you that an accomplished coach with multiple conference championships and a legacy of success at a college football backwater like Navy just might know a little more about running a football team than critics give him credit for? Coach Collins has, by way of contrast, done...

The flip side of that is equally true for this team...namely, the only sure wins are Duke and Western Carolina. A lot of the others are in flux, as usual for the Coastal, and are certainly games we can win but I cannot see us running the table on Virginia, Virginia Tech, Miami, FSU, and Pitt...

That's him. Thank you. Some pro team is going to get a fine quarterback.

Well, in all fairness, this was the same team that struggled so much the previous two years but Ross had O'Leary and Ralph for coordinators. Makes a big difference...coaching that is.

I think we can beat Ole Miss without their quarterback whose name escapes me in a senior moment IF we improve and play to our potential. If we do go 1-3 to start the year, it will be a bad omen going into the conference games we can win. The psyche of this team is likely to be pretty fragile...

I saw Namath being interviewed after his pro career had ended. He was asked what was the hardest you were ever hit? The interviewer naturally expected him to say it was a pro game but Namath, being Namath, said " I hate to give the bastards this much credit but Georgia Tech hit me the hardest...

I was at that game. A friend of mine, whose father played on the 1952 national championship team, drove down with me to Orlando. We played tennis that morning and went to the game. Nebraska was a 3 or 4 point favorite as I recall but there was no doubt as to who had the better team. Nebraska...

I don't think any of those teams except for UGA and maybe Clemson, should be regarded as automatic losses. On the other hand, none of them with the exception of Western Carolina and perhaps, Duke, should be regarded as sure wins. As always, the Coastal is up for grabs with chaos the standard...

Good job Midline. I largely agree with you but one caveat. The offensive line, the defensive line and the secondary HAVE to be better because they simply cannot get any worse. This is a team that has a long way to go to be competitive but like a lot of people I have little regard for any of...

I was not either. I predicted 5 in 2019 and 4 last year (based upon the perceived SOS). 2022? I have no idea. Anything from a catastrophic implosion to winning the Coastal is possible. IIWII

Dude, you are getting close to touching that third rail. Does she ever read this forum? Recognizing that most if not all of what you post about her is TIC and for entertainment purposes only. Kind of like Ralph Kramden and Alice in the old Honeymooners sit com or that guy in The King of Queens.

I predicted four wins for 2021 myself. The problem with making predictions now is that although we know quite a bit about Tech even with the portal going, we, or at least I, know very little about our opponents until near the end of summer. Making predictions now is like the proverbial 4...

I told my wife that I was "opting out" on getting the leaves raked. Before the day was done, I was opted back in. Sucks to be an ordinary Joe.