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I can state with certainty and personal experience that student athletes attending SEC want one thing: A path to the League. That‘s it. (Education is not even on the list.) IMO, the future of Tech is recruiting quality athletes through the portal that are disillusioned with any of the major...

Improvement of the football team is a drawing factor for many fans, no question. So is scheduling. NCAA data on attendance shows that attendance (in addition to the two already mentioned factors) is heavily driven by the density of alumni within 5 miles of the stadium. In urban areas like...

I would say MB has merit. He’s at all the conference and AD meetings and is engaged more than most. He speaks to the decision makers directly… I would encourage anyone involved in college sports to follow him. 100% re club sports. That’s what’s going to happen as the profit gap narrows in the...

Matt Brown from extrapoints.com, opined that in 5 years … there will be no NIL, players will be employees, and coaches salaries will plummet, as you can’t pay players AND coaches. Rivalries will be irrelevant… it will hang on matchups, ratings, share. He suggested that CFB is and will be, a two...

The NCAA rankings disagree with you. That‘s the problem. No one accepts the rankings. The SoS. The Power Index. Or any other method. Until there is a method everyone agrees upon, the debate will continue.

For fun, I just looked at the final AP poll (which is determined by opinion, no set criteria) and final strength of schedule. If you apply the same scoring system to strength of schedule… you get these as the Top 4 Teams (on a combined basis): Michigan Alabama Ohio State Texas FSU came in...

One lawyer opined that the case transcends FSU v ACC. The real case is the ability to enforce a contract. His analysis was courts will be leery to side with FSU because of the precedent and massive chaos that would result. In short, no contract would be truly enforceable. FSU will be...

My response was to SOWEGA who posted “If a program like FSU who was a top 5 program for a 20 year span, with Natties, and Heisman winners can simply be laughed at because of their conference I can only imagine what they would do with the rest of us.”

But they aren’t in the B1G or the SEC. Here’s what the Orlando Sentinel had to say about FSU (not complimentary):

My comment is a direct rebuttal that FSU is a Top 5 program. It it isn’t and hasn’t been for some time. As to whether the ACC is an inferior conference… draw your own conclusions.

FSU finished in the Top Five (AP poll) twice in the last 20 years. In the last 10 years, the ACC produced 3 ”national championships“ … Clemson (2) and FSU (1). More than any conference but the SEC.

Have I seen the contract? No. Have I heard about it from people in the know? Yes. It's an accepted practice. My understanding is that AD's don't object because they get a great hire (a former coach as an analyst for $3K a month) and the HC has wide latitude to hire who he wants.

Collins is represented by Jimmy Sexton, who is probably the leading agent in NCAAF. Sexton's usual MO is take a client who has been fired and then, get them hired as an analyst (for a ridiculously low salary) and give them a place to work on their reputation. Cooperating coaches get a cut of the...

https://www.psucollegian.com/football/what-is-penn-state-getting-in-new-defensive-coordinator-tom-allen/article_5dc0e712-9d3c-11ee-8525-5798f2ef1828.html

I had lunch with Gary Lee a few years ago. I asked if his kids were considering playing football. Gary said he discouraged it. “I had to play”, he said. ‘It was a way out, for me. My kids don’t have that pressure. I wanted them to play soccer. Football … is a very violent game.”

Totally true. But … Vandy also relaxed academic standards for athletes, so Franklin benefited from several factors. Still, to win at Vandy is something.

I’m not in that camp. I don’t think there’s a conscious attempt to create outcomes in polls. But, that doesn’t mean bias/it doesn’t exist. Those who participate in the polls “may” be more knowledgeable but many are not. They don’t pore over spreadsheets and analyses. They go to a secure...

What Narrative? The AP Poll was created in 1936 by writers to … sell newspapers. There’s no criteria. Sixty-ish writers rank their picks and that’s it. Bowls later jockeyed to create matchups that could make a case and crown the king. Now, it’s a new series of polls but instead of newspapers...

The regular season is not a single elimination format. It's a series of conference and non-conference games that are then ranked. Alabama dropped from 3rd to 10th in one week, so it did mean something. Alabama paid the price for not figuring out its offense under Tommy Rees and what quarterback...

This one? Looks pretty normal. https://collegefootballplayoff.com/rankings.aspx