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This is the big problem with boosters. They pay money and want their way, but they mostly have no idea how to actually run the program. Saban's big success at Bama (and earlier at LSU) was getting the boosters to pay up and then shut up and let him work.

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Why? Ole Miss was 42nd in 2019 in defensive SP+, and fell to 80th when he was hired in 2020 (admittedly 36th in 2021). TAMU was 7th in 2021, fell to 18th when he was hired in 2022. They are currently 20th with all that talent. Even leaving all the off-field stuff aside (and I really don't...

Crime in cities is complicated, as detailed in that Times piece: there tends to be more property crime, but violent crimes are much fuzzier per capita. Prior to 2020 pretty much everything was at 60 year lows in every city, but we did see increases in some types of crime nationwide in 2020 and...

What exactly are we arguing here? We're around 100th in points per game, 93rd in SP+, 86th in FEI. All of them are in broad agreement over how good our defense was: not very. SP+ is likely to be more predictive going forward, since it attempts to adjust for opponent, situation, and pace of...

I have a hard time blaming the transfer portal and NIL. The kids are just now doing the same thing their coaches have been doing for decades.

Interesting comments about the 2009 georgia game. Clearly thinks the NCAA investigation played a role in that loss.

King looks good like 90% of the time. The problem is the other 10%: baffling throws and decision that frequently completely detail the offense.

And their basketball coach makes 2.3 million a year in base salary, independent of any other endorsements or appearances. I don't really get why it's such a big deal for kids to make a bit of money, but a coach making millions a year is just business as usual.

That looked pretty safely out from the stands.

Looking at RPI: We're 213th, 0.4794 rating. @Wake: 59th, 0.5728 VPI: 66th, 0.5687 Fl Tech: D2 @Pitt: 57, 0.5742 Louisville: 318, 0.4187 @Cuse: 106, 0.5372 @BC: 166, 0.5057 @Wake, VPI, and @Pitt are sure losses. Fl Tech and Louisville at home *should* be wins. @Cuse a likely loss. @BC...

Are you talking about this year? Because LSU is kinda bad. They might be a worse shooting team than us.

This really isn't working, it maybe hasn't ever worked, and it's not like he's recruiting well either. I don't think we have much of a choice here.

For pretty much the entire history of the sport we've dealt with coaches jumping programs to make money or just to jump up a level. Why is it, now that the players can do the same thing that their coaches have been doing all along, that this is the death of the sport? Is Lincoln Riley or Brian...

This is a pretty superficial take on Chadwell. The probation at Charleston Southern was an athletic department wide thing, and was mostly on other programs, not the football team. Coastal this year had a number of injuries, and at a G5 you aren't going to have the depth to weather serious...

Can we kill the Godsey talk? He hasn't coached in college in 12 years and his NFL offenses have been mediocre at best. That's hiring a guy purely because he's a Tech guy, and that's bad process. Go hire a good, innovative OC, and ignore where they got their degree from.

If it's accurate that boosters sabotaged the process for other candidates, then that's a gigantic problem that has to be sorted. That's been a recipe for disaster at Auburn, Texas, TAMU, USC, Oklahoma, Alabama and LSU in the past, Florida, examples are endless. Batt had to get them in line...

I think people frequently get caught up in the idea that there is a best candidate, and everyone else is thus not the best candidate. But that's not really true for any job ever: there's usually a pretty large set of people who can do the job, some better than others in one way, and some better...

It's always a good idea to check out what the place they are leaving thinks: Tulane fans really don't want to lose Fritz.

My understanding before today was that a large part of why they fired Chryst was because they didn't want to lose Leonhard to another job. Wonder what changed