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I was never for unlimited player mobility but I absolutely thought it was dumb that players couldn't make their own money on the side. If a player is big enough to get endorsements then that's their business - let them be. The NCAA being dumb and archaic kinda forced NIL - then when everything came to a head they went completely spineless and shoved their heads in the sand and now it's the unmitigated wild wild west out there
One thing to remember is that when VT was going to bowls like it was its job, players weren't getting paid. That meant extra free travel to cool places, lots of pre-bowl activities, and also the ability to get free/stolen bowl swag.
Nowadays players are getting paid, and some are acting like entitled little assholes that don't appreciate one bit the opportunities they are being given. They see a bowl solely as a slap in the face to their god-given right in a CFP game and as an unmitigated risk to their physical health when they surely will get drafted into the NFL.
It was my freshman year. 1989-1990. The snow ball fights between the Core and students was one of legend. I hopped at the chance to live it. It was awesome.
For anyone apprehensive about Pry as DC (count me in this camp), Sons of Saturday's podcast on it will make you feel much better.
Notre Dame's AD today, apparently.
Part of the problem is that there are too many conference teams. The SEC has 16 teams, and 4 of the teams each only have one conference loss (not counting the championship). That shouldn't be possible. Then they complain if they don't get 5 teams in a 12 team playoff.
I really think that if NIL/player compensation is unchanged, and the 12-team playoff is left as is, but conferences returned to their 2009/10 state, there's no mainstream complaints about 'the sport'
I tend to agree. I think the other item is unlimited player mobility. I was in favor of this because "if coaches can do it, why not players?". But it's made things very messy, not to mention deflating for any lower level program knowing they can just have all their players raided in an offseason.
Put Johnson supporting Young and Duffy. Include International Scouting to his duties to identify other potential Neos for both programs.
I think the better place to look at QB play isn't necessarily the top end. It's the dirty middle. The bluebloods are always going to score well in QBR barring injury or coaching change gone wrong.
I think you would see the second tier teams in each P4 conference QBs with lower QBR but vice versa seeing a larger number of G6 conference QBs with higher QBRs as the QB talent AND the OL talent spread out and more repetitively having to learn entirely new offenses.
QBs are willing to risk leaving the bench of a top school to get a year starting at a G6 contender to try to catch the very next cycle to be the starter for a P4 school, especially if they get recruited over (See Texas-Trey Owen's is entering Portal because Manning is staying and 5 🌟 QB Bell just signed)
I do believe that the conference championship game should be a 'free roll' and teams shouldn't get penalized for playing an extra game.
I agree with you on many things, bar, but this is definitely not one of them. The playoff always should have been exclusively for conference champions. Full stop. I'll die on this hill.
All this bullshit about Notre Dame comes down to this
CFP Payouts: As an independent, Notre Dame keeps all CFP revenue, which is significant, with projections for $18M+ annually under the new 2026 CFP agreement. (A huge amount that they dont share with ACC but still can take one of our top bowls if they miss)
Notre Dame still receives around $21M a year from the ACC for the non-Football sports. Cut the Irish out and let SMU have more than the $0 they get
As was pointed out above the Irish get around $50-$55M from NBC.
Add that to the $21M for other sports from the ACC and its $71M a year which is about $5M a year higher than any other ACC school can earn even with the new TV viewership distribution model. Then if they get a CFP share going forward barring Touchdown Jesus falling on his face you are talking $75-77M a year.
Bed made, sleep in it Leper-chauns
I missed this halftime field goal.
Here's the link for anyone interested:
Kicking a ball at your opponents: Priceless
Technically, they were Marve and Seifkis' defenses
2000 Fiesta Bowl, when ND stole a BCS bid from the Hokies so they could get the shit walloped out of them by Oregon State. Enjoy staying home this year.
The starting QB at Tulane was supposed to be the starter at BYU...but had to go to student court, transferred out, and ended up keeping BYU out of the playoffs....
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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# | Dellenger: Notre Dame to receive playoff autobid for top 12 finish The program that wants to be singled out in their TV contract, and their independence, and their CFP deal, and their bowl deals, and their scheduling, and their money, doesn't want to be singled out? Boo Hoo
I need to be reminded of the stupidity and pettiness.
Crumbl cookies sent to PSU was super petty.
That one student who got a chance to kick a field goal at halftime for money but instead lined up and kicked it directly at the opposing team. Ellie pettiness.
Did we have any bonehead plays that mattered? Like shoe throwing level stupidity?
Yea - tbh, I think the CFP bungled the week 15 rankings. They should have had Miami at 9, ND at 10, Bama at 11, and BYU at 12. That way it would be win & in for Bama or BYU. The fact that Miami was behind ND for the life of the poll only to matter at the end when they were side by side made no sense to me.
IMO, this committee was probably the most inconsistent logically that we've had since the start of the playoff.
He loves VT and the area. He doesn't want to leave for a long while
I think most people (other than SEC homers) would have had no issue with ND making it in over 3 loss Bama.
We are all nit-picking here because at the end of the day there are only about 3-4 teams that can win it all anyway. None of those teams are playing in the first round.
ND might have been one of those 3-4 teams. They were peaking at the right time.
Doesn't mean that kicking them out was the right/wrong call. Just saying that they had a legit shot at winning IMO. They would have been favorites against any team that didn't get a bye.
And yet BYU was punished for losing in the B12 Game other wise they might have been in at 11-2.
it's probably been the most unpredictable season since... 1990?
Answer: 1999
Why are all the US group games on the West Coast? Should at least have one in KC.