Arena 2023-24 NCAA Football Discussion

I just wish Louisville wound come out and say "look, were taking a step up in competition moving to the ACC, and we have the possibility to hire a coach who knows how to win and recruit in Louisville, and has done so on other big stages. We don't care about anything else. We want to win, and play in the biggest Bowl Games, and for the National Championship."

Also, Vandy is a tough job. You need exactly the right guy in there to succeed. Outside of Northwestern and Duke, winning elsewhere isn't necessarily a predictor of winning there. I mean, for all his strengths and talent, I'm not sure even a guy like Saban would be a slam dunk at Vandy. But, if they're willing to take a one year bowl ban, Tressel might be a good name to chase.

 

Tressel is an outstanding football coach. His baggage sort of makes him a scratch and dent bargain for a mid-level university. Despite the circumstances of his exit from the Buckeyes, I do hope he gets one more head gig before he hangs up his sweater vest.

 

Good call as the Kiffin interviews are being reported this morning...

 

Kiffin could do a LOT worse than spending a lengthy period as Saban's right hand. Could he parlay that into being the next Head Coach of the Crimson Tide? If it was a lengthy enough stint, and he was still on staff when Saban left, I could see it happening.

 

Slight language warning, from the crowd

 

Welp, we'll see what happens next for a Vanderbilt coach. I don't particularly have expectations of a winning season in the future just since, well, Vandy.

 

I was going to say something about bringing binoculars, but that seemed unappropriated. I think a telescope would be much better.

 

Northwestern Football players start process towards unionization

This will probably end up being a largely symbolic move with no teeth. After all, do we really want to go down this road? It might be good for a relatively small number of football players and an even smaller number of basketball players, but do we want the women's swim team being considered employees, and getting minimum wage or work study pay in lieu of a scholarship?

 

Northwestern football players win at the regional level of the NLRB

Decision is expected to be appealed to the national level of the NLRB in Washington and could eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Also, this page on the NLRB website has a link to the full text of the decision (PDF download), which contains quite a lot of detail.

I personally expect that this will end up before the Supreme Court. And after scanning through the PDF of the decision, I don't really see any way they could rule that they are not employees. I just hope that the union only pushes for better work conditions and doesn't try to bully the NCAA into allowing the players to be paid wages.

 

Hey. Hey guys.

14 weeks till football is back

 

According to ESPN we are one of the 16 teams with a chance to win the NC this year.
We play LSU first game of the year and actually that's good they will be starting a FR QB and a ton of other FR who will of course get better as the year goes on.
We are one of the few teams that can actually play big physical with anyone and we return 4/5 of our huge OL and our starting QB along with a legit Heisman Candidate at RB. Our Defense is very good and LSU will struggle to be steady with all those frosh starters (true frosh BTW). We threw away two games last year this year I don't think so. I want tOSU so bad in the BigTen Title game God I hate tOSU.

ON WISCONSIN

 

LMAO tOSU opens at NAVY and we play LSU.
Did Urban Meyer schedule that or did Tressel before he got axed for cheating.

 

Why in the world did my post get changed from "inappropriate" to "unappropriated"? I never typed that. It makes zero sense now.

 

College Football's first female DB.

 

So, a female version of Mark May?


Ohhhhh ... not that kind of DB ...