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Is it correlation or causation? Enrollment increases are pretty easy to achieve regardless of FB or BB results.

How is the athletic department not doing this? It's been pretty successful across the board.

The primary purpose of athletics is to provide life lessons to young people. The value shouldn't be measured in money or students, but if it is benefiting the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Enrollment just went up. I doubt athletics is driving a lot of that increase.

Simple answer. It's not a business. It's college athletics at a public university. I have the same reaction when someone says government should turn like a business, it isn't. In a world where Joe is underpaid compared his peers and could use about 4-5 more assistants and a bunch of other crap, it's the market.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/louisiana-governor-says-hell-let-donald-trump-pick-next-lsu-football-coach-before-athletic-director-does-211057289.html I doubt that letting Trump make this decision is a good idea, but the governor is on to something. I said recently that the bush league nature of athletic directors would not fit in the NIL era. I've said for a few years that a committee should choose the direction of G5 schools and athletic directors should not be involved in the decision. Moving forward, the role of the AD should be limited to administrative tasks and less on directional decisions. These people have made a mess of college athletics and can't be trusted with major decisions. This is particularly the case at G5 schools where these halfwits will destroy their employers institution just to make it to P5. Think this isn't true? Look at the MAC.

A bronze Arby's A?

I think they will be "ok" also. Solid 5-7 wins a season.

They spent a lot last year. Only fourth in the conference over a number of years. LSU won't be able to sustain it over time. At this rate LSU will be hiring a new coach every year or two. NFL teams aren't this stupid. Over time, Kelly will not be remembered for a student getting killed. It didn't get him fired and he still got the LSU job.

Stanford is an interesting case. I'm not sure they want to do what it takes to win at a high level, but they should be better. When I think of Stanford, I think about Notre Dame without the history of success. ND is flooded with money and puts it into the football program. They have their own TV network. Don't look now, but they are ranked #12 and have a relatively easy schedule with Pitt being the toughest game. They should win out and be back in the playoffs. I think Freeman is a good coach and has a good background in paying players from his time at OSU. The ACC deal is perfect for ND.

Good post. I think a lot of it is going to revolve around not just one person, but the wealth in a state, the number of P5 schools in a state and how the money is divided up. For example, OSU is the only P5 school in a state with three major population centers. Mississippi State and Mississippi are two schools in a poor state with little population. There aren't many Uber wealthy people in Mississippi. Oregon is a small state, but tech has created a lot of very wealthy people who have more than car dealership money.

Arkansas brings in more revenue than LSU by a little. Arkansas has Walmart money. In addition to Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Texas AM and Oklahoma have more revenue than LSU. The point is, in the playoff era, LSU is close, but will be almost always in the second level. The question of Brian Kelly is interesting. He only had three losing seasons in over 30 years as a head coach, which is pretty awesome. He never won a national championship, which in 2025 means you suck as a head coach beyond belief. Guys like him, who tend to be unlikeable people, tend to have a lot of poop thrown a them when things go wrong. I'm betting that once the loud a-holes who love when someone they don't like move on to hating someone else, history will be kind to Kelly.

Actually, player rankings have nothing to do with the value of a player anymore than NFL draft rounds. A players value has to do with winning and losing. Maybe LSU has a huge NIL. I don't know. Even if they do, are they using it wisely?

No. The weather is cold and he is getting up to microwave the leftover sauerkraut balls his wife left in the refrigerator.

To me, this is more of a statement about the dangers of the transfer portal and believing recruiting rankings.

It's very common.

Yes. When I got home Saturday night, I tried to find a close game on television. It was around 9:30. There wasn't a single game on TV of any interest that was closer than 10 points. College football is rapidly becoming a bad product. Unless some type of restrictions can be placed on players, there will be decline unless the drunks and degenerate gamblers they market it to can keep it afloat.

If you think about LSU in the world of college football 10 years ago, yes, they should be a contender. They are going to struggle mightily moving forward in a poor state with the best class of money they can bring in being car dealership money. In many ways, much of the SEC has this problem.

They a surrounded by schools within their conference who they will never be able spend as much. There are lots of schools like them. I just named a few. I could have included VA Tech, Florida State and many others. The college football playoffs will become much like Major League Baseball. We all know who is most likely to win and a few underdogs sneak by into the post season periodically, but they lose in the end. Like MLB, the drivers will never agree to a salary cap of any sort.

Good post. Kelly was a terrible hire for cultural reasons. Put LSU into the category of Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc. Once great programs whose best day are in a world long past. The nil era isn't going to be kind to these schools. They will almost always exist the second level.

NFL teams aren't this stupid. The amateurism that is athletic department administration is going to begin to really shine through moving forward.

Smart scheduling will help also. Wake Forest has feasted on three bad ooc teams in Oregon State, Kennesaw State and Western Carolina. They have Delaware to go, which they will win. A win against a bad VA Tech two weeks ago and all they need to do now is beat any of the following for a bowl: SMU, UNC, Duke, FSU or UVA. They will get smashed this week against SMU, but the rest are winnable. Their alumni and fan base will be doing cartwheels if they win 6 with a new coach.

I think there will be long tenured coaches, but not at places like PSU. They will be at places where everyone is happy to win 6-8 games and be respectable. Places like Tulane, Wake Forest, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, etc. Basically, places where you need a brain to attend.

Good post. I find mid season firings silly as well. They mostly just satisfy blood lust but loud alumni, boosters or members of the press. It doesn't give a school a head start in any search. It's just dumb.

The MAC is schizophrenic this season.

I think Akron steals a rare road win today. At some point having an experienced QB who should be in the second year of his first real job after college has to pay off. A four quarter score to take the lead and then a tough fourth quarter defense wins the game. Akron 27 BSU 24