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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

Huh? The average margin of victory in FBS is approximately 24 points and getting worse. The NFL is less than 10. College football is barely entertaining.

The NFL is the #1 television show in America. It's great entertainment.

I'm 56. In my life, the following schools were doormats. Kansas State, Baylor, Wake Forest, Iowa State TCU, Vanderbilt. Somehow they are respectable now. It wasn't that hard either. They just made good, basic decisions.

I didn't see the game, but it looks like a Chuck Martin special. The guy is good at getting a lead and milking that lead in an ugly , low scoring game.

It's not impossible. In fact, it's not difficult.

That's not true either. 30 percent of all the budget needs of UofA are paid by the taxpayers. If not for the taxpayers, there is no UofA. If not for UofA there is no football team.

I thought you might have been a Grobe guy..........,.... just kidding.

Why? They made the best coaching hire in the MAC in years and are traditionally a solid MAC school. They were playing in front of a sold out stadium. The only sobering thing is we can't seem to come close to doing the same.

What percent of the students are Ohio taxpayers?

For years many have told us that we can't play at the same time as OSU because nobody would show up. I always thought that if Akron put a decent team on the field at a time an day of week people would go if the program benefited the athletes students alumni fans and general community around Akron. Surely, we could get at least fifteen to twenty thousand to show up for a big game. Well, I turn on the Toledo vs BG game that's starting at the exact same time as the OSU vs IL game, and the first words I hear are "Welcome to sold out Doyt Perry Stadium". Of course, I thought to myself that a lot of Toledo fans showed up..... Wrong, the stadium was almost completely orange. Bowling Green is a cow town less than 30 miles from a city smaller than Akron. There is no greater Cleveland 30 miles away. Their record is not stellar at 2-4, but there is excitement around the team. People showed up. This isn't hard.

I don't know. We used the JAR for winter conditioning also.