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He’s got great stuff when he’s not leaving balls middle middle

Crosby’s got a contract that would work. They could have him for 2 years after this one and then let him go. They’d be able to back load some of the current players that will need increases in the next 2 years to help offset.

I still believe the biggest threat to college football is the future of the American university system. It’s broken and won’t continue to exist like it does if they can’t figure out how to get the cost of education down. As more companies stop requiring bachelors degrees, the cost-value for many areas of study doesn’t make sense.

You are leaving out the biggest part of this equation. What does TV want? The guys putting up the money are going to want to have a say in what happens. If ratings stay strong and the new playoff system generates more ad money, I’m not sure much will change quickly. The NCAA controls the TV deals for everything outside of football. I’m not sure the networks want to scrap their sweatheart basketball deals and rework them with some brand new entity. In that regard, I’m not sure they ever go away even without football. I think a new entity to handle just football and conferences that are football only will be the way of the future but how far away will depend on the success of few years of this playoff model.

Rob Manfred is ass

This just in… Maybe the problem was UNLV.

In the meantime, it would benefit all of college football to come together and give Sluka the Kaepernick treatment. If nobody makes him and offer and he finds himself without anywhere to play next year, it may discourage the next person from trying it three games into a season.

He’s only got 1 year of eligibility left so this wouldn’t be shocking to see him try to use the only leverage he’s got to get paid. Not right but it is the new way. The in season stuff is crazy but we are absolutely going to see 1 year movement bleed over to P5 QB’s. Dylan Raiola is going to get huge offers to leave Nebraska and they are going to have open the bag again to keep him for next year. If Aidan Chiles can figure his stuff out, he’s going to get multimillion offers from the SEC to leave MSU, even after they paid him between $750k to $1M to come play this season.

This looks dirty but I honestly don’t know if this is instead a normal move that happens all the time in the trenches and Davenport just broke easily like he always does.

The dad has also chimed in agreeing with this NIL agent. Could very well be true or then again maybe not. NIL agents have burst on the scene and they aren’t real agents per se. No agent worth their salt calls a verbal promise with an assistant coach a closed deal and sells their client on it.

The flip side of drafting so well is we already have our future FA money tied up in players that will come due in the next few seasons. I’d love to add a big name like a Crosby, Reddick, or Adams but how do you commit that now knowing Hutch, Jamo, Gibbs, Branch, LaPorta, Kerby, Alim are all going to need significant pay raises to stay.

FA is a harder task because they are expected to come in day one and start. They also need to be a culture fit with the organization and have a clean record off the field. These are a lot of boxes to have to check before bringing someone on. They would probably have more success in FA just finding players that meet box 1 of getting it done on Sunday but that is not how Brad builds his teams. Hard to argue with his method since it’s working even with the FA misses.

None of this really matters anymore. It’s truly a week to week league. Anyone can beat anyone. Just look at this past week. Who had Carolina dominating at Vegas. SF losing to a decimated LA team in a stadium taken over by Niner fans Broncos destroying the Bucs on the road Hapless Giants beating Cleveland on the road Saints scoring only 1 TD and losing Redskins crushing Cincy on the road and again scoring on every possession.

Interested to learn the details of how this went down. Someone said UNLV didn’t pay to what they agreed, another person said that they paid and the kid wanted to renegotiate after a good start, another person said a different school offered more money if he’d redshirt and transfer. No idea what is true but this is the new world especially for G5. It’s a one year commitment for most players just like a JC program.

I love an Ohio on Ohio feud.

Speaking of Jason Benetti, it looks like our guy said I’m not leaving and called off his regularly scheduled Saturday college football duty to stay with the Tigers this weekend.

That was a Tennessee Volunteer inning!

2 really bad AB with RISP

Ryan Pepiot, the Butler University all-time strikeout leader, is treating our lineup like we’re Valparaiso.

I’d like to see him pitching the 8th inning in the World Series.

Turns out the story is 100% true. I didn’t account for stupid rich high school kids doing dumb ass stupid rich high school kid stuff.

I have the exact opposite view. This isn’t about giving him a little look to help his development. They think he can help them now. Let him pitch and hope that he can become a valuable bullpen piece the rest of the way. That means going into to close ballgames and showing his stuff. Also the lineup that he’ll be facing this weekend is probably worse than the ones he was seeing in Toledo.

Just when I thought that I couldn’t hate the Chicago Bears more.

Minds will be melted when he brings Flaherty back as an FA in the offseason.

I’m in a 50 person Survivor league for money. Pick one team to win each week. You can’t use the same team twice. No spreads. It couldn’t be easier. We are not finished with week 3 and there are only 2 people left. Even better, they both took Cincinnati tonight. If the Bengals lose, 50 people couldn’t it make through 3 weeks picking just a single winner. This very much a week to week league where parity rules.