2025 NCAA Football Thread

[buddha]

47 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

always good to laugh at penn state.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

Hartline is going to South Florida. 

[CMRivdogs]

9 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

If I read The Athletics current playoff rankings/matchups, nothing would make me happier than seeing UVa upend Ole Miss.

[buddha]

lane kiffin has ALWAYS been this person.  if ol miss thought they could actually keep lane kiffin theyre delusional.

[Hongbit]

A wonderful early signing day for U$C!  For a cool $9M, they have purchased 32 high schoolers and the #1 ranking.     Finally able to put all that money to good use.  

Interesting is many top schools front loaded NIL deals for their current roster and portal transfers this past summer as a loophole to pay out prior to rules changes.  U$C elected to do this with a few of their top high school recruits in states that allow it.  Some of these kids that signed today were already paid a first installment of a couple hundred thousand dollars while still in high school.    

The bet is that the new college football regulating board won’t do anything about schools using this loophole prior to the existence of the new committee.  

Edited Wednesday at 08:27 PM by Hongbit

[CMRivdogs]

What is going on in State College, PA....another turn down

 

[MichiganCardinal]

Just now, CMRivdogs said:

What is going on in State College, PA....another turn down

 

You would think that firing your coach prematurely would at least give you a leg up on hiring a replacement. Plan A was Cignetti. Plan B was Rhule. Plan C was panic.

It would be pretty funny if they go back to Bill O'Brien. He's really impressing with his 2-10 record at Boston College. Whoever they get is screwed though. They have a cupcake schedule next year that Franklin would have killed. Michigan and USC are their hardest opponents. He probably would have had them 10-2 or 11-1 and right on the playoff bubble. Instead, their recruiting class is dead last in FBS and they will still probably go around 6-6.

Should probably consider keeping the buyout low on whoever they hire.

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

What is going on in State College, PA....another turn down

 

Probabably $$$. Maybe not enough money in the offer pot or the admin has told the AD they can't offer buyout terms anything like they gave Franklin.

Edited Wednesday at 10:07 PM by gehringer_2

[Deleterious]

Seriously doubt it's a money issue.  The Franklin buyout only cost them $9 million total after he took the Tech job.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Seriously doubt it's a money issue.  The Franklin buyout only cost them $9 million total after he took the Tech job.

it's pretty funny/sad when we can say  'only $9M' wasted by an athletic department and have it mean a good thing.

Of course we shouldn't forget that PSU, MSU and UM have all suffered 9 digit $$ settlements of sports doctor/coach abuse scandals, none of which has helped any of them be on a stronger footing.

[buddha]

41 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

it's pretty funny/sad when we can say  'only $9M' wasted by an athletic department and have it mean a good thing.

Of course we shouldn't forget that PSU, MSU and UM have all suffered 9 digit $$ settlements of sports doctor/coach abuse scandals, none of which has helped any of them be on a stronger footing.

money is not the problem, arrogance is.

they assumed that a mormon coach would leave byu, and that jeff brohm - prominant alumni and mr. louisville - would leave his alma mater to jump at the chance to be fired at penn state if he went 10-2.

welcome to reality penn state.  you missed the boat.  have fun with someone's offensive coordinator.

[Hongbit]

I can see Matt Patricia being the next head coach at Penn State.    

[buddha]

8 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

it's pretty funny/sad when we can say  'only $9M' wasted by an athletic department and have it mean a good thing.

Of course we shouldn't forget that PSU, MSU and UM have all suffered 9 digit $$ settlements of sports doctor/coach abuse scandals, none of which has helped any of them be on a stronger footing.

those settlements were paid by their insurance companies.

[4hzglory]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

those settlements were paid by their insurance companies.

While true, i imagine their premiums went up drastically if they are even still insurable.  

[buddha]

20 minutes ago, 4hzglory said:

While true, i imagine their premiums went up drastically if they are even still insurable.  

a couple things: they were likely going to go up anyway given the ultra litigious environment in which we live.  they did probably increase more because of the payout.  they also might have had to pay some money out of their own pockets because the insurer would argue that not all the allegations were covered. 

msu, osu, psu, and michigan all had big time sexual abuse scandals at their universities in which the people who came forward as victims - and especially their lawyers - got paid a lot of money. 

[RedTeamGo!]

15 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Probabably $$$. Maybe not enough money in the offer pot or the admin has told the AD they can't offer buyout terms anything like they gave Franklin.

It's not money - they reportedly offered Sitaki $11.5 mil a year. I am sure they were offering same or more to other candidates. I think people are just avoiding the dumpster fire. 

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, buddha said:

a couple things: they were likely going to go up anyway given the ultra litigious environment in which we live.  they did probably increase more because of the payout.  they also might have had to pay some money out of their own pockets because the insurer would argue that not all the allegations were covered. 

msu, osu, psu, and michigan all had big time sexual abuse scandals at their universities in which the people who came forward as victims - and especially their lawyers - got paid a lot of money. 

Michigan 'self-insures' for a lot of things - nowhere in any of the reporting on the Anderson did I ever hear mention of any other financial entity - Not that means spit given the generally poor quality of press coverage!

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, buddha said:

msu, osu, psu, and michigan a

forget about OSU!

[buddha]

3 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Michigan 'self-insures' for a lot of things - nowhere in any of the reporting on the Anderson did I ever hear mention of any other financial entity - Not that means spit given the generally poor quality of press coverage!

i work for a company that insures michigan.  one of many.

[CMRivdogs]

JMU is reportedly finalizing a deal with former Florida coach Billy Napier. Meanwhile nothing from State College, Pa

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[buddha]

11 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

That's what they pay for.

nothing else in the big ten comes close.

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, buddha said:

i work for a company that insures michigan.  one of many.

like I said about the coverage!

The U is becoming quite the Leviathan though - it's getting pretty crazy - they just made a big deal about spending bit bucks to very carefully move a run down old frame house that Raoul Wallenberg lived in briefly to a new location several blocks away to get it clear of a site they are leveling for more student housing ( I think ), meanwhile, they announced they are tearing down a 12 story office tower they own across the street from the mall that was built in 1974 because they apparently don't like it anymore, and they opened another new hospital building in a complex where it's already quite impossible to find a place to park as a patient (not being facetious - you really can't).  Between the city government being in thrall to real estate developers and the University scrambling the geography whenever and wherever they like, A^2 is getting to feel like living on a monopoly board.

 

Edited 12 hours ago by gehringer_2