2025 NCAA Football Thread

[buddha]

blah blah blah blah i hate michigan blah blah blah blah...

[Tigeraholic1]

20 minutes ago, buddha said:

blah blah blah blah i hate michigan blah blah blah blah...

I am not a fan of Indiana either but I don't wear blue and maze glasses either. 🤣

[Hongbit]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

Deboer

Dillingham

Fisch

no other option is realistic, imo.

You are going to hate it but Fleck is an option too.    

[buddha]

22 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

You are going to hate it but Fleck is an option too.    

if those three turn them down, i'd rather go with an interim for a year then make a mistake it takes 5 years to get out of, but youre probably right.

[Deleterious]

They are not hiring someone who had a pretty public cheating scandal himself. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

5 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

They are not hiring someone who had a pretty public cheating scandal himself. 

Who had a public cheating scandal that has been on the rumored Michigan radar? Are you referring to Fleck?

[Deleterious]

2 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Who had a public cheating scandal that has been on the rumored Michigan radar? Are you referring to Fleck?

Yeah

[Hongbit]

I wasn’t familiar with the PJ Fleck scandal.  

After looking it up, I’m not sure it’s really a scandal.  It happened in 2016 and much of the salaciousness appears to be rumor.  He is still married to the woman he left his wife for and I can’t find anything that’s says she was a stripper.  

[Deleterious]

I'm sure it's comforting to his ex-wife he is still with one of the women he cheated on her with.

People get the story confused.  He didn't end up with the stripper(s).  The woman he ended up with worked at a car dealership.  

[Hongbit]

Marriages are personal and often very different than what people portray to the outside world.  This goes for anyone, not just public figures.   I can’t comment either way on how she felt.  

I do know that there are many situations where couples end their relationship privately but don’t legally file for divorce.  It usually is when one of them starts a new relationship where the need to officially end the marriage happens.   

[Tigeraholic1]

Fleck meets the prerequisite on bringing some baggage with him to Michigan. Fits the current narrative of a coaching candidate. 

[romad1]

Per the peeps on MGOBLOG, Fisch, fletched out on his background investigation. 

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Fisch: no. Less than an hour after I posted Searchbits IV news came down the pike that Jedd Fisch was not going to be an option. Pretty much everyone had it at the same time, so that's definitive. On one level this is good because it's baby's first background check. Well done, doing a background check.

On another it's not, because one of the underlying assumptions about this search was that Fisch was a B+ backstop and that Michigan would not have to go further than him. With Fisch out, Michigan no longer has an obvious spot where the search stops if they cannot acquire one of Dillingham or DeBoer.

 

[Tigeraholic1]

Brian Smith just hit the market. 

[Deleterious]

6 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Fleck meets the prerequisite on bringing some baggage with him to Michigan. Fits the current narrative of a coaching candidate. 

Even if you get past him ****ing everything that moved in Kalamazoo, he's still a ****ty coach.  

[MichiganCardinal]

8 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Even if you get past him ****ing everything that moved in Kalamazoo, he's still a ****ty coach.  

Well I can see someone’s not doing his share in rowing the boat.

[Hongbit]

He’s done a good job of consistently winning at a place where it’s really hard to win.   He knows the B10 and Midwest recruiting.   He’s done it all with Drake Lindsey, Max Brosmer, Athan Kaliakmanis, and Tanner Morgan as his QB’s.  

It would be very interesting to see what would happen If you gave him a real brand and some NIL money.    They could do a lot worse at the 5th or 6th choice for the job level.  

[RedTeamGo!]

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

No way Cignetti leaves Indiana for the train wreck of Michigan. Crazy that Indiana has become the best team in Big 10 spending a small fraction of money Michigan has pissed away. No regent issues, no AD issues just winning.

Ehhhh just because Indiana beat OSU for the first time in 40 years by 3 points doesn't make them the best team int he Big 10. Let's seem them sustain their success a bit. 

And it is not a small fraction of money that Michigan spent. Mark Cuban is involved with the football program. They have a billionaire donor. 

[romad1]

15 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Ehhhh just because Indiana beat OSU for the first time in 40 years by 3 points doesn't make them the best team int he Big 10. Let's seem them sustain their success a bit. 

And it is not a small fraction of money that Michigan spent. Mark Cuban is involved with the football program. They have a billionaire donor. 

Didn’t know about Cuban.  It’s high time that massive alumni group kicked in.

[Tigeraholic1]

23 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Ehhhh just because Indiana beat OSU for the first time in 40 years by 3 points doesn't make them the best team int he Big 10. Let's seem them sustain their success a bit. 

And it is not a small fraction of money that Michigan spent. Mark Cuban is involved with the football program. They have a billionaire donor. 

One loss in two years with zero five stars. 

[casimir]

On 12/16/2025 at 1:18 PM, Tiger337 said:

If you want to make it logical, then make it 8 conferences of 10 teams each and they each play every team in their conference.  Notre Dame doesn't play in a conference because it makes more money that way.  The rest of the teams play in super conferences because they make more money that way.  There is nothing noble about playing in these huge conferences containing teams from all over the country just like there is nothing noble about Notre Dame being independent.  If you are trying to get the best 12 teams in a playoff, it shouldn't be about what conference you're if in you aren't playing half the teams in your conference.  

I’m really starting to hate the expanded conferences.

[buddha]

3 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Marriages are personal and often very different than what people portray to the outside world.  This goes for anyone, not just public figures.   I can’t comment either way on how she felt.  

I do know that there are many situations where couples end their relationship privately but don’t legally file for divorce.  It usually is when one of them starts a new relationship where the need to officially end the marriage happens.   

exactly.

moore's disqualifying feature was not that he cheated on his wife or that he followed onlyfans "models" or that he texted them for potential sexual relationships, it was that he had such a relationship with a subordinate, gave her a big raise, and lied to his employer about it.

[Motor City Sonics]

20 minutes ago, casimir said:

I’m really starting to hate the expanded conferences.

I started hating it years ago.   I kind of hate what's happened to college football, in total.    

[Deleterious]

2 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Well I can see someone’s not doing his share in rowing the boat.

Definitely not.  But he isn't even a candidate so it doesn't matter.  

[MichiganCardinal]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

I’m really starting to hate the expanded conferences.

They never should have done what they did with the conferences. These aren’t even conferences in the traditional sense of the word. They’re just scheduling agreements. 

Back in my day *shakes fist at cloud* conferences were like-minded schools who shared academic and athletic values. Now they’re just about maximizing television revenues 9 days per year.

They could have just left conferences as they were but removed all scheduling barriers in football. Let everyone be as special as Notre Dame thinks they are. We’d get to the same endpoint of schools making lots of money, a 12+ team playoff, and someone (probably Notre Dame) being upset.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

exactly.

moore's disqualifying feature was not that he cheated on his wife or that he followed onlyfans "models" or that he texted them for potential sexual relationships, it was that he had such a relationship with a subordinate, gave her a big raise, and lied to his employer about it.

yeah - the rule is really pretty simple - stay away from relationships with anyone on your direct reporting chain. I mean that still leaves 50K university employees if you are Larry Lonely so how hard should it be?

Edited 12 hours ago by gehringer_2