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Interesting point. Their likely were chemistry issues, maybe even with some of the areas of teaching techniques that weren't what Lanning and Stein wanted him to focus on. One thing I really loved about Locklyn is his players almost never fumbled. That is not easy to achieve.

I'm doubtful Whittington will follow Locklyn this time given the stable of RBs already there, but you never know. Any current RBs could hit the portal given the coaching change, so we'll have to keep our figures crossed everyone stays.

Com'on. Settlements are just legal decisions minus court related lawyer fees and inability to pay. If they sued and took us 10 to court they would have won.

It's been a unique American thing that our college football subsidizes so much our national Olympic program. Other countries' governments have to pay for that. Perhaps you could find correlation between college football revenues and US medals won. For the summer games at least.

Is there another portal window in the late summer before the season?

I don't watch the regular season. Is there anybody on our team beside Cuisinart and Dante that can score a field goal? Anybody? I'm just waiting for Creighton to pop a couple 3s and put the game out of reach.

If Dana is a great coach, he pulled him off to the side after the celebration and said "Don't kid yourself, you can and need to play like this every game going forward, because this is what you are capable of every time you step on the floor."

Pate says we will know the fate of the ACC before the season starts...not too long of a wait.

I wonder what the #1 is ...shocking! Not. Here us what they said about UW VS UM: Both teams will look significantly different since the last meeting in January, including two new head coaches and several new starters on both two-deeps. I didn't know 20-30ish = several. UM put almost 20 kids in the draft. UW has only one returning starter. And that is before getting into the two deeps. Sounds like an order of magnitude level of denial or incompetence on the part of the writer.

If Jedd Fisch wasn't on a layover before, he is now.

The cleanest answer in all this is FSU & Clemson pay the exit fee and cancel existing media rights, then ESPN uses that as grounds to renegotiate the contract with the ACC. The exit fees mask the pain in the short term from the renegotiated contract for those in the ACC that chose to stay. If the rats start to scatter during contract renegotiation it may very well be a pac 2 redo as Fox and ESPN feed on the carcass with scraps going to G5 B12 will be the last one to go. Then the tough work starts of making a new division where the questionable value teams of the legacy B1G and SEC get the boot.

Competition comes in many forms. Let's face it. OSU and WSU finally won something. And if Pac 12 leadership supported by outgoing school presidents was dumb enough to set a bad legal precedent, then they deserve to lose....and by logic, OSU and WSU deserve to win. Let's tip the cap to them and move on like everything else. Judging by the new CFP contract arrangement, ex p12 schools beat them this time. and the pac 2 may never win this type of competition again.

Penn St. put higher than Texas too. This writer is a major LEGACY B1G homer. The tune will change once once we start beating down the B1G teams. Not only will they need to pay attention to us for real, they will want to say how awesome we are to maximize the value of their losses as "good losses." I mean you can't ignore or claim a team sucks if they beat you down.

Noah Whittington is practicing doing kick return drills which is a great sign. He should be fully ready to go by the season.

NCAA has been begging Congress for an exception to the anti-trust laws and never sniffed the inside of a committee chamber, so St. Nicks is having more success. But yeah, I'm not sure Congress is the answer, and I think Congress themselves shares that same skepticism. Anything they do pass is likely to be stuck as the law of the land for a VERY long time with no opportunities to tweak it significantly outside of courts ruling portions of it as unconstitutional and unenforceable.

ESPN nailed it with James. He arguably was better than Bucky this last year given his efficiency as a runner getting play calls that shouldn't necessarily be explosive but still getting 7 yards a carry! If he stays healthy he's going to shine as one of the best backs in the country.

Lanning doesn't tell us jack about what happens in practice. We just have to trust his process to give us results. Besides that, football just means more in the SEC. We love it here but it's more of a hobby than an identity or lifestyle, so in the off-season it's time to pay more attention to other things. We do get excited for the spring game though.

If the 2 minute warning is equal to a 30 second timeout, I'm fine with it, but I'm sure they will make it a full blown media timeout in length which is a bait and switch of the changes last year to shorten the game with more running clock.

I think Michigan has a dropoff. The entire staff was virtually turned over and they lost a ton of production to the draft. Being able to reload enough to stay a top 10 team is questionable. Alabama is wierd. If DeBoer is to have success it is now with the current talent on the roster, not later. But I do wonder if he loses to somebody he shouldn't, dropping them down a few notches. He's a great coach but the polar opposite of Saban's most trademark attributes: recruiting great and destroying teams they are supposed to beat. DeBoer can't recruit his way out of a paper bag and the guy loves to play with his food, always playing to the level of his opponent.

Will it lead to more huddling like the nfl? Interesting it only turns off at 15 seconds left on the play clock. If you hustle a bit, the coaches can audible for the QB if the see something once everyone is lined up. They can also tell them to be careful about certain defensive looks the QB might miss. I imagine that will put all the OCs up in the box from now on. Will also diminish the advantage of a Bo Nix type that can see an understand all the looks and options at the line. The OC can now do that for them.

The real question is if one or both of the conference champ teams sit their starters for the game, would the playoffs committee punish them for it with worse seeding and state that was the reason, or would they disregard the outcome of the game due to the started sitting?

The big hard to answer question is who will be on the other side of the table. Will it be multiple entities (NCAA, CFP, Conferences, and Schools)or a single entity tasked with negating on behalf of them?

Again, 115 years of an illegal mandate the NCAA has been carrying around, and finally enough money to call it out legally. If fairness restricts earnings of players on the whole, the NCAA has to butt out. They can't regulate NIL, salaries and benefits in any way going forward. The conferences are engaged in business and the players are the employees. Any hope of the NCAA wielding a determination of the path forward from here is a pipe dream. If you don't like it, then harass you US congressperson to put into law an exception to the Sherman Anti Trust act for college athletics. NCAA has been trying to get that done, but getting no traction whatsoever.

"NCAA recruiting pay-for-play is here, and the only surprise is how fast it happened." Stewart Mandel of The Athletic." With all due respect to Stewart and his perspective, the NCAA has been violating the Sherman Anti-Trust act for 115 YEARS! It's taken way to freaking long.

The NCAA clearly only retains lawyers that are willing to tell them what they want to hear. The amount of money is irrelevant. They've screwed themselves and will lose virtually any challenges to enforcement of rules that are directly or indirectly tied to the compensation a player can get outside of a scholarship.