JabbaNoBargain

Great rundowns! The bowl tie ins and mindset need to all go, pronto. Personally the 12-team format would be more difficult for me (if I was on the committee) if the top-4 weren’t automatic. Determining the top-4 without a conference championship requirement would be incredibly difficult. That being said, I still think 12 teams is easier than 4. We previously had a system with 4 spots and 5 power conferences, guaranteeing at least one P5 champion would be excluded every year. It’s actually amazing to me that there wasn’t a seismic occurrence prior to FSU, a year where every conference champ finished 11-1 for instance. The demise of the PAC makes this far easier. I personally don’t believe it would be that difficult to tell a 9-3 team that finished #12 at the end of the season they didn’t qualify for the 12 spot tourney…tough luck buttercup, lose one less game next time Okie State.

I do enjoy that the SC fan seems to imply OBD has moved on to bigger fish to fry. Second tier?

Ok, forgot until…this year? 😂 This consolidation to the P2 is going to make some new worlds collide.

Crazy average! At first I though you were talking about how few recruits Beavis has on the board *yuck yuck* Did you hear about that great recruit Beavis is hosting this weekend? Oh wait, they aren’t hosting anyone…but I hear in an effort to retain some players from being poached by Arizona State they’re having a good sack race soon. They do things the right way.

Even though we’re 2-0 against Texas since 2000, I’m pretty sure they forgot we existed until yesterday.

Nice collection of random words 😂 Florida? Alma mater? Bouncing checks? Honestly? Go home Derp, you’re drunk

How do they keep that website with a straight face and no shame? If there was any mojo left in the brand, it will be destroyed completely over the next year. All games “broadcast nationally”…meanwhile they’ll need an FAQ on how to get an antenna hooked up to your TV.

It’s still a strange phenomenon. Everyone vividly remembers them desperately wanting him 5 hours ago. Nobody hits 💯 on their prospects, it’s okay. But clearly, he’s safe. Texas fans wouldn’t endorse trying to flip such a questionable culture fit. 😂

Green smoke is also a signal from the movie The Rock (a duck produced movie), but I digress.

Green smoke, we got green smoke!

Love me some 5 star!

Well close enough now, I need to know what happens with this nameless 5-star lol

Solid points, and I can see how it would help marketing growth and momentum…but I personally still won’t know his name until June 2025. I just find it fascinating to watch this evolve in the context of the portal era.

No doubt, and I don’t begrudge anyone that wants to follow each kid. I myself don’t learn their name until it’s on the roster after spring portal…either way this goes, this is still just a verbal and people are acting like it’s the end. Dramatic 5-star wide receiver would never reopen things, right? Non-binding verbal ceremony is kind of hilarious,

You don’t want to be held hostage on the whims of a HS kid? For shame!

From one of their forums today, the only football topic with a ton of activity at the moment…and it’s 6 pages deep, this is the mindset lol

And they seem to be getting addicted to “the power” of “calling the shots” for the “conference”. I think if they do actually try to reconstitute the league, it’s going to become a real impediment. Yeah let’s leave our legitimate conference for something where these two numbskulls who offer nothing other than an old brand are calling the shots…who would do that?

Yep, still a lot of them that think the name “Pac12” will equate to automatic success and P5 status once they get up to 8 teams, no matter who they are. They seem to forget that it didn’t equal success when the membership was legitimate, but sure, adding Nevada and 5 others of that ilk = instant P5 status and riches. But my favorite Beavis belief remains them believing the civil war being played in Corvallis this year is somehow them doing OBD a favor.

It’s just semi-transparent now…I’m pretty sure the “blue bloods” have been putting envelopes of cash under recruits pillows since, uh, always.

More trivia, I think we’ve been independent before, PCC to PAC era. And we might have been kicked out of a conference for a scandal once. 😆

My take away is that instead of having conferences with 2-3 teams in the mix for the league title, we will now regularly have 4-5 above line contenders along with 1-2 teams below the line that have it all come together in a given year. So anywhere from 5-7 teams in a given year to legitimately compete for the league title. Also says to me that 3 loss teams making the new playoff might be more prevalent than most seem to expect.

Good take, impossible for there to be a lot of data. That being said, we have the biggest piece of data available, well technically speculation. DL rejected two SEC opportunities in two years, including the king of the mountain. Additionally, Kirby Smart is only 48 and DL doesn’t have an alma mater to leave for 😆

Seems to imply only being a few years removed from being a contender. Fact check, 4 team playoff lasted 10 years, let’s see…oh yes, zero appearances 🧐

Single Malt 21?

I really do think the reason he took the USC gig was to avoid the SEC and Oklahoma “quickly becoming a second tier program”….hmmm where have I seen this quote before 🤔