Jon Joseph

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America prohibits Indentured Servitude unless a person has committed a crime. Unless you are a duly convicted or confessed criminal and in prison, you cannot be forced to work where you do not want to. This is true of coaches and players. A player may not be able to force a trade, but the player cannot be forced to play. Of course, if the coach or player simply quits they will not be paid. As you so note, coaching contracts provide generally for liquidated damages. Damages are paid instead of breach of contract suits. Contracts may include non-compete clauses but said clauses have to be limited in scope and duration. Prohibiting a coach from coaching elsewhere during the term of the contract is unenforceable.

Spot ON! Please tell Rob Mullens to back away from scheduling more games vs. these unctuous thieves or to move out of Eugene and allow someone with a clue to take over his job.

Restraint on coaches' salaries would be price fixing and unenforceable. Restrictions on transfers in CFB will not happen until there is a players' union management can bargain with. 'Someone' has to figure out how to form and define an inclusive players' union; the easy solution would be for CFB players to join the NFL union if the NFL players are willing to accept college athletes. 'Someone' also has to figure out who makes up 'management.' When players become 'employees' relief may come from Congress; not before.

68 P4 teams are ranked. The Pac-2 did not make the list. Yuck, Yuck. College football teams with most returning starters in 2024, ranked 247SPORTS.COM Which college football rosters are stacked with the highest number of returning starters from last season? If your team was putrid in 2023 does it mean all that much to have a bunch of underperformers returning? But for the Power 2 Playoff Contenders with the best odds of making the 12-team field, having experienced players on the roster does matter. B1G - Tied (T) 3. - Iowa - 19 - 9 O/ 9 D/ PK I do not see the Hawkeyes as contenders for the B1G title in 2024 or a true contender for a Playoff spot but Iowa did win the now-defunct B1G West last season and returns many quality starters on D. T - No. 12 - Penn State - 16 - 8 O/ 7D/ Punter On paper, Penn State should go 10-2 in 2024 with the losses coming at home to Ohio State and on the road at USC. T - No. 21 - Ohio State - 15 - 6 O/ 8 D/ PK Plus, tOSU brought in likely starters at QB, RB, CB, and OL from the Portal. T - No. 53 - OREGON - 11 - 6 O/ 4 D/ Punter Plus Oregon brought in likely starters at QB, DB, WR, OL, and DL from the Portal. T - No. 62 - USC - 9 - 3 O/ 4 D/ Punter USC brought in 5 players likely to start on D from the Portal and a QB who will challenge for the starting job. Losing players off of last season's OL and D is not a great loss. 66. Michigan - 6 - 1 O/ 3 D/ PK/ Punter Plus goodbye to HC, DC, and all of the other coaches on D. Moore is going to have to do more with less. 67. Washington - 5 - Zero O/ D 3/ PK/ Punter It's a good thing the punter is back. UW brought in its 2024 starting QB from the Portal and ... UW almost made the anchor position. Good luck Fisching on Montlake. SEC - T - 12 - Georgia - 16 - 8 O/ 6 D/ PK/ Punter And the backups 'aren't bad.' T - 21 - Ole Miss - 15 - 8 O/ 6 D/ PK Plus 4 likely starters on D. 2 on OL both from UW. Kiffin to date, is CFB's No. 1 Portal Picker. Texas - 15 - 6 O/ 8 D/ PK 3 likely starters at WR from the Portal. T - 29 - Missouri - 14 - 9 O/ 5 D Easiest schedule in the SEC but the DC is now the DC at LSU. T. 32 - LSU - 13 - 6 O/ 6 D/ PK Nussmeir at QB is a good 'pinch hitter' for the Heiman winner. Bama and Ole Miss trip to Baton Rouge. T - 57 - Alabama - 10 - 4 O/ 5 D/ Punter Starting center from UW via the Portal. Bama's recruiting prowess will be tested; especially, under a new HC. Let's Play Ball!

The tallest title bout ever: We find out Monday who's better between Donovan Clingan, Zach Edey 247SPORTS.COM Should Zach Edey be considered a better NBA prospect than he is? Maybe we'll find out Monday.

Caitlin Clark offers final words on Iowa vs. South Carolina national championship game 247SPORTS.COM Iowa's superstar knows her team needs its best performance to beat the unblemished Gamecocks. You Go Gals! No title for the B1G in Men's and Women's CBB in 24 years!

A Battle of Big Men - Hopefully, the B1G Man Wins. O’Gara: Why there’s great irony in Purdue preparing for Donovan Clingan, UConn SATURDAYTRADITION.COM The battle of 7-footers will have no shortage of eyeballs on it ... from the officials.

Anyone who watches Pac-2 games not involving Oregon, unfortunately, and UW are but C(lueless) W(atchers,) watching C(ommon) W(astrels,) and C(riminal) W(rongdoers) which in the long run C(an't) W(in,)

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A job Danno 'turned down?' Even with a paycheck of $10,5 M a year plus bonuses.

Michigan O is close to starting from scratch. With Texas showing up in Week 2, SC and Oregon paying a visit and having to trip to That School Down South. Whew! Michigan football's remade offense playing catch-up to mighty defense: 'A lot of new players' SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Former Michigan football RB Blake Corum said the Wolverines had a "complete team" last season. But this year there is already a developing imbalance.

See you on 8/31. Tight end talent is palpable for the Idaho football team SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Apr. 6—The tight ends on the Idaho football team are a crucial part of its offense, which isn't surprising given the background of offensive coordinator Luke Schleusner. However, the Vandals'...

ESPN pays Harry Lyles for this kind of tripe? ESPN analyst on Dabo Swinney’s HC ranking:’ There’s a great argument you can’t be top 10′ SPORTS.YAHOO.COM For most, Dabo Swinney is a top 10 head coach. For this ESPN analyst, he is not. And Neil Everett was fired?

Like the Wolverine, returning Michigan football players are few in number. But these 3 returnees are legit. Trio of Michigan football underclassmen getting early draft attention SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Don’t let rivals fool you, #Michigan is still loaded with talent. #GoBlue

Friend Nevada Dawg. whether they know anything regarding Puddles flight patterns, they are college football fanatics. Their fanaticism is confined to the Superior Everywhere Conference which is most understandable both results-wise and time-zone-wise. No one puts the Fanatic in Fan like SEC fans. CFB is not a sport, it's a Religion. A playoff game in 2024 featuring a B1G team and a to-be B1G team was simply sacrilegious. Something that could only happen in a Leap Year. It will take many B1G champ appearances and titles to catch up with the SEC. With Saint Nick leaving town perhaps there is a B1G chance, but your Dawgs are the No. 1 candidate to take Bama's spot. The only guy who could beat Kirby with regularity was Nick.

Bye-Bye Balboni! Never a doubt on whether this ball was going out (of the stadium.) Go you Diamond Ducks!

Purdue makes the Men's Final 4 and Zack Edey wins the Player-of-the-Year award back-to-back. Purdue is looking for the first B1G title since Michigan State won it all in 2000. Iowa makes the Women's champ game versus South Carolina and Caitlyn Clark wins the Player-of-the-Year award back-to-back. USC(e) is undefeated this season. Last season, Iowa upset USC(e) before losing to LSU in the champ game. Ohio State wins the Women's Ice Hockey championship. Michigan advances to the Frozen 4 for the third season in a row where it will play No. 1 seed Boston College on 4/11 in St. Paul, Minnesota. No. 2 seed Boston University plays No. 3 seed Denver setting up what could be a mini-version of the Bean Pot Tournament. Once a year, BC, BU, Harvard, and Northeastern play for the Bean Pot Trophy in a sold-out Boston Garden. Penn State won its 3rd Men's Wrestling championship in a row, setting an NCAA record for Points Earned in the process. Penn State's Aaron Brooks, who wrestles in the 184 lb. weight class, was the B1G Wrestler of the Year, the NCAA tourney's Most Outstanding, and the National Wrestler of the Year. It will be very tough to accomplish but it would be great for Puddles to fly into the B1G with the conference owning a Men's and Women's NCAA titles. B1G fun coming up.

I think CFN's take on the teams that will make The Delightful Dozen and the seeding of said teams while not a Final 4 prediction will prove to be more accurate than any of the CBS writers boiling down the Final 4. As in the regular season 'scheduling' will matter in the 12-team playoff. Do you have a first-round bye? If not, do you host a first-round game or go on the road against a difficult opponent? Are you the No. 5 seed which means that you will likely play the G5 representative on your home field? As a No. 5 seed in 2023-24, you would have played Liberty. As a lower seed last season, Oregon would have hosted a hot Missouri team that defeated (an undermanned on O) Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. Win or lose, the Ducks would have been in a very physical first-round game. If you advance to the second round do you play one of the top two seeds, likely the B1G and SEC conference champions, or a 3 or 4 seed, ACC or B12 champ, likely to be seeded higher than as ranked by the Committee in its final rankings? IMO, preseason rankings that do not pay attention to a team's schedule are worthless. Tom Fornelli of CBS has 3 SEC teams in his Final 4, UGA, Texas, and LSU. Looking at the 2024 schedule these 3 play, one will have a first-round bye. The other two if both make the field will have a tough first-round game unless one captures the No. 5 seed and could play one another in the first-round. Until you know the makeup of The Delightful Dozen and the playoff seeding predicting a Final 4 is fun but it is a complete shot in the dark. https://collegefootballnews.com/rankings/college-football-playoff-top-25-rankings-prediction-2024-spring-what-will-expanded-cfp-be

This restates the obvious: There is nothing in the 'Super League' proposal that is the least bit attractive to the B1G, SEC, and their broadcast partners. The market is doing just fine sorting out the winners and the losers. Will the B1G and/or SEC add ACC and B12 teams one day? Perhaps. But the B1G and the SEC are not going to take in Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, and SMU. And if they wanted to do so, adding such teams would be vetoed by the broadcast partners. Lesser programs that sponged off conference partners to obtain operating capital do not like capitalism, which they benefited from, giving them a stiff arm. Tough. SEC, Big Ten, and TV execs could've approved Super League but CFP killed it FLYWAREAGLE.COM The SEC, Big Ten, and television executives from Disney, FOX Corporation, NBC Universal, and ViacomCBS could've okayed the proposed college football Super Leagu

Chip, Shehan, Cam, and Will, to go along with your Mensa memberships, here's your super secret passcode to OBD. Picking Puddles for the CFB Final 4 evidences your profound intelligence and OBD is where you will find Puddles flying around and doing B1G things. Tom Fornelli - 3 SEC teams in the Final 4. There's always one guy who doesn't get the memo. Tom, CBS is no longer the SEC's broadcast buddy. Mickey Mouse has stepped into that role. One of Texas or LSU will have to be selected for the field after losing to UGA in the SEC champ game, right? Texas plays UGA in the regular season. Do you expect TX to win in Austin but lose to UGA in the champ game? How does LSU fit in as part of the SEC triumvirate? LSU misses both TX and UGA in the regular season. At least one of the 3 SEC teams will have at least 2 losses. Tom assumes that the loser of the SEC champ game will get the 5 seed. Why? The SEC champ will have a first-round bye. But will two 2 loss SEC teams be seeded in the top 8 and play first-round home games? Does LSU defeat Ole Miss, Bama at home, and A+M and Florida on the road? Also defeats USC and UCLA OOC and then loses the SEC champ game to UGA to go 12-1, right? After the Heisman winner leaves town? I think LSU is underrated and has a good shot at making the playoffs. But the final 4 along with UGA and Texas? BTW, Tom, you may be sure of 2024's best QB in CFB. I'm not sure. Are you handing it to Carson Beck, Quinn Ewers, or LSU's Nussmeier? BTW, 2, Tom. The SEC gets 3 spots in the Final 4 and you think an 8 conference game schedule might be put under a B1G microscope. Tom, it's not just you but I'm not feeling all of the love for a Texas team that lost a lot of production on offense, Are you certain that all of the portal WRs are going to cut it in Austin? Certain that the close wins in the B12 in 2023 will not be losses in the SEC? David Cobb, if Notre Dame makes the playoff field with a 12-game schedule when the conference champs and runner-ups will play 13 games; please see the 8 conference game remark above. These 4 predictions from these 6 guys are as good a guess as anyone will make. But if Oregon and Ohio State are both going to be in the field one of the two without a first-round bye will have a tough road, especially if not the 5 seed playing the G5 opponent at home in the first round. Last year based on the Committee's final ranking, if CFB had a 12-team playoff Oregon would have hosted Missouri in the first round. That would have been a tough game to win and also a very physical game. And the next game would not have been a piece of cake. Friend NJ, thanks for the post.

Hit the Reply button. I'm giving TECH advice. Who knew? I am also a denier of Twitter, X, TikTok, In-Your-Face-Book, et al. I take George Orwell's warning about Nu-Speak to heart. And I absolutely believe that what I may be doing from time to time is BORING and no one else's business. R U dare?

Overreaction to a 'generic' quote from Dan. Kind of like what Ryan Day said when O'Brien left before Chip came on board as the new OC. There are exits and then there are John Wilkes Booth exits. Sic Semper Oregon!

NJ, are you commissioned or salaried? KIDDING!

I bet your students were sharp as a pencil, er, tack. Thanks for teaching and making the world a better place.

NIL from Faber-Castell, or another prodigious producer of pencils? And here I thought that we were doing our best to erase carbon.