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    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.

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    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.

     

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    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. 

    On 4/5/2024 at 3:48 PM, Mudslide said:

    For those of us that refuse to join the Social Media Generation, will someone kindly post the comment or summarize it? Thx.

    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? 

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    On 4/5/2024 at 12:04 PM, WiseKwacker said:

    Sorry. Former teacher here. Ticonderoga makes--in my humble opinion--the best pencils around. Several years, my team of teachers specified Ticonderoga pencils specifically on the school supply list for parents as we were sick of seeing kids bring in cheap pencils with leads that were not centered. You'd watch a kid sharpen and sharpen an inferior pencil down to nothing, trying to get a point without a portion of wood on the tip. 

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

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    ESPN college football reporters have selected their top 10 college coaches. Our Man Dan comes in at No.6.

     

    Frankly, I don't think much of these rankings. Dabo Swinney at No. 4 with two playoff titles, with wins over Bama in the champ games, is behind No. 2 DeBoer? Huh? Do victories in the NAIA mean this much? 12-6 at Fresno gets you the Avis spot in these rankings? I don't get this, at all. 

     

    Ryan Day is at No. 10 on the list? Behind Kansas coach Leipold and I don't hasten to add Dan, Day has taken Ohio State to four playoff games. Dan is getting there but has yet to get there. 

     

    So, FWIW:

     

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    The No. 1 coach isn't hard to guess, but after that things got interesting for our voters.

     

    I am not the only one with 'issues.'

     

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    With some unexpected results in our Top 10 Coaches poll, we asked the voters to explain their selections.

     

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    Great article. Thank you, Mike. 

     

    Would it not be great to return to the days before Oklahoma, Georgia, and other schools, blew up the NCAA's exclusive right to broadcast college football games? When only superior teams played in the four post-season bowl games. When a coach making more than $100,000 a year was the exception and not the rule. Before the onslaught of locker rooms with waterfalls. When you learned the recruits new to the school when spring ball started and the only Stars were in the sky and Hollywood. When you could tailgate in the daylight and not in the dark. 

     

    When the NCAA lost its exclusive CFB broadcast right, as you Mike so correctly pointed out in an earlier article, the media came on strong and armed with money, and college sports, especially football and men's basketball were capitalized. The concept of "student-athlete" hung on for decades in form and not substance, until the model was destroyed in courts of law and legislative bodies, notwithstanding the NCAA spending millions of dollars in legal fees to preserve the prosaic model.

     

    When anything is capitalized, there will be winners and losers as determined by the marketplace, the amounts of capital invested, and the strategy associated with the investment of capital. This is as true for beer as it is for athletic programs. 

     

    Where would Oregon be today in comparison with Oregon State if not for Phil Knight, NIKE, and the marketing genius of Bob Strasser and other NIKE executives? Would Oregon be B1G, or cast adrift like Oregon State and Washington State? We'll never know. But we do know that like it or not Puddles is in a fine-featured B1G nest and the Beavers have been dammed by the marketplace. Northwestern and Vanderbilt continue to be respectively buoyed by their B1G and SEC partners and not by their investment in athletics. 

     

    The Pac-12 lost. Unfortunately, Oregon State and Washington State bereft of buoys, went down with the Conference of Champions ship. 

     

    I very much doubt that Oregon State sports will disappear; rather, the Beavers will find a niche among the schools that invest a similar amount of capital in college athletics. 

     

    Thanks again for the well-thought-out and very well-written article.

     

    Big Ten Football: Which Teams Return the Most Starters, Production and Talent for 2024?

     

    https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-football-which-teams-return-most-starters-production-talent-2024

     

    Fisch and Moore have more work to do than the other 16 coaches. SC only returns 7 starters but how many OL and starters on D will Troy miss? 

     

    Ducks have 10 starters back and a lot of good recruits and players from the portal on the way. Returning 70% of the production on offense without Bo is impressive as is returning 70% of the production on defense. 

    Not so Fast! When I saw that W VA Prez Gordon Gee is one of the 20 folks behind this it helped cement my belief that this is a last gasp by teams being left behind by the Power 2. 

     

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    DOA!

     

    Why would the Power 2 go for this instead of expanding to 20 teams each? The B1G and the SEC will receive, according to the latest calculation as reported by Jon Wilner, 59% of the Playoff pot. Why would the Power 2 agree to share with 30 more teams? Teams that have no hope of winning a title. 

     

    Who are these 20 people and are any of the 20 affiliated with the Power 2?

     

    The marketplace has and will continue to sort out CFB wheat from the chaff. 

    On 4/3/2024 at 4:57 PM, Duckley Palace said:

    Any update on the Big Ten holding the championship game anywhere but Indy? If this is going to be a National landscape conference, they should have alternate sites. Especially if Florida State and Clemson join up in a couple years.

     

    As far as the question goes, it would shock me. USC is in for a culture shock, because Lincoln has a style built for the Big Twelve, or the now defunct Pac Twelve. Talented squad, but it takes a while to integrate toughness. I like their new DC though. He has the chance to do what Knowles has done at Ohio State. But it'll take more than one off-season imo.

    Good take and thoughts on the Trojans in 2024.

     

    But for 1 guy, it's an entirely new D staff. Including bringing in a guy who coached the Rams DL for the last 4 seasons; a line that included Mike Donald. Absent Grinch, SC's tackling looked better in the Holiday Bowl than it did the entire season. Just verbal 'commits' but SC is recruiting very well in 2025 including on the D side of the ball. SC finally has its NIL act together. 

     

    Riley knows that the D must improve or he's gone. 

     

    Take out the 2 OOC games vs LSU and Notre Dame that have no bearing on conference standings. SC has an easier conference schedule than the Ducks in 2024. USC will likely be favored in every conference game except Michigan in Ann Arbor and SC's roster is at least equal to Michigan's 2024 roster.  Penn State and Wisconsin trip to LA. I don't see Minnesota, Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska, 2024's UW, and 2024's UCLA  as games the Trojans can't win. 

     

    5 B1G teams enter 2024 with Blue Chip Rosters, Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, Penn State, and USC. 

     

    You could of course be spot on and SC will again go 8-4. If so, no matter what it costs, I think Riley is gone. 

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