Jon Joseph

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.

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: Ranking the top 10 coaches in college football for 2024 - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM 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.' Surprises, snubs in rankings of top coaches in college football - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM With some unexpected results in our Top 10 Coaches poll, we asked the voters to explain their selections.

Ditto for the B1G and Tony Petitti. Emerson: Why the super league idea is probably a non-starter for the SEC THEATHLETIC.COM This would be a bad idea for Greg Sankey's conference, but the more ideas thrown out, the closer we get to solutions with a chance to last.

Betting on the Buckeyes is B1G. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten/college-football-playoff-future-bets-majority-ohio-state-buckeyes-second-best-odds

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.

SC looking for more Mussel in CBB.

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.

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth where the B1G and the SEC are not eleemosynary entities; ditto Fox, CBS. NBC, and ESPN, here's a take on what the 2024 playoff field might be. https://collegefootballnews.com/rankings/college-football-playoff-top-25-rankings-prediction-2024-spring-what-will-expanded-cfp-be

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. Why a college football 'super league' would face major hurdles in attempt to offset effects of realignment - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM College leaders have reportedly met and devised a structure it believes would save college football

GIGO! Even if No. 27 is correct, the 27th most valuable program is going to make the cut. This and the article on the 70-team 'Super League' make me wonder if it's April 1st and not the 4th. It's a loooong off season.

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.

Love It! But I believe they are headed to the We Can't Compete?

OPM? Other People's Mullens?

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.

I like the call but upsets happen in The Game. I do not see Michigan winning in 2024 but all of the pressure will be on Day and tOSU. 8 home games help the Buckeyes 2024 cause.

More coaching B1G musical chairs. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten/ohio-state-buckeyes-hire-jim-harbaugh-college-football-assistant-coach-tim-drevno-michigan

I like the call but upsets happen in The Game. I do not see Michigan winning in 2024 but all of the pressure will be on Day and tOSU. 8 home games help the Buckeyes 2024 cause.

In 2024, Ohio State has the easiest conference and out-of-conference schedule of B1G title contenders. TOSU, Oregon, Michigan, Penn State, and USC have the best odds of winning the conference.

Whetting the appetite. Dan Lanning will be up on the 3rd day of 3-day of B1G football media days. Big Ten Announces Dates for 2024 Football Media Days - Sports Illustrated Indiana Hoosiers News, Analysis and More WWW.SI.COM The Big Ten Conference announced the dates for its annual football media days in 2024. The event will be held from Tuesday, July 23 through Thursday, July 25 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

When the purloined money runs out, it will be even worse. These 2 do not sign 4* and 5* players now. What happens when they stop paying the MW for inventory and join the MW? These were and are as of now two G5 teams that were carried by the rest of the conference they just ripped off. Men's CBB coach Tinkle should be gone, but the Beavers can't cover the buyout, and what kind of CBB coach will the Beavers be able to attract?

It's close to a total rebuild for Michigan, players and coaches both. The guy projected to start at QB ran the ball on occasion from the QB spot last season but he did not attempt a pass. Depending on the quality and experience of QBs entering the portal come 4/16, I believe Michigan will be a buyer. Predicting Michigan football 2024 season offense stat leaders WOLVERINESWIRE.USATODAY.COM Who will lead Michigan’s offense in each major stat category?

Whole lot of poachin' goin' on! Big Ten coacing carousel continues as Ohio State poaches Oregon running back coach SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The Ohio State Buckeyes have poached a running backs coach from another Big Ten program.

2024 NFL Draft: The top-10 interior offensive line prospects if everyone in college football was eligible WWW.PFF.COM Max Chadwick reveals the top-10 IOL prospects in the 2024 NFL Draft if everyone in college football was eligible.