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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.

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