Jon Joseph

Before Buying the Hype, Steve Spurrier Wants Archie to Prove It Steve Spurrier offered the most HBC take possible about Arch Manning and Texas COLLEGESPORTSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Steve Spurrier knows a thing or two about quarterback competitions, and he recently questioned why Arch Manning couldn't surpass Quinn Ewers in 2024.

Pawalll - Not so fast, my young friend. Paul Finebaum puts Thomas Castellanos on blast for shot at Alabama - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Paul Finebaum blasted FSU QB Tommy Castellanos' bold comments Monday to On3's Pete Nakos calling out Alabama ahead of their 2025 opener.

Leave It to Beaver? 😁 What’s next for Oregon Football at QB position after 5-star Ryder Lyons’ announcement? SPORTS.YAHOO.COM After missing out on 5-star QB Ryder Lyons, the Oregon Ducks have a few recruiting options available to them going forward.

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Meh! Next case. 😴

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. B1G win or B1G fail in 2025? Note - Ohio State defeating Texas will not be an upset. 8 out of 8 of the gaming sites on Vegas Insiders have the Buckeyes favored. Every Big Ten team's best, worst case scenario in 2025: USC plays for league title? A three-loss Penn State? - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Exploring the range of success (and failure) for each Big Ten football team this season

OT OBD, but the Michigan fan pain level descriptions? Priceless. 😩 Ranking the Top 5 most painful Michigan Football moments since 2015 WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM A deep dive into the most painful Michigan football losses of the modern era: from heartbreak in Columbus to the chaos against TCU, ranked with humor, trauma, and just enough hope to keep...

Some Wolverines Love for Kenyon - 😎 1 player from every Big Ten team we’d like to add to Michigan Football WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM Michigan’s roster is pretty much set, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a wish list from other Big Ten teams. Here’s who we’d pick if the Wolverines could add one player from each roster in the Big...

ESecPN is Biased? I'm Shocked! ESPN's SEC bias is officially out of control after insane Arch Manning ranking FANSIDED.COM ESPN will always have SEC bias and now they're using it to put one SEC quarterback on a pedestal ahead of the 2025 season. Rece Davis, one of the faces of Colle However, the 'Arch Madness' is not limited to the folks in Bristol, Athlon just named Archie its 1st team preseason AA QB. Ahead of veteran starters Klubnick at Clemson and Nussmeier at LSU. No pressure, right? Archie, my friend, you best Manning Up!

What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor? 🍻 The Irish and The Buckeyes? 🙃 Ohio State Buckeyes, Navy football agree to future season-opener in Columbus COLLEGESPORTSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Ohio State and Navy have locked in a future non-conference date in 2029, which brings the Midshipmen to Columbus to kick off the season.

"We need to turn over every available stone ..." I disagree, I do not want to see college sports sold to private equity firms. Firms that will not invest money without having a voice in the sports going forward. The media already has far too much influence on college athletics. There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow or under any stone. Athletic scholarships cost schools money, either directly or indirectly. There is no return on investment by schools adding field hockey or men's gymnastics to their sports menu. Most athletes participating in these two sports, as well as many other non-revenue sports, do not come from financial situations where an athletic scholarship is required or higher education is unavailable. There is nothing wrong with club sports, sports that can be coached by player-coaches. I don't believe that hockey players at Oregon receive athletic scholarships. Yet they're on the ice and having fun. There are all kinds of ideas that require the expenditure of OPM. In the case of more spending by athletic departments, the majority are bleeding red ink. Many of the states that support public schools are running deficits. Given a choice, should states provide money for additional sports for student-athletes or additional aid for financially disadvantaged students? I also note that most of the students at IMG Academy board at the school and are not on athletic scholarship. The tuition for boarding students is $93,900.00 a year. People who live in glass houses ...

A Trio of B1G Sleepers 😴 Three Big Ten College Football Playoff sleepers in 2025 COLLEGESPORTSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Big Ten sent four teams to the College Football Playoff last year with Indiana as a surprise. Who figures to be the sleeper team this season?

I hope he cannonballs directly onto and is impaled by Bevo's rack. 💩 🤓

This Castellanos cat is DJU in waiting. 🦨 He was last seen being benched by Bill O'Brien at BC. This is a massize revenge game for FSU, 'screwed out' of the last 4-team PO by Bama, Greg Sankey's 'one of these things is not like the other', Sesame Street charade, a whinny group of ESPN talking heads, and a 'corrupt' PO committee. I always want to see the SEC team go belly up OOC, but it isn't going to happen on 8/30 in Tallahassee.

The player is not a defendant. I do not know if his agreement with Wisconsin had a liquidated damages clause, but I very much doubt it, as the intent for both parties when the contract was executed was for the player to stay and play for Wisconsin for the next two seasons. Miami was not a party to the contract. Wisconsin has sued for 'Interference With a Contract.' Damages, if Wisconsin prevails, have not been specifically asked for; the pleading simply asks for damages over $10,000, which is typical in litigation of this nature. I imagine if allowed in Wisconsin, where I am not admitted to practice, the plaintiff will ask for punitive damages that could exceed the value of the player's services by millions of dollars. How do you prove the damages suffered? I don't have any idea. 'We would have defeated Alabama if this guy were on the defense?' Hmmmm. Miami, under NFL rules, paid a $1.5 million penalty for interfering with Tom Brady when Brady was under contract. How the NFL arrived at this dollar amount, I do not know. This suit is an attempt to enforce rules against tampering that the NCAA is unwilling and in some cases, unable, under state law, to enforce. We know tampering is ongoing in CFB, but to date, no injured party, recall Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi beefing about USC 'stealing' WR Jordan Addison, has pursued a remedy. There's been lots of tampering smoke, but this suit is the first 'fire.'

No doubt litigation is likely to follow further consolidation of college athletics. However, Hertz is not required to subsidize Avis, and Oregon is not required to subsidize Oregon State. The ACC, B12, and the Pac-7, pending 8, did not hesitate in putting the final nails in the Real Pac-12's coffin, or in looting the Mountain West. This will not go unnoticed in court. Likely, the entire G6 and the majority of the ACC and B12 members will not be able to meet the Super Conference's annual minimum dollars required to be spent on football. Same for some of the teams in today's Power 2. The ACC has internally separated the wheat from the chaff in artful fashion. Without prejudice, the most watched ACC teams will receive more media money. ACC teams that make money in the postseason will keep the money. BC and Wake Forest did not sue to keep an equal disbursement of revenues and postseason money. The ACC model is coming to the B1G and the SEC. A merger of the B1G and SEC's top teams could cause market share issues, but I imagine the structure of such a 'merger' would be designed to withstand antitrust challenges, and/or the Power 2 could simply pay off the remainder of the ACC and the B12 and the G6. This is happening today with the B1G and the SEC receiving the lion's share of the football PO proceeds. Despite the whining about 'fairness,' the market will, as always, separate the winners from the losers.

Thank you, Steven A. I note that the 1st team Clemson DL guys were on last season's team that lost 4 games. Archie Manning has started two games vs. G6 opponents. PFF may like the Vandy TE, but where, except for 23andMe, is the supporting data for Archie being 1st team? The 2nd team and 3rd team QBs match up in the opening game, which sees LSU playing Clemson. Maytayo should have been All-B1G last season and is underrated here. I think OL Isiah World could have joined transfers Thieneman and Hughes. Nice to see Poncho on the list.

LSU wins it all, but not without controversy. Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall ejected in first inning vs. LSU in heated start to CWS Finals Game 2 - On3 WWW.ON3.COM In the bottom of the first inning of Game 2 of the College World Series, Coastal Carolina head coach Kevin Schnall was ejected. SEC sites were quick to claim LSU's 8 titles superior to USC's 12 titles because, TA DA!, LSU played more difficult schedules. 🤪

If Wisconsin loses its lawsuit against Miami, then is any direct revenue share contract between a school and an adult player enforceable? If not enforceable, the transfer portal timelines are meaningless. So long as another school is willing to enroll a player, a player may 'transfer' whenever he and his agents so desire. So says the player's attorney, and by lack of any response to date, so says the University of Miami. As the CBS Sports article points out, in the NFL, tampering has consequences. The Dolphins were fined $1.5 million for tampering with Tom Brady. Behind the Wisconsin v. Miami tampering lawsuit over transfer DB Xavier Lucas that was months in the making - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM And what comes next could -- stop us if you've heard this before -- change college football Note that the contract the player signed was the standard for direct revenue share agreements approved by the Big Ten. One issue to be resolved, if the case goes to judgment and is not settled, is that the agreement, consistent with the NCAA's head-in-the-sand approach of not referring to the recipients of revenue sharing as 'employees', does not refer to the player as such. The contract is an assignment of an athlete's Name, Image, and Likeness for the term of the agreement. As the B1G is responsible for approving the form of the contract, it isn't surprising that the conference is supporting Wisconsin's lawsuit. You've got to know when to fold up. I am not aware of any law that requires colleges and universities to offer athletic scholarships and to fund athletic teams. As I asked in another post on this subject, is it time for schools to inform the world that this is it for college-supported athletics? Or at least this is it for anything other than an Ivy League no-athletic-scholarships approach? Do this, and I think Congress may be forced to act. Or, teams will be granted the use of a school's trademark, but the teams will be minor league professional teams for the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, etc.

B1G Ranking By 2025-26 Estimated Revenue - Private schools USC and NW not included. Revenues are rounded and shown below in millions of dollars. 1. Ohio State - 188 2. Michigan - 166 3. Nebraska - 142 4. Penn State - 142 5. Wisconsin - 132 6. Iowa - 118 7. Michigan State - 117 8. OREGON - 112 9. Minnesota - 103 10. Indiana - 102 11. Washington - 102 12. Purdue - 98 13. Illinois - 94 14. Maryland - 82 15. UCLA - 82 16. Rutgers - 77 Here's an analysis of the 2024 Big Ten revenues and expenditures, which includes revenues for the Pac-12 newcomers in 2024. Oregon is one of the approximately half of the conference teams with an athletic department that finished in the black. Big Ten athletic departments’ 2024 financial statements: Seven lessons from a data deep dive SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The athletic departments of the Big Ten’s 16 public universities generated nearly $2.84 billion in revenue during the 2024 fiscal year but collectively spent nearly $3 billion, according to financial... The private schools did not report revenues and expenses.

The USC direct payment distribution plan seems to be typical of schools with a big-time football program. LA Times report looks at USC revenue sharing plans following NCAA House settlement TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A recent report from the Los Angeles Times looked at the Trojans' plan to attack this new era of college sports Michigan weighs in on B1G direct payments, including the revenue for each B1G program. The $20.5 million cap on distributions helps the teams with less revenue keep up with Michigan and Ohio State. When the B1G media agreements are renegotiated in 2029-30, I think the B1G will follow the ACC and distribute media revenue based upon the 'Eyes On the Prize' number of TV viewers, and 'Eat What You Kill' distribution of PO money going to the teams that earned the money. How revenue sharing should be distributed across the Big Ten Conference WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM With every athletic department in the Big Ten generating varying amounts of revenue, yet expected to distribute the same $20.5 million to athletes in 2025, economic disparities are already...

Thanks, G. The B12 does support the 11-5 format, but at least as of today, like the B1G, the B12 does not want the PO to expand unless the SEC plays 9 conference games. I do give Greg Sankey a pass on last season's fouled-up format—a format designed for 5 Power Conferences. He was able to eliminate a second G6 team as an automatic qualifier, but could not reach an agreement on changing the format to seeding that matched the rankings. As you note, last season's field was so unbalanced that 10 conferences and Notre Dame voted for this needed change in 2025-26. Of course, the 'balance issues' were exacerbated by the committee for no good reason ranking G6 Boise State the 9th best team in the nation. This screwed ASU fans out of a game in Glendale, Arizona instead of Atlanta. Is the 4-4-2-2-1-3 format (B1G format) bad for the ACC and B12? Looking back from the inception of the BCS in 1998, and projecting what a 16-team field would have been, the B1G would have had the most participants, followed closely by the SEC. Two teams each for the ACC and the B12 would have helped both conferences, especially the B12. Among his duplicitous comments regarding the B1G format, Sankey suggests that a guarantee of only 4 teams in the field would hurt the SEC. True in that all three 9-3 'left out' SEC teams would have been in last season's 5- 11, 16-team field. Notre Dame would score one of the three at-large bids every season, and the other two at-large bids could go to the B1G and SEC teams. Is there a reasonable SEC fan (an oxymoron?) who, after the 2024-25 postseason, believes six SEC teams deserved to be in the field? Does anyone with a modicum of objectivity believe that the SEC commissioner and SEC ADs, before arriving at the SEC spring meetings, were not aware that SEC coaches wanted to stay at 8 conference games? And that an ESPN FPI pamphlet justifying 8 games because of the brutality of the SEC schedule just happened to be lying (lie-ing?) around? At this point, without the SEC agreeing to play nine conference games, I'd as soon see CFB leave multi-millions of dollars on the table and stay with a 12-team field through the conclusion of the ESPN broadcast agreement, 2031-32. With the condition that the Football Committee uses disclosed metrics, as does the CBB Committee, and none of the metrics come from an ESPN computer. (Unfortunately, CFB has a weekly rankings show, but the shows are built into the ESPN broadcast agreement, and ESPN will not give up the revenue.) Use the CBB model and move the start of the Season to Week 0, and also consider dumping or flex-scheduling conference champ games. This season's CFB champ game will be played on 1/19/26. In 2026-27, without a change to the schedule, the season will conclude on 1/25/28. CFB PO games will not have more viewers than NFL PO games. I also see no reason for continuing the Greg Sankey suggested Advisory Committee. I have no beef with the SEC fans who want to play nine conference games instead of N-E-W-S Directional State. No beef with a Florida team playing 11 P4 games in 2025, and other SEC teams that play 10 P4 opponents. Tony Petitti and Brett Yormark need to call the SEC and the ACC's 8 conference games bluff.

Will USC Explode or Implode? https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/usc-football-preview-2025-trojans-season-prediction-win-total-projection-top-players I like the predicted loss to OBD. 😍

Miami Comments are MIA. Miami Hurricanes under fire following Wisconsin's tampering lawsuit WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The Miami Hurricanes and Wisconsin Badgers could soon find themselves going head to head... in the court room.

B1G Twosomes - College football's dynamic duos: Penn State, Texas tandems set to define 2025 national championship race - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The road to the College Football Playoff runs through these one-two punches