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After reading the article all I have to say to the NCAA

Just enjoy the moment…

I don’t see a reason for him to go. Coach lanning has everything he needs here to go to the national championship and play at the highest level. He has the next three years of QB’s in place and his personnel. His family likes it here and even though he lost to the huskies 3 times, we love him. There is nothing but downside to a move to Alabama. He would have to move his family, work to put his culture in place, and deal with a hostile fan base and athletic department it you don’t win quickly. Meaning he could be moving his family again in the next 4 years if things don’t go well. This seems like a high risk move with little upside other than the name “Alabama”. He has everything he needs to do what he wants here without the risk.

My money is Cristobal to Alabama…

So … bankrupt players if they don’t play a meaningless bowl game? Just wow. Jonathan Smith, Mario Cristobal, and Kenny Dillingham get to get a pay raise to leave during the season but you want to bankrupt every player that doesn’t play in the “SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl”? I am on the other side of this argument. Because of player empowerment which includes NIL, the extra year of development due to COVID, and the transfer portal we have had the most magical season of football yet. We had 7 teams that could legitimately could be in the playoffs this year. Has that ever happened? The majority of labor relations changes in football has made the game better. If we want bowl games to matter we need to move the transfer portal dates, make the bowl games part of the award’s criteria, make coaches sit out 3 years if they leave the team before a bowl game, and lastly fill the seats of bowl game’s stadiums.

Don’t be to hard on Mari no O. He helped Rutgers win their first bowl since 2014.

He’s a great coach with horrific, really horrific taste in schools. However next year he will be beaten by a mountain of Oregon talent.

Let the USC fire sale begin!

That’s a great list. I agree with everything except #4. Stein is a great coach but we would have been undefeated and going to the playoffs with Dillingham.

Charles, your point is well taken. Pay costs can get out of control, we can see this in the coaches salaries and payouts. However in an industry that paid $ 146M is football coaches buyouts since 2022, I find it difficult to justify not treating athletes fairly and justly in the labor market. The of sports would be a travesty. However I believe those who pay the bills (media deals and boosters) are going to do that with or without payment of players. All this being said, legislating pay and outlawing athletes voices in their job isn’t the correct answer. We can create a pay structure for athletes that works better than our pay structure for coaches. Players having a voice in their workplace could have unforeseen benefits. Power 5 owes $146M in buyouts to fired football coaches since '22 - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Texas A&M's record $76 million contract buyout for fired football coach Jimbo Fisher accounts for more than half of the approximately $146 million Power 5 schools owe to fired head...

It’s hard to think of a more dirty way to be remembered than depriving players through the law of their fair market value and a collective voice in their jobs. “If Baker can push this through while also getting Congress to ensure that schools will never have to deal with a players’ union or pay players their fair market value, he’ll be the most important figure in the modern history of the NCAA. “

Well it’s settled then, Stephen A. Smith wants to see Deion Sanders take the Texas A&M job WWW.YAHOO.COM Stephen A. Smith wants to see Deion Sanders take the vacant Texas A&M head coaching job

Ahhhhh hahahaha! They are serious!!! How embarrassing!

Last year under Mr Lanning, Oregon had a recruiting class ranked #1 (4th year in a row) in the pac and #16 nationally in 2022 with a top tier offensive line. They lost to the beavers with #54 recruiting class in 2022, Washington ranked #95 nationally. Players certainly matter. So does coaching and practices. I don’t want to hear Oregon coaches saying players matter more than plays when they lost to the beavers and the huskies. Oregon failed to play up to the players talent last year and I would like to know what the coaches are doing to play up to to the players talent when have the #1 recruiting class in the pac for the last 5 years. Was Dillingham a better play caller than Cristobal? Yes, unequivocally. Has Lanning’s team played up to it’s recruiting ranking? I would say no. Is it the play calling, design of plays, or practice set up…. I don’t know. What I do know is with the #1 recruiting class in the pac, if the ducks lose, it is a coaching problem.

Now we just need a system in place where institutions can not contact coaches before the bowl game concluded and coaches are required to stay 2 years before they can quit their team.

I don’t understand what is wrong with the portal system and trying to acquire talent from other schools

I think we should stop saying it’s a meaningless bowl game. It seems really insulting to the players and staff who worked hard to entertain us. The game certainly wasn’t meaningless to the players

Mike leech is a lawsuit waiting to happen and a man of low character. I would be surprised if more of his team doesn’t transfer out like this.

Having standards on what you spend your budget on is a good thing. For example, I stopped watching the ducks during the Cristobal era. Checking the score online and reading the forums was more exciting than watching the Mari Offense which was enjoyable as watching paint dry while periodically hitting my hand with a hammer. On the other hand I have watched all of lanning’s games. you are a fan if you root for the ducks and we become toxic fans when we become jerks. Otherwise life is short, if the ducks are producing a poor product and you go for a walk instead of watching them, more power to you.

All teams in the CFP should be conference champions. Why should the loser of championship or a team who failed to even make the championship even be let in? They couldn’t even win their conference.

It’s likely that the article is aimed at the football players. The team melted down after Mario name was being tossed around at Miami. Players that have seen both “the snake” and “”Mario” leave in a short period of time would be susceptible the let this kind of stuff in their head.

I like the idea of a flagrant targeting vs incidental. He shouldn’t be kicked out for that play. However I still feel I’ll when I think of Kenjon Barner getting knock out for the season due to what would be called targeting today

That’s a heck of a high score for a soccer game…

8 team playoff and if you have two teams in the same conference then they have to play each other in the quarter finals. No byes.