FUPaladins

The purpose of a playoff is to determine a champion. UT has shown that they can’t beat UGA, so why waste a playoff spot on them?

No need to hire. Just let the top dog boosters take turns coaching since they know so much. Why waste money on some know-it-all coach who wants to go rogue and call plays and pick starters and stuff like that when those things should be done in the smoke filled room?

The circus never ends with them.

Whoever goes there needs to forget about recruiting 5 stars for awhile and concentrate on the portal. That’s probably why the crazy upsets are happening. The portal is spreading talented, pissed off bench warmers all over the country. Theses guys don’t need NIL. They just want a chance and revenge. I think Nebraska could get back to decent pretty quick if they master the portal.

Thanks for not taking Furman’s coach. Well actually he bowed out even though he grew up a Gamecock fan. I figured he wasn’t big time enough for Gamecock fans to accept even though Furman is clearly better than USC. But hell, so is Augusta University.

So let me get this straight. When SEC teams lose in the regular season, it’s because the conference is awesome top to bottom. When they lose bowl games, it’s the bowls’ fault. It is becoming more and more obvious that UGA beat nobody very good all year. Best win was against a pretty mediocre ACC team.

If the point of a playoff is to determine a champion I’m not sure if it makes sense to put a team in the day after they proved that another playoff team is way better than them. We already know UGA isn’t gonna win it, so why put them in?

I thought UGA would win easily, but I was a little concerned that they might be a mirage. Up to Saturday, Clemson was probably their toughest opponent, and Clemson’s offense is just awful. Well they finally had to play a good offense, and suddenly their defense looked pretty ordinary. Looks like maybe they were a mirage. I think Ole Miss would beat them.

ND upped their academic standards for athletes in the early 90’s (after Holtz). The football players were averaging something like 1050 on the SAT. I don’t know if that is still the case, but very, very few DI prospect players make a 1050. Yes there is an NCAA minimum but it is basically just a check for measurable brain activity.

ND’s schedule is no weaker than a typical SEC East schedule. It just isn’t. But it is weaker than an SEC West schedule. That’s true But Kelly is now able to recruit like everybody else instead of being limited to the 10% or so who can be admitted to ND. The fact that Kelly found a way to compete with real student athletes shows me that he’s maybe the best coach out there.

Which 5? Georgia is really the only high quality team in the east. In the west there's Alabama. My Rebels are good, but I'm not sure about them going undefeated. SMU and Houston aren't patsies. Same for Auburn. Arkansas? Not sure about that either. And by the way Bama struggled with pretty bad Florida and lost to a not so great A&M.

Meyer did it with Fickel.

That would be a good move for LSU. Patterson is being fired because he can no longer make chicken salad out of chicken sh@!. He could be great at a place with the advantages of LSU.

Chadwell may just hang around and become the Paterno of Conway. CCU has some advantages that could allow it to become a big time program. They're already the best team in the state, and there's only maybe 1 team in the SEC East better than them really.

Your league already exists. It is called the SEC.

I always thought college football was about football to some extent. I was wrong I guess. It is a contest between conferences to see who can get the best tv deals. And for some reason I don’t understand, I’m supposed to be super interested in tv deals. I’m also supposed to be excited about adding new teams to kick my team’s ass. I know lots of SEC fans who really do like to brag about losing to great teams every week, and that seems really weird to me. And another thing SEC fans. Let’s say your best team brags about paying their QB oh, $800K. Texas can pay the second string center $800k. All that stuff about who’s the best recruiter goes out the window in a pro league with no salary cap.

Of course they need to pause. How can you set up a playoff with autobids when you don’t even know which conferences will exist? The Big 12 may survive somehow but should it get an automatic bid or bids as a “Power” conference?

I went to Ole Miss. This realignment appears to mean 2 more L’s every year for us. How is that a good thing? I know many like to argue with Big 10 and ACC fans about whose conference is tougher or makes the most money but what difference does that make if you are Ole Miss, Miss State, USC, UT etc and you’ve been relegated to permanent doormat status? I live in an area where I’m surrounded by Gamecock fans who actually BRAG about losing in the SEC rather than winning elsewhere. I’ve never understood that.

Right they only do well against teams that insist their players be able to read. Crazy idea for college football.

Notre Dame is one of the b st schools in this country. Everybody knows that.

I expect that the SEC will pretty much eliminate all academic requirements for athletes within the next 5 years or so (in the name of equity, of course). I really don’t think the Big 10 is ready for that. So maybe they will just stand back and let the new pro league form with whoever wants to be in it. Anybody who wants to go that route probably isn’t a good fit for them.

Yes but in the past there were rules. Now there aren’t. The guy with the most money gets the best players.

Glad the big time programs are too good to consider Chadwell. He may be around long enough to really build something at Coastal. They are already clearly the second best team in SC.

You’re exactly right. If you limit yourself to experienced proven winners on the big stage who are willing to come to a crappy program, you’re pretty much limiting yourself to has beens. I remember the same talk at Clemson a few years ago. People beside themselves that mighty Clemson would entrust their program to a young bumpkin with a silly name. UT should snap up Chadwell, but I hope they don’t’cause I’m starting to like the Sea Chickens.

My Furman Paladins were supposed to play the Vols this year but it got cancelled. They promised to reschedule which is great because now we will be favored. They’ll be paying us to beat them.

Have these guys actually said they want a union? I think the commie sports writers are the main ones pushing that.

Has anybody explained yet why a player getting tested 2 or 3 a week, spending most of his time with other tested players is at more risk than the average, party-going student who is never tested and hangs around with untested friends? Why do we want the players to be more like the other guy? How is that safer?

We played at GaState and did better than you guys did at home. Anyway, we accept your forfeit. We are 1-0. You are 0-4.

None of our opions matter, dumbass.

Well, my alma mater is now 1-0 after a UT forfeit. We would have preferred to beat them and get paid, but since they are deadbeats like the rest of the SEC, we’ll take the forfeit. I really hope the P5’s get sued but they won’t because they would just blackball anybody who went after them. Shame on us for whoring ourselves out in rigged money games every year.