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What does those have to do with 'the left'? Money motives are pure pro-capitalism and always lean hard right.

His vision is fine ...

How dare you contradict King Kirby! Stand by for incoming rounds from the drooling UGA hordes!

Gotta love it: Media hack complains long and loud about coaches ability to change teams at will vs. players inability to do the same. Demands unlimited free transfer. Gets it. Hates it. You sound like a child or my ex-wife.

Grow up.

Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen. 'Caore Four' is goofy and will never catch on. If only you put this much effort into quality coverage and analysis.

'Unstoppable' ... Do you know how ridiculous you sound? I'll ***happily*** eat my words if they do turn out to be 'unstopable'i.e. score every drive and never punt all season.

Or ... the obvious thing is the obvious thing. UGA football has a long-standing organizational culture of recklessness regarding alcohol and driving. Simple as that ...

*Only* six after putting two people they all knew in the ground. You must be so proud!

I see Kirby continues to run a tight ship down there in Athens. Especially when it comes to safe driving.

Men's basketball is no better, lol.

I still don't believe being a mini-me clone of the NFL is in CFB's best interest. But it's going to happen, so we'll all get a front row seat to see how it turns out!

While I'm not a 'MOARRR PLAYOFFSSS!!' guy I agree with this logic. With the death of the bowls there is a benefit to replacing the total number of post-season opportunities lost in some other way i.e. expanded playoff field.

And dilutes the product. Hasn't anyone ever noticed that the two most popular sports in America (NFL and CFB) have the least number of games in a season? Supply and demand is a thing ... too much of something reduces its value.

I still don't get the breathless urgency. If everybody wants a deal done it can happen very quickly, especially with the power structure turning into SEC/B1G and then everyone else (and everyone else trying to join those two leagues). The world will not end even if it did take 2 years to expand the playoff again. The world never ended (and the sport was popular, healthy and lucrative enough) when we had 4 teams, a BCS, Bowl Coalition, a Bowl Alliance, or even no kind of playoff at all.

2. This is the most meaningless collection of sentences I think I've ever read. 3. What were Saban's deep southern roots again? I just stopped there.

Exactly. Everyone always thinks they should be in.

I don't get the 'urgency' argument. There haven’t ever been 14 CFB teams with a legit title shot in one season. There's usually 1-3 that are head and shoulders above the rest. The 4 team playoff was good. 8 would be fine. 12+ is too many. I get that someone who gets paid to write about football thinks more always equals better, but this breathless, foam at the mouth urgency is ridiculous.

It's certainly not the same, but it is similar (the Briles/Baylor offense puts more emphasis on splits and changing who runs the option route on Verticals). Lebby doesn't just run pure Briles-style though. There's a lot of Air Raid in his system. There's actually a lot of Air Raid in everyone's system. It's the lingua franca of football ar this point.

There's a lot of truth here. Has there been an order of magnitude increase in the quality of play or the entertainment value of the game over the last 30 years like there has been in the TV money? I really don't think so. Even the people who say 'they're all so much bigger/stronger/faster now!' might want to look at old combine numbers. They're really not. That change occurred earlier (mostly in the 70s-80s) and doesn't directly correlate to quality or entertainment. People who want to watch the best players watch the NFL. That is literally why that league exists. Never forget that there's a *vastly* larger pool of players with the talent to make a D-1 roster than an NFL one. CFB appeals primarily to people who want to cheer for their school or state ... especially if that school is nearer by than the neatest pro team. Location matters in CFB fandom. It's a much more intimate relationship between team & fan. The sport has always done good numbers. Heck, Michigan was selling out a 100,000 person stadium weekly a hundred years ago so people could watch a bunch of 5'10" white guys play. I'm not saying they were bad, but based on how society was back then they could only have been at best a subset of all the best players available. "It's solely about the players" ... who quickly come and go as they always have, while the programs live on? Then how have bluebloods survived their inevitable fallow periods (e.g. LSU, OU, USC would all like to forget the early-mid 90s)? Those rosters *always* had good players. It takes more than just star scores, bench presses and 40 times to win games and championships. I could be wrong though. Hayes obviously knows way more about how college football works than Bob Stoops, right?

Quite the opposite. The B1G & SEC are pushing very hard for a near-future 12 (16?) at large format, thus seriously de-emphasizing conference championships ... and thereby eliminating reasons to exclude ND.

Amused to see UGA fans, who were absolutely adamant almost exactly a year ago that Kirby was not and could not possibly be responsible for the actions of his players, clutching their pearls at the concept that DeBoer does not have total knowledge and control over the career decisions of a 47 year old grown-@ss man. Grubb has been a hot name for a couple coaching cycles. He was always going to take the best job available - for him and his family - that he could. We now laud players for acting in their own financial self interest ... but still blame coaches?

DeBoer. His name is DeBoer.

Core 4 sounds effing stupid.

Unclear on why Notre Dame should be punished for being an independent. Given that there are good, average, and bad teams in every conference (plus cupcake games!) ND’s schedule is historically as good as anyone’s and often better than most. There were many, many major independents in the past - championship independents - and it is a legitimate choice for any university to make, if they can afford to. Furthermore, on several occasions in the past the Irish were denied entry to the Big 10 because of anti-Catholic sentiment by one power broker or another. “Dude, that was like a hundred years ago!” 1. It wasn’t. And, 2. Like it or not, one hundred years is not a long time to the Catholic Church. Notre Dame hate is rarely logical … but the cause is always pretty easy to figure out.

The impact of a coordinator change isn’t how it impacts player fee-fees. t’s the impact of installing a new system and everything that goes with it: additional time spent in camp, upperclassmen not knowing the system any better than fresh, verbiage, focus or highlighted positions and how that translates to touches, confidence and processing time by the QB, etc. etc. etc. It can be far from insignificant. Believe it or not, there are a lot of things that significantly impact a football team other than some 19 year olds precious feelings.

Any one … ?

No one here is surprised you think McAfee is awesome given the WWE fanbase he appeals to. CFB doesn’t need to become the NFL … What!?! Despite where it’s currently headed … What!?! But it sure as heck doesn’t need to become the WWE … What!?! And that’s the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold MLC808 said so! McAfee sucks.

Ohio State is decidedly not a ‘high level academic institution’ - doubly so for the ‘students’ recruited to play football. Those who matriculate at the Cardale Jones College of the Gridiron ‘Ain’t come here to play SCHOOL. Classes are POINTLESS!’ … if you didn’t remember.

Chip was always a better OC than head coach. Could be a great hire. Time will tell.