TodddDawg

Every time the ACC has made a major decision they made a really bad decision. (Ironically enough, they have this in common with FSU.) Their selection/pursuit/recruitment of teams trying to straddle the football/basketball dynamic left them with a conference that is not great at either. The manner of their launch of the ACC Network was malpractice.

Dart's deal is the type of deal initially contemplated by allowing NIL deals. The booster collectives that have developed are a serious perversion of allowing a kid to get paid by a legitimate business or end users for his name...image...or likeness.

I hope the avarice of the business people in charge of this folly is rightly punished. They are killing the goose that laid their golden eggs and turning me away from college football in the process. There is rarely a year where more than 4 teams deserve any consideration for the championship, and this year was the exception. Even so, 8 teams would certainly be enough. If I wanted to watch heartless, vapid BS I would watch NFL or MLB, which I do not. I am tiring of the lack of sportsmanship and the rampant cynicism. I guess I will just have more time to devote to my other activities.

It would make no sense for Kirby to do that. Buford is all but hostile to UGa. Buford has sent conspicuously few players to UGa. The initial shock with Raiola was that a high-rated kid from Buford would sign with UGa. Most (not all) Buford recruits go to other schools when offered by UGa and any other top-tier schools.

These collectives are not at all what was sought with the NIL rights and also are not what was contemplated in the NCAA rules. 'NIL' allows a kid to sign his jersey and sell it for cash, or sell game worn paraphernalia, or appear in a commercial for a business that pays him. It was never about an amorphous 'collective' pooling money to pay a player to play without requiring a grant of the player's rights to his name, image, and likeness.

Great coach and a good person. I wish him luck and the ability to stay busy enough to stay sane in retirement.

Anyone who watched the FSU v Miami game and the first half of the FSU v UNA (an FCS Team!!) knows that any iteration of FSU this year would have been destroyed on the field by any of the playoff teams--and by UGa and probably Oregon too. I have no beef with UGa being left out. They lost a game they had to win (basically messed up about 5 plays against Bama, which changed their season). But, they would have done very well against any of the teams in the playoff.

Thank you for such a well-balanced, well-thought, and positive post. We need more of this type of post. IJMM

The economy is in great shape and we looking at the proverbial (and almost mythical) 'soft landing.' Gas prices are actually down. The president does not control insurance, food, or energy prices, and if you think so you need to go back to high school econ and poly sci classes. Even with average prices being up, average buying power is up slightly more. Most people will admit that their individual economies are better off than 2 to 4 years ago, but too many will also then say the overall economy is awful, which is simply parroting partisan talking points. [I hate the two-party system.]

Totally agree.

Agree. If people like the NFL, watch NFL. Don't mess up college ball. I detest the NFL. Talk about meaningless, the NFL is the end of the line and it is an entertainment product like Pro Wrestling--no better. On the field none of the teams, players, or coaches are doing anything for society, which is fine, but I hate when people act like it is as admirable and 'meaningful' as firefighters, teachers, doctors, etc.

The bowl games are no more meaningless that a mid-season conference or non-conference game or the national championship for that matter. The reason you play is to play. NONE of these people are solving world peace or curing cancer. If the games are so meaningless why does any of it matter? Just quit your job writing about all this meaningless stuff during the meaningless season.

UGa played their 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s after halftime. By the last drive they were playing walk on seniors who had stuck it out just to touch the field one day. Ask them whether bowl games matter. Plus, what does winning a national championship get players in 10 years that winning a big bowl game doesn’t? Nothing. It’s all just memories of playing and winning (or losing). You play the games to play the games. Otherwise you are a shallow poser. And now we know what most of FSU’s starters, fans, and administration are.

Who'd have thought that Klein would be the most successful of those Heisman finalists?

"Meaningless" bowl game. I see this type of comment so much today. I bet this game is not meaningless to Iamaleava as a first-time starter. Further, as a college football and SEC fan I know that if UTn loses the Citrus Bowl to a Big10[12, 14,...] team it will be a rough off-season for the Orange horde, not shrugged off as a meaningless loss. Other than the ridiculous games against FCS opponents, no FBS game is meaningless. If you think it is, just let your team lose it and see how it feels.

The NFL sucks, and your entire comment is simply a projection of your bitterness and poor-sportsmanship.

Agree. Plus, I do not think those schools are THAT opposed to expanding with FSU/CU. The whole 'in-state recruiting rivalry' opposition is insane. Everyone already recruits against everyone else. Also, I think FSU would bring in a lot of viewers--CU would not.

Agree. I bet they wish now they would have convinced the ACC votes to support expansion this year instead of next.

I think FSU's pitifully sensitive display since the [gasp] "snub" has played a role in some of their former recruits flipping. Who wants to go to a cry-baby institute that does not understand how college football has always worked?

I'm not sure who this guy is, but I agree with his basic premise. Though, I would not have been so harsh on the players. They just followed their coaches' and adults' leads.

What makes the Sugar Bowl or the Orange Bowl any more of an exhibition game than the semi-finals or even the final of the CFP? I mean what extra do the players get from playing in the semi-finals than they do playing in the Cotton Bowl? (The swag packages are differences in quantity, not quality.) When it comes down to it isn't the whole season an exhibition? At what point should players just quit during the season? One loss? Two losses? Definitely three, right? The inter-conference nature of bowl games, including the commensurate off-season bragging rights, should mean something for all of the teams playing bowl games. If you are not playing to win--or cheering to see "your" team beat "their" team--why do you even play or watch. The spread of this 'only an exhibition' attitude goes a long way in ruining college football. I guess pride, dedication, and performance do not matter.

Because the committee had them at 4 on Saturday and they won their conference and stayed undefeated FSU should have been in the cfp. But...FSU should not have been 4 even with Travis. I watched the Miami and North Alabama games and FSU looked bad (kind of like they looked against Louisville), and Travis played in those games. FSU looked bad against FU too, but won. The committee puffed FSU up, not because they were good but to garner the widest interest in the poll, and thought Louisville would win and rescue them from their prior puffery of FSU. They got caught holding a counterfeit bill.

Every time the ACC leadership has made a major decision they have messed it up. Not just with the playoff vote, but also with the splitting and naming their divisions so no one other than hard-core ACC fans (Is that an oxymoron?) could keep track of who was where; and with the restrictive launch of their network, which still has local-access production quality.

I like your original.

No, you can't be poor if you get $76 million severance. You most certainly can, and presumably did, fail if you get a large severance.

Not TA&MU, but I think MSU hiring Deion would be a good move for both. Deion wins there and then he is in discussion for the next truly big opening.

Yes, only a fair weather fan would ask that question.

Agree, JTF.

Yup!!

The reason I hate the NFL is their "champion" usually has 3 or more losses. that's not a champion.