5 hours ago, joemas6 said:

I think trading Sweat and extending Reddick is what they do.   Extending Reddick will save a good amount of cap. Sweat could bring a 3rd rounder and you go from there. 

Do you think there IS a trade partner for Sweat? He is an average DE.

2 hours ago, Senhorcook said:

Do you think there IS a trade partner for Sweat? He is an average DE.

Sure.  Pass rushers always have suitors 

11 hours ago, Senhorcook said:

Do you think there IS a trade partner for Sweat? He is an average DE.

Solid pass rusher only 26 and cheap for rushers with like a 9m cap hit definitely think there will be interest for Sweat if we look to trade him.

 

SEC and Big Ten have really screwed up all of college football. Fl St having such a fantastic season yet be shunned by the playoffs because their QB got injured jumpstarted a whole fiasco with the one other remaining real college football conference, the ACC. Fl St decided they need to leave the ACC presumptively to join the SEC. You’d have to believe Clemson is the other obvious program that would easily be desired by the super conference. Maybe Miami as well. Fl St filed suit in Florida over alleging the ACC mismanaged their rights and financials. Of course the ACC has a home located in North Carolina. So they filed suit against Fl St in North Carolina. Not hard to come to reasonable conclusions from each states court system favoring each side so lopsided. Which really highlights how the supposed fair ruling of the American courts is all hogwash. In Florida courts good luck getting them to go against any of the major college programs. Give versa with good luck getting North Carolina with NC St, Duke and UNC being ACC members not favoring the ACC position. Three schools that won’t be in any considerations to be courted by the big SEC or Big Ten. ACC always been a conference highlighting all college sports. But nothing could pronounce more clearly how football rules over all other combined. Can’t champion any basketball programs being more coveted than UNC and Duke. Only thing close would be like a UConn. A school that was left behind in a devalued Big East because they don’t have a real football program. UVA, Duke and UNC all such highly regarded colleges academically. All have long proud traditions. All very strong in most every ways that even include being so free of all the shady dealings happening all across college sports. Swimming and all these other college athletics they all accel with. Top basketball programs even makes not even a dent in being a consideration. You don’t have to be a clean program. Not a consideration over high levels of academics. Just one singular factor being the quality of their football programs driving the whole college conference alignments.

The buyout for Fl St or any other member to leave the ACC is like 570 mil

But I saw somewhere how massive the difference is becoming in the pay gap between every conference. ACC is so clearly third best conference. But the comparison between what each schools payout from media rights and such is an insurmountable gap. Big Ten and SEC are moving light years ahead of even the next ‘competition’, the ACC. ACC is the only other conference even remotely left to be considered after the top two already destroyed the PAC and Big 12. 

So just not even a question of what’s coming. College football is the Big 10 and SEC…then everybody else. Don’t have any idea what it will take…but find it very likely the Big 10 and SEC do away with the NCAA all together. At least when it comes to football.

ACC locked teams in for the next 12 years with the 570 mil buyout though. Saw all this coming obviously. So doubt these lawsuits are anywhere near from being done. Just the beginning.

Fl St should have made the move to the SEC before all this is how I see things. SEC wouldn’t have hesitated to bring them and Clemson in. Them having this reaction over being left out of the playoffs is just them being so obviously butthurt about it. Sure if they were SEC or Big Ten no way they’d have been left out. But losing their starting QB was a legitimate reason to lower their standing regardless of win/loss record. They got left out of the playoff but the college football powers that be covered their butts on any arguments to be made later. They put Fl St against Georgia in their bowl game. Georgia could easily have been the National Champs. They were the real best team that was left out of the playoff picture. All conveniently making sure that conference and season record arguments were negated. While hammering home the fact of a team not even winning the SEC stomped the top ACC winner. A huge power move. Aggressively throwing the weight and dominance of the SEC over the third best college conference. Big East was raided and destroyed football wise years ago. Big 12 and PAC they just destroyed. Only conference left is the ACC. Georgia punishing Fl St, the ACC champ, just hammered the hierarchy home. The fact Fl St was without their QB made this outcome all the more predictably obvious. That fact being a factor in the conference hierarchy doesn’t exist however. The perception concluding from this season is just overwhelming. The lopsided financials media payouts to conference members is the nail in the coffin to any schools even trying to compete against either mega conference.

Only real piece left of the college athletics landscape would be Notre Dame. They play all their athletics in the ACC except their football isn’t an ACC member. They’re independent. Just agreed to play a few ACC games each season as part of the deal for all their other athletics being included. Thoughts were it was between the Big 10 and ACC courting Notre Dame to join. No thoughts now of the ACC being any real competition or choice now. All but makes the choice for Notre Dame to accept joining the Big 10. Unless…unless because college football has been taken over by two conferences. That limits options of networks carrying college football. So all these other media companies can only be bidders on getting Notre Dame football. If they want anything to do with the power of college football programming and affiliation. So maybe Amazon and Hulu have a huge bidding war  against Disney(or whichever networks are left out). Choices are pay the craziest highest dollars for SEC or Big 10…or fork over crazy never before seen dollars to one college, Notre Dame. Or settle on Southwest mid Atlantic conference college football broadcasts.

Of all the years more teams was a need in college football postseason chase to become national champs…for it to finally arrive now once the whole landscape has been divided up into just two conferences…it would have settled many issues revolving around if regional biases in the past. Been a fair way to conclude on a champ then. Now all that’s not an issue is when it happens. 

Frankly believe the college playoff expanding to four teams was all just driven by the SEC making sure they consistently had two schools involved to assert their dominance. The power conference was the one pushing to expand the playoff draw. Wasn’t because a team like Cincinnati was advocating it to give them the opportunity. So now they’ll expand the playoffs even more. No doubt with the expectations being that the SEC and Big 10 will be guaranteed to have multiple members involved. A power move asserting their dominance. Making the rich…richer. Can’t believe it will happen much ever any other conference will have multiple members get selected for the playoffs. And just how often will the SEC and Big 10 go without having multiple members selected?

They need to stop all of the bowl games with the teams that have NO champion characteristics. It's nothing but a participation trophy. 

11 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

SEC and Big Ten have really screwed up all of college football.

Isn’t the conferences fault it is the NCAA decision makers. College football playoffs were always a bad idea at the start only 4 teams so much selective bias involved. How do you decide which teams deserve it over others? This was the perfect storm you opted to kick out an undefeated team for Bama. In reality could have made the case Georgia still deserved it what like 1 loss in like 3 years or something. 
 

Changing to the new playoff format sounds like a good thing for college ball gives other teams attest a chance to compete. Any given Sunday(well Saturday in this case lol) 

 

The part of the college game that I think is ruining it is the transfer portal essentially just FA for college. 

11 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Can’t believe it will happen much ever any other conference will have multiple members get selected for the playoffs. And just how often will the SEC and Big 10 go without having multiple members selected?

It’s college football always going to be a gap in talent between your big name schools and the rest… Wasn’t that long ago that the ACC was having a nice little run with Florida St and Clemson… I grew up with USC dominating college football. 
 

Expanding the playoffs getting other conferences guaranteed spots I think will honestly help balance out the scales some. If your a good player and can still get recognition on a smaller school and conference and compete for a title. 

6 hours ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

It’s college football always going to be a gap in talent between your big name schools and the rest… Wasn’t that long ago that the ACC was having a nice little run with Florida St and Clemson… I grew up with USC dominating college football. 
 

Expanding the playoffs getting other conferences guaranteed spots I think will honestly help balance out the scales some. If your a good player and can still get recognition on a smaller school and conference and compete for a title. 

There was the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac12,Big East and ACC….all being rolled into the SEC and Big 10 now

1 minute ago, cunninghamtheman said:

There was the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac12,Big East and ACC….all being rolled into the SEC and Big 10 now

Now anybody not in just the two conferences…is basically the Mountain West level conference.

Have you read about the Jimmy G situation? The league is suspending him for two games over performance enhancing drug use. This helps the Raiders get out of their contract with him. Very fishy situation.

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

There was the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac12,Big East and ACC….all being rolled into the SEC and Big 10 now

And the big 10 was always meh, PAC 12 fell off truly after USC stuff that had Pete running to the NFL…. Big east ummmm I don’t even remember the big east not for college football at least basketball sure and they still going strong.

ACc the only team really talking of leaving is Florida St. which could lead to more but again if you don’t have the mishandling of the playoff teams this situation never comes up… ACC and the other conferences all get a spot now for just winning there conference.

1 hour ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

And the big 10 was always meh, PAC 12 fell off truly after USC stuff that had Pete running to the NFL…. Big east ummmm I don’t even remember the big east not for college football at least basketball sure and they still going strong.

ACc the only team really talking of leaving is Florida St. which could lead to more but again if you don’t have the mishandling of the playoff teams this situation never comes up… ACC and the other conferences all get a spot now for just winning there conference.

ACC is on high alert. The only conference left to gobble up by the Big 10 and SEC. You get Fl St, Clemson…maybe Miami into the SEC? Big 10 will be left to gobble up any leftovers. Pretty much just leaving the Notre Dame question. I wouldn’t see why they wouldn’t chose to join the Big 10 at this point.

This stuff is basically already a done deal. The school payouts from media rights will never even be this close again as they were this year. That’s before all those schools even had left their conferences yet. But the new TV deals signed are just unbelievable amounts of money. Insane contracts!

10 hours ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

The part of the college game that I think is ruining it is the transfer portal essentially just FA for college. 

What they have created is a way for anybody else other than SEC and Big 10 with a means to jump ship to the major conferences. In a way creating a sort of…minor league college system…for the SEC and Big10 here going forward. Transfer Portal..genius!