4 minutes ago, downundermike said:

Crosby also had to play 96% of the snaps, vs 74% for Reddick.

So what you're saying is, Reddick was more impactful with less snaps?  I agree!  

4 minutes ago, Iggles25 said:

You kiss your mother with that mouth 🤣

She's dead

1 minute ago, DrPhilly said:

She's dead

Very sorry

No malice intended

42 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Stoutland University.

Dickerson ranked first in run blocking for guards and second in pass protection. Hell of a season by him in his second year. 

8 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

And your first line backed up all I needed to hear. 16% of the games are within 1 score in college football since 2005. 

No, 16% of the games are either a 3 or 7 point margin, not between 3 and 7, exactly 3 or 7.

Games are 10 points or less more than 40% of the time.

You are wrong, as usual.

1 minute ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Dickerson ranked first in run blocking for guards and second in pass protection. Hell of a season by him in his second year. 

So does Dickerson count as a good draft pick or is the jury still out?

 

19 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

No, actually a couple pages ago I proposed a 2 year commitment that is waived if a coach leaves.

To me, thats only fair.  You cant have this yearly mass exodus.

If players are that desperate to leave every year, then maybe the school needs to find better coaches.

This weekend is gonna be a dud if Jackson and Tua don't play.

53 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Its not sustainable for 90% of the college football world.  Most programs dont have money falling from the sky.

Look outside of the top 8-9 programs and you will see absolute chaos. 

Look at the transfer portal.  There are thousands of kids without a home.  

If youre just watching Alabama every week, ok, great.  But Im talking about the health of the sport as a whole. 

It just cant be set up and sold and marketed like a pro league with unfettered free agency, where there is only champion and nothing else matters and every roster is in constant flux.  Its an ever-widening gulf.

Your final paragraph describes TV Sports … Internet sports … Las Vegas sports … fantasy sports.  That view omits all the other aspects, which are sustainable. The local hotels in the college/university town.  The local restaurants in that town.  The local retailers who sell the parephernalia (sp?) all have much more sustainable business plans as it currently exists. The host cities of the bowl games have more sustainable economies as well.  The problem is the incompatibility of "winner take all” with that community-centricity and the incompatibility of mass communication issues with local issues.

5 minutes ago, Iggles25 said:

Very sorry

No malice intended

No worries

14 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Taking your last point first … Georgia clearly had everything aligned and greased and fueled up.  They truly played to their potential.  They also had brain farts.  The one TCU scoring Drive was an example.  
 

Georgia’s game plan was very much like Daboll’s game plan on Sunday … use the aggressiveness of the Defense against itself.  TCU’s D was over pursuing all night, and Georgia’s play action had them going in the wrong direction more often than not. The Giants turned the D-line’s strength into a weakness.  They were so hell bent on getting sacks that they individually and collectively, overpursued.  As a result gap discipline broke down and the Giants’ Offense exploited the gaps just like Georgia did.  That didn’t happen in the First Half on Sunday because the Eagles players felt no urgency.  There was plenty of time to convert those near misses into completed sacks.  However, as the minutes remaining in the game dwindled, the NFL record became loomed much larger.  And the Giants took advantage.

With that said, I do think the 3-3-5 alignment was not a good one to deploy against Georgia.

I think the 3-3-5 is why TCU was having to overpursue.  Ill never get the big 12s obsession with the 6 man box.  Maybe they felt like they didnt have the horses to play with a heavier box.  But man, I knew the game was over when I saw that.  That's like a white flag to me, and they were even using it in the RZ and on short yardage.

Great for big 12 play but its not going to work against the likes of Georgia.   

A team like Georgia is all too happy to just maul that front 3 over and over again.    In the big 12, you can get away with it because everyone is passy-happy.

1 minute ago, DrPhilly said:

No worries

It's a phrase that I shouldn't use. 

But you're probably on point if Hurts is hurting.

My vision board still has Eagles over Bills 

5 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

This weekend is gonna be a dud if Jackson and Tua don't play.

Afc side could be true. I still think the Dallas-tampa bay and Vikings-giants games are likely good games. 

7 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

I dont think it's fake outrage. 

Realistically you can remove 120 of the 130 FBS teams tomorrow to get to the national championship.

Of the 10, you could probably pick 3 of the 4 to make the playoffs.

History tells you that'll it be a blow out. 6 of the last 9 championships have been double digit wins. 

And looking at those scores, I was entertained by most of the double digit wins.

Alabama smashed twice, love it.

Ohio State smashed, love it.

24 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

I dont think the transfer portal is working that way, though. They need some restrictions on it.

Basically too many kids are transferring and its completely unregulated.  As a coach, I have no idea how youd build a program like that.  

How does any other business function in a competitive market for workers? Coaches need to do a better job keeping players.  Most of the time it's likely not about money and more about other factors.  It's not like having a lot of players in the portal hurts teams losing players.  It actually gives them other ways to add to the program.  Sure WVU had 12 players enter the transfer portal but is only losing like one starter and one potential starter.  It seems the coach needs to do a better job communicating with depth players if he wants to keep them.  

54 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

College football as a whole, no.  It is not going anywhere.   BUT... schools may decide that it just isn't worth it for them anymore, and there will be a trickle down affect to all college sports.

There's an article that might be worth the time to read to see how a ripple effect could be coming...  There's a lot of opinion in the article, but backed up with some facts.

 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/19/college-football-realignment-megaconferences-winners-losers

I agree.  I believe we are in a "keeping up with the Joneses” period right now that is transitional.  There are going to be a lot of colleges/universities who decide they aren’t able to keep up.  That has already happened for the FCS schools.

2 minutes ago, Iggles25 said:

It's a phrase that I shouldn't use. 

But you're probably on point if Hurts is hurting.

My vision board still has Eagles over Bills 

Yeah, I wasn't clear.  I meant in the NFC/AFC comparison and the #2 seeds.  I think the 49ers are better than the Bills.

My bet would be on the Eagles being in the SB.

7 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

If players are that desperate to leave every year, then maybe the school needs to find better coaches.

So good coaches dont have transfers?

Why cant Saban (a proud West Virginian) retain every one of his recruits?

Why would any player ever leave that culture hes developed?

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Afc side could be true. I still think the Dallas-tampa bay and Vikings-giants games are likely good games. 

My gut feeling on the Tampa/Dallas game is either the Cowboys will blow out Tampa or they will lose in a close game.  I think the Vikings/Giants game should be close.  I think the Giants may win if they can get to Cousins.  They definitely have an advantage on the d-line over the Vikings' o-line.  

3 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

60^% of the games are more than 10 points(blow outs)

More than 10 points does not mean a blow out.  You would have to analyze each game.

Could have been a 1 score game mid 4th quarter, and late TD made the final look like the game was not as close as it was.

2 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

So good coaches dont have transfers?

Why cant Saban (a proud West Virginian) retain every one of his recruits?

Why would any player ever leave that culture hes developed?

Playing time. Personality. Location. etc

Sure, money is a major factor now, but it always has been too for a lot of these programs. That's why you were called naive in the first place.

11 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

This weekend is gonna be a dud if Jackson and Tua don't play.

Is Tua still in the concussion protocols?

Should the players still have to be students and actively enrolled in classes?

3 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Ok, so again, fantastic to you is watching a team you hate get beat. Not a good, competitive game. Got it

Exactly.  If Ohio State is in the title game, I want to see them lose by 40.

Whats up with Ravens players representing themselves?