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If Alabama makes the championship game this year, they will play 17 games.

18/19/20 year olds shouldn’t be playing this many football games in a single season

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Oh frick off. In HS they play a jamboree, 10 game season, and up to 5 playoff games. In less time too because they don't get such a large break in between the season and the playoffs.

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Except that it does specifically point out Notre Dame

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No it doesn't. The actual wording doesn't mention ND specifically, it applies to any independent school. So it would apply to UConn too or any other future teams that end up being independent. But yes, we all know it really only applies to ND because UConn is never sniffing the top 12 in football.

NFL record for fewest is 2 by the 2018 49ers.

Their remaining QBs to face (assuming no injuries) are Trevor Lawrence, Tyler Shough, Drake Maye, and Josh Allen.

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take away the 3 turnovers

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Those turnovers were a product of OU's play though. You'd maybe have a point if Bama just fumbled snaps or something unforced, but all 3 were great plays by OU.

OU won the field position battle by a wide margin because of their defense and special teams. Because of that they had less yards available to gain.

Oregon has the easiest path of the non-bye teams. JMU and Texas Tech

In no world is OU/Indiana easier than that. Put the crack pipe down

Question, if Troy happens to pull this off and Duke wins tomorrow, who is the 5th conference winner that gets in? Because in that case Duke and Troy won't be ranked. You'll only have 4 ranked conference champs so how do they decide who the 5th highest team is?

Sorry it's been asked already. But would they really send Duke? Lol I hope it happens just to show what a joke it is. But I'm really curious what the criteria is if there isn't 5 ranked conference champs. It would be a joke if they actually ranked Duke 25th just to save face

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To clarify, I don't mean can you get hired by a big school after taking a G5 job, but is it better for your career development as a coach.

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It's a fair question. I don't know if there's really a conclusion. There are examples of success and failures you can point at for each route

Day
Kirby
Dabo
Jimbo

These guys got major HC jobs straight from being assistants and won titles

But then Saban (Toledo - Sparty - LSU - Dolphins - Bama) and Meyer (Bowling Green - Utah - Florida - Ohio St) started as HC at lower programs and climbed the HC ladder progressively from there. Jim Tressel and Mack Brown fall into this camp as well

Which is better for Baker in particular? Who can say. Financially it's a wash, LSU won't be outbid for him if they really want to keep him. Tulane is his alma mater so there's an emotional tie involved. If he continues the success that Fritz and Sumrall had then he'll get major job offers and quick. If he fails then he'll always have a place as DC at a major program but it would be a major setback to getting a bigtime HC job, it'll be a black mark even if he starts having good success as a DC again. If he stays as DC at LSU and continues to have success I'm sure a bigtime offer will come, though it might take a little more time. Smart, Muschamp, Venables, Pruitt, etc were assistants for quite a while before their big breaks came. Lanning's came pretty quickly but that's not usually the norm. Day and Riley and Freeman were quick too but unlike Lanning they were promotions from within and Baker can't really bank on that since it's year 1 of a new coach. He also has a chance at contending for a title as the DC especially since his defense won't have to put the whole team on his back with Lane.

It's a tough choice he'll have to make, I don't think either path is so cut and dry the right or wrong choice. I'll respect whatever his decision is though obviously I'm biased as an LSU fan and want him to stay, but I won't be upset if he leaves.

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If Baker does well at Tulane, he'll have offers for a top job within 2 years

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Very true

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He won't get offers for a premium head coaching job while still a DC.

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This however, is false. Are Oregon or Georgia not premium head coaching jobs? Their current coaches were DCs in the SEC with no HC experience when they were hired. I could name a lot more that have happened over the years as well.

That isn't to say taking the Tulane job is a wrong move. That's also a path to a higher gig if he succeeds, plus it's his alma mater. But I just have to push back on the idea that he couldn't land a big gig if he stayed the DC here because it's just demonstrably untrue.

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How do you know? He just got hired as the OC

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I said this in another thread but Pete Carmichael was the OC of the Saints but everyone knew it was Sean Payton's offense and Sean actually called the plays. I suspect this will be a similar setup. I suspect Stein wants him to be mainly the QB coach which we liked him in that role here, but needed to give him the OC title and paygrade to get him to take the job. But functionally I expect Stein to be the playcaller being that he's coming from being an OC himself, it will ultimately be his offense.

I'm sure this is just an interview, gotta at least do your due diligence. But I'd honestly be surprised if he actually took it. At least with Tulane he was an alum so I could see him actually taking that one. But coordinators get better jobs than Memphis as their first HC gig all the time, surely he could get a better job offer next year at a power conference school if the defense has a good showing. And Baker made about the same money (slightly more actually) as LSU's DC than Silverfield made as the Memphis HC.

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More I’m learning about this LSU job

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You think he knows he contributed to an LSU natty in his own way?