Globetrotter747

I think the term “blue blood” carries a mystique with it that goes beyond just results on the field - although those matter a lot. It’s a big deal for anyone to play and/or beat them even in years when they’re down.

My list:

Alabama
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Michigan
USC
Oklahoma
Texas

Nebraska may have been on there at one time, but they have been out of the picture a while and Lincoln, Nebraska, is 400-500 miles from the nearest Top 20 media market. Combine the two and no one gives a shite anymore.

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Driving over 150mph in a 45mph zone is disgusting, drunk or not.

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I agree.

That speed is unfathomable even on a clear interstate. Driving that fast in a 45 is like spraying bullets into a crowd. He should not breathe free air for several decades, if ever.

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Because of his meddling they took the Ark to the secluded island instead of shipping it to Berlin as was their original plan.

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So instead it gets opened in Berlin, Hitler and the entire Third Reich are destroyed before they ever get started.

Indy helped KEEP WWII going.

Damn, it's even worse!

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Remember, they were in such a hurry to get the Ark back to Berlin the plane was already prepped and ready to fly.

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So instead of being opened by underlinga it would’ve been opened in Berlin by Hitler in a ceremony that would’ve certainly included other top officials….thus ending the 3rd Reich before WW2.

Indy was indirectly responsible for WW2.

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Does no one remember the bar conversation between Indy and Belloq?

Indy: “What about your boss, der fuhrer?”

Belloq: “All in good time. When I’m finished with it.”

It is very possible that Belloq wanted to take a look at the Ark (whether in Berlin, the island, or elsewhere) without any bigger fish around. And if the Ark had real supernatural power that Belloq could harness, I’m going to say he would have used it to the fullest extent that he could for personal gain.

Belloq isn’t even a Nazi. He’s French. He’s also shady as frick and an opportunist. And I have no doubt he would frick over Hitler with the Ark like he did Indy with the Idol at the beginning of the film.

Because of Indy, the Ark eventually ended up in the best place it realistically could have: in a crate in a huge warehouse full of countless other crates with seemingly no government interest in doing anything with it. Otherwise, it might have killed other (perhaps innocent) people who stumbled upon it if left indefinitely on the island or elsewhere.

Because of the Ark’s power, it didn’t need to be “researched” (as Marcus thought) or in a museum. The intelligence guys made the right call. The Ark needed to be locked up and left alone.

That was possible… because of Indy.

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Nick Saban on Second Chances

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I suspect a lot of it depends on how good the player is. An All-American is likely a better candidate for a second chance from a major college football coach than a fringe player.

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You finally pay players and they still want to sue for more

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Have you seen coaching salaries escalate over the last 30 years?

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At some point schools need to say these are our rules under play for pay and if you don’t like it you can go find another league that will pay non professional athletes

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If you don’t like the players making as much money as they can, then go get Poindexter out of the College of Accounting and see if he can beat Rival U.

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What is the solution for college sports?

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Who are we trying to benefit from this solution?

1. If it’s the illiterate freaks of nature on their way to the NFL, life is pretty good as it is.

2. If it’s normal, genuine students who view football as the extracurricular activity that it actually is, take away athletic scholarships, take the games off TV, pay coaches what professors earn, and stop treating it like a life-or-death multibillion dollar business and realize the Sun will still rise the next day if State U. loses.

3. If it’s fans - which it shouldn’t be - fight for Scenario #2 or accept Scenario #1 because it’s not changing. Realize that CFB resembling an amateur sport was always a house of cards.

Also understand that you are no better than the players. You guys want players who love (or at least have the illusion of love) for your schools just like you do. But players are like women. They’re not in love. They’re in business. That’s been true since long before NIL.

But the irony is fans are in business too. If an SEC fan had the choice of his team winning a championship with 100% out-of-state players vs. just having a good team of 100% in-state players, he would choose the former. No one cares about the star local 3 star QB who went to every camp and game he could and had Joe Burrow or Bryce Young posters all over his wall.

There’s no such thing as loyalty in CFB - from anyone. People are only as loyal as their options. The only way to make fans, coaches, and players seem loyal to each other is to limit their options.

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Moral to the story... It is tough to beat a Florida team in the Orange Bowl when they are really good.

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I think it went a little deeper than that. FSU and Miami weren’t just good. The strength of their defensive fronts was stylistically a great neutralizer for the Nebraska and Oklahoma offenses of the era.

FSU and Miami were the rock to Nebraska and Oklahoma’s scissors and just possessed the right counter to their modus operandi out of the I and wishbone.

If people got half as excited about breaking a bench press or mile PR as they do the accomplishments of athletes who don’t even know their fricking name, maybe we wouldn’t have so many fatasses in this country.

I will never understand it.

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New York is a huge TV market and the Knicks are in the Finals for the first time in almost three decades.

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Going to be some high dollar tickets if the Knicks get a chance to close it out in MSG. Haven’t won an NBA title since 1973. I don’t think any NYC team has won a title since the Giants in 2011. Probably the longest championship drought NYC has had.

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Was Gene Stallings that bad of a coach?

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I think Stallings’ legacy hinges on three things:

1. Turning around the Iron Bowl rivalry after Bama had lost four in a row to Auburn in the late ‘80s. However, I would argue that this had as much to do with Auburn dropping a notch in the early ‘90s as Bama resurging.

2. The 1992 championship.

3. Retiring after the ‘96 season at only 61 just as frustration with fans over losses to Florida and Tennessee was starting to simmer. If he had stayed another 5+ years, I don’t know that his tenure would be remembered quite as fondly.

Beyond that, Stallings is a great man and was very much a Bama coach in terms of his demeanor. But I don’t think he was anything amazing as a coach. Bill Curry recruited some of the key 1992 pieces, and Bill Oliver was absolutely the architect of the defense.

So I would say he was a good coach, a good fit for Bama at the time, but he wasn’t an X’s and O’s wizard and if anything had sabotaged that 1992 championship (no Langham Pick 6 and Florida wins in 1992, for example) his legacy wouldn’t be anything near what it is today.

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To suggest these are the worst coaches ever is not the debate...it's the worst of the list.

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Yes, but a lot of comments here still sell these guys short.

A lot of so-called great coaches have failed to win national titles with teams that should have won it. A lot of so-called great coaches have also failed to work the same magic (or anything close to it) at more than one place. Only two coaches have won a natty with more than one program and none have won a Super Bowl with more than one franchise. Obviously you don’t just carry a championship blueprint everywhere you go like they’re engineering schematics for a skyscraper that you can duplicate anywhere.

A lot of highly respected coaches have been on the hot seat at times. People here love Tom Osborne, but when he was 5-12 against Switzer in the ‘70s and ‘80s (1-12 with both programs in the top ten) and was carrying a 7 game bowl losing streak into the 1995 Orange Bowl, he wasn’t exactly a legend and that was 20+ years after inheriting a juggernaut from Bob Devaney.

There’s a musical chairs aspect to coaching success. It sure helps a lot to be standing in the right place when the music stops. Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson are 2/3 coaches to win both a natty and a Super Bowl and we may never have heard of either of them without Chuck Fairbanks (OU) and Howard Schnellenberger (Miami) leaving abruptly and giving them golden opportunities. I highly doubt Dabo Swinney would have two natties if Terry Don Phillips (who just passed away) had flushed Bowden’s staff in 2008 and he had to take the long road to being the HC of a major program.

Coaching matters a lot. By no means am I saying it doesn’t. But the players matter more and there’s a lot that goes into winning besides the head coach’s role. Sometimes the right job opens up, the right player or assistant falls in your lap, or the right team loses and opens everything up for reasons that have nothing to do with your coaching.