Govt Tide

What Cignetti has done at IU in his first two seasons is very very impressive but being "the daddy" means that next season IU for the first time ever in football will be getting everyone's best shot every game.

With the possible exception of SMU, IU played the weakest regular season schedule a playoff team has ever played last season and this year's schedule while significantly more difficult still has room to be considerably more difficult in years you get a tough schedule draw.

This year's IU team is legit and has earned the #1 seed but your team will be in unfamiliar territory being "the hunted" team in every game next year and you'll be going thru next season minus a Heisman winning qb and #1 overall draft pick.

Assuming you don't get another cakewalk schedule like you did last year, we'll see how you handle being "the daddy" for the first time next season

Truth is there's no ideal way for a coach in that situation to handle it. It's comes down to the degree of how poorly a coach who is leaving handles a situation.

Kiffin could have handled it the same way Saban did when he left the Dolphins. Saban brushed off questions for a solid month and at one point flatly denied interest in leaving the Dolphins for Alabama and did so to coach out the remainder of the Dolphin's regular season which he
did.

Saban caught absolute hell from the
national media, Miami area media,
and a lot of rival SEC fans saying what a scumbag and snake he was for "quitting" on the Dolphins despite coaching out the entire regular season schedule. His only mistake was lying the one time when he flatly denied interest in the Bama job about a week or so before being introduced as the new Bama coach.

The media was pissed at Saban because they had spent over a month laughing at Alabama administrators, Bama AD Mal Moore, and Bama fans and mocking them as delusional for thinking they had a chance in hell at luring Saban away from the Dolphins. Saban made the media look like fools when Alabama fans turned out to the right. Instead of humbly admitting they got it wrong the media doubled down on attacking Saban, the Alabama administration, and Alabama fans.

Ideally, Lane could have let it be known to LSU officials that he would leave OM at the end of OM's playoff run and insisted that LSU keep everything on the down low until after OM's playoff run was over. Lane and LSU both could have avoided a lot of criticism handling it that way instead of announcing and making the move when they did.

It is funny looking back at how much the money has changed in college football the last 20 years. Everyone thought Alabama had lost their fricking minds when they offered Saban an 8 year, $32 million dollar guaranteed contract. LSU will end up paying Lane the equivalent of Saban's entire initial 8 year Alabama contract by the midway point of Lane's 3rd season at LSU.

It sucks because this Vandy team is legitimately very good and if this year didn't have as many 2 loss borderline playoff teams as it does Vandy would already be in. This 10-2 Vandy team would have gotten in last year's playoff for example.

Vandy really needed LSU to hang on and not blow their 4th quarter lead last Saturday. Vandy would have taken OU's playoff spot if OU had
lost last Saturday

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The timing is awful

Ole Miss should be celebrating their best ever season and instead they are dealing with this crap

I don't blame LSU, Florida or Lane. I blame the NCAA, they have really screwed up college athletics with bad decisions over the past few decades

They should get rid of the December signing day so the timeline is a little better than what we have now

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True. You can't blame other teams trying to poach him.

You're right about the NCAA too. They absolutely suck. For decades they've
been a smug elitist, hypocritical, and laughably tone deaf organization with a Big Ten/East Coast dominated administration. They hypocritically preach about amateurism and academics while putting money and more money above the good of the sport. When the SEC started becoming the dominant football conference in the 90s they went heavy handed on SEC programs and were critical of SEC academic standards while allowing a couple of prominent Big Ten and ACC football/basketball programs to skate on academic fraud. The cherry on top was their years long resistance to all the NIL type reform attempts that would have provided a more
manageable NIL system instead of the put of control free for all system we now have. They're the ultimate "private" sector example of the kind of corruption and ineptitude that "big government" is famous for.

Case in point is the December signing period that you pointed out which is one of the dumbest ideas they've come up with. Yeh, let's move signing day to a time that inteferes and distracts from our biggest sport's national championship playoff and bowl season and completely destroys the recruiting of teams that lose their head coach and even compromises the rosters of teams in the middle of a playoff run and in the middle of bowl preparations.

Ole Miss fans deserve better than having a potentially historic season ruined

Yep. Not that it really matters but Auburn and Alabama finished last season ranked #1 and #2 respectively in the final Ken Pom rankings after the NCAA tournament last season

I've never seen two teams from the same state finish #1 and #2 in the rpi rankings although I'm sure it's probably happened before

Seems like Alabama, Florida, Mississippi State, Auburn, and Kentucky are the only SEC teams making an effort to truly challenge themselves in the non- conference schedule...

Florida has played almost all solid to great teams including Arizona.

Alabama has already played #2 Purdue, #3 Gonzaga, #14 Illinois, and #16 St John's with #7 Arizona and
#30 Clemson still left on the non-conference schedule

Auburn has played #4 Houston, #67 Oregon, and four other teams ranked 200th or worse in the rpi but have a brutal upcoming stretch against #5 Michigan, #32 NC State, #7 Arizona, and #2 Purdue.

Kentucky has played Top 10 teams Louisville and Michigan State so I'm not sure why their SOS is as low as it is

Latest Ken Pom ranking for all 16 SEC basketball teams with SOS ranking in parenthesis...

6) Florida - 4-1 (#86)
10) Kentucky - 4-2 (#237)
12) Tennessee - 6-0 (#334)
15) Vanderbilt - 5-0 (#354)
17) Alabama - 3-2 (#1)
19) Auburn - 5-1 (#238)
33) Missouri - 6-0 (#352)
34) Ole Miss - 5-0 (#354)
36) LSU - 5-0 (#346)
37) Georgia - 6-1 (#300)
38) Arkansas - 5-1 (#285)
42) Texas - 4-2 (#350)
64) Oklahoma - 4-2 (#351)
66) Texas A&M - 4-2 (#274)
82) Mississippi State - 3-3 (#120)
89) South Carolina - 4-2 (#268)

UPDATE: Door Dash girl arrested and charged with two felonies. May be witnessing an incredibly rare case of a woman actually being held accountable. The sisterhood who has been defending her actions and supporting her online is crashing out over the arrest


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No golf courses like Rock Creek in that area

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My brother lives in Beau Chene and is a member of Beau Chene CC so I'm good there

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Santa
Oats has fielded two top 5 defenses that featured Shack (20-21) and JQ (22-23) in significant roles and they were traffic cones. There probably isn't a Herb or Bediako on this team, but we've still seen it be done. And we don't need a top 5 defense to have a great season with this offense. Just a decent one

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We don't even need a Top 150 scoring defense with our offense. The seasons won the SEC regular season we were ranked somewhere in the #100 to #125 range nationally in scoring defense.

Heck, we've been ranked in the mid 200s nationally in scoring defense most years under Nate and still had great seasons...lol

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should have locked his door before passing out naked

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Ideally, sure. That would have guaranteed the possibility of an incident. Then again, would that also apply if the genders were reversed? Doubtful. A male door dasher would be in jail under the same circumstances and facing both criminal charges and a serious lawsuit he'd have to pay a significant portion either out of pocket or through liability insurance coverage if he has it. The consequences would be quick and severe with little to none of the victim blaming the customer is being subjected to.

On the other hand, this woman will likely face little or no criminal charges and most likely won't face any real civil penalties either which will only further emboldened vindictive feminists to weaponize this kind of crap on other men