West Bank Dan

Sorry I should probably know this but there was a time when you could put your name in the portal to see who has interest / makes you a better NIL offer but if nothing materializes you take your name back out of portal. Ie do coaches have to honor the scholly or is it revoked the minute you enter p...

I respect that he may have already told certain people the outcome on the near horizon but when he says “some decisions will be difficult” that is the tip off for other schools to negatively recruit against you with defensive players. Better hurry up and get the new coaches named publicly....

Sunny warm Tampa on New Year’s Day against a school at least with a name (who will watch film of our defense and come in very confident). This ain’t playing Troy in the Magnolia Bowl Or Coastal Carolina in the Mayonaise Bowl. Some people complain just to complain. Find 11 kids who really want to ...

It is at least conceivable that they will say the SEC championship was a de facto playoff game and Georgia is out. 1-loss SEC champ, 1-loss Big 12 champ and 11-0 ACC champ with no QB? Bama and Texas are true blue bloods - Fla State is out. ...

Bama has no argument? They just beat the #1 team and 2-time defending SEC champ at a neutral site (in Atlanta). They snapped UGA’s 35 game win streak or whatever. Now, UGA only beat Missouri and ole Miss this year (whoop-tee-do). But, to say the SEC champ has no argument is absurd....

I agree that they’d put a 1-loss SEC Champ in over an undefeated ACC Fla State with their best player out with injury. FSU will be in big trouble if it wins ugly tonight...

These kids are here to learn the sport and improve. The coaches get paid tons of money to assess who has the capacity to excel and then develop and play them. It is amazing how much JD improved his vision, anticipation and accuracy this year. A mock draft I saw this week has him as a top-10 pick....

White guy here signing petition for Flau’jae (sp?). I bet she’d be fun to hang with...

“Can’t see a scenario where JD plays…” well, JD is a team guy and if Nabers and his buddies don’t opt-out then probably won’t either. CBK brought him here and supported, trained him up to be a 1st round pick (possibly). JD Will want to help team and CBK get that 10th win. If you have be...

Will agree and disagree here - I also have loved seeing JD develop, improve his vision and accuracy and simply be one of the most electrifying players I have seen in awhile. However, does he feel like a “Tiger” to you or “a transfer from Arizona that has played great”? How excited have you been wa...

The quality of college football is lower than NFL but one of the main connections we have as fans is that high school kids choose to represent a school and team we care about ie we think they care too. If college ball becomes a true free agent market where every team trades players every year and t...

The baseline should be top-5 recruiting. Win your bowl game and finish in top-5 every year (Bobby Bowden and, at first, Les Miles were great at this). THEN, every three years or so the planets align, a special player and the right team leadership emerge to have us compete for a championship. It t...

Not trying to hijack the thread but when I look back at his angry post-game comment after FSU that “we aren’t who we thought we were” seemed like a slam on the players at the time but I am now thinking he was talking about the defensive coaches(?)...

Tulane has to win one more game but if they do, I think the CFA Bowl picks last this year and a projection had Tulane playing Missouri in what will be the lowest-attended CFA Bowl ever - ha ha. We will play Penn State / Iowa / Notre Dame in Reliaquest (Outback) Bowl in Tampa day after a Saints game...

If they simply splice together JD5’s top 10 plays and send it to every Heisman voter they’ll see how special he is. Hell, even two of this open field runs last week vs GA State were sick football moves. I mean he is just an exciting player to watch. Big game vs A&M’s good defense and he will win ...

I am right there with you - we are not recognizing how awesome Nabers is. I mean, the improvement in JD’s vision, confidence and accuracy from last year has a TON to do with Nabers and Thomas. You can just see the chemistry between JD and Nabers - has been a fun season and it looks like THEY are h...

The reality is that the coaches are under a ton of pressure to get that 8th, 9th, 10th or 11th win. Otherwise, I could totally see the bowls becoming like NFL exhibition games where it is understood (or agreed to by coaches) that the starters play the first half and then clear the benches in the se...

The OP is obviously a troll but (a) I do think JD will reward CBK for bringing him here to go get that 10th win and (b) I have to believe hanging 45 points on Penn State is going to move him up 5 spots in the draft quicker than doing a 3-cone drill in 3.8 seconds at the combine. ...

Yes I am biased but if you assume every Heisman voter gets a highlight package for each candidate, say top 10 plays for each player, I don’t see how JD5 does not win. I mean, he just passes the eye test as being special. While it should not count, technically, his 25 yard scamper in OT vs Bama has...

Not arguing - honest question: IF he balls out on national tv against a quality team with scouts and NFL execs watching, why wouldn’t that help his case / move him up 10 spots in the draft etc? Some will say protecting himself for the combine is too important but hell man, no scout needs to time hi...