bignic26

Yeah it's pretty absurd that it went from the top two teams playing each other for the championship to 12 teams. Most years two teams worked. Then most years four teams worked. But to jump to 12 because every once in awhile some team gets left out, straight money grab.

I mean, how many years have we had 12 teams that were legitimately strong enough to win it all? Even 8 is a stretch but I wouldn't even have a problem with it if they simply picked the 12 best teams. We could've had Ole Miss vs Notre Dame and Oregon vs BYU. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the playoffs but if they went with the 12 best team regardless of conference, that would probably be the coolest thing I've seen in sports.

The most educated student athlete of all time. Surely he has a PhD by now.

It's going to be a heavy lift to pull Texas players from here on. So many schools are over there throwing around desperate money. It's going to be a bloodbath. LSU will be able to bring in Texas players if they really want to but it's going to be costly.

Instead of getting into yearly bidding wars with Texas, OU, A&M, Texas Tech, etc., it might make more sense to buy proven players in the portal and focus on HS recruits in the old SEC footprint.

Hopefully the new GM is all he's cracked up to be because roster management is critical. The SEC is going to cannibalize itself while Ohio State bullies the Big 10.

In this new NIL age we find ourselves in the jump from Ole Miss to LSU isn't what it once was. The field has been leveled and most of the things that made college football great have been cast aside for money. Tradition, history, and prestige still play a role but only to the extent that LSU can match an offer.

Having said that, LSU is still LSU and Ole Miss is still Ole Miss. The two are not the same. All things being equal it's still a better job than Penn State, Florida, and certainly Ole Miss. LSU still has fertile recruiting grounds with the ability to go national as needed. Saturday night in Death Valley is still one of the brightest stages in sports.

So while it might not be the job it was before NIL, it's still one of the best jobs in the country. The job will pay well but there will be pressure. Not just pressure to win. Pressure to win the whole damn thing. The next HC has to be hungry and fearless.

I like the idea of spending less on the HC and more on players but you usually get what you pay for. I guess you could build a team so talented that it could overcome a HC who wasn't that great. Worked with the Cowboys and Barry Switzer.

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he plays wr like half the time. if you use him as a tight end you can match him up on guys playing safety or linebacker. you can motion him to detach him from the line and that brings a guy out of the box thats normally run support. Just a lot of ways to use him as a hybrid

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Exactly. When you have a weapon like Green you don't want to limit him by putting him outside. Move him around and create mismatches. Force a defense to account for him with a LB or a Safety. If you put him outside then he's going up against Corners who have a better chance of sticking to him.

When it comes to WR/TE hybrids blocking, I'm not worried about it. They aren't in the game to serve pancakes. They're out there to be game changers in the passing game. If you need a blocking TE then put one in.

Don't be sad that it ended, be happy it happened. There will never be another run like bama had with Saban. Never. Just not going to happen in the era of free agency.

Saban was the goat and all that but one of his greatest super powers was to be able to hoard blue chip players up and down the roster. So instead of an absurd run of having Mark Ingram, Trent Richardson, Eddie Lacy, TJ, Yeldon, Kenyon Drake, and Derrick Henry you'll have one of those guys and the rest are sprinkled around the country. And those WRs, sheesh. What would it cost to have the 2019 WRs now?

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2011 was a different animal of football. Its one of those you cant explain with stats

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Well put. The final scores and stats from that year don't tell the story. When you watched the games it was clear that LSU was operating at a level we rarely see. With an offense going for 40 and a defense regularly holding opponents to single digits, it was total dominance. They didn't seal the deal but still, unreal football team.

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Will Blackwell said Miles did not change any of the game plan offensively from what they did in the first game.

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Exactly. I guess Les thought if it aint broke don't fix it. Saban was ready. It wouldn't surprise me at all if bama had the signals though. bama cheated in every other possible way imaginable so would anyone be stunned if it came out that a huge part of their dynasty was a signal stealing operation like the Patriots had going?

It wouldn't be some major conspiracy that a lot of people knew about. They could've run an operation like that with just a handful of die hard gumps.

When they changed the rule on transfers I knew that was it. They had been getting closer and closer to free agency by allowing more exceptions like Justin Fields leaving UGA to go to Ohio State. Finally they just said to hell with it, yolo free for all transfers. No more restrictions. Want to transfer to a division rival for a boatload of cash? Go right ahead! Want to bounce around and play for 5 teams? It's your journey, do what you feel.

I know the courts basically stripped the NCAA of their power but damn. CFB is a freakshow now.

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That's cap, I dated white gurls with arse in 2000's, yall were labeling them as fat girls.

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Thick girls were so underrated in the 90s and and early 00s. I guess J Lo and Kim K made being curvy fashionable but that was always my jam. Never understood why my friends were all about these petite girls that weren't working with much.