Pete Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 21 hours ago, RIPPA said: As I've said before, don't take the home game away... but lock the doors and play the game without any fans. Only people allowed in are the teams, media and necessary venue personnel. No cheerleaders, no mascot, no nothing. EDIT: Also, limit the scoreboards to pertinent info like actual scores and time remaining - no "MAKE SOME NOIIIZZE" razzmatazz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 7 hours ago, Pete said: As I've said before, don't take the home game away... but lock the doors and play the game without any fans. Only people allowed in are the teams, media and necessary venue personnel. No cheerleaders, no mascot, no nothing. EDIT: Also, limit the scoreboards to pertinent info like actual scores and time remaining - no "MAKE SOME NOIIIZZE" razzmatazz. No way. Take away the home game. And make them reimburse everyone for lost income from the game not happening. Make it really, really hurt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Apparently Alabama is very interested in Notre Dame QB Tyler Buchner, who just hit the portal. Like "tampered into the portal" level of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted April 26, 2023 Share Posted April 26, 2023 Tampering for Tyler Buchner lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 After getting roundly criticized for being a classless jerk for withholding the practice footage of transferring players, Deion has reversed course: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/36297854/colorado-give-transferring-players-access-practice-film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 17 hours ago, EVA said: Tampering for Tyler Buchner lol And now rumors are linking him with Auburn. Which... Well, if the tampering is true and then he winds up at Auburn anyway, and then... Well, there's potential for high comedy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 I tried to tell y'all 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 QB losing his job and then following the OC who recruited and coached him for years to his new gig is a tale as old as the transfer portal. Nobody needed to tamper for this to happen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 (edited) I got news for y'all...Tyler Buchner ain't that good. He looked like hot shit coming into college and then proceeded to look average as fuck getting out played by total fucking duds. EDIT: It's not like this was Jimmy Clausen 2.0 or something, but there was so much hype for Buchner and nothing he did matched that level of hype. But who knows, Alabama is the best system in the country. Edited April 27, 2023 by Craig H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 27, 2023 Author Share Posted April 27, 2023 Quote The inaugural first-round games of a 12-team College Football Playoff will feature one game on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 and three games on Dec. 21, 2024, CFP executive director Bill Hancock said on Thursday following the conclusion of CFP spring meetings. The CFP is also zeroing in on confirming midweek games for the 2024 quarterfinals, with three games on Jan. 1, 2024, and the fourth quarterfinal game either on New Year's Eve or Jan. 2, 2024 to avoid competing against the NFL Wildcard weekend. ---------- The first-round games will be held at either the home field of the higher-seeded team or at another site designated by the higher-seeded institution. (No. 12 at No. 5, No. 11 at No. 6, No. 10 at No. 7, and No. 9 at No. 8.). ----------- For the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the four quarterfinal games and two playoff semifinal games will be played in bowls on a rotating basis. The 2024 quarterfinals will take place in the Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, while the Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl will host the Playoff Semifinals. The 2025 quarterfinals will take place in the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, while the Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl will host the playoff semifinals. The national championship games will be played January 20, 2025, in Atlanta, and January 19, 2026, in Miami. The CFP's management committee continued to discuss lingering issues like the media rights agreement, campus hotels for the first-round games, and how the expanded playoff will coexist with December commencement and exams. They are also still debating start the season during Week 0 but even if that happens - the earliest that change would take place is 2026 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 So much for Notre Dame hosting a playoff game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 It's absolutely insane that they top four teams won't get to host a game. Keep the Natty in a neutral sight, and maybe the semis, but the quarterfinals damn sure should be on campus as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 (I also think because of the weird way the seeding works where you have to win your conference to get a top four seed, they should reseed after the first round. Otherwise you're going to end up with things like the number two seed getting the 7th seed that was actually ranked 4th or 5th while a lower seed gets an easier path to the semis.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 2, 2023 Author Share Posted May 2, 2023 Quote The CFP is also zeroing in on confirming midweek games for the 2024 quarterfinals, with three games on Jan. 1, 2024, and the fourth quarterfinal game either on New Year's Eve or Jan. 2, 2024 to avoid competing against the NFL Wildcard weekend. This is the decision that was reached Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Payton Thorne from MSU has landed at Auburn. He played really in 2021, but regressed a fair amount last year. Mostly a major decline in touchdown passes (possibly helped by not having Kenneth Walker III forcing defenses up into the box.) He's got talent, and even his down year last wasn't a disaster. He could prove interesting on the plains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 On 5/6/2023 at 3:34 AM, Brian Fowler said: Payton Thorne from MSU has landed at Auburn. He played really in 2021, but regressed a fair amount last year. Mostly a major decline in touchdown passes (possibly helped by not having Kenneth Walker III forcing defenses up into the box.) He's got talent, and even his down year last wasn't a disaster. He could prove interesting on the plains. The knock on him when the tealeaves had him going to Auburn was last season and defenses no longer had to factor in Kenneth Walker, so his field vision and decision making declined because fewer open 1 on 1s. Auburn's backfield should be a strength this year, especially with Jarquez Hunter officially elevating up to RB1. I think we can get some production there. Floor for this season should be 7-5/8-4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 So it seems like the ACC is bending over backwards to appease Clemson and Florida State in terms of revenue distribution because they are worried they will leave for the SEC. Losing them would make the ACC about as relevant as a PAC 12 or PAC whatever they are now. Which is interesting because apparently the SEC wants nothing to do with Florida State. At least the current version of Florida State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 If it's in the game... it's in the game... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Gotta get that Ultimate Team money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 It's gonna be fucking hysterical when it's revealed that EA is paying the kids with free microtransaction items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 7 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said: If it's in the game... it's in the game... I'm gonna be so sad when this ends up being as shitty as modern Madden games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 TIL the Phillie Phanatic went to UVA for undergrad: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Welp, the Schemy Schembechler run as assistant director of recruiting at Michigan ended at three (3) days. Apparently Bo's son had a habit of liking tweets that claimed slavery and/or Jim Crow laws were good for black people because it made them tougher or some other racist bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 22, 2023 Author Share Posted May 22, 2023 (edited) Quote Nearly three months before the season kicks off and those TV deals begin, the Big Ten does not have completed longform contracts, which include the fine print details. Instead, Petitti is engaged in significant "horse trading," according to multiple sources, to get the NBC primetime deal finished and figure out what the network calls "outstanding issues" in order to uphold as much value as possible. "These deals aren't done, and they aren't what they were represented to be from the standpoint of the NBC deal and the availability of all members to participate in November games in primetime," said an industry source. Interviews with nearly a dozen sources in and around the Big Ten and the college sports industry paint a picture of Petitti sprinting to navigate details left unresolved from his predecessor. As a result, there's a trail of unhappy athletic directors seeing money disappearing from their bottom line, frustrated television executives and big-name coaches irked about the lack of transparency in details that weren't communicated to them. Edited May 22, 2023 by RIPPA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 On 5/17/2023 at 4:39 PM, Brian Fowler said: I'm gonna be so sad when this ends up being as shitty as modern Madden games. It's probably going to follow the model of the past iteration of utilizing the previous year Madden engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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