2024 NCAA Football Thread

[Mr.TaterSalad]

If you're not watching Georgia/ Alabama turn it on. What an unreal game. This is an all timer.

[Hongbit]

Ryan Williams wont be 18 until February.  He’s 6’0 now and may not be done growing.   He’s having one of the best true Freshman seasons of all time.  

Cant wait to see how much Oregon, Georgia, and Ohio State bid up his price for Alabama to keep him next year.   

[buddha]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41531125/big-ten-sec-talk-possible-scheduling-partnership

afc and nfc.  notre dame should bet on board now when the big ten goes to 20 teams and two or four divisions.

[gehringer_2]

11 minutes ago, buddha said:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41531125/big-ten-sec-talk-possible-scheduling-partnership

afc and nfc.  notre dame should bet on board now when the big ten goes to 20 teams and two or four divisions.

herding cats

[buddha]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

herding cats

by any other name, professional football.  how long until someone sues the ncaa and says you cant restrict my eligibility?  as long as the university deems me an employee, i can play football there for as long as they'll pay me.  completely remove the "student" from student athlete and make it a real minor league for the nfl.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

by any other name, professional football.  how long until someone sues the ncaa and says you cant restrict my eligibility?  as long as the university deems me an employee, i can play football there for as long as they'll pay me.  completely remove the "student" from student athlete and make it a real minor league for the nfl.

LOL. And the next step....you push the school completely out of the equation? Sort of an inverse NIL were a school collects a royalty on the use of their name and logos and collects rental on the facilities they've built?

IDK - I used to think the first step to any rationalization had to be to separate revenue and non-revenue athletics but it's getting to where you can't even make clear distinctions there anymore. 

[buddha]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL. And the next step....you push the school completely out of the equation? Sort of an inverse NIL were a school collects a royalty on the use of their name and logos and collects rental on the facilities they've built?

IDK - I used to think the first step to any rationalization had to be to separate revenue and non-revenue athletics but it's getting to where you can't even make clear distinctions there anymore. 

lets be honest, most of those players never see the inside of a classroom.  or if they do, they see it on the first day of class and that's it.

i'm not advocating for this, but the ncaa loses every legal challenge and i suspect they'd lose this one too.

[casimir]

12 hours ago, buddha said:

lets be honest, most of those players never see the inside of a classroom.  or if they do, they see it on the first day of class and that's it.

They ain't there to play school?

[Sports_Freak]

The announcer in the MSU-Oregon game sounds familiar. 😆

[Deleterious]

I say this as a huge dog lover.  I'm sick of Herbstreit's dog.

[Hongbit]

Every week it’s something new from OSU’s Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams from Bama.   It’s like a McGwire/Sosa battle going for best true Freshman WR ever.  
 

The 2027 NFL Draft is going to be epic.

[Hongbit]

The #1 team in the country is on the ropes.    Would be one of the biggest upsets in history.   Bama were 23 point favorites.
 

Vandy 40

Bama 28 

5 minutes to go.  

Edited October 5, 2024 by Hongbit

[Deleterious]

The competition hasn't been that hot.  He did put up 192 against Oregon.

 

[Deleterious]

 

[casimir]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

That play doesn't even make any sense.  Why did UCLA have its second string place kicker on defense?  Why did PSU have a nose tackle specimen in motion on offense?

Edited October 7, 2024 by casimir

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

If the Tigers would have won Saturday, this could have been one of the all time best sports weekends. Three "top ten" SEC teams go down. Michigan loses. Michigan State loses. Buckeyes roll. Packers win. Browns and 49ers lose. Good stuff all around, except baseball and that changes today!

[Deleterious]

The Kirby era 30 for 30 about Georgia football is going to be wild.

 

[Deleterious]

 

[chasfh]

Epic. 

 

[casimir]

Bust out the flux capacitor and go back ten years ago.  Now try to convince someone that halfway through a college football season in the not too distant future, Indiana and Oregon would share the lead in the Big Ten.

[Deleterious]

 

[casimir]

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Hey Matt Rhule,   I guess Indiana must be stealing your signals too !     LOL

 

 

Indiana might be for reals

[Motor City Sonics]

I don't mind Indiana being really good.  I would like to see someone other than Michigan/Ohio State/Oregon.   Some new blood.  

[Deleterious]

Someone has to be looking up Lincoln Riley's buyout number.