College Football Catch-All Thread

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SnoopRob said:
Mack’s contract ran 3 more years through the 2027 season at a buyout of $2.8mil when we fired him.
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At least we were relatively smart with that contract. IIRC, we weren’t with Fedora. And, I don’t think we were with Butch.

And, don’t we owe “Chapel Bill” a large fortune if we fire him?
 
Zoo_View said:
And, don’t we owe “Chapel Bill” a large fortune if we fire him?
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Kinda.

All $10mil per year is guaranteed, but only for 3 seasons.

It’s hard to imagine we’d fire him before 3 seasons are over.
 
Didn’t get to watch a ton of CFB this weekend but I caught pieces of GT/Clemson, Tenn/UGA, and ND/A&M. All incredibly entertaining games.
  • GT has a very manageable remaining schedule and is sneaky on track to make it to the ACCCG and maybe the playoff. Really hope Clemson bottoms out but I think they will regroup and salvaging a respectable season.
  • Arch Manning/Texas’s offense are going to waste one of the best defenses in the country if they can’t figure it out.
  • Tennessee arguably outplayed UGA and they have to be kicking themselves that they couldn’t get it across the finish line at home. I have to tip the cap that UGA usually finds a way to win close games even when they don’t have their A game. The exception is obviously that they are snakebitten against Bama. Will be very interested to see if they can exorcise some demons against them at home in a few weeks.
  • Didn’t watch much of any of their games, but it looks like some of the ACC bottom feeders on UNC’s schedule showed more fight than I was expecting this weekend (Wake, Stanford, especially Cal).
 
So we apparently are paying this QB about $8M

It's insane. I mean - he never really has to work a day in his life - without even going pro. You drop that $8M (say it's after tax for easy mathing) in a high yield savings account, even, and you are living off the interest in a very, very, very comfortable life. I mean you are making WAY more than most Duke grads make in their entire careers!

Sports are broken.
 
StrangePackage said:
Tennessee's coach iced his own kicker calling a needless run play that prompted a false start. 5 extra yards, waiting, and a subtle no confidence vote from his coach.

That is 100% on the coach, not the player.
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AND the penalty moved the ball from the middle of the field where the previous play had ended back over to the left hashmark which caused the overcorrection on his kick resulting in the wide right.
 
TCU/SMU close game. Syracuse taking it to Clemson in Death Valley. Can only imagine the press conference if this keeps up.
 
EyeballKid said:
I think it’d be a huge mistake for them to let him go…but it does seem like things are trending that way.
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It’s a conundrum. He won the conference and made the playoff literally last season and has one of the best resumes ever for a college coach. In my mind he’s earned the benefit of the doubt of at least a few rough seasons if he wants to keep going, but at the same time I can see why Clemson fans might feel like it’s time for a change. Kinda reminds me of the situation with Roy in 2020/2021.
 
Peppers49 said:
It’s a conundrum. He won the conference and made the playoff literally last season and has one of the best resumes ever for a college coach. In my mind he’s earned the benefit of the doubt of at least a few rough seasons if he wants to keep going, but at the same time I can see why Clemson fans might feel like it’s time for a change. Kinda reminds me of the situation with Roy in 2020/2021.
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Roy was, what, 70 years old? By the time he retired, he’d already publicly stated (in so many words) that the game had passed him by.

Dabo’s 55 and still wants to be in the game. If Clemson’s dumb enough to let him go, he’ll have several high-profile D-1 offers on his desk within an hour.
 
EyeballKid said:
Roy was, what, 70 years old? By the time he retired, he’d already publicly stated (in so many words) that the game had passed him by.

Dabo’s 55 and still wants to be in the game. If Clemson’s dumb enough to let him go, he’ll have several high-profile D-1 offers on his desk within an hour.
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Obviously it’s not an apples to apples comparison, but do you not think that it’s fair to wonder if the game has similarly passed by Dabo even though he’s younger?

I also disagree that a bunch of high profile programs would be lining up to hire him if he did get let go.
 
Peppers49 said:
Obviously it’s not an apples to apples comparison, but do you not think that it’s fair to wonder if the game has similarly passed by Dabo even though he’s younger?

I also disagree that a bunch of high profile programs would be lining up to hire him if he did get let go.
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As you pointed out above—he won the conference and made the playoffs just last year. It’s not like he’s even had a couple of mediocre seasons back-to-back. He consistently recruits at a high level.
 
SMU is handling TCU… AT TCU!
This does not bode well for Carolina… to get bitch-slapped by TCU in Chapel Hill.
I’ll be interested to see how SMU does at Syracuse on Oct 4.
We don’t play SMU, but we do travel to Cuse on Halloween.
 
Centerpiece said:
SMU is handling TCU… AT TCU!
This does not bode well for Carolina… to get bitch-slapped by TCU in Chapel Hill.
I’ll be interested to see how SMU does at Syracuse on Oct 4.
We don’t play SMU, but we do travel to Cuse on Halloween.
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SMU is losing 28-24. I think your feed may be behind.
 
SMU and TCU has been a very entertaining game.

Texas and Utah has been a bore of a game between two top 20 teams.
 
EyeballKid said:
As you pointed out above—he won the conference and made the playoffs just last year. It’s not like he’s even had a couple of mediocre seasons back-to-back. He consistently recruits at a high level.
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It’s not a hill I’m going to die on. Just think he is better suited to keep plugging away at Clemson vs. trying to start over at another big program with high expectations. I could see those type of teams being very wary of hiring a guy that has been publicly outspoken against the way the sport is heading.
 
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