College Football 2016 Week 1 running thread

You realize every other conference in the country plays games at 11 a.m. local time these days, right? And that, at some point in the season, nearly every team slides into that time slot?

 

I think you're probably right (as re: both his mindset and the course of action he should have taken), but I also think there are very, very few top-echelon coaches who'd have done it differently.

 

When you are ejected in the first half, you automatically sit out half the next game. The second half of the game you were ejected from counts as a half-game suspension.

If you are ejected in the second half, you automatically sit out the entire next game. That's the case whether the ejection occurred on the first play of the third quarter or the final play of the game.

You can argue that USC should lengthen the suspension, but half a game wasn't their choice.

That's automatic, by rule.

 

Speaking of suspensions, the LSU clothesline guy got one game:

Miles Suspends Boutte For One Game

 

Boy, I sure hope his absence doesn't hurt them against Jacksonville State. Then again, the OVC Gamecocks may give LSU a better test than the ones from the SEC.

 

So USC did not suspend him. By definition of the penalty and ejection it was automatic. USC's only punishment was to have someone in the PR department write a letter with his name on it?

 

Seems to be the case, yes.

 

Sorry your nuts got between my shoe and the turf

 

Thanks to UT and MU's mediocrity, it's nice to know your pal TigerVols has seen the most free football of any of you fools!

 

Sure beats watching Johnny Majors play for the tie.

 

Not since that windy day with a scissor lift, at least.

 

I've disagreed with Brian Kelly coaching moves over the years so many times my head spins.

Hell of a recruiter - after all, he got Kizer. Good talker. He'll make a great studio host one day.

Slightly above average coach.