College football 2020 offseason thread

Again, this isn't anywhere near as bad as players suggesting Dabo gives zero fucks about one of his coaches using the hard 'R' on a player and didn't even think enough to address it with his team.

We already knew Dabo truly doesn't give a shit and hides behind his usual Christian talking points, but he doesn't even try to act like he cares when the situation comes to a head.

 

Yes, a regional bowl matchup! What a concept.

 

That's something the SEC has smartly done, and benefited from, is to get tie-ins with the smaller bowls that are within its geographic footprint.
The Liberty and Independence Bowls are nothing to brag about, but if they snag an SEC West team whose fans don't have to drive more than a couple of hours then they'll come close to a sellout. Before it became a big boy bowl, spending New Year's Eve in Atlanta was a decent consolation prize for some B+ SEC and ACC teams -- fun city, easy travel, big party.
Not every conference can do that, of course, but it's helped the SEC immensely.

 

A bowl at Wrigley? How quickly we forget the Illinois-Northwestern fiasco a few years back.

 

Bowls are exhibitions, though, and a Wrigley Bowl would probably be a MAC 3 vs. Big 10 7 or 8, not high stakes. Probably be a great experience for the players and far easier for the fans to get to than Florida.

 

Seems like all the shit is stirring around the strength coach Chris Doyle...the highest-paid strength coach in the nation at around $800K/year.

I don't know if Ferentz is bold enough to hold his feet to the fire.

 

But as others have said, that's only true if the Cubs and the bowl can work out the logistical issues of a couple of years back.

 

He wasn't 10 years ago when Doyle's workouts sent a bunch of players to the hospital.

 

Apparently the text was something like "We're recruiting four n*****s" and it was supposed to go to coach, instead it went to the recruits. Whittingham probably knew. I'm more curious of who the text was supposed to go to.

Chickens are coming home to roost.

 

And how did that not become a thing immediately? George Floyd or no George Floyd, shouldn't that have been widely known when it happened? Right now, hundreds of white coaches at all levels and all sports are frantically worried if their digital handprint includes revelatory language.

 

Nine years ago. Damn. Time flies. I thought it was five or so years until I looked it up.
In all, 13 players weren't just sickened; they were hospitalized. That works out to 1 of every 10 total players, including walk-ons. If all victims were scholarship recipients, that works out to one of every 6.5 scholarship recipients. So if you can inflict that degree of damage and survive and then become the highest paid person in your field, you think you're bulletproof.