College football 2020 offseason thread

This reads like some next-level homerism to me. At one point, the author says Rice is delaying practice for the purpose of avoiding the two best teams in the league. Then he ends it by saying they're not particularly keen on playing in general. Which is it? Are they reticent because they're afraid to lose or because they're wary about playing in general in this environment?
Chuck Landon: Is Rice pulling a 'Texas Two-Step' on Marshall?

 

Could be. You never really know what sort of backstage politics are going on in these situations. Could be a couple of unhappy boosters threatening to pull their donations when the athletic department can't afford that.
The confusing part, though, is that Hopson checks off a bunch of the boxes you'd want at a program like Southern Miss -- loyal, stable, cheap and competent. He seems to have proven that the team won't suck on his watch, even if they're not great. He's not going anywhere. And he's in the bottom 20 of FBS salaries without making much of a fuss about a raise. So why dump him after one awful game, in a season where stability is pretty important? And from his side, why bail after one bad game when everyone knows that's part of the business?
There's obviously a story there. Just gotta find someone to say exactly what it is.

 

If Rice was afraid of losing football games they would have canceled the entire program sometime in the last 50 years or so.

 

C-USA message board thread. Remember that we're talking Southern Miss here. Hell, they ran off Jeff Bowers and all he did was fourteen straight winning seasons and bowl games 10 of his last 11 years.

LOL from the thread below:

"Y'all can start your own thread about your own crappy head coach and rock bottom program. Please let us have this one. Its all we have."

Thank God the Jay Hopson-era of Southern Miss will soon be over this year

 

because it’s all about inbred football coaches and their indentured servants.

 

Is he insane? This is an infectious disease, not a torn meniscus. Besides, it isn't gonna be too hard to figure out who's got it if they're in quarantine. Injured players are around the facility. They don't get sent home. Also, if a player tests positive, is Riley going to forbid contact tracing, which requires letting other people know about it? If so, the coach has made his state's personal liability lawyers very happy.

 

The Baylor-Louisiana Tech game scheduled for Saturday in Waco has been postponed. Seems as many LaTech players had to evacuate Ruston when Hurricane Laura made landfall, and when they came back from wherever it is they went, some brought the Covid back with them. Supposedly 38 players have tested positive.

 

Honestly, I think this sort of thing should be handled by the conference office, which should not leave it up to individual schools about how much or how little to disclose. Schools shouldn't be required to declare who's got the Trumpandemic and who doesn't.

 

Is Navy's decision to play a game without conducting any contact practices the strangest/worst coaching move in history?
I don't get it. If contact is too dangerous in practice -- when your entire team is made up of people in the military -- how is outside competition sufficiently safe? Or to put it another way, if football games are safe enough, why isn't practice?

 

Acceptable loss. I say "play ball!"