2020-21 CFB Coaching Carousel

[wicked]

Nice thought, but the difference being of course that you can win a national championship at Gonzaga.

You cannot even get to the playoff at a G5 school, let alone compete for the national title.

Given the unreasonable fan bases at any P5 school, I'd rather stay at Boise for 20 years and be a hero. And still make a mil. Boise was kind of close to getting into a championship game one year but spit the bit at crunch time.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I'd be totally in favor of the two top G5 schools playing in for a spot in a six-team field. Top two get byes, putting the regular season in play until the end. Third seed gets the play-in winner.
College football is going to have to do something to spice up its post-season - take away this year because it's a joke - but more Bama/Clemson games are going to kill the interest in the sport. NASCAR went to the "super team" concept and it's audience frittered away.

I don't really care if they expand it or not, but a few thoughts...

I don't really think we add much by letting Liberty or Coastal Carolina get their asses handed to them in the playoff. Sportswriters love to act like it's a shame that we'll never know if the little guys are good enough to win the title. Spoiler alert -- they're not, and we're reminded of that every time a minnow gets a shot at the big guys.

Also, Bama/Clemson doesn't kill the interest in the sport. We may act like we want the little guy in there, but the ratings for Clemson/Alabama will blow away the ratings for Liberty/Alabama. People want to see the titans fight.

And really, Saban and Swinney aren't going to be there forever. There's an expiration date for this. Alabama will still be a power but it won't be this. Clemson is done when Swinney goes.

 

[tapintoamerica]

They do, and, on top of that, guaranteed loans make it easy for schools to do whatever they please with tuitions.

The real arms race isn't with buildings, though. It's with administrative bloat. Universities are stuffed to the brim with provosts and directors and whatnot. Typically this bloat is footed by taxpayers.

The numbers are staggering. The growth of administrators has far outpaced the growth in enrollment in the past decade.

 

[Alma]

Herman out; Sark in.

Sources: Sarkisian to replace Herman as coach at Texas

Herman either can't or does not want to scheme a sophisticated passing game that doesn't require his QB to be the team's No. 1 ballcarrier.

Sarkisian can and does.

That said, Herman would have been better in a different era when he could have just been idiosyncratic and odd - which, he is - without having to package that into some kind of brand of cool (which, he is not.)

He'll be an OC somewhere, and then re-emerge at Kansas or something.

 

[wicked]

I don't know how many formalized commitments during the early signing period, but wow.

 

[goalmouth]

 

[Alma]

I don't know how many formalized commitments during the early signing period, but wow.

Texas signed 18 guys. Good-not-great class. Mostly Texas guys.

The goal at Texas is to get, say, 10 of the 25 best in Texas, a few rough diamonds outside of that top group that you like, then good national recruits where you can, specifically Louisiana and California.

Texas got two of the top 25. A&M got 6. Bama got 5.

Last year Texas got 8 of the top 25.

Herman knew this was the year. He knew.

 

[Neutral Corner]

If I'm Art Briles I do anything possible to work on Saban's offense. Hire a platoon of hookers to slob his knob, whatever it takes.

 

[ChrisLong]

If I'm Art Briles I do anything possible to work on Saban's offense. Hire a platoon of hookers to slob his knob, whatever it takes.

He already quit his high school job in Mt. Vernon, Texas, so something new has to be on tap.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Herman out; Sark in.

Sources: Sarkisian to replace Herman as coach at Texas

Herman either can't or does not want to scheme a sophisticated passing game that doesn't require his QB to be the team's No. 1 ballcarrier.

Sarkisian can and does.

That said, Herman would have been better in a different era when he could have just been idiosyncratic and odd - which, he is - without having to package that into some kind of brand of cool (which, he is not.)

He'll be an OC somewhere, and then re-emerge at Kansas or something.

Not if he's smart. Mangino didn't make himself enough friends, but the passage of time has been quite kind to his achievements.

 

[TigerVols]

If I'm Art Briles I do anything possible to work on Saban's offense. Hire a platoon of hookers to slob his knob, whatever it takes.

Then what would the local beatwriters have to do with their time?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Small detail but something of interest to higher ed nerds: The announcement of Herman's firing came from the UT Austin AD. The announcement of the new coach came from the chair of the UT System Board of Regents.