2024 college football offseason thread

All-conference lineman dies. Cause not mentioned but all the context clues in this story point towards suicide.

University: App State football student-athlete dies

 

Maybe, but even with the wretched season last year (at least on defense and ST, offense was pretty good considering the patchwork OL) Dilfer's seat isn't hot in the least. He may have pissed off Guvnah Maw Maw, and probably pissed off the UA BoT, but they can't fire him for cause and they won't spend what it would take to run him off.

I sure would have liked to be a fly on the wall to hear the conversation among the Board of Trustees, though.

 

I wrote what I did in the very specific context of this moment in state government, when everybody is temporarily putting oppressing women and gays and librarians on the back burner for a second because they are training their guns on this union vote coming up in a few days at the Mercedes plants in West Alabama.

 

Very related story.

Sources: NCAA in talks to settle NIL antitrust case

 

It would tickle my root if the Mercedes and Honda plants unionized. We'll see. You know that the state courts are going to allow all sorts of underhanded pressure, so unless it rises to making a federal case they have carte blanche.

 

What are the NIL restrictions that are being challenged?

Charlie Baker gets things done.

 

What would House v. NCAA settlement mean? A revenue-sharing model to end college amateurism

 

Today's Lack of Self-Awareness winner:

https://www.mlive.com/spartans/2024...lls-situation-out-of-hand.html?outputType=amp

 

Mel Tucker might seriously be the dumbest human being alive. Not only does he lose his job because Tuck Comin’ but tries pulling the financial wool over his wife’s eyes, who happens to be a lawyer. what’s this guy do for an encore? Punch a police horse with the cop still sitting on it?

https://x.com/chadlivengood/status/1785760366149943591?s=46&t=OTpRdhXR8zxLGRLoVmYZuA

 

Disagree -- that kid followed what used to be the "normal path" and I'm assuming was a grad transfer. Now if he was on his third school in three years, he would not have been such a good spokesman

 

Well, the whole grad transfer deal only became "normal," what, 10 years ago?? Russell Wilson was one of the first, IIRC.

None of this stuff was "normal" 15 years or more ago.

 

And Russell Wilson only did it because his stupid coach at NC State shoved him out the door. That worked out great for Tom O’Brien.

The grad transfer rule has been around a lot longer, probably since c. 2000, but it was little used until recent years.