College football week 7 thread: Ducks Amuck

Maryland has now been part of the Big 10 for a decade. It may as well be Frostburg State for all the impact it has made on the league.

 

Corso missing second straight week. I really wish he'd just retire so they can give him a big send-off. He pretty much made GameDay.

 

The Terps have had their moments in basketball. But football? I think Rutgers is doing better at this point.

 

Does Cam Rising’s mustache have a NIL deal with Just For Men?

 

I have no idea why Cam Rising is still in this game.

 

Even if Purdue had been OK this season, their schedule is absolutely brutal. Tony Petitti must have had a shit burger at Triple X and he's exacting his revenge. They were picked last in the preseason Big Ten poll based largely on that schedule. (Indiana, by contrast, has been mainlining tomato sauce from those tomato cans they've stacked up.)

The Boilermakers are pretty fucking far from OK, so their one win against mighty Indiana State is going to have to suffice.

Deer think Ryan Walters stares into the headlights a lot. I'm not saying Walters is in over his head, but he's standing on the ground and the next 17 out-bound flights at O'Hare represent the rest of the Big Ten coaching brethren.

Looks like Purdue is one of its down cycles where it's absolute, unmitigated ass. Purdue has a tradition, and they do care about football, so when they get it going, they can usually be respectable, but they seem to alternate terrible hires with good ones.

 

Still a ridiculous answer. Here's the full transcript.

JAMES FRANKLIN: So the second part of your question is a big part of us leaving on Thursday is we cannot fly out of State College. That was a big part of our discussions with the Big Ten when all this thing got started.

Not only are we one of the most northeast schools, but based on runway length, size of plane, weight of plane, fuel on plane, we can't get out of here unless we would stop for fuel. So with that, we've got to fly out of Harrisburg.

To me that's one of the things I think we have to discuss is increasing the size of the runway here and the size of the airport, for a lot of reasons... for the university, for the community, for businesses, for the athletic department, and for us now that we've decided to make this move as a Big Ten. To me that's something that we need to do for a lot of different reasons.

That's a big part of it is you're talking about adding another two hours to your trip on top of the flight, and I think the flight is already five and a half hours or whatever it may be. That's pretty much a full day. So that's one of the big reasons for leaving Thursday.

I live in a FBS college town twice the size of State College. Included is a major corporation HQ and the folks here are just as irrationally rabid about the home team as Penn State fans are.

Even with the city at twice the size, the airport here is almost identical to the one in State College. Unlike State College, it doesn't have commercial flights (the nearest place that does is 50 miles away) and has very little traffic in and out of it.

The idea that an airport should be modified for the sake of a football team? Oh wait ... the "community and businesses", how could I possibly forget Franklin's magnanimity! That is football entitlement taken to a galactic level.

Also, why the hell wouldn't you just stop for fuel? A fuel stop takes an hour or so at most. So two hours both ways to go west and stop for fuel for a flight right in your backyard is less optimal than four hours both ways to drive to an airport for a direct flight?

I'm not hiring James Franklin as my travel agent anytime soon.

 

Dumber answer than Penn State QBs being unable to make a downfield throw when they need one?

 

So you fly into Chicago, Cincinnati, or Denver to refuel. Is it that big a deal? Oh, the humanity. The BIG should’ve thought about that when making a coast-to-coast conference.

 

Pretty expensive and time consuming to stop for refuel. With just a cursory scrub, the State College metro area is about 160K. I’d imagine there are few areas that size without an airport able to handle more than a regional.

 

It’s easy to root against Penn State anyways, with that cult-ass fanbase that treats the Sandusky situation like MAGA treat January 6th. Franklin makes it twice as easy.

 

Of all schools, Alabama exists in a town with an airport runway even shorter than the one in JoePa land. If they have to fly, it’s an hour on the bus to Birmingham (maybe less with a trooper escort, but I don’t know if they would get that before Saturday).

When Birmingham tore down the main interstate going through downtown for a rebuild a couple of years ago, Golden Triangle airport outside Starkville put up billboards in Tuscaloosa advising it was a shorter drive there to catch commercial flights than BHM.