College football week 8 thread - Austin Powers: The Horn Who Hooked Me

Accountability was one of the demands Auburn had for Hugh Freeze.

 

They’re not really setting the world on fire at home, either.

 

Hmmmm. Is there a team missing from this list? Let me think...

 

Well, the Duck have only been to Purdue and still have trips to Ann Arbor and Madison. Playing eight of their 12 in Oregon. Very friendly schedule.

 

The SEC has fined Texas $250,000 and imposed other penalties for the bottle-throwing incident last night.

https://www.secsports.com/news/2024/10/university-of-texas-penalized-for-football-game-interruption

 

Could be an interesting SEC Shorts this week. I do notice, they do an excellent job of not "personalizing" any of their disses toward particular players or coaches.

 

Looks like we're into firing season. Southern Miss has "parted ways" with Will Hall after he went 4-15 the past season and a half.

Southern Miss Announces Football Leadership Change - Southern Miss

 

Kirby Smart’s rant to ESPN postgame was typical. Alleging the SEC refs tried to “rob” them of a win will play with a Trumpist klan base, but the truth is that the result benefits the SEC. Nobody of consequence has 2 losses.

 

Smart's whining was rather unbecoming for a coach who's lost, what, 3 games in the last 3 years and has two of the last three national titles? You won the fucking game coach. You won big. Try to be happy for a minute or two before the paranoia kicks in.

 

Smartest coach ever in that program is Todd Monken, who went 9-5 in 2015, his 3rd year, and got the hell out, joining the Tampa Bay Bucs. Hooked on with Georgia and is now coaching Lamar Jackson.

 

Execution season has really moved up on the calendar in the era of unlimited transfers, unlimited payments and unlimited fear of the players.

 

There was a time when I found ECU fans to be at least as insufferable as N.C. State fans, but that started fading sometime before the still confounding decision to fire Ruffin McNeil.

The move to the AAC and the subsequent string of bad coaches after McNeil has led to a lot of humility over the last decade or so, in my experience.