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[Twirling Time]

Because nobody wanted to hire him. My suspicion is that this began — at least in part— as a ploy to get the attention of NFL owners.

Shenanigans. The word was famously out that Jerry was more than Belichick-curious.

 

[Twirling Time]

Belichick: "I didn't come here to leave."

Also Belichick: My buyout drops from $10 million to $1 million on June 1, 2025.

If he goes a smooth 2-9 like a homeboy did there as starting QB, it's smart.

 

[exmediahack]

Maybe I've missed it but the admins at North Carolina and Colorado are there for the long game.

In 4-5 years, college football will look very different. I project a 40-team "superclass" that will break off and form their own TV contracts for football only.

10 SEC and 7 B1G schools will get in, even if they go 6-6 the next five years. Even Florida State will get in.

What schools would be on the fault line? Arizona State. Wisconsin. NC State. Those schools.

The Belichick hire puts UNC in a far better pathway to get a boarding pass. If Deion stays at Colorado, same thing.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

If that is the case, and I have no reason to believe it won't be, I'm perfectly happy with my alma mater being in Tier 2. The old money boosters who funded things in the glory days are gone and Pitt is too small of a school to go head-to-head with the big money programs unless a Phil Knight type character emerges.

I also don't see a mega league surviving long term. Everyone is way too money hungry with an over-inflated sense of value.

 

[dixiehack]

If we get a mega league, they will have finally broken my interest in the sport. Maybe I'll stick around if Kennesaw somehow sticks in a best of the rest division, but that's iffy. And if it gets completely atomized then my fall Saturdays become vacant. And if they kill off college basketball in the process, I will have honestly lost one of the chief sources of joy in my life.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The TV money bubble is going to burst at some point. That will shake things up in ways we can't imagine.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I'll watch it the same way that I do the NFL, in that it is on and I hope the Eagles win on Sundays but I really don't care and I'm not all that invested. It has already started in a sense in that I used to carry Pitt losses around for days 20 years ago, then it became a couple of hours, now it's "meh" and I move onto other things. I've gone from having season tickets to attending one or two games a year at most.

 

[exmediahack]

This was the first year I've gotten more enjoyment watching NFL vs CFB since I became a CFB addict in 1986.

 

[Cosmo]

Same. I think this NFL season has been great. College has had its moments, but overall, the weird matchups, lack of regional rivalries, transfer portal not allowing you to get attached to any players, etc., has made the sport feel a little hollow this year. One of my co-workers, a fellow Hokie, was talking about it yesterday, and it made a lot of sense to me. You can't have "rebuilding" years if you're not rebuilding toward anything and everyone is just going to test the portal at the end of the year anyway.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This playoff would have been fantastic if we still had six conferences vying for 12 spots. Each region of the country would have been represented. Each one of those schools, from Alabama to Rutgers, could go into a kid's home and said with a straight face that they were playing to make the College Football Playoff. But that wasn't good enough. These leagues needed more, more more and the colleges, whores that they are, were never going to turn down a bigger payday -- my school included.

One of my favorite years for college football was 2002, mainly because the Big East was finally evolving into something beyond Miami and the Seven Chumps. Imagine Pitt versus Virginia Tech on that freezing assed cold night in Blacksburg carrying as much weight as a top SEC matchup?

But hey, I'm sure Penn State and USC will become a dandy rivalry one day. I'm just not sure I'll be tuned in to care.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Shenanigans. The word was famously out that Jerry was more than Belichick-curious.

Yeah, but Belichick famously wants to control everything and Jerry isn't giving up his meddling this side of the grave.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Hmmm. What are the thoughts on an Arch Manning/Bill Belichick pairing?