2024 college football offseason thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

It's 2025, y'all. Knock this ship off.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

He's hoping another team's punter will get a really bad cramp. Probably menstrual.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

He's hoping another team's punter will get a really bad cramp. Probably menstrual.

Do I have to repeat myself?

 

[Dog8Cats]

I did this several years for AP. One year, during basketball season, I was having trouble tracking down scores on Sunday because of so many late Saturday night games. I looked at my list of "teams to follow" and just shook my head. I discovered I was tracking 75 teams. I was tracking teams that weren't even going to be in the tournament. Stupid. I was making the task much harder, when I knew other voters didn't give half the ship I did (i.e. giving Colorado a football vote). I think I immediately chopped off the bottom 30 from my list.

The worst was the Sunday night when Hank Gathers died. I had the biggest story of my career dropped in my lap and I knew it, so I gave maximum effort. This was before cellphones. When I sent in my final story right at deadline, the desk told me that AP (John Nadel, Ken Peters, Beth Harris) had been calling and calling, asking for my Top 25 ballot. F**k it. That was at the bottom of my to-do list, but the country was waiting as March Madness was unfolding. I drove home from Loyola Marymount (I lived about 10 minutes away) and found a power outage on my block. I couldn't open the electric gate to get to my parking spot. I parked on the street and went into my condo. I had to use a flashlight and I had no idea about the other results. I called AP and asked them for the results I was missing, threw the list together and gave it to them.

Yeah, but it wasn't as bad as an election night.