College football week 11 thread: Last MACtion Hero

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Baton Rouge Advocate now combing through Brian Kelly's contract again to ascertain how costly his execution would be.
Yahoo podcast raised a great point in light of Florida's announcement that Sun Belt Billy -- kudos to whoever coined that one -- would be retained. There won't be as many executions as we once presumed until administrators get a grasp on how to pay all the bills in the institutional player compensation era. Furthermore, do you really want to execute your coach when the top candidates will be reluctant to leave playoff candidates and when the transfer window will be open?

Will look into the team's execution and get back to you.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Feels like he deserves more than 3 seasons, but I can get where OU fans are expecting a ton more out of Venables.

They had the same lead time as Texas to join the SEC, but how are they so far behind where Texas is when it comes to being competitive in the conference? And I'm a Mizzou guy, but for OU to lose to Mizzou's second-string QB has to be about the biggest blow to OU's ego as there is.

Like Tapin alluded to, thank goodness Lincoln Riley is failing badly at USC. Same with Oklahoma State. But that's all the Sooners have to cling to right now.

 

[Della9250]

Feels like he deserves more than 3 seasons, but I can get where OU fans are expecting a ton more out of Venables.

They had the same lead time as Texas to join the SEC, but how are they so far behind where Texas is when it comes to being competitive in the conference? And I'm a Mizzou guy, but for OU to lose to Mizzou's second-string QB has to be about the biggest blow to OU's ego as there is.

Like Tapin alluded to, thank goodness Lincoln Riley is failing badly at USC. Same with Oklahoma State. But that's all the Sooners have to cling to right now.

If you're at Oklahoma (or any blue blood program) and you go 6-6 with a bowl loss following the predecessor's 11-2, 10-3 with a bowl loss and what is almost certainly going to be 5-7 since Bama and at LSU are left, with the current way the sport is I don't know how much more leash one can get.

 

[dixiehack]

Oklahoma was also the earliest prominent example of a departing coach picking his old roster clean like it was the last hot wing. They never had a plan to recover from that and until that moment it probably hadn't occurred to anyone in the sport to develop one so soon after free transfers became available.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Feels like they had a plan at QB, at least, with Dillon Gabriel.

Seeing him stroll into the CFP at Oregon can't be helping OU fans' state of mind right now.

 

[Chef2]

I think Okie Lite lets Gundy finish the year, then that will be that.
Norvell and Riley both have their schools by the balls. Unless 3 or 4 of their super boosters decide to right a really big check, they'll just suck for a while. Riley buyout north of 80 million.

 

[Cosmo]

Army has allowed 93 points in nine games, with 28 of them coming in one game. That's silly. That probably changes against Notre Dame, but still.

Miami still controls its path to the ACC championship game, as long as it beats Wake and Syracuse. No H2H with Clemson, but first tiebreaker is win percentage against all common opponents, so Miami beating Louisville -- which beat Clemson -- gets the Canes the nod.

I still think we're getting a Ducks-Buckeyes rematch in Indy. Hoosiers have had a fine season, but I just don't see them going into Columbus and winning. If that's Indiana's only loss, I think it's safely in the playoff field, considering the cannibalism that's going on in the SEC.

As for the SEC ... I just don't think three-loss teams are going to get an at-large, so Georgia is in elimination mode from here on out. As is Ole Miss, Bama, and aTm. LSU is toast.

 

[BTExpress]

I would hate any three-loss team getting in, but it may put the committee in a dicey spot if a two-loss team loses its conference title game and is competing with two-loss teams that didn't make the title game. Those games are not supposed to hurt you, but . . .

 

[Cosmo]

That's a fair point. Should amend it to say three-loss regular-season teams.

 

[DanOregon]

I wonder if teams will start holding back coaching dollars and put them into NIL. Because we know that these folks aren't that amazing as "recruiter$)"

 

[Neutral Corner]

That's coming, as is the day when there are coaches who are getting paid less than their stud player.

 

[BTExpress]

That's a fair point. Should amend it to say three-loss regular-season teams.

Yeah, but even then . . . get waxed 42-10 in your conference title game, and you can't look very appealing with so many teams banging at the door for so few spots.