The OFFICIAL 2020 College football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread

[Trust Me]

I showed him the classes last time we had this discussion, Michigan has recruited just as good as Auburn since Harbs has been there

Littered with 4 star Midwest kids.
Auburn stacked with 4 star southern kids.




We’ve gone over this Rig daddy.

 

[DropTopDoc]

Littered with 4 star Midwest kids.
Auburn stacked with 4 star southern kids.




We’ve gone over this Rig daddy.

thank you, that nikka think we be flexing

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

 

[Sauce Dab]

Littered with 4 star Midwest kids.
Auburn stacked with 4 star southern kids.




We’ve gone over this Rig daddy.

A 4 star is a 4 star. The way they turn out is up to them and the coaching staff

 

[DropTopDoc]

A 4 star is a 4 star. The way they turn out is up to them and the coaching staff

If that’s the case they wouldn’t rank them, and i guarantee where it counts the most you all have it at higher rates

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

Didn’t Michigan have like 11 players drafted a couple of years ago?

 

[Trust Me]

A 4 star is a 4 star. The way they turn out is up to them and the coaching staff

Didn’t Michigan have like 11 players drafted a couple of years ago?

A first rounder. A third, and a bunch of 6th and 7th rounders.. mainly cause Harbaugh got connects and teams take fliers on his guys.

 

[Rigby.]

Didn’t Michigan have like 11 players drafted a couple of years ago?

I just conceded the point

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

2 LSU insiders have included Korey Foreman in their class prediction

 

[RammerJammer]

Not bad for a program not known for offense

On another note:

It’s crazy how the SEC West has had all the transcendent talents compared to the SEC East.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Some notes and observations on what went on during a SEC convo with players concerning health and safety

College football’s most powerful conference, the SEC, announced Thursday that it plans to forge ahead with a season this fall. But a day earlier, in a private meeting with conference leaders and medical advisers, several football players raised concerns about their safety, only to be told that positive cases on their teams were a “given,” according to an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.


The meeting, which took place Wednesday, included more than a dozen SEC football players, members of the conference’s medical advisory board and SEC officials, including Commissioner Greg Sankey. It was designed as a “confidential free exchange,” an SEC spokesman said in an email, where the league’s medical advisers could “hear questions and our student-athletes were able to hear answers."

There are going to be outbreaks,” one official told players on the call. (The official didn’t identify himself, and the SEC spokesman declined to identify him to The Post.) “We’re going to have cases on every single team in the SEC. That’s a given. And we can’t prevent it.”

Players in the SEC and other conferences have the option to opt out of this season and retain their scholarships. But so far just a handful of players at top schools have done so, preferring to skip the season and preserve a year of NCAA eligibility rather than risk infection

Players on the SEC call, who were part of a “student-athlete leadership council,” raised similar concerns, with one player asking: “For so much unknown in the air right now, is it worth having a football season without certainty?”

Sankey, who earned a $2.5 million salary in 2018, responded: “Part of our work is to bring as much certainty in the midst of this really strange time as we can so you can play football in the most healthy way possible, with the understanding there aren’t any guarantees in life."

MoMo Sanogo, a linebacker at the University of Mississippi, asked the officials on the call why his school planned to bring thousands of students to campus for fall classes. Sanogo said he has four classes per week, and he fears some of those classmates will go to bars and parties at night, then unknowingly infect football players during class.

The answer Sanogo received shed light on the pressure that university presidents, who rely on college football for prestige and revenue, face to reopen their campuses this fall, even as the pandemic surges. “It’s one of those things where if students don’t come back to campus, then the chances of having a football season are almost zero,” an official who did not identify himself said.

The official told Sanogo that class sizes would be smaller so students can sit six feet apart from one another, and that face coverings should help keep students safe. But he admitted the arrangement was “not fair” to athletes, who might take every precaution but still be infected by the students who don’t.
He suggested that Sanogo, 21, remind the people around him to behave responsibly. “As un-fun as it sounds,” the official said, “the best thing that you can do is just try to encourage others to act more responsibly and not put yourself in those kinds of situations. I’m very comfortable with what we’ve done on campus. I’m concerned about what happens from 5 p.m. until 5 a.m.”

Sanogo kept pushing. “How can y’all help us?” he asked. He referenced the concept of a “bubble,” the insular playing environments employed by pro basketball and ice hockey, and compared it with his bustling college campus. Another member of the task force told him that his mask would offer protection, and he could be a role model for others to wear one. She told him to sit at the back of classrooms and not engage in close conversations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/01/sec-football-players-safety-meeting/

 

[Sauce Dab]

Not bad for a program not known for offense

On another note:

It’s crazy how the SEC West has had all the transcendent talents compared to the SEC East.

I’m surprised there’s only 5 QB’s on this list. Usually these OPOY awards are basically just QB awards

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

Leonard Taylor and Jason Marshall getting crystal balls to the U!

look out for the U

 

[Sauce Dab]

This man was only 31

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

RIP