The OFFICIAL 2020 College football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread

[jadillac]

Word on the street is several of our starters won't be playing tonight due to covid

Game was dangerously close to being canceled up until yesterday

 

[DropTopDoc]

Shyt literally came outta the blue . It’s ridiculous and nauseating. Every once and a while, the media tries to push a narrative that UNC could and will be relevant in football for a particular season and they’re probably trying now even moreso than ever because the ACC desperately wants a team to give Clemsdumb some competition .

Shyt is just pathetic .

he’s paid, i mean convinced a lot of talent to come there, so it’s warranted some hype, hell they were supposed to beat Clemson last year but fukked up, it’s plenty of teams getting ranked who don’t deserve it, but here we are

 

[Gus Money]

Was just gonna post this. I just can’t understand these coaches man.

Speaking of coaches, I saw a good article on Defector (the new Deadspin) the other day that I've been meaning to post:

Big Ten Coaches, In Power Struggle With School Presidents, Discover Their Own Uselessness | Defector

At schools like Michigan, college football coaches run their kingdoms with two governing principles: ego and self-belief. They command more attention than anyone else on campus. They have free rein to browbeat legions of unpaid players in the name of character building. They say outrageous and sometimes bigoted things, which earn them no reprimand. In most states, they are the highest-paid public employee. They are not used to not mattering and not used to being told no.

To watch both happen has been a curious thing. It is to witness power curbed, or the limits of that power defined in ways they seldom are. The coaches of the Big Ten, predictably, have not taken this incursion well. Penn State’s James Franklin said on a radio show that a lack of what he vaguely referred to as “communication” was frustrating. “We’ve never really been told or understood why the season was shut down in the first place, and there hasn’t been a whole lot of communication since,” he said. “When I say communication, we’ve had meetings, but I’m talking about really understanding ‘why’ and ‘what’ and ‘how we got here.’” Ohio State’s Ryan Day, yesterday, demanded to know why his players could not play, pandemic apparently not a sufficient answer.

As anyone on the outside looking in can see, this situation is not as complicated as a coach would make it out to be. Coaches report to athletic directors, who report to university presidents, who in confederacy govern the Big Ten Conference. The presidents, having evaluated the health risks to players and financial risks to their institutions, voted overwhelmingly against playing the fall football season. Because data is a tool and not an answer, other people might use the same information to make a different decision, but these particular presidents are not the other people. The 11 of 14 presidents who voted against playing don’t seem swayed by strange, chauvinist displays, or for that matter, the least bit interested in arguing about this any further.

They don't care about these kids.

 

[Gus Money]

Almost forgot about the scUM details:

The most pressing power struggle at Michigan right now doesn’t involve football at all. The university, to the objection of students, staff and faculty, has reopened haphazardly and with shockingly little care for the people who make it function. Last weekend, for the first time since 1975, the graduate employees’ union voted to strike, demanding robust testing and safety protocols, resources for remote work and reduced funding of campus police. Citing poor health protections, residence hall workers joined them in striking on Wednesday, and dining hall workers will walk off the job today. Schlissel didn’t learn how to run a mammoth athletic department at Brown, but he did learn how to crush student activism. The university responded to the graduate employees’ strike with a tweetpointing out that public employees are barred by law from striking, about 30 minutes after the account retweeted a post commemorating Labor Day. The stage is set for a big, far-from-over fight about who matters at a university and what obligations Michigan has to protect them, if it will admit to any. Jim Harbaugh, notably, isn’t on that stage.

 

[UserNameless]

he’s paid, i mean convinced a lot of talent to come there, so it’s warranted some hype, hell they were supposed to beat Clemson last year but fukked up, it’s plenty of teams getting ranked who don’t deserve it, but here we are

UNC still ain’t learned its lesson from the Butch Davis years . They not built for that big boy, pay-for-play life .

 

[Silkk]

All of our players who got suspended before the lsu playoff game are still gonna be suspended when we play Texas. Smh

This is supposed to be our rebuilding yr.

On the surface This may be Hermans best chance

Yeah, But it seems like OU winning the Big 12 is almost a 90% certainty annually just like Kansas in basketball.

 

[chiefdogg]

Syracuse Oline getting abused by NC line. If Syracuse could establish a running game they would be up.

 

[Rigby.]

UNC woulda been an easy ass ranked win fukk Covid

 

[Trust Me]

Almost forgot about the scUM details:

Michigan’s handled the SCHOOLING part of all this terribly. Schlissel still won’t take meetings. Parents and students want to know why UM is allowing (and advocating for) face to face classes, while the football team isn’t allowed to participate.



They’re quick to take that tuition money from them kids. But they’re getting zero answers.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

UNC still ain’t learned its lesson from the Butch Davis years . They not built for that big boy, pay-for-play life .

Syracuse going toe to toe with these dudes. Should have had that TD last drive.

 

[DropTopDoc]

UNC still ain’t learned its lesson from the Butch Davis years . They not built for that big boy, pay-for-play life .

they probably working smarter, but time will tell

Syracuse Oline getting abused by NC line. If Syracuse could establish a running game they would be up.

It’s really a lot of missed opportunities by the cuse

Syracuse going toe to toe with these dudes. Should have had that TD last drive.

they are, but can’t keep being Syracuse and keep shooting yourself in the foot, i think a lot of offenses will struggle until they can get a rhythm, that’s why all these folks jumping out the window on the unc hype and shyt, lets give it time before you draw a conclusion

 

[Trust Me]

Baker playing both sides of the fence. p*ssy. I ain’t shocked.

 

[RammerJammer]

Iowa State looking shaky baby

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Glad I stayed away from betting on Iowa St.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Ragin Cajuns!!