The OFFICIAL 2022 College Football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread

[PortCityProphet]

folks out here saying UT and Florida rivalry isnt worth an every year playing game

If they go to that dumb ass 7-1 or whatever than nah cause UF gon take UGA but I do think its worth playing every year it’s a good rivalry can't kill rivalries for teams being sorry that aint how it work.
But its also why that whole 7-1 is dumb as fukk. You lose too many rivalries in a league where everybody got hot beef with more than one school.
10 game league schedule in a 16 team league is the smart way to go but hey what tf do I know

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

This my 1st time hearing the details of the fight

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

 

[Rigby.]

I really feel like last season was so unfair to Bama. If Williams is healthy they beat Georgia. They shouldn't uave even had to play them again after what happened in the SEC title game. The SEC should consider getting rid of that title game. Its unfair for their members

You can’t neg nikkas on this site no more?

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

UIllinois should be fukking ashamed. NU’s stadium pretty small and usually consists of 50%+ of opposing fans.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

The part of the hockey investigation related to COVID is Pearson allegedly not following protocols in order to keep playing sick asymptomatic players. That doesn't actually help your ill-conceived position of football having a fake outbreak during a pandemic for a highly contagious virus.

The University of Michigan uses WilmerHale, the law firm conducting the investigation, to do independent investigations for transparency reasons. It has nothing to do with it being "serious enough"; this is done in place of conducting an internal one, your framing is telling.

I thought you were disingenuous from the outset and I want to thank you for confirming it.

Goodbye Sparty.


CJ is a legitimate 5 star. He'll be for Notre Dame what JJ was for Michigan. While I think they partly felt obligated to recruit him because he's an in-state legacy, let's not pretend he wouldn't be a take if he changed his mind. If it were possible to get Moore and Carr they wouldn't say no.

To hell with Notre Dame, I hope they lose every game.

100% wasn’t being disingenuous, like I said what’s done is done. It didn’t effect my team so I’m not mad either way. I just shared my opinion and gained some insight from your response.

If you notice I rarely resort to any of the typical MSU vs UM antics that both fanbases are guilty of.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Interesting breakdown on the estimates of fanbase sizes, tracked over 10 years using 3 different studies (it's all pictures so we aint gotta read shyt )

Top 5 OSU,ND,UT,PSU, UM
big 12 10 year decline is

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Interesting breakdown on the estimates of fanbase sizes, tracked over 10 years using 3 different studies (it's all pictures so we aint gotta read shyt )

Top 5 OSU,ND,UT,PSU, UM
big 12 10 year decline is

OSU’s fan base being double the size of Bama was kinda surprising. But it makes sense, OSU is the only big school in a fairly populated State, big football State, lots of success the last 20+ years, 50k+ students, so there’s a large alumni feeder system.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

This goofs come up in the CFB landscape amazes me

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

There’s a difference between playing Illinois and playing Ohio St…in the end it truly doesn’t matter to me, and what’s done is done…

I personally view the timing of UMich’s “oh well we caught COVID” to have been rather convenient for y’all a few times. It’s especially glaring considering the Umich hosted meetings with other ADs/schools on how well michigans COVID protocols were and how other schools should follow their protocols lol.

IIRC your hoops team was on a downward slide back in January and conveniently caught COVID during a stretch of ranked opponents (MSU, Purdue), MSU wasn’t even made aware until they were in AA already…those games were rescheduled but the bleeding had stopped. Had you played a then hot MSU team and a solid Purdue at the time you likely lose both an miss the tournament altogether.

It might’ve been the same weekend but then your hockey team also caught COVID before having to play a ranked team (WMU?). And your hockey teams 2020-2021 COVID absences were even investigated for being deceptive.

Law firm investigates Michigan hockey over allegations of COVID deception, toxic environment

A formal complaint was filed with UM's Equity, Civil Rights and Title IX Office detailing the allegations.

www.mlive.com

It’s also interesting that despite hoops and hockey having continual outbreaks that the football team that has ~10x as many players as a hoops was able to stave of any COVID issues…conveniently they were a 1 loss team last year.

What did the football team do differently from the 2020 season to the 2021 season (beside fielding a quality team)?

Why did this drastic increase in quality control somehow allude the much smaller hoops and hockey programs?

Had your 2020 football team been undefeated going into that OSU game I put a zero % chance on them missing the game.

Not looking to get into some pissing contest, just stating the timing of the COVID stuff for UM has been very convenient from the outside looking in.

Not to give an out here but evidence has been shown that 90% of all collegiate athletic programs violate Title IX. You’d think that stat would cause waves but

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

 

[PortCityProphet]

OSU’s fan base being double the size of Bama was kinda surprising. But it makes sense, OSU is the only big school in a fairly populated State, big football State, lots of success the last 20+ years, 50k+ students, so there’s a large alumni feeder system.

Yeah I was surprised theirs was THAT much bigger than everyone else by this data.
But it makes sense. Ohio also has big cities Cleveland and Cincy.
Alabama a small ass state forreal. Only like 4 million here.

 

[intra vires]

THIS upcoming year? Maybe. ANY other year.. lol Naa.

Carr is nowhere near the athlete that JJ is. His arm isn’t as strong. He’s short. He’s not fast or quick. I gotta disagree with you here, and especially if he’d be a take for Michigan. They literally didn’t recruit the kid very hard, and it turned off the Carr family. And they’d take Jayden Davis (who people say we lead for and are gonna ultimately have commit) over CJ every day outta the week. Matt Weiss wants Davis bad.

I should clarify, I'm comparing them strictly from a class building and personality perspective. Those are guys who want to be at their schools and help them build strong classes.

I agree they weren't recruiting him hard, but he's a better talent than every QB Harbaugh's brought to Michigan aside from JJ and possibly Shea. He's absolutely a take. I'm not saying take him over another QB, maybe Van Buren, I'm saying they'd make room for him in the class if he wants to come.

 

[mozichrome]

Marcus Freeman on his Cardale Jones "play school" steeze

 

[Silkk]

How the hell A&M get Florida at home again already?