The OFFICIAL 2023 College Football RANDOM THOUGHTS Thread

[Big Boss]

Damn, that game in fugazi 4K...rough living.

Being aired on ESPN isn't a flex anymore considering it hasn't improved it's broadcast quality in like 8 years.

The main event cuzzo

 

[smitty22]

They are though

See my last post

 

[Silkk]

See my last post

Real shyt though. This one of them years I feel like MSU, PSU, & Wisconsin gonna be up so I don’t see nobody running the table in the Big Ten

Feel like Illinois won’t drop off too much either.

 

[DropTopDoc]

Y'all really bout to make it 3 in a row...

the tide swinging back blue

Negged

Negg’n a black man 3 months post black history, shame

Real shyt though. This one of them years I feel like MSU, PSU, & Wisconsin gonna be up so I don’t see nobody running the table in the Big Ten

Feel like Illinois won’t drop off too much either.

Idk what Wisconsin will be, i feel like middle of the pack or they gon run it, Luke still needs some pieces and to get that line in order

Psu goes as far as drew/Franklin takes them, which i don’t think is too far

It be nothing short of a miracle if msu comes out beastin

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

Tide by 3 scores

Nah we gotta figure out who our QB gonna be first. Sark gonna throw his bag at us again

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

 

[FakeNews]

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

What are they trying to do? Break the tv deal or end the entirely pointless conference all together?

Edit: for the record, we need EITHER the acc or PAC 12, we definitely do not need both.

 

[Big Boss]

we coming

 

[Silkk]

Nah we gotta figure out who our QB gonna be first. Sark gonna throw his bag at us again

Like he did Arkansas?

 

[mozichrome]

your conference winner beats USC in that Cotton Bowl and commish start wanting to make demands

An Open Letter on Power 5 - Group of 5 Branding

by Commissioner Mike Aresco

theamerican.org

The P5 have no pathway out of that status and there is no defined pathway into it either. It was essentially a self-selected group based mainly on financial clout, with no set of competitive metrics defining it, and passed by the NCAA membership. However, the autonomy debate is for another day. If the autonomy construct continues to exist, it should be treated as just that, an “inside baseball” NCAA-created legislative structure that does not confer “power” status in the competitive arena, and that is also exclusionary. The written in stone nature of that structure is another primary reason why it should not determine power status in the public conversation.

Whenever a so-called non-P5 school wins the national championship in men’s basketball, as the American did in 2014, three national championships in women’s basketball, as the American did in 2014, 2015 and 2016, or makes the College Football Playoff, as the American did in 2021, or in addition makes (seven times) and wins (four times) a New Year’s Day Bowl game against a top ten team or makes the men’s Final Four and the Elite Eight and the Sweet Sixteen, how are those teams “non-power”? It is absurd, and proof that the power moniker makes no sense competitively. The fact that so-called P5 teams that have not achieved at that level are still deemed “power” teams is an absurdity on its face. Another absurdity involves realignment, where Group of Five teams instantly become Power Five teams simply by signing a piece of paper.

It is time to retire the P5 moniker and shift the focus and nomenclature to the ten FBS conferences. We at the American strongly support that concept and urge the media to focus on the ten FBS conferences. Each FBS conference should be judged and characterized on whether it has achieved elite status, on whether it is powerful in its own right, and not as the beneficiary of an arbitrary label. We have no illusions about the difficulty of achieving change in this area, but this is a battle worth fighting.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Let's see what second tier brand that Great Value Michigan goes with this time. Riddell?

 

[Sauce Dab]

Let's see what second tier brand that Great Value Michigan goes with this time. Riddell?

I doubt all the teams signed to under armor are resigning when their contracts expire. UA might be shyt out of luck soon. Auburn’s got a couple years left with UA and I doubt they resign too

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I doubt all the teams signed to under armor are resigning when their contracts expire. UA might be shyt out of luck soon. Auburn’s got a couple years left with UA and I doubt they resign too

Their shyt just looks weird especially alternate uniforms. They're better than adidas but so are most high schools' uniforms.

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

I doubt all the teams signed to under armor are resigning when their contracts expire. UA might be shyt out of luck soon. Auburn’s got a couple years left with UA and I doubt they resign too

I think that UA is getting out of the team appeal business because they been losing money for the past couple of years. I know that UCLA had to go to Jordan Brand after UA asked to get out of the contract.