Reminds me of the Gary Patterson hire. Long time mostly successful coach with a defensive background that gets fired for not winning enough games recently. Assuming he and coach Boom can work well together, should be an awesome addition. Having a Stoops on our side is going to be weird.

Potential contract year. Hopefully he realizes his potential.

Contracts may be good, although how that would work is unclear. Currently all deals appear to be year to year, where either side can decide to move on. Are you proposing that both the schools and the athletes would sign binding multi year contracts? After the first year the contract may look...

Sankey calls for 1 time transfer rule. As a fan I would love to see this, but if an athlete can't test his value on the open market , then schools will tend to pay athletes less, which may not be fair or legal...

Obviously a meaningless list, but I'm Surprised Arch isn't on it.

Refresher on the argument he was using. "Aguilar’s argument was that his junior college seasons shouldn’t count toward his NCAA eligibility clock, as only 3 of his 7 seasons were spent at an NCAA member school." This seems like the same argument used by Diago Pavia and also somewhat similar to...

Texas cancels home and home football games against Arizona State. I will be surprised if the Notre Dame home and home happens. Unless something changes fairly soon, I'm guessing most if not all Power 4 teams will only play easy out of conference games, and that this will create problems for...

I don't really care mich either way about this case, but it makes me think. I graduated over 40 years ago, never played any college sports. Could I theoretically petition the NCAA to become eligible to play football?

True, and sometimes people state opinions that are just opinions, in which case being right or wrong is up for debate. Mostly on this forum those debates are friendly and respectful, which makes the space mostly pleasant.

It's fine to disagree, but resorting to name calling is childish, and against the spirit of this forum. Grow up dude. I wasn't even trying to answer the questions I was asking. Only suggesting that if the answers to those questions is yes, then going independent would be fine with me. The...

If we went independent would our schedule be as compelling? Would the school be as attractive to recruits? Would the TV money be at least as good? would our access to the playoffs be at least as good? If the answer to those questions were all yes, then IMHO the SEC wouldn't have any real...

I also would like to see a 16 game playoffs, so not more then 16. The conference defines 9 of the 12 regular season games. With the 3-6-6 scheduling model you play everybody in the conference at least every other year. That's obviously not nothing. As far as a conference champion, I...

CDC wants playoffs expanded. Implies that's a requirement for marquee matchups after OSU and Michigan. He isn't specific on how big the expansion should be, or what the selection criteria should be. He proposes that all teams play in week 0, and no more conference championship games, instead...

I thought this video was very interesting, mostly I think his proposals make sense. Move the portal window out. He gives a good explanation of why this would be beneficial to the players, the coaches and the post season. One transfer per student, unless a change in coach, or graduation. If...

Last year after losing their two big stars they went 1 and 8 in conference, so that strategy clearly isn't working so far. Players taken in the portal sometimes only have one year of eligibility left, so I would expect a school with lots of portal additions the previous year to have less people...

I believe almost all of those schools have a new head coach, which makes sense. The one exception that jumps out at me is Colorado, probably not a good sign for Deion, or Colorado moving forward.

Time will tell. Obviously Texas thinks he has at least a reasonable chance, otherwise they wouldn't have offered.

It seems like all of the programs are currently spending big on rosters and coaching staffs to stay relevant. You would think that schools would need to mostly balance their budgets, so something needs to give... eventually. Schools that can't keep up with the arms race will not be able to...

FWIW here is an article explaining how it's possible...

A pathetic schedule may be useful for making the playoffs. Seems many recruits don't care about SEC/B1G exposure. Time will tell what their ceiling is.