Multiple guys dipping out on head coaching gigs to go be assistants at Bama.

That woud be a really interesting move -- he had just been hired as co-DC at Michigan before he took the Buffalo job. Might be feeling the heat after a 3-9 season?

he folded on the turn after an hc-bet
probably reasons we should all do that more in our card games

And so when Michigan lost 5 straight bowl games recently what were they? And when they lost 5 of 6 before that, and 8 of 9 before that ... what were they? It looks like Georgia is 11-3 in bowl games last decade with 2 of the 3 losses to Bama. Whereas Michigan was just losing to whoever you put in front of them until this year, as advertised. Funny they beat the same "high school" offense in OT.

Just a shame we'll never know what would have happened had Michigan squared off with 46-2 and 11-3 in bowls (4 of the 5 losses to Bama) "loser boy" Georgia.

Saw one of those way too early predictions for the B1G next year

Washington picked 11th, gave me a laugh

Conference is stacked and they will regress but probably not that far

That Mississippi State season was TEN YEARS AGO?

I remember we were headed to a 1 vs 2 egg bowl, but then they both lost a bunch of games right at the end of the season

hits right in the olds

Back when everyone loved Dak!

i see you oregon date
11/11/12
means dead animal in police talk
check the code corvallis bevis to believe us

four years more recent than texas brisket

hey bro, probably should have pulled it earlier and let it rest
bevo will not return until you pass Autzan on the trail

the spread between long horns and oxen ears
is measured in horsepower
not oil sales or a stockyard

may the inevitable dysentery thoroughly flush you

lol Chinhole Chilly to Ohio State as offensive coordinator.

2023 season is old news. Someone start a new one.

Nah, we can live in this one a while longer.

Somehow missed this:



And I think it’s awesome.

Dude decided playing NCAA Football on Nightmare Mode for 3 years wasn't enough of a challenge so he decided to step up to Hell Mode for his final playthrough

Jerry Kill signed on as an analyst at Vandy too. Is a 4 win season on the horizon?

pavia 1 - 0 sec

This seems like a big deal

shoring up that run support

PFF named him as a first team all American even as a true freshman. OSU gets him for two years before he's eligible for the draft. Home run get for the Buckeyes.

happy nobody took me up on this bet

have seen a few mocks this month that have LAC taking Bowers at #5

fwiw bet offer is off

I like the characterization that Saban was the glue that kept the Tide program together and rolling. Not just the coach/recruiter/motivator ... but the glue. The uber energized program wants to come flying apart like an atomic bomb unless there is that outer layer imploding it in. Deboer not gonna work, imo. I wouldn't bet as much on that as I would for a lot of other hires, but it's still odd's on to fly apart.

'Come apart' could be like a 10 win season.

Whatever win% Bama had from Gene Stallings to Mike Shula, that's what they'll approximately revert back to. A good, sometimes great team, with mediocre to bad years sprinkled in. No more dynastic runs.

Nick Saban was a mediocre coach who was the goat at rigging things in his favor. Problem now is "cheating" ie buying players, is effectively being legalized. Nil + portal = way more level playing field and nobody can have have super loaded 2 deep rosters. Iow the very way Nick Saban won is no longer viable. There is no monopoly on "cheating" anymore. Others--many others--can and will now join the fray.

Frankly Alabama came close to ruining college football but now they'll come back to reality winning around 70% of their games. Deboer will never survive this inevitable regression. He will be scapegoated and then they'll end up hiring someone worse.

Some programs are at such an elite level that it takes time to come apart.

Just look at Miami. They eventually came apart under Larry Coker, but even that was a slow process b/c the team was stacked (I think in the running for most players drafted or something).

Coker finished 1st, 2nd, and 5th in the nation before it started falling apart. He then went 11th, 18th, and unranked and then was canned.

Schnellenberger put the Canes on the map with the 1983 natty and over the next 24 seasons were ranked top 20 in all but 1 year with 5 natties.

Since Coker destroyed the program, it's been 5 coaches, 18 years and their best ranking is 11th. They had 3 other seasons ranked in the bottom third of the top 25 and 14 unranked seasons out of 18. That would seem almost impossible in 2001 when they were so loaded.

The difference is that I think a dynasty can unravel much quicker in the Portal era. Bama lost a ton of talent already and 1 or 2 mediocre seasons could send the rest of the talent out the door.

We'll see, but with so many other programs chomping at the bit, it's a monumentally tough ask for DeBoer to keep this going.