And that .500 team still has a chance to win a national title. Look at Fresno State several years ago, Ole Miss two years ago etc. An 8-12 college football playoff team isn’t going to stand a chance at a NC.
Baseball De-emphasized
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Imagine now if our .500+ football teams got into a 64 team playoff. They could win a couple games if they got better late in the year too. Would be a big difference in perception of that program.
Making a regional in baseball is wasaaaay easier than making the playoffs in football. And our fans believe this year was a success simply making the playoffs and winning a couple games against St Johns. Basketball fans felt similar about making that 64 team playoff. How many regionals would baseball make if it were a 4 team playoff? 8 team playoff? Even a 16 team playoff? Really cuts into that number.
I don't really disagree with you. But that's part of our athletic director's job.
100% calling ******** on this. No one, and I mean NO ONE with 3,100 posts in less than two years on college sports message board feels this way.
Doesn’t matter, football will be lucky to win 11 games over the next three seasons. Moot point
Never seen a “fan” rooting so hard for a football program to fail. Bizarre behavior.
I’m not rooting for anything, the writing is on the wall. 3-4 wins this year and I don’t see it changing given the NIL/transfer portal era. 6-6 in the future will be a good year. basketball and baseball don’t have this ceiling.
I would say Mullins, but Florida was more known for Tebow. Try name, one coach who has had an offense the successful.
I initially would agree with you because of what we have on paper, but you never know what might happen this fall.
I’m more making fun of Joe Moorhead, who all our fans thought would be some wizard.
But since you asked me to name one - uh, Mike Leach.
That’s fine. Got way more posts than that in the 20 preceding years before NIL. Force of habit, I guess.
In the era of nil/transfer portal we are poor. Wake up and smell the coffee. this applies to football only. Basketball and baseball can compete in this environment.
We’re no richer or poorer than we’ve always been. Nationally, well above average. SEC, well below. With the new NCAA settlement, we should slightly improve on that.
We have lost only two players in football due to NIl. One went to UGA the other went to LSU for less money than we offered. We signed the best center in the portal, singed one of the top LTs in the portal. Pro football focus states our RB and one of our WR from the portal are some of the top players going into 2024…Maybe it’s you that needs to wake up and see the reality is we can compete in football
The unfortunate damn truth. Why does our leadership do so much dumb s#!t?
Wealth 20 years ago is operating under a whole new set of rules with NIL and the transfer portal isn’t it ? If you do find a good player below the radar, you probably aren’t going to be able to keep him in this environment.
I’m willing to give Jeff Lebby a few games before I make a statement saying we’ll average 3 wins a year for the foreseeable future.
Anyone thinking we're a worse team than last year is a fool. Arky won't be good again. Alabama is off the schedule too. We might not be great but we'll improve light years on offense.
I'm not even going to go down that road; it will take this thread in a whole other direction. All I will say is that we did not have the personnel he wanted when he got here and we did not have the person we wanted when he left unexpectedly.
So, getting back to Lebby - regarding that second part, what makes you think we won’t turn on him too? And then considering that most of our fans thought Moorhead was a great hire at first too - maybe the problem is……us???
We don’t have any clue what we want.
Primarily, I think that he's looking for a different kind of quarterback. That's the main difference between the two. And he's looking more for his offense than just to be a passing machine.
Most of our fans had no idea who Morehead even was. They had to look him up to even make a decision.
For me personally, I’m de-emphasizing college sports in general. The current climate just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Once you take the collegiate nature of college sports away, we’re just left with… ****** pro sports.
I am devoting my time to coaching my kid’s youth baseball team, and for the first time in many years, I plan on doing some serious hunting and fishing. I have discretionary income, but I just don’t care enough about making some 18 year old kid, who’s a stranger to me, wealthy. Greed has ruined this.
I am devoting my time to coaching my kid’s youth baseball team, and for the first time in many years, I plan on doing some serious hunting and fishing. I have discretionary income, but I just don’t care enough about making some 18 year old kid, who’s a stranger to me, wealthy. Greed has ruined this.
There has to be more to the story. Has to be. Assuming Sarkisian really wanted the job, no way you fly down to Key West and chase Leach down to talk him into the job.
If Selmon is all he is built up to be by State fans, he will up our contributions and NIL. He has done a good job on raising prices on little things to squeeze the little man but lets see some big fish reeled in.
We will not go 0-8 in the SEC.. that abysmal coaching staff last year found a way to win 1 game. This coaching staff is light years ahead of the 23 staff especially on offense. Add to that this offensive roster is much more talented that the 23 team as well. My guess is that you think we have to score 60 a game to win cause we have no defense. Truth is we’re actually not going to be that bad defensively, we actually have some talent . Let’s not forget that OM had one of the worst defensive teams in 21 and 22 and still went to sugar bowl and Texas bowl. You don’t have to be great on defense to win games
That’s way too cheap… you could easily get $5K-10k for per season, depending on location. Plus you are not getting concessions because they are bringing coolers.
You said it perfectly. And combined with my school/program not knowing what’s best for it, and on top of that…actively moving away from what’s best.
What are we moving away from? You have said this but I don’t understand it
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