As predicted, A&M and LSU are 1-2 in the league and Vanderbilt is ahead of Alabama in the standings.
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Pretty clear to me NIL, transfer portal and 12 team playoffs have lowered the quality of the teams week in and week out.
Might change in Dec / Jan though.
Might change in Dec / Jan though.
You predicted this? Hard to see anyone predict that Vandy would have been ahead of BAMA before the season started.
How could it not? When everyone is bringing in new key players just a couple of months before the season starts, how can you build a team culture and get everyone on the same page and comfortable playing together like you could back in the days when players usually stayed at the same school for 4 years?
Army, Navy, and BYU are 20-0. The military schools are self explanatory for roster continuity and I know BYU deemphasized the portal for 2024. Might be something to this roster development concept. But how do you do it as a low resource SEC team and keep your roster from thing picked apart by vultures year over year?
Niches, and strategic intentionality with the money. Really sucks that Leach died.
Even I caught the sarcasm and and I’m slow as Golden Eagle syrup that some dubmass put in the refrigerator!
Why does refrigerator not have a D in it but fridge does?
It’s odd that the adjective form of the word “metal” is “metallic” but the same rule does not apply to the word “iron” which is ironic.
I’d argue it’s more that Bama isn’t Bama. And had that been case in past years we would see the sec in a similar light.
Navy beat a decent Memphis team pretty bad, but their real test is coming up shortly vs ND. I plan to watch that one closely. And ND has to play Army too. Chances are one of those 2 academy schools could put ND down and go on play each other in their rivalry final.
The service academies have been paying players for years, legally. It's not much and is the same as they pay all the other students.
Saban was 7-6 his first year at Alabama. DeBoer will almost certainly do better than that. I have a feeling they'll be back.
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its a hell of a good deal for players not going to the NFL. You get a top notch education & come out a commissioned officer. You’re set for life with a great job & career path & retirement plan. And if you decide to leave the military, you’ll have plenty of good job options.
You can’t compare what Saban inherited to what DeBoer inherited.
Indeed. Point was that the athletes are there for reasons other than to chase a big NIL check and are more much likely to stick around than a more typical 18 year old elsewhere.
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