College Football Thread

[Brass Cannon]

9 minutes ago, rayl456 said:

If he’s as good as some believe, then the NFL may come calling.

Pretty sure Bears already tried 

[rayl456]

32 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Pretty sure Bears already tried 

Others besides ‘da bears’ will try.  :)

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

12 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

I can't wait for Happy Valley to turn on his saccharine culture.  I'm sorry, I'm still jaded.

But it'll be funny when they struggle.

[Demo]

 

Can’t really argue.

[str8baller]

4 hours ago, Pagoda said:

I like that Brian Kelly went to a school with higher upside than ND -- the last three LSU coaches won national titles, it's just a bigger program that's easier to recruit to.  But, he flopped, and it's all on him and not the program, which is great.

Used to have higher upside. I feel like I’ve been fighting ND football and IU basketball fans on this for 5+ years and now they finally understand: NIL is a godsend for a select few programs and they are two of them.  
 

ND had good teams under Kelly, but depth was a huge issue. Injuries to a key player derailed a season. Now they actually have some depth. It’s amazing they’re this far because they’ve had more injuries to key players than I can remember. But they’ve been very successful in recruiting and the transfer portal getting the guys they need to fill out a roster. If they had a QB (ironically their one portal miss) they’d easily be the best team in the country if healthy.  
 

IU basketball is in a similar position. Sadly we don’t have a “Marcus Freeman” as a coach. Who knows how long this wild west days of NIL lasts but the window should be wide open for programs like IU basketball and ND football.  Again, weirdly enough IU now has a go-getter as a football coach and they are taking advantage of it too. Awesome to see though…SEC teams will have to raise more cash to reassert their former dominance.

[Pagoda]

22 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Used to have higher upside. I feel like I’ve been fighting ND football and IU basketball fans on this for 5+ years and now they finally understand: NIL is a godsend for a select few programs and they are two of them.  
 

ND had good teams under Kelly, but depth was a huge issue. Injuries to a key player derailed a season. Now they actually have some depth. It’s amazing they’re this far because they’ve had more injuries to key players than I can remember. But they’ve been very successful in recruiting and the transfer portal getting the guys they need to fill out a roster. If they had a QB (ironically their one portal miss) they’d easily be the best team in the country if healthy.  
 

IU basketball is in a similar position. Sadly we don’t have a “Marcus Freeman” as a coach. Who knows how long this wild west days of NIL lasts but the window should be wide open for programs like IU basketball and ND football.  Again, weirdly enough IU now has a go-getter as a football coach and they are taking advantage of it too. Awesome to see though…SEC teams will have to raise more cash to reassert their former dominance.

I agree, certainly on IUBB.  Imo folks don't fully realize the huge advantage of having top-5 payroll.  Especially compared to the pre-NIL era when IU didn't pay much under the table, heck we couldn't even break the rules on texts/calls without getting ourselves in trouble.

I don't know much about ND FB, but given they're a wealthy school I assume their NIL is pretty good.  That probably closed a lot of gap to LSU, who paid players under the table as well as anyone pre-NIL.  LSU may still have some advantage from being in the middle of high school football talent and their admissions are probably easier.  But yea, fair point their advantage is smaller now.  Still funny to see Brian Kelly fail there.

Someone made the quip that in the NIL era, the local car dealers in Tuscaloosa or Athens won't be able to buy national titles anymore. Now that paying players is legal, more schools can access all their alumni resources and compete with the SEC, OSU, UM, etc.  The rev share should make things even closer since it's capped.

[RoadRage]

Which Will Howard will show up tonight?

[Stuhoo]

18 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

Which Will Howard will show up tonight?

The really good one so far. And his o line is making it easy for him.

[RoadRage]

Time to bring in Arch Manning!

[Hoosierfan1901]

Wow

[RoadRage]

Unbelievable! 

[reconmkd]

ESPN and the announcers are not liking that TD pass! Lmao! As much as I don't like OSU, I really can't stand the SEC bias!

[Demo]

How much NIL does some school want to give Ewers? 6 mil? Guess it doesn’t matter since it’s uncapped, but if you’re gonna give that kind of Jack to a guy shouldn’t he be a GUY?

[rayl456]

Just now, Demo said:

How much NIL does some school want to give Ewers? 6 mil? Guess it doesn’t matter since it’s uncapped, but if you’re gonna give that kind of Jack to a guy shouldn’t he be a GUY. 

Ewers supposedly announced that this is his last year of college football.

[LamarCheeks]

O$U can't get the hell out of their own way. 

This game shouldn't be close. 

[RoadRage]

Will Howard is going to Will Howard......

[Napleshoosier]

OSU what a joke

[Hoosierfan2017]

Should’ve put Arch in down there. 

[RoadRage]

LOL.....I guess the SEC is gone now!

[LIHoosier]

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