NCAA college football 2017-18: Official thread

Fed, your link is broken.

Jimbo gone it seems. Hope that money was worth the lesser talent he'll be working with.

http://www.espn.com/college-football...

Abu5217 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

One nitpick: Fisher is still at FSU, presumably until Sunday.

Saturday's game is going to be weird.

BOY HOWDY IS IT EVER

Fisher won the BCS National Championship in 2013 with the Seminoles and was 83-23 in eight seasons as their head coach. Last December, Fisher signed a contract extension through 2024 that put him among the highest-paid coaches in the country.

Texas A&M last won a conference championship in 1998 when the Aggies were members of the Big 12. The school's lone national championship came in 1939.

Prederick wrote:
Abu5217 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

One nitpick: Fisher is still at FSU, presumably until Sunday.

Saturday's game is going to be weird.

BOY HOWDY IS IT EVER

Nah, it will be a lot less weird now. It was going to be weird if Jimbo coached the game, with everyone knowing he was on the way out.

Good luck Jimbo, enjoy him Fed. He brought us back from the Lost Decade, got our facilities upgraded, and got us a Natty. I hope he has some (but not too much!) success at TAMU.

Now let's get a great replacement and get back to FSU football.

Crazy.

Feels like an appropriate response would be the Jimbo "is that right?" gif from a couple months ago. But I'm on my phone and can't dig it up.

karmajay wrote:

Jimbo gone it seems. Hope that money was worth the lesser talent he'll be working with.

http://www.espn.com/college-football...

I think A&M did FSU a favor.

Jayhawker wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Jimbo gone it seems. Hope that money was worth the lesser talent he'll be working with.

http://www.espn.com/college-football...

I think A&M did FSU a favor.

Contractually, there's no question. He signed a 10 year $45 million guaranteed contract last year. If nothing else, this gets rid of a $40 million buyout if things remained as bad as they were this year.

Having defeated the previous #25 team, Fresno State is now the #25 team!

Hey fellow fans of Top 25 teams, sorry I'm late!

Spoiler:

PS. thanks Carl for Tedford :)

Fedaykin98 wrote:

https://twitter.com/bhofheimer_espn/status/936603172109455360?s=09

Edit: Hmm, I thought we could post tweets. Anyway, that's a humorous bit on Tennessee. No offense intended, especially to Gumbie, who I'm assuming has been black out drunk all week since he hasn't chimed in.

In less funny news, there are a couple UT rumors going around: One that their AD has been fired, which makes sense under the circumstances, although I'm not certain they are his fault at all. The second rumor is that Phil Fulmer has been sabotaging this whole process in order to effect that firing and hopefully get the AD job himself. Woof.

I think the national media is missing a lot of this story. I think there is a power struggle in the UTAD, but it's reportedly between the Haslam's (Big Jim, the governor, and Jimmy of the Browns) and the more Tennessee football heritage side of the house (and booster base for that matter). Curry was the Haslam's guy, brought in as a last minute candidate for the AD job 8 months ago from Kansas State. He was hired over Fulmer and the former UTC AD (who by all accounts would have been a good choice as well).

Reportedly, Currie's last couple of negotiations were not approved by the rest of the administration. They're trying to fire him for cause in paperwork that's come out this afternoon.

Sad thing is I think Currie had in his last ditched effort to save credibility stumbled into a guy in Leach that would have worked in this crazy mess. I'd have been happy if they'd have let that hire happen, then canned Currie. But if you're trying to fire for causes to avoid his $5MM buyout, you can't hire one of the guys you're going to say he went rogue with.

I'm just going to sit over here while everyone deals their feelings. Good luck with the game tomorrow, Noles.

Yeah, watching Bruce Feldman on SVP on ESPN, and they're completely missing the UT story. They're saying Fulmer is a Haslam guy, implying that Haslam wanted the one that's really his own guy (Currie) gone.

Opposite of what local media has been saying for YEARS about Fulmer and Haslam. Fulmer was reported even left hanging out to dry in Gov Haslam's office when Currie was brought in at the last minute and given the job eight months ago. Fulmer's even been reported to say that Haslam was one of the boosters that didn't let him finish out his last season and resign with dignity.

So while this is really crazy, the national media's got no clue as to what's going on.

I don't think we have any idea what's happening inside the UTAD, but I am certain it's not what's in the national media. It's just out of phase with what local media, former players, etc. have been saying.

Hopefully this will settle down soon. TN's the fifth highest ranking revenue athletic department in the nation. The administration should do better than this.

An addendum to the Jimbo hire at A&M: Our sports columnist seems to think it's less a matter of Fisher wanting to leave Florida State and more an issue of his wanting out of Tallahassee for personal reasons. I haven't seen our guy around the building to ask him, but I'm going to assume maybe there's a divorce/bad breakup story in there somewhere.

Which goes to show that these coaching decisions sometimes are more a matter of picking a good program, getting a big check, etc.

Along those same lines, our columnist recently called N.C. State's Dave Doeren "thin-skinned and paranoid," which would have made him the perfect hire in Tennessee, considering all that has gone down there. Or to look at it another way, things could have been worse at UT.

Saturday morning... no Cal football.. now what am I supposed to do?

Basketball season.

Carlbear95 wrote:

Saturday morning... no Cal football.. now what am I supposed to do?

Give thanks?

Tennessee expands coaching search to outer space

The manned space mission comes after the University of Tennessee realized it had already exhausted all of its resources on this planet. Officials say all 7.6 billion inhabitants of Earth have turned down the opportunity to coach the Volunteers. Over half of those 7.6 billion were accidentally asked twice after one University official placed the roster of potential coaches in a trash can instead of the Volunteers' file cabinet, which was at one time the football team's sideline trophy, and before that, an actual trash can.
Enix wrote:

An addendum to the Jimbo hire at A&M: Our sports columnist seems to think it's less a matter of Fisher wanting to leave Florida State and more an issue of his wanting out of Tallahassee for personal reasons. I haven't seen our guy around the building to ask him, but I'm going to assume maybe there's a divorce/bad breakup story in there somewhere.

Yeah, Jimbo got divorced a couple years back. Tallahassee is a small town when you are just some college kid who broke up with their long time girlfriend, I can't imagine how small it gets when you are Jimbo.

Source: was the college kid who broke up with their long time girlfriend in Tallahassee.

Well Auburn. Thanks for knocking Alabama out of the playoffs.

Stele wrote:

Well Auburn. Thanks for knocking Alabama out of the playoffs.

Yet to be seen.

Yeah, it pretty much comes down to OSU or Alabama at this point, right? I kinda think Bama has the edge base on the rankings.

Bearkats won today and advance to the next round. Yay! A college team I like is doing well!

*Legion* wrote:

Hey fellow fans of Top 25 teams, sorry I'm late!

Nevermind, bye guys!

*Legion* wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

Hey fellow fans of Top 25 teams, sorry I'm late!

Nevermind, bye guys!

Jayhawker wrote:

Yeah, it pretty much comes down to OSU or Alabama at this point, right? I kinda think Bama has the edge base on the rankings.

I could imagine Auburn slotting in at Wisconsin's #4. Even if they lostby 3 TDs, it's to a team they recently beat by that much. Plus they'd be right in front of Bama who they beat.

Auburn is not getting in with 3 losses, sorry. It's either Bama or OSU, but I would say that Wisconsin and USC have arguments as well.

It's going to be interesting, as we are (most likely) either going to have the first 2-loss playoff team (OSU) or the first conference get two teams in (Georgia and Bama). Assuming the rest of the field is Clemson, Oklahoma and Georgia (in that order), the games will be fun. Oklahoma v Georgia will be a blast, and Clemson will either play 31-0SU or rematch with Bama. I would think Clemson would be pretty solid favorites in either of those matchups.

Maybe they should just put UCF in as the 4th team. No losses, easy to figure.

So, it's Clemson / Bama and Oklahoma / Georgia...

Some of you will probably be shocked, but this is, IMO, the correct top 4. I just can't see how you can have OSU get in with two blowout losses on their record. If the two losses were closer, maybe. I also can't really make an argument for any other team (UCF notwithstanding) so yeah, this is ok.

Member back at the beginning of the year, when all the talking heads were saying that this may be the year we see two teams from the same conference? Well, they were partially right (they all thought it might be the ACC). It's ironic that the SEC gets two teams in in a year where the conference as a whole is probably weaker than it's been in some time.

Of course, the darkest timeline is that Bama and Georgia pull the upsets and we get an all SEC championship game. Again.

That would be a special hell for Auburn fans, to see their two biggest rivals, whom Auburn had soundly defeated during the season, playing for the title. That would be a nut-punch.

Abu5217 wrote:

Auburn is not getting in with 3 losses, sorry. It's either Bama or OSU, but I would say that Wisconsin and USC have arguments as well.

Oh yeah...duh. I looked at the rank and forgot about the record.

Bama needs to really step up its game compared to the Iron Bowl, otherwise Clemson is gonna roll all over them.

Abu5217 wrote:

That would be a special hell for Auburn fans, to see their two biggest rivals, whom Auburn had soundly defeated during the season, playing for the title. That would be a nut-punch.

...and one I would be gleefully giggling about!

Still think including any team that doesn't win their conference is a bad idea. OSU would have been preferable to Bama, but this would have been a perfect year to add a non-Power 5 champion in UCF. If going undefeated can't get them in, then why include them in the rankings?