NCAA College Football 2019-20: Official Thread

LOL

I have so many reactions. Like "Odell, you total dumbass," to "This is awesome" to "Oh my God, PFT Commenter is going to play a key role in getting a school NCAA'd into oblivion 2020 is already amazing."

... they won't let me have my dream of Coach O singing Cookie Monster's magnum opus "C is for Cookie" at this rate.

Badferret wrote:

Fed, looking like you guys won/lost the Zachary Evans saga as evidently the Dawgs have let him out of his NLI and the crystal balls are pointintg your way. I hope he can figure things out as he's obviously very talented.

Update: He could have enrolled early already, but he's at Ole Miss on a visit right now. We just accepted a commitment from a JUCO RB named Crownover. Pretty sure that means we've moved on.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Badferret wrote:

Fed, looking like you guys won/lost the Zachary Evans saga as evidently the Dawgs have let him out of his NLI and the crystal balls are pointintg your way. I hope he can figure things out as he's obviously very talented.

Update: He could have enrolled early already, but he's at Ole Miss on a visit right now. We just accepted a commitment from a JUCO RB named Crownover. Pretty sure that means we've moved on.

Yeah, it's a weird one. Bizarrely, some online chatter about Evans and the Dawgs getting back together. After the Ole Miss visit the LaneTrains signed a different RB.

/Shrug

Ho ho Cal has scheduled Notre Dame in South Bend in 2022. Oddly, it is currently a 1-game deal. I know normally big time schools pay for FCS or other lower tier teams to show up so wondering how this worked. I can't imagine ND paying a P5 school (even one as bad as Cal) to play, and it seems odd that Cal would agree to only an away game.

I believe the ND-stanfurd agreement is up so maybe ND is looking for someone new and this is a trial run?

Very excited for this trip.. even though its still 3 years away.

EDIT Looks like ND is paying Cal $1.9MM for the one-game series, $900K more than they are paying Alabama to play @ND in 2028. Everything is more expensive in the Bay Area.

Carlbear95 wrote:

Ho ho Cal has scheduled Notre Dame in South Bend in 2022. Oddly, it is currently a 1-game deal. I know normally big time schools pay for FCS or other lower tier teams to show up so wondering how this worked. I can't imagine ND paying a P5 school (even one as bad as Cal) to play, and it seems odd that Cal would agree to only an away game.

I believe the ND-stanfurd agreement is up so maybe ND is looking for someone new and this is a trial run?

Very excited for this trip.. even though its still 3 years away.

EDIT Looks like ND is paying Cal $1.9MM for the one-game series, $900K more than they are paying Alabama to play @ND in 2028. Everything is more expensive in the Bay Area.

That'll be fun!

I don't think the ND-Stanford (stanfurd?) series will end, even if it's not yet set beyond whenever. It's super important for ND, who always plays its last game of the season in California, either at USC or at Stanford. Those two (naturally) refuse to come to South Bend in November, so ND has a deal where one of them visits in the middle of the season, we travel to the other at the end of the season.

Maybe Cal agreed to come in November, thus the greater amount of money! To be fair, I think Alabama is a home-and-home agreement.

You're really thinking of coming out? We should get together!

Incidentally, if the game is in November, I'm watching it from my couch. It's damned cold that time of year around here! I went to the ND-VaTech game on Nov 2 this year, and it was right at the limit of comfort. Didn't help that they played like crap until the last 2 minutes of the game!

Everything I read says the game is on Sept 17 and we are pushing our home game with UNLV out to some other year.

I looked more carefully and you're right it looks like you are scheduled to play stanfurd in south bend on Oct 22 @USC on November 26 so you get 3 of the 4 P5 California schools that year. Interesting scheduling.

On the Cal side, we have some weird scheduling as well as we are playing @North Texas on September 10, so back to back OOC road games. Don't see that too often either in P5 scheduling. There's no way I'm going to miss a trip to a venue like Notre Dame, so I'll absolutely be there. Could mean I just take the entire week off and just go from Dallas to South Bend.

Oops, looking for hoops thread.

Carlbear95 wrote:

Everything I read says the game is on Sept 17 and we are pushing our home game with UNLV out to some other year.

Hmm. Maybe that’s another part of the large payment. UNLV probably required compensation for being kicked down the road.

Interesting season in 2022, as ND not only hosts Cal, but they travel to Ohio State. OSU comes to South Bend in 2023. That ticket cost may exceed the one for Clemson this coming season.

Any bets on whether or not the season will be delayed?

Seems likely.

manta173 wrote:

Any bets on whether or not the season will be delayed?

There is a part of me that wonders if we will have any students on university campuses in the fall. I wouldn't buy season tickets yet...

I don't think it will be delayed. If you look at China and South Korea (who have had very different responses and experiences), I think we'll be more normal by September.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I don't think it will be delayed. If you look at China and South Korea (who have had very different responses and experiences), I think we'll be more normal by September.

Neither has yet been hit by the second wave. My worry is that in preparing for that, we will shut down universities preemptively.

firesloth wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

I don't think it will be delayed. If you look at China and South Korea (who have had very different responses and experiences), I think we'll be more normal by September.

Neither has yet been hit by the second wave. My worry is that in preparing for that, we will shut down universities preemptively.

Bill Gates' AMA indicated that they think the second wave will be much less worrisome than a lot of people fear. I trust him more than I should probably.

Banner Society channels Steve Spurrier for some 'ronavirus humor.

"I heard when they told Will Muschamp about COVID-19 he said, 'Naw, you can’t have that many defenders on the field.'"

"They say we gotta avoid taking vacation trips. Must be why Mizzou stayed home all bowl season."

"Got a long way to go to catch Kansas, though. They’ve stayed at home for 11 straight years now."

etc etc.

My favorite:

"You wanna make COVID-19 disappear completely, call it Nebraska football."

More here.

Spencer Hall is genuinely one of the best CFB writers on the planet, and their podcast, Shutdown Fullcast is consistently hilarious and also helping keep me sane. I know like 500% more SEC jokes now because of them. Huge recommend.

"Saw the NCAA’s financials. Guess this’ll be the year it really is a non-profit."

Bless them, honestly.

Prederick wrote:

Spencer Hall is genuinely one of the best CFB writers on the planet.

Agreed. I caught him on Bomani Jones' podcast and wondered where this guy has been all my life. I probably need to add Shutdown Fullcast to my regular pod rotation assuming college football is ever played again.

Enix wrote:
Prederick wrote:

Spencer Hall is genuinely one of the best CFB writers on the planet.

Agreed. I caught him on Bomani Jones' podcast and wondered where this guy has been all my life. I probably need to add Shutdown Fullcast to my regular pod rotation assuming college football is ever played again.

Spencer is a great writer, period. Even if he is a Gator.

Also, here he is climbing a mountain:

Enix wrote:

I probably need to add Shutdown Fullcast to my regular pod rotation assuming college football is ever played again.

DABO SAYS YES HE'S GONNA PUNCH CORONAVIRUS IN THE FACE

Dabo and Mike Gundy absolutely think they can Engage Eight the coronavirus.

It's official, no College Football in 2020.

Where did I hear this? Do I have insider info from the NCAA? Friends from the Networks? Commissioners on speed dial? Cousin works for the CDC?

Nope... I saw this:

Cal Projected to be best in Pac-12

CAL FANS: All the football stars are aligned in the Pac-12 for us... new everything at UW, Herbert and OC out in Oregon, furd down... Cal has Oregon, UW and stanfurd at home... Mack Brown can't touch us... so there are 14 Million possibilities that show Cal winning the Pac-12

COVID-19:
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Because there is no reality where Cal goes to the Rose Bowl.. the season must be cancelled.

Hahaha

Tennessee recruiting putting on steam:

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#3 Maxim from General Neyland:
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247 #3 rank and # 1 in the SEC. Two 5 stars, two four stars, and the top rated RB in juco committed. All since Monday. And coaches are hinting at at least one more big commitment this weekend.

We're winning quarantine! Now will it stick? With UT good news, all Vol fans have learned to put on a protective cup, because...history.

(We're rated so high because of the number of commitments as much as anything. We've got 15 commitments out of the 25~ that makes up a class. As other schools fill in their class, I expect us to drop some).

I'll probably tweet at them later.

Wow; okay, this is crazy. And ridiculous.

The ACC likes having Notre Dame as a partial member of the conference because they sell out stadiums when ND visits. This season (well, as theoretically scheduled...) Notre Dame has six away games. Four of those six away games are scheduled to be played at NFL stadiums:

  • Wake Forest @ Bank of America Stadium
  • Wisconsin @ Lambeau Field (woot!)
  • Pitt @ Heinz Field
  • Georgia Tech @ Mercedes-Benz

The last game of the season is played at the LA Coliseum, which is a sort-of-kind-of NFL stadium, if you count the Rams.

The first game of the season is against Navy, scheduled to be played in Ireland.

So, there are no traditional on-campus stadiums on the list (which I guess is good for ND). That's not 100% fair, since Pitt plays all of their games at Heinz Field and USC plays all of theirs at the Coliseum, but it's still kind of crazy.

And driven by money.

Makes sense for Wake, as they don't sell out their sh*tty little stadium anyway. Might as well move to Charlotte for the ND fans, since that's an easier airport. Closest one to WF campus is 30+ min away in Greensboro.

It is crazy, but is it objectionable?