NCAA Football 2022/2023 Season Catch All!

Prederick wrote:

Just saw that last kick...

...college kickers man. As good as kicking has gotten, those dudes just aren't that kind of reliable. If that's Justin Tucker (or, frankly, most NFL kickers), it's a walk-off.

Of course, that's why those 30-40 dudes are NFL kickers.

He REAAAAALLLY flubbed it. It looked like a good snap and hold, so I suspect the moment got in his head. He got so worried about making the distance that he neglected to pull it in and just... well, that.

Woof. Hate it for that kid, though. He's probably gonna be thinking about that kick for years.

Never tell me the odds!

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LSU is being very, very mean to poor Purdue.

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Yeah I'm guessing Brian Brohm is ready to head straight to Louisville after that. And nobody is going to ask Drew Brees to help with anything again

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/giggling

Yeah WTF happened? 15 points with a few minutes left I turned it off.

I read through the play-by-play.

USC gave up a 50+ yard pass immediately after going up 45-30 with ~4min to play for a first and goal.

Then, on the ensuing kickoff some guy named Mario Williams caught the ball (?) or otherwise bumbled/fumbled at the 1. So USC gets no gain, then a safety with ~3min to go.

Tulsa then converts some 4th and longs a couple times to get all the way down to USC 6 or so with 9 secs to go and they complete a pass for the go ahead TD.

That huge pass gain and the kickoff bumble must have been epic chokes.

Prederick wrote:

LSU is being very, very mean to poor Purdue.

Drew did his job.

Spoiler:

LSU -15, O/U 53.5

I kid.

Well Fed, good luck with all that.

A&M hired Bobby Petrino as OC, 3 weeks after UNLV hired him as OC.

I know probably everyone here is rooting for the Frogs, but, the Dawgs have hope!

Sonny Dykes has had 4 college head coaching jobs.. but has only been fired from one.. lol could you imagine being that school?

In fairness to Cal though, as Dykes has pointed out both directly and indirectly.. we just don't have the institutional support that would have gotten us to where he is now. The only time we did was during the Tedford years, and our "cost" for that was an APR score that was one of the worst in the nation, and that is simply unacceptable for a school like Cal. We now boast one of the top APRs (which actually started with Dykes), and well the results are on the field and on the court.

Carlbear95 wrote:

We now boast one of the top APRs (which actually started with Dykes), and well the results are on the field.

This says Cal's APR is 975 (tied for 49th).

Compared to where we were.. i'll take that as a win given Cal professors don't give a crap if our team was playing/practicing for the Rose Bowl or National championship game... If you don't show up for your midterm/final you'll be failed just like anyone else, and that includes any "underwater basketweaving" type classes (of which they are pretty minimal at Cal).

Its funny... once you're out of school stanfurd with the likes its josh hawleys, elizabeth holmes, bankman-fried, and other sandhill road types is considered this libertarian hellscape of priveleged rich people, but actually in school, Cal is much more the "just work harder" institution. There is a distinct anti-affirmative action wing of admissions that will say "just get a 4.5 GPA and a top 2% SAT and you don't need Aff. Action". In school you are dumped into a 300 person auditorium with a professor you can't even see from the far seats... and while office hours are published, no one ever told me that it may be a good idea to attend those. Looking back I'm amazed I made it out of there... I can't imagine for athletes that have to spend so many hours in training and practice.

Well at least this list shows why a dumb-dumb school like Fresno State couldn't possibly be in the Pac-Twel... wait why are Oregon, Washington State, and Colorado below them?

Heh... in the end Fresno State is still a California State School.. and here.. academics.. It Just Means More

sh*t Louisville tied for 14th. Only Clemson and Wake above us. And they said we didn't fit the academic profile of the ACC?

Well ESPN said it but they are just a bunch of jealous UConn fans. Screw em

Stele wrote:

Well Fed, good luck with all that.

A&M hired Bobby Petrino as OC, 3 weeks after UNLV hired him as OC.

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Ha - we are 94th up from 125 I think we will be much better next time. Our football team really slipped in the last couple of Jimbo/Taggart years. Still need to get the score way up from there

Aggies hiring Bobby Petrino as the new OC is just delightful.

Like, he's probably going to do a good job, but nevertheless, LOL. Someone photoshop Reville with a neck brace.

Georgia might win back to back titles tonight... or the Frogs will complete their Cinderella season.

But neither team will have a head coach with this tattoo.

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Only the Oregon Ducks can claim that honor!

Badferret wrote:

Only the Oregon Ducks can claim that honor!

Is that what it takes to get into the Pac-12? Gaudy coach tats? Lemme go have a chat with Tedford...

Transfer portal really has turned college football upside down.

Backup and former 4-star Tennessee RB Justin William Thomas has signed with Cal as a transfer.. this days after he committed his transfer to... stanfurd...

Then while looking him up, I saw that TE McClellan Castles is transferring from UC Davis to Tennessee... he transferred from Cal to UC Davis after his freshman year (which may have been COVID year so no eligibility loss).

As of today.. this is what Cal has lost to the portal from the 2022 team:

Top 2 QBs (we have no QB with a single college snap on the roster now)
4 of top 5 RBs (thankfully not Jaydn Ott, but basically all of this backups with actual gameday experience)
1 of top 2 WR (this one hurts. Sturdivant would have been a top playmaker next year)
Top 2 TEs (underutilized last few years, and now that we brought back Spavital, not sure how they'll be used)
Two starting OL (from the worst OL in all of history dating back to the Neanderthal age... not great, but not the end of the world)

*Legion* wrote:
Badferret wrote:

Only the Oregon Ducks can claim that honor!

Is that what it takes to get into the Pac-12? Gaudy coach tats? Lemme go have a chat with Tedford...

Get Rex Ryan on the phone!!!

Carlbear95 wrote:

As of today.. this is what Cal has lost to the portal from the 2022 team:

Top 2 QBs (we have no QB with a single college snap on the roster now)

Sorry bro we needed a bridge QB

LOL at me coming in here w/my pro talk. Sorry, wrong thread!

Carlbear95 wrote:

Transfer portal really has turned college football upside down.

Backup and former 4-star Tennessee RB Justin William Thomas has signed with Cal as a transfer.. this days after he committed his transfer to... stanfurd...

He seemed to be promising, but ended up one spot down the depth chart from another freshman back who made the field a lot toward the end of the season. Hope he works out. He was actually the higher ranked back in last years cycle. The guy that surprised everybody was a 3*.

Then while looking him up, I saw that TE McClellan Castles is transferring from UC Davis to Tennessee... he transferred from Cal to UC Davis after his freshman year (which may have been COVID year so no eligibility loss).

He's a grad transfer I think which allows for immediate eligibility, even on a second transfer. Not sure if he could play 2 seasons, but I think his goal is to show his skills in the SEC to improve his draftability. I think projects as a day 3 or day 4 guy already.

UT definitely needs some TE help after losing Phant this year, who was our utility knife player. He played TE, split out sometimes, played FB on the goal line where he scored several times, and even threw a pass or two with a pretty good arm.

But your overall point stands, it's a bit chaotic. Coaches are going to have to recruit their own rosters going forward. We had another back (Wright) that started changing twitter account references to UT and had a posted then quickly deleted tweet about "just bizzness". There was talk of some NIL money elsewhere, before a couple of days later our collected announced a new deal with the player.

Can't really blame a guy for seeing what he's worth. Until somebody steps up and sets up more rules around this stuff, it's a free market out there. I'm all for players getting paid, but there needs to be some kind of organization around things. Right now, the NCAA doesn't have the power to do it after getting slapped down by SCOTUS for waiting too late. The power conferences are going to have to come to some kind of agreement.

Top_Shelf wrote:

As a SEA fan, what's the market for Geno?

Any teams out there think he'd be a good addition/upgrade?

I hope we keep him and use the Let's Ride (lol) picks on position players. Reaching on a QB isn't worth it from a fan perspective. I'd rather have a well rounded team that competes yearly than thinking you're going to discover the next generational talent.

I'm pretty sure Geno isn't allowed to enter the Transfer Portal and head back to college. They keep changing rules though so maybe he can?

Badferret wrote:

Georgia might win back to back titles tonight... or the Frogs will complete their Cinderella season.

But neither team will have a head coach with this tattoo.

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Only the Oregon Ducks can claim that honor!

If anyone else is confused on what is going on in that tattoo, this link has the breakdown.

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/202...