The company that owns CBS affiliates all over the country. AT&T/DirecTV and Tenga are having a dick measuring contest and their customers are getting screwed. This is what's on CBS for me. I guess I can find an antenna in a storage box. For the Texans game tomorrow I can watch it on Paramount. I thought I could watch this game on Paramount but it took an extra subscription.
Speaking of the Texans: I've seen about 40 plays so far today where the receiver turns upfield a bit before the snap, just like TANK DELL did on his amazing catch that was penalized last week.
3rd string Freshman QB is starting for Florida State. I guess we'll see how good their OL and defense is.
Everyone is saying Texas is in and it’s between FSU and Ala for the final spot. Pray for the couches in the south east us around 11:05 am cst.
That's something I've wondered about: haven't some of these places (Tuscaloosa, Columbus OH, etc...) run out of furniture to burn? Or is it like jakeleg roofers from around the country showing up after a storm, and there's 18-wheelers full of couches that show up after every big win?
Oregon deserves this for their disgusting and inexcusable gagging in the rematch with UW. Liberty won't even have their very good QB, who has entered the portal. For the Ducks, it will be just additional practice reps for returning players and prep for spring practice that begins a couple of months later. There will be little emotional aspect to the game.
This process seems just as subjective as ever. The old eye test. And what have you done for me last week. But I will still watch.
NCAA President Charlie Baker is expected to introduce new athlete compensation proposals to association member schools today, multiple sources tell @SInow. — Pat Forde From Baker’s letter, obtained by @SINow: “Therefore, it is time for us - the NCAA - to offer our own forward-looking framework. This framework must sustain the best elements of the student-athlete experience for all student-athletes, build on the financial and organizational investments that have positively changed the trajectory of women's sports, and enhance the athletic and academic experience for student-athletes who attend the highest resourced colleges and universities. To deliver on this framework, we need to make several fundamental changes. First, we should make it possible for all Division I colleges and universities to offer student-athletes any level of enhanced educational benefits they deem appropriate. Second, rules should change for any Division I school, at their choice, to enter into name, image and likeness licensing opportunities with their student-athletes. These two changes will enhance the financial opportunities available to all Division I student- athletes. They will also help level what is fast becoming a very unlevel playing field between men and women student-athletes because schools will be required to abide by existing gender equity regulations as they make investments in their athletic programs. Third, a subdivision comprised of institutions with the highest resources to invest in their student-athletes should be required to do two things: •Within the framework of Title IX, invest at least $30,000 per year into an enhanced educational trust fund for at least half of the institution's eligible student-athletes. •Commit to work with their peer institutions in this subdivision to create rules that may differ from the rules in place for the rest of Division I. Those rules could include a wide range of policies, such as scholarship commitment and roster size, recruitment, transfers or NIL. I look forward to hearing from members and student-athletes as we move ahead. But moving ahead in this direction has several benefits: •First, it significantly enhances the NCAA's ability to provide world-class educational and athletics experiences to the most elite student-athletes. •Second, it enables the continued investment in women's sports and women student-athletes at a level that compares with future investments in men's sports. •Third, it gives the educational institutions with the most visibility, the most financial resources and the biggest brands an opportunity to choose to operate with a different set of rules that more accurately reflect their scale and their operating model. •Fourth, it gives colleges and universities that are not sure about which direction they should move in an opportunity to do more for their student-athletes than they do now, without necessarily having to perform at the financial levels required to join the subdivision. •Fifth, it gives other schools in Division I the ability to do whatever might make sense for them and for their student-athletes within a more permissive, more supportive framework for student-athletes than the one they operate in now. •Sixth, it provides student-athletes in the most competitive and well-resourced part of Division I with significant educational benefits that they can use to launch themselves once they either graduate or reach the end of their athletics eligibility, and it does so in a way that respects and complies with the rules concerning gender equity. •Seventh, it gives the schools most impacted by collectives, the Transfer Portal and NIL the opportunity to create rules, programming and resources that are in the best interests of the vast majority of their student-athletes, instead of just a few. •Eighth, it maintains the existing NCAA national championship model across all existing Division I sports, except FBS football, which continues to operate under the rubric of the College Football Playoff. •Ninth, it provides an operating model the NCAA and its member institutions can incorporate into ongoing discussions with Congress about the future of college athletics. •Finally, it kick-starts a long-overdue conversation among the membership that focuses on the differences that exist between schools, conferences and divisions and how to create more permissive and flexible rules across the NCAA that put student-athletes first. Colleges and universities need to be more flexible, and the NCAA needs to be more flexible, too. It also gives the NCAA a chance to propose a better way to support student-athletes at the highest revenue schools by providing significant financial support to student-athletes in revenue positive and nonrevenue sports alike.”
Anytime you are ranking teams that never play each other, it will be subjective. Is a one loss team in the SEC/Big 10/ Big 12 better than a no loss team in the Pac 12/ACC? I think so in most cases, but the Clemson teams are an exception. I think Georgia is a better team than Washington.
Friend of mine just texted me this: There are 105 FBS QBs in the transfer portal and over 2,000 total players in the portal. THERE ARE ONLY 2900 STARTERS IN FBS!!! Crazy.
The whole thing is stupid. Imagine the NFL with all QBs on 1-year deals. If you're Oregon, why ever recruit a QB? You can get a Heisman-level senior QB in the portal every year and never have to worry about development years. If you're OU, who apparently wants to start their freshman guy, what is the point? Gabriel would get you in the championship convo for 2024 and then leave (and presumably your freshman would have left too). Instead, you start the freshman in 2024 and he probably loses a game or two due to being a freshman. And then you're a contender in 2025 - if he's actually good - and then if he's as good as you hoped, he jumps to the NFL. It seems like all you did was push your championship aspirations from 2024 to 2025 by losing Gabriel for your freshman.
Supposedly there are 15K scholarship players in FBS. We've also had: -20 head coaches leave jobs (I assume this is inclusive of most of the staff) -18 coordinators leave jobs (exclusive of HC changes) This probably affects about... 1600-1800 players approximately? 2K in the portal sounds about right.
