The chafing dishes are set out and ready to go.
- Here’s a lawsuit I’ve been waiting to see drop. Adding the NCAA is a nice touch.
- The AFCA wants the targeting rules changed to allow for two levels of penalties. On its face, it sounds sensible, but you can just see that next can of worms waiting to be opened.
- Malzahn’s “right hand man” jumps off the Gus Bus for… Georgia Tech.
- Les Miles asks for a change to the recruiting rules after he sees the Kansas roster he inherited.
- This really seems like the least they could do.
- And this continues to be the name I hear most frequently as the candidate to be Mel Tucker’s successor, although it has to be said that Kirby seems to be in no hurry on that front.
- Now they tell us.
- “If a shoe company wanted to pay one of University of Washington’s running backs $50,000 to appear in a television commercial, House Bill 1084 would permit that.”
Get The Picture 
As much as I hated Bobby Knight he proposed no new scholarships until the “student-athlete” graduated.
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That’s an interesting idea, but (like everything) I can see this being abused with worthless degrees. I’d be more inclined to give them lifetime scholarships, so they can come back and get that degree. Also, I think they’d be more likely to get a degree they could use rather than just a piece of paper.
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If defense was Alabama’s problem, why couldn’t they score more than 16 points?
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Their last three games they gave up 28, 34 and 44. And Clemson’s defensive front just killed Bama. It allowed their secondary to take away all the easy throws Tua usually makes.
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Lanning and Coley are done
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More insight please.
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Come on man, WTF? You mean done as in done at UGA? As in the deal is done to make them the respective coordinators? A little more clarity please.
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Noce no mention to a UGA team that put up, what’d you say Senator? 550 yards of offense in the SECCG.
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*Nice
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“90 percent or more of the value of the enterprise is created by the student athletes themselves,” First I do not think this is true. But if it is then it was true 3 years ago, 30 years ago, 50 years ago. It is not something that just happened.
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Lol on the “more ball control to help the defense.” At one point in the 3rd quarter, Bama had a 27 minute to 12 TOP advantage and was up about 120 yards. Most of that was a rushing advantage. They trailed 37-16.
What I saw in that game was one team that prepared specifically for Bama’s preferences and one team that assumes what it had done all year would win the day. Clemson ate Bama’s lunch on 3rd down and red zone. Those are coordinator downs. Venables and Elliott ran rings around Locksley and Lupoi.
Saban looked oddly detached when they came out of the locker room pre-game. Maybe he suspected something.
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Yeah, Bama’s red zone performance looked sadly familiar.
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“one team that assumes what it had done all year would win the day.”
So is that that a lesson Smart brought with him from Bama?
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Best analogy I heard was on the Cover 3 podcast: Clemson played with the demeanor of a high school state championship team, while Alabama played with the demeanor of an AAU team.
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I like the direction of the targeting rules. Makes sense to me and can’t believe it’s taken this long to come up with that.
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Somehow they need to address ball carriers lowering their heads and striking with the crown of their helmet. Many times, I’ve seen both players lower their heads, but it’s only the defensive player that gets penalized. If the defensive player plays it legally, they get a helmet in the sternum. It needs to be called both ways.
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Good point
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The thing I don’t like is when incidental contact is called targeting. I remember Deangelo Tyson being thrown out of a game at Vanderbilt a few years ago for such an incident. He hit the QB whose head then came forward and their helmets touched. But Tyson did not initiate contact to the head or neck yet was penalized. Incidental contact should not be a penalty.
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So, we’re going to have different grades for targeting, but we did away with them for facemasks?
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Senator,
I don’t know if you saw this article, but it was at least mildly interesting.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2019/1/8/18174305/alabama-lost-clemson-coaches-film-room
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That picture looks like those two dudes are some kind of evil minions taking Nick away to make good on his end of the deal with ol’ Scratch.
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This may be the comment of the day.
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Mickey will love a new multi-pronged approach to reviewing a targeting play. More time to “step away” so we can hear from their “partners.”
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If I was a tech fan I would be pretty pleased with the new hires. Seems like they are trying to put together a decent staff.
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Less Miles has a tough road ahead.
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Les probably ought to keep that tanker of Dos Equis close by…
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If the goal is to make the game safer by elimination hits with the crown of the helmet, how does intention matter? And how do the refs judge intention anyway?
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Just like they judge most things..by which team they favor.
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