A “useful” exhibition

I think I’m just gonna throw this Nicole Auerbach suggestion ($$) out as food for CFP expansion thought:

Why not cut the regular season down to 11 games and move the 12th game to the spring? Last season, 115 of the 130 FBS teams played FCS opponents, in games that we all know were scheduled to pad win-loss records (and also to drive revenue for the FCS team’s athletic department). They’re called guarantee games for a reason.

So play those games in the spring. Sell tickets for them closer to what you’d typically charge for a single-game ticket. Pay the FCS team like you would in the fall.

I’m not sure that doesn’t cause as many problems as it solves, if it indeed solves anything more than providing a lame suggestion that the powers that be have offered something to reduce player wear and tear as the postseason expands.  The games would be played with rosters in flux, since the most recent signing class wouldn’t be enrolled and even Auerbach acknowledges that for some programs, “changes to the offseason conditioning program and the amount of contact in other spring practices, as well as the amount of time spent teaching fundamentals” would have to be made.

And I’m saying this as someone who’s on the record as being in favor of a spring scrimmage FBS-FCS game.  What do y’all think of this?

Hasta la vista, baby.

I guess I should say a few words about Bob Bowlsby’s departure as the head of the Big 12.  I mean, between adding a totally unnecessary conference championship game to a round robin regular season schedule and losing the prize athletic programs of his conference after ignoring the warning signs, the man’s got a legacy that will probably go unmatched — which is saying something in a world that had Larry Scott as a peer.  (Using the term loosely, of course.)

Yeah, Bob will be missed.

Kids these days

Warren, Warren, Warren…

A TikTok Challenge gone awry has landed Georgia defensive lineman Warren Brinson in hot water with local authorities.

Thursday night, the Savannah native turned himself in to the Athens Clarke-County jail on a pair of misdemeanor charges of simple battery after shooting a toy water bead gel gun, also known as a SplatRBall, at a group of individuals on campus.

A source tells UGASports that Brinson was allegedly taking part in what’s known as the “Orbeez Challenge” on TikTok, where participants are encouraged to use the toys to shoot water gel beads at strangers while recording.

In a message to UGASports, Brinson explained that he was in his vehicle when he pulled up to a group of people that he thought he knew. Brinson told UGASports he was mistaken, and charges were filed by the individuals who were hit by the gel beads after they called the UGA police.

“In his vehicle”.  I guess we know who’s driving Mudcat’s car this season.

I have the feeling the internal punishment for this will be more severe than the external.

We’ll always have Montana.

Sent from Ryan, this is hanging from the ceiling at the Corral Bar in Montana.

Damn straight.

And I bet anyone who sees it knows what that “G” stands for, too.