2016 NCAA football thread

It's been a while since people won at USM. Fedora had some success after they bizarrely fired Bower, but since then they've been pretty crappy. This year was the first real success of any kind that they've had since . . .

And yes, life's tough in the G5. Pretty much the only places you'd want to coach are in the AAC, and not even very many of them. OTOH, there are only so many HC jobs available. I can't believe it would be hard to find applicants . . .
 
Nah. USM sucked for three years after Fedora left and the university administration imploded, but they won under Fedora, they won under Bower, and they won under Hallman. They've been an above average, bowl-caliber team for most of my life. Not many G5 programs can say that.

I really think there is an argument to be made that CUSA may be a worse place to be than the Sun Belt in a few years. The Sun Belt's next TV deal will probably be better than CUSA's, and loads of G5 programs in multiple conferences pay better. USM has some nice fan support, and there are good JUCOs in the deep south where they can get kids, but with revenue falling, and not even everybody in your league able to pay for COA, I'm not sure if they can attract the best candidates, especially for assistants.
 
FSU/Ole Miss on Sept 5th, if y'all are needing something to look forward to . . .

EDIT: For any of you who, like me, will only be watching the Super Bowl bc it's the only football we get until September, CBS has broken down the rosters by school and conference. Ohio State leads all schools with six players, the SEC leads all conferences with twenty-four, and only the MAC is unrepresented of the FBS conferences . . .

Alabama and Tennessee combined for 5 of 26 from the field to start the game tonight. Idk anything about basketball, but that sounds bad . . .
 
NSD final ranking predictions?

I'm going to go with

Alabama
LSU
Ole Miss
Florida State
Ohio State
Michigan
whatever who cares
 
I think LSU's class is going to be tough to beat, but I don't follow recruiting that closely even though I do realized its importance . . .

UAB is building a pretty nice class btw . . .
 
And the really impressive bit is that fifteen of LSU's twenty-three current commitments are from Louisiana . . .

We got our third HS commitment for this year's class from Mississippi today. That's a fairly big deal. We've only had six Mississippi HS recruits come to Alabama since Saban arrived. Tough to pull those kids out of state . . .

Alabama lost two commitments today, lost another this past weekend when we asked him to grayshirt. Maybe we're just anticipating a huge windfall of signees tomorrow . . .
 
Well, it's all over but the crying and I guess we did better than I expected. Saban says we did good at OL, not as good at WR and RB. I'll take his word for it . . .

Okay, now I know all these rankings are the product of an inexact science and the different services have some variations, but a few observations . . :

Over half the SEC West is in the top ten . . .

The Big XII is the only P5 conference that does not have a school in the top ten . . .

The highest rated G5 school failed to crack the top forty . . .

The entire SEC West is in the top forty . . .

Alabama, Auburn, FSU and Ohio State are the only schools to have top ten classes in each of the last five years . . .
 
ummmm........ said:
And the really impressive bit is that fifteen of LSU's twenty-three current commitments are from Louisiana . . .
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It's really a huge deal. LSU's ability to dominate that state gives them a recruiting advantage that's probably unparalleled in college football, even more than Ohio State's over Ohio (since that state isn't quite as big a deal as it was a decade ago). They *should* be a little better than they've been...but they should have a great shot next season, if they get ANYTHING out of their passing game.
 
I think it was more that the state of Louisiana had an incredibly deep class of high school seniors this year, even by the standards of the state. LSU got half their top ten in-state recruits. That's good, but Alabama got half of our top ten in-state recruits as well without the benefit of being the only P5 school in the state. But LSU also got seven of their second ten in-state recruits, while Alabama wouldn't have particularly wanted seven of our second ten in-state recruits . . .
 
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/02/09/sweeping-sexual-assault-suit-filed-against-ut/79966450/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ut/2016/02/10/lawsuit-tennessee-player-put-hit-teammate-helping-rape-victim/80170032/#

The first story is about a lawsuit filed by several female students against the University of Tennessee that claims the university encourages an atmosphere and culture that enables student-athletes to commit and get away with sexual assaults. They also claim the university makes it near impossible for victims of sexual assaults by student-athletes to bring their case forward and the university has a disciplinary code that heavily favors student-athletes.

The second story details a lawsuit being filed by a Tennessee football player who alleges he was assaulted by teammates for helping a female student who said she was raped by another football player.

Now why do I bring these stories up? I bring them up because I am wondering if these lawsuits succeed, if Tennessee is going to get slapped with similar sanctions that Penn State got slapped with after their sex abuse scandal? No matter what the outcome though, this is certainly a huge black mark on Tennessee's reputation, and I hope this will finally do something to end this culture of protecting student-athletes and letting them get away with murder simple because they make money for the university.
 
Looks like LSU football might be in some trouble:

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/02/louisiana-governor-john-bel-edwards-cut-lsu-football-program-budget-deficit-tax-increases#

Edwards wants to close the gap with new round of tax increases that opposing lawmakers are firmly against, with the state treasurer calling it the “largest tax increase in the history of Louisiana.” But Edwards maintains he has no choice, and in a televised speech to the state on Thursday night, said that even Louisiana State’s football program would be placed on the chopping block if tax increases aren’t implemented.
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Now I doubt he really wants to cut LSU football. I see this as more of a scare tactic to get his tax increases pushed through. The logic being that the people of Louisiana will be so outraged at the possibility of losing LSU football that they will pressure lawmakers to approve the tax increases. However, if they don't approve the tax increases, do you all think Edwards will actually cut LSU football?

If so, what would that mean for the SEC?

EDIT: Also, what would the impact be on NCAA FBS football overall? I mean, losing UAB was one thing (although they are coming back), but this is a major program that is now potentially on the chopping block.
 
To be fair, Edwards didn't exactly say he'd cut LSU football (which is profitable). He said he'd close down LSU, which would make LSU athletes ineligible.

LSU players would then be able to transfer without penalty to another school, which would be HUGE, but the odds of this season being threatened because of $$$ are basically zero. Smart of Edwards to play this card and scare residents into supporting some tax increases, which are BADLY needed.
 
Auburn beat Alabama in gymnastics tonight. First time in 118 attempts, streak stretched back to 1979. Auburn won by twenty-five thousandths of a point, 197.275 to 197.250 . . .
 
And then the men's basketball team makes up for it, winning at Florida for the first time since '95. If only I actually cared about these lesser sports . . .
 
Ten days after signing the best WR class in the country, Auburn's co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach has taken the wide receivers coaching spot at LSU. And no, none of those freshly inked signees can do anything about it . . .
 
Yeah, that sucks and I don't like it. Given all the massive turnover at Auburn, I wonder if there is some cause to worry about the stability of the ol' Gus Bus....
 
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