2016 NCAA football thread

Alabama's spring game beat out all the Stanley Cup games on cable this weekend for total viewers . . .

EDIT: More interesting, according to Cole Cubelic none of Alabama's SEC opponents is returning their starting left tackle this fall . . .
 
Non trivial chance this massive new B1G TV deal gets the realignment wheels going again in a few years IMO, including with the SEC.
 
Realignment has already gone too far, it's hard for me to get too ramped up about it at this point. Maybe when it's closer and it gets down to who is going where. But I've already pretty much adopted A&M and Mizzou so what I've learned from realignment is that I'm going to care about the conference Alabama is in and the other teams in that conference, whoever they turn out to be . . .

Realignment does offer some potential ancillary benefits, like reducing the number of teams in the top tier of college football and restricting who those teams are allowed to play, but even there I'm not sure that would be entirely for the better . . .
 
Not surprised that UAB's administration is going to look for a new way to screw all of this up. Losing Clark would be horrible for their chances of making this work.

Remember, UAB needs a football program to stay in CUSA. They can't back out now.
 
I don't think there's any risk of them losing the football program again. And this is probably one of those situations where the football coach has more power than the AD . . .
 
Okay, so in preseason betting, Alabama is the favorite to win the national title in 2016, but the over/under on our win total is 9.5. This is why looking at the betting odds makes little sense . . .
 
Baylor just s**tcanned Briles. This just got real.
 
Well, I think it was real some time ago, that being the problem. As always, I'd like to point out that shocked gasps and finger pointing at in this case Baylor gives the illusion that a problem is more isolated than it actually is . . .

That said, this kind of sucks for the Big XII. They really benefited from a strong Baylor . . .
 
I just watched the national title game again and maybe Clemson didn't outplay us quite as badly as I thought, but still, if I'm a Clemson fan I'm saying we lost not we got beat . . .
 
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Well, I think it was real some time ago, that being the problem. As always, I'd like to point out that shocked gasps and finger pointing at in this case Baylor gives the illusion that a problem is more isolated than it actually is . . .

That said, this kind of sucks for the Big XII. They really benefited from a strong Baylor . . .
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Tons of colleges struggle with handling sexual assaults, even to the point where the Feds may be involved. But what Baylor's coaching staff did really was uniquely bad, and virtually any school would have to fire their coach for doing it.
 
Would Baylor have been better off if they hadn't tagged Grobe with 'interim'? Who are they going to get nine months from now? Seems like it would have been better to give him at least two seasons, if only to save this recruiting class. Kind of like what we did with Shula before Saban . . .
 
Grobe ain't saving a recruiting class, if you give him one year, two years, or five.
 
It appears (i.e. physical resemblance) that ex Baylor president Ken Starr is the same one who was the Clinton special prosecutor. True? If so, I think that qualifies as an irony alert.
 
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