Arksulli

It's okay to admit that your team didn't have the heart of JMU buddy. No shame in it.

JMU put up a helluva lot more fight than Alabama or Ohio State did. Almost all of the CFP games have been one sided arse whippings.

JMU put up a decent struggle against Oregon, they didn't have the firepower to keep up.

Sadly that will probably cripple the program for a couple of years because every rich program in the country is using JMU as their private little fishing pond as they loot the program of players.

Tulane made it through a very down AAC and weren't up to the task at hand.

My, obviously unasked for, opinion is this...

The SEC is still trying to adjust to the NIL world. We were perfectly adapted to the pre-NIL era. Even some of the turd teams knew how to work the game.

Here is the problem. The biological history of the world has taught us a very powerful lesson. The better you are adapted to a particular ecosystem, the worse you are going to do when that ecosystem has a dramatic change. There is a reason that 99.9% of species have gone extinct.

We have not really reacted to the primary change of NIL in that, suddenly, everyone is on the market. And, unlike the NFL, it is a completely unregulated market. We unleashed pure, unfiltered, capitalism on college football. You can become a powerhouse over night... or lose it all over night.

James Madison University had a magical, just a magical, year this season and while they lost they weren't embarrassed by Oregon in the CFP. And... they're gone. Even though they have a very nice, for their level, NIL program they've already lost most of their starters with more likely to follow.

The same thing happened to Army last year.

The SEC, as a whole, isn't ready for that. It used to be you bought a player once, and they stayed bought. Now you've got to buy them every single year.

We have legit WNBA talent on the team, the problem is that the cupboard is really bare after that. Going to be a rough year in conference play, we simply don't have all the pieces to the puzzle yet.

High of 68 Sunday to a high of 33 on Monday. Fun times!

I think he should have stayed at Utah... but he's going to get "haha, f*ck you" money at Michigan for a few years.

Generational wealth is hard to turn down.

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And to the 4 females.

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We have 4 females now? Man we are moving up in the world.

Merry Christmas folks! In keeping with a long holiday tradition I pulled something in my back last night while moving presents around and will be treating myself to a little liquid cheer this year.

It is just cost effective enough that ESPN will fund them. And if you are, say, Miami of Ohio coming off an 8-4 season breaking even, or even losing a bit of money, is worth it to treat your fans to a bowl game.

The problem is that in the era of NIL the top teams are turning their noses up at small bowls. Frederick Fartmouth pulling down 750K a year and sniffing the open market isn't going to risk it in the Prune Juice Bowl in New Hampshire.

Bowls are going to contract.

For everyone's enjoyment... go forth and read UNC's fans reacting to the hire of Bobby Petrino like they just landed the second coming of Bear Bryant in his prime.

I do not mean this as an insult to Bobby P now that he is gone. He is a fantastic planner for a game. However, as the last season demonstrated, Petrino can't make those adjustments any more.

The thing is, given how craptacular UNC was last year on offense, Petrino could very well be what nudges them into a bowl game this year, even with the dead body of Belichick on the sidelines.