Cliff Booth

re: Has the arms race to upgrade facilities, increase stadium capacity, etc. come to a crawl?

Posted by Cliff Booth on 1/5/26 at 10:37 am to Tdubs7

There's a reason the NFL sticks with 65-70K with a bunch of premium seating, even the new stadiums. The 100K plus stadiums are hard to fill with so many entertainment options and stupid high prices.

re: The 12 team playoff is a solid setup and there’s no need for expansion

Posted by Cliff Booth on 1/2/26 at 9:14 am to TomRollTideRitter

I'll preface this by saying if it was up to me I'd go back to how it was in 1995 and just add a plus one. That ain't happening though, so I'd go with this.

1. Scrap the P4 conference title games
2. Sadly, expand to 16 to make up for that lost revenue. Top 16, period. No auto bids.
3. Start a week earlier so first two rounds are on campus.
4. Semis on NYD, preferably in Pasadena and New Orleans.

re: Realistically, could you afford a teams playoff run as a fan

Posted by Cliff Booth on 1/2/26 at 9:03 am to Oilfieldbiology

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No. It’s why these games need to be played on campus until the semi finals.

Yeah, it's gonna get old after the shine wears off. It all needs to move up a week so first two rounds can be on campus and semi finals on NYD.

re: DAT Thread, The Off-season Edition

Posted by Cliff Booth on 1/1/26 at 3:20 pm to wahoocs

Fangraphs has us just under 238. Tax is at 244.

re: There is no way people actually enjoy these bowl games now

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/27/25 at 10:13 am to King of New Orleans

If the teams want to be there, the games are good. If not, they aren’t.

That was Hawaii’s Super Bowl and it showed. Great game.

re: Laveranues Coles new career

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/27/25 at 10:06 am to TheOcean

Wayne Chrebet

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re: Per Thamel and Werzel: UM focusing Whittingham (UPDATE: expected to be finalized today)

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/26/25 at 10:14 am to VincentVega

It all sounds good, but it is a pretty big culture shock to go from a lifetime in Utah to the Big 10 and a program with expectations like Michigan. I'm rooting for him, but I could easily see it going the way of BK at LSU. Not because he's not a good coach, but the expectations are going to be unrealistic and there will be people meddling and not necessarily letting him do it his way.

Hope I'm wrong. Love the arc of a guy doing it the "right" way for decades and taking one last shot with a big program before he retires.

Coaching Changes

re: My proposed solution for the G5 problem

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/21/25 at 10:09 am to cbree88

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final solution for the G5 problem

I’m no Tulane fan but damn dude

re: The 2006 Rose Bowl popped up in my YT feed today

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/15/25 at 10:24 am to TigersHuskers

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Man we had it made back then. The regular season mattered with even one loss killed your odds, players and coaches had loyalty, we still had traditional confrences. and to top it off Kieth Jackson.

Better than all that, everyone was watching the end of that game without thousands of phones up in the air.

re: Meet the staffer who brought down Sherrone Moore

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/10/25 at 9:52 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer

Coaching Changes

re: Sherrone Moore fired by Michigan - for cause (inappropriate relationship with staff member

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/10/25 at 4:08 pm to scottydoesntknow

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The candidate pool has been scraped dry. Id just get an old recently retired coach who has been solid his whole career to see if he wants one last challenge.

Coaching Changes

re: Is having kids worth it?

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/10/25 at 10:04 am to Pettifogger

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"Let me do the math an examine what I'll lose and decide" vs. "Obviously we're starting a family, what is left over will determine how we live."

Very well put, and pretty sad tbh.

I can only speak for myself, but the only thing I would change is I wish I had met my wife sooner and had our kids younger. Better chance of being a grandparent, etc.

If there are any young bucks on here I would say don't get sucked into this narrative that you gotta go be single for however many years, meet new people, "find yourself" whatever the frick that means.

Nothing will change you for the better more than the right woman and children. The sooner the better imo and I'll give my kids that same advice.

O-T Lounge

re: Notre Dame should join the Big Ten and be done with all the drama

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/8/25 at 8:16 pm to The Third Leg

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it’s not all about football. That’s a big part of it, but membership in the big ten is just as much about academic research and institutional sharing. They’ve engaged in that in the past, and it’s probably not the hurdle it was in the past, but I’m not sure the league would trust that Notre Dame would take the blood brother oath.

Big 10 folks sure love the scent of their own farts

re: ND leaving the ACC for non-football sports?

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/8/25 at 2:41 pm to hawgfaninc

I think they have like 10 years left on their deal with the ACC so this is BS. However, they are a square peg in a round hole with the ACC. They should have stayed in the Big East.

re: Time to regularly schedule Tulane in Football

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/7/25 at 10:06 am to Ralph_Wiggum

Doesn’t make sense for LSU.

I don’t think there’s another round of traditional realignment coming but if Tulane somehow got in the ACC that would change things.

I think their games would still need to be in the dome though.

re: Kirby’s Remarks on 9 game SEC schedule

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/7/25 at 10:02 am to John Rambeaux

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Winning the SEC doesn't mean anything now? We're getting to a point where LITERALLY anything but hoisting the natty means you had a shite season.

Sadly, we blew through that point years ago.

This isn’t a fresh take, but it’s all headed toward the super league or whatever you want to call it. The SEC schools will continue to get frustrated with getting left out while inferior schools get in.

Texas is a better team than half the field this year but they’re left out. The top 9 or 10 schools in the SEC will eventually blow it all up to create NFL Jr.

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re: Lane Hit Piece on GameDay right now

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/6/25 at 10:33 am to bass

Temu Chris Fowler can go frick himself

re: 2025 Formula 1 Season Thread

Posted by Cliff Booth on 12/4/25 at 11:24 am to TigerFanatic99

Seems like the only way Lando doesn't finish in the top three is if some sort of frickery goes on. For the sake of entertainment I am 100% rooting for some frickery.

I'd like to see Yuki or an RB qualify high enough to at least get in the mix in turn 1. Not saying anybody would or should blatantly crash... but at least put the fear in his mind :lol: