YoungSteele830

If the school is just now finding out about this, that’s late as hell to be trying to find a new coach. I realize he probably teaches too and had to stay for the rest of the academic year, but man, we’re closer to the start of next season than we are the end of the last one. Don’t even get to do spring ball with the new coach.

Kiffin is absolutely spot-on. Real LSU fans know that next year is a rebuilding year. Might have the toughest schedule in all of college football. FIVE SEC road games. 9-3 is acceptable and even 8-4 wouldn’t be that bad. Unfortunately the national media has KIFFIN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME and are setting him up to fail by saddling him with crazy high expectations. They want to believe that we have more money than the Dodgers and should win every game easily.

The Ole Miss game in particular is like a preseason game for us. New coach. New team. Just trying to get things figured out. Ole Miss has a massive advantage in the game just because they have an established coaching staff and QB who isn’t trying to gel with a new team. September always favors veteran experience over the flashy new toys like we have. See Arch Manning stumbling out the gate last year, meanwhile veteran Carson Beck won the September Heisman last year. This game should have been put in November.

Been up basically all season, and this isn’t even in BR, this is all the way up in Monroe. Clearly Todd Graves also expected a .300 AVG, 20+ HR season out of Yorke. I member in February when the biggest issue with Yorke was arguing over his nickname

Has absolutely nothing to do with the participation trophies.

It’s just the nature of capitalism…there always has to be MOAR. Money is the driver of everything, and people with money are like gods to be worshipped. MOAR ad revenue from Capital One and Coca-Cola and Draft Kings. MOAR March Madness games for the gamblers to lose money on.

I thought this board was heavy conservative leaning politically and loved capitalism…but lots of hate on capitalism in this thread.

Am I not allowed to question this? I and a vast majority of 2024 Trump voters voted for Trump for our wallets, because he said he would lower prices and stop Biden’s inflation. And yet prices have only gotten worse.

I don’t like Democrats at all, and it seems like Trump’s failure to lower prices is just handing them the midterms.

Was at that game…what a fun one. Marathon. Hot. What a payoff the Milam bomb was.

Also just noticing in that pic, the dugouts in Hoover are deep af.

A year ago, even on this board, people were calling him a 1-term governor.

Since then…ousted Brian Kelly when JBE wouldn’t have. Landed Lane Kiffin. Brought home Will Wade. Ended DEI. Ousted William Tate and installed CONSERVATIVE CHAMPIONS at LSU. Finally won back our districts.

Is there anything this man can’t accomplish?

The Butler one absolutely did. That photograph of Trump bloodied with fist in the air is powerful, emotional, and iconic. One of the most famous photos in American history. I guarantee you that won over a lot of swing voters.

Some people don’t want to admit this, but you’re right. College football’s weak point has always been the postseason. When someone says “college football” what do you think of? Probably not a Monday night national championship in a sterile, corporate NFL stadium. You think of October Saturdays in Tiger Stadium, The Swamp, Neyland, Kyle Field, the Big House. The White Out. The Iron Bowl. The Game. The U and the old Orange Bowl stadium.

The NFL will always do the postseason better than college football. And I think a lot of CFB fans are okay with that. The most iconic postseason game in CFB isn’t the Monday night natty…it’s a (formerly) exhibition game played on New Year’s Day in Southern California.

If it really goes to 24, which I think is too many but whatever, then just let it be the best 24. No automatic bids if it’s 24 teams, if you’re not one of the 24 best you shouldn’t be in the championship playoff.

As far as how to get the 24 best, just use some consistent metric, make the criteria clear as day. AP poll, coaches poll, Football Power Index, BCS computers, or an average of all of them. frick and I mean frick the playoff committee and their weekly ranking shows, I hate how suits in a boardroom become the stars of the show for the last month of the regular season, with everybody guessing who’s going to win the committee’s beauty pageant. This would end any bitching about who got left out, like ND last year and ‘23 FSU, because it is no longer a matter of human opinion and unclear criteria, the metrics would be transparent in this case.

UNO’s RPI is 213 out of 308 teams in Division I baseball. RPI calculation, which is driven by win percentage, only treats a home win as 0.7 wins, and a home loss would be worth 1.3 losses.

Even with a win, RPI likely drops. More to gain from extra practice reps than a game against a weak opponent. Go all in on winning in Starkville this weekend