Panthers/Hornets? I am interested to see the what Charlotte looks like without Ball. Ball is a good player, and they had a nice season last year, but I still stand by my opinion that his usage rates were out of control and that fast paced style doesn't translate well into post season play...
The Opening day, thanksgiving and Christmas games all got released. I think they did a "decent" job with those slates, and they put the better matchups on Christmas....
Laker's just got sold yesterday, AGAIN, for 12 billion, but I think they are going to be a play-in kind of team in the west. My Warriors didn't do much in the way of moves, so they will be looking at play-ins as well with no real chance for a deep run.
My OG childhood squad, Washington, has been a joke for 30 years. They at least got the #1 draft pick this year, so we shall see.
Unfortunately for us, and this is all we can go with at this point, because we are months away, but the current pre-season "Power Rankings" in the NBA have Charlotte at #21 and Washington at #22. Warriors limping in at #19.
OKC is currently #1, and with the "super team", Philly is still only clocking in at #5....
I actually loved the NBA season last year, so I am looking forward to another good one. I would like to get up to Charlotte for a game. I have also liked the Magic since they came in the expansion when I was a teenager and they had Penny and Shaq. I think Orlando is a cool town, and I have always wished the Magic could be in contention. They had a good year, much like Charlotte, but they just lacked the firepower and the coaching to keep it together.
I saw that NFL preseason started yesterday? Any coaches get fired yet? Maybe Baker throws 2000yds and 20TDs to our local dude Mike Evans this season. 😏
@ibc Mike Evans got traded to the 49ers, so he is no longer a Buc. And Baker went Ape Shit on the Bucs ownership a few days ago because they didn't give him a long term deal. They offered him 2 years, 100 million, which is a great contract, but he was looking for 4 years. Anyway, he went scorched earth on them....
And I like Baker. I have always cheered for him. Cleveland fucked him... How did that work out for them? haha.... But the dude plays injured and grinds, and then his teams always slight him...
That said, looking around the league, I don't think Baker Mayfield is a top half QB. Maybe around 15-16th.... He hasn't pushed the Bucs over the top since he has been there. So, from their perspective, I understand them thinking, yeah, he may not be "the guy"....
Check this shit out:
@zach619 I was just gonna come in here and say I discovered Mike Evans ain't in Tampa no more. The 49ers, for whatever reason, are perhaps my most disliked team in football. So, this sucks. I don't think I can root for SF. Mike is on his own out there.
Go Baker. That's a dang Buccaneer Pirate right there. If Captain Sparrow played football, he'd be Baker.
@ibc Yeah, I root for Baker. I think he is funny as hell and tough as nails. And Tampa is one of those teams that every now and again, wins a superbowl. A quiet one. So, it can be done, but I am just going to put it like this: No one in the NFC South is winning a Super Bowl in the next 5 years. They are just a bottom tier division. Crazy things can happen, but that division has been kicked around in the playoffs ever since Brady left.
And for the 49ers, I don't get the impression that people hate them, perse'. Like, when I lived in CA, people loved or HATED the Raiders. Or people hate the patriots.
I think the thing about the 49ers, is that people are just over talking about them. They are a HUGE market, with many more fans than the Raven's have. But for the past 10+ years, the 49ers have always been in the conversation. Ever since the Raven's spanked them in the superbowl in 2013 and the Vegas MOb had to blow a transformer to stop the game for 2 hours... For that stretch, it was "Harbaugh is going to win a superbowl in Sn Fran".... Then when he went back to Michigan and Shannihan got the job, everyone was like, Shannahan is the smartest man alive. He is an offensive guru. The 49ers are stacked. They are going to win 5 superbowls....
So, at any rate, they just fall into the Ravens/Bills category of "fan exhaustion"... Until Lamar Jackson gets to a superbowl, or wins a superbowl, people are tired of talking about the Ravens. At the start of every season for the past 5 years, Baltimore has been ranked top 3 in superbowl odds. Every season is: "Can anyone beat the Ravens"... Then the Ravens implode. Same as the Bills. And the 49ers have had year after year after year, and they haven't won.
So, I don't hate the 49ers. But I don't think they are worth talking about until they have another lights out season and prove they belong. At this point, they are running on reputation alone....
You could see that people finally started disregarding them last year.
And remember this: Last year, going into week 17 and 18, the 49ers had a chance to win the division and get a bye week. They finished only one game behind Seattle for the Bye week and tied the Ram's regular season record at 12-5.
And if you recall last year, for the ladder part of the regular season, NO ONE was talking about Seattle or San Fran. It was all about "The Rams" And Sean McVey and how unstoppable they were. Meanwhile, the 49ers quietly snuck into the playoffs with the second best record in the league....
Then, the 49ers proceeded to get belt to ass from the Eagles and lost 19-3... In an absolute ass kicking....
So, people were over it last year with San Fran, and they dissapointed on a massive scale in the end, so this year, anything short of #1 seed in the NFC or a lights out season, and everyone is sick and tired of hearing about CMC, and Shannahan and "Mister Irrelevant" Borck Purdy.....
I get it. Like I said. Same with Buffalo and same with Baltimore. Shit, you can throw Justin Herbert and the Chargers into that mix also. The Chargers are another team, which I love and support since I have a history with them. But I don't care if Jim Harbaugh has some weird, gay crush on Justin Herbert and is convinced that Herbert is the second coming of Christ. Everyone talks about Herbert's cannon of an arm, and what a great coach Harbaugh is. The fact of the matter is that a mediocre Patriots team SPANKING the Chargers in the wild card round 16-3..... Owned them.....
Yeah, I tried watching some football last night but it just wasn't holding my attention. I hope it's just a preseason thing.
@dawnpatrol321 Yeah, Pre-season football sucks. The HOF game was actually a really good one. I didn't watch the whole thing, but it was back and forth and a great game....
I am only a fan of watching Raven's pre-season, and that is simply to see the rookies and the guys on the fence play, so I can see with my own eyes how these guys are doing.
Like, my Raven's pod casts have been just going nuts about our 7th round WR pick out of USC, Ja'Kobi Lane. He has been making INSANE one handed grabs and torching the secondary. And pre-season is pre-season, but I want to see if he can do it in a game... So I am looking forward to our game Saturday night against the Eagles. They gave us the prime time slot....
And with Lamar's injury history, it is important that we have a capable backup to get in the mix a few games each year, unfortunately.
Here is a short with Lane's crazy catches... You will have to click the link, because it's a short...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aJB4FrinmMU
Last night, Mendoza was the big story. I didn't watch it, but I guess he went 10-16 for 97 yards and a TD. He threw the ball away a few times, which is fine... But other than my own games, I think the only interesting ones are a Raider's situation, where everyone wants to see the #1 over all pick for the first time.
@zach619 Yeah man, stoked on Mendoza, hoping he continues his winning ways for the Raiders!
I'm rootin for Heismendoza. Good news. 😎👍
So, I know, I know. It’s the pre-season. And none of the big dogs played etc. But we have a new coaching staff, across the board and we got to see Minter’s first time coaching and helping call the defense. From top to bottom, The Raven’s absolutely manhandled the Eagles. I pulled the stats that matter to me, from an evaluation perspective. See below.
Total Yards
- Ravens: 440
- Eagles: 149
Passing Yards
- Ravens: 298
- Eagles: 83
Rushing Yards
- Ravens: 142
- Eagles: 76
Penalties
- Ravens: 3
- Eagles: 10
Time of Possession
- Ravens: 41:17
- Eagles: 18:43
3rd Down Conversions:
- Ravens: 5-11
- Eagles: 0-9
First Downs:
- Ravens: 31
- Eagles: 6
Ja’Kobi Lane scored his first NFL touchdown. A thing of beauty, splitting a double team from the Eagles secondary. He continues to impress and be the “bell of the ball” in camp and in the pre-season. I expect big things from this monster. 6’4” beast with gigantic hands and a crazy catch radius….
I was bummed to see Tyler Loop miss his first FG attempt from 49 yards. Last we saw him, he shanked the game tying FG that could have propelled us into the post season. So this was not a great look, even though we have a new punter and holder. He bounced back drilling a 42 yarder later and making all of his Extra points. The new punter kicked a piece of shit 20 yard punt to start the night. Also, not great. And while these aren’t too big of a deal, Harbaugh was a special teams guy and the Raven’s have always had the highest caliber kicking and special teams squads in the league….
So, all in all, I think the Ravens handled business. I watched the entire game, and I was stoked. The Eagles finally scored with like 2 minutes left in the game. So to me, it was more of a bloodbath than even the lopsided score indicates….
So far, so good.
Tua and the Falcons looked like straight garbage. More of the same with him. He threw 5 passes, went 0-5, and not a single attempt went for more than 5 yards. His overall passing attempts clocked in at -2 or some shit...
Cam Ward looked terrible for the Titans. They are fucked.
Steeler's new QB2 looked great.
The Bengal's O-line looked as bad as ever. Pressure all over Burrow, including a sack... More of the same there.
Sander's looked like garbage for the Browns. Watson was medicore to decent. So that dumpster fire of a QB room should be interesting.
All in all, pretty fun opening week of pre-season.
And in the first leg of the FedEX cup playoffs, Scottie did what Scottie does, and just annihilated the field. He came in -2 better than the second spot, and I think it was on 5 or something, when he was in the bunker, hit a perfect chip out and it hit a sprinkler head, and bounced into the water. He got up and down for a Bogie, but I was worried there. So unlucky. Perfect shot. crazy result. Then he just hit the gas and ended up winning by 8 strokes. I mean, WTF?
Yes, I did drop some cash on him, so he came through in the clutch... He hadn't won in like 200+ days or something, but ironically, he leads the field in like 6 of the 10 major categories through that stretch, including top 5 finishes and stuff. He IS the best golfer in the world, and if anyone can even come remotely close to Tiger's shadow, it's Scottie. So I am happy to see him back at the top of his game.
Scottie was on fire! Dude was locked in.
And let me remind everyone of the most important STAT from last year's NFL season: The New England Patriots had the easiest schedule ranking in 25 years in the NFL. And the second easiest schedule in that 25 year stretch was also last year, for the Denver Broncos...
So I warn anyone, especially if you are a Pats fan or a gambler. Do NOT go all in on Denver....
And for New England: Here is the break down of how you got to the superbowl:
Wild Card Week: BYE - Due to the easiest schedule in modern NFL history.
Divisional Round: CJ Straud throws like 10 picks and has the worst game of his life, and you advance.
Championship Round: You narrowly beat Denver, while they had to field a backup QB. If Nix starts, the Broncos are in the superbowl. Period.
Superbowl: The Seahawks wipe the fucking floor with you. Winning 29-13. And to put perspective on how badly the Patriot's got their asses kicked? The Patriots were shut out completely with 0 points until putting up 13 in the 4th during garbage time when Mike McDonald and the Seahawks crew already had the champagne on ice.....
The final score was bad enough, but the Patriot's got embarrassed in one of the most boring, lopsided superbowls I can remember.....
So, hopefully, we don't get a dud into the playoffs with another cake walk to the superbowl. I am always an AFC over NFC guy. I think the AFC, on most years, ALWAYS has the better teams.... Every year it's the same shit: "That NFC North is going to be HUGE. They are so stacked. Of, that NFC West".... And yes, the Seahawks did win this past year, so a poor example. But with KC, Buffalo, Baltimore, New England, Chargers.... Then throw in your occasional Cincy.
BUT, that said, I will destroy my own argument here a little bit, because in the past 20 years, the AFC and the NFC have each won an equal 10/10 superbowls.... So, I guess what I am saying is that the AFC is always a tougher gauntlet, where they beat the fuck out of each other all year long, then widdle each other down in the playoffs. And some of those NFC wins "Looking at you NYG" are very fluky.
And a few examples to further explain how some of these NFC teams won:
NYG: 2 of the flukiest, crasiest wins in superbowl history.
NO: Drew Breez at the prime of his career
GB: Rodgers at the prime of his career
LA: Stafford at the prime of his career
Eagles won two: Both well deserved. Can't say much about them
Seattle won three: Which is fucking crazy. But that is because of the legion of boom. Would have been 4 if they handed the ball to Marshawn Lynch.
Anyway, as usual, I think that the AFC has 6-7 teams that are absolute beasts, and I think the NFC has about 3 teams that you should fear on any given week.
But long story short, Tampa Bay is not on that radar, at all. They are hovering around #22 in the current power rankings, which are not the end all be all, but they are considered a bottom third of the league.
Not only do ppl got jokes, but our AI overlords seem to agree. Gonna be tough for me to shake this one off. Appreciate the context, very thorough our overlords
Hey, the Panther's kicked the dog shit outta the Jags last week, so there is that... And fantasy football doesn't necessarily translate into real football, but I had Fantasy Football focus on TV last night and they were listing the top 25 QBs in fantasy, and Bryce Young was listed at #25... I was like, damn... That is rough. And while the offense isn't geared towards gaudy numbers by Young, I think coming out of the gates as the one of the bottom 7 QBs in the league is not a good look.
Hoping for the best for him and the panthers, but I think Atlanta and even NO will have something to say this year, not to mention Baker and that drama....
I don't recall everything that needed to happen last year, but I do know that Carolina required a LOT of help in those final two weeks to secure that spot. They needed like Atlanta to lose, Tampa to lose and something else. And all of those things actually happened.
Did you see that performance the Raiders presumed back up Aidan O'Connell had? Dude was throwing darts. People saying Brady is having a strong influence on the QB's and that team general, and the style of play. I think I definintely saw a little bit of that on the amount of film I've watched. I can't sit through a whole game right now but I catch what I can haha. But I was like damn, this is encouraging to see.
@dawnpatrol321 Yeah man, I didn't see it, but I heard about it. And with the Tom Brady thing, people are speculating that he is working hand in hand with "Mendo" as I call him, and just in a few weeks, Mendoza's pressers are like listening to Tom Brady. Every answer. Every quote. It's like Tom is feeding him. Mendo's first interview was "Well, shucks, I just want to learn. I made a lot of mistakes. I am here to get better every day"... That tune changed really quick by the second week and he is spitting out calculated answers.
And with the Raven's our third string QB is doing the same. Lighting shit up. With Lamar at #1 and Snoop Huntley at #2, it's not much to talk about, but Fagnano is killing it...
It's so funny, because my father in law was over for the first pre-season game, and when Fagnano was playing, they showed his jersey, and he immediately said "Fag" - Nano? And started laughing. Then we hear everyone pronouncing his name, and they say it: "Fan-Yano"
I am like, okay, I get it. Didn't want to get picked on as a kid or whatever, but the "G" in "Fag" is NOT silent... Haha....
And possibly the second worst decision in modern sports history, second only to the signing of Desaun Watson to the Browns for 230 million guaranteed, is the fact that yesterday morning, the Browns named Watson as the starter. I mean, you can't make this shit up. He is gone after this year. Period. Everyone in Cleveland hates him. They cheered when he tore his ACL. They booed him the entire game. He publicly said after the game that the fans hate him, and he prefers playing on the road and all this shit. Crazy.... So, the Browns fans hate him. He sucks at football. The QB draft next year is projected. to be the best in years, so Cleveland is going to probably draft ANOTHER rookie QB, and rather than giving the fans what they want, you are starting chester the molester instead. It's fucking crazy... And now, you are going to bench him in 5 games anyway when he sucks so bad, or gets hurt again, only to start Sanders any way.....
They are calling for fan boycotts and shit in Cleveland. They are hands down, the biggest joke in professional sports, and they find a way to out do themselves year in and year out...
Remember 6 and 7 years ago, when Cleveland went 1-31 in a 2 year stretch. 0 for 16 on year, then 1 and 15 the next. You can't make this shit up.... And when Baker plays through injury and gets you to the playoffs, you cut him the next year... And start over... How did that work out for you, you fucking clowns?
As a Raven's fan, I love it. But what a miserable existence it must be to be a brown's fan.
@dawnpatrol321 i caught that. Yea, that ended up being a good preseason finish. And just fyi, Mac Jones is considered the best backup in the league. Saw him throw darts last wknd as well for San Fran
So, in the latest "shit show" drama in CFB, we have a player who was playing D1 ball, went to the NFL draft, got drafted by the Browns and made the roster, then backed out and said he wants to return to college to play his 5th year of eligibility. Now, LSU picked him up, and he is back on a college roster.
So, the Big10 and the SEC both made statements yesterday claiming that they will not allow this to happen, HOWEVER; state law or court cases supersedes NCAA and conference rulings. So, all it will take is a Lousiana lawyer to interview and declare that this is okay, and there is nothing the NCAA, the SEC or the BIG10 can do. Much like what happened in Texas when the kid that was gambling on Football got re-instated at Texas Tech. A Texas Judge allowed it and rejected the NCAA injunctions. Ultimately, the kid and the school decided not to proceed due to the media backlash...
But this is fucking crazy: Now, these players get up to 5-6 years of eligibility. They aren't attending classes. Now they are entering the NFL draft, getting drafted, attending mini camp, and only when they realize that they will not be a starter, or will not receive their intended salary, they can just quit the team and return to college.
This is fucking nuts. And the fact that there are judges that are going to push this shit through is a gross misuse of power.
And to note: LSU is basically owned by the governor of Louisiana. He makes all the decisions. They literally had to ask his permission about the Lane Kiffin thing, so LA will FOR SURE have the ability to block this ban and allow this kid to play. LSU specifically is the only power conference school that is state owned/run the way that it is..... So of all schools for this to happen to, LSU is the perfect case study.
Also, just because SEC and BIG10 banned this, doesn't mean that the PAC12 or the BIG12 or anyone else has to follow those rules, so that puts these school at a competitive advantage now.
Apparently, LSU has 4 players on it's roster that fall into this category of players that entered the NFL, made a roster, and now returned to school to get a $2+ million per year pay day....
Crazy shit...
And the shittiest, craziest part of all this is that: Pundits and people are still sticking to the "This is college athletics" story, where they are saying that once you sign with or play on a professional team, you cannot return to college? Oh yeah guys? That is your argument? The Average CFB school now has a $30 million budget for football players. THAT IS JUST THE AVERAGE.... This also means that LSU and OSU and ND and everyone else are paying $150 million per year. So, if paying a QB $6 million per year at a mediocre school is considered "Amateurism", than you need to pick up a dictionary and look the term up. There is nothing amateur about this. These kids don't go to class. They get paid more than NFL kickers and shit.
We need to give up on this lie we keep telling ourselves about "College sports".... It's officially "Pro Sports". In every aspect of the word. So let's stop pretending that these kids need to get "X" score on their SATs, and let's scratch the fact that these guys "need to go to class"... Let's just stop the charade. It's all a lie. We all know it...
Your conference championships are GONE. Your conference structures are gone. Your amateur status is GONE.
The NCAA has zero power anymore. They can't enforce any rules. The conference presidents have ZERO power, because the courts all supersede them. The players have ALL the power now. As well as the boosters.
And I stood FIRMLY against paying players in ANY WAY since the beginning of time. A free education and the ability to compete for a spot in the pro leagues was ALWAYS the payoff. People are fans of the name on the FRONT of college jerseys, not the back. Bama fans are BAMA fans, not QBX fans. This is all a joke. And while most pundits and analysts agree with me, they were all too afraid to speak up over the past 6-8 years because the fear of backlash of being "anti-player" and going along with this bullshit narrative about how players are taken advantage of and not paid the way they should. Nonsense. If EA Sports wants to pay guys money to be in their video games, that is one thing. Or if the schools have to pay players a small percentage of their own jersey sales, so be it. I could have gotten on board with that. But now, there are ZERO rules. ZERO caps. No collective bargaining agreement. No regulation. A school could pay a QB $50 million per year, and nothing is stopping them, except booster budgets. Now that the schools are paying kids directly, everything is fucked. Exactly the way I said it would be. College sports are dying, and dying quickly.... People are still going to watch, and that is the problem. But they don't realize that everything they have loved about this sport, and their school and their region is dying, and almost completely gone.
Kids of Michigan fan parents are not going to grow up hating Ohio State fans. South Carolina fans aren't going to grow up hating Clemson. Kids from Georgia aren't going to heckle some kis wearing an Alabama shirt.... It's all going away. UCLA is never going to be a rivalry school to Maryland. Oregon may be in the BIG10 now, but nobody in the midwest is ever going to get fired up about that "Rivalry game against Oregon"....
The conferences are gone. The conference championships are gone. We already have a 12 team playoff and are looking at upwards of a 24 team layout, where everyone gets in, and there is more money on the table.
So, if you are a college football fan, please enjoy this season, and possibly the next, because in a couple of years, you are going to have "THE NFL" and the "NFL G-LEAGUE" AKA/ College football. That is already what it is now, but people are just holding on to the past for dear life, not realizing that it's already gone....
And for the record, there will never be a collective bargaining agreement between the NCAA and players. The players have a negative incentive, rather than no incentive, to collectively bargain. They have all the power, and can make all the money and basically do what they want with zero oversight, so any kind of agreement would remove leverage and power that the players have, and that won't happen. Any lawyer worth his own weight would eat that shit up and say, how about no. We are not going to collectively bargain with the presidents and the schools. Fuck them. The players take as much money as they want. Play when they want. Play where they want. And if they don't get their way, just find a friendly booster judge and do it that way. The NCAA and college sports opened pandoras box and weren't able to contain it for even 5 minutes. It's gone. Poof.... Bye bye... Fucking retards.
I saw something about that, never seen that before, weird shit. I miss the Bobby Bowden era, life was better and more simple then. 🤣
Yeah, everything in the world is going to shit, as it seems. Especially when money is on the table.
Like I said, the only long term fix for college sports is to treat it for what is: A professional league.
- No more cupcake schedules. The top 40 teams from the previous year all duke it out for 12 weeks. You can mix in a few rivalry games, but 10 of the games need to be against top 40 opponents. Period. No more Talhassee State Technical College of Hair Design on the schedule again Alabama.
- Create a salary cap. Possibly different for power conferences. But we need a cap on player costs.
- I you are outside the top 40 on any given year, you are relegated down to the middle tier and have to compete there. The top two teams from the middle tier get an auto bid into the CFB playoffs in a "Play-in style format" against the bottom 2 teams in the top tier.
- Stop making college players go to class and pretend to be students. They are not students. If any player, on any team, is a full time student, they get a full academic scholarship, regardless of position or status.
- No more conference championships (Already gone as of next year)
- No more "conferences" as they currently stand. You status within a certain conference is of no consequence any more. So treat it as such. You can be a "member of the SEC" but that bears no value on your ranking, status or playoff placement.
If you are ranked #5 overall and you are in a non-power conference, it doesn't matter. You are in the top 40 and are playing nothing but big boy teams, so your status is soley based on overall performance, across the board.
Oh, and while we are at it, make eligibility 6-8 years. It's a professional league. Since it's a paid to play league now, who cares about academic eligibility, and since CFB is truly just the minor-leagues for the NFL, treat it that way. If these guys have already played 6 years, but are still high level players, let them play. Let them play until they have proven that they can't compete any longer. Who cares if it takes a guy 8 years to make the NFL. All CFB is now, is a developmental league for the NFL. So treat it that way. Period. If you are 25 years ago and can't quite cut it on an NFL roster, go back and play for Clemson. Even if you graduated.
These players are not student athletes and have not been for years. So let's just be realistic about it.
The college teams are also doing this: They are poaching basketball players from the Pro-Euro leagues, and paying them NIL money to come to Kentucky and play there. Meanwhile, these guys are 25 years-30 years old, but since they never went to college, they still have 5 years of eligibility. That is more of a basketball thing, but the same idea. Schools and programs circumventing the rules so that they can bring the best talent to their teams. And nowadays, they are poaching grown men, on foreign soil and recruiting them from professional ranking in the name of "Amateur Student Athletes". What a fucking clown show.
I'm gonna hang with college foosball, even though it's tryna get weird. Was nice seein part of the USC game on my antenna TV yesterday. I saw Belichick done went to Ireland with NC and beat TCU. I think TCU beat em by a hundred or somethin on National TV last year. I definitely ain't rootin for Belichick, but it's Carolina news.
@ibc Yeah man, there was a weird slate of games this week. Week ZERO is what they call it. One thing I will say about the USC game, is that the stadium was empty. Which was weird. Like, EMPTY empty.... I have never seen anything like it. The student section was partially full, but the stadium was at LEAST 85% vacant. The announcers blamed a "California heat wave" as the reason for poor attendance. No, It's southern california, a beautiful weekend. The surf is pumping and there is too much shit to do. No one is going to go watch USC beat up on San Jose State... Nonsense....
And for the Bilichick stuff, I am a UNC basketball fan, and generally support any of the "Carolina" teams.... But more importantly, TCU/Texas Christian is one of those Fugazi schools, like BYU and Boise State, where the fans and pundits suffer from delusions of grandjure. Yes, you have boosters. Yes, you are in Texas. Yes, you have a budget.... But, at the end of the day, you are in the Big12. And you are not a blue blood school. TCU == Texas Tech.... Schools that pretend they are contenders, but have no possible path to winning a championship against programs that are light years ahead of them...
So, TCU is one of those schools that always flirts with a top 5 ranking and what not....
But let me remind you all of THIS: TCU made it to the 2023 national championships game, back when it was just the 4 team playoff model still.....
And what was the final score? Georia: 65.... TCU: 7.... I mean, you cant make this shit up... These stupid ass college football analysts are smoking crack. They ALL said that TCU could win that game and the spread was only a few points... What happened? An SEC team kicked their fucking dicks in and beat them by 60 points.
Remember 15 years ago, when Boise state went 12-0 two years in a row on their ugly ass blue field? They were what, the "Mountain West" then? And after two years of that, ESPN and all the big boys are like "Boise State can beat ANYONE. They are the best team in football".... So, all Boise State had to do that year, was beat Utah in the conference championship. They do that, they are playing for a national title. What happens you ask? Well, Boise State lost the conference championships game to Utah.... So Boise never even got the opportunity to lose by 100 points. So, if you can't beat Utah, what do you think Georgia was going to do to you?
So, we can all cross TCU off the list of clown ass teams that shouldn't be in the conversation....
Next on my list is Oregon.... It's fucking CRAZY.... I know they are in the Big10 NOW. But they are new, and they are not a blue blood school. They have never won anything in Oregon. Ever. They are always in the conversation. They are always hyped. And they always disappoint. So just because you are in a new conference, doesn't mean that 50 years of your track record shouldn't be considered....
ESPN, across the board is saying: "I don't think Oregon loses a game all year" and all this shit.... Okay, I hear you. Their O-line. This and that... They are still Oregon. Yes, you have a cool contract with Nike and ducks are cool. But other than that, nobody in the 5 star world is dreaming of playing college football in fucking Oregon... And now that your schedules will finally catch up to you this year and next, you will have to play REAL teams, with real consequences.....
So, here is my list of teams that need to fail this year to maintain the integrity of the sport:
- TCU: Already done. Put a fork in em.
- Texas Tech: Currently ranked 12th. Fugazi program. Used a judge to allow the gambler to illegally play ball. That failed. They always fail in the playoff formats. They are clowns and do need to sniff the playoffs. Fuck them and their phony ass boosters.
- BYU: See above. GTF outta here. Another phony ass Big12 team.
- Washington: See above. You guys are a waste of space in the competitive fields. Phony
- SMU: You are in the ACC. The ACC sucks, if you are not named Miami. Period. What a joke.
- UTAH: See above. Big12 clowns.
- IOWA: You aren't going to make it out of the Big10. You will finish no better than 4th-5th in your own conference.
- Houston: Big 12 clowns.
#1 on my list of clown show programs that have no balls and have no business being in the conversation: Notre Dame. You bunch of bitches. You don't play in a conference. Your schedule is a JOKE. BYU is your biggest matchup of the year. Every other game you are favored by double digits. You didn't schedule any power teams this entire year, yet you sit ranked at #4? For what? Strength of schedule, as it stands now, it PARAMOUNT in college football. ND plays no one. So if the rankings keep the in the top 10 all year, I will be so pissed. I don't care if they win every game by 30 points and go undefeated. A schedule like that shows us NOTHING about your talent, about your program, about your coaching. All we see is that you are cowards, you are afraid to lose. You are afraid of competition, so even if they do let you in (which they will after last year. Because you all cried so much. You didn't deserve to be in the playoffs last year for all the reasons above, and you were left out, as well you should have been)..... But ND is #1 on my hit list of teams that don't belong. But the problem with them is that their fan base suffers from the most acute delusions of grandeur on earth. It's not the days of Rudy. You guys are irrelevant. Your fans are stupid.
So, to put final perspective on Notre Dame, I will pose an unrelated question... Do. you guys know what school has the most college football championships in the history of college football? I would give you all 10 guesses without googling it, and I bet most of you wouldn't come close....
So, what is the answer? The answer is Princeton. They have a total of 28 titles, 15 of which are recognized by the NCAA.... Didn't see that one coming, did you?
What is my point? My point is this: Princeton is more important to the college football landscape, and has more success than any other college in history, including Notre Dame.... So if these Notre Dame fans want to act like they are a relevant program, than I want to see Princeton ranked in the top 5. Princeton, in 2026 a harder schedule than Notre Dame..... GTFO with that.
The last championship that ND won was in 1988. NINETEEN FUCKING EIGHTY EIGHT.... Enough with this nonsense. That was also back in the days of parity and went the SEC and Big10 were not the meccas....
Now, things are different. So if you aren't a top 3 Big 10 team, or a top 2 SEC team, YOU AIN'T WINNING SHIT.....
Just like I say every year, and to date, I am always right... This year is no different.... And I just don't understand why professional analysts fail to acknowledge this year in and year out... They talk, every year, until the end, as if these mid-tier conference teams have a FUCKING CHANCE. Like 5-6 years ago, it's "Oh, Oklahoma can beat anyone this year. They are the best team in football"... Meanwhile, they run into a Big10 team and lose by fucking 35 points... Same shit. Every time....
It's like coming into the season every year in the NFL and saying "You know what, the Arizona Cardinals had a great draft. They sured up that O-line. There is no reason that they can't win the NFC west, and make a deep run".... Well, actually, that is nonsense. And I could rattle off the 450 reasons why the AZ Cardinals are not going to sniff the playoffs for the next decade.... GTFO.
I heard my favorite coach, Lane Kiffin done snatched him up some dude that flunked outa the big leagues. I still hope he gets run outa town. Orgeron and the hat dude from Waterboy take over. I'd be so down with that. I Gar-On-TEE! ⚜️😎
This dude.
Go NOLES! YEW! 😎 Way to go, smashing the JUGGERNAUTS of New Mexico State! 🤣