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Back in my day Rolfs was for students (including an excellent pickup game scene in the wintertime), and the basketball team practiced somewhere in the bowels of the JACC, and they won more games. Coincidence?

How much revenue does our basketball program generate? I’ve no clear idea. How much more would it generate if we spent enough on transfers to become, say, a middle-of-the-pack ACC team that contends for Tournament slots? Again, I don’t really know. Sure we’d sell more tickets but what beyond...

End of the day we're a football school. I'm sure the athletic department has made the calculations that their money and energy is better spent on football. Yes there are schools that are able to succeed at both, but given other structural headwinds our basketball program faces, I'm not entirely...

Love a mobile QB and moving the pocket. Hopefully he can also stand and throw behind a line that does not stink.

Sure, the schools are the conferences and the conferences are the schools, and together they created the system that got us here. I'm aware. I guess what I mean is I don't necessarily blame the current athletic directors and coaches at places like Bama and Texas, who are paid a whole lot of...

It's bad for the sport and for the fans but I don't really blame the schools themselves. They're responding to a system that has become entirely about making the playoffs. And - at least for premiere programs in the two biggest conferences - the downside risk of losing an OOC game probably...

Navy could be 11-1 with an average margin of victory of 35 points except we shut them out, and we would never get one iota of credit for beating them.

NFL contracts confuse me but according to Sportrac JOK has made $18 million in the NFL, with $25 million more to come (guaranteed?) on his current contract. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/earnings/_/id/72432/jeremiah-owusu-koramoah He's 26 years old. Hopefully he recovers to be healthy...

Looking at stats, it's kinda wild how little we passed in those days. In 1988, Tony Rice attemped 138 passes. Watters was our leading "receiver" with 15 catches. RB Mark Green had 14. Ismail and Derek Brown were tied for third with 12. Last year Carr threw 293 passes and we had five guys with...

Snap high-stakes games involving all the teams in contention for playoff spots would be much better TV than games that even the ESPN talking heads were describing as glorified exhibition games after Bama lost.

Conference championship games are dumb (and, as we learned this year, also irrelevant). Flex weeks are a great idea. But the many historic Thanksgiving weekend rivalry games are also a great idea, and doing away with them would be a big loss to the sport. Not sure how you square that unless you...

And why would the SEC and Big Ten want that?

I'm sure there's some master strategy for engagement but the people who spend their days making up realistic-looking fake news about something as fun-but-meaningless as college football... why?

Another reason to ditch the rinky-dink ACC. Most of them don't have stadiums big enough to contain the crowds we bring. Nearly half the conference plays in stadiums that seat 52,000 or fewer. Even UNC. https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2024/04/p4-stadium-sizes-ranked.html

Honestly, I’m fine with it. The less hype the better. If some wants to think Josh frigging Hoover is a better quarterback, OK. Carr’s a stone cold killer.

It's honestly sort of impressive. Dude won the high school Butkus Award and then spent an entire four-year college career at USC sidelined with foot and knee injuries before he appeared in a single game. Played some and then missed another whole year. He will be 26 next season. The guy must...

Crazy how elongated the coach hiring cycle is getting. It was still September when the first head coaches were getting fired. Here it is nearly mid-February and we might be looking for an S&C. Also Landow going would be shitty but we still have the guy with the dreds who filled in for months...

Again, all our backup quarterbacks have taken a combined zero snaps in college football. If Carr gets hurt in the Wisconsin game, what, exactly, is the plan there? So yeah. Having a guy who has started games for Notre Dame and Alabama, and is willing to sit on the bench just to help the team if...

Oh that’s a good point. Different coaching trees than the usual revolving door of NFL assistants.

It's silly. But someone - in this case a former Notre Dame/NFL defensive back who now runs a private equity firm - paid $3 million to have their name stamped there.