Posted on 09/22/2019 4:49:53 AM PDT by C19fan
Did you see what happened in the UCLA - Washington State game?!?!?!?!?!?!
Doesn't seem to be doing TAMU much good.
I would not have wanted to have been in the WSU locker room after that game.
Ditto for Will Muschamp.
"Beat us today, work for us tomorrow."
The bldg. to tutor Buckeye athletes is the best on campus. I kid you not. Was there once and saw no athletes.
It’s a far cry from the days when Woody Hayes taught an American History class at Ohio State.
There's plenty of 2 and 3 star players in Texas for Arkansas to recruit and develop. TAMU and UT will continue to be the primary choices for 4 & 5 star players wanting to stay at home.
Kids at dozens of Texas high schools have been playing organized football since they were 8 years old. They know the game, and there are plenty of diamonds in the rough. Huge schools like Allen (6000 students) have over 500 players on their two freshman teams, two JV teams, and high school team. Most high schools at the 5 & 6 A levels have multiple freshman and JV teams. That means playing time for probably 100 additional players.
Let’s be fair. Muschamp always has a good second year as a head coach. (11-2, 9-4 in the SEC-E) The obvious problem isn’t in hiring him, it is in giving him more than a 2 year contract.
Now, Kiffin, on the other hand, can distroy any program he heads.
I actually had a history course at OSU where Hayes did two guest lectures. His subject was Cyrus of Persia. He started off in a traditional “third person” narrative but quickly lapsed into a “first person” telling of the story. Mesmerizing speaker, you could have thought he was Cyrus. That said, Hayes still represented the the false narrative of the “student athlete” in college sports.
That 11-2 year was because of Dan Quinn, not Muschamp.
I hate soccer. BUT - my son tells me there is an interesting system in Europe (I think he said England). There are two tiers to their professional (?) league. Only the top portion of the top tier get to remain there. The top portion of the bottom tier move up each year.
If we had a two or three tier College Football system for Division I, and only the top tier could compete for national title, and the worst teams in the top tier were put down into the next lower tier - unable to compete for the title next year... That would sort of put a natural competition into the recruiting, wouldn’t it...? Data only - wins/losses, strength of schedule - no coaches or sportscaster voting.
You know Urban Meyer is getting phone calls.
Mushchamp is #3 on the Coaches Hot Seat.
I’m very familiar with/avid viewer of ‘association football’ as it’s officially known.
Most leagues in Europe and England have a relegation/promotion system. It puts a near-total halt to tanking combined with the lack of a draft system (since there are no university/college programs) means that teams do everything they can to avoid dropping to a lower division.
A move to lower division means less TV revenue (especially when dropping out of the top tier), lower ticket prices (as part of the lesser league) etc. And many players on relegated teams make efforts to move elsewhere ie back to the top tier.
Lower divisions offer the top two spots automatic promotion and the next four teams enter a playoff (2 games) to determine the final promotion spot.
As you note, it might work at the college level BUT for the most part the conferences are the obstacle - or would be. Each conference (plus Notre Dame) signs its own TV deals and would likely be very resistant to a short-term loss even if it meant a long-term gain.
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