Posted on 10/17/2025 4:38:24 AM PDT by C19fan
This past weekend of college football was chock full of drama.
For starters, Curt Cignetti led the Indiana Hoosiers to their highest AP Top 25 ranking in program history with an upset win over the Oregon Ducks, while Arch Manning finally started looking like a quarterback in Texas's win over Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry.
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I’ll be watching the tortilla team.
“Time for the game” on IOS has it all without the ads
“ Fickell crashing and burning at Wisconsin is shocking. He looked like a great hire. Fickell had excellent staff at Cincinnati that perhaps compensated for Fickell’s inadequacies.”
It could be the staff at Wisconsin is so bad even Fickle can’t win. I’m sure NIL has something to do with it too.
Only a matter of time for Naps.
Yeah.
(You have not heard of the Notinmy Lions? They play on a field near Pittsburgh. But not on the Pittsburgh pro field. That’s reserved Sundays for the Pittsburgh Packers. Or somebody like that. )
Lol. I’m not offended.
I usually pull for whoever is playing against the Georgia Bulldogs and the FSU Criminoles.
I think one of Fickell’s problems is that he’s not really ready to be the Head Coach of a Big 10 team. He’s also a very nice person, to my understanding, and sometimes that doesn’t yield great results on the gridiron.
Either way, Camp Randall will be full of red in the seats! Good luck to both teams!
Either way, he’s got himself one helluva Payday! Beau knows some of the construction guys currently building his new McMansion on the lake.
There will never be another Coach Alvarez for the Badgers in my lifetime, unless they all all SOBER UP and snag Jim Leonard! ;)
Luke Fickell buyout: What it would cost Wisconsin to move on from struggling Badgers football coach
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/luke-fickell-buyout-contract-wisconsin-head-coach/
Answer: $25 MILLION!
Alvarez was a great coach! Those were the glory days, right?
I’m so happy that Miami lost at home! My BIL, who I will see sometime tomorrow, is a UM fan. He’s a nice guy, but I still am not a Miami fan, especially this year.
Hahahahahaha.....The ‘U’ is back......NOT!
Like Napier, he might have been a great hire ten years ago, but the game has changed, and they haven’t changed with the times.
🤣
I agree. These are hard times for head coaches with NIL and the transfer portal.
A perfect Berkeley paradox: Big-money college football and an antiestablishment protest
JEFF TEDFORD LOOKED out of his office window and saw helicopters circling. Below, a crowd had gathered to watch the last holdouts finally descend from an oak tree beside California Memorial Stadium. TV news vans lined Piedmont Avenue in Berkeley, and rooftops across campus filled with people hoping for a glimpse of what was happening.
Tedford, Cal’s most successful coach of the modern era, had grown accustomed to the odd scene. Twenty-one months earlier, activists began a tree-sit in December 2006, with some actually living in trees, to protest the removal of an oak grove next to the stadium, part of a long-planned seismic retrofit and facilities upgrade project. The demonstration called itself Save the Oaks.
**SNIP**
The impasse had lasted nearly two years — from the 2006 Big Game to the start of the 2008 season. Cal football surged at the time, entering the top 10 in 2006, and rising to No. 2 nationally following a 5-0 start in 2007. Meanwhile, there was a photo shoot of naked protestors in the trees.
As Save the Oaks entered its final stage, university workers surrounded the last occupied tree with scaffolding, layering it upward until it reached the lingering protestors, with tarps above to shield them from whatever might fall. When the scaffolding rose, so did a temporary staircase inside. UC Berkeley police chief Vicky Harrison was lifted into the air in the basket of a cherry picker, and addressed the demonstrators.
“I said, ‘OK, guys, you had a good run. Let’s do this the easy way,’” Harrison said recently. “And then, of course, I did a little threatening where I basically said, ‘I’ve already talked to the district attorney. If anybody gets hurt, if any of the officers get hurt, if any of the tree guys get hurt, there’s going to be not misdemeanor charges, but felony charges.’”
The last protestors conceded. It was over.
“It ended very peacefully,” Harrison said.
The Pimp Lives, Vandy beats LSU!
Bucks up 17-zip in first quarter. Sure would be nice to see Carnell Tate in a a Browns uniform next year.
By sundown tonight, the LSU mob will be calling for Brian Kelly’s head on a pike. I know these people like cornbread. I’m kin to many of them.
LOL...
Napier will be chased back to Louisiana while Kelly will be chased out of Louisiana.
And A&M is gonna beat the stuffing out of LSU next weekend.
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