Dr. John Drezner, the University of Washington team doctor, Dr. Brian Hainline, the NCAA Chief Medical Advisor and Dr. Catherine O'Neal, LSU Chief Infectious Disease Expert walk into a bar...
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/why-a-move-to-10-game-conference-schedules-in-college-football-should-be-a-permanent-one/
I'm old fashioned and would rather go the other direction (but only with adjustments) than this guy. I'd rather see 8 team conference with 7 conference...
http://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Blue-chip-ratio-college-football-2020-Bud-Elliott-15-teams-who-can-win-a-national-title-148079661/#148079661_1
History leans toward the idea that no team outside this group can win a natty...in today's world.
Why we may be reaching a tipping point for the Power Five to break away from the FBS
Why we may be reaching a tipping point for the Power Five to break away from the FBS
This could make the cesspool that is college basketball recruiting look like a pure and sanitized hopsital room. And we'll get to see it as it unfolds in real time instead of hearsay and after the fact investigations!
"The rush to cultivate relationships with the top stars in high school...
Well now...that's big surprise.
http://www.yahoo.com/sports/power-five-conferences-spending-big-money-to-lobby-congress-on-nil-legislation-195843763.html
What the hell. It is the off season. Seems like TV revenue is going up while butts in seats are going down. Question is...What can be done to get their butts back in the seats?
College football must innovate as FBS attendance dips for sixth straight year to lowest since 1996
Here are a...
Listening to XM radio this morning and heard Greg McElroy ask Dusty Dvoracek if he thought Baylor was the 3rd best coaching job in the Big 12 behind Texas and Oklahoma. Interesting discussion. So, which one of the other eight do you consider the 3rd best job in the Big 12?
(This might also...
Probably a topic for the off season but..........
Watchdog group: Commercialization of FBS, college basketball requires restructuring of NCAA
Notre Dame AD has a vision of two college athletic associations
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/big-12-reprimands-and-fines-texas-tech-ad-after-he-said-conference-admitted-a-missed-call-144619901.html
Way to crack that whip Bobbie boy.
One of my Red Raider alumni golfing buddies called me about this. Seems the hat's already been passed and it ain't comin'...
Texas high school basketball is going to have to improve if we are going to improve at the college level. We have ONE, uno, 1 team ranked in the top 25 nationally...Denton Guyer at #20. That's pathetic in a state the size of ours.
By contrast we have four baseball teams in the top 10...
Recruiting data can predict college football's next championship
Looks like the playoff teams for the 2019 season will be Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and LSU.
This should make the LSU folks happy and get the Cookie Monster an extended contract. What say ye corndog faithful?
Alabama coach Nick Saban said he still isn't quite sure how the committee determines the top four teams.
"I don't honestly know all the things the Selection Committee does to make the decision," he said. "I just assumed that they -- from several different resources, look at the total body of...
www.yahoo.com/sports/best-worst-fanbases-college-football-161958438.html
Ranking the best fan bases in college football. This is a different way of looking at it.
The Emory study uses three main metrics:
“Revenue premium,” meaning, in the simplest possible terms, how much revenue the...
Ranking the Power 5 divisions strongest to weakest
Best - SEC West
Worst - PAC 12 South
Just think. If it turns out like ESPN says, Kevin Sumlin will have gone from the strongest division to the weakest division and got something like $11 million in walking around money to do so.
Stanford's Shaw: CFP should focus on schedules
"How the schedule lays out may be more important than strength of schedule," Shaw said.
"The matter of analyzing teams is complex, and the committee goes through great lengths in comparing teams in many respects, in comparing the data and also in...