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Decisions like that are being made all over college football by quarterbacks and sometimes it works out really well for them, like both our Chandlers having strong seasons at UNT because they quit someplace else. It sucks as a fan, of course, but until schools have financial help paying their own players more to stay I don't see how this gets fixed.

I wouldn't judge Cash McCollum too harshly over not getting playing time. Drew Mestemaker didn't get any playing time either and when he finally did the whole world could see he'd been wrongly overlooked on the bench.

I think there's donor fatigue even when the results are positive. "My biggest pet peeve and I’ve told them, y’all can’t call me every year asking for millions of dollars, that’s not gonna happen. Y’all need to stop. I love Auburn. I love Auburn. But the chances of me going back to black and broke again because I want Auburn to be good in football and basketball, that’s not gonna happen. I love my school, but I don’t love them that much." -- Charles Barkley

Florida State had a massive $12 million NIL budget for the teams that went 2-10 last season and went undefeated the year before. NIL is not a guarantee of success. You can still suck if you pay the wrong players. I went to a few FSU games last season and that offense was brutal. They had games where they ran the ball 25 times and gained 24 yards.

I hate how long instant replay takes in all sports that use it. Instead of waiting for certainty before making a call, they should look at replays for a set amount of time. When that time runs out, treat it as "the call stands."

You said you want the clock stopped until the snap. At present the clock only stops until the refs place the ball, if I understand correctly. That seems like enough time to me. One of the worst things about the new overtime rules is that even in the third-and-later rounds where teams just go for two points each time, coaches get one timeout. It grinds things to a halt like the end of an NBA game.

Stopping the clock on every first down would make games seven hours long.

Here in Florida the SEC homers are using SMU's presence in the playoff to "prove" that the ACC is not a legitimate Power conference. Heard it on Jacksonville sports radio this morning from a host who went to UF. The game's rigged for the big dogs and they keep making their club more exclusive all the time. Everybody else in the FBS is the Washington Generals. I wish the G5 schools would create their own organization to work together more strongly for a future that doesn't suck.

It's neither a flex nor an excuse. It's just a fact. The American went 6-2, which is pretty good but 7-1 would've been better. The ACC went 2-11! I'm glad SMU left so we don't have to count their bowl loss in our total.

The American won six bowls and lost two -- us and Tulane (against Florida).

That crap pisses me off. Opponents need to show they did their homework by calling us North Texas Normal.

Sucks to lose, but I am proud of the players who stuck around and the noobs who showed up and played way better than anyone expected.

A lot of that 13.5-point line was because we lost Morris and Sheffield. With our QB and WRs playing as well as they did, those disadvantages were neutralized and we could have won this bowl game. There's nothing wrong with being disappointed that didn't happen.

Saquon Mestemaker!

Crud is everywhere this month. We've had it in Florida for two weeks.

Drew's balls are so beautiful D.T. Sheffield is driving to Ford Stadium.

Good points, though I don't want to shorten this game and give Drew Football less time to break the all-time UNT bowl game touchdown pass record.

Mestemaker has tripled his career passing yards in one quarter.

Another touchdown by DREW FOOTBALL!

Didn't know clock management mattered when the first quarter was close to ending.

Are these refs also true freshmen who haven't been on the field since high school?

Did he fumble over the goal line or hit the pylon first?

YEAH BABY! CHANDLER WHO?

Mestemaker looks poised out there. Handled that bad snap with aplomb.

The dude had 143 yards rushing and two touchdowns, 99 yards receiving and threw a 42-yard touchdown pass. Why are we talking about whether he's a good person? I don't care if he stole a Coke from a kid on the way to the locker room. Those numbers are insane.