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The next Nick Saban would only go to a school where he could count on a well-funded NIL collective paying top players.

This news is shocking. I would have welcomed it as a student in the 1980s because I hated jazz back then, but in the decades since I've come to appreciate that KNTU made a name for itself with jazz. I also liked that its format supported the music school. This wouldn't have happened if longtime KNTU general manager Russ Campbell was still in charge, but he retired a few years ago. P.s. I probably shouldn't be shocked since I never listened to KNTU aside from Mean Green games, and I even stopped doing that in recent years when I found the games elsewhere.

I don't think student athletes should be expected to hold up a four-year commitment when their coaches are free to leave at any time. If an athlete has an offer to get much better playing time somewhere else, college careers are short. Let them decide their own fate.

The offseasons after years 1, 2 and 3 of Todd Dodge were as much fun as an STD. And I should know because I dated a lot of girls from SMU.

That is got-underwear-for-Christmas level of excited. Really makes me miss Mike Canales, who happy-cried after every Mean Green first down.

Lane Kiffin is paid $7.25 million a year and he's mad about the influence of money on college football? Nobody should be happier about ridiculous money flowing into football than Kiffin. He's coached college teams for nine seasons, has only two bowl wins to show for it, but still fell upwards to Ole Miss.

Gotta be Diet Coke Man by now. When you saw him what was he drinking?

There's room in your heart to hate both SMU and UT.

Coach thinks coaches should have more power. Color me shocked.

If there's one thing that makes a college football tailgating scene raucous, it's wealthy alumni. I'm picturing golf shirts, trophy wives and canapes.

Telling people your fans don't like to watch the Mustangs play a game in DFW isn't the sick burn you think it is.

Have SMU fans considered the possibility that all of their boosters who envision the school as a big-time football program are either hanging out at Restland or being spoon-fed applesauce by their children as they anticipate a big inheritance? SMU isn't going to win NIL after 35 years in the wilderness. The mountain is too big to climb. The program's mediocrity is too deeply engrained in the public's perception. A potential recruit today could have a father who isn't even old enough to remember when SMU was a football power.

I'm having trouble seeing Rice making it to the P5 even if they hired Ed "Straight Arrow" Gennero.

If the PAC-12 wants a school that watches Revenge of the Nerds to root for the Alpha Betas, they can have them.

People keep listing Hall of Fame members they consider unworthy. How does that argue for letting someone in? "We might as well have 5 unworthy people instead of 4" isn't a great selling point.

I vote hell no on this. We had to accept mediocrity for too many years while RV was kept in the AD job and I don't want to be celebrating it just six years later. Ask again in 20 years.

Where these things always leave us -- waiting for the phone to ring as middle school prom night gets closer and closer, fooling ourselves into thinking that Cyndi Tartar is going to call. But she doesn't, even though our mom insists that we're a catch.

If two superconferences achieve total domination, do the fans of other schools keep watching their games as much as we do now? The bigger the moat between them and everybody else, the less interest I have in swimming across.

Is the endgame here two superconferences that become the NFL of college football, receiving so much TV money that the everybody else is the G8? I'm writing this comment from Gainesville, Florida, right next to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. In an era where conferences matter, Texas coming here as a conference opponent of Florida seems like a big deal. But it feels like conferences don't actually matter any more. The superconferences feel more like a new football subdivision.

This kind of thing *is* the tradition. It started in 1996 when the Southwest Conference was murdered.

It's different than a job because you can't just quit. If I walk out during my shift at Hot Dog on a Stick and don't come back for 30 days nobody will arrest me for desertion.

You didn't compare the contract to a job, which is a comparison that fits much closer than a marriage or military service. Anyone can quit a job and the only penalty is that their old employer stops paying them and providing benefits.

The Sasketchewan Roughriders pulled their starting quarterback down 33-6 with 9 minutes left on Thursday, giving Mason Fine his first chance to play in the CFL. He completed three short passes on his first drive but it ended on a sack. His next drive was an incompletion and an interception on a bad pass. His final drive was his best. He completed four straight passes, including a 15- and 45-yarder, and threw a 5-yard touchdown in that massive Canadian endzone. Final numbers: 7-for-9 with 83 yards, 1 touchdown, 1 pick. The CFL season is on WatchESPN with some games each week on an ESPN channel. Fine looks pretty comfortable in the league after one season holding a clipboard.

If he establishes himself as a quarterback worth a first round draft pick before his senior season, there has to be some pressure to leave and avoid injury.

It speaks to the climate of all college football except for the biggus dickus.