GMG_Dallas

Not too familiar with their squad.

Got to think Western Kentucky might be the best team left on our schedule. They don't have the best record but they still have Hollingsworth and added 5 star center who's played well so far as a freshman. They're only going to get better as the year goes along.

Was nice seeing Boise run out there with a big "Bleed Blue" flag. Anybody know if that was a Boise thing or if it was in support or law enforcement?

I don't think there will be. Our QB recruiting and development has been strong and our key players are from the current regime (16/17 recruits). That 2014 class was strong but did not overwhelmingly compose the leaders of last year's team. Now the real question is, which P5s do we play in 2022/23 who will have to deal with this year's class as upperclassmen?

Bears defense. It is what it is.

I agree with your post. Regarding the loss of Easly coinciding with when we started struggling, it's unfortunate if people view that as an indicator of Easly being better than Torrey. Losing Easly also coincided with us losing Kemon Hall for several games, arguably our best defensive player, and Mason Fine getting hurt. It was the first game all year where we got banged up. Fine was never the same after that game. It's obvious he was playing hurt considering how often he finished games hobbling after the LT game. Personally, I prefer Easly over Torrey as a lead back because our offense lacks physicality. We don't really have a big, physical receiver or TE that is heavily used. Easly gave us balance that was greatly needed. We'll need him next year no matter how good Torrey is.

For some of these kids, all it takes an ankle or a little shoulder. They're craving the ability to say they play P5 ball so bad that they'll take any P5 offer no matter how bad the team is.

If he's competitive, he looked at that bowl loss and said "I'm starting day 1 and never looking back." If 1 bad loss contributes to anybody changing their mind on where they want to play football, they're not the kind of player we should want. I highly doubt that's the case here.

Still have Oscar Ardeway who is also highly rated. While this hurts mostly due to his size, I think we'll be ok.

A win tomorrow will be huge towards setting the tone for the rest of the year. I'm not sold on our team yet based on the strength of schedule. UNM has a good basketball tradition and looked really tough at times against Colorado. Let's prove me wrong, guys!

Problem is Gordon was going to get every opportunity to fix it as a high draft pick. Wilson won't have that luxury as an UDFA. He needs to finish the year strong.

I just woke up (work midnight to 8 am and needed to get my sleep in). Anybody care to recap what happened to Fine?

I will be 100% satisfied if the G5 gets 1 guaranteed spot. Why? Because it means every year the G5 gets at least 1 opportunity to disrupt the P5 party. Boise State, TCU (pre Big 12), UCF... There are championship worthy G5 teams every year. It's just about getting invited to the show. Get a guaranteed spot, regularly beat some P5 ass, and make up ground. It's about baby steps and it's quite frankly one of the best opportunities to make some noise due to it being the biggest stage. UCF would have caused problems last year and, were there an 8 team playoff this year, would be flat out better than every P5 team in the playoff except for Alabama. OU and Clemson would be tough matchups and I think they would beat Notre Dame. Baby steps.

Not sure he's going to th NFL for anything less than QB unless he just doesn't want to play in the minors waiting to get called up to MLB.

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/athletics/mlb-rumors-kyler-murrays-contract-has-provision-if-he-chooses-nfl He would have to repay part of his guaranteed money and be done with it. If he's serious about the NFL and GMs are saying he'll go in the 1st round he might do it.

Rumor is he prefers football and would rather go to the NFL as a QB. The game against Alabama will go a long way to determining what he does IMO.

I don't give a rats was if the SEC gets 7 spots as long qs the G5 gets an automatic qualifier and it needs to be a spot seeded in the top 6 since along with the P5 conference champs.

Honestly made me wonder if he's saying that just to to gain support for the idea of an 8 team playoff. I really don't care about the motive if it happens. An automatic bid for the highest ranked G5 would be great. Edit: support for an 8 team playoff because at this point every president and AD at a school not in the SEC and not one of the traditional blue bloods should want to expand the playoff. The "smaller" P5 schools are still getting shafted from a competition standpoint.

We need Kyler Murray to go pro this year and have a good rookie year. People say he's 5 foot 8 so if he can do find early success, it might pave the way for Fine.

Article states the ball could get rolling on this as soon as January 7th and that several people involved want this implemented soon. I want to applaud West Virginia president for recognizing the committee's arrogance regarding UCF and the G5. https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2810445-college-footballs-influential-voices-ready-to-discuss-8-team-playoff-format.amp.html "An eight-team CFP could include automatic bids for the Power Five conference champions, as well as three at-large bids, with one of those potentially guaranteed to a Group of Five school like UCF. West Virginia president E. Gordon Gee told The Athletic he doesn't think college football should wait for the ESPN contract to expire before making alterations to the system. "I also want to be very clear: I think that there's arrogance of us not taking a look at someone like the University of Central Florida, just saying, 'Well, they're not worthy of it,'" Gee said. "Maybe they are worthy of it based upon a number of considerations that need to be taken into account.""

This really ticks me off. CUSA has had upsets every year since 2015. 4 years in a row, our solo rep has had an upset win round 1 inclusing MTSU upsetting number 2 Michigan State in 2016. They need to this like FIFA does the World Cup. The success of each continent in a given world cup can help sway how many slots each continent gets in the next world cup since it's included in their measure of relative strength. It's all based on metrics. If C-USA is getting at least an upset per tournament, not only do they deserve more reps per tournament but also better seeding. Dock the conferences who put 5 teams in the tournament with only 1 going past the 2nd round in the tournament.

Who do get to upset?

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25503179/kansas-state-hires-north-dakota-state-chris-klieman-head-coach $2.3 million a year with $200k yearly raises. Sure sounds like the unlimited resources all their fans were singing about. This is the hire I expected from the beginning. Will be interesting to see how he pans out. I'm honestly surprised by the low salary compared to p5 salaries.

Sounds like he meets UAB's age requirements.

I can see it already... College kid- "Hey, why is your dad always at our college parties?" Son- "He's just reliving is glory years." College kid- "Ok but he's taking your girlfriend upstairs." Son- "I'm calling my mom."