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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."

Sounds like you we're mostly on farmersonly.com.

He does it for the kids.

I'm reporting on gomeangreen.com that Littrell is rumored to be playing Santa at the galleria of Dallas this evening so he can't be in Manhattan.

Depends on who they beat but looking at their schedule next year you might be right. Problem is looking at their results this year, they could have easily finished with 8-9 wins. They lost to TCU by 1, Texas by 5, Iowa State by 4, and Baylor by 3. They were mostly competitive save for OU, West Virginia, and Mississippi State. If I'm OU's AD looking to hire the next sooner coach, a 2-3 win improvement may not be enough to open up the pocket book especially if there's more blowouts than the previous year. Now go 8-4, 9-4 with a bowl win, and wins over at least three of OU, Texas, Okie State, West Virginia, Mississippi State and that might be enough. Record isn't everything. Gotta beat the big guys. Regarding 11-1 or 12-0 UNT next year, if he can't do that with the talent coming back on offense and the young guys coming up in a weak CUSA losing Stockstill after 12 years and UAB's middle aged starters he might never go to OU.

Which is why Kansas State makes no sense to me. Programs like OU don't hire a new coach every 3 years. Riley isn't gone yet and not every college coach wants to coach in the NFL, they're two completely different beasts. If Riley does leave, it might be SL's only shot at the job in a long time. He's better off making a run at a NY6 bowl with UNT using what he's built here than trying to have 1 strong season building KSU from scratch with a depleted roster if he wants a chance at the OU job in a year or two. If/when the OU job gets filled with somebody else, SL would probably leave for the next P5 spot that opens up since he wouldn't have to worry about OU opening up any time soon.

Don't compare that guy to Les Miles. Miles is one of the more prominent ccollege hadcoaches of the past 15 years and got his ring as a HC.

Corrected.

"12. FIU (38) – There was a single NCAA tournament appearance in 1995... Where they win: “Beautiful campus, great location and a ton of hot girls.” – C-USA assistant" The Knock: creepy 30-40 year old assistant coaches constantly trying to steal your girlfriends. Also, hard to throw a big party when the 30 year old assistant coaches show up trying to hit on the college girls. - die hard UNT fan.

#SorrySir

Most of our recruits had little to no P5 interest. Highly rated for G5, yes. Big 12 recruits, no. You can keep saying they're Big 12 caliber recruits but that won't make Big 12 programs offer them schollys. If SL plans on raiding our recruiting class to compete with OU, Texas, TCU, West Virginia, Okie State then good luck to him.

I've felt the same way. If I'm K State and SL really was my top target, I wanted him hired yesterday because the early signing period is in 2 weeks. If I'm SL and I'm leaving, the same applies. The longer they drag this out, the more difficult the transition becomes. Big 12 caliber recruits don't grow on trees and with players signing in 2 weeks, they're setting themselves up for failure on the recruiting trail the longer this takes. I'm sure interest was high on both ends but I'm getting the feeling they're looking elsewhere. There's no reason every other P5 out there has hired their new HC but K State hasn't unless things didn't work out. For a program that apparently has wanted SL for weeks this sure is taking a while.

I'll be disappointed if it's anything less than 50 words, 4 emojis, 3 different font colors, 3 different font sizes, and doesn't include a reference to UNT being great in the 60s.

I've been saying the same things. He's too green. Worst thing is, he'll fail and it will look bad on us, not KState

This is pretty much what's going to happen. He isn't ready. In 3-4 years he'll be a has been with no more shots at a P5.

No offense (because we were told to be nice to y'all), but read previous posts for context. SL was all about "family" at UNT and is now leaving. He'll leave K-State for a bigger job if he's successful too. He's going to need more than "family" to make him successful at K-State. As for your pictures, Bill Snyder can sell family at K-State when he spent nearly 30 years there.

Probably because the past few days have felt like years.

He'll have TCU back in the mix soon. I was going to list the coaches licking their chops at the thought of recruiting and coaching against SL, but I didn't want to list every coach in the Big 12. I think he'll be a great coach IF he waits a year or two to get more experience. He leaves now and he'll be an afterthought in a few years.

Because nobody in the Big 12 cares about wanting to be cute and build a family of local DFW guys wanting to play D1 ball close to home. They want wins. Building a family in the middle of nowhere is not going to trump going to play for Les Miles in the same middle of nowhere, or going to play for any of the other established Big 12 coaches. Fact is, SL was great at finding under appreciated and under sized high school players. Thats great for CUSA. Before this year, he still couldn't out recruit his peers. That's not going to get easier in the Big 12. And it's a recipe for disaster against that competition.

100% with you. His "build a family" thing won't work in the Big 12.