Monkeypox

I think it has more to do with being able to reduce the number of/hurdles to medical redshirts in the first place. I think it will provide a lot more roster flexibility, both at the beginning AND end of a season. Say a guy's borderline... you THINK you want to redshirt him, but he's been playing lights out in fall practice. Now, maybe you give him 3-4 non-conference games and see if he's got enough to take the job. OR you give him most of the season to put on weight and learn the system, and then you give him a shot at the end of the year. But I still see it mostly as a fix for the medical redshirt issue. If Mason went down next year after a couple of games, we'd have to apply for a medical redshirt for him. With the potential change, we could just use it as his redshirt year, and it requires a lot less work/administration. It also allows you to lose a starter and replace them with a redshirt for a handful of games, then put that guy back on the shelf. Just look at the Derek Thompson situation. We burned his redshirt for about 2 minutes of playing time in the last game of a 2-9 season. Under the new rule, we would have gotten an extra year out of him.

Still at least 5 investigations into Baylor ongoing + lawsuits. Baylor keeps fighing to not have to release their documents. I think he's an excellent coach, and while I don't think we're in the "all good guys league" and that you have to take some character risks in order to win, there's a line, Baylor went over it on a ramp. Until the results of the investigations and lawsuits are in, I wouldn't touch him.

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Makes me re-think using my real name here.

I focused on the little bit of coherence that was there. It's not my fault the only part of your posts that seem to make sense are factually incorrect. Keelan Crosby doesn't have anything to do with DD's recruiting during the infancy of the internet. If you have an issue with recruiting rankings, take it up with the hundreds of coaches making the scholarship offers upon which these rankings are based.

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A guy with a committment that was public knowledge on August 3rd wasn't "stealth recruited."

Call the Indy Bowl. Tell them we'll help them out.

Someone should tell Mt. San Antonio College first, I guess. http://www.mtsacathletics.com/sports/fball/2017-18/bios/saafi_josh_tfog

One analyst's scouting report/preview of the game from last week: "Troy has some NFL talent." He didn't say anything at all about us.

He's done a good job coaching, IMO, and a bad job recruiting. The flaws from the beginning of the season are still what they were. Defense and OL, but overall talent.

They're actually playing without some of the better members of their secondary as well.

We are primarily in this bowl because we got our asses kicked in Boca. Indy wasn't going to take FAU because they don't bring enough fans, and didn't feel an obligation to take us since we didn't win the conference. So they went with the bigger name with better recent history and took USM. If we had won the conference, we'd be in Shreveport. I don't like this bowl for all the reasons already stated. I didn't think we'd have good attendance, I didn't like the matchup with Troy (they're good), and nobody pays any attention to this game. I HATE that fans didn't show up for this. Trust me, as much as I dislike our placement in this, I would have gone if I could have. People who wanted Indy but chose willingly not to go to this shot themselves in the foot. FAU didn't get Shreveport for ONE reason... fan support. The next time that decision rolls around, now we've taken ourselves out of the discussion. But I did anticipate the attendance being an issue.

I like not having ULL in our conference, because then I don't feel guilty for rooting for them.

That's what it gets you at SMU. That said, I think he's a decent coach. There's worse out there. I know because we've had some of them.

1) SMU is a stepping stone, like all G5 schools. Not a ton of coaches go from G5 HC to G5 HC. There's just not much reason for it. The goal is to make big money AND win a championship. SMU offers no path to that any more than any other G5. 2) Morris was what? 14-22 at SMU? If he didn't come from Clemson already with a ton of interest, he wouldn't have been on anyone's radar for what he's done at SMU, no matter how much they sucked before he got there. 3) Morris is still a great coach and he did a good job there. 4) Most of DD's offenses were similar to UNT's before he got to Memphis. Things changed when he got to Texas State and worked with Mike Schulz (it was HIS up-tempo offense they ran). 5) He was SENT to recruit Paxton Lynch when an administrator gave Fuente a not about him. He had very little in the way of offers. That said, yes, DD was the one who saw him, said "Hell Yeah", and got him signed. 6) He's done a great job at Memphis and I think if he wanted to, he'd be a much better HC now. I still think of him as more of a running game specialist than an overall OC/offensive coach. 7) I also think he'd be a good fit for SMU because I don't see him necessarily using it as a stepping stone. It might HAPPEN anyway (if he's successful, they'll come to him), but he wouldn't view it like that coming in. 8) If a team wins in an empty stadium, did it really happen?

One of the things people seem to miss about Harrell (yeah, the playcalling is suspect in his 2nd year as an OC*), is the work he's done with Mason Fine from last year to this year. Yeah, Mason bailed him out. But part of the reason he's able to bail him out this year, is that Harrell has put in a ton of work with him. That said, I think the general sentiment is correct. He's not ready. But that risk will fall squarely on the shoulders of whatever coach wants to take the gamble at the P5 level... to their own peril. * the knock on Harrell when he got here was his lack of experience. i think the playcalling is a big part of that. he's learning on the job, and it is what it is.

The larger scale argument is that these fees are escalating because the G5s are in a constant push to compete on a playing field they won't ever be on. A lot of the big schools don't have these fees because they don't need them. They charge their students to see the games (at reduced costs) and have boosters/donors/endowments out the ass. Meanwhile, these increases are becoming more and more burdensome as we spread out the G5 conferences for TV markets that the TV money is now being reduced on. It's another reason why the G5s will need to compress their footprints to become more regionally based for their own long-term health. So I can understand that argument, trust me. It would be unfair for me to just blatantly say "hey students! pay more money for this thing I want!" But I also doubt most students against it have the big picture view stated above. They just see "increased athletic fees" and have a conniption. I'm all for it. Of COURSE, I'm all for it. I think it will be a great for the University. But it's easy to be for it because it doesn't cost me anything.

I honestly haven't kept up with the details of his condition, but if he suffered a Jones fracture and required surgery, then no, there isn't a chance. The mid-point timing for the research study onJones Fracture recovery in the NFL is 10 weeks. People who came back in 10 weeks or less suffered a huge performance drop off and increased likelihood of needing a 2nd surgery and even worse recovery timelines. The last thing I want to see is Wilson jeopardize his future health on this. That said, my dream would be for them to suit him up, us to win by 50 points, and bring him in for a kneel down play in the final seconds (and him just being in the backfield, no kneeling down).

Agree with it being a lateral move, and while it works in the short-term financially, it potentially limits his earnings as soon as 2019. If he wins 8-11 games next year, I think he'll get that P5 opportunity. Hell, he was already mentioned in a number of better openings than SMU's this season. He's in a position now where he can afford to wait it out for the right job, and that's not SMU. There's a few G5s out there that I think could be considered steps up, if only because they could be LONGER TERM gigs that also pay more money and have more prestige, but I just don't view SMU as that. Imagine winning 25-30 games over 4 years there in front of crowds of dozens. Generally, there's not a big reason to go from G5 to G5. Plenty of coaches go to P5s from the Sun Belt on up, especially if they've been coordinators at P5s before. Seth's name is out there, which is why we have 42,000 threads about it being linked to every single potential open job. We have a long way to go with our own support, and realistically, there's no championship opportunities at G5s, so no coach is going to stay here forever if they win. But we've also come a long way, IMO. SL was very complimentary of our crowds this year, which is something I've never heard before, and haven't witnessed since some of the enthusiasm of our early 2000s teams. So no, he's not going to be here forever, but I'd be very surprised if he left for a risky, short-term opportunity like SMU.

I think a combination of Smith's receiving and Wilson's injury are what put him 2nd team. Plus, Ito Smith branding.

They won't take SMU for the same reason they won't take FAU. No fans. There's a pecking order, sure, but it's not strictly AAC over CUSA. Right now, they're alternating between CUSA and AAC because there isn't anything in the agreement setting one conference over another. UNT chose not to gamble, and they were right (from what I've been told). We really had to win the Championship.

Yeah but I'd also debate just giving someone 2 tickets to go if they were on the fence. We just replaced our whole HVAC and about $2k worth of plumbing or I'd be going myself. But I think when you look at FAU's situation, you can't deny the importance of attendance.

This is an interesting alternative. Does this guarantee their usage, though?

Here's my 5: 1) Their name is Troy 2) They have a football team 3) They are in the Sun Belt 4) They offer a very competitive 3rd grade education 5) There are only 4 things to know about Troy