Bill Bedenbaugh is being retained.

Emmert: The NCAA is investigating "a number" of schools for NIL violations.

Dennis Dodd  (@dennisdoddcbs) December 8, 2021

Had been hearing Napier was going to assemble a dream team staff. UAA about doubled the assistant salary and like bajillioned the off field support/analysis/recruiting staff. Some of the names floating around would make for an absolutely insane staff. So damn glad UF is finally going all in on football.

He made his first move today, and mother fucked LSU at the same time. Stole Corey Raymond. No more claims of DBU for LSU. Dudes a 5* machine. Tiger droppings is absolutely melting down over this.

The remaining names floating out there are of similar magnitude. Can't wait.

Texas Tech went big on assistant pool this go around and its apparently year of crazy high Biden dollar contracts

Appears this is one of them.

New Texas Booster Fund Highlights Major Flaws in NIL System

https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/new-texas-booster-fund-highlights-major-flaws-in-nil-system

Yes, TEXAS is the only school in Texas offering such.


Edit:
Those boosters haven’t paid anyone a dime yet anyways, so I doubt they’re under investigation.

That would make sense.
I’m hoping the Ags are running a tight ship with the recruiting class they’re signing. There are a lot of accusations being thrown around about the how and why that’s occurring.

Does anyone else find it funny that the largest point spread of any bowl game is Alabama/Cincy, at 13.5?  Just seems a bit odd that a CFP semi-final game has the highest spread.

Nice edit
Your first reply was reasonable and then you went all cynical

Interesting observation. One would think that shouldn’t be a thing.

So they're butthurt the coach didn't show professionalism, having secret meetings behind the school's back, without informing the school, even though he was under contract with them, and then dropped a bombshell that he was leaving only after the decision had been made?

Replace "school" with "conference" in that sentence, then "coach/he" with "school/they" and read it again.  He literally did to the school exactly what the school did to the conference just weeks earlier.

They don't appreciate the irony of the situation, trust me

Heard Texas has 4mil/NIL deal ready for Ewen QB kid.... hard to beat that kinda money

Telling a conference you plan to leave in 4 years reads the exact same way?  lol, wut?

Heard that too. That’s ridiculous if true to pay an unproven that much money. But for right now that just appears to be internet rumors.

The problem with rating a kid coming out of high school is the level of competition isn’t consistent enough to know they can perform at a higher level. He’s the best player on the field. When he gets to college they all are that guy. The game moves much faster when you are competing against guys who might be playing NFL ball the following year. Some thrive, some fail.

Plus it very possibly might cost them the 4* commit they currently have. QBs are super sensitive to the level of competition they face. With the portal it’s impossible to keep a talented backup if they have any aspirations at all about playing at the next level. You can if there are a few years between them so the backup can see he has a possibility of starting for a few years when the current starter moves on. Other than that, you’re not getting 2 quality QBs in the same year. Plus I have to wonder what their current starter is “making” and how that offer is going to affect the locker room.

Dynamics of this NIL shit and 18 year old kids is crazy.

This is interesting: Committee discussing elimination, movement of Early Signing Period

Basically says the early signing period had the unintended consequence of being the driving factor for all the coaching upheavals happening earlier and earlier each year, and a lot of people aren't happy about it.

I’ll edit it back.

Both are true.

Bryce Young got similar money at Bama before taking a single snap. It is what it is at this point.


The QB out of Cali (I assume this is the 4* which you’re referencing) is a big project. He’s got the physical tools, but the HS game I watched online he didn’t look that great.

If Texas can get a Ewers type player, you go get him. Hell, there are some rumors that ATM is pushing hard for him and I don’t blame them.

And you don’t pass on a guy like that because another player in the next class (1-2 years out) has committed. See Andrew Luck and Garrett Gilbert. Both high 5* players.

As far as what TEXAS “starter” is making… we don’t even know who the starter is at this point. Sark started the season with Card. Moved to Thompson after Ark debacle. Then Thompson played well, but kept getting injured and was thus ineffective. Moved back to Card, who played well until he was injured on a late low hit. Texas started Thompson in the final game against K state, but used RoJo heavily in the wildcat during that game.



TL;DR the Texas starting QB position for 2022 is wide open.

Exactly

Pat McAfee had a show where he talked about that same topic but from the NCAA to NFL perspective.  Interesting point of view from him but it really boils down to some people adapt and some don't.

Jimbo officially said he has no interest in Ewers and he is sticking with Connor Weigmann.

Officially.

Publicly

ETA:  

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/tamu-football/quinn-ewers-update-reports-shed-light-on-texas-ams-recruiting-plans-for-ohio-state-transfer/

Probably a done deal then

Again, that could mean many things.

Maybe it means there was never contact. Maybe Ewers approached ATM and Jimbo said scram. Maybe Ewers told Jimbo he was going to Tech or OU or Texas?

Also, I don’t see a Jimbo quote in there.

The Jimbo quote was in a private forum on a Houston Aggie site.  

But I don't think Ewers ever had interest in A&M.  He was born and raised a UT fan in Texas....as a UT fan he probably has negative opinions of A&M to begin with.  Also, A&M has taken a drastically different approach to NIL than UT and there is no way he would make the kind of NIL money at A&M (in year 1) that he can at UT/OSU/TT.  A&M's NIL structure is designed to grow over time (even into your NFL career) and benefits talent that sticks with A&M for multiple years aligning themselves with the university.  UT and TT are more up front cash...which is obviously important to Ewers.

Definitely needs to be addressed. Tough spot for coaches and commitments.

Yes they are and I think my response indicates that.

Yeah he's already made 1mil and basically not played since his junior year of HS.  Seems like a very gifted athlete

Tech's new coach apparently has inroads to him, heard McGuire and OC Kittley had a in home visit yesterday and already had him out for an official visit to Tech.  

4mil bucks is way out of our price range, plus we have 4* Morton who'll be RS Fresh next year and RS Soph Donovan Smith is pretty solid QB who can throw and run over linebackers but not sure he has the mind to execute the Kittley/Kingsbury style offense.

I'd love to see Ewers at Tech.  Bring back the old early 2000's air raid buzz saw.

I heard Tech is promising to build their entire offense around ensuring he gets more passing attempts than any other QB ever.  Their pitch is for him to build his NFL resume to a degree that he wouldn't be able to do where there are 2 high profile RB's that need to have reps and providing a balanced offensive attack.  That's all good, but if I were Ewers I'd be looking at school's O-Line first and foremost.  NFL means nothing if you get career ending injuries behind a shit O-line.

Definitely with Zach Kittley coming in as OC, he came up under Kingsbury and runs a Kliff like offense which is fun, exciting, lots of passes and TDs (In theory).  O line sucks though but new coach has loyalty of TX HS coaches well enough our recruiting is looking competent even which is kinda weird as its been bad since about 2015

Weigman has been committed for 10 months and never waivered. There’s something to be said for that. He was just awarded offensive player of the year from the Houston Touchdown Club. He’s really good and hopefully pans out.

If I was a QB I’d be hard pressed not to want to play for Leach where I could throw the ball 75 times a game. You’re either going to the NFL or getting benched.

Jimbo is also very loyal.  Look at his history with QB's, he stuck with Kellen Mond through thick and thin no matter what his performance was like.  Same with Jamis Winston, when he had off field problems he never backed down from supporting him.

That's part of his strategy for recruiting talent, if he commits to you, he does not change his mind.  He's not a fair weather friend.  He commits to making you better, coaching you, improving you, etc.

It's both a positive and a negative.

I'd see it as a huge positive with some of these kids. I'm going to take a wild ass guess and say many of them haven't ever seen loyalty from a father figure.

Well this is interesting. Appears the P5 are playing hardball with the G5 since expanded playoffs talks bogged down. I agree getting 11 folks with different interests in mind to agree on something may be virtually impossible. Id be ok with 2 different playoffs. More quality football games all around. I do wonder though if they did do this if it could eventually lead to no regular season games also between the G5 and P5.


Extra Points: Power 5 inching to forming its own Playoff. Is that a good thing?

The changing face of college football
The not-so-secret reality of college football forming into distinct have and have nots has come into clear, public focus this week.

And for those who believe the Power 5 conferences and Notre Dame already get whatever they want, you’re not seeing the big picture.

The Power 5 conferences are primed to take their ball and form their own division within the NCAA structure – and most important – sell media rights to their own Playoff.

With or without the Group of 5 conferences.

“We need the authority to do and act differently,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said.

Or as Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff said last week: “We don’t need 11 people to say yes to get to a solution that will be good for college football.”

Those 11 Kliavkoff is speaking about: the commissioners of the Power 5 conferences, the Group of 5 conferences and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick.

But let’s make one thing clear: This isn’t just about the College Football Playoff. The postseason is the easy mechanism to use for broader change.

And by broader, it’s the Power 5 leagues separating into their own division and selling – and keeping – billion-dollar media rights deals.

With each passing week, it’s becoming clear that sport’s major conferences are pulling away. NCAA president Myles Brand admitted Wednesday that he could see a time in the near future when they do.

Kliavkoff all but called out the Group of 5 prior to last week’s Pac-12 Championship Game, explaining that with the current Playoff structure, “We are in a contract with 10 other entities. All 11 must say yes to change (the format). If you look beyond the current model, you don’t start (any new model) by saying all 11 have to agree.

“What is the group that needs to agree on a model, that we can hopefully invite the rest to join us.”

It begins with an astonishing admittance that there first has to be a specific group of conferences that agrees on a future model. That would be the current Power 5 leagues, but there are realistic questions about the Big 12’s viability as a Power 5 conference.

“That question is the elephant in the room,” one Big Ten athletic director said.

That leads to what has been brewing for weeks now: The SEC and Big 12 helping each other to save the Big 12’s Power 5 status in return for Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC as soon as possible.

The second part of Kliavkoff’s statement is the red line for Group of 5 schools: “hopefully invite the rest to join us.”

The current expanded Playoff negotiations have stalled because of issues based on automatic qualification and access. One Power 5 source told me Kliavkoff’s statement was a “shot across the bow” to the Group of 5 schools: Go along with Playoff expansion now – and get to expanded revenue as soon as possible – or be left out when the new Playoff is formed.

“Or it’s simply a warning,” an industry source told me Wednesday, “that we’re moving forward without you.”

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/extra-points-power-5-inching-to-forming-its-own-playoff-is-that-a-good-thing/

I think it'd be even better with G5 and P5 playoff losers going to a bracket against each other for a final game, ala bowl or whatever.

BUT THE G5 TEAMS DESERVE A SPOT!

Every playoff first round has had at least one blowout and worse than 13.5 so not sure what you're supposed to do.  Who would have a smaller spread than that vs. Bama that's not in the playoffs too?

*laughs in Big 10 blowout losses*

Pepperidge Farm remembers when they thought it was a great idea.........

Maybe they should move it to August

Probably no one.

I don’t think I did a good job conveying the sarcasm in my previous post.

July so the students won’t have to pay late registration fees and can sign up for Orgo lab and Thermodynamics on time

No worries.  Honestly if Bama is playing good they probably win it all, again

Not much mystery afoot during the Saban Dynasty

A&M would obviously be favored by 3.

I don't think UGA will do any better on attempt #2 against Bama

I would think if OSU or ND was playing, the result would probably be the same, but I’m not sure we’d see more than a 10 point spread in either case. Just a gut feel, and like I said, I just found it … odd.

I’d probably rather see the upheaval with regents and a few fan bases when coaches get fired early than any recruits get screwed over by signing and then a coaching change happen. But I guess if they just do away with early signing day and go back to the first week in February it will fix itself. But what does that do to early enrollees?

Notre Dame would lose by 20 ....

Not sure if there is smart money going against Saban in the playoffs, he's been pretty solid after year 1 didn't go so well