Josh Pate serves up a softball to Sarkisian. I understand Pate wants access over being a real interviewer, but the follow-up questions that could come from this were many (yes, he has done that with Kirby as well).
Listening to Sark talk about culture of team first while he parks Lamborghinis in front of the football facility for high school recruiting visits makes me laugh.
Refugees, discuss.
If the Big 10 gets their way on this, the regular season is officially dead.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47584209/college-football-playoff-expansion-hearing
SEC wants 16, and the B1G wants 24. I’m assuming the desire for 24 is purely a play for Fox by the Yankee conference to force the division of TV rights.
If Sankey doesn’t hold the line on this, he’s pretty much useless. I’ve become resigned to the fact they are going to expand. 16 seems right to give the top 4 a play-in game. The question is how far will they go with games on campus.
Redd Foxx has a word for Tony Petitti.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
We Are Marshall.
The greed of college administrators started this ball rolling down the hill. NIL and the collectives added fuel to accelerate it. The transfer portal and the NCAA’s decision to cave on the revised transfer rules have turned it into a high-speed snowball.
I hate this for college sports below the P4 level.
Marshall, App State, and Georgia Southern were three proud brands of Division 1-AA football back in the day. It was stupid for them to make the jump to FBS.
I would love to ask Erk if he believed the Eagles jumping to the Sun Belt from the SoCon was worth the money.
Refugees, love to hear from you.
When great minds come together to discuss the finer points of fair play, rules and regulations, and protocols, they are no doubt meeting somewhere that doesn’t involve the SEC.
In all honesty, they could’ve said “if we get to E and can’t settle it, we opt for Global Thermonuclear War”.
I tried to imagine the scenario, so y’all help me with my flawed logic here:
Georgia (11-1) loses to Alabama but beats Ole Miss.
Ole Miss (11-1) beats LSU (11-1).
LSU beats Alabama (11-1).
You’re probably getting to C level then, then Ole Miss is probably out with the softest conference schedule.
Move to D, LSU is probably out with the next softest schedule.
Move to E, although at that point it’s Georgia and Alabama, they have to determine the home team and visiting team. What if the margin is razor thin and they have to go to the draw?
Something tells me all the slips of paper would have “RTR” on them, with Nick Saban hosting the celebratory draw.
Call it.