kungfoodude

I am in the "he is a CB" camp. I am just not sure he is special at WR. He is at CB.

LOL. Clark is a three time Pro Bowler.

I wouldn't have had a problem with giving up Brown for Parsons but we literally can't afford the 2 firsts. That's future roster suicide.

The time it takes to turn them around isn't likely to be hit by a 73 year old.

The "student" part has historically beeen a farce for revenue athletes.

They got Baby GOAT fever.

I am curious to see how long it takes for them to realize Hunter isn't a WR but a CB.

Yep and that is at Texas Tech, who pulls in a massive chunk of money from both of those sports.

Yeah, lot of these chirping fans would quickly find out their real place.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It will basically be a football organization filled with the deepest pockets and best markets. That likely excludes almost if not all the ACC.

If the coaches have freedom of movement and if the regular students have freedom of movement, so should the athletes. Tired of this fake "student athlete" crap that they have pushed for decades when what they meant was unpaid labor. I am perfectly fine with free agency every offseason until real contracts exist.

Pretty much the entire ACC minus perhaps Clemson and FSU would be outside that agreement.

I don't agree. Free agency exists in the pros so if they want that version, then have contracts.

I think he viewed this as his proof of concept for his triumphant return to the NFL. It always seemed drenched in some level of hubris. That he would waltz in, be a massive success and have ample NFL grovelers at his feet. Also not very rooted in reality. Truthfully, he was almost always a terrible personnel evaluator and that doomed New England to being the dumpster fire they are now.

Yeah, I don't think your perception is anywhere close to reality. You are more than welcome to that but I don't think you are going to get much in the way of legit agreement from any sort of football commentators.

I think it was a matter of seeing how difficult it would be to compete with FSU. They had far more resources and football was always going to be a second fiddle. Plus, at that time who could compete with Texass in terms of resources? Literally no one in the ACC.

I am sure it must be nice to have a live arm that doesn't hit the broadside of a barn or a guy lasering a pass into a DB's hands. Dalton serves his purpose perfectly fine. Don't completely get the wheels blown off and potentially have a shot to win a game or two. I think a lot of people are definitely confusing "starting" versus "backup."

I mean, if we are lucky, none of us ever sees the third string QB. Ever. He is washed in terms of being a regular starter but definitely not in terms of being a backup QB.

Agreed. Basically the "free agency" has made every team have something of a shot each year. That was never the case prior. Bad recruiting was death...for YEARS. If college sports is ever to genuinely survive, they have to get a commissioner. That's part of the big difference between pro and college sports. At the NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL level, they all generally operate for the common good(increased revenues/value). At the college level they all try to rip each other apart and take all the spoils they can. You will never survive that way, regardless of the demographic or economic issues that also put them in peril.

UNC's football relevance has always basically been, "Hey, remember how great our basketball program is?" To extent that has worked but they have never been able to capitalize on that towards being a legit ACC power. The closest was Mack Brown 1.0 and that was stopped by prime Bowden FSU. TBH, they should have utilized all these resources they just poured into Belichick into, IDK, a legit college football coach? This is one of the more insane uses of that kind of money I have seen in CFB, which is no stranger to insane, irresponsible uses of money. The SEC and Big Ten have already shot themselves in the foot. The model they are operating on only works if TV revenues continue to go up. Well, demographics aren't working in their favor. Economics either, TBH. The NIL didn't change very much, if you notice. The haves still have and the have nots don't. The only difference between pre-NIL and NIL was the money being below the table and above it. College athletics has never at any point been about fairness. It's the most dramatically unequal system in all US athletics. My only hope is that the collapse is swift, dramatic and most importantly SOON. I would like to see the rebuilding of this all to something closer to what it was 40-50 years ago. Regional and not such money grubbing nonsense.

Somehow he got worse from last offseason where he was fairly middling.

People say the NIL ot transfer portal is killing college football, which is demonstrably false. This is the poo that has effectively killed ALL college sports. The TV contract whoring that has caused the complete destruction of regional conferences.

Easily so. 1 "National Championship", 11 conference titles. UNC can boast 0 and 7. Maryland is less so since they have left the ACC and will likely remain depressed for the remainder of their existence before the Big Ten collapses. I agree about the ACC and its football history but truthfully, it is becoming harder for the ACC to compete in the super conference era with the extreme amounts of money it takes to just stay competitive, much less excel. UNC is very odd case. On the surface, plenty of money to spend to attempt to become a relevant football program but then you spend it on....Bill Belichick??? That's....stupid.

I think he dreams of being begged back to the NFL but it's a false dream. Could it happen? Yes. Is it likely? Definitely not. I don't anticipate him becoming suddenly self reflective or less stubborn although this college experiment is likely to end in a comically massive failure. The real question is how bad will it be for UNC when they have to buy out his son's HC contract?

Most of the ACC would fare similarly. Maryland is a far more accomplished football program historically and they have yet to ever finish above .500 in conference play since leaving the ACC.