LinvilleGorge

Oh, it's definitely about the money. And it's football. College basketball is on the steep decline. Growing up in NC in the '80s and '90s college basketball was life. It's a shadow of what it once was. Everything is about money and football is where the money is.

It would probably have to be extra incentives. And then other programs would probably use that to recruit against you. I mean, honestly they'd rather their players suit up for the bowls but they're cashing that check anyway so at the end of the day they're not really negatively impacted by the sit outs at the end of the day.

The "Dipper" thing just isn't gonna happen, man. If you think I'm a Tepper defender you're badly mistaken.

Cam is a confident individual who doesn't hold back and bite his tongue. I haven't seen any indication that Tepper would be too tolerant of folks like that. The one guy who he's let hang around that I thought would be that guy (Smitty) has sadly pretty much turned into a lapdog. I don't think it's a coincidence that Tepper went all in on a QB prospect who comes across as one of the most timid acting franchise QB prospects I've ever seen. I mean, think about it. Have you ever seen a guy who was tabbed as a potential franchise QB at any point whether it was leading up to the draft or a non-1st round pick who showed promise at some point act as sheepish as Bryce does? It's weird. Most football folks would be turned off by that. Then you have Scott Fitterer at GM who took what was essentially a GM in title only role without final roster say to be a wet nurse for a college coach who was floundering. Real viable GM candidates with ambition don't take that job. A lot of fans have talked about how we don't have any dogs on this team and lack "alphas" (as cringe as that term is) but I just don't think Tepper is likely to tolerate those types for long.

I honestly don't know how much power anyone in the building actually has and that's the source of my biggest concern. If Tepper is the one actually calling the shots when he wants to then all the personnel changes in the world aren't likely to lead to a change in the results. Our best bet is Fitterer being an atrocious GM and him having the wool pulled over Tepper's eyes since he's been here. I just don't know that I'd put much money down on that one.

It's not in "their" corner. They'd love for all of their players to suit up. It's not in the interests of draft bound players to suit up. I honestly won't be surprised if we get to the point that draft bound players start opting out mid-season if their teams aren't playoff bound. It is what it is. It sucks for college football but I don't blame the players. You could try to do something moving forward to having NIL money incentives to not sit out but other than that what else are you gonna do? It is what it is.

Yeah, front office and staff is where spending big can make a real difference since there's no salary cap there. Go out and hire the best people available and GTFO of their way and let them do their jobs.

FSU vs. UGA is irrelevant. Who cares which one is the better team with all their draft bound players chilling on the sidelines in street clothes? It's why the non-playoff P5 bowls are irrelevant now. Just do the playoffs and then keep a handful of bowls around for the good non-P5 D1 teams that are never gonna qualify for the playoffs anyway. It might be time for a total realignment. There should probably only be about 40-50 true D1 football teams.

I don't think most folks grasp the massive gulf between millionaires and billionaires. $15M a year is a MASSIVE amount of money but it's pocket change to a billionaire. If you made a dollar per second you'd be a millionaire in 12 days. It'd take you nearly 33 years to become a billionaire.

I mean, I don't really care that they got jobbed. Without their QB they definitely weren't one of the best four teams and ultimately I want to see the best possible field. I couldn't possibly care less about the ACC as a conference.

The ACC is definitely circling the drain. No doubt about it. FSU goes to the playoffs if their QB doesn't get hurt but there's zero chance an undefeated conference champ out of any of the other P5 conferences doesn't go to the playoffs even if their QB gets hurt. It just confirmed what everyone already knew - the ACC is the perceived weakest major football conference. It doesn't matter if you have a winning head to head record against the SEC. Perception is all that matters. Now you have the Clemsons and FSUs sitting there thinking... damn, we might have to win the ACC to get into a 12 team field. It honestly might be hard to get an at large bud out of the ACC because the SEC is gonna be screaming to get half of the field every year.

It's hard for me to get pumped about football recruiting simply because most of these guys, especially the linemen, are at least a year or two away from being significant contributors at the P5 level. I quit following all recruiting about the time I graduated college. At some point in your adult life concerning yourself with the decisions of HS kids starts feeling very creepy. When I was no longer in school it just didn't feel appropriate anymore. When a hyped kid commits I'll go watch his highlight reel and that's pretty much the extent of it for me.

Per usual in recent years, my late season football watching consists of simply finding the most intriguing game on that time slot. I can only stomach so much bad, downright boring football.

Let the new HC hire his staff. It'd be awesome if he chooses to retain Evero but you have to let the HC pick his staff.

I couldn't remember what Tepper gave Rhule. It was $60M over 7 years. He got fired and got a raise with $74M over 8 years at Nebraska. Imagine making that much money not even being very good at something. Damn.

This. If he can get Tepper on the hook for $15M per then he can go shopping with it.

I have no idea why Mack would bring that up. It's whatever. Doeren should've just said "It was unprofessional, I apologize. I called Mack weeks ago and said the same. It is what it is. Let's talk about signing day."

Go back to running your hedge fund so you don't have time to meddle in football. Just enjoy it as a fan and count your money.

The college game by and large is just more entertaining right now than the NFL. It's just the bowls that suck. Georgia vs. Florida State is a badass football game. But no one wants to see Georgia vs. Florida State minus all the guys on those teams that are likely getting drafted next year. That isn't actually Georgia vs. Florida State.

You know how I know the bowls are dead? I've never even heard of the majority of the sponsors and I don't even care to look into who they are. I just chuckle that they pissed their money away to slap their name onto a toilet bowl. This poo has to be abysmal ROI driven by boomer executives who still think it's a big time power play to be a bowl sponsor.

The best case scenario is that Fitts is the architect of this disaster and that Tepper has been snowed by him this whole time. That seems like a huge reach but we can still hope.

We've all been harping about this all year and even longer. We're the worst franchise in the league currently in large part because we've made horrible personnel moves, both in terms of the roster and the coaching ranks. We have some good players and we probably have some good coaches but we don't have enough to overcome the rest of the poo show.

Bieniemy has been a disaster. The Dolphins were straight up mocking his poo offensive scheme and flat out said that Howell getting outside the pocket and making something happen was the only thing that concerned them.

Freddie Mitchell vibes

Does this guy make any videos that you don't post?