Have to give IU credit for going all in on being a football school. Good news for their fans, and bad news for other teams in the Big 10 like Illinois and Ohio State if they succeed.
The problem is going to be if they can continue to maintain a war chest of money like Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Penn State and Oregon will always have. I don’t think they will be able to keep up with those teams in the arms race over the long haul. But for now, Cignetti would be silly to leave the short term machine he’s built. Penn State will take a step back for a couple seasons. Michigan can’t recruit receivers whatsoever to keep up with what USC, Oregon and OSU will always have offensively. So Indiana can be in the 1-3ish range in the Big Ten for the next couple years.
It would be so Cristobal-like to drop this game. Absolute chaos ensues in the ACC as to who gets to the championship if Miami loses since so many of the teams with top conference records don’t play each other.
Louisville-Miami was one of only two games I caught this weekend. The other was OleMiss-UGA - *cough* - live between the hedges. Imagine the comments from half a dozen Georgia fans, all gearing up for Saturday, watching Louisville-Miami, and all still sour about Carson Beck. Heh. The Cliff's Notes version - I was nowhere near the worst.
Firing Brian Kelly is likely the right move. He was a goofy fit down there from the start with faking the accent and shit. This is a bad year to fire your coach. Everyone’s doing it and it sounds like LSU, Florida and maybe Auburn if they fire Freeze will be in on trying to get Lane to leave Ole Miss. Franklin makes a lot of sense at Virginia Tech but he’ll draw SEC interest and maybe Florida State interest as well.
NIL money baby! Kentucky paid $1.25 million for Incarnate Word (and former Texas A&M top recruit) transfer. He got benched for someone named Cutter. https://x.com/mythoughtskc/status/1986402068530139578
I thought that was dirty pool last night by USC. Dressing their QB in the punters number to fake a punt. I don’t like that
Great hire by Virginia Tech and great decision by Franklin to stay with what he knows in the NE and away from the mess in Gainesville and Baton Rouge. Weak conference and much easier path to the CFP in the ACC. He’ll pull a ton of Penn State kids there. I think Lane is as good as gone from Ole Miss but I think it’s probably going to be a mistake. From what I understand the Ole Miss boosters basically let him do whatever the hell he wants because he’s basically the most successful coach they’ve had in 60 years. That’s not how it works in Gainesville and definitely not how it’d work at LSU. LSU is the bigger mess with the governor getting involved, basically firing the AD, putting an interim AD in place that the school President said isn’t going to be there for very long. Florida has one of the most competitive recruiting states because of the saturation of D1 colleges there.
At LSU Kiffin would get every single New Orleans area kid. I think he would win a national championship. — Florida should go after Matt Campbell at Iowa State. It feels so much like an Urban Meyer move, a guy who won everywhere he’s been finally stepping up in resources and trying his hand in the South
LSUs rumored offer to Lane Kiffin is $90 million, with $25 million in “roster cash”, blessed by the governor of Louisiana. “Ah yeah… I think I’ll accept” lol what has happened to college sports… a complete joke these days
I have to wonder how long they can maintain the charade of college sports before it becomes so corporate they have to separate from the schools.
The next step in the commercialization of college football and basketball is the big time programs going independent. Michigan and I believe USC already resisted a venture capitalist investment in the Big Ten and I think it’s for this reason. They see Notre Dame as an independent with a huge TV deal, with an easy path to the CFP every year as a 2-loss team or better that pays them out a ton of money as well. The kicker? They keep all that money for themselves. There is no revenue sharing like there is for the teams in conference. Why would Michigan want to continue sharing money with Northwestern and Minnesota? They can go independent, sign an exclusive with CBS or Peacock or shit Netflix who’s getting into this game. Keep the rivalry games - Michigan State, Ohio State and then schedule James Madison, Wake Forest, Kentucky, etc. for an easy 10-2 every year.
god that would be something. They build these super conferences then they are the ones to destroy them
