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Impending Assistant Coach Vacancies

Just sayin': Ohio State can add all the assistants they want. The NCAA now allows an unlimited number of on-field assistant coaches for practices and games, removing the previous limit on "countable" coaches. However, the number of coaches who can recruit off-campus is still limited to the head coach and 10 assistants at the FBS level.
That sounds perfect for Chip. Just sit in your office and draw up plays. We'll bring the recruits to you.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

What would this accomplish for the teams involved? I get that you and I get more quality football to watch, but what is the motivation of the teams involved?
I mean, what is the motivation for Ohio State and Indiana? From what we're speculating, the loser will still be top 4. The winner might have an easier path to the championship, but if there's a similar situation in the future, and Team A goes down 21-0 early in the second quarter, what motivation do they have to fight to bring this back to a close game?
If we do 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5, do the winners get credited with a quality win? What's Oregon's motivation this year? What's Ole Miss's motivation this year? Or aTm's? Those teams are already in.
I like the idea of more football, but only if it's a game both teams want to win.
Did you not get to the part about the top-2 CCG winners getting byes?
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

Problem with that is you still have teams playing an extra game, risking injury, etc. when compared to other teams that just sit and wait. It all needs to just get blown up. Either shrink the Conferences back to 10, or split them into divisions. ONLY and I fucking mean it, and said the same thing last year... ONLY conference champions get into the playoff. I say 8 teams, but whatever, I don't care. Take all subjectivity out of it, win divisionals, go to regionals, win regionals, go to nationals. If fucking Glee can figure that shit out, so can the NCAA.
I wanted the most recent conference expansion to result in 4 conferences where the CCGs were the CFP quarterfinals, but that ship has sailed.
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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

For posterity, here is an incomplete list of teams that are above Penn State in Rivals recruiting rankings after national signing day:

Sacramento State
South Dakota State
Harvard
North Dakota
UC Davis
North Dakota State
Montana State
Cal Poly
West Georgia (I honestly was unaware they had a team)
Stephen F. Austin
Eastern Washington
Florida A&M
Howard
Idaho State
Princeton
Northern Arizona
Dartmouth
Samford
Austin Peay
Mercer
Illinois State
South Dakota
Monmouth
Brown

:lol:
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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

I think Klatt is giving them too much credit thinking they have a plan and are trying to get DeBoer after the SEC championship game. Even if they had some grand plan, this recruiting cycle set them back years. At this point, they probably would be better off poaching a coach who could bring players with him. Maybe this time they'll figure out "not elite" is as good as they can get.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

I wasn’t wild about the idea when I first heard it, but it does accomplish a couple of things. First, there would be a few more games for TV, and some of those games would be relevant just prior to the CFP selection. It also takes away the disadvantage of the top-2 teams risking player injury while the soon-to-be at-large teams sit and get healthy.

This year would have created Oregon-Iowa and USC-TTUN rematches. And perhaps Ole Miss-Texas and aTm-Oklahoma in the SEC (sorry, Vandy). It would be more football being played and less posturing by the non-CCG teams this week.
What would this accomplish for the teams involved? I get that you and I get more quality football to watch, but what is the motivation of the teams involved?
I mean, what is the motivation for Ohio State and Indiana? From what we're speculating, the loser will still be top 4. The winner might have an easier path to the championship, but if there's a similar situation in the future, and Team A goes down 21-0 early in the second quarter, what motivation do they have to fight to bring this back to a close game?
If we do 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5, do the winners get credited with a quality win? What's Oregon's motivation this year? What's Ole Miss's motivation this year? Or aTm's? Those teams are already in.
I like the idea of more football, but only if it's a game both teams want to win.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

All this does is expand the playoff and give the committee more power and more leeway to arrange things. No thanks.

He does have a point about the disadvantage of playing in a CCG while the 3/4/5/6 teams in each conference sit out. At the B1G Media Days before this season started, Tony Petitti talked about having additional games during the CCG week. The B1G 3rd place team would play the 6th place team, and there would be a 4th/5th matchup as well.

I wasn’t wild about the idea when I first heard it, but it does accomplish a couple of things. First, there would be a few more games for TV, and some of those games would be relevant just prior to the CFP selection. It also takes away the disadvantage of the top-2 teams risking player injury while the soon-to-be at-large teams sit and get healthy.

This year would have created Oregon-Iowa and USC-TTUN rematches. And perhaps Ole Miss-Texas and aTm-Oklahoma in the SEC (sorry, Vandy). It would be more football being played and less posturing by the non-CCG teams this week.

The other thing I would prefer is an expansion only to 14, not 16, and have the 2 highest ranked CCG winners get the only byes. That retains a real value to the Conference Championships. This could be embraced by the 2 most powerful conferences, since the majority of the time their CCG winners would be receiving the CFP byes.
Problem with that is you still have teams playing an extra game, risking injury, etc. when compared to other teams that just sit and wait. It all needs to just get blown up. Either shrink the Conferences back to 10, or split them into divisions. ONLY and I fucking mean it, and said the same thing last year... ONLY conference champions get into the playoff. I say 8 teams, but whatever, I don't care. Take all subjectivity out of it, win divisionals, go to regionals, win regionals, go to nationals. If fucking Glee can figure that shit out, so can the NCAA.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

All this does is expand the playoff and give the committee more power and more leeway to arrange things. No thanks.

He does have a point about the disadvantage of playing in a CCG while the 3/4/5/6 teams in each conference sit out. At the B1G Media Days before this season started, Tony Petitti talked about having additional games during the CCG week. The B1G 3rd place team would play the 6th place team, and there would be a 4th/5th matchup as well.

I wasn’t wild about the idea when I first heard it, but it does accomplish a couple of things. First, there would be a few more games for TV, and some of those games would be relevant just prior to the CFP selection. It also takes away the disadvantage of the top-2 teams risking player injury while the soon-to-be at-large teams sit and get healthy.

This year would have created Oregon-Iowa and USC-TTUN rematches. And perhaps Ole Miss-Texas and aTm-Oklahoma in the SEC (sorry, Vandy). It would be more football being played and less posturing by the non-CCG teams this week.

The other thing I would prefer is an expansion only to 14, not 16, and have the 2 highest ranked CCG winners get the only byes. That retains a real value to the Conference Championships. This could be embraced by the 2 most powerful conferences, since the majority of the time their CCG winners would be receiving the CFP byes.
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Last concert you saw?

I looked at buying some tickets to the upcoming Zach Bryan show at the Browns stadium next May. I was number 380,000 in the queue. That is larger than the population of Cleveland proper. I think I will wait to see what prices look like closer to the day of the show. I've never been to a concert in such a large venue and probably won't head to it unless I can see some decent prices. All I know is I am glad we went to see him a few months ago at Marshall's stadium. Only 27k people there and I think that is considered a small show for him.
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