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DaddyBigBucks said:
I don't hate this, or any of the other proposals for that matter. But there was an Ohio State team that would not have been in the playoff in an 8-team field by those criteria, that WAS in the 4-team field. The committee considered PSU's win over Ohio State that year a fluke. And you know what? They were 100% right.

In spite of that though, it wouldn't kill me to see this come to pass. It also wouldn't kill me to see the status quo remain. The simple truth is, I haven't seen a single year where a single team was left out of the playoff that had a REASONABLE argument for being the best team in the country. Call me crazy, but I prefer a world where a team that is the best in the country is the one that wins the NC. Some might like a world where a wildcard team gets hot at the right time and wins the SuperBowl. That's just not my preference.

Another thing that I don't like about the "MUST have played in their CCG" criterion: that prevents the Buckeyes from crushing the cowards in the playoffs. What's the good of expanding the playoff if we can't pants the wolverines in it?
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I'm for whatever forces Notre Lame to JOIN A CONFERENCE
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What will college football look like in 5 years?

DaddyBigBucks
cincibuck said:
I don't know. The changes are coming awfully quick on the academic side of the house - increasing pressure on HS to create AP courses, more pressure on schools to allow HS students to take core curriculum classes in lieu of HS senior English and math. All of this with the idea to get students through college quicker. The college core curriculum itself has been reduced in favor of tech Vo Ed. From my perspective.

So what's this got to do with college football? How do you feel about the tuition your kid pays if you know that some of your tax dollars are being spent to provide a football program at Kent, Ohio U., Miami, Cincinnati, and Bowling Green?

Right now, Ohio State gets away with it because they make enough money to keep it all self-contained. I'm suggesting that as the cost of college increases, parents are going to be dipping deeper into their home equity, retirement savings, and other discretionary funds to give their kid the benefit. They are going to become increasingly more interested in examining where their tax dollars go - bread and circuses will be one of the items to be chucked.
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While your last sentence is probably true (that they'll chuck football before looking at other issues), the cost of football is a tiny spit into the incomprehensible ocean of tuition inflation. The price of higher education keeps going up, and they are going to price themselves right out of existence. There is already a lot of talk in America about reexamining our credentialing system from the ground up. People are learning how to code, for example, from private firms that are not even affiliated with universities, and some are translating that into 6 figure jobs right out of high school.

We already live in a world where no one asks to see your diploma except for your very first job out of college (true for me any every engineer I know anyway). And many of the best engineers I've known were guys who had zero formal education after high school. We already live in a world where my 2 most important credentials come from entirely outside of academia, and the same is true for my brother the OT. Some day soon the world will wake up and realize that academia has it's place, but that place no longer has (will have) anything to do with credentialing the vast majority of occupations... including most of what we call professions.

What college football looks like in that world remains to be seen. What's certain is that its administration will be very different than what currently exists.
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2021 Spring Practices, Game, and Tidbits

ScriptOhio
billmac91 said:
Not sure if this is right thread, but with OSU down to 82 scholarship players out of 85, I wonder if we see any transfer portal activity? I don’t have any current insight, although I’d think Kicker and DB’s would be top priorities.

Not sure what’s available at kicker, but Miami landed a stud in Jose Borregales last year in transfer portal....he made a huge difference for them.
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Just sayin': Then again, it's always nice to have a couple scholarships available to give as a "thank you/reward" to deserving senior walk-ons in appreciation for their 4 years of contributions to the team.
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WR Terry Glenn (1995 Biletnikoff Award & NFL Pro Bowler, R.I.P.)

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I was cruising around YouTube looking at old games while recovering from COVUD shot and came across a couple of good copies of Terry Glenn in 1995.

If any of you are too young to remember this or if you are old enough and time has faded the memories like it did to me, invest the time. It's worth it.

Hard to describe how dominant he was.

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The 2020 College Football Season

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OHSportsFan said:
Not digging back to whatever season this was but saw this scrolling and immediately laughed.

Doesn’t get better than TCU putting a QB in with drop foot. The pinnacle of bad football. Cheez-It Bowl will always live in infamy.

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That was the greatest game in the history of College Football!
Do not besmirch the honor of the 2018 Cheez-It Bowl!
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Player Safety: Helmets & Pads

ScriptOhio
First position-specific helmet ranks No. 2 in NFL lab testing

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Helmet maker Vicis introduced the first position-specific helmet and the NFL announced on Tuesday that it has performed well in its first round of laboratory testing.

The Vicis Zero2-R Trench helmet is designed for offensive and defensive linemen and it ranked second among all 41 helmet models tested by the league. Another new Vicis model, the Zero2-R Matrix, ranked first and a third, the Zero2-R, rounded out the top three.

“Players have more and better choices than ever before. Continued improvement in helmet design has raised the bar for top performing helmet models,” NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Miller said in a statement. “The introduction of the first position-specific helmet is a promising development within the helmet industry to further customize helmets for the unique safety requirements of each position. The NFL and NFLPA have long supported critical innovation in helmet design through our research and innovation challenges and by providing necessary data to manufacturers, and we’re excited for that effort to yield tangible results.”

Entire article: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...pecific-helmet-ranks-no-2-in-nfl-lab-testing/

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NFL, players' association approve first position-specific helmet design for OL, DL

The NFL and NFL Players Association have approved a position-specific helmet design for the first time since they began regulating equipment for players, representatives for both groups confirmed Tuesday.

The helmet, known as the VICIS ZERO2-R TRENCH, was built for offensive and defensive linemen and is ranked No. 2 on the league's 2021 safety rankings. The helmets are equipped with bumpers on their front and upper sides, where NFL engineering studies showed are a common point of contact for linemen who absorb concussion-causing contact, according to Dr. Ann Good, a senior engineer at BioCore and a consultant to the NFL.

The league and union have been ranking helmets based on proprietary safety data since 2015, using lab tests designed by BioCore, and began banning the lowest-performing helmets in 2019. The primary goal was to drive down reported concussion totals among players, which peaked at 281 during the 2017 season. The 2021 ratings, distributed to teams Tuesday, added three models to the prohibited list and six to a category called "not recommended."

Approximately 18% of players finished the 2020 season using one of those nine helmet models. But Dr. Kristy Arbogast, an engineering consultant for the NFLPA, said her expectation is that almost all of them will move to a better-performing helmet in 2021. In each of the past two seasons, 99% of NFL players have used a helmet recommended by the NFL/NFLPA ratings.

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