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Agreed 100%, of course. I don't believe for a minute that a playoff "legitimizes" the national champion....that's a fallacy. You're right...in a perfect world (at least, a world devoted to the perfect method of choosing a national champion) the NCAA could realign and then things would be more...

Not any more. Wood took a big hit on the rankings when the postseason 250 came out. Turner's a good 40-some spots ahead.

Snake-oiling Ricky Barnum out of his Gators commit doesn't count? What about Martavious Odoms and his Miami offer? Since you're also talking the previous regime, Greg Mathews picked Michigan over FSU and OSU. Nobody's saying you don't also do well in Florida, so I'm not sure where Gamble...

Main point is you can have a perfectly good national recruiting base and still lose talent to the instate schools. I see more of a "hypocritical" stance in saying I'm not worried about losing talent to the instate schools AND not worried about losing Michigan talent to LB. Guilty as charged...

Wait, why not? "National recruiting base" doesn't mean you have your pick of any recruit in any state. We certainly don't have any trouble getting talent out of, say, Florida - and yet it's not some kind of blast on our recruiting when we get beat by a Florida school for someone.

However, any number under eleven would almost certainly be set up without using conference autobids. If you autobid some conferences and not others, there will be lawsuits and probably a genuine antitrust case. So that would basically mean either a ranking system like the BCS (a bogus idea; if...

All signs are pointing to his returning to Charlottesville and walking onto the football team at UVA after a year of taking classes at Piedmont Valley CC to get qualified.

Just to sort of zero in on this part of it here, because I think it's the most important. Not only should a playoff be at least 16 teams, it will absolutely have to be. Currently, the system is set up so that all 120 teams have a de jure chance to play for the title. Obviously that's not...

Boyd and Hunter are from NC, and Tate, being as big a baseball star as he is, would have been absolutely batshit to go north of the Mason-Dixon line to play. UNC has a hell of a baseball program.

Appreciated, but I'm actually going to go against RR here. I always said RR would be able to recruit better at Michigan than at WVU simply because it's Michigan. It still is. Michigan has always gotten kids like this - they're not likely to play, nor make it to the NFL, and there are some...

Hey now. Then again, outsiders rarely get it.

They could, of course, have continued to tell him he'd be a WR then shift him to corner after a little while on the team. I'll take what I can get, though, when it comes to "benefit of the doubt", otherwise this will become another RR shooting match. I'm not either. Supposedly UNC is the place...

I'm just waiting for some politician from a state not "jobbed" by the BCS to say something. Til then it's just a stupid trick for cheap political points, hiding behind tough talk meant to fake a principled stand for justice and equality.

Does Purdue belong that high at 0-2 with losses to #6 and #9? I'd put 'em like 6th or 7th.

They told him up front he might be a corner but would get a shot at WR. Then they didn't get enough corners. A kid can change his mind but a coaching staff is set in stone, no matter what decisions a wide range of 18-year-old kids make and change through the course of a year?

May be replaced soon with Dale Peterman. Lack of CB commits means coaches wanted to move Peace there, but he wants to play receiver, where he probably wouldn't have sniffed the field at Michigan. Mywan Jackson announces today - we might get lucky.

It's such a bold prediction too.

You and Tom Luginbill. I'd link, but he sneaky-edited the article.

My point is, what's the difference between a guy yelling at a coach (who was like, an assistant strength and conditioning coach IIRC) and a guy sassing a coach (which in this case would be the head coach)? It's something that college kids do every now and again. Only difference is the volume.

Obviously not. At least not from year to year. From beginning to end of this season? Absolutely. But in any case, it's the height of foolishness to take the results of one year and assume it will continue that way for all time. I do. It's why Ryan Mallett wasn't in Carr's good graces all...