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Guy who left really good, high-paying job for really good, higher paying job is frustrated that people with multiple good options are taking the higher paying option.
LSU head coach Brian Kelly sounded off about the NIL era in recruiting😯
The Tigers lost two 5-star commits in the final two weeks before National Signing Day.
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I sure hope he doesn’t throw away that good thing he has with Padme and cast his lot with that sneaky Senator Palpatine.
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If you want a bowl game to mean something — the game, not the matchup — then you must do one of two things.
1. Play the game in Pasadena so the sun sets in the third quarter.
2. Ritually sacrifice an anthropomorphic breakfast pastry and let the winning team devour the corpse.
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The wife of Texas Tech’s team barber was hit by a drunk driver recently.
BYU fans began sharing the Go Fund Me link, and the donations skyrocketed.
BYU and Texas Tech play Saturday.
BYU fans are awesome humans.
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ESPN sources tell ESPN that ESPN might continue to broadcast the playoff on ESPN.
Sources: CFP, ESPN discussing new deal that would give ESPN control of College Football Playoff rights for the next eight seasons. Story w/@CFBHeather on what the final two seasons of current deal and next six years would look like. espn.com/college-football/st…
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It’s me. The Big 12 homer who included only Big 12 quarterbacks in a ranking of Big 12 quarterbacks is me.
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Hear our cries, @EASPORTS.
@andystaples I plead with you. Start the petition to get these bowl mascots as available skins in the new College Football video game. Playing as a team of mascots was always fun but Pop Tarts vs Jars of Mayonnaise would be the dream.
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Translation: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina already have to do this, so the rest of you do too.
NEW: SEC teams are required to play one out-of-conference high quality game per season🔥
"SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional high quality non-conference from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame each season."
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As I lay my head on the pillow following championship Saturday, I’ll think only of this: Lane Kiffin is a head coach in the SEC again because a guy pretended to pee like a dog on the field.
God bless America.
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D.J. Burns: Double me so I can go Magic Johnson.
Texas Tech: No.
D.J. Burns: Double me so I can go Jokic.
Texas Tech: No.
D.J. Burns: BABY HOOK
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Let's get this straight.
They knew in December that Heupel was still Tennessee's coach, so the offense wasn't changing.
So they wait until April, and -- if this winds up being true -- put him with an OC whose next playcall will be his first.
Because it's about the offense.
NEW: Tennessee transfer QB Nico Iamaleava to UCLA is a done deal, per Colin Cowherd👀
“Family still claims it’s NOT about the money. It’s about the Vol Football offense.”
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Trevor is dead on here. Cancel football, and a lot of players wind up returning to situations that aren’t as safe as they are currently.
If the schools would just drop the charade and cut some checks, they could bubble them and play. But they won’t do that.
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If Memphis isn’t running onto Project Pat Field at the Liberty Bowl this fall, we’ve failed.
NEWS: FIU is selling its football stadium naming rights to music artist Pitbull for $1.2M per year, @PeteThamel reports.
For the next 5 seasons, the Panthers will change its stadium name to "Pitbull Stadium"🔥
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Someone really just asked Gus Malzahn, former Auburn coach, if he understood what kind of pressure cooker he’s walking into at UCF.
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Amazing what happens when everyone at two schools handles a coaching change like grown-ups. UCF gets a huge win, and Nebraska got a three-hour infomercial for Scott Frost’s coaching.
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What’s weirder than the news tonight that the now-suspended Michigan staffer accused of a sign-stealing operation bought tickets to Alabama, Clemson Georgia and Tennessee games in 2022?
A @Volquest_On3 poster dropped the dime on all this in December.
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The folks at @SECShorts are sweating right now, because if this somehow holds they have to find a way to top this.
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You don't need to show the overtime rules graphic, ESPN. The casual fan is long gone. We're all friends here.
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Those poor soccer players have no idea what they’re getting themselves into trying to do something outdoors in early August in Columbia, S.C.
Bless their hearts.
South Carolina has announced that Manchester United will play Liverpool at Williams-Brice Stadium on Aug. 3, part of a preseason tour for the clubs.
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Notre Dame has two undefeated regular seasons since 2012. Texas has lost to TCU seven times since 2012. Probably shouldn’t put Texas and ND in the same sentence.
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The highest ranked Group of 5 seed doesn’t automatically get No. 12, ESPN halftime show.
You’re paying billions to broadcast this thing. At least explain it correctly.
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BREAKING: BYU grad is worried about old college football players
NEW: Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian on Diego Pavia's eligibility ruling:
"I totally disagree...we're going to have guys 28-29 years old playing college football."
(h/t @Cory_Mose)
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This is what all those idiots spent more than 100 years trying to block…
Here is KU football walk-on Jared Casey's acting debut for @Applebees: "Hey, you always gotta go for two."
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1. College sports will still have a governing body. Ain't nobody trying to throw their own softball tournament.
2. If you remove the rule that bans a thing, doing that thing isn't cheating.
3. You can still have rules about academic eligibility.
I’m not arguing for or against college athlete endorsements, but this is what comes with it: 1. The end of the NCAA, 2. Fewer rules, more cheating, 3. Complete professionalization of college sports — players won’t be tied to academics, likely won’t need to go to class.
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About like everyone else’s. But glad you feel superior to an entire region of the country.
But you know what they say. When you can get a football-related zinger on Twitter in where the punchline is the number of hospitalizations and deaths, you just have to do it.
Many SEC fans wanted their states and their economy open and their right to not wear a mask. How’s your football season looking, guys?
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If Grand Canyon University can create the biggest party in college basketball out of thin air, your school has no excuse for putting on boring basketball games. theathletic.com/1397407/2019…
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If someone doesn’t ask him in a debate why he signed zero offensive linemen in the class of 2012, every oppo research team should be fired.
Derek Dooley, a former University of Tennessee football coach, is launching a bid for the Senate in Georgia, entering a shifting political landscape as candidates vie for coveted endorsements and the chance to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. abcnews.link/Gjaq2RG
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Also, playing Dixieland Delight, a song about truck sex that takes place in Tennessee that is beloved by Alabama fans, is an especially salty touch.
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There is football on every night from now until the Monday after Thanksgiving. We truly live in the most wonderful of times.
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We charted QB Jaden Rashada’s recruitment from his discovery to his Miami commitment to a since-terminated $13.85 million deal to go to Florida.
It’s a tour through the untamed world of recruiting in the NIL era.
The contract is especially eye-popping.
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Reminder: The FCS transfer QB who has helped South Carolina to a 20-point lead against Florida does a spot-on Bobby Boucher and a spot-on Roberto Boucher.
Jason Brown
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Pac-12 commish George Kliavkoff calls scheduling college football games 12 years in advance "insane." He hopes the Alliance members can create an inter-conference challenge format where dates get saved and non-conference games get scheduled the preceding January.
PLEASE DO THIS
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Mike Leach had a law degree but never practiced law.
He had strong opinions about shrunken heads, ancient military tactics and cargo shorts.
He also changed the way nearly everyone at every level of football plays offense.
Goodbye to one of one.
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Ty Jerome on Carsen Edwards: “That was the best performance I’ve ever seen.”
Kyle Guy: “I’ve never witnessed anything like that.”
Tony Bennett: “He made me rip my play card in half.”
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“Jacksonville technically is a big city, land-wise.”
— Trevor Lawrence, who apparently was briefed about the whole square-mileage thing.
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Quinn Ewers looks like that guy in town who can get you the hood for the 88 Firebird you’re restoring at a very fair price.
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Sark asks the assembled media to figure out how many QBs have won at Alabama and at Michigan in their careers.
Then he expanded on how much Quinn Ewers has grown as the Longhorns’ QB1.
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Notre Dame tailback Jeremiyah Love: “We want to play Ohio State.”
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Never forget whose fault it is that there isn’t a 12-team playoff this year.
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Imagine it's December 2017. UCF is undefeated. USC has just won the Pac-12.
You walk up to a random college football fan and say this: "The last straw for Scott Frost at Nebraska will be losing to Clay Helton's Georgia Southern team."
Does that person call the cops?
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Pretty pathetic to lecture the guy for doing his job when you’re less than 24 hours from bailing.
But hey, get that bag.
After last night's loss, coach Jim Schlossnagle said "I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again"
He was just announced as the new head coach at Texas
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Don’t be the person who is too snobby for Cheesecake Factory or Chili’s or Texas Roadhouse.
I promise you it impresses a lot fewer people than you think it does.
Andrew I've been reading you for decades.
All the food you've eaten, all the joints you've eaten at, the fact that you'd go to Cheesecake Factory saddens me.
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Enjoying @finebaum explaining to a caller that Nick Saban doesn’t do the Aflac commercials live and that he isn’t spending more time on that than before.
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I’m a little late for the How It Started/How It’s Going thing, but two years later, it’s going with significantly less blubber.
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Miami players were chatting up Florida’s recruits (wouldn’t you?) and the Florida recruiting staffers were trying in vain to stop it.
Ladies and Gents your Miami Hurricanes 🙌🏽
Final Score: @CanesFootball 41- @GatorsFB 17
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They finally ran the "Nyck Harbor run as fast as you can straight down the field and I'll throw it to you" play that I always spam in the video game!
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Quick HIPAA tutorial:
If your doctor tells someone your medical info, that is a HIPAA violation.
When your agent tells someone your medical info, it is not.
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Heisman voting opens today. Don’t vote today. Don’t vote tomorrow. Wait until after the games get finished Saturday. It’s not that difficult.
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My brother-in-law wins. He made most of this with 3D printers and then sanded and painted it.
This is the way...
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Excuse me? I feel like this paragraph requires more elaboration.
The Lifetime movie of this entire saga is going to be 🔥🔥🔥🔥.
How Jordon Hudson, 23, amassed $8 million real estate portfolio within months of meeting Bill Belichick trib.al/EKBsE59
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LSU is now the best job open this cycle.
And Lane Kiffin is about to milk the Ole Miss/Florida/LSU thing for SO much money.
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If you didn’t write a pearl-clutching I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU MONSTERS ARE TRYING TO PLAY FOOTBALL IN A PANDEMIC column when Sun Belt teams were shifting games around, I’m disinclined to take your thoughts seriously when you do it now that LSU, Florida and Nick Saban are in the mix.
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Seen a lot of blame for “the agents” in the Nico/Tennessee situation.
The truth? If he’d had a pro agent instead of dad and friend, this probably gets handled quietly in December.
Instead, it’s a mess.
And Nico is now looking for a real agent.
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98 yards with my boys is the T-shirt...
And as you can see, it's not all about the playoff. It all matters.
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He’s not a Michigan fan. It’s not a false flag operation (which would have been hysterical).
Serious question: Does this bill put Ohio State’s loss to Michigan over the top as the most embarrassing loss in college football history?
Sports history?
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Today was as pissed off as I’ve seen Greg Sankey in a public setting.
He understood the subtext of the “good of the game” question quite clearly, and he came back swinging.
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This might be a good time to remind everyone that Arkansas has a TON of money — especially when certain big donors are motivated.
I feel like that’s not something most of the general public realizes.
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An oral history of oral histories:
"So I was sitting there thinking 'I've got a bunch of good quotes and I'm bad at writing transitions.'"
-- Andy Staples, Sports Illustrated
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Jim Harbaugh is asked if the national title game might be his last at Michigan.
Harbaugh: “My future consists of a happy flight back to ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN.”
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James Franklin said something during our interview that merits a 👀.
“I’m in a situation now where where, for really the first time here at Penn State, we have the alignment that I’ve been pounding the table for for 12 years.”
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Other than when he picks the Dukes, every pick should be "I'm gonna take Barstool Van Talk here, Rece."
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Watching this GameDay discussion of Florida and I get that they all work with Dan Mullen, but they need to acknowledge that firing was a different (and weird) situation.
He was a legit great coach from 2018-20. Came back a different coach after 2020. They fired the second guy.
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No wonder Gary is quitting…
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Jalen Hurts being legit ticked about that performance should terrify everyone in the Big 12.
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So 1992 Ohio State-Wisconsin is on, and Barry Alvarez is about to give the rest of the condo board 60 minutes of hell.
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The folks at @EASPORTS released their 25 toughest college football environments.
I had some issues with their list, so I made my own.
Video: piped.video/Vd4DpZ3wMsk
Column: on3.com/news/the-25-toughest…
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