JabbaNoBargain

Solid points, and I can see how it would help marketing growth and momentum…but I personally still won’t know his name until June 2025. I just find it fascinating to watch this evolve in the context of the portal era.

No doubt, and I don’t begrudge anyone that wants to follow each kid. I myself don’t learn their name until it’s on the roster after spring portal…either way this goes, this is still just a verbal and people are acting like it’s the end. Dramatic 5-star wide receiver would never reopen things, right? Non-binding verbal ceremony is kind of hilarious,

You don’t want to be held hostage on the whims of a HS kid? For shame!

From one of their forums today, the only football topic with a ton of activity at the moment…and it’s 6 pages deep, this is the mindset lol

And they seem to be getting addicted to “the power” of “calling the shots” for the “conference”. I think if they do actually try to reconstitute the league, it’s going to become a real impediment. Yeah let’s leave our legitimate conference for something where these two numbskulls who offer nothing other than an old brand are calling the shots…who would do that?

Yep, still a lot of them that think the name “Pac12” will equate to automatic success and P5 status once they get up to 8 teams, no matter who they are. They seem to forget that it didn’t equal success when the membership was legitimate, but sure, adding Nevada and 5 others of that ilk = instant P5 status and riches. But my favorite Beavis belief remains them believing the civil war being played in Corvallis this year is somehow them doing OBD a favor.

It’s just semi-transparent now…I’m pretty sure the “blue bloods” have been putting envelopes of cash under recruits pillows since, uh, always.

More trivia, I think we’ve been independent before, PCC to PAC era. And we might have been kicked out of a conference for a scandal once. 😆

My take away is that instead of having conferences with 2-3 teams in the mix for the league title, we will now regularly have 4-5 above line contenders along with 1-2 teams below the line that have it all come together in a given year. So anywhere from 5-7 teams in a given year to legitimately compete for the league title. Also says to me that 3 loss teams making the new playoff might be more prevalent than most seem to expect.

Good take, impossible for there to be a lot of data. That being said, we have the biggest piece of data available, well technically speculation. DL rejected two SEC opportunities in two years, including the king of the mountain. Additionally, Kirby Smart is only 48 and DL doesn’t have an alma mater to leave for 😆

Seems to imply only being a few years removed from being a contender. Fact check, 4 team playoff lasted 10 years, let’s see…oh yes, zero appearances 🧐

Single Malt 21?

I really do think the reason he took the USC gig was to avoid the SEC and Oklahoma “quickly becoming a second tier program”….hmmm where have I seen this quote before 🤔

No disrespect at all! I agree, we need to win one and not be satisfied with where we are, but there isn’t an official blue-blood criteria. When it comes to recruits, our recent success and ability to operate in 2024 is more relevant than say, USC winning a title 20 years ago versus us not having one. Everyone in the world outside some of us and a few jealous programs think we’re there, but I agree, status quo would not be success.

Owned by the “conference” I do believe.

Historically I think we needed the title to elevate, but I personally don’t think so anymore. As we all know, history is being dumped on its butt left and right lately. Pre-playoff championships really aren’t all they’re cracked up to be as they get more in the rear view mirror. Minnesota has 7 claimed national titles in football for instance. Seriously, Minnesota? In the playoff era, only 15 teams have made it, 6 teams have a title, and only 9 of the 15 that have appeared have won a playoff game, including us. Despite no title, I think 30 years of “new tradition”, with numerous BCS Bowl wins and one playoff victory makes us a new age blue-blood. Even after we win one, there will still a handful of currently relevant schools that will still say, “Only 1? Big deal junior.”

Very exciting in a macro kind of way for me. Looks like we’re #7 give or take now. BTW, anyone else notice Stanford lurking in the rankings?

There will no doubt be years where there are more important games for making the playoffs, but we’ve removed all doubt that they’re our primary rival, and arguably really have been since 1994. I have to ask though, if you’re on the list twice, is the second listed game really worthy? Nebraska on there three times feels like a stretch.

Anything he wants

Third string? They had a pretty good stockpile of QBs and Ezekiel Elliot was a pretty decent player 😆 he ran for 700 yards in tOSUs last three games against Wisconsin, Alabama, and then Oregon. OBD was down to about two WRs and the offense consisted of chucking the ball to Byron Marshall. That was not some feeble team on we lost to, they were on fire and we were beat up and lacking depth.

Lights out! That list yet rated a 3 star by many…watch his stars magically go up in the near future.

Well Mr. Board Game, you of course need a compatible system (PS5, XBox, etc.) The game itself is $70 for the standard edition, $100 for deluxe. Kirk Herbstreet is heavily involved with the game, not sure exactly how the ratings are done, but they seem pretty good overall outside of a few teams not in the big 2 conferences being inflated.

Can’t wait for this game! I think EA Sports is clearly trying to have a diversity of highly rated teams in order to have broad appeal. Hmmm, any future lessons/foreshadowing to be learned from that?

Accurate 😆

From a Beaver site regarding Ashley. Let that get the blood boiling Jon. Beavis desperately wanting to join a conference from the jump, but not having any takers is them standing on principle for all that is good and righteous.