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The 24 team playoff is now preferred by most SEC coaches. Of course that is mostly due to it saving jobs with the new "unbearable" 9 game slate that is going to cost jobs. Because we know that just making the playoff is going to be seen as a success for most programs. It saved Venables and DeBoer. Despite neither having a real shot to win the whole thing. Tennessee is in the same boat. Bobby Hill is seen as a upper tier coach, while Phillip Fulmer was seen as losing it with that same result imo. The new shifting narrative is that the SEC getting more teams in, means it's a deeper conference. What have we become?

What in the heck are we doing? This looks like some kind of futuristic secret society building. I expect to see Superman crashing some sort of Brainiac inspired super Olympics event from this structure. It's like Walt Disney really is alive, and he teamed up with Rod Serling to create a Twilight Zone "World of Tomorrow". What I'm really saying is "Wow"! I don't know what I'm looking at, or why Oregon needs this along with all your other amazing facilities, but I'd sign up to play for the Ducks just to see what was in that structure, if I was a five star athlete. Florida is doing a 1.7 billion dollar renovation on "The Swamp" and the early renderings show some extra press boxes added. That's the "creativity" you get for almost two billion in Gainesville.

Fans in general, and especially on message boards (excluding this one and few others) are general knuckleheads. There's no accountability, and you generally get little kids, or grown ups with Beavis and Butthead brain activity on there. It's why I always recommend to anybody going to a big road game, that they hold judgement of said fanbase till you go to a tailgating, or local sports bar. You'll meet real people, and most of the time they are awesome. Don't do what I said if you ever go to Europe for a "futbol" match. Opposing fans have separate get togethers, and stadium entrances/exits for a reason.

In this day and age, Oregon is going to be a recruiting juggernaut regardless. I think Riley is a great offensive coordinator, but an okay CEO. If USC ever got a great CEO, that's when you should worry. I'd want Lincoln in LA for as long as possible as a Duck fan.

Besides being unapologetically blunt about his success, and conference pride. The man just said Indiana would help out little brother Notre Dame, by scheduling them in a two for one. Just like any B1G opponent would for any other G6 program. Well he got the last part wrong. No MAC, WAC, or Pac-12 school outside of Oregon State or Washington State, is getting any home games vs a B1G opponent. But I love the sentiment. We all love USC vs Notre Dame as a spectacle. But USC was right to take a hiatus. That game could knock USC out of a playoff spot, while Notre Dame will still be safely in with their new top 12 guarantee, and that's almost a given with them assured of ten wins a year against their soft schedule. Meanwhile USC could be facing Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and Notre Dame in the same year.

I think the Ohio State loss was based off a misconception of thinking the first game game plan was good enough to repeat. Most forget all the bounces and decisions needed to go the Ducks way in a very close one point home win. Will Howard missed a lot of open reads as he was only a few games in his Ohio State tenure. Dan Lanning should've watched the Tennessee coverages against Ohio State the week before. Why didn't they clean up those holes in the zone, or not have a safety playing roamer on man? The Indiana loss was actually quite the opposite imo. The first game was actually quite closer than the playoff..I think the coaches could've taken more from the first game, instead they switched up the defense too much. The disguised coverages actually confused Oregon more than Indiana. Indiana didn't have the freak athletes Ohio State did. You should've played them more aggressive like Iowa, Ohio State, and Miami did. On offense, you actually ran the ball pretty well in the first game. It seems like you put too much on Moore after you fell behind in the second matchup. Indiana was a very disciplined opponent that knew their gap control, and coverages. But you could've tired that smaller defensive line down if you had ran the ball more, and maintained longer earlier drives. Obviously there's way more reasons. There are way smarter people, with way more knowledge than a fan or television analyst, that are working under Lanning right now. They will still have mess ups because every other top program also has really intelligent people. So yeah those results will happen, and we'll question the coaching staff. But the true answer is because Indiana and Ohio State were really freaking good, as they ended up winning it all. There are about eight programs that have a legitimate chance to win a title every year. Oregon is one of those programs. I would take Lanning in a heartbeat as my head coach over anyone not named Cignetti, Day, or Smart.

I look at Oregon-Washington as natural rivals. You both are the only P4 members is the great Northwest. You both have a strong history in football, they have one claimed National Title, and a recent National Championship game appearance. Oregon has two National Title game appearances, a B1G Title, and won two playoff games last year. It remains to be seen what Fisch will do at Washington , but I think they deserved a top 25 ranking this preseason, after posting 8 wins last year. Williams is going to be a problem this year imo. Oregon vs Washington needs to be played on the same weekend as Michigan-Ohio State, Iowa-Nebraska, and UCLA-USC. There should be a tripleheader on Fox that weekend.

People have argued for years about "new blood" powers like Oregon being a true rival to "bluebloods" like USC or Ohio State. I'd argue that Oregon is one of the top two or three opponents on those programs schedule any year. Some also say that you can have only one real rival. But that's nonsense. Florida has four rivals that they used to have to play every year. Those being Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, and FSU. Miami is also a rival, but that game has never been played yearly. Miami also hates Florida way more than Florida hates Miami imo. We can't call them little brother like Oregon can to Oregon State though. It's just fun to get under their skin and remind them that they have us on their mind constantly. I cheer for anybody playing them,outside our other rivals of course,so yeah it's a rivalry. I'd ask my friends here if you think it's possible to have more than one rival, and if so, who are they? I'd guess it would be Washington, Oregon State, USC, and probably Ohio State as a new one, now that you are conference mates. Is Indiana a possible one, or will it take more years of them being a B1G heavyweight? USC has Notre Dame, UCLA, and Oregon imo. They might say Michigan and Ohio State as well. Just because they view themselves in the same class system, and all those past Rose Bowl matchups.

I'm just a fan, not one that knows much about the requisite qualities to judging how good a bunch 17-35 year olds will play together. But picking Ohio State and Oregon to finishing tops in the B1G? I could do that. Now point out the individual who picked Indiana to win the B1G, Heisman, and National Title within the first two years under Cignetti.

That might make him the smartest or luckiest guy in the game. Only Josh McDaniel can say he got a better deal with less to show. At least Chip was a great coach for a few years at Oregon. McDaniel failed, got fired, held up another franchise after they were willing to give him another shot, and lastly got fired once more. McDaniel was only a success when he had Tom Brady as a QB.

What is Chips legacy at this point? Innovator, championship coordinator,job hopper, failed NFL coach, MCRib salesman, Chip&Dale dancer?

How great must UCLA fans feel? This guy left as your head coach, and two years later, he's cosplaying as Bob the Builder meets Harold and the Purple Crayon at Northwestern. Will Northwestern replicate a Vanderbilt turnaround? Well they did fully finance the 380 million dollar stadium without public funding, so there's money there. UCLA might've had to eat some crap with that terrible DeShaun Foster debacle. " We're uh....... In LA...... USC and us......yeah.....". But word is Bob Chesney has brought in some great tackles in the transfer portal, and has Iamaleava looking crisp in the pocket. Maybe the move will work out for all after all.

I have been loving the deserved bashing of the SEC on here. From the denial about the B1G surpassing it by winning the last three titles, to complaining about playing nine conference game. The threats to separate because now the ACC and Big 12 agree on the the 24 team playoff, over the 16 team model. People crying that the SEC will get punished with more 9-3 teams being left out, despite Alabama getting the benefit of the doubt every year when the committee could've put in Ohio State, Florida State, and Notre Dame over them. How many times did an SEC champion get left out? Heck, how many times did an SEC team get in without even winning the conference? But, I am proud to say that the Florida coach isn't making any excuses. He said he would never make excuses, and that his expectation is to always win. He won't cry about a nine game conference schedule, because if you want to be the best, you are going to have to beat the best. So I love calling the SEC on it's bull crap. Since when did we get so soft in the south? That's not the mentality I grew up with. Spurrier would call out anybody, and go for the win. Urban Meyer openly said his squad deserved a crack at the perceived unbeatable 2006 Buckeyes. No running, no hidden messages. Tim Tebow openly apologized for losing one game in 2008, he vowed that nobody would play harder, and nobody did for the rest of that year. But for some reason, we are meant to think the SEC deserves at least a quarter of every playoff bracket because our depth is the best. How stupid is that? If our top three teams can't make it to the championship, why would our even worse teams fare? That will be the last time I use the term is, as I hate that collective word. I will never be an SEC.... SEC...goof. If Oregon plays Georgia, LSU, or Alabama in the playoffs, I'm hoping Oregon does what I diana did to Alabama, or Ohio State did to Tennessee. I'm sick of this denial of truths. The SEC won seven straight titles, and I didn't hear anybody trying to deny who was the best. The B1G began to invest more into their programs, they got better. Now that everyone can pay for players, it's obvious the power has shifted. The SEC can cry and deny the truth, or they can look for ways to improve. I don't really care either way. I just want the whining to stop. I want the excuses to end, and I want to see the best teams play each other. I want an SEC/B1G scheduling agreement. END OF RANT. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jon-sumrall-isn-t-complain-190436187.html