college football under quarantine

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a Hail Mary like this

AS CALLED BY @AdamBWitten AND HEARD ON THE @varsity APP: pic.twitter.com/QztnYi7T8k

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 17, 2022

Amazing. Everyone called the app state letdown game but they pulled it out.

Marshall going through its own rn

xp to mookie, I hope we got over the hump with that first Freeman win. We were gifted a strange offsides call on a FG we missed. Felt like we were cursed when that INT got waived by the (correct) targeting call.

this sick bastard can play for me any day pic.twitter.com/67Qo7KaLRh

— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr) October 16, 2022

That was probably the game of the year at least from what I have seen so far.

Bryce Young is really good. I'm impressed how he is able on the run to square up his shoulders and throw the ball.

this game was insane

I'm not sure what I expected the drive chart of the SMU 77, Houston 63 to look like but it's still stunning to see it pic.twitter.com/Hjj80sUZZf

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) November 6, 2022

Bryce Young is pretty darn good. That throw to put them back in the game against LSU in the 4th quarter was really amazing. Alabama's defense is nearly Big 12 porous though.

I really wanted to put money on Notre Dame on that Syracuse game. Between that one and the Clemson game some Irish fans made some money on their favorite apps the past couple weeks.

Ole Miss pretty much let Alabama off the hook today. Their running back Judkins is really good. Don't get at all what Kiffen was thinking a couple times having that back especially after he moved them 50 yards down to get into place to win the game calling two QB draws. Same thing earlier in the game they get first and goal running the ball down the Tides throat and then he decides to throw it three times. Kinda dumb but hey Kiffen will probably get some school to pay him more to move on to them (maybe Auburn).

enjoyed seeing UVA's first two plays from scrimmage going for pick-sixes

(never really thought about how to pluralize that; thanks wahoos)

also virginia tech is really scraping bottom now, eh

NC and NC St. was a heck of a game today. I'm not so sure about that Tarheel QB Maye as a big pro prospect but the freshman on NC St. team looks pretty good.

Florida and Florida St. so far has been a track meet. Definitely a few future pros on this team. That big 6-7 WR FSU has named Johnny Wilson probably will get some pro interest. Jon Kitna's son is the Freshman backup QB for the Gators and he got in for a few plays when Richardson got hit pretty hard. Richardson's arm is ridiculous. Travis the FSU Qb is a heck of an athlete himself well worth looking for the highlights as he made a killer play avoiding 5 Gators to make a 20+ yard run out of the pocket to the 1 yard line.

go blue baby!

It was fun watching the Buckeyes get popped in the mouth. I was watching saying 'go ahead, blitz everyone again'. Terrible coaching, you would think after like giving up 3 huge plays on big blitzes you would learn, but Noooooooooo...there D coordinator thinks he is a tactical genius and this time it will work.

Ryan Day looks like the after picture in an ad for Grecian Formula.

love how ohio state is all like 'sure we just got doubled up at home, but we totally deserve to be in the playoff!' (they're ~almost~ correct)

unfortunate that all this entailed jim harbaugh winning tho

if tcu loses, they’re prob still in but osu can still absolutely get in if the trojans blow it

SEC's dominance is built upon a willingness to spend money to win despite sanity (after all what are welfare funds for but building stadiums), but I really think their conference talent is a step above.

I got a feeling OSU (or Michigan) would not be able to run the gauntlet schedule without losing at least 2 or 3 games. I think even this uneven Alabama team is still better and LSU or Tennessee before Hooker got hurt could beat them. Even Ole Miss on a good day probably could beat them.

Georgia could have a bad game or play dumb, but I don't see any of these teams beating them. Michigan might have enough defense if they stay healthy to slow them up a bit and stay in a game.

a willingness to spend money to win despite sanity

agree that the SEC is dominant, but . . . i mean nebraska just signed *matt rhule* to an eight-year deal, having just given scott frost a $16.4 million buyout as a reward for being incredibly awful

the money being thrown around -- by public schools, no less -- is absurd, but at least in the SEC they have some good teams

Even Ole Miss on a good day probably could beat them.

suing for defamation

it might "just mean more" in the sec, which is probably why people perceive lsu (#15 sp+) and ole miss (#14 sp+) to be vastly superior to minnesota (#16 sp+) and illinois (#17 sp+)

it's the U of U for U

Caleb Williams Heisman posed vs a team that lost to Marshall and then took his second L to Utah.

give the heisman to donoblake corumwards

Mike Leach in critical condition, a "personal health issue"...he'd made a lot of sideways comments and dissembling remarks about covid vaccines

it was a heart attack

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/2022/12/12/mike-leach-heart-attack-mississippi-state-football-coach/69720334007/

Mike Leach, Mississippi State football's innovative and influential coach, dies at 61 https://t.co/e81EEL0C84

— Clarion Ledger (@clarionledger) December 13, 2022

fascinating character, obv his politics were terrible but he had a massive impact on football. good thread about it here

Incredibly momentous for football that Mike Leach has passed away. It is no understatement whatsoever to say that Leach fundamentally changed football forever, and I am not sure there was any more influential coach in the last 40 years, when you include high school and college.🧵

— Chris B. Brown (@smartfootball) December 13, 2022

I guess he was technically my "coworker" in washington. I'd see him walking to work a lot, and he'd stop for coffee pretty regularly at the place I'd hang out. I never talked to him but shitty politics aside the baristas liked him and by all accounts he was kind of a fascinating weirdo.

he had mixed feelings on coffee lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRmm4arThQ

v. sad to see dabo lose; i'm sure it was all because his players were distracted by NILs or wokeism or something

i presume this has happened before when january 1 falls on a sunday but it remains weird to me that the orange bowl happened on 12/30 and there are no college bowl games at all on new year's day

I watched a few minutes of Clemson and Tennessee and decided that was way too much orange for an Orange bowl.

Georgia will probably smoke OSU, but I keep having an odd feeling the Buckeyes might upset them too.

I really want to see Michigan win it all myself, but I am not getting my hopes up.

Right now looks like Michigan is going to lay a big dooker on the field. Every big 12 game is like 52-50 and so far the Woolverines not looking too good.

I could not have cared less about Georgia football before I had a child attend that school. Now . . . Go Dawgs. It should be a thumping.

don't normally root for texans or christians, and i <3 voodoo chili, but . . . lol fuck jim harbaugh

weird game, lots of things that shouldn’t have happened did

worst part is that this was a golden opportunity to maybe beat osu in a rematch and win the title. gonna get much harder once the playoff field expands to 12 teams

Both those games were pretty wacky.

Big 10 fails again.

We were worn out after the craziness of TCU/Michigan and were telling each other "Thank goodness our game won't be like that" ... and then it was so much worse. As Kirby Smart said afterwards, OSU deserved to win. Maybe he'll get Georgia coached up better for TCU and spare our nerves a little. Go Dawgs, sic 'em, etc.

former Minnesota Gophers head coach Tim Brewster continues to be just an amazing weird/jackass even for college football

Tim Brewster continues to be a piece of work 😂🤦🏻‍♂️ @jgkfan https://t.co/JCHtJKCMVx

— Alex Micheletti (@AlexMicheletti) January 17, 2023

Smart backs UGA culture after fatal crash, arrests

the culture cannot fail; only be failed

rip 'schemy'

Three days after he was hired at Michigan, Glenn "Shemy" Schembechler, son of longtime Wolverines coach Bo Schembechler, resigned following social media activity that has "caused concern and pain," according to a statement from the school.

On Wednesday, Schembechler announced he had been hired as Michigan's assistant director of football recruiting. He tweeted: "I'm beyond honored to return home to @UMichFootball! #GoBlue always and forever!"

A source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN that Schembechler went through a thorough background check during the hiring process.

His Twitter account, @shemyscout, was deactivated on Saturday. Schembechler had been a longtime NFL scout, most recently with the Las Vegas Raiders until February. He also scouted for Washington, Chicago and Kansas City. Schembechler spent more than a decade working for Washington's organization.

According to the Detroit News, Schembechler's Twitter timeline had a number of posts and "likes" of multiple offensive and insensitive posts, including several suggesting slavery and Jim Crow were a positive to strengthen Black individuals and families.

you’re goddamned right pat fitzgerald ordered the code red

lol

Seems he was at least not doing enough to protect his student athletes in the locker room. I don't think ignorance is a great defence here.

to me the real story is that the defense is "this is just the nature of football culture so why is pat fitzgerald being singled out and punished," and i'm sure that first part is true. i don't get the sense that anything being described is uniquely bad, just that fitzgerald got "caught." even from the outside, frankly, these stories seem pretty benign for what i imagine football locker rooms are like

i used to spend a lot of time around a major D1 baseball program when i was a kid & one time after a game i peeked into the locker room and one of the players was in there on the floor w/ no clothes on wrapped up in athletic tape as some of the other players like pelted stuff at him. to be clear i'm not excusing pat fitzgerald, just that in a larger sense that focusing on him or framing it as some sort of issue w/ northwestern or w/e obscures the real issue of... locker room sports culture in general -- especially, i would imagine, college locker rooms, where the only actual adults in the room are the ones looking the other way

i don't really disagree, but i think what administrators are willing to brush off has changed pretty radically since you were a kid, and fitzgerald is accused of doing a bit more than looking the other way.

Fitzgerald's tenure unwound after a former player, who has since transferred, reported the program's hazing activities to the school in late 2022. The former player, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told ESPN on Sunday that hazing was organized and widespread in Northwestern's program, often led by a group of older players called the "Shrek gang." The group would lead a hazing activity called "running," usually against freshmen or younger players who had made mistakes in practice, he said. According to the former player, older players wearing masks would restrain the victim in a dark locker room and engage in sexualized behavior. The former player said he was "run" as a freshman and also said Fitzgerald signaled for players to be added to "Shrek's list" with a specific clapping motion during practice. He said he saw Fitzgerald make the motion at least five times since the 2020 season.

i think the key there is 'sexualized behavior'. like, you can make kids run extra sprints or whatever, but after sandusky and nassar you cannot do anything along those lines.

nor is northwestern the kind of school where the football program basically owns the administration. fitzgerald was the best coach they ever had, but they went 1-11 last year. lots of people can do that without getting the school sued straight to hell.

Shrek's list

oh i think everything that has happened to fitzgerald since the news started leaking has been entirely predictable & justified. this was only ending one way

but to my point about how focusing on fitzgerald runs the risk of not addressing the larger issue at hand, northwestern has announced that they're retaining all of his assistants. it's not hard to understand from a logistical standpoint why they made this decision (hiring an entire football staff in july is probably next to impossible) and i'm sure all those guys will get cycled out when they hire a new coach, but the implication that fitzgerald was solely responsible for the culture of hazing is of course farcical. i guess we're supposed to believe that the hazing there will now cease because the rest of the coaching staff will have been scared straight or something?

lol at northwestern's entire athletic department -- apart from chris collins! -- being exposed/fired during the handful of summer days when essentially nothing else is going on in the usa

also lol at the corruption that's going on in athletic departments elsewhere that actually have good players

should have thrown their one win of last season to keep suspicions low

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38156010/georgia-fires-staffer-survived-fatal-crash-sued-bulldogs

It's probably safe for me to ignore college football for the rest of my life