2014 College Football Thread: The Will Muschamp Memorial

[Byrd]

Cincinnati makes so much sense. It's a good hub for the terrible WVU addition. They'll be good travel partners. Decent football program that could improve maybe in a better conference. Good basketball coach that is usually a tournament team. I think they should be option 1. BYU is a bit far West, but it could work. Then, Boise. I think it's two of those three.

Cincinnati seems like a no-brainer, and BYU seems like the more logical choice than Boise State, at least to me. It's not like the Big 12 is anti-religious schools like the Pac-12 is. SLC is a substantially bigger TV market than Boise (even if you split it with Utah), and BYU has a much larger national brand that is not going anywhere once its football team returns to meh. Their success at the national level is also much longer term than Boise State, who has really only been notable for the last 10 years or so. The academics are Boise State's biggest obstacle; they were a glorified community college 15 years ago, and have a ways to go before catching up, even with the lowest academic schools in any of the Power 5 conferences. I don't know the exact numbers there, but I know this came up a few years ago.

BYU's problems seem tied to its religious affiliation. They won't play on Sundays, which wouldn't be much of a problem for football, but might be for other sports (basketball tournament?). I also don't know how TCU and Baylor are going to feel about the LDS church. It might be worse to have competing sects than no religion at all.

The question to me is do they move Texas & Oklahoma into different divisions? A zipper with protected rivals makes more sense, as geographically it would be just as unbalanced as it was before the exodus if they did north-south. Maybe the "south" division could include all the Texas teams and West Virginia and Cincy? That would leave the north with the 4 Oklahoma and Kansas schools, but Iowa State and BYU/Boise. Oklahoma and Texas could have a protected rivalry so they still play every year, and might play twice. I don't know if there are any other extra-divisional rivalries that they need to protect, but I know the Big 10 only has one protected (Purdue-Indiana), so I would think the Big 12 could make it work as well.

Or equally likely, they'll petition the NCAA to get a title game with 10 teams. I know the NCAA shot that down before when the Pac-10 tried to do it, same with the Big 10 when it had 11 teams, but the post-season structure is different now, so maybe it will work this time.

[Chrius]

Don't know about Baylor, but TCU played nicely with BYU in the Mountain West - we haven't been governed by the Disciples of Christ for a long time now.
Cincinatti and BYU are my favorites with UCF being next in line.

Also
SB Nation giving TCU the most interesting bowl to watch with Florida State sitting closer to the middle of the pack than the front. It's about the little victories at this point.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-foot...otball-playoff

[Quicklet]

I don't think they'll take UCONN. Travel would be a nightmare. WVU is bad enough. I could see Cincinnati, maybe Boise. Connecticut got screwed when the ACC chose sports over academics and chose Louisville.

I lol'd pretty hard at that. If uconn gets into a better conference it's not going to be for their football program which has been a disaster ever since Randy Edsall jumped ship to go coach at Maryland. I don't know about this new guy from ND's staff they hired, but any coach who brings that program out of the gutter will just get recruited away by a better school.

[Anoat]

Heisman finalists are Mariota, Cooper, and Gordon. Mariota gonna win in a huuuuuuuge landslide.

[Anoat]

Also, LOL at Bobby Bowden's FB page today.

I have been telling Fans if they wish for me to sign any Books, Helmits, Pictures. etc. to bring them to my house and put them on
back Carport. When I come in at night I look to see if there is any
thing I need to sign and I sign it and put it back. Then they can come by the next day and pick them up.
I will be out of town the next 10 days so if you plan to drop something
off you best wait 10 days.
I am going to Bastogne to do a Documentary on 'Battle of the Bulge'. Tommy Bowden is going with me with our wives.

Bowden is the shit haha

[Bregor]

Also, LOL at Bobby Bowden's FB page today.


Bowden is the shit haha

I read that all in his voice and it's delightful

[Mertron]

helmit

[Mertron]

needs some dadgums thrown in there for good measure

[Bregor]

needs some dadgums thrown in there for good measure

And some Foghorn Leghorn "I say-uh, I say-uh, I say-uh"s too

[Bardicrune]

Also, LOL at Bobby Bowden's FB page today.


Bowden is the shit haha

Friend of mine is a pilot and used to fly him to/from the away games. I've got a football around somewhere that he signed. Bobby Bowden was the only reason I ever liked FSU.

[Byrd]

This is how you tell a team where they are going for a bowl game:

[Akiyama]

I wish reactions were like this for all teams. This is just great.

[Byrd]

I wish reactions were like this for all teams. This is just great.

Well, not every team gets all that free Popeye's fried chicken.

Spoiler: show

I'm going to hell.

[noblemountain]

I hope they serve delicious fried chicken there, 'cause I'm with ya.

[Cutriss]

Well, not every team gets all that free Popeye's fried chicken.

"Wait, they got it for FREE?!?"
-Josh Beckett

[Dantrag]

God if they had gone to Detroit.... I would have loved to see that reaction.

[Byrd]

Gary Andersen hired to coach Oregon State.

What the hell? Apparently Wisconsin is clearly a stepping stone program for coaches who want a big time job at Oregon State.

Wisconsin should go hire Bo Pelini now, complete the three way coach swap.

[archibaldcrane]

Wat

This is really weird, he was securing one of the highest rated recruiting classes we've ever had. So odd.

[Intrinsic]

Hell yes, we finally have a competent coach at Oregon State. Maybe I won't cancel my season tickets after all.

[Byrd]

Wat

This is really weird, he was securing one of the highest rated recruiting classes we've ever had. So odd.

That's two coaches in two years that have taken jobs that are parallel or even a step down. That's not a good sign for the program as a whole. Is Barry Alvarez really hard to work for or something?