NCAA Football 2025

Such a cute little sandbox spat between Dabo & Kid Killer.

McCarron thinks bama doesn’t have enough NIL? Is he stupid?

The real issue can be summed up in this quote: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

Alabma's problem is coaching. Whether it is Deboer or not I dunno, maybe he caught lightning in a bottle at Washington and just isn't that good, maybe it's the coordinators or a combination of all but it certainly isn't the NIL, Alabama has top 5 talent.

As much as I enjoy watching people have their fun; How on earth does it make sense we’re tops in 247’s talent index and 4th this year’s xfer/freshmen rankings 2 years after Saban, straddled with a coach who has no connections so can’t recruit, coming off a bad year, and in a complete ****hole of a town, without money?

Yeah I don't buy the Alabama's poor argument either. Again the real problem is the equality issue. The transfer portal means Bama can't stockpile talent anymore (nobody can), and now that it's legal for everyone to pay players, Bama's virtual monopoly on cheating is gone, forever. My prediction is Alabama's program as we know it cannot survive in an even playing field environment. A good proxy of what we can expect going forward is what they did in the 80's hovering around mostly 8-4/9-3. Time will tell.

It isn't the NIL, it's the WIL.

Personally I’d be fine with that, prefer it even, but get used to disappointment; you let them thrive way too long. In the 80s it was the school for any HS graduate in Alabama and not that different than the Mississippi schools. The stadium had latrines and my guess is some of the dorms did too. But now Bama has leveraged the success of its football team into becoming some sort of status symbol for out-of-state enrollment and sorority rush movies on HBO. Every piece of the campus and every facility has been massively upgraded in the last 15 years. It’s nothing like the 80s (except the inordinate quantity of bbq restaurants) and there’s no going back. Probably you’ll just be wondering in a few years how they cheated their way above you again, if not later this year.

And just think, it only became this success factory because Michigan swooped in and stole Rich Rodriguez away.

The what if Rodrich went to Bama has gotta be the biggest what if in college football history. Sigh.

At the end of the day I'm just really happy with the state of the sport now. I don't think people down south really appreciate how broken the sport was for multiple decades. We literally had a system where the 3-4 best bag programs, I.E. programs institutionally committed to cheating, hogged nearly all the championship equity every single year. IOW every year almost everybody is drawing dead. How dumb is that! Big time programs like ND, Penn State, and Michigan, completely drawing dead every year, and thus completely irrelevant. IMO any system that renders ND, PSU, and Michigan irrelevant is a massively broken system. I don't think many college football fans will ever really appreciate the angst those 3 schools went through. Now that paying players is legal, ND just made the national title game, Penn State was one bad throw from it and are a favorite to win it all this year, and Michigan/Harbaugh somehow managed to break through and win it all under the previous dark age regime designed to make them irrelevant, becoming one of the few schools ever to win it all without being institutionally committed to cheating. I consider that one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of sports and why Harbuagh will always be a goat level coach. The fact that Michigan had to get through the two biggest cheaters in the history of college football (OSU and Bama) to do it was the epic and poetic cherry on top.

Anyways back to the present. Look at the sport now. There are no great teams out there. There's at least 10 teams that can legit win it all and nobody would be surprised. This sport has never been more wide open. It's never been better. It's like every year is 2007 forever now. I'm just cherishing every second of this. Keep in mind how annoying it was to get through what I consider the dark age of college football. For years I constantly had to deal with Michigan fans who were dumb enough to actually claim the reason Michigan could never get a good QB under Harbaugh was becuz he couldn't recruit or develop QBs. I.E. a goatish coach/QB whisperer, somehow forgets how to recruit/develop QBs the instant he comes to Michigan! In an era where you're not getting a great QB unless you illegally pay him, and Michigan refuses to cheat (we'll call that cynical morality if you want), we have idiots blaming one of the best coaches ever instead of acknowledging the obvious. Head asplode. Penn State, ND, and Michigan go 15 years without good QB play and everyone wants to act like those programs have horrible coaches/recruiters instead of simply acknowledging reality. So glad those frustrating, idiotic days are over.

lol Belichick banned Patriots scouts from UNC. That’ll sure be good for recruiting. What a trainwreck.

I’m ready for basketball season.

Believe what you wanna believe bro. You think burgergate and signgate is a big deal, cool. Yes, ncaa officials hated Harbaugh because he was too autistic to pretend they were important + being an open advocate for players getting paid, and they successfully drove him out of the game for those sins. Doesn't mean you have to be dumb enough to buy the pretext and believe their proganda like all the troglodytes in Ohio do. This is one area where I bond with Bama fans. They all know this **** is nonsense and laughable.

Again let me remind you the NCAA recently admitted in their COI they allow a form of advanced scouting that is WAY more effective than having your mom or friends sit in row 40 with their iPhone, leaving no doubt this whole thing was all bullshit from beginning to end.

The funniest part about all this is a huge part of me wishes it was true. I would absolutely love the idea that Michigan's sign stealing scheme was the real reason we won it all. That we literally out-james bonded the two greatest cheaters in the history of the game--Ohio st and Bama--to win the whole ****ing thing. Just the thought of that fantasy gets me erect. If such a parallel universe existed where the above were true I'd visit it all the time laughing maniacally. I'm not even sure which universe I'd prefer honestly given how hilarious that would be.

Edit: Sadly the above fantasy became untenable when Michigan, without a QB, played both those programs again in 2024 and bullied the **** out of them to victory.

Well, maybe Harbaugh wasn't a representative of the university.

The problem is Harbaugh is on the spectrum. He doesn't have the ability to "fake it" like most adults. Faking it, pretending to care, showing respect to despicable charlatans like the NCAA. These are things we all have to do for most of our adult lives to get through each day. Harbaugh can't do those things. He is "special". Does that mean he has no integrity. Nah it's actually the opposite. Does Harbaugh's "problem" mean we should equate Michigan--one of the cleanest big time programs in the history of the game--to the big time cheaters like Bama and Ohio State, programs that nearly ruined our sport. I mean if that's what gets your rocks off, sure, go ahead.

Record 3-3. Superlocks: 1-0

Here's the LOCKS of the week:

Illinois -3 (-121)
Michigan ML (+165)
Michigan State -4.5 (-109)
UCLA -2.5 (-114)
Kentucky +10 (-110)

$15.42 to win $765.37

My superlock of the week is obviously Michigan ML. I just don't see how this game is going to be competitive. Oklahoma couldn't even run the ball vs Illinois St. The Sooners are in for a rude awakening. This isn't the SEC. This is Michigan. We play big boy ball here. We don't even need a QB to wins games. We can wreck games and out-tough you to victory (Ask Ohio State/Bama). And yet we literally have the best QB in the game now. He's not just the most talented QB I have ever seen, and I've been watching sports since 1988, he's also the ultimate MICHIGAN QB:

All the players love him becuz he already understands what Michigan football is all about. It really just isn't fair man. For those who still don't believe, they will, come Saturday night. I don't know what the weather is gonna be like in Norman but the storm is coming. It's us.

Michigan 31 Oklahoma 14

What games we watching today?

Texas and Florida

Baylor/SMU looks fun.

Not really a fun day outside of Michigan/Oklahoma. I guess Iowa-ISU or Duke-Illinois could be fun. This is basically one of those days where you have to at least make a parlay to make things interesting.

Maybe OkState/Oregon

Texas not being able to cover against literally San Jose state at home cuz it turns out Golden Arches is a bag of dicks is my sole interest today

Hard to imagine a 28 pt spread being fun but I guess you never know.

Yeah if that happens I'll be out on him until he does something meaningful against a good team.