NCAA Football Offseason

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:32 pm

I tried like heckfire to find a thread to no avail.

Sources say Petrino is headed back to Louisville.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 9:40 pm

Pretty shameful.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:09 pm

Speculation on twitter that Kiffin might join Saban at Alabama.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:09 pm

What the hell is going on here??

Post by **brian** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:05 pm

Penn State actually managed to upgrade their coaching position by hiring Franklin. Good move.

testuser2 · Post by **testuser2** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:33 pm

brian wrote:Penn State actually managed to upgrade their coaching position by hiring Franklin. Good move.

It's been an interesting few days. I'm just hoping that he stays for a while. He doesn't have a great track record in that regard.

There were also some initial rulings in the Paterno v. NCAA case yesterday. It looks like some of it will move on to the discovery phase. I don't care too much what the actual decisions are, but I look forward to the depositions for members of the NCAA and PSU.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon May 12, 2014 11:11 am

A Rutgers QB Philip Nelson (a transfer from Minnesota) has been arrested for an assault in Mankato, MN that has left a 24 year old "fighting for his life" with permanent brain damage.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:36 pm

Dorial Green-Beckham, who was a top recruit (possibly #1 in the nation) and was booted from Missouri earlier this year, has enrolled at Oklahoma. The Sooners are petitioning the NCAA to get him eligible this year.

(His dismissal had been mentioned previously, but I think those posts went away in the recent Swamp hiccup.)

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:09 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote:Dorial Green-Beckham, who was a top recruit (possibly #1 in the nation) and was booted from Missouri earlier this year, has enrolled at Oklahoma. The Sooners are petitioning the NCAA to get him eligible this year.

(His dismissal had been mentioned previously, but I think those posts went away in the recent Swamp hiccup.)

I see no scenario in which the NCAA will give him a waiver. But this is the NCAA, so who the hell knows. My guess is that the case is based off wrongful dismissal without conviction, though Missouri could simply say that he was dismissed for a violation of team rules. That's obviously a very common occurrence and I can't think of any scenarios where a player has been dismissed for disciplinary reasons and gone on to join a team without sitting out a year.

(A good example would be now-Louisville's Josh Harvey-Clemons. Suspended for failing drug tests at Georgia and subsequently dismissed. He's sitting out 2014.)

Post by **brian** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:45 pm

If he's given a waiver the NCAA has a lot of explaining to do.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:56 pm

Ohio State fires its band director over a "deep culture of sexual harassment".

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:06 am

Sabo wrote:Ohio State fires its band director over a "deep culture of sexual harassment".

That might have needed its own thread.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:07 pm

can't stop laughing

Post by **brian** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:38 am

Boise State is the only FBS school with a colored turf field no longer. Eastern Michigan unveiled "The Factory" yesterday.

(Skip the time-lapse video unless that kind of thing is your bag and skip right to the Instagram photos. Stupid name, but the turf looks pretty sharp actually.)

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:48 pm

FICK AXBURN

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:01 am

The fact that there's already a U showing bothers me a lot more than a little.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:29 am

AB_skin_test wrote:The fact that there's already a U showing bothers me a lot more than a little.

SEC! SEC! SEC!

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:48 am

AB_skin_test wrote:The fact that there's already a U showing bothers me a lot more than a little.

Well, you can't expect a Bama t-shirt to require BOTH spelling and logic.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 1:01 pm

Notre Dame dismisses four players (three starters) for academic fraud. That'll leave a mark.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 1:31 pm

I guess I'm becoming a bit more of a soccer guy. Forgetting what thread I was reading, and not paying enough attention to the spelling, my quick gut reaction was that it was a Liverpool supporter's shirt referring to Blackburn.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:24 pm

Seeing some ominous tweets about this Notre Dame thing -- like up to 22 current and former players might be involved and they might have to vacate the last four years worth of wins.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:31 pm

brian wrote:Seeing some ominous tweets about this Notre Dame thing -- like up to 22 current and former players might be involved and they might have to vacate the last four years worth of wins.

So, Stanford might now win that game that the refs stole from them a couple years ago!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:53 pm

Bobby Bowden AMA...pretty good stuff

This wasn't from bobby, but it was pretty good!

"So back in the 90s a kid signed with Florida State and to show his appreciation he immediately went to a tattoo parlor and got a tattoo of Bobby Bowden's head on his right butt cheek.

Well, academically he just couldn't keep up and he was cut from the team. So, he looked to transfer and sure enough he was able to sign with Auburn. Shortly after one night he had a few too many beers and went to a tattoo parlor, again, and got a tattoo of Terry Bowden's face put on his left butt cheek as a way to honor Terry Bowden for giving him a second chance.

After a decently successful career he graduated with a degree in engineering and was able to land a job offer from a good company in Birmingham. During his pre-employment physical the doctor noticed the tattoos on his buttcheeks from underneath the hospital gown and asked if he could have a closer look. "Sure," said the player, lifting up the gown a foot or so to provide a better view.

The doctor took a look and said, "Now, I recognize ole Steve Spurrier there in the middle. But who are those guys on either side?"

Post by **brian** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:59 pm

Icelandic volcanoes don't give a shit about Penn State.

testuser2 · Post by **testuser2** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:42 pm

brian wrote:Icelandic volcanoes don't give a shit about Penn State.

The team flies out on Tuesday. Classes start the day before. The worry is that they get there and can't get back. They do have classes after all...

When Eyjafjallajökull blew a few years ago some coworkers got stuck over there for weeks.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:33 am

If you didn't realize this already...having a good backup QB is pretty important...in the SEC only two (well, three really as Manziel was suspended for the first half of his first game but started all the remaining games) teams had a quarterback start every game.

Alabama
-AJ McCarron started all 13 games

Arkansas
-Brandon Wilson started 2 games, was injured in GAME 3
-AJ Derby started GAME 4
-Wilson returned for GAME 5, was injured again in GAME 9
-Wilson returned for GAME 10 and started rest of season

Auburn
-Nick Marshall started 4 games, was injured in GAME 5
-Jeremy Johnson started GAME 6
-Marshall came back for GAME 7, was injured again in GAME 8
-Marshall came back for GAME 9 and started rest of season

Florida
-Jeff Driskel started 2 games, was injured in GAME 3 (lost for season)
-Tyler Murphy started next 6 games, was injured in GAME 9 (lost for season)
-Skyler Mornhinweg started final 3 games

Georgia
-Aaron Murray started 10 games, was injured in GAME 11 (lost for season)
-Hutson Mason started final 2 games

Kentucky
-Jalen Whitlow started GAME 1, was replaced for poor play
-Max Smith started next 3 games, was injured in GAME 3
-Whitlow started GAME 5, was injured again in GAME 6
-Smith started GAME 7
-Whitlow came back for GAME 8, was injured again in GAME 11
-Smith started GAME 12

LSU
-Zach Mettenberger started first 11 games, was injured in GAME 12 (lost for season)
-Anthony Jennings started final game of season

Mississippi State
-Tyler Russell started, was injured in GAME 1
-Dak Prescott started next 3 games
-Russell and Prescott split time for 3 games, Russell was injured in GAME 7
-Prescott was then injured in GAME 9
-Russell started 2 games, was injured again in GAME 11
-Prescott started final 2 games

Missouri
-James Franklin started first 5 games, was injured in GAME 6
-Matt Mauk started next 4 games
-Franklin came back in GAME 11 and started rest of season

Ole Miss
-Bo Wallace started all 13 games

South Carolina
-Conner Shaw started 3 games, was injured in GAME 4
-Shaw came back for GAME 5, was injured again in GAME 7
-Shaw came back for GAME 8 and started rest of season

Tennessee
-Justin Worley started first 3 games, benched for poor play
-Nathan Peterman started 1 game, was benched for poor play
-Worley started next 3 games, was injured in GAME 7 (lost for season)
-Justin Dobbs started final 4 games

Texas A&M
-Matt Joeckel started first game after Manziel suspension
-Manziel started final 12 games

Vanderbilt
-Austyn Carta-Samuels started first 6 games, was injured in GAME 7
-Patton Robinette started next 2 games
-Carta-Samuels came back for GAME 10, started 3 games
-Robinette started GAME 13 after season ending surgery to Carta-Samuels

Weatherfrog · Post by **Weatherfrog** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:30 am

Excellent list and good point. Arkansas. Man. Brandon Allen (not Wilson) is Arkansas quarterback. As bad as he is, his backup, AJ Derby is not good. He is basically a TE that played QB in high school. Does not really qualify as "back up." The razorbacks were not good with Brandon, but were even worse without him. That's why they couldn't win an SEC game last year.

This year will be another year of transition for Hogs. They have three QBs on their depth chart that are all better than Brandon Allen. His brother, Austin Allen; red shirt freshman, Damon Mitchell; and true freshman, Rafe Peavey should each be better than Allen.

Weatherfrog · Post by **Weatherfrog** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:35 am

testuser2 wrote:
brian wrote:Icelandic volcanoes don't give a shit about Penn State.
The team flies out on Tuesday. Classes start the day before. The worry is that they get there and can't get back. They do have classes after all...

When Eyjafjallajökull blew a few years ago some coworkers got stuck over there for weeks.

I got trapped in Munich for a week by that fucking thing. It was not fun.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:16 am

Weatherfrog wrote:Excellent list and good point. Arkansas. Man. Brandon Allen (not Wilson) is Arkansas quarterback. As bad as he is, his backup, AJ Derby is not good. He is basically a TE that played QB in high school. Does not really qualify as "back up." The razorbacks were not good with Brandon, but were even worse without him. That's why they couldn't win an SEC game last year.

This year will be another year of transition for Hogs. They have three QBs on their depth chart that are all better than Brandon Allen. His brother, Austin Allen; red shirt freshman, Damon Mitchell; and true freshman, Rafe Peavey should each be better than Allen.

I think Austin starts multiple games this year.

Weatherfrog · Post by **Weatherfrog** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:31 am

I hope so. His brother cannot look past his first read. "Option 1 is covered? Guess I'll take a sack."

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:58 am

Nothing about the kid from USC who may or may not have hurt himself rescuing his nephew or maybe doing something less heroic?

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:38 am

AB_skin_test wrote:Nothing about the kid from USC who may or may not have hurt himself rescuing his nephew or maybe doing something less heroic?

Yeah, crazy story. Here's a possible explanation - http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.co ... s-heroics/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Whatever the story turns out to be, it seems like there's no way he actually saved his nephew. What's funny is that the first article I read about it had quotes from Shaw saying things like it didn't have to be his nephew, he would have saved any kid.

And now I'm reading about what a great guy Shaw supposedly is. He was recently voted captain of the team.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:26 pm

That is unlucky timing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc- ... o-georgia/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:57 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:That is unlucky timing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc- ... o-georgia/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I guess I get why they print schedules way in advance, but why pick a QB who had a very good chance of not being the starter? By the time spring practice was over, he had already unofficially been bumped to #2, which is why he transferred. That far before the season, with transfer season still to come, you have to go with a generic, non-player photo for that cover.

Post by **brian** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:24 pm

Central Michigan's Derrick Nash passed away after a two-year fight with leukemia today. He was 20 years old. Fuck cancer.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:14 pm

surprise no one has posted about P. Diddy getting arrested for assault (with a kettlebell!) on a UCLA assistant

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:26 pm

The Bruin assistant is the strength and conditioning coach. He used to work for the J-E-T-S. Until he did this:

So I'm taking no sides here.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:36 pm

Douchebag vs. Douchebag.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:33 am

So is "terroristic threatening" just him saying "I'll fucking kill you man!"?

Post by **brian** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:48 am

black guy = terrorist

Duh.