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A MERTZ-tatorship?

Is it too hard to give Auburn their due?

I get it. Stats don't lie, but they can be deceiving. Lane was only at UT for one year. He came in after a highly embarrassing exodus for Phil Fulmer and tried to smack-talk his way into the SEC and it backfired. He goes to USC and they are trying to deal with NCAA sanctions and he's still immature. He re-boots with Saban. He goes to FLA Atlantic where he is out-talented against over 90% of power 5 programs. Looking at his three full seasons at Ole Miss - he's inconsistent. He's far better an HC than he was in 2009.

That was a tough call. Great game though. One of the better NFL games I watched this year.

You and Trump are virtually the same animal: arrogant, angry, full of deflection, and can't act like an adult. Not every one who disagrees with you is a Fox News viewer. I watch NO NEWS except maybe headline news for minute or two here or there. I primarily read Reuters and Live Science. I'm sure we would disagree on plenty.

Not limiting your team, hence the word NUCLEUS.

Primarily LSU. However in some years, it's been Auburn. In Saban's 16 seasons at Alabama, LSU earned the SEC west champ 4 times and Auburn 3 times. It's been LSU, Auburn or Alabama since the 2006 Razorbacks. If you must go back further to complete a two decade review, Auburn won the west in 2004.

Yep. If you're going to be drunk in public, it's FAR better you're NOT operating a motor vehicle. Maybe like Ron "Tater Salad" White, Stetson was thrown into public.

Young reminds me a little of Auburn's Carl Lawson. They're about the same size. Carl's sill in the NFL and currently with the Jets.

There's enough H.S. talent in KC and St Louis to build a nucleus for Missouri to be successful. Columbia is an hour and half from each. With the portal, Mizzou can pluck six to eight good players every cycle to add to the talent. Mizzou can compete.

When I saw the title, I expected the first five picks to be Will Levis and four clones.

Cool, I wonder what college football will look like in 2027.

Oop my bad.... 39th

It's a legitimate argument. Is he good? YES Is he experienced? YES Is he great? I DON'T SEE IT Generally speaking, Gundy and staff normally coach up QBs better than most programs. So, if he were a top 10 FBS QB, it would show last year and it didn't. In ESPN's RAW passer rating for 2022, he was 29th.

That's great, but Mahomes had a 105.2 ESPN passer rating for the 2022 regular season. He was second to Tua. Burrow's passer rating was 100.8. The Bengals won 12 games out of 16, while KC won 14 out of 17. Head -to-head is an important statistics, but in a 17 games regular season it's not one of the top two statistics.

I feel the same way. Sanders is talented, but his 2022 ESPN passer rating was 128.3. In comparison, Dart's 2022 ESPN passer rating was 143.6. While Sanders has more overall playing experience than Dart, Dart played better overall last year and has one year under his belt in Kiffin's system. IT appears to be more of a toss-up with the very slight edge going to Dart.

I'd go with Mahomes first, Burrow has moved into a second-place tie with Hurts.

He was a great third baseman, but can he coach the offensive line?

I'm neither a writer nor a journalist. I'll stick to running the fry station at Burger King.

That honor goes to Ryan Leaf and truth be told, it's a title he may never lose.

Somewhere a journalist or writer will pick up on the idea to compile a book of the early NIL deals and inner-workings.

@bayou Unfortunately, labor law doesn't go by what the employer can afford. Now, the hourly wage that lower division schools are allowed to pay might be minimized and the work schedule too; but the classification to employee will not. It's all or nothing. The NLRB ( LA division) mentioned the Pac-12 specifically, but also the NCAA. While, they also mentioned FBS football and D-1 basketball; once the boulder starts rolling down the hill it will not likely stop.

I'm talking about the whole season.

What are we talking about here? Was he on his cell phone 50% of parade time? 25% of parade time? 10% of parade time? 5% of parade time? The verbiage "throughout the parade" could mean he was on his phone five times for no greater than 30 seconds a call. For a one hour parade, that's only 4 % of the time. That's nothing.

I think the clear difference will be LSU has an multi-season starting QB and Bama will not have a QB that started more than one college game.

You make a good point. Going to an employee model, may render smaller programs more unprofitable than they already are. Yes, maybe the program reaps an accounting off-set of tuition paid by the athletic program; but, you're still looking at total payroll, including taxes and W/C and maybe housing allowance, being over $50k per player.

What I'm reading/hearing from Bama fans is the play calling in the two losses is far more important than scoring 55 plus on Vandy and Utah State.

There's not too much I can argue with. I think LSU is the 2nd best team in the SEC, not Alabama. I can't see Michigan AND Ohio State both being top 5 teams again.

It seems that student-athletes are on a path to be classified as employees as some point in the future. When that happens and how that happens will have a lot to say on bowl games - particularly the lesser bowl games. If schools have to pay bowl travel expenses plus wages/payroll taxes/worker's comp premiums for 80 plus players, without a deep-pocket sponsor I can see the lesser bowls folding.

Can they take the next step under Harbaugh in 2023? No, they can not.