Scholarship table
I'm assuming that Stanford is going to be hiring Troy Taylor because I can't imagine any school hiring Jason Garrett.
Jimbo potentially hiring Bobby Petrino to fix his offense is...a choice.
Just noticed UConn made a bowl. Proof positive that there are wayyyy to many bowls.
It was a miracle. They won like 3 games total the last 2 seasons combined and then won 6 this year. They are also heavy on Freshman & Sophomores and in the first few games had a rash of major injuries to several key players to boot. Jim Mora is doing a heck of job.
UCONN to the Big10!!Seriously, Mora is doing a great job.
Really an incredible job when all factors are considered. UCONN hadn’t had a winning season and only made 1 bowl game in the 11 seasons since Edsall left the first time. And only won 6 games TOTAL the last 3 seasons. To be 6-6 and bowl eligible in year 1 is pretty remarkable, especially considering they have really no other decent HC options
Few are more dismissive of the 78 meaningless Dec/Jan exhibitions more than I am, but here IMHO is one situation that I actually can almost say, "OK, it's good there's a bowl game for this team."For a program that has been down forever, to see the players finally get an end-of-season reward for working their arses off to try to make their program into something more than a laughingstock ... well, that doesn't totally suck.
I wish their team went 0-12. Any decent success might have another conference try to pick them off.
Unless they get consistently good to great, they aren’t getting any invite better than the AAC one they already had. Boise had leveraged their success over the last couple of decades into absolutely nothing but an enhanced deal with the MWC.
I get the concern but they are not getting an ACC invite unless someone leaves the ACC, and I believe the ACC is bound up until 2035. The ACC has already dropped to 4th in the P5 revenue and they would not slice the pie into smaller pieces.One caveat is if some lawyer finds an escape clause in the ACC's GoR, then UCONN would be targeted because Miami, FSU, NC and Clemson will exit faster than a New York minute.
Someone better tell their coach https://www.theuconnblog.com/2022/7/8/23199039/uconn-football-jim-mora-is-telling-recruits-uconn-plans-to-move-the-acc"It also appears football coach Jim Mora is telling prospective recruits that the program is hoping to join the ACC soon.“He explained that he has a goal of joining the ACC within the next few years,” UConn commit Jackson Harper told Anthony."
I worry that stringing a couple of good seasons together could get them an ACC invite in 2026.Edit: "worry" is relative. Its about #100000 on my list of worries.
Oh, please list the first 99,999!
Oh man. Sounds like Mississippi State coach Mike Leach is in bad shape. In the hospital in a "critical medical situation."
While the Army-Navy game is a feel good event, my god was it a positively awful FB game. Usually one of the two is pretty good, but 2 mediocre triple option teams are terrible. Late in the 4th, it was 10-7. The Army TD came on a blocked punt. The Navy TD came on a 75 yard run. The offense otherwise was horrific. Army drives to get a tying FG with an offense that was basically heave a wobbly pass and pray for PI. They got it twice. Both times the QB celebrated like he threw a dime deep ball.Tied 10-10, Navy gets the ball with 2 min left and 2 TO and bleeds the clock playing for OT, beyond weak. Ball don’t lie for what happened in OT.Of course, both teams score long TDs IMMEDIATELY in OT. Then Navy fumbles on the goal line, Army grinds 2 yards for a FG and we are all put out of our misery