Scholarship table
Clay Helton has not been fired (yet?).Charlie Strong has, in fact, been fired.
But the media said it was true. SI reporting he got fired, school denies it. #fakenewsForNow?
Matt Luke out at Ole Miss.Given the mess Hugh Freeze left for him, not sure what more could have been reasonably expected of him.
What do reasonable expectations have to do with SEC football?
Strong finished the season ranked two years ago and had a winning record last year. Furthermore his last two years at Louisville he went 23-3 with a Sugar Bowl win. Texas was a bad for no doubt but the guy has been a successful head coach before.
Chris Petersen stepping down at Washington. Moving into administration - at least for now. Will clearly have opportunities in future if he wishes.
I thought it was interesting that his longtime assistant stemming back to the Boise St days was handed the gig. Good for continuity I'm sure, and Lake has a solid enough resume, but it struck me as unusual that a guy who was only there for six seasons (and less time than he spent at Boise St) would have a coach-in-waiting type succession and a spot made for him in administration.
Strong didn't follow Petrino. He followed Steve Kragthorpe, who was 15-21 his three years as head coach. Strong won there because he pulled in a lot of Florida talent, including Teddy Bridgewater. He was supposed to replicate that at Texas, but obviously didn't. It kind of fell apart for him at USF. I agree with you about cutting ties early.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
So I think the combination is unlikely, but if Clemson loses to Virginia (unlikely), Georgia loses to LSU (fairly likely), and Utah loses to Oregon (don't know enough about either team to make a call), who gets in? The winner of the the Baylor Oklahoma game would almost certainly get the #3 seed, but who'd be 4th? A 1 loss Clemson with 0 top 25 wins?
Sports Illustrated’s Adam Maya still hasn’t issued a retraction about Clay Helton during, despite USC firmly saying he is staying. What will SI do?
Weird that Baylor jumped Wisconsin in the playoff poll.