2024 -25 College Football and College Football Playoff Thread

[Pakuni]

Bill O'Brien's tenure as tOSU's offensive coordinator didn't last long.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/college/football/2024/02/05/report-obrien-to-leave-ohio-state-to-become-boston-college-coach/72480917007/

[The Sultan]

That's a really good hire for BC. Obviously benefits from the fact he's from the area and lives there now. He'll keep them competitive enough to keep BC happy, but likely not competitive enough to make him attractive at a blue-blood.

[Pakuni]

Chip Kelly leaving behind a mess at UCLA to become tOSU's offensive coordinator.

[Uncle Rico]

Chip Kelly leaving behind a mess at UCLA to become tOSU's offensive coordinator.

UCLA must be a disaster

[MU82]

UCLA must be a disaster

The rumors were that he would have been a lame-duck coach - produce big or be fired. So he left ahead of the pitchforks.

[JWags85]

Kelly was Ryan Day's OC when he was QB at NH and his first coaching job after school, and then plucked Day from a dead end OC role at BC under Addazio and brought him to Philly and then SF as his QB coach, which lead him to getting the OSU OC job and where he is now.  So its a demotion but also going to work with/for one of his mentees.

I also think it further shows what a disaster UCLA's athletic department is.  I also wonder if Kelly, at 60, is just sick of being a HC.  Would rather just creatively scheme offense and call plays and do it with someone he is close with. And I imagine they won't make him recruit much cause Hartline is the ace in the hole with that.

[The Sultan]

I think Kelly wants to be in the NFL to end his career and this is a better route than getting fired at UCLA next year.

[Pakuni]

DeShaun Foster, who just left to become the Raiders RB coach, gets the HC job at UCLA.

[Uncle Rico]

DeShaun Foster, who just left to become the Raiders RB coach, gets the HC job at UCLA.

Good luck with that

[Pakuni]

Can't afford to pay players, though.

ESPN and the College Football Playoff are in agreement on a six-year, $7.8 billion extension that will make the network the home of the 12-team tournament through the 2031-32 season once CFP leaders sort out the specifics of how the postseason's new era will operate, sources briefed on the deal told The Athletic.

[Uncle Rico]

Can't afford to pay players, though.

ESPN and the College Football Playoff are in agreement on a six-year, $7.8 billion extension that will make the network the home of the 12-team tournament through the 2031-32 season once CFP leaders sort out the specifics of how the postseason's new era will operate, sources briefed on the deal told The Athletic.

What?  How is this possible?  ESPN is DOOMED

[jesmu84]

Playoff will be 5 highest ranked conf champs + 7 at large

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

Oh no!

https://x.com/joepompliano/status/1759998228311753045?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

[The Sultan]

Oh no!

https://x.com/joepompliano/status/1759998228311753045?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

Well, they avoid a conference championship game so I get the logic.

[Hards Alumni]

Oh no!

https://x.com/joepompliano/status/1759998228311753045?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

Going to be impossible for them to stay independent.

Good.

[Herman Cain]

Has Come along way since the substance abuse era.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39576581/texas-regents-approve-steve-sarkisian-extension-raise

[WhiteTrash]

Going to be impossible for them to stay independent.

Good.

Disagree. Let them stay independent and come back to the Big East. 

[CreightonWarrior]

Eric Bieniemy's career going the wrong direction. 

[The Sultan]

Eric Bieniemy's career going the wrong direction. 

I think the last year justified a lot of people's concerns. Not just how bad the offense was, but the buzz around his coaching style was not very positive.

[Pakuni]

Eric Bieniemy's career going the wrong direction.

I wonder if he realizes the ship probably has sailed on him getting an NFL head coaching gig and now he's hoping to land one in college.

[JWags85]

I think the last year justified a lot of people's concerns. Not just how bad the offense was, but the buzz around his coaching style was not very positive. this

Which is why everyone getting up in arms again about him not getting NFL HC jobs is so bizarre/lame.  One of the top results if you search him right now is a USA Today article calling this recent development "shameful".  Plenty of other African American assistants got HC gigs while he was the OC in KC.  And then his first step outside Reid's system was a disaster on the field and in the locker room.  There is plenty of valid criticism of the plight of minorities coaching in the NFL but continually acting like EB is the recipient of some calculated and targeted vendetta is just a matter of ignoring all the evidence at this point to continue a narrative.

[The Sultan]

Yeah, I saw that article and I thought it was exceptionally lazy. Especially in this cycle where 3/7 head coaches hired were black, two of whom have never even been coordinators before.

[The Sultan]

CFP negotiations are now off the rails with talks of a 14 team playoff with guaranteed first round byes for the B10 and SEC champions. Also rumors that the SEC and B10 have at least talked about pulling out of the NCAA and setting up an AFC and NFC type conference system. 

[WhiteTrash]

CFP negotiations are now off the rails with talks of a 14 team playoff with guaranteed first round byes for the B10 and SEC champions. Also rumors that the SEC and B10 have at least talked about pulling out of the NCAA and setting up an AFC and NFC type conference system.

This will crank up the FSU exit effort 10x.

[Uncle Rico]

CFP negotiations are now off the rails with talks of a 14 team playoff with guaranteed first round byes for the B10 and SEC champions. Also rumors that the SEC and B10 have at least talked about pulling out of the NCAA and setting up an AFC and NFC type conference system.

The Big 33 and the SEC will leave the NCAA by the end of the summer.  At least in football