2025 College Football Thread

[JWags85]

I know this is somewhat off topic, but this is probably the best place to put it.

The shooter who killed 3 UVA football players and wounded 2 students in 2022 has been sentenced to 5 life terms. He plead guilty, but apparently his attorneys were trying to get his mental health problems taken into account in the sentencing. The fact that there was a fair amount of planning on the shooter's part took that off the table.

While thankfully not as fatal, this coincided with another bizarre bout of CFB related violence in the South...

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-birmingham-uab-football-players-stabbed-455d6da6e6d98cc678ec983b2ff98052

More information will come out I'm sure, but wild.  Sweet culture you cultivated there, Dilfer!

[MU82]

Looks like Lane Kiffin is gonna quit on his Ole Miss team just weeks before the playoffs rather than try to lead them to a championship. L$U, here he comes.

The coaching transfer portal is always wide open. Contracts and "loyalty" be damned.

Not that I really blame Kiffin, either. One bad year and some Mississippi millionaires woulda been starting a "fire Lane" campaign.

I'm just glad the athletes are finally getting to cash in some, too.

[JWags85]

The coaching transfer portal is always wide open. Contracts and "loyalty" be damned.

I know this is your favorite drum to bang in college sports, but the transfer portal is always wide open for players too.  Multiple QBs and other high level players have transferred during the season and players are hopping around for NIL money far more often than coaches these days.  Gotta update your grievances from when players still had to sit out a year.  Just because the transfer portal window is a specific period of time annually doesn't mean players are handcuffed like coaches aren't.

As for Kiffin, its still all wild speculation at this point.  Stuff is hinting towards LSU, but its all hearsay.  He's still coaching the Egg Bowl.  As for the playoff, I'd be willing to guarantee he wants to coach it, but neither Ole Miss nor LSU would let him if his intention is to leave next year.

[MU82]

I know this is your favorite drum to bang in college sports, but the transfer portal is always wide open for players too.  Multiple QBs and other high level players have transferred during the season and players are hopping around for NIL money far more often than coaches these days.  Gotta update your grievances from when players still had to sit out a year.  Just because the transfer portal window is a specific period of time annually doesn't mean players are handcuffed like coaches aren't.

As for Kiffin, its still all wild speculation at this point.  Stuff is hinting towards LSU, but its all hearsay.  He's still coaching the Egg Bowl.  As for the playoff, I'd be willing to guarantee he wants to coach it, but neither Ole Miss nor LSU would let him if his intention is to leave next year.

I did update it, in my last sentence. And yes, the portal only has been wide open for the athletes for a few years - against the objections of the NCAA and most coaches. It's been wide open for the coaches - the ones who preach loyalty non-stop - for decades.

As for Kiffin, looks like he's quitting on a potential championship team. There's no other word for it.

[JWags85]

As for Kiffin, looks like he's quitting on a potential championship team. There's no other word for it.

There is a lot that is being speculated about.  But the main buzz is he's being forced out by both his current and future employer in the event of this job change, that's the whole reason for this drama.  He's not blind siding Ole Miss and bolting in the middle of the night, and as a result they won't let him coach the post season.  Even if he used his leverage and strong armed LSU into saying "I won't leave until after the playoff", Ole Miss wouldn't let him. 

It's like if I'm leading a big product roll out for my company that is happening in a week.  I'm also interviewing for a new job that is the best decision for my career long term.  I inform my current job I'm putting in my two weeks but will still finish the product roll out before I leave...but my boss says, no, forget it, today is your last day.  I'm not quitting on my project and my team, Im being forced out because of my future plans.

Quitting is a nasty word in sports/coaching and there are far better uses for it than what's happening here (like when he quit on Tennessee to be frank).  But we can agree to disagree, all good

Honestly, the biggest culprit here is the inane timing of the portal happening during the middle of the playoffs, that's why Ole Miss would be doing what they're rumored to be doing forcing his hand, and same with LSU.  CBB coaches can play out the NCAA and make a move after their season is over../but this is like a coaches being forced to make a decision cause the portal opens between the first weekend and the S16.

I kind of wish he would stay at Ole Miss cause he's done really cool stuff there and I think their program branding is very cool, but forget salaries, the rumored NIL money LSU is offering is insane.

[MU82]

Hmmm.