OT: D1

[IUPNation]

The NCAA needs to demand the Army-Navy game be played either conference championship weekend or before. The game is why the first round is two weeks after the conference title games. All other divisions start the next week. The game needs to be moved into the season. I think it should be played on Veterans Day Weekend. Its current status as the last regular season game is a relic and it’s after conference title games that they could be in….so move it.

[IUPNation]

Conference championships, much like regular season games, really don't mean much of anything anymore! Lol

Well conference champions I do believe get the top four seeds. So winning your conference title game actually has a lot at stake in which you get a bye and a top 4 seeding. The loser of the BIG game would be 5th at this point so Penn State could get a better seeding if they made it. Right now they’d get the 6th seed. If Meatchicken beats OSU and Penn State takes out Maryland and Oregon they get the 1 or the 2 seed. If they lose they might still get the 5 and no worse than 6. I

[IUPNation]

I think it’s in Penn State’s best interest to not make the BIG championship game. Take the extra week off and keep the high seed while Oregon and Ohio State battle it out again. With the 12 team playoff, I wouldn’t mind seeing conference championship games go away. I know that will never happen but it could be a real disadvantage to play in those games, win or lose.

Yep. The FBS playoffs now look more like D2 where you might be better off not losing the Pee Sack title game and not falling in seeding. But Penn State could actually get a better seed if the made and still lost the BIG title game because they are 6th now and The Overrated State University is sitting at 5. So if they still make it and beat Oregon it will be a flip in seeding. Penn State can’t move up.

[IUP24]

There’s a pretty good article in The Athletic about Brian Kelly and how he’s still struggling to fit in down there. The most intriguing part is his contract is too big for the school to buy out so he’s got a job there for a while. Apparently after each season the buyout drops by $9 million. One of his former players stated that he started every game for two years under Kelly on the offensive line yet somehow never had a single meaningful conversation with the guy. He distances himself from the players and is apparently very hands off with his assistants, even in recruiting.

A lot of folks here criticized every word I ever spoke regarding the resolution of the House, Hubbard, and Carter cases (the end result being that Division 1 universities can opt to pay up to $21 million to student athletes in the manner that they see fit). LSU saying a buyout is too large to make a coach go away is exhibit A of how this is changing college athletics.

It's a lot of money, sure, but LSU can afford to pay that price tag. However, they are ultimately choosing not to. Why? Because they need every cent they can keep their hands on to use as part of the new revenue sharing model that will take affect this summer. Is it better to pay a coach to go away? Or is it better to keep that coach who may have not worked out like you planned, and use that money to keep and build a competitive roster?

As I stated over the summer, these athletic departments and collectives are not limitless.

[IUP24]

I think it’s in Penn State’s best interest to not make the BIG championship game. Take the extra week off and keep the high seed while Oregon and Ohio State battle it out again. With the 12 team playoff, I wouldn’t mind seeing conference championship games go away. I know that will never happen but it could be a real disadvantage to play in those games, win or lose.

Conference championships, much like regular season games, really don't mean much of anything anymore! Lol

[EyeoftheHawk]

Wonder if BK had a southern accent when he was at GVSU? LOL. He developed that later in life, I suppose.

There’s a pretty good article in The Athletic about Brian Kelly and how he’s still struggling to fit in down there. The most intriguing part is his contract is too big for the school to buy out so he’s got a job there for a while. Apparently after each season the buyout drops by $9 million. One of his former players stated that he started every game for two years under Kelly on the offensive line yet somehow never had a single meaningful conversation with the guy. He distances himself from the players and is apparently very hands off with his assistants, even in recruiting.

[EyeoftheHawk]

That would be a mess. And with Ohio State missing a couple of guys on their o-line, it's not impossible.

I think it’s in Penn State’s best interest to not make the BIG championship game. Take the extra week off and keep the high seed while Oregon and Ohio State battle it out again. With the 12 team playoff, I wouldn’t mind seeing conference championship games go away. I know that will never happen but it could be a real disadvantage to play in those games, win or lose.

[Fightingscot82]

Tulsa has fired their head coach. The interim is former Steelers wunderkind WR Ryan Switzer.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

That’s funny, I’ve been thinking about that very thing watching Curt turn into Mr. Sound Bite. You have to play the game when you move to the big time, I guess. I doubt Brian Kelly was making weird dancing videos with recruits at Grand Valley State.

Wonder if BK had a southern accent when he was at GVSU? LOL. He developed that later in life, I suppose.

[Chuck Norris]

What's funny about all this is we actually know Curt. This stuff he was saying is NOT his personality ... like not at all. I used to compare Curt's personality to that of a wooden door. He drove the IUP donor brass insane, in fact, with how anti-social he was. I wonder how much of this 'Bravado Curt' was created by a marketing firm and he was coached on it. It's just awfully odd a guy waits until he's 63 years old to all the sudden become mouthy.

That’s funny, I’ve been thinking about that very thing watching Curt turn into Mr. Sound Bite. You have to play the game when you move to the big time, I guess. I doubt Brian Kelly was making weird dancing videos with recruits at Grand Valley State.

[Ship69]

Curt Cignetti said "Ohio State sucks" to a sold out Assembly Hall at an event on campus earlier this year. I'm pretty sure that sound bite was on a loop in the Woody Hayes football facility all week.

Curt's in the open water now. He hit on 40+ transfers (about 15 of them being his guys from JMU) and had the easiest P4 schedule in the country. Regardless of what Mark Cuban wants to say, both of those things aren't going to happen again.

For a while, I thought the story was cool and fun. But I'll be honest, the more I saw him saying making non-humorous jokes at the podium after beating up on any of the 7 worst teams in the B1G, the more I hoped they would get humbled on their trip to Columbus. As far as I'm concerned, he no longer coaches at IUP, and at that level, he doesn't coach for the team I support. It was a cool story a minute, I'll give him that.

I agree that Cignetti is a big boy and has to take his lumps. But if you've watched the B1G over the years (and I've been watching them since the late '50s), NOBODY outside of Ohio State fans wants the Buckeyes to win. Also, for Indiana even "beating up on any of the 7 worst teams in the B1G" is no small thing when you look at their history. Over the years Northwestern has generally been considered the league's weakest link in football, thanks largely to its horrendous "Dark Ages" era in the '70s and '80s, but Indiana has historically been the worst program and is the only BIG team that Northwestern has a lifetime winning edge over. All that is to say that what Cignetti has accomplished there is no small thing. And he also said "Michigan sucks," and he did beat them. Michigan was down this year, but those past Indiana teams would not have beaten them.

[IUP24]

The B-Team is all over the offensive coordinator. They are stating Pitt's offense has become extremely predictable and opponents have caught on.

I don't watch them much so I don't know. But, I had to listen to them rant about it this morning.

Their offense is predictable because personnel has forced it to be. When you have lost 4 of 5 starting offensive linemen, that is a death nail.

They can't run the ball because they have no offensive line. They also can't run the ball because they have running backs other than Dez Reid (who is 5'7" 160 pounds soaking wet). They can't throw it effectively enough because the OL doesn't give the QB enough time to do so. They become a one read offense in the passing game. In obvious running situations, they get blown up often because teams know they are running it and the current guys on their offensive line are below the line.

They lost Branson Taylor and Ryan Jacoby against Syracuse the week before the SMU game. They had 2 new starters in for that game and 2 other starters were playing out of position. People wondered why their OL looked that bad against SMU... There ya go. Since that week, they've lost 2 additional starters on the OL. They are decimated with injuries up front.

I'm not making excuses for them. They were 3-9 last year. So you have to consider what's on the roster behind the guys who helped you get out to a 7-0 start. They still have a lot of 3-9 players on that roster.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Curt Cignetti said "Ohio State sucks" to a sold out Assembly Hall at an event on campus earlier this year. I'm pretty sure that sound bite was on a loop in the Woody Hayes football facility all week.

Curt's in the open water now. He hit on 40+ transfers (about 15 of them being his guys from JMU) and had the easiest P4 schedule in the country. Regardless of what Mark Cuban wants to say, both of those things aren't going to happen again.

For a while, I thought the story was cool and fun. But I'll be honest, the more I saw him saying making non-humorous jokes at the podium after beating up on any of the 7 worst teams in the B1G, the more I hoped they would get humbled on their trip to Columbus. As far as I'm concerned, he no longer coaches at IUP, and at that level, he doesn't coach for the team I support. It was a cool story a minute, I'll give him that.

What's funny about all this is we actually know Curt. This stuff he was saying is NOT his personality ... like not at all. I used to compare Curt's personality to that of a wooden door. He drove the IUP donor brass insane, in fact, with how anti-social he was. I wonder how much of this 'Bravado Curt' was created by a marketing firm and he was coached on it. It's just awfully odd a guy waits until he's 63 years old to all the sudden become mouthy.

[IUP24]

Ryan Day being a dick that he is score another TD to rub it in with 35 seconds left…

Curt Cignetti said "Ohio State sucks" to a sold out Assembly Hall at an event on campus earlier this year. I'm pretty sure that sound bite was on a loop in the Woody Hayes football facility all week.

Curt's in the open water now. He hit on 40+ transfers (about 15 of them being his guys from JMU) and had the easiest P4 schedule in the country. Regardless of what Mark Cuban wants to say, both of those things aren't going to happen again.

For a while, I thought the story was cool and fun. But I'll be honest, the more I saw him saying making non-humorous jokes at the podium after beating up on any of the 7 worst teams in the B1G, the more I hoped they would get humbled on their trip to Columbus. As far as I'm concerned, he no longer coaches at IUP, and at that level, he doesn't coach for the team I support. It was a cool story a minute, I'll give him that.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Reality is this was probably always a 7-8 win team. It didn't feel like it when they were 7-0, but such is life. Losing to Virginia stinks when you look at their season. But let's be honest here, in their losses to SMU, Clemson, and Louisville they were more than a touchdown underdog in each of them per the betting odds (and I've been told that matters). So those in the know never believed they would win those football games. Do you want to be competitive more than you were against SMU and Louisville? Yeah, for sure. But they weren't. Oh well. They ran into a buzzsaw against SMU (it happens). And they lost their QB on the 2nd drive against Louisville and the team packed it in.

What a lot of people forget is this team was 3-9 last year. They purged a lot in the offseason from that team, but they still have a lot of 3-9 players on their football team.

I think it's worth noting that they have lost 4 of their 5 starting offensive linemen. When they were winning football games, they were running the ball decent enough and Holstein had time to throw because their OL was healthy. Teams are easily generating pressure with 4 guys now. That's no recipe to be successful.

The defense is still very young, and they have some good young players. Guys like Fitzsimmons, Biles, and Louis are all really talented players.

I hope they can win next week to finish 8-4. If you do that, it's a really nice year after going 3-9 last season.

The B-Team is all over the offensive coordinator. They are stating Pitt's offense has become extremely predictable and opponents have caught on.

I don't watch them much so I don't know. But, I had to listen to them rant about it this morning.