2024 College Football Thread: Ohio State advances to play unbeaten hypothetical SEC team (3 Viewers)

[3C's]

love this story — Ex-Colorado staffer pitched Saudi Arabia to be a $10M NIL pipeline

Well this guy certainly was a hustler

Yes, but lest we forget, he is a man of god. No need to besmirch deion like that.

:laughreaction:

Dude hung on the cross for us himself.

 

[kupcho1]

love this story — Ex-Colorado staffer pitched Saudi Arabia to be a $10M NIL pipeline

Well this guy certainly was a hustler

Yes, but lest we forget, he is a man of god. No need to besmirch deion like that.

:spittake:

 

[bagger]

Since when did Shuke start coaching Tennessee?

 

[Osaurus]

I hope Billy Napier likes cowbell

 

[psychobillies]

I hope Billy Napier likes cowbell

Nobody likes cowbell.

 

[whoknew]

I hope Billy Napier likes cowbell

Nobody likes cowbell.

I was just about to post how annoying it is watching games on tv that are at Mississippi State.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Ohio state has been getting bailed out by the refs against Marshall, very suspect calls

 

[Capella]

What happened to NC State? Some people had them winning the ACC before the year.

 

[FDASv2.0]

Who is a UNC fan? I would like to laugh at you.

 

[TennesseeJed]

Who is a UNC fan? I would like to laugh at you.

My daughter is a junior at JMU, I'd like to join you.

 

[TennesseeJed]

lol - over/under was 48.5

 

[massraider]

Who is a UNC fan? I would like to laugh at you.

My daughter is a junior at JMU, I'd like to join you.

Check out their team!! I just saw a cool article on the Athletic about them.

 

[TennesseeJed]

Who is a UNC fan? I would like to laugh at you.

My daughter is a junior at JMU, I'd like to join you.

Check out their team!! I just saw a cool article on the Athletic about them.

I have been going to 1-2 JMU games a year for the last 10+ years.

My sister is an alum, still lives in Harrisonburg and is season-ticket holder.

When I am being a bad dad, I pull out a video we have of my daughter when she was about 8, and she was screaming "GO DUKES" at a football game. Never fails to embarrass her...

 

[whoknew]

Big FG there for UNC. Cuts the JMU lead to 29.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

love this story — Ex-Colorado staffer pitched Saudi Arabia to be a $10M NIL pipeline

Well this guy certainly was a hustler

Yes, but lest we forget, he is a man of god. No need to besmirch deion like that.

Sure but this story is not about Deion Sanders. Its about a former NFL player who not long ago was in Riyadh and Jordan trying to raise a $10m NIL fund for from Shiekhs and sovereign state funding sources and is now washing dishes and volunteering as a high school football coach in Hawaii. But the fact is he's likely ahead of the curve. Of course Colorado wants to distance itself from this guy now, but the money quote comes at the end: “I’d say close to 50 percent of schools and athletic department leaders would navigate their way to yes,” a top NIL executive said last year when describing the possibility of Saudi investment in college sports."

This number is surely only moving in one direction. I'd expect nearly every single big college football program that wants to remain competitive would happily take Saudi money today. PE / fund money is reportedly already involved in NIL. Its spiraling out of control imo.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

What happened to NC State? Some people had them winning the ACC before the year.

This feels like a prognasticator problem more th an an NCSU problem. This year's early rankings seem more egregious than usual.

 

[bigbottom]

love this story — Ex-Colorado staffer pitched Saudi Arabia to be a $10M NIL pipeline

Well this guy certainly was a hustler

Yes, but lest we forget, he is a man of god. No need to besmirch deion like that.

Sure but this story is not about Deion Sanders. Its about a former NFL player who not long ago was in Riyadh and Jordan trying to raise a $10m NIL fund for from Shiekhs and sovereign state funding sources and is now washing dishes and volunteering as a high school football coach in Hawaii. But the fact is he's likely ahead of the curve. Of course Colorado wants to distance itself from this guy now, but the money quote comes at the end: “I’d say close to 50 percent of schools and athletic department leaders would navigate their way to yes,” a top NIL executive said last year when describing the possibility of Saudi investment in college sports."

This number is surely only moving in one direction. I'd expect nearly every single big college football program that wants to remain competitive would happily take Saudi money today. PE / fund money is reportedly already involved in NIL. Its spiraling out of control imo.

How does the return on investment work for that?

 

[Capella]

What happened to NC State? Some people had them winning the ACC before the year.

This feels like a prognasticator problem more th an an NCSU problem. This year's early rankings seem more egregious than usual.

I don’t disagree, nobody knows anything but still you’d think they’d be better than that.

 

[massraider]

love this story — Ex-Colorado staffer pitched Saudi Arabia to be a $10M NIL pipeline

Well this guy certainly was a hustler

Yes, but lest we forget, he is a man of god. No need to besmirch deion like that.

Sure but this story is not about Deion Sanders. Its about a former NFL player who not long ago was in Riyadh and Jordan trying to raise a $10m NIL fund for from Shiekhs and sovereign state funding sources and is now washing dishes and volunteering as a high school football coach in Hawaii. But the fact is he's likely ahead of the curve. Of course Colorado wants to distance itself from this guy now, but the money quote comes at the end: “I’d say close to 50 percent of schools and athletic department leaders would navigate their way to yes,” a top NIL executive said last year when describing the possibility of Saudi investment in college sports."

This number is surely only moving in one direction. I'd expect nearly every single big college football program that wants to remain competitive would happily take Saudi money today. PE / fund money is reportedly already involved in NIL. Its spiraling out of control imo.

How does the return on investment work for that?

It doesn't. This guy went rogue.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Are there many Michigan guys here? Pretty clear there's a bunch of haters.

 

[Jayded]

Riley Leonard is atrocious. How he convinced Duke and Notre Dame coaches he could play QB is beyond me.

Freeman also crapping the bed against the MAC at home. He’s already on razor thin ice and this isn’t helping.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Are there many Michigan guys here? Pretty clear there's a bunch of haters.

pretty clear from what?

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Are there many Michigan guys here? Pretty clear there's a bunch of haters.

pretty clear from what?

The posts.

 

[TennesseeJed]

Steve Berkowitz
@ByBerkowitz
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James Madison -- getting a $700,000 guarantee from North Carolina -- defeats Tar Heels, 70-50, in Chapel Hill.

The win over a Power 4 team gives Dukes coach Bob Chesney a $15,000 bonus. And each JMU assistant, and its head strength coach, will get $2,500.






Pretty small bonuses, but still a pretty good day for JMU Football.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

love this story — Ex-Colorado staffer pitched Saudi Arabia to be a $10M NIL pipeline

Well this guy certainly was a hustler

Yes, but lest we forget, he is a man of god. No need to besmirch deion like that.

Sure but this story is not about Deion Sanders. Its about a former NFL player who not long ago was in Riyadh and Jordan trying to raise a $10m NIL fund for from Shiekhs and sovereign state funding sources and is now washing dishes and volunteering as a high school football coach in Hawaii. But the fact is he's likely ahead of the curve. Of course Colorado wants to distance itself from this guy now, but the money quote comes at the end: “I’d say close to 50 percent of schools and athletic department leaders would navigate their way to yes,” a top NIL executive said last year when describing the possibility of Saudi investment in college sports."

This number is surely only moving in one direction. I'd expect nearly every single big college football program that wants to remain competitive would happily take Saudi money today. PE / fund money is reportedly already involved in NIL. Its spiraling out of control imo.

How does the return on investment work for that?

I can't say why a fund like PIF would "invest" in NIL for a college football team. Maybe they just want to get a foot in the door and $10m is pocket change for a fund with over $900bln in assets. They put over $2Bln into LIV Golf and another $2bln into ATP/WTA tours, bought Newcastle United, etc. all in the past few years. There might be some truth to the sportswashing theories, but that wouldn't apply to the US based investment funds that are supposedly getting involved in NIL. I expect these non-booster investors see the massive income stream flowing through college football and think they can get a piece of it as the programs drop any semblance of amateurism and move more toward a professional sports model. Its also possible this guy was full of #### the whole time and this opportunity was never close to being reality. He also claimed his contacts in the "Mormon community" were "worth about $3 trillion."

 

[whoknew]

This is beautiful. 178 yards rushing so far for Michigan.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

This is beautiful. 178 yards rushing so far for Michigan.

Dominant performance so far.

 

[Osaurus]

Lol @ Auburn

 

[Todem]

What happened to NC State? Some people had them winning the ACC before the year.

They are a HUGE disappointment. A ton of portal guys came in and it’s simply been bad.

Now having a true freshman making his first start in Death Valley is tough….but it was the defense that totally got ran over.

Anyway….ACC? Nope. It will be Clemson vs Miami.

And how about James Madison today….whoa!!!!

 

[Sparky Polastri]

This is beautiful. 178 yards rushing so far for Michigan.

Feels like weve taken a time machine back to 1955. I kinda like this sort of football though.

 

[belljr]

The Cousin Vinnies are pretty good

 

[CletiusMaximus]

Not very surprising but 70-50 is indeed a Scorigami.

x.com

x.com

 

[Sparky Polastri]

The Dores stickin with Missouri.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Is it just me, or does Michigan have a lot of duplucate numbers between offense and defense?

 

[Snoopy]

Is it just me, or does Michigan have a lot of duplucate numbers between offense and defense?

That's what happens with large rosters. The rule is that you can't have 2 players with the same number on the field at the same time.

 

[Snoopy]

I hope Billy Napier likes cowbell

Nobody likes cowbell.

Needs more cowbell.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Is it just me, or does Michigan have a lot of duplucate numbers between offense and defense?

That's what happens with large rosters. The rule is that you can't have 2 players with the same number on the field at the same time.

Yeah, I get the rule. Just seems like more than average overlap. Maybe im off

 

[belljr]

Notre Dame is terrible

 

[General Malaise]

USC getting back into this one. It's as if they finally figured out Michigan is one dimensional.

 

[General Malaise]

Notre Dame is terrible

How bad must Purdue be then? Guess we're about to find out.....

 

[General Malaise]

USC about to take total control of this one.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Neither of these teams are balanced. Pass heavy vs run heavy

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Opps

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Brutal. That was a pick six as soon as it left the QBs hand.

Edit: Actually, good on the CB there.

 

[Osaurus]

Vandy hanging on

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Finally a good run for USC

 

[Sparky Polastri]

Vandy hanging on

Go Dores!!!!!!!!

 

[dickey moe]

Crazy double fumble just now in the USC/UM game.

 

[Sparky Polastri]

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I'd leave that play as-is.

As much as I was rooting for the big man TD, it was not to be.