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I woke up this morning and read the title of this thread (he found something) and it made me think of the Movie Backrooms. Maybe Sark stumbled into the liminal space at Moncrief and found the backroom versions of play calling, pole assassins monkey got lost in there and maybe next week he will find Kyle Flood’s bama mojo. Get back in there and find some more Bishop play calls Sark! 🤘🤘🤘

There’s a good chunk of that fanbase that has never seen Ohio State have a down season like this in their lifetimes and it shows, similar to Alabama fans experiencing life post-Saban and Oklahoma fans experiencing life post-Riley. They don’t know how to act. The signs were there when a fully healthy Ohio State blew a 20 point lead in the fourth quarter to lose to Texas almost two months ago. It would not surprise me to see them drop at least one more game, most likely against arch-rival Michigan, or in a non-CFP bowl game and not win 10 games in a season for the first time since Luke Fickell’s interim head coach season in 2011. Welcome to the NIL/Revenue Sharing/Enhanced Transfer Portal era of college football.

Just finished reading and listening to some reactions after Ryan Day's squad was curb stomped by Oregon (?). It's getting ugly in Columbus, couches will be afire soon. Beanie Wells had a scathing review of their D, also heard someone blasting their lack of OL development, "fire these 3 coaches", etc. I know that we as Texas fans can get livid, and our expectations are lofty (and rightfully so), but these folks are rabid. Also read one analyst who said Smith played his last game as a buckeye - just because a competitive kid was pissed off. Jeez.

The risk is having to pay a $30M-$50M buyout to a guy who has never coached at the college level at the exact same time your conference is imploding as the revenue generating schools leave for the SEC and Big Ten before the next round of media rights deals in 2031. This is the same theory / move that Colorado made with Deion, except Deion is much higher profile than Phillip Rivers, and at least Deion feigned interest in coaching college football at Jackson St prior to CU. And four years later (after Deion’s son is long gone), Colorado is no better off than before. Maybe even worse as they’ll have to soon pay Deion to go away. This Rivers move is to get NC State donors to give a bit more money to the program, to alleviate short term financial stress of NIL. Period. It’s not a serious football decsion. It also locks in his son (Gunner Rivers) as the highest ranked QB commit in a generation. This has nothing to do with winning / losing football games, and absolutely nothing to do with the long-term health of the program. By contrast, NC State could actually try to hire a real college football coach and maybe that guy can take a talent rich area of the country and parlay it into an upper tier ACC program. Both Cignetti and Bob Chesney coached 200 miles from NC State campus before leaving JMU to completely redefine the football programs at IU and UCLA. Those coaches have already brought more revenue and long-term financial health to their programs than Phillip Rivers will ever bring to NC State. Maybe NC State can try to identify a real coach with that type of upside? And the difference with Mike Leach is that he had lots of college level OC experience, having the #1 offense at two different P4 schools (Kentucky and OU) before taking the Tech job. Phillip Rivers is a high school coach with $100M+ in his bank account, looking to coach his son (QB) at the college level.

Let's hope Coach and Arch learn and understood.

The Big 10 is gonna get the benefit of the doubt, just like the SEC.

Completely agree on Coleman being out. It also improved the efficiency of the offense because Bishop capitalized on all of his opportunities. Coleman hasn’t done that.

They have a good at being, if they stay healthy.

Texas recruited him heavily. He was cray cray .. but a real talent

Like these debates. Hopefully, end of the year we are at least a sweet 16 team.

I'm up trading stocks on European markets. What are you doing? Don't think anyone seriously denies Kobe was the best basketball player in the world from June 2000 to June 2010. As for Texas, Sark constantly talks about Kobe.

Is this drunk harveycmd posting more crap about Bryant on the Texas basketball season thread? I thought we were over that.

I think if USC or Iowa win out, they have a shot at the playoffs. Big 12 won't get two, imo. ACC maybe.

"Why did Iverson, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki and LeBrick James win MVP in 2001, 2002,2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007,2009, 2010" Kobe "Because the media votes on it."

Going down there was the cleaner winning play, even if it makes for less exciting highlights. The extra clock and burned timeouts mattered way more than six points in that spot.

Careful what you wish for....

They are more than a QB away. Smith is their entire offense. They can't run the ball and their defense is getting torched

I hope he gets the chance to do it again this week.

Interesting strategy that will probably spread around the nfl. Our very own Andrew Beck doing kickoffs for an extra tackler on the field.

Sterling is an extraordinary shooter, but he is going to struggle defensively and with getting a shot off when the schedule presents a higher caliber of talent against him.

I agree it was a smart and unselfish play. Also it appeared to be someone on the sideline, possible a texas staff guy giving the signal to get down.

With NIL and the portal making college football harder then ever for coaches hiring a guy who only has a couple years experience at the high school level has disaster written all over it

Math. You know that around the 20 he was thinking "if I score then, they score, there will be an onside kick. I better go down."

No. False start, illegal formation, hold, fumbles, blocked kicks, missed FGs can happen. Teams have failed to score in those situations, that's a fact. It is absolutely the wrong decision. No doubt. Go ahead a get the 14 point lead.

How is it risky? NC State is desperate for relevancy. I don't think the move is going to work out, either, but I don't think any move was going to work out for NC State. But who knows? Texas Tech fired Spike Dykes, which I thought was a mistake, and hired a guy with a law degree with no head coaching experience, who hadn't even played college football. Mike Leach is not only their best coach and led them to relevancy, in many ways he's the reason the football program is where it's at today, since Cody Campbell played under him. You just never know. NC State is in a position they have to roll the dice and try something risky. And if Rivers succeeds, they have a better shot of keeping him as the head coach than someone else who would for sure view that job as a stepping stone. Heck, Rivers might. He'll for sure raise the platform for that job. I'm supportive of the hire. I don't think it's going to work out, but when you're desperate, sometimes you go all in on the roulette wheel.