Glass Joe

The timing suggests Landon Barnes.

The key here is the word roster…as in the talent across the entire 85-man roster. LSU may have the highest scoring offense in college football this year, but their defense is well below LSU standards. Similarly, Clemson has some elite guys at key positions across the starting line-up, but what is behind any of those guys, and can the top end guys cover for the less-than-elite other starters? Oregon historically is a very barbelled roster, with some elite talent at various positions, but replacement level at other position groups. I tend to think with the NIL era beginning a few years ago, they now have more talent across their entire roster (even in the two-deep) than they’ve ever had before. That said, we saw what Ohio State’s talent did to Oregon in the Rose Bowl, so there’s still a gap there. I think for 2025, you can put Texas, Penn State, UGA, Ohio State, and Bama 85-man rosters at the top of the list, with LSU, Clemson, and Oregon having enough key talented players (if not depth of talent) to win an NC if the chips fall right for them. Notre Dame and Florida need 1-2 more recruiting classes at the level they’re currently recruiting to make this list.

Trey Metoyer is a rather notorious alum.

The Horns achieved the national #1 ranking in football, baseball, softball, women’s basketball, won the national championship in swimming, and defended the national championship in volleyball.

Shemar is not happy about taking a pay cut this season. Aggy NIL > NFL salary

He’ll go straight from collecting NIL payments to Social Security payments. Recruiting class of 2018. Rising was in the same recruiting class as Joseph Ossai, who will be entering his 5th NFL season this fall.

Lott to Marist and Webb to ULaLa. Confirmed.

Texas has never had any luck with RBs from Arizona. Ever. 😉😁

It’s interesting (to me) because Iowa State football has the top attendance of the historical Big 12 schools (post Texas, OU departures), and is second to only BYU when the new entrants are considered. I completely understand the TV market perspective on ISU being the #2 school in a small farm state with no major TV local market, but it’s a shame for the fans who turn out to support a competitive school that they’ll soon be relegated out of big time college football. If ISU were in the Big 10 West, they’d be competitive peers with ALL the other schools in that division (Iowa, Minn, Ill, Wiscy, Neb, NW, etc.)

I’m pretty sure Cook was kicked out of Texas in the fall semester, and entered the Winter portal to transfer to Washington. He was subsequently kicked out of the UW program, and has now entered the Spring portal. The SEC rule applies to Spring portal entrants being prohibited from playing with another SEC school the following fall. It doesn’t apply to those who left their school in the Winter portal, for example Brad Spence from Arkansas to Texas. That is my understanding anyway.

Syracuse maybe? I recall Elijah Robinson almost landed him at A&M when he was coming out of high school.

Good, we need more from the corner outfielders with Belyeu on the mend.

Nico is welcome to transfer to and attend any school in the SEC, and any SEC school is welcome to pay him whatever amount they’d like to immediately. However, he will be ineligible to play football for another SEC in 2025. Nobody is limiting his ability to attend any schools nor his compensation, they’re limiting his ability to participate (in 2025) because he spent the previous semester playing for another school within the same conference…which provides a strategic advantage to the school accepting his transfer in. If you litigate the ability of an athlete to change schools from semester to semester within a conference, how do you prevent players transferring among schools within the SEC on a weekly basis?

Not that Tech wouldn’t love the publicity, but is Nico really an upgrade over Behren Morton? Morton isn’t great, but he’s a solid veteran who has gone through the offseason and Spring with Tech’s newly-hired OC. Nico has already demonstrated he’s a pretty average passing QB who is challenged by learning basic passing concepts. Tech may be an interesting case study of the money guys wanting one QB, while the coach may want his guy. Should be fun to watch this Nico saga.

Sam Leavitt’s market value just went up…a lot.