Bunk Moreland

In other words, “I don’t need to see your school—just submit the highest bid if you want me to come.”

Actually I don’t think it’s that simple. Sark has won a conference championship and been to another, and been to two CFP semifinals at Texas. Cristobal won two conference titles at Oregon and zero at Miami, and has been to the playoffs once (title game). Freeman has won zero conference titles (obviously) and has been to the playoffs once (title game). Why is it so obvious that those coaches belong above Sark? You’re saying that getting to the title game should trump all other accomplishments—so, again, these coaches should be on the same level as Sonny Dykes. Otherwise you’re just quantifying it according to the eye test.

Okay but by that logic, Sonny Dykes should be top 5. I think you’ve gotta at least get to the playoffs multiple times to be above Sark.

If they have Freeman that high for making the title game once and not much else, then you are absolutely right. But Cristobal has done it exactly once and been a pretty big failure otherwise. Sark has done big things more consistently.

You know the tortilla-throwing masses in Lubbock are going to be PISSED

lookin good, big guy!

You were playing against a bunch of 4’11 middle schoolers?

This might be recency bias, but Quinn’s 4th and 13 throw has to be up there.

Let’s petition the NCAA to give Reed five more years. Maybe after a few more, A&M fans will get wise to the fact that Marcel One-Read is never going to lead them to the promise land.

I can tell you exactly how he’s going to respond: Let me be perfectly clear: if college athletics is truly going to survive in the modern era, then we must stop pretending that young athletes should be held to some impossible monastic standard while every other entity in this ecosystem monetizes them from sunrise to sunset. Universities profit. Television networks profit. Conferences profit. Coaches sign contracts worth tens of millions of dollars. Entire media empires are built upon the backs of unpaid or underpaid athletes—and yet the moment a young man makes a mistake, suddenly the same people who turned college sports into a Wall Street commodity rediscover their moral outrage and wave around NCAA rulebooks like they’re carrying tablets down from Mount Sinai. The American spirit has never been about destroying young people for one error in judgment. It has been about redemption, proportionality, and common sense. The Constitution itself was written by imperfect men who understood that rigid orthodoxy destroys institutions faster than mercy ever could. If we are serious when we say college football belongs to the American people—not to bureaucrats, not to gambling interests, not to television executives—then we ought to remember what the people actually believe in: fairness, opportunity, and second chances. Permanently stripping a student-athlete of eligibility over conduct that harmed nobody, altered no outcome, and occurred inside a system drenched from top to bottom in legalized sports gambling hypocrisy does not protect college football. It weakens it. The true threat to the integrity of the game is not a young quarterback making a mistake. It is a system so blinded by performative sanctimony that it forgets the very values of grace, liberty, and pragmatic justice that made American institutions exceptional in the first place.