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Hard to believe how talent-poor, undisciplined, and terribly-coached this Florida team was. I was hopeful when Napier was hired because he seemed to get it, and he does seem to with recruiting (except the recruiting can't overcome the losing anymore). It's just the on-field product is so terrible. This was a winnable game that we pissed away with poor discipline and lousy coaching, just like the last three games were winnable games that we pissed away with poor discipline and lousy coaching. Now we just play the waiting game until he's fired after next season and do it all over again. Please dear god fire Stricklin first, though.

I like Ryan Day and the idea of Ohio State firing him is ludicrous to me but Jim Harbaugh was right that he was born on third base. I'm not sure anybody has taken over a better situation than him. There's only two teams in that conference that can really compete with Ohio State -- one of them makes a habit of crapping the bed in big games and the other has beaten him three straight games. Neither really recruits at the same level as Ohio State. I don't know much about Michigan's roster but I'd assume they, like FSU, are benefitting from the covid year and kids that should have already graduated by now? This little run they're on may not be sustainable.

Eh, not really. They only cut it to one score with 40 seconds left. Never really felt like the Packers were in any danger after they went up.

The confusion is clearly on your end. His presumption of innocence means he is not in jail. It is not relevant towards anything else. There are a number of peer-reviewed studies on this. You can prove they’re incorrect if you’d like. There’s not a pool of 7m people here. The pool is not everybody in the Houston area. The pool is women who have given Deshaun Watson a massage. It’s significantly smaller. This isn’t that difficult.

As you’ve been told countless times now, sexually assault is incredibly difficult to prove. How would you go about proving somebody pushed your mouth or hand to their privates or forced you to give them oral sex? Keep in mind that in this scenario, you’re a 110 pound woman and he’s a professional athlete. Ignoring the sketchiness of seeing that many message therapists to begin with…the percentage of false accusations are somewhere between 2% and 10%. What do you think is the likelihood of finding 20+ women willing to falsely accuse him of sexual assault? Pretty low. Now what’s the likelihood of finding 20+ Houston area massage therapists who can prove they’ve given him massages that are willing to falsely accuse him? It’s impossibly low. This guy doesn’t deserve to be defended.

For one, innocent until proven guilty applies to the justice system, not to HR departments. Second, there’s a reason people are declared “not guilty” rather than innocent. Innocent = person did not commit the crime Not Guilty = could not be proven without a reasonable doubt that they did commit the crime Those are not the same thing.

It’s not even the age thing to me. Rising’s been in QB rooms receiving coaching for six years already (unlike kids who go on missions and are away from CFB for two or whatever). It’s just such a massive competitive advantage. He’s going to be 25. Time to move onto whatever NFL practice squad he’s going to end up on. The Covid year has had such a massive impact on college football and has impacted kids down the line since the scholarship limit hasn’t increased. Florida State played nine games in 2020 and wasn’t bowl eligible, Wake played nine. Just seems like huge overreactions to give kids like Jordan Travis and Sam Hartman full extra seasons because of it.

Ugh... will be the guys seventh year. Maybe I'm just an old man yelling at clouds but medical redshirt or not, I don't think this should be allowed. I'd be in favor of a five year max, personally. We've seen this year what a huge advantage having one of these sixth year QBs is. I also think the extra covid year of eligibility was a mistake.

I can’t imagine he has much of an NFL future. I’m not just saying this as a rival fan since I’m on the record saying he’s a great college player, but his athleticism won’t be as big of a weapon in the NFL as it is against the future pros in something other than sports he currently plays against and his passing skillset is pretty much just throwing up jump balls to Wilson and Coleman. And frankly, a lot of his success is probably just from having six years of experience in CFB, four of them starting games in the same system.

I'm not going to defend the ACC because that conference is a joke, but as a fan of a team that consistently plays one of the toughest schedules in the country and that, next season, plays the most difficult schedule I've ever seen, it gets a little old seeing this argument. I'd say the average SEC team plays a more difficult schedule than the average non-SEC team. Go after the Michigan's and Oregon's of the world for their joke non-conference schedules. My team, Florida, is pretty mediocre and likely won't be bowl eligible and would probably be a nine or ten win team with Michigan's schedule or Penn State’s. The benefit of having high-performing athletic departments to universities is clear enough and, frankly, there's a large enough separation between athletic departments and actual universities, that yes, schools would be wise to hire athletic directors with an eye on actually be as good as possible at sports, in my opinion. edit: I guess I can't speak specifically about Arizona State's situation but for Florida, for instance, it would absolutely benefit the university to get serious about their academic programs.

What a game. An ugly ass game… but what a game.

Lucky ASU. I wish Florida’s AD would resign.

From what I could tell, he went the smash mouth football route when he should have just handled the defense and hired some air raid guy to continue running some semblance of Leach’s offense.

I mean... not really. Miami needed OT to beat Virginia. Looked like hot garbage against NC State. They're playing a true freshman QB that wasn't even highly regarded out of high school. Clemson is maybe better than their record but it still took Clemson missing a chip shot FG and repeatedly punching themselves in the nuts for FSU to beat them. I'd maybe buy that Clemson is more talented than their record, but not better. Then there's the BC game, they were losing to Duke with a hobbled Riley Leonard until they took him out of the game on an illegal hit, struggling against Pitt.

I don’t see how any of these talking heads can say Ohio State hasn’t passed the eye test and then praise Florida State.

Feel like you’re being intentionally obtuse here to, for god knows what reason, defend overzealous officiating. For one, it was clearly a miscommunication on an option route. The WR was still in a full sprint when the throw was made. Second, the penalty requires the QB to be throwing the ball away to avoid an imminent loss of yardage. He was not. Allen had already completed his throwing motion by the time any defender comes unblocked.

Florida was only a 3pt favorite at home, so not much of an upset. Unfortunately an already young defense with no depth lost it’s best player after an injury last week and two other important DL were out. That said, Florida’s biggest problem is they may be the worst coached team in the country. Napier outdoes himself every week. This week it was the FG unit running onto the field to kick a game winner after converting a first down on what should have been a routine spike to stop the clock, getting bailed out by the refs not letting Arkansas sub, and taking a procedural penalty for an illegal substitution. He's recruiting well and will get at least next year's brutal schedule, but he's a dead man walking, imo. Also, completely unrelated to Florida since this program hasn't been relevant enough to begin with, I become more and more convinced this is rigged every week. It’s always the same teams benefiting from the trash officiating… the ones that stand to potentially lose their conference millions with a loss.

Yeah, tried watching the Nuggets game and it’s unwatchable.

They announced last week they were shutting him down for the season. Kind of wild that they thought he might play week one.

Don’t know why anyone engages Unocal. I learned my lesson when he tried to argue that UConn basketball wasn’t actually good because they beat everybody so badly and would surely lose if the games were closer.

Yeah, this has turned into a pretty big deal. Hard to imagine the staff or school didn't know when this guy's buying prime seats for huge games on a pretty modest salary. Somebody had to bankroll it. Can't imagine Harbaugh is still at Michigan next year.

I didn’t think anything would come of this sign stealing scandal at first but now seeing this guy has bought tickets to 30 games including both sides of the field for OSU/PSU — and not at all discretely — Michigan/Harbaugh may actually be screwed. Especially interesting is… Using electronic devices to steal signals seems like a much bigger offense than the advanced scouting by itself, which was kind of meh.

The game against Arkansas where Florida is wearing black uniforms just got a noon kickoff time. Brutal.

I'm not sure there's any really great teams this year. Last week it looked like the ACC may be good but not so much this week. Top ten UNC losing to a terrible Virginia team on the CW seems appropriate. Maybe my flair makes me biased but I don't buy FSU. They didn't look good against Duke despite how hobbled Leonard was (and only took over once Leonard left the game after a kind of dirty play) and probably should've lost to a mid Clemson team. Washington's losing to a bad ASU team. The Penix heisman train has derailed. UGA being down Bowers and they didn't look that good with him. I'm not sure about Ohio State. Michigan looks legit but who have they played? Also, I wonder if Clemson's days of being an NC contender are through. Dabo objects to the portal and NIL (fine with paying kids under the table, though) and they just seem so poorly coached these last two years. edit: Pac 12 refs stepped in to keep Washington's playoff hopes alive.

I do wish the guy would just off back to the NFL already. I don't even have anything against Michigan... just tired of this guy. On another note, JMU not being bowl eligible is bull. That's a dumb rule.