Ohio State had four players drafted in Round One of the NFL draft leading all Division 1 teams yesterday evening.
We've kinda beat this horse to death...but it can't be said enough; College football fans upset by CFP, transfer portal losing faith "no one in the history of business has survived by ignoring who they serve.
before the season when Quinn Ewers was a Heisman Candidate and a sure 1st round Draft pick, nobody would have believed you how far he's fallen to where Riley Leonard is taken before him. He's the last QB taken this year. To be fair, he's likely made a lot of NIL money in college and if he and his family have been prudent, he's got millions in the bank to get his retirement plan started. Not to mention that both Dillon Gabriel and Shaddeur Sanders would both end up with the Browns.
I never was that impressed with him at a top notch QB, but his fall in grace has been so sudden that I am not sure why? It seems like this kind of situation is completely unfair and could happen to almost any athlete. Certainly not very comfortable to athletes and parents alike.
He was a good solid QB but not a great QB. It makes me wonder what the recruiting guru's saw in him that made him the #1 recruit in HS? However again to be fair it seems like QB is probably the hardest position to evaluate. The NFL misses all the time on their top QB picks, as we see with Brock Purdy.
Sometimes there are great college quarterbacks who are not ever going to be NFL quarterbacks. That may be Ewers’ lot. It may be Milroe’s lot too.
Just from the one game I saw, ND/Louisville , Tyler Shough looked like he could make a good NFL qb. I am not a believer in Cam Ward being a franchise Qb. Good QB yes, may take a few years.
I think it's a ho hum class. I don't think there is a Jayden Daniels in the class. No Joe Burrow or CJ Stroud. More like a lot of Kirk Cousins Of course I could be wrong. Baker Mayfield was a great college QB ,but it's taken him a few years to a solid NFL QB. Lot of Baker Mayfields in the class.
It's being reported that the Longhorn payroll for 2025 season is between 35-40 million dollars. Yikes! Of course the football program pulled in 200+M dollars last year so it's not a big slice out of the revenue.
Inside Texas comments on the best jobs in CFB. From a free article on Irish Sports Daily. Being the head coach at Alabama was seen as a great opportunity for a long time. It also felt like the opportunity was squandered by coaches after Gene Stallings retired in 1996. Mike Dubose, Dennis Franchione, and Mike Shula coached a combined 10 seasons at Alabama. Mike Price coached zero seasons, but he was there for a brief moment as well. The Crimson Tide had more losing seasons (five) than they had 10-win seasons (three) during that decade. Then came Nick Saban. He coached there for 17 years and won at least 10 games in 16 of them. He also won six national championships and his team played for three more. Alabama was always a good job. Saban showed how great the job could be. I was thinking about this after seeing that my friends from Inside Texas did a podcast where they placed the top coaching jobs in college football into tiers. They had “bubble teams” in their third tier. Included in that was Florida State, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Auburn, Tennessee, and Miami. In short, those are jobs where it’s possible to win big and even win a national championship. There’s also things going against them that has them on the fringe of the best programs in the county. Tier two included Penn State, USC, Clemson, and LSU. I think people might be a bit surprised to see LSU in here (more on that later), but part of the reasoning has to do with NIL spending limitations. It’s the same thing at USC where there always appears to be resources that are held back when things aren’t going well. The top tier had eight teams: Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Oregon, Florida, and Notre Dame. I don’t think any of those jobs being listed are surprising, but it’s pretty clear to me that Oregon and Notre Dame are two programs that have jumped up a tier because of the current head coaches at both schools. Oregon has poured money into their program for a long time to get them to this point, but they have unlocked a different level under Dan Lanning. Everything has been elevated under him and it only feels like a matter of time until they eventually win a championship. It’s the same thing with Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame. There has been a lot more historical success in South Bend than there’s been in Eugene. The years between Notre Dame’s last national championship and even contending for a national championship made the programs more similar than different, though. The program was in need of someone to take it to a higher level and Freeman has made huge strides in doing so. It wouldn’t be considered a tier one coaching job if Freeman didn’t elevate the job by showing what the program is capable of. Him and Lanning had a long way to go before they can be mentioned in the same conversation as someone like Saban, but they should both be applauded for helping their programs jump up a tier after only three seasons.
odd penalty for the Michigan HC, Sherrone Moore. He's going to miss 2 games for his part in the Connor Stallions affair. But it's the 3rd and 4th games.
This has really gotten ridiculous. Why doesn’t the NCAA just make them write “I will not steal signs from my opponents” 100 times on the blackboard and drop the BS?