2025 College Football - General Thread

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Leaving the CPF thread to carry on, am starting a general discussion thread for this year.

The early signing period for the 2025 season has come and gone. The National Signing Day is Wednesday, February 5.

In the meantime, this...

As many of you may know, Penn State's Beaver Stadium is in the early stages of a $800M renovation. Here is one of the major muscle movements: the Press Box demolition.

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Stockton didn't look better to me, but I'm no scout. I just assumed Miami is going to be giving a Cam Ward-sized bag to Beck and UGA didn't care to match.
 
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Stockton didn't look better to me, but I'm no scout. I just assumed Miami is going to be giving a Cam Ward-sized bag to Beck and UGA didn't care to match.
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They have the 12th ranked QB incoming freshman in the country in Ryan Montgomery coming in. (He also played basketball in HS and has a brother lineman at Ohio State).
 
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They have the 12th ranked QB incoming freshman in the country in Ryan Montgomery coming in. (He also played basketball in HS and has a brother lineman at Ohio State).
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12th ranked incoming freshman QB sounds like a pretty huge downgrade in 2025. Mel Kiper has Beck 5th in his QB rankings for the NFL draft.
 
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I wonder how much $$ Miami is paying him that would convince him to transfer. It's gotta be huge dollars.
 
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I wonder how much $$ Miami is paying him that would convince him to transfer. It's gotta be huge dollars.
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Knowing what I know from a Miami alum at my gym who has season tickets for the Canes and flies down a lot for games said they paid Cam Ward 1.5-2 million range. It has to be around that or more.
 
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I wonder how much $$ Miami is paying him that would convince him to transfer. It's gotta be huge dollars.
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Beck's girlfriend (and her twin sister) played hoops at the U and have millions of social media followers. I assume they still live in Miami.

GF, a huge payday and UGA likely not guaranteeing him QB1 seems to have been enough for him to transfer.
 
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mic99 said:
Beck's girlfriend (and her twin sister) played hoops at the U and have millions of social media followers. I assume they still live in Miami.

GF, a huge payday and UGA likely not guaranteeing him QB1 seems to have been enough for him to transfer.
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I am embarassed that I knew this. He is dating one of the Cavinder twins, who were among the first college athletes to exceed $1 million in NIL money. I think they are up over $2 million now.
 
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In case anyone is betting on James Franklin being canned, here are the buyout implications:

This is an old article, so I've extrapolated to 2025.

[In 2020] Franklin and Penn State agreed to a new 10-year contract worth a guaranteed $70 million that includes multiple incentive clauses. Franklin will make an additional $1.5 million annually in incentives and can make up to $1 million per year in performance bonuses. The contract also makes it costly for Penn State to fire Franklin for performance reasons.

According to the buyout terms, Penn State would owe Franklin $8 million (his guaranteed salary plus a $1 million loan for life insurance) times the number of remaining years on the contract if it terminates him without cause.

Penn State would owe James Franklin [$40-$45 million to terminate him without cause in 2025 (variable is based on when in 2025 the firing occured], while Franklin would owe the university $2 million to leave for another job the same year, according to the buyout terms of his new contract.

The term sheet Penn State released does not include whether those numbers can be mitigated or negotiated.

Conversely, if Franklin leaves for the NFL or another college coaching position, he would owe Penn State these annual buyout totals:

  • 2026-30: $1 million
  • 2031: No buyout
The termination-with-cause terms are the same that Franklin has in his current contract, which began in 2020. Franklin's buyout for taking another job was $4 million [in 2021], with $1 million annual reductions until there was no buyout in 2025.
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, something that nowadays wouldn't happen (no booth reviews, etc., then).
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Oh you have so much faith.

There was a D1 game this year where they missed TWO DOWNS during the same series. School punted on 2nd down thinking it was 4th. This was with replay, live TV, a kid writing the down/distance on a piece of paper every play, the whole nine yards.
 
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Can't find that one (would love to read about it); but I did find one in 2021 where they messed up (Penn State vs Auburn). Shocked it's still occurring.
 
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Can't find that one (would love to read about it); but I did find one in 2021 where they messed up (Penn State vs Auburn). Shocked it's still occurring.
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The guy on the line of scrimmage (who is "most" in charge of keeping the downs since he's with the down box) for that game is working the Chiefs game Saturday. Didn't hurt his career a bit.

I've stated before that conferences tend to be more concerned with how officials look than how they perform. The reason is that a bad crew can get away with a lot if they LOOK like they know what they are doing.

Another example: In one of the power 4 leagues this season, EVERY SINGLE crew in the conference misenforced at least one penalty. By misenforced, I mean they did something like mark a 5 yard penalty 6 yards. Or marked a penalty from the spot of the foul instead of the previous spot. But because they did it smoothly, nobody including the coaches even noticed until they looked at film days later

EDIT: It happens in the NFL too
 
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Humphrey said:
Can't find that one (would love to read about it); but I did find one in 2021 where they messed up (Penn State vs Auburn). Shocked it's still occurring.
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One more anecdote: an ACC crew at Syracuse screwed up the downs the very same week as this game. I first read about it on Sosh! Didn't make the news.
 
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Sports with a lot less rules (soccer, the one I officiate) aren't void of screwups either. Football, it seems almost inevitable.
 
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