CFB 2024 Offseason: Spring Games, Transfers, Lawsuits, etc.

B H Kim · Jan 18, 2024

Awesome Fossum said:
https://footballscoop.com/news/miami-tight-end-cam-mccormick-ninth-season-ncaa-college-football-record

I was curious if he was going the Stetson Bennett route or if he actually has a degree. It turns out that he already has a Bachelor's and a Master's from Oregon.

axx · Jan 18, 2024

Semi-Serious question... how much NIL money do you think he's getting? I get that free room & board for a year can be very appealing (esp Miami) but at some point you gotta move on to the next phase of his life?

Humphrey · Jan 19, 2024

One thing I couldn't get over was that the article claimed the "free Covid year" was irrelevant in this case; as he was injured in 2020 anyway.

bbc23 · Jan 20, 2024

axx said:
Semi-Serious question... how much NIL money do you think he's getting? I get that free room & board for a year can be very appealing (esp Miami) but at some point you gotta move on to the next phase of his life?

If companies like AARP aren't viewing this as a fun joke opportunity they're seriously missing out. In the congressional hearings this week UCLA's 3rd string QB said he had 42 deals across 10 states so I'd assume that the 9th year backup TE is getting some based on the unique nature of his situation.

axx · Feb 2, 2024

View: https://twitter.com/petethamel/status/1753470349637812343

Get ready for the Super League.

CFB_Rules · Feb 8, 2024

Rules survey for next year is out. New rules will very likely be among the following:

- Allow the permissive use of coach-to-player communications via voice communications (e.g., helmet to coach’s headset)
- Allow the permissive use of use of wearable technologies (e.g., wristband with messages) to facilitate coach-to-player communications
- Add a “Two Minute Stop” with two minutes remaining in the 2nd and 4th quarter? This timeout would create a solid window to initiate the “under 2 minutes” timing rules. Additionally, media partners would be required to hold back and use a scheduled media timeout during this break.
- To further limit feigning of injuries and teams receiving an unmerited timeout, consider additional options to curtail this dishonest practice.
- Consider additional options to help clean up situations in which players do not wear their uniform properly
- With the increasing number of instant replay stoppages, add a minimal Coach Challenge Model, exempting out scoring plays, turnovers, targeting, line to gain, the last two minutes of each half, and overtime periods
- Remove the exemption for a ball carrier, including a potential passer who is inside the tackle box, to the Horse-Collar tackle rule
- Ban teammates from pushing the ball carrier in order to gain additional yardage.
- Add a point of emphasis to clean up line of scrimmage infractions where either team simulates action at the snap or is not in proper alignment

Kremlin Watcher · Feb 8, 2024

CFB_Rules said:
Rules survey for next year is out. New rules will very likely be among the following:
…
- Ban teammates are allowed pushing the ball carrier in order to gain additional yardage…

This one stands out a bit to me. A lot of extra yards, especially on short-yardage and goal-line situations, are gained by moving the pile. As long as it’s evenly enforced I guess it’s ok, but I always enjoy watching that last bit of struggle to gain a first down or a score.

CFB_Rules · Feb 8, 2024

Kremlin Watcher said:
This one stands out a bit to me. A lot of extra yards, especially on short-yardage and goal-line situations, are gained by moving the pile. As long as it’s evenly enforced I guess it’s ok, but I always enjoy watching that last bit of struggle to gain a first down or a score.

It won't pass IMO. Too hard to officiate, for one. Are they pushing the runner, or are they pushing the pile?

Humphrey · Feb 9, 2024

CFB_Rules said:
It won't pass IMO. Too hard to officiate, for one. Are they pushing the runner, or are they pushing the pile?

How about if they're trying to block versus just trying to push? Especially when the pile is away from the line of scrimmage.

RedOctober3829 · Feb 9, 2024

Chip Kelly is reportedly leaving UCLA to replace BOB at Ohio State.

BaseballJones · Feb 14, 2024

Awesome Fossum said:
Pac 12 working on firing commissioner George Kliavkoff. I wonder why.

View: https://twitter.com/wilnerhotline/status/1757512870919819638

What's the point? There is no Pac 12 anymore.

CFB_Rules · Feb 20, 2024

Awesome Fossum said:
https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/2024/2/20/5-7-format-confirmed.aspx

So basically if you are in a Power 4 conference and win your conference title game, you are de facto guaranteed a bye for the first round and a new year's 6 quarterfinal bowl.

Why is FSU pushing so hard to get out of the ACC again?

Kremlin Watcher · Feb 20, 2024

CFB_Rules said:
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Why is FSU pushing so hard to get out of the ACC again?

$$$

SEC and B1G money is better than ACC money.

Ale Xander · Feb 20, 2024

So if you’re not on the top 5 conferences (what is #5 now with pac 12 gone?) you have almost no shot

canderson · Feb 20, 2024

Ale Xander said:
So if you’re not on the top 5 conferences (what is #5 now with pac 12 gone?) you have almost no shot

Correct. This was known to further the break between the two sides of D1 football.

Humphrey · Feb 20, 2024

Hard to tell if the AAC has the edge on some of the other leagues- you look at the Group of 5 for the last 10 years and you see at the top mostly schools that are now in the Big 12 and ACC.

Let's see which programs step up in that league first.

Tangled Up In Red · Feb 20, 2024

So, if Boise State goes 12-0, with OOC wins over as many power-4 (or 5 or X?) teams as they can schedule (a decade ago)... then maybe, maybe they crack #12?
Who else has a real shot, Liberty and FAU?

Sucks for Notre Dame and BYU, I guess (but don't feel any pity for)

CFB_Rules · Feb 20, 2024

Tangled Up In Red said:
So, if Boise State goes 12-0, with OOC wins over as many power-4 (or 5 or X?) teams as they can schedule (a decade ago)... then maybe, maybe they crack #12?
Who else has a real shot, Liberty and FAU?

Sucks for Notre Dame and BYU, I guess (but don't feel any pity for)

They'd be very likely to get an auto-bid as the highest ranked group of 5 champion in this case.

Tangled Up In Red · Feb 20, 2024

CFB_Rules said:
They'd be very likely to get an auto-bid as the highest ranked group of 5 champion in this case.

I'm not seeing that above?
Who even is the group of 5 now? Does the PAC-2 count?

CFB_Rules · Feb 20, 2024

Tangled Up In Red said:
I'm not seeing that above?
Who even is the group of 5 now? Does the PAC-2 count?

"Power 5" and "Group of 5" are not an official thing, they are a media creation to describe power hierarchies in FBS football. Technically all conferences are equal and have equal access to the playoff. There is a minimum number of teams required for a conference to be recognzied by the NCAA though, so no the PAC-2 wouldn't get anything.

But there are now 4 "Power" conferences. Big 12, B1G, ACC, SEC. Group of 5 is CUSA, MAC, MW, Sun Belt, and AAC. Put the "Pac 2" in the same conversation as Notre Dame if they don't find a qualifying conference home.

5 conferences are guaranteed an auto-bid spot. It'll be the "Power 4" 100% of the time barring something catastrophic, and one of the other 5 conferences making up that 5th auto-bid. An undefeated team would almost certainly get it.

Ale Xander · Feb 20, 2024

It would kind of be funny if the 12 teams were a 9-3 Oregon State, Michigan, Ohio State, Clemson, Utah, and 7 SEC teams

edit: guess it can’t be Oregon State booo

CFB_Rules · Feb 20, 2024

Awesome Fossum said:
I mean, probably. But we're not that far removed from the AAC's champion being the third-highest ranked (2021), let alone fourth. I know the teams have changed, but if Tulane goes undefeated next year and the Big 12's champ finishes with 2 or even 3 losses (like in 2022), I don't think it's necessarily a lock that the Big 12 gets the 4 seed.

edit: I mean, I'm sure the committee will screw Tulane in that situation, but I don't think it getting to that place is all that unlikely.

For a P5 champion to miss the playoffs there would have to be TWO group of 5 champions that are higher ranked. That’s what I meant by catastrophic.

BaseballJones · Feb 21, 2024

So I'm not remotely feeling bad for Notre Dame, but since they're still an independent in football, this system means that while they certainly can make the playoffs, they can never be a top-4 seed and receive a bye, since those go to the four highest ranked conference champions.

I wonder if this will force ND to join a conference in football.

bbc23 · Feb 23, 2024

BaseballJones said:
So I'm not remotely feeling bad for Notre Dame, but since they're still an independent in football, this system means that while they certainly can make the playoffs, they can never be a top-4 seed and receive a bye, since those go to the four highest ranked conference champions.

I wonder if this will force ND to join a conference in football.

So not only was this something Notre Dame brought up, but the 5th seed is almost always going to be advantageous for them if they are the 5 seed assuming they're a true top 4 seed level team. They avoid having to play the extra game of a conference championship but they get to play the 12 seed who will almost always be a Liberty or Tulane type that they should be favored by over a touchdown on AT HOME, then they get to play the 4 seed who is the weakest of the 4 conference champions which could be a Big 12 team that they will always have more talent over or a team that upset the more "deserving" higher ranked team.

axx · Feb 28, 2024

View: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10110961-report-caleb-williams-made-around-10m-from-nil-deals-in-final-2-seasons-at-usc

Not sure which thread this should be in... but Caleb made $10 mill in his final two years at USC. Have to admit, I was like "That's it?"

DJnVa · Mar 6, 2024

How Alabama moved from Nick Saban to Kalen DeBoer in 49 hours - ESPN

Once back in Tuscaloosa, as Saban began meeting with players, it became even more apparent to him that his message wasn't resonating like it once did.

"I thought we could have a hell of a team next year, and then maybe 70 or 80 percent of the players you talk to, all they want to know is two things: What assurances do I have that I'm going to play because they're thinking about transferring, and how much are you going to pay me?" Saban recounted. "Our program here was always built on how much value can we create for your future and your personal development, academic success in graduating and developing an NFL career on the field.

"So I'm saying to myself, 'Maybe this doesn't work anymore, that the goals and aspirations are just different and that it's all about how much money can I make as a college player?' I'm not saying that's bad. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm just saying that's never been what we were all about, and it's not why we had success through the years."

"People wanted assurances that I was going to be here for three or four years, and it became harder to make those assurances," Saban said. "But the thing I loved about coaching the most was the relationships that you had with players, and those things didn't seem to have the same meaning as they once did."

SoxJox · Mar 7, 2024

From The Athletic: College football’s national signing day is changing again. Read the full scoop here.

College football’s national signing day, once a celebrated pseudo-holiday on every die-hard fan’s calendar, is changing again.

On Wednesday, the Division I commissioners voted to move the December signing period — first instituted in 2017 — from the middle of the month to the Wednesday before FBS conference championship games.

A summer signing date that would begin in June 2025 was discussed but tabled until this June so it can be presented in conjunction with recruiting calendars, according to a source involved in the discussions.

Why it makes sense
There are mixed reactions about this move, but it was clear something had to be done about the chaotic month of December.

“Let’s just bring this past year up, for example,” North Carolina general manager Patrick Suddes said. “The portal opens up (Dec. 4). You are recruiting your current team to stay. You are recruiting kids out of the portal. Your coaches are on the road, finishing up the signing class for high school. They’re doing all these in-home visits.

“You are having anybody that enters the portal that you’re interested in coming on campus for official visits. Assistant coaches are leaving and taking other jobs, so head coaches are going to interview people for openings on their staff. You are in a bowl game or a championship game or Playoff, and you’re getting ready for all that. All those things — there’s not enough time in the day to really focus on the things that matter.”

College football’s most hectic month is akin to if the NFL simultaneously conducted free agency, the draft and the playoffs. Something had to give, so moving signing day up helps coaches and high school prospects.

“It cleans December up,” Suddes said. “It protects high school kids, being able to lock in a spot, as well, before the portal opens, which I think is huge.”

Another advantage to keeping a December date: Coaches do not have to wait another two months to sign the remainder of their classes.

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