I think the Alabama beat-down on Ole Miss should send a really, really strong message to the rest of NCAA football teams that they had better really, REALLY dial it up if they want to hang with the king of the hill. Alabama teams are always scary, but now, they also have a really decent quarterback.
I mean, I don’t think the rest of the season we’ll see Ole Miss play like they are some sort of back-water FCS team, yet that’s exactly what 'Bama made them look like.
Bama is great again…until they get to that one game in the season where they really need a FG…and then they’re fucked. Again. It is as if the Elder Gods have decreed that no decent kicker may live in Tuscaloosa.
Hey, at least you will have pretty much every FSU fan hoping for a Tide blowout! Might be the only time we root for Sa[del]t[/del]ban.
I think you’re underestimating how much of a job Fuckbo did on his way out to destroy the program. He only signed 1 OL recruit in his last full year of recruiting, then quit recruiting while his agent was negotiating with the Aggies. We have two converted guards starting at tackle, since every tackle on the roster is injured.
It’s gonna be a shitty year no doubt, but it isn’t all Taggert’s fault.
Roll Tide! Beat the fuck out of 'em, would you please?
Well Jimbo said he never intended to leave FSU; it just kinda happened. lol!
Maybe Nebraska can drop down to FCS level . 
Getting blown out today by Michigan
Scott Frost would have been better off in Orlando.
Five ranked teams have lost to unranked teams so far today, and there are a couple of games in progress that could add to that total. Plus #5 Oklahoma needed OT to beat unranked Army.
Does anybody know what the record is for most unranked wins over ranked teams in a single weekend?
“While I’m disappointed we lost so badly, I believe in Scott Frost and will be patient. In the meantime, could the Big Ten start implementing the mercy rule and running clock?”
My canned response for the next few weeks. Just cut and paste after each loss.
one of the dumb things about college sports is the idea that you hire a coach who is “one of our own guys” . You should hire the best guy no matter where he played. Many teams hire an alum and then they are reluctant to fire the guy. Pro teams don’t have those issues except in rare cases.
And let me just say, to my dear friends in Stillwater who are grieving OSU’s loss to Texas Tech:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA!!
When UNC hired a new BB coach in 2000 they only talked to former Dean Smith players and hired a bad UNC alum coach who was fired 3 years later.
There was a guy who said it was a bad idea only to talk to former UNC players - who was that guy? Dean Smith himself, he said talk to lots of coaches and hire the best guy.
My UK Wildcats are ranked for the first time in…seemingly forever! Ranked 17th after a big come from behind win against Ole Miss!
Reportedly, this is the first time since early in the 1957 season that both Duke and Kentucky have been ranked, although back then I am pretty sure they only ranked 20 teams.
Also reportedly, in the 61 years since then, Duke and Kentucky have both been ranked in the same week’s men’s basketball poll 547 times.
It’s not like Nebraska picked an alum coach out of the blue. Scott Frost was the unanimous coach of the year last year at unbeaten Central Florida.
Was he the best guy they could hire? A lot of guys do well at smaller schools and fail at Power 5 schools. Nebraska is still a big name so recruiting there is much easier than UCF so he should win in the long run. But guys with success at smaller schools failed at places like Notre Dame and Florida.
and the former starter is transferring and he can play next year at his new school. Won’t have a problem finding a new place.
I think Scott Frost is the real deal, but there are two things working against him:
Riley really, really screwed the program. Not intentionally, but he brought his emphasis on offense and just didn’t recruit for shit.
In tandem with not having much talent, Scott Frost is also having problems adjusting to the level of competition in the Big 10. Whatever he thought he could bring with him to Lincoln is going to have to be rethought.
That’s not entirely unusual. Great coaches sometimes have to reinvent themselves and go from being offensive coaches to defensive, and vice versa. Bill Belichick was a defensive guru but his evolution as a coach has enabled his Pats offenses to be some of the most explosive and effective in NFL history. Brian Billick was an offensive mastermind who became a more defensive-oriented coach in Baltimore. Coaches sometimes hit rough patches and evolve. I think the Huskers should give Frost time. I think he’ll turn it around.
But now the Husker fans and alumni might for once realize how spoiled they were when they had Osborne, and maybe Bo Pelini wasn’t quite that bad after all.
I think the Wildcats are going to be a team to be reckoned with this year. They’re not the same ole Wildcats. Obviously, Stoops has an offensive pedigree but they seem to be playing some tough, physical defense as well.
Will Frost get 4 years to win at Nebraska? It may take that long. Maybe he gets only 3 in this day and age.