College football

[Jasmine]

Bill Belichick to coach college football? That’s not going to last.

As a dues-paying alum association member, I've expressed my ummmm "opinion" vigorously to them, but since they didn't ask, I doubt if they care. How anybody could want Bellychick for their college coach is beyond me.

I agree! Besides, I really doubt that he fully understands what he’s getting into. The college football landscape has radically changed with the transfer portal, NIL money, etc.

I like your nickname for him!

[O Really]

Arrrgh! Looks like the Bellichick deal is real.
"Greatest NFL coach..." Yeah right. Bellichick's record without Tom Brady? 83-101 (.451)

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Arrrgh! Looks like the Bellichick deal is real.
"Greatest NFL coach..." Yeah right. Bellichick's record without Tom Brady? 83-101 (.451)

That nickname is unfair and offensive . . . to chicks with bellies.

I just don't see Cheatin' Billy sitting at countless kitchen tables drinking tea and eating moms' ginger snaps in order find and sweet talk the next collegiate GOAT, then doing it all again EVERY year.

[O Really]

They're dead to me.

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They're dead to me.

Just football or all sports like me?

[O Really]

They're dead to me.

Just football or all sports like me?

Just football. But really, over the years the number of fucks I have to give has diminished a lot. I don't see actively rooting for them to lose, but there's no excitement.

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Where have you been since Joe shamed DonOLD by 7 million (!) votes in 2020?

Sorry that your disappointment brought the urge to bring up an election on a college football page. You mean the same old feeble dementia fart that was forced out and replaced by a cock sucking latter climbing loser. BTW, college football fans are coming here in droves aren't they.

Will surely get fish-slapped and stomped by #5 Texas, a team I've had the stones to visibly support all season.

You don't have the stones to support Mary-land any longer?

Always good to disappoint others here. Clemson ACC champions!

Good to see your disappointment, again. In any forum page.

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Where have you been since Joe shamed DonOLD by 7 million (!) votes in 2020? Oh, that's right, the Pussies got trounced by OH St in the semis 49-28 on 1/1/21, then didn't even make the Playoffs since. Ha-ha.

Question ducked, as usual you petulant child.

Sorry that your disappointment brought the urge to bring up an election on a college football page. You mean the same old feeble dementia fart that was forced out and replaced by a cock sucking latter climbing loser. BTW, college football fans are coming here in droves aren't they. [sic, it's 'droves, aren't they?', dummy]

Typical Clemson grammar "education". Now, desperately deflect from your hilarious flubs like a good little FAT CAN. Clemson Pussies always do.

Ummm, we ALL noticed that you ran screeching away from this topic, and all others, like the pussy that you are the instant that your idol proved to be such a rotten PINO that he got stomped by a "feeble dementia fart".


Ummm, KH stayed loyal until the moment that OTHERS persuaded Joe to drop out. Recent history and dementia much?

Your obsession with misogynistic images of KH at oral is noted, ewww. Typical InCel.

The word is 'ladder', loser.



Typical Clemson vocabulary "education". Now, desperately deflect from your hilarious flub like a good little FAT CAN. Clemson Pussies always do.

One can support more than one team, cretin. Only Clemson fans are too slow to know this and are too lazy to search and see for themselves. Sad.

Thanks again for being so stupid as to keep giving me the chance to gloat over the upcoming fish-slapping and stomping by #5 Texas. We ALL know that you'll run screeching away once the deed is done, Pussy.

Cower, 1 FAT CAN, cower.
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Where have you been since Joe shamed DonOLD by 7 million (!) votes in 2020?

Sorry that your disappointment brought the urge to bring up an election on a college football page. You mean the same old feeble dementia fart that was forced out and replaced by a cock sucking ladder climbing loser. BTW, college football fans are coming here in 'droves, aren't they.

Will surely get fish-slapped and stomped by #5 Texas, a team I've had the stones to visibly support all season.

You don't have the stones to support Mary-land any longer?

Always good to disappoint others here. Clemson ACC champions!

Good to see your disappointment, again. In any forum page.

It's only my cynicism that keeps me from being any more depressed now than before the election.

Fixed it for you, democrat. Too bad the democratic party can't fix their loss for you.

One can support more than one team, cretin.

When one fails, YOU choose another one.

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Where have you been since Joe shamed DonOLD by 7 million (!) votes in 2020? Oh, that's right, the Pussies got trounced by OH St in the semis 49-28 on 1/1/21, then didn't even make the Playoffs since. Ha-ha.

Question STILL being ducked as usual, you cowardly and petulant child. Did you cringe for 4 years (!) because of YOUR depression over your idol proving to be such a rotten PINO that he got stomped by a "feeble dementia fart"?

Ummm, we ALL noticed that you ran screeching away from this topic, and all others like the pussy that you are, the instant that your idol proved to be such a rotten PINO that he got stomped by a "feeble dementia fart".


Ummm, KH stayed loyal until the moment that OTHERS persuaded Joe to drop out. Recent history and dementia much?

Your obsession with misogynistic images of KH at oral is noted, ewww. Typical InCel.

The word is 'ladder', loser.



One can support more than one team, cretin.

... BTW, college football fans are coming here in droves aren't they. [sic, it's 'droves, aren't they?', dummy]

... BTW, college football fans are coming here in 'droves [sic], aren't they.[sic]

You screw up even when I hand you the correct grammar on a silver platter. Typical Clemson literacy.

... Now, desperately deflect from your hilarious flubs like a good little FAT CAN. Clemson Pussies always do.

As predicted.

Ummm, MD has not been a football winner for a long long time. Out of all of the ACC teams only Clemson fans are too ignorant to know this.

I'm STILL not a Dem or a liberal, moron, haven't been one since decades before your prior forum kicked you out.

Serial idiocy, loses track easily, endless repetition, forgetfulness and irrelevant posts, infantile self-portraits - seems 1 FAT CAN is now as demented as his idol, DonOLD.

Even I sometimes get surprised by how whiny and thick Clemson Pussies are.

Thanks again for being so stupid as to keep giving me the chance to gloat over the upcoming fish-slapping and stomping by #5 Texas. We ALL know that you'll run screeching away once the deed is done, Pussy.

Cower, 1 FAT CAN, cower.
https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 72#p205672

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They're dead to me.

Just football or all sports like me?

Just football. But really, over the years the number of fucks I have to give has diminished a lot. I don't see actively rooting for them to lose, but there's no excitement.

I considered just football, but since I wrote the Chancellor and AD . . .
AP basketball rank is (42) . MD is (37) and SDSU is 23, while Duke is 4 and WDE is 2.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings


'a (nightmare) come true'

9:00 PM ESPN/ESPN+
FCS Championship - Quarterfinals
Bozeman, MT
@1-seed Montana State 13-0 (-14 ) > 8 Idaho 10-3

[O Really]

I'm not that much of a Bellichick hater per se, but I just think he's a horrible choice - no recent (or ever) college experience, too old to stay long, all indications that he's not very flexible to change, persona of grumpy curmudgeon, and worst of all an overall loser without Brady. Even with a few top-20's and the occasional decent bowl, Carolina has never been a major football power, and isn't likely to be. But what's wrong with hiring a coach say in his 40's with experience in a strong winning program, let him build a program at UNC that can sustain for future times? What does Bellichick bring? Name recognition, not all of which is good, and a handful of Super Bowl rings, all thanks to Brady.

[GoCubsGo]

Yeah, but everyone is talking NC football.

First goal accomplished.

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Yeah, but everyone is talking NC football.

First goal accomplished.

In a good way?

The deal almost collapsed, but then UNC agreed to put Billy's GF, 24, on the cheer squad.


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It is NOT true that she is Tom Brady's daughter.

“Coach, you used to talk about Foxborough High School when we sucked. But now I know why you were so obsessed with Foxborough High School: you were scouting your new girlfriend.”
-- Rob Gronkowski

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9:00 PM ESPN/ESPN+
FCS Championship - Quarterfinals
Bozeman, MT
@1-seed Montana State 13-0 (-14 ) > 8 Idaho 10-3

10-10 start , 31-10 at the half , now 38-10

Edit: 45-10 at the end of 3.
Edit: 52-10 <1 minute into the 4th.
Final: 52-19

3:00 PM ESPN+
FCS Championship - Quarterfinals
Vermillion, SD
5-seed UC Davis 11-2 > 4 South Dakota 10-2 (-4.5)

The other 2 games, Dakotas vs godlies, are predicted to be routs.

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I'm 1-0 so far.

3:00 PM ESPN+
FCS Championship - Quarterfinals
Vermillion, SD
Go 5-seed UC Davis 11-2 > 4 South Dakota 10-2 (-4.5)
21-35, not that competitive.

December 21, 3:30 PM EST ABC
Bobcat Stadium, Bozeman, MT
1 Montana State will host 4 South Dakota.

The other 2 games, Dakotas vs godlies, are predicted to be routs.

Seriously? Out of at least 5 games today this game with the smallest spread and thus likely most competitive is the sole game that is not broadcast or on cable.

South Dakota State trounced Incarnate Word 55-14, as predicted.
North Dakota State trounced Mercer 31-7, as predicted.

3:00 PM CBS/Paramount+
Landover, MD
Go Navy 8-3 > 22 Army 11-1 (-6.5). Keep both out of the rankings.
31-13. Mission Accomplished!

9:00 PM ESPN
Montgomery, AL
Go Western Michigan 6-6 > South Alabama 6-6 (-7.5)
23-30

1-2 today, 2-2 this week.

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Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter wins Heisman Trophy

Congrats to Travis, Colorado and Deion.

... Hunter received 552 first-place votes and 2,231 points. Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty was the runner-up with 309 first-place votes and 2,017 points, making it the closest margin of victory since 2009, when Mark Ingram edged Toby Gerhart. The previous highest total for a runner-up was 1,871 points by Tua Tagovailoa in 2018, when Kyler Murray won....

Would have been a nightmare for billy.pilgrim, Prime Time and Blufield taking #1 and #2.

Lots of juicy stats there. One of the most impressive:

... He played 669 defensive snaps and 687 on offense -- a total of 1,356 that was 434 more than any other FBS player. He was on the field for 84% of his team's total snaps; no other FBS player accounted for more than 56%....

x 1356!

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I agree! Besides, I really doubt that he fully understands what he’s getting into. The college football landscape has radically changed with the transfer portal, NIL money, etc.

I like your nickname for him!

Speaking of NIL -

'Oh, s---, here come all the billionaires': How SMU came back from the dead

... The money -- NIL means Now It's Legal -- is flowing again in Dallas, and SMU is in a major conference, the ACC, cutting an unprecedented deal to forgo television revenue for nearly a decade as a devoted group of deep-pocketed boosters pledges to cover the shortfall, while also funding a leading NIL collective. The Ponies are back in the game.

I like that reinterpretation of the acronym.

... It was almost a badge of honor, like the adage says: If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'.

"Certainly, the culture embraced the arrogance," said Thaddeus Matula, an SMU alum and the director of "Pony Excess," the ESPN documentary about the SMU scandal. Students wore T-shirts that celebrated: "Ponies. Polos. Porsches. Probation. Nowhere but SMU."

Now, the cash corruption is out in the open. Is that better?

... So, when last year's chaotic wave of realignment opened a door, SMU was ready to kick it down. The enthusiasm galvanized an SMU faithful convinced they had been blocked by other schools that saw the Mustangs as a threat if they had equal standing again. And that might be true: SMU raised a record $159 million during the 2023-24 fiscal year for athletics, including $100 million in just five days after the Sept. 1 announcement that SMU had landed an ACC spot.

"Is it endless in terms of what our donors can do? I wouldn't say that," Miller said. "But I'd say to you that there is a mountain of excitement and enthusiasm that we're back."

Those record-breaking donations didn't just come from a few wealthy wildcatters. There were four donations of eight figures, 35 of seven figures and 82 of six figures.

A lot like our post Citizens United politics.

"There are some oilmen in the mix that absolutely helped lead the charge," Miller said. "But it took more than oilmen."

Still, there are lots of oilmen. In 2022, boosters launched the Boulevard Collective, formed by Chris Kleinert, CEO of Hunt Realty Investments and the son-in-law of famed oilman R.L. Hunt (net worth: $7.2 billion, according to Forbes) who is also one of the boosters who helped with the ACC move, and Kyle Miller, son of David Miller and the president and CEO of Silver Hill Energy Partners.

Oil, of course. This could have been a Dallas subplot.

By that fall, the Boulevard Collective signed every football and basketball player to standard NIL deals of $36,000 annually, according to On3. The Ponies have the payroll working again, and this time it's all aboveboard.

I wondered what would happen with less commercially marketable athletes. Now we know.

... Last season, Lashlee led the Mustangs to an 11-3 finish and an AAC title, their first conference championship since 1984.

They lost the Wasabi Fenway Bowl vs Boston College 23-14.

When the ACC announcement came, Miller proclaimed to ESPN that day that "the beast is about to emerge," while Lashlee remarked that SMU was the only school in Dallas-Fort Worth in a top-three conference, a not-so-subtle shot across the Metroplex at TCU, which calls itself "DFW's only Big 12 school." After years of envy, SMU alums are ready to be equals, aghast that they had to watch their former peers play big-time football.

"Everybody kept talking about TCU. It's just TCU," Lance McIlhenny, Dickerson's old Pony Express quarterback, told ESPN in 2019. "They're nothing special other than they've had deep pockets for 15 years. I want to win a bunch of games and play a team like Baylor in whatever setting and put a shellackin' on 'em."...

I do like it when TCU and Baylor get embarrassed.

SMU beat TCU 66-42!, finished 11-2, 8-0 in the ACC regular season, barely lost to the Pussies from SC in the ACC championship 31-34, and got an 11 seed in the CFP ahead of the 12 Pussies. They play @6 PSU , also 11-2 (-8.5), on Saturday. I'm neutral. I dislike both teams, go football. Money matters.


Tonight 9:00 PM ESPN
LA Bowl, Inglewood, CA
California 6-6 vs 24 UNLV 10-3 (-3.5)
UNLV lost the Mountain West championship vs 3 Boise State 7-21. I like both teams, go football.

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Tonight 9:00 PM ESPN
LA Bowl, Inglewood, CA
California 6-6 vs 24 UNLV 10-3 (-3.5)
UNLV lost the Mountain West championship vs 3 Boise State 7-21. I like both teams, go football.

13-14 at the half. Nice!

EDIT: 13-24 final. Rebels first Bowl win in 24 years when they beat Arkansas.

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Friday, December 20

3:30 PM ESPN2
Gasparilla Bowl, Tampa, FL
Go Tulane 9-4 > Florida 7-5 (-10)

8:00 PM ABC/ESPN
College Football Playoff First Round
GO @7 Notre Dame 11-1 (-7) > 10 Indiana 11-1