I have a feeling that he will end up being Alabama's Solich. Nebraska fired Solich after he went 10-3 because Osborne had set the standard so high there.
Finebaum is accusing Saban of providing Vandy with bulletin board material since he said a couple of weeks ago that their stadium isn't hard to play in. It sounds like he is grasping for straws as he tries to find an explanation for Bama's loss. I think that there's zero chance that Bama would have lost to Vandy with Saban as the coach.
Essentially, I was saying that Alabama fans will be wanting to find something different to do on the weekends since they expect to go to the playoffs and nothing less than that. There's a running joke that hillbillies watch Nascar, so that was the best joke I could come up with. I'll admit that I don't have a good sense of humor, though.
Nascar is licking their chops as they are thinking about all of the new viewers from Alabama that they will now get. Nascar viewership in the state of Alabama will probably be the highest that it has been since Shula was the coach.
It always seems like when teams are in this position against Alabama, they screw around and keep them in the game as opposed to putting their foot on their necks. It's very annoying, and I'm glad that we didn't do that last year.
We should get our number one ranking back tomorrow. Alabama got way too much credit for that win over Georgia. The reality is that Georgia was down 28-0 and still almost won the game. If Georgia and Alabama were to play again, I wouldn't put money on Alabama winning.
That's why I said 7-8 SEC teams could win the Big 12 this year. I'm aware that there are bad SEC teams just like there are bad teams in every other conference. However, this is probably the weakest that the Big 12 has ever been.
Missouri should go back to the Big 12 if they ever want to contend for anything again. They don't recruit at the level that is needed to be a contender in the SEC.
Whether it's fair or not, the QB gets the blame when their team loses. On the other hand, the QB also gets all of the glory if their team wins, so I guess it's somewhat fair. To be fair, Romo did have his fair share of chokes in the playoffs. The losses in the Seattle wildcard game the Giants divisional game were definitely on him. The Giants loss in particular was horrible considering how stacked that Cowboys team was. That team had 13 players on it that went to the pro bowl. Dak has never had a team that was anywhere near as stacked as that 2007 team was.
I don't think that NIL will remain in its current state forever. More situations like the one at UNLV will inevitably happen, and it will cause a lot of schools to complain about it, especially since it causes legal issues for them. NIL complaints are already starting to mount as it is. Saban was in DC a few weeks ago talking about the need for national legislation in regard to NIL. I don't know how quickly it will come, but I think that NIL will eventually be regulated.
Exceptionally talented players coming out of high school could absolutely be drafted into the NFL. If a college football program is willing to pay a player millions of dollars before they've proven a single thing on the field, it's a clear sign that program firmly believes that the player is exceptionally talented and has an NFL future. Before the NBA introduced the rule that required draft-eligible players to be one year removed from high school, LeBron and Kobe were drafted straight out of high school and went on to become some of the best basketball players ever.
College football is already a shell of its former self in its current state. I don't see what real harm that people coming straight out of high school and being drafted into the NFL would do. If an 18-year-old already thinks that their talent is worth millions of dollars before they play a down of college football, it's probably a good indication that they probably think that they're already pro material.