2025-26 College Football Thread

[Cobra Mgr]

SEC Roll Call - Playoffs Round 2

[Cobra Mgr]

Best drive of Carson Beck's 15 yr collegiate career.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

I'm going to take Ole Miss over Miami 27-21.

The crazy coaching situation in Oxford has got to kick in at some point. But I also don't trust Beck. And since I predicted every game wrong last week & would prefer (get the barf bag ready) the Canes to win, I'm picking Mississippi.

Close game, could go either way.

Indiana will roll today, and will roll over Miami for the natty. You read it here first.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

Close game, could go either way.

Indiana will roll today, and will roll over Miami for the natty. You read it here first.

Yes. I am quoting myself. It's rare for a prediction of mine to age well. This one absolutely is!

[Cobra Mgr]

So nice to see Lanning get force fed this L.

[Cobra Mgr]

Mendoza in the playoffs 31-36 369 yds 8td's 0 int's.

[ezpkns34]

Today at 1:01 AM GMTJack Baer

QB TJ Finley commits to Incarnate Word, his seventh school

TJ Finley is on to his seventh school. The former LSU, Auburn, Texas State, Western Kentucky, Tulane and Georgia State quarterback has committed to Incarnate Word, according to CBS Sports. He turns 24 in March.









Not knocking him for still playing if he wants to, but the transfers have clearly gotten out of hand

[Cobra Mgr]

I keep hearing "out of hand"..............

What law has been broken here? What moral code has been breached? Have the colleges not said they want the athletes to be treated like regular students? Therefore, is there any limit to how many times a "regular" student can transfer? And if they do transfer, are there any limits put onto their participation in any program/activity that university offers other students?

We seem to forget that any restriction put on eligibility in collegiate sports, from minimum scholastic scores, to age, to previous experience, etc are restrictions the colleges put on themselves. These are not guidelines set by the courts, the Constitution or religious tenet.

So transfer rules have not gotten out of hand. They have become more closely in line w/the purported aim of the NCAA. They were a bunch of hypocritical phonies previously.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by ezpkns34

Today at 1:01 AM GMTJack Baer

QB TJ Finley commits to Incarnate Word, his seventh school

TJ Finley is on to his seventh school. The former LSU, Auburn, Texas State, Western Kentucky, Tulane and Georgia State quarterback has committed to Incarnate Word, according to CBS Sports. He turns 24 in March.

Not knocking him for still playing if he wants to, but the transfers have clearly gotten out of hand

It's all about the Benjamins, and whomever will pay him the most NIL money. NCAA has only themselves to blame here.

[ezpkns34]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

I keep hearing "out of hand"..............

What law has been broken here? What moral code has been breached? Have the colleges not said they want the athletes to be treated like regular students? Therefore, is there any limit to how many times a "regular" student can transfer? And if they do transfer, are there any limits put onto their participation in any program/activity that university offers other students?

We seem to forget that any restriction put on eligibility in collegiate sports, from minimum scholastic scores, to age, to previous experience, etc are restrictions the colleges put on themselves. These are not guidelines set by the courts, the Constitution or religious tenet.

So transfer rules have not gotten out of hand. They have become more closely in line w/the purported aim of the NCAA. They were a bunch of hypocritical phonies previously.

I mean just in the past week, Washington's QB inked an NIL deal to stay at Washington only to then try to enter the transfer portal within days in hopes of double dipping. It was such a bad look that even his agency dropped him immediately afterward

The current system is just too messy and rife for corruption, on both sides, such as schools/donors trying to skirt their promised payments

Hell, the transfer portal occurs during the playoffs. Is akin to free agency starting this week in the NFL

If you look at that and think "smoothly running machine", then we have different ideas on functional systems

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by ezpkns34

I mean just in the past week, Washington's QB inked an NIL deal to stay at Washington only to then try to enter the transfer portal within days in hopes of double dipping. It was such a bad look that even his agency dropped him immediately afterward

The current system is just too messy and rife for corruption, on both sides, such as schools/donors trying to skirt their promised payments

Hell, the transfer portal occurs during the playoffs. Is akin to free agency starting this week in the NFL

If you look at that and think "smoothly running machine", then we have different ideas on functional systems

I agree with Oregon's coach. Find a way to end the College Football Playoff on New Year's day. The portal could start on January 2nd or 3rd. Then put a limit on how many times a player can use the portal. Oh and if you end it on New Years Day, start the game at 5:30 eastern time.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by ezpkns34

I mean just in the past week, Washington's QB inked an NIL deal to stay at Washington only to then try to enter the transfer portal within days in hopes of double dipping. It was such a bad look that even his agency dropped him immediately afterward

The current system is just too messy and rife for corruption, on both sides, such as schools/donors trying to skirt their promised payments

Hell, the transfer portal occurs during the playoffs. Is akin to free agency starting this week in the NFL

If you look at that and think "smoothly running machine", then we have different ideas on functional systems

These are credible points and I'd agree w/most of it. I take issue with people having problems w/the guy's age & years in college that you mentioned earlier.

But these are problems the college presidents are allowing to happen. Because they don't want to make the players employees. So if they are going to stay "students" then any restriction is a hypocritical action towards that position. So when do students transfer? After the semesters are over. That is during the football postseason.

And let's get a fuller picture. Don't forget who else transfers while the season is going on: The Coaches. What also doesn't get talked about is that a lot of the players that "transfer" are actually released. Also kept secret is all the "chaos" that goes on is because every loophole that gets exploited is a loophole they can exploit on somebody else in return.

All of this I use to fuel my argument that college football should be replaced by a minor league system. College presidents are ill-equipped and not qualified to run big time sports. They are academics. Not people built for sports. All they are concerned about with organized sports is the revenue it sends their way for endowments. They care nothing for the game itself.

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

These are credible points and I'd agree w/most of it. I take issue with people having problems w/the guy's age & years in college that you mentioned earlier.

But these are problems the college presidents are allowing to happen. Because they don't want to make the players employees. So if they are going to stay "students" then any restriction is a hypocritical action towards that position. So when do students transfer? After the semesters are over. That is during the football postseason.

And let's get a fuller picture. Don't forget who else transfers while the season is going on: The Coaches. What also doesn't get talked about is that a lot of the players that "transfer" are actually released. Also kept secret is all the "chaos" that goes on is because every loophole that gets exploited is a loophole they can exploit on somebody else in return.

All of this I use to fuel my argument that college football should be replaced by a minor league system. College presidents are ill-equipped and not qualified to run big time sports. They are academics. Not people built for sports. All they are concerned about with organized sports is the revenue it sends their way for endowments. They care nothing for the game itself.

Nobody ever talks about the kids that sign on to attend a certain school only to get there and have the coaching staff do everything in their power to make them quit. Heck, if you watched the classic movie One on One you know it happened to Robbie Benson....before or after he jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge At least the portal gives kids facing a bad situation a way out. It also might be something as simple as a kid getting to a school far from home and realizing the homesick blues are too much for him or her to overcome. I personally think the portal is a great thing. I do think the redshirt rules need to be tightened up big time. Lets get back to when kids had 4 or at the most 5 years of eligibility.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by David Watts

Nobody ever talks about the kids that sign on to attend a certain school only to get their and have the coaching staff do everything in their power to make them quit. Heck, if you watched the classic movie One on One you know it happened to Robbie Benson....before or after he jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge At least the portal gives kids facing a bad situation a way out. It also might be something as simple as a kid getting to a school far from home and realizing the homesick blues are too much for him or her to overcome. I personally think the portal is a great thing. I do think the redshirt rules need to be tightened up big time. Lets get back to when kids had 4 or at the most 5 years of eligibility.

Anyone that complains about the portal would never stand for it if there were transfer restrictions in their line of work.

The problem w/college sports isn't NIL or the portal. It is college presidents who are trained to run an educational institution, not a sports league.

[pilight]

Coaches moving from one school to another in the middle of a season are very rare.

People hate transfers because they're fans of teams/schools rather than players. Thus, they buy into the institutional line of wanting to restrict the players from having the freedom to move.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by pilight

Coaches moving from one school to another in the middle of a season are very rare.

It happens multiple times every year.

[Cobra Mgr]

Good game tonight. Indiana earned it. Miami showed well.

[Cobra Mgr]

It amazes me that grown men who call themselves "educated" run college sports. Darian Mensah sued by dook for trying to transfer.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

According to ESPN.......

Michigan was aware of the relationship, didn't have proof. She later ended it & went to Michigan w/proof. They fired him. He went to her home claiming he was going to kill himself in front of her cause she ruined his life. That's when the cops came & arrested him.

So if the above is true, there was no previous assault on a woman. Moore is one more idiot who let what was below his belt do the thinking for him. And he ruined a good gig, his marriage & his career for a hussy.

Looks like the police did some shady stuff to arrest Moore. They used a string of texts to frame as harassment when they were work related. Then falsely claimed Moore had committed domestic violence before. When no victim claimed he was violent. An evidentiary hearing has been set that could lead to dismissal of charges.

[Cobra Mgr]

In a plea deal, Moore had the previous charges dropped & pled guilty to 2 new misdemeanor charges.

From my vantage point right now, this really looks like someone set this dude up to get fired. It really smells fishy. Sounds like none of what the world was told when this was initiated was true. The only thing one can certain of was there was an affair. But any circumstances surrounding it appear to be blown out of proportion on purpose and was not going to cause a guilty verdict in court.

Having said all that, what should he expect when he goes chasing