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JiminyCricket
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re: Brian Kelly 2025 vs Lane Kiffin 2026
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/15/26 at 10:56 am to DrD
The offense for Kelly was just about as big of a disaster as it could've been. A complete nightmare scenario at every level. One thing we know for sure is that LSU is going to be great offensively. Can Kiffin put together the whole team to get over the hump? We'll see, but I have absolutely no worries about the offense whatsoever.
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re: We are EXTREMELY fortunate
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/15/26 at 9:00 am to Wolfcola
You’ve (seemingly) managed to do the most difficult two things there are in the NFL. You’ve found your coach and you’ve found your QB. Hopefully, Shough’s development continues and we will be a relevant franchise again for the next decade.
re: Sascha Riley is spilling ALL the tea on Trump
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/15/26 at 8:50 am to tigerdup07
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re: Could 2019 LSU beat Indiana?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/12/26 at 9:49 am to LSUPHILLY72
There will never be a team today, teams by the way that usually are far thinner than the elite teams were pre NIL and portal, that would beat a team like 2019 LSU. The front line talent coupled with the depth of LSU that year puts them in a class of their own.
re: Anyone know what BK is up to these days?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/12/26 at 9:14 am to Russianblue
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I'll hand it to the guy for rolling the dice on LSU. Took a lot of guts to leave his ND safe-space. He rolled the dice and lost. Blame it on whomever you like but he crapped out. Still respect him for playing the game but it was just too big for him. He found his ceiling.
I do wonder if Kelly came to LSU 10 years earlier how he would’ve done. I think maybe in a different era when he was actually engaged, he may have done well here. Ultimately, this thing was dead in the water the day he decided to coast and no longer get after it.
re: NIL and PORTAL = monumental cluster frick
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/10/26 at 12:20 pm to Open Your Eyes
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This is you being a moron and comparing them to regular students again. What restrictions are in place that prevent athletes from finishing their education at whatever place they want?
I just love keyboard warriors, internet tough guys are the best. Y’all are great. :lol:
re: NIL and PORTAL = monumental cluster frick
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 5:37 pm to Nutriaitch
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sure they can transfer just like any other student can transfer.
attend all new classes at the new school and everything.
they just need to sit out of a sport for a year.
We had this rule before and it got eliminated because it's illegal. This doesn't get fixed without a CBA otherwise it's market manipulation and a violation of labor laws.
re: NIL and PORTAL = monumental cluster frick
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 5:35 pm to TopWaterTiger
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Regular students do transfer, but not every frickin year.
They could theoretically if they wanted to.
re: NIL and PORTAL = monumental cluster frick
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 5:34 pm to atltiger6487
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surely you know there's a massive difference.
Okay I'll bite.
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Athletes are involved in a competitive sports league, where rules should be applied to ensure fair competition among the teams in the league.
And athletes can only transfer inside of approved windows and not inside of a given season. There are rules, you just don't like them.
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Unlimited money and unlimited transfers destroys rosters and results in a feeding frenzy (every year) for all the players. The "haves" can get a lot more talent than the "have nots" and players can be poached every year.
We really going to pretend there weren't haves and have nots before the new portal rules? Also, Indiana is currently in the CFP semis along with Ole Miss. Seems like the have nots are doing okay.
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That's very, very bad for the overall health of a sports league.
CFB ratings are up and we have two non traditional powers in the final four with the portal being the way it is.
You can say you don't like the rules all you want but there are more poeple watching cfb than ever, we have players making more money than ever and we have more non traditional powers in the championship hunt than ever. Those are facts.
re: NIL and PORTAL = monumental cluster frick
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 3:31 pm to Open Your Eyes
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Do regular students have access to the lowers admission standards that athletes have? What about the free tutoring, priority scheduling, etc?
Relevance? The school offered all of that. That doesn’t mean the student is beholden and has to finish their education at that same institution that originally made that offer should another opportunity with better terms become available.
re: NIL and PORTAL = monumental cluster frick
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 1:22 pm to bamacoullion
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Sick of it too. Wish we could go back to under the table money without the portal.
Why? Should regular students not be able to transfer schools too or just athletes?
re: Would you get castrated if it meant you'd live longer?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 10:52 am to Shexter
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With castration, you keep the twig, they take the berries
I'll rephrase, I don't wanna live without my functioning weiner.
re: Would you get castrated if it meant you'd live longer?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 10:47 am to Shexter
I don't wanna live without my weiner.
re: Why are all those northern Midwest/Great Lakes states so liberal?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 10:45 am to theliontamer
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Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. You would think these places would be filled with hunters, outdoorsmen, & hard working people. But they seem to lean very far left, at least the big cities. Is it just too hard to make an honest living up there when it's freezing cold for months at a time so they have to rely on government funding? The south is heavily conservative except for the minority population, the Midwest is conservative, but go a little further north, and it's heavy liberal. I don't get it.
It's the big cities. I had a friend that took his family on a trip up the golden coast in California and he said you'd be shocked how blue collar and red lots of NorCal and the places outside the major cities are and that's in a leftist stronghold like California. It just that these cities are so heavily dominated by libs that it skews the rest of the state. Take Wisconsin as another example. Trump carried the overwhelming majority of that state outside of a few heavily blue dots in the major cities.
re: We are ALL Miami fans tonight.........right?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 10:36 am to lsudirtbag
Of course.
re: Everyone is overlooking most important aspect of solving this NIL / transfer portal issue
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/8/26 at 10:32 am to TXLSUCHE
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It can't be "professional" like the NFL. There are too many "degrees of freedom" right now to solve it. The NFL is only two parties or degrees of freedom (NFL & the player's union). College football is 50 independent states with varying laws x 1000's of legislature representatives that make the laws x public & private universities x conferences.
The closest thing we "had" to governing all of these degrees of freedom was the NCAA and we've spent the last decade + tearing their power down. The only option I see to fill the void is a federal agency stepping in that can institute guidelines on a national level like the Dept of Commerce since technically transactions, games between colleges, etc. are occurring across state lines giving them jurisdiction. I'm not an expert in the government agency jurisdictions, so maybe Dept of Labor or some other agency is the more appropriate choice.
The federal government getting involve isn't necessarily what I want to see happen but I don't see how else you can get EVERYONE aligned and following the same set of rules on any sort of reasonable timeline.
Yep. People don't understand that the NFL has a players union that bargains with the league, making the rules that they have governing free agency legal. I don't want the federal government to have the right to cap or limit the income potential of legal adults just like I don't want the feds to limit what a plumber or electrician can charge for their services in a free market. Pretty much the only way this changes is if the players unionize but, as you stated, this isn't like the NFL where all the teams are under one league banner. I'm not sure who a CFBPA would even collectively bargain with if they ever did unionize.
re: At what point will a player/coach switch teams mid-season?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/7/26 at 12:36 pm to ghost2most
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It was sarcasm, but the fact that you thought I was serious shows just how stupid the system is now.
I mean, you compared the NFL system which is governed by a CBA agreed to and ratified between a players union and the league to college football which has neither a union or a CBA agreement. It wasn't unreasonable to think you were misinformed.
re: At what point will a player/coach switch teams mid-season?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/7/26 at 12:27 pm to ghost2most
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Not if I'm signed under a contract. You can't even do that shite in pro sports.
It's fricking dumb.
And the fact that we took the amateur label off this is the worst. I just hate it all.
Guess I'm old.
First of all that's a ridiculous lie that you wouldn't take that job. If they were offering you that kind of package, your new company would probably pay your buyout and if not, it would possibly be worth it to pay it yourself for the better opportunity if you had to. Either way, you know you'd leave for that new gig tomorrow. As for the pro comp, it's apples and oranges. You can't do that in pro sports because the players have a union that collectively bargains with the league on what rules will be applied and how. There is no such CFBPA and there's no collective bargaining agreement in place.
And people break contracts all the time. LSU paid 3 million bucks to Ole Miss to "break" Lane's deal so they could hire him. If a school is willing to pay a player's buyout so they can sign him, there's no legal reason that they can't.
re: At what point will a player/coach switch teams mid-season?
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/7/26 at 12:23 pm to ghost2most
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It's fricking ridiculous and those of you defending it must like watching Real Housewives level stupidity shite.
It's bad enough you have coaches quitting on playoff teams and players leaving before the playoffs, it's just a total shitshow and you selectively like it when it benefits YOUR team.
I don't hate Kiffin and I'm glad he's LSU's coach but the process is absolute dogshit and it's scummy.
There seems to be zero rules anymore? Play 8 years, change teams whenever, sign a contract, rip it up.
frick all this. College football has jumped the shark.
Let me ask you this scenario. Let's say you're at work and your company's competitor calls you up and offers to triple your salary and pay you a welcome bonus to come to them. The competitor is also bigger and offers a more clear runway to even further advancement than the place you're at currently. Would you be cool with someone coming in and telling you that you can't take that offer? Like it or not, these are legal adults in the United States of America. They can go to new places if they want to. Even if they have contracts, contracts get bought out all the time. People still have rights in America even if it's inconvenient to college football.
re: Loomis says the goal for next season is more than just winning the NFC South
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/7/26 at 11:14 am to Chadzilla
Gotta nail the draft again. 2025 is looking to be a home run and I think you've got 7 picks this year. Nail the draft and sign a few smart vets and you could be very interesting.
re: How many players are left on this fricking roster??
Posted by JiminyCricket on 1/5/26 at 9:33 pm to Tiger fan999
This is just the new world we live in. I think Ohio State and UGA both had like 30 ish guys leave last year. I really think some folks go in the portal because it’s trendy at this point.
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