2025 NCAA Football Thread

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Quitting is one thing, but we're talking about other teams being able to hire active coaches to their teams mid-season. Why are teams allowed to interview current coaches for lateral moves mid-season anyway? It's odd. And results in people who routinely do it - like Kiffin - to be widely reviled for it, as we're seeing.

Well he doesn't consider it lateral I guess.

The coaches have all the power here. If a school tried to get a non-compete clause, they'd never be able to hire the coach they really want. Kiffin would certainly never have agreed to something like that at Ole Miss.

Yes Kiffin is reviled but if he wins they will love him in BTR. Doesn't strike me as a guy that cares a lot about honor and legacy. Well other than he wants to be known as a guy who won a natty.

He almost accepted the Auburn job a few years ago. He campaigned for the Alabama job. And rumor has it he told his assistants he was going to Florida earlier this year until a better job came along.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Non-compete clause would surely not be legal. Buyout money with offsets is a quasi non-compete clause because you won't be able to collect it all unless you stay out of coaching. I also doubt teams would go European soccer and start having release clauses in coaches contracts that would force another school to pay someone to take their coach, but it would be better hedge than a non-compete IMO.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Well he doesn't consider it lateral I guess.



The coaches have all the power here. If a school tried to get a non-compete clause, they'd never be able to hire the coach they really want. Kiffin would certainly never have agreed to something like that at Ole Miss.



Yes Kiffin is reviled but if he wins they will love him in BTR. Doesn't strike me as a guy that cares a lot about honor and legacy. Well other than he wants to be known as a guy who won a natty.



He almost accepted the Auburn job a few years ago. He campaigned for the Alabama job. And rumor has it he told his assistants he was going to Florida earlier this year until a better job came along.

Oh agreed about Kiffin. This isn't a hill I'm going to die on, that's true how it would make it harder for schools to hire their true #1. Safe to say it just has a greasy feel to it, it's an odd quirk you don't see in the pros. You'd also think it'd be more damaging to a coach's reputation like Lane than it seems to be..

LSU fans just better not act shocked when it inevitably happens to them to...though I know they will.

[Strange Brew]

Tough news for Notre Dame in the CFP. If BYU beats Texas Tech, they’re out.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Tough news for Notre Dame in the CFP. If BYU beats Texas Tech, they’re out.

Good. ND may or may not be one of the best teams in college ball, but their resume is horrendously weak.

Also this scenario exists.

With the inclusion of JMU at No. 25 in the selection committee's penultimate ranking -- its first appearance all season -- the possibility of the ACC being excluded from the playoff entirely just got real. Five-loss Duke is nowhere to be found in the ranking.

If Duke beats Virginia in the ACC championship game, it's not guaranteed a spot in the 12-team field. It could open the door for two Group of 5 conference champions to compete for a national title, and if the playoff were today, it would be Tulane out of the American and JMU from the Sun Belt. The ACC's best team, Miami, is still on the outside.

At No. 12, the Hurricanes still need some help, but Alabama increased its chances of earning a spot as the SEC runner-up with a small promotion to No. 9. The conference championship games can still alter the picture, but hope on the bubble is dwindling.

That would be wild.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-watch-week-14

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I generally have no problem with the committee decisions. ND is probably a top 5 team in the country but they lost their two most important games and have a mediocre resume. Same issue as Miami and BYU and several other bubble teams.

Someone is gonna be unhappy. If you want in, then win. Simple as that.

All that being said, what the #### is the committee smoking when they say #### like this:

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek, on Alabama beating 5-7 Auburn: "The committee just felt that was enough of a win, of a metric, to push Alabama ahead of Notre Dame.

Auburn is an awful team. If they consider that a signature win for Bama then they’ve lost all credibility.

[Strange Brew]

Yeah I don’t get that logic either. A&M plummeted to the bottom of the 1 loss teams. Don't see anyone talking about their Auburn win as a signature win.

They really reward later season wins over early season wins.