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"The Grand Old Man of Football" Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) Stagg was a member of the first "All American Team" in 1889 when he played at Yale. He then coached from 1890 to 1946 at the University of Chicago and the University of the Pacific and won the 1905 and 1913 National Championships. He designed much of the game of football during his career. Amos Alonzo Stagg with North Texas coach Odus Mitchell the night before the 1946 Optimist Bowl. The bowl game, a 14-13 loss to North Texas, was the final game of Stagg's legendary college football coaching career.

B.I.H P.O.S! B.I.H!

The FSU hearings for their lawsuit against the ACC are taking place in Florida this week.

I bet the girl behind him in gold is one of those "He's a real jerk. He didn't look me in the eyes the whole time we were talking" type of person.

ACC guy now speculating same story as BIG XII podcaster. "75% chance FSU leaves ACC" before Stanford, Cal, and our little sis join". June 30 is deadline for 'Magnificent Seven' to dissolve the ACC, and ESPN can walk if only two leave by then.

That would have been back when the Big XII was UT, OU, and the nameless dwarfs. The Big XII didn't need additional viewers and nobody wanted more divisions to the pie. As per the video, ESPN will not want to fund a severely depleted AAC at its current value and has essentially an escape clause if the ACC drops below 15 members for even a tiny amount of time. ESPN is partners with the Big XII and would consider the Louisville and Pitt viewership to be incredibly valuable. And... the seven ACC schools fighting to leave the conference prior to June 30 (Magnificent 7) will need will need at least one more escapee to join them to dissolve the conference.

Speculation from a Big XII perspective.

And Now, The Larch. And Now for Something Completely Different..

True. Andy had an incredibly mediocre record in 11 years vs Pac12 competition and it was very obvious that his 2024-2025 squad would be challenged to even be competitive in the BIG10. He realized that he'd surely be terminated after another lackluster season. Instead of working to keep his job he cowardly jumped in the first lifeboat available. He had previously coached at USC and was headed for the BIG 10. Now he'll be coaching at our prissy little sister school as it becomes the sad wheelless caboose dragging behind the ACC Train while the engines and lead cars all start uncoupling to escape elsewhere.

Not overwhelmed nor underwhelmed, just whelmed. He does seem to be a competent coach for our prissy little sister school. Went 105-100 over 11 seasons with USC against their PAC12 competition; that's fairly average against comparable competition and I fail to see what quality makes him so much more desirable to SMU than was Lanier.

The Big 12 is chomping at the bit to get ahold of Louisville and Pitt once they make themselves available.

Duke has to keep its options open. The ACC is toast if the projected defections happen. Seven current ACC members; Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, Miami, NC State, Virginia, and Virginia Tech are exploring options with Florida State and Clemson already suing to escape. On the other side The Big Ten wants Notre Dame and has already annexed about every single Irish rival except Stanford. They are now in perfect position to take both. Virginia and North Carolina are the top prizes bolting from the ACC because of their media value and are highly desired by both the Big Ten and the SEC. There will be a mass exodus of remaining schools applying for Big 12 membership if Stanford, Notre Dame, Virginia, and North Carolina all accept their forecasted P2 invitations. This will leave Boston College and Wake Forest with the Washington State/Oregon State dilemma; owning a legendary conference name but without any media contracts, and Cal and SMU relegated to the discard table again.

Sad to see him go but he has to do what's best for him especially if he didn't foresee getting sufficient playing time here. I loved when his father played at North Texas during the Jimmy Gales years, and his brother Bobo would have been best served if he had transferred here after committing to LSU and enrolling at UCLA. Baylor never provided him an opportunity to develop. Best of luck young man.

Society has been pressured since 2020 to make a lot of incredibly stupid decisions. *** and there's at least 6 people on this board that love the stupid decisions agenda *** .

Pure and simple, Sanford deserved to win. That's fact. Another fact is that both of my nieces graduated from Samford.