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Happy for him. It was a foregone conclusion when they hired Mazzone. He did us a solid putting us in his top 4. I wish him the best.

Perhaps you missed the preamble.... It is to the NFL's benefit to have a cost-free development program known as the NCAA. Jadaveon Clowney would've been an 18 year old millionaire if he were allowed to enter the draft in high school. It is a farce to call a player like him a "student". The only reason he ever put on a Gamecocks jersey was to bide his time until eligible for the league. This was evident in his lack of effort while protecting his body in the last year of his college career. I never said anyone should drop football. I believe the top programs, ESPN, NY6 bowls, and P5 conferences shouldn't be make these sums of cash if it is truly about amateur athletics or the "student-athlete". The top 30 programs or so should break off and have to do some production based revenue sharing with the players or the money should be poured into the academics of the university. It should not be used for inflating coaching salaries to stratospheric heights in the college football arms race. It shouldn't be used on 15 different uniform combinations or godzilla-trons. Don't confuse "be able to go to college" and "want to go to college". Many of these players do not care one bit about getting a degree, they care about saying "I played college football" and trying to get to the NFL. That is the reason P5s have most of their players taking the same easy major that won't help them get a job after college. I don't see the benefit of lowering the admission standards to get someone in for athletic potential.

They don't bring in millions of dollars in the form of television contracts. The NCAA, P5 conferences, and top P5 schools are making exorbitantly high sums of money of theses players. People tune in to watch a Johnny Manziel-led A&M when they wouldn't for a Jerrod Johnson-led Aggie team. Players are the ones who are put on the posters. Players are the ones winning Heisman trophies that build the school's reputation and recruiting. and players are the ones that carry the name of the school at the next level. I am not saying that North Texas needs to start paying salaries to football players or drop football. What I am saying is that too many rich old dudes are raking in a boatload of cash off a workforce that is captive to a monopolistic system. If the NFL had a true minor league system like the MLB, it would be a fair system. A college baseball player cannot whine about the revenue a school, conference, or television network makes off of his talent because he had forgone (at least temporarily) his ability to make his own money off of his talent by not signing with a major league franchise. NCAA football players are strictly forbidden from profiting from their talent until they are 3 years removed from high school. I'm not against players playing for their current scholarships. I am actually for it. I am against the ridiculous profiteering off of a workforce that cannot be paid for their skillset anywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdc0u7fDwE8

Holy cow, I didn't realize the dude was a reality star. Boy did our paths go in different directions.

My co-worker suggested eliminating scholarships and just have the players play because they want to like the club baseball that @MeanMag mentioned. My biggest issue with college football in the present day is the ESPN cartel.

Chris Cosh fan?

He does make a valid point. As much as I want to play with the big boys, realistically, we will never bring in the cash of UT or A&M, and neither will UH or Boise despite what they think. There are too many FBS schools at this point. They are eventually going to have to separate the P5 and G5 schools. I won't love our program any less if we are in some I-AA type league between P5s and FCS. They should've shut the door at 100 or less FBS programs, now we have 128 which is just way too many. I find it ridiculous that Texas brings in over $30 million in ticket sales alone and the players don't get one red cent.

Spread vs. Pro-style

Dodge flipped Vizza from Nevada and he was selling Fouts. He got Jordan Scroggins to choose us over UH, UTEP, and Tulane(remember we were in the Belt at the time). Matt Tomlinson picked us over Indiana, Rice, Tulsa, and UTEP. AJ Penson (Dez's buddy) chose us over UH, Iowa State, and UTEP. Bron Hager chose us over Baylor. The late Sam Dibrell chose us over NMSU. Jesse Desoto picked us over Mizzou and Navy. These are all according to rivals. Dodge wasn't hired until 12/12/06 and didn't complete his staff until 1/11/07. He was still able to snag these kids, but Evyn Roman. I get it. Still, I think he did a great job in his truncated timetable.

Week 1 bye was boneheaded. We all agree on that. Nobody, including you and me, expected PSU to be good enough to beat us before the season began. I'm absolutely against scheduling FCS teams but from my recollection, that was a McCarney preference more than a RV preference. I enjoy opportunity or "whore" games as you put it. They put our name out there more than playing MTSU and LaTech. Besides, except for 013, 2009, and 2006, we've played a minimum of 2 P5s in every season for at least the past 15 years.

I know he sux in a lot of areas but this season's attendance wasn't on him directly. Don King, Oscar de la Hoya, and Floyd Mayweather could've been promoting our attendance this season and it wouldn't have been a noticeable gain. The problem was the on-field product. Nobody wanted to watch our program disintegrating in real time. He took care of the problem by firing McCarney. Attendance will undoubtedly be substantially higher this year.

Interesting. Someone should tell the writer that Marshall's name being removed has no significance since he was a senior this year.

Not exactly. The OC would be D2 but his head coach played qb in front of 2 nfl hall of fame running backs.

Nah, he is a Desoto guy wanting to be close to home. SMU is well, you know, SMU and TCU is in K-State's conference. I figure Bill Snyder gift wrapped this one for his buddy Ekeler or maybe he still has a soft spot for us from his time here with Fry.

I like Hagen but don't know if he'd leave for us.

Based on the Ekeler exit interview. Id imagine Littrell will let him pick the guy. We need to start looking at guys Ekeler has worked with or coached that are D-Line guys. Maybe someone like Brett Diersen or Jon Fabris..

Marc Yellock, Ruffin's DL coach

Seems after Chico left he was our point man for recruiting. He got English here. We will be running a very similar offense to Tech, I wonder if old Klifford wanted to peek at who Harrell and Littrell were looking at since we turned down Kincade.

Tech is in conference with K-State. He'd lose an extra year of eligibility. It sucks that he thought he would be coached by Patrick and won't but this is still a great place for him to be. As far as replacements, how about the departed ECU D-line coach? He obviously knows Brad Davis well. Oh, and I'm sure that dude that was hanging around here that was fired by WVU would still want to get back into coaching. Tulane's guy is available as well. After further review, I think the ECU coach is our best bet. http://sports.yahoo.com/video/pi-tv-marc-yellock-virginia-230200469.html

Wow, a post of yours I agree with. Those are rare these days.

I read it. He didn't say anything that wasn't true or I wasn't thinking except for the SMU deal which he doesn't take into account the post-death penalty record against them. This was a historically bad year. He just pointed it out to the folks that didn't already know.