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2025-26 Coaching Carousel

The Alabaster Yak said:
It's probably too late, but if I'm Lovo, I'm trying to get out of the NW series in favor of another bodybag home game. Two road P4 games in OOC looks dicey and nobody cares about OOC SOS anymore.
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Yep. Ask Sark if he'd like to go back and play Ohio University at home instead of Ohio State University in Columbus to have opened 2025. Switch that and UT is in the playoffs.

This has always been the problem with CFB and why I disagree with the folks who don't like the playoffs and romanticize the "every regular season game used to matter so much more" nostalgia. When you can't afford a loss, you schedule as few teams as possible that are capable of beating you when you play pretty well. That results in fewer interesting games for fans. The playoffs can solve that to an extent. Instead, we're regressing again to wanting 3 body bag games on everyone's schedule. So we lose Notre Dame vs USC. We lose OU vs OSU. CU and Nebraska only play in years when the rest of our non-cons are light despite the fact that fans and broadcasters love these games.
 
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Buffnik said:
Yep. Ask Sark if he'd like to go back and play Ohio University at home instead of Ohio State University in Columbus to have opened 2025. Switch that and UT is in the playoffs.

This has always been the problem with CFB and why I disagree with the folks who don't like the playoffs and romanticize the "every regular season game used to matter so much more" nostalgia. When you can't afford a loss, you schedule as few teams as possible that are capable of beating you when you play pretty well. That results in fewer interesting games for fans. The playoffs can solve that to an extent. Instead, we're regressing again to wanting 3 body bag games on everyone's schedule. So we lose Notre Dame vs USC. We lose OU vs OSU. CU and Nebraska only play in years when the rest of our non-cons are light despite the fact that fans and broadcasters love these games.
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If there was a way to scale broadcast revenues from non-Con games directly to the schools, that could solve a lot.

The question is, how much more would CU vs Northwestern be worth than Mercer vs Bama?
 
Buffnik said:
Yep. Ask Sark if he'd like to go back and play Ohio University at home instead of Ohio State University in Columbus to have opened 2025. Switch that and UT is in the playoffs.

This has always been the problem with CFB and why I disagree with the folks who don't like the playoffs and romanticize the "every regular season game used to matter so much more" nostalgia. When you can't afford a loss, you schedule as few teams as possible that are capable of beating you when you play pretty well. That results in fewer interesting games for fans. The playoffs can solve that to an extent. Instead, we're regressing again to wanting 3 body bag games on everyone's schedule. So we lose Notre Dame vs USC. We lose OU vs OSU. CU and Nebraska only play in years when the rest of our non-cons are light despite the fact that fans and broadcasters love these games.
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These two power 4 OOC games aren't that intimidating-Northwestern's a bottom third Big 10 team most years, and Georgia Tech is losing two big pieces from that offense in King and Buster Faulkner (new OC at Florida). That said, I do agree with Yak for different reasons-I don't see a ton of value to playing Northwestern. Our alums in Chicago will have fun at the game.....but could we find an opponent who might be a bit more of a draw than them?

I said this when UTerus got left out. The problem with the argument is they're essentially telling us we have to look at the loss at tOSU as a moral victory and ignore the fact they lost at 4-8 Florida, got drilled by Georgia, and went to OT with both Kentucky and Mississippi State.

The easiest change we can make to the format might be finding a way to convert the spot that JMU got to an at large if the ACC has another year like the one they had. That should have been BYU-I don't mind the one dud in the first round to humor the G6, but we don't need two.
 
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ahoelsken said:
These two power 4 OOC games aren't that intimidating-Northwestern's a bottom third Big 10 team most years, and Georgia Tech is losing two big pieces from that offense in King and Buster Faulkner (new OC at Florida). That said, I do agree with Yak for different reasons-I don't see a ton of value to playing Northwestern. Our alums in Chicago will have fun at the game.....but could we find an opponent who might be a bit more of a draw than them?

I said this when UTerus got left out. The problem with the argument is they're essentially telling us we have to look at the loss at tOSU as a moral victory and ignore the fact they lost at 4-8 Florida, got drilled by Georgia, and went to OT with both Kentucky and Mississippi State.

The easiest change we can make to the format might be finding a way to convert the spot that JMU got to an at large if the ACC has another year like the one they had. That should have been BYU-I don't mind the one dud in the first round to humor the G6, but we don't need two.
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I really hate having different standards. I'm supposed to downgrade UT for barely winning against a couple subpar P4 teams but JMU gets in despite losing by 2 touchdowns to the only P4 it played - the 7th place finisher in a very down ACC?
 
Robert Sorell said:
If there was a way to scale broadcast revenues from non-Con games directly to the schools, that could solve a lot.

The question is, how much more would CU vs Northwestern be worth than Mercer vs Bama?
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One of the dumbest, if not the dumbest, things conferences ever did was completely equal revenue shares.

If you get picked up for more broadcasts and more of the main network broadcasts, you should earn more. If you advance to the conference championship game or deeper into the basketball tournaments, you should get paid more. If you make a bowl or the playoffs or make/ earn win shares in NCAA tournaments, you should get paid more.

With all that, the Pac-12 for example made it so your Athletic Department had a healthier balance sheet if you took your equal share while being frugal instead of investing in winning. So that's what CU/Dr. Phil did along with others and it eventually created animosity among members and killed what had started as the richest media deal conference.
 
Buffnik said:
I really hate having different standards. I'm supposed to downgrade UT for barely winning against a couple subpar P4 teams but JMU gets in despite losing by 2 touchdowns to the only P4 it played - the 7th place finisher in a very down ACC?
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I get that. Ergo why the best thing to do imo is create a rule that makes the spot JMU got this year an at large.
 
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