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2014-2015 College Football Thread: A New Era Begins..

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Here's why Hoke may survive to next year:

Scholarships by class

9 seniors on scholarship (3 5th year seniors, 6 4th year seniors in their final year of eligibility). 4 more graduated from what would have been this year's 5th year senior class. 6 redshirt juniors as well. The 5th year seniors represent the last full class of Rich Rodriguez, and 4th year seniors/redshirt juniors are the class that Hoke cobbled together after RR was fired.

That's 19 guys. None of them are OL.

Here's the problem: 47 guys were signed in those two classes.

19 out of 47 guys made it to their senior years. The others? Either playing for Deerdick Tech, or are home eating Whoppers and playing XBox. There's the upperclassman depth that any major program needs to be contending.

Next year this excuse goes away, assuming Hoke can win at least 9 (probably) and doesn't embarrass the program any further by turning in clunkers like what we witnessed tonight.

The top of that depth chart is **** near criminal. 19 guys out of 47 will finish their eligibility. *shakes head*
 
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Hammer said:
Here's why Hoke may survive to next year:

Scholarships by class

9 seniors on scholarship (3 5th year seniors, 6 4th year seniors in their final year of eligibility). 4 more graduated from what would have been this year's 5th year senior class. 6 redshirt juniors as well. The 5th year seniors represent the last full class of Rich Rodriguez, and 4th year seniors/redshirt juniors are the class that Hoke cobbled together after RR was fired.

That's 19 guys. None of them are OL.

Here's the problem: 47 guys were signed in those two classes.

19 out of 47 guys made it to their senior years. The others? Either playing for Deerdick Tech, or are home eating Whoppers and playing XBox. There's the upperclassman depth that any major program needs to be contending.

Next year this excuse goes away, assuming Hoke can win at least 9 (probably) and doesn't embarrass the program any further by turning in clunkers like what we witnessed tonight.

The top of that depth chart is **** near criminal. 19 guys out of 47 will finish their eligibility. *shakes head*
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I agree he's safe for now, but with a talent pool like they have, a game like last night should NEVER happen.
 
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one huge issue is that while talented, gardner just does not know how to take care of the football
 
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J.D. said:
one huge issue is that while talented, gardner just does not know how to take care of the football
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Two QB's in a row appear to be great kids. You want to root for them. Neither could throw the ball all that well. Just can't hate them, but it's dissappointing.

We were at a few UM events this past week, and a few mentioned that Nuss may be a one and done coach. Yea, not after that. And as a fellow Vandal, I really hope he does well.

Pathetic day for the B1G. Thank God for Rutgers, Maryland, Iowa, Penn St., Minnesota, and Nebraska.

I really thought MSU would be able to hang with Oregon, based on Stanford's ability to give them problems. OSU- never expected that losing your QB would be THAT huge, but even with VaTech gifting them some great opportunites, they could not do it.

wow....
 
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Well that was fun football day. My expectations for the Gophers are higher now if only because the rest of the league is so terrible. Michigan, Iowa, Ohio State and Nebraska should all be winnable games.
 
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MSU played well for 70% of the game. Then Mariota went Mariota and MSU couldn't catch a break on offense or defense.

ESPN is already starting the anti-Big Ten narrative, already declaring no chance for a playoff. Although the "article" declaring that also has no FSU or Oklahoma in the playoff while already putting in Texas A&M. I think if MSU runs the table in convincing fashion they're in, but they'll also need help in the form of the Big 12 and/or ACC/Pac12 beating up on themselves so the champion comes out with two losses.
 
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After what I saw yesterday, I completely understand why the *******s at ESPN are tearing apart the Big Ten. This B1G might be worse than last year's.
 
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Florida State made the mistake of playing a triple option team. Top 3 injured defensive tackles later...
 
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Just spitballing here, but I wonder if 1) anyone has done a study to quantify whether recruiting is more national than it was, say 25 years ago (aka before the internet), and 2) whether the relative decline of the B1G could in any way be correlated with that trend. It sure seems to me that Alabama, (either) USC, A&M, etc would have a whole lot easier sell to pick off talent from Michigan and Ohio than schools in those states would have in trying to convince southern and western kids to come play in the cold. The result would be a one-way talent drain from the B1G schools and could be an underlying cause of the relative decline of the B1G.

Or maybe these things are just cyclic and it's just the B1G's turn in the barrel? Time will tell, as always....
 
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Cyclic.

Look at the Big Ten in basketball. They used to be a joke now they are the top conference.

It will cycle back eventually.
 
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Dumb. Move up to FBS you chicken **** *****es.

God. It would be like me playing against 12-year-olds in soccer.
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Why should they move up?
They can win national titles at that level, they move up, that dream is gone unless one of the big-5 conferences takes them and that **** sure won't happen.
So let's see, win National titles or be satisified winning C-USA....hmmm...tough choice.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Cyclic.

Look at the Big Ten in basketball. They used to be a joke now they are the top conference.

It will cycle back eventually.
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Perhaps. From an outsider's point of view, the B1G has always been a very good conference, but failed to have the best teams. After all, the B1G has only won 2 titles (1 shared, 1 granted by officials) in the last 44 years.
 
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Why should they move up?
They can win national titles at that level, they move up, that dream is gone unless one of the big-5 conferences takes them and that **** sure won't happen.
So let's see, win National titles or be satisified winning C-USA....hmmm...tough choice.
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Ah yes, the glory of playing down a couple levels to competition that has no hopes of beating you and winning national titles.
 
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Oh, and the cash a program can generate at the D1-A level even in the MAC or CUSA dwarfs what they are going to make in D-1AA. There's a reason other programs like UTSA and UND have made the jump.
 
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