Ross Dellenger
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Last month, the biggest money fight in college sports history unfolded. CFP negotiations were “heated” & will leave a permanent scar.
But could this have been avoided?
How a failed deal, Pac-12’s collapse & SEC/B1G’s threats changed the industry forever
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One of Mike Leach’s last acts in life: Writing a check to keep open a Black-owned soul food restaurant along Starkville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
On unexpected friendships & unforeseen good deeds.
“He helped us stay open. I’m forever grateful.”
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I didn't think it was a question... but of course Mississippi State will play in its bowl game.
As one State official told me earlier this morning, "Mike would be pissed if we didn't play. The bowl game is at a stadium with an actual pirate ship in it."
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TCU coaches learned from other staffs about Michigan’s “elaborate” sign-stealing before the CFP semifinal.
TCU changed signs but used “dummy” (old) signs to trick the Wolverines, coaches tell
@YahooSports
. TCU players were told to ignore the dummy signs.
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In a stunning show of solidarity during a dark day here, thousands of Virginia students have descended on the school’s South Lawn to sit in complete silence at a vigil for those killed last night.
I’ve never seen anything like it.
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Before taking the field for warmups,
#LSU
OC Steve Ensminger called his son to comfort him over his wife’s death.
Steven Jr. was in the hospital with high blood pressure.
His dad made him a promise.
“We are about to go beat Oklahoma’s ass for you.”
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Next week in college football:
Ohio State at Notre Dame
Colorado at Oregon
Florida State at Clemson
Ole Miss at Alabama
Iowa at Penn State
My God.
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Bama LB Will Anderson says that the Texas atmosphere was the loudest and craziest he’s ever experienced in his college career.
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Florida State held a CFP selection show watch party at its stadium.
I cannot imagine the scene.
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Mike Leach's health situation is critical. Keep the coach and his family in your thoughts.
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When you hear things from ADs like "football allows us to have other sports," this is what they mean.
Take
#LSU
. Here are profit/loss numbers from each LSU sport in the 2016-17 cycle, from my time as a beat writer.
- Football: $56M in profit
- Other sports: ~$23M in losses
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Using tonight’s rankings, here’s how a 12-team playoff would look based on the approved 6+6 format.
Format rules:
*6 auto bids to highest ranked conference champs
*6 at-large bids to next highest ranked teams
*top 4 champs get byes
*5-8 seeds host on-campus 1st round games
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Of the Leach stories, the best are those that highlight his inquisitive nature.
Example: He once tracked a raccoon thru snow.
Always a walker, Leach strolled thru a neighborhood, saw tracks in snow & followed them for a half-mile.
Why?
“I was curious where the sucker lived.”
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Joe Burrow on running to greet the
#LSU
students: “Obviously I don’t go to class - with online classes - so I don’t see any of those people.”
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At LSU, they don’t carry out goal posts. They carry out passed out bodies.
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Joe Burrow asked Ed Orgeron if he could wear the jersey with the Cajun version of his name. Orgeron says he told him, “HELL YEAH.”
#LSU
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Nick Saban on Cincinnati: "There’s no doubt in my mind they belonged in the playoff. They gave us all we could handle."
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In 30+ years of watching football, I’ve never seen this happen.
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An
#LSU
staff member this week called Oklahoma the fifth best team the Tigers have faced this season - behind Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Georgia.
Things are materializing as such.
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At 13, CJ Stroud’s dad was imprisoned & his family left in financial ruin. They lived at a storage facility & couldn’t afford him new cleats or contacts.
A decade later, he bought his mom a house thru NIL, will be a 1st round pick & forgave his father.
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Breaking: NCAA presented Michigan evidence that points to a UM booster - “Uncle T” - as having partially funded the scouting scheme & an assistant coach, now-fired Chris Partridge, as attempting to destroy computer evidence, sources tell
@DanWetzel
& me.
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Holy shit. Tulane did it.
For their game against Ole Miss, they've brought back Greenie, the team's old mascot during their days in the SEC.
(via
@GreenWaveFB
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Drew Brees, the former NFL quarterback, is being hired as an interim assistant coach at Purdue, source tells
@SINow
.
He wanted to help during the coaching transition. He’ll assist team in prep for the Citrus Bowl and coach in the game. He can also recruit via an NCAA waiver.
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NEWS: NCAA Is expected to levy unprecedented penalties for NIL-related violations committed by Florida State, sources tell
@YahooSports
, including 3-game suspension for an assistant coach & disassociation from its booster collective and a booster
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As shots began, Mike Hollins ran back onto a bus to save lives.
He then ran into the shooter, who pointed his gun & fired.
Not all heroes wear capes. Mike Hollins wears scars. The bullet nicked his kidney, hit his intestine & protruded from his stomach.
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Deion Sanders is “pissed,” he says. He says that all of his belongings were stolen out of the locker room during the game.
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One of the people who supplied the Tennessee football team with cigars was none other than Jay Cutler, the former Vanderbilt QB.
Why did he do it?
“He wanted us to beat Bama,” says a Vols administrator.
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The Oregon duck enters wearing a white cowboy hat and sunglasses.
Oh my.
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UCF WR Javon Baker blew a kiss toward the Oklahoma sideline during his long TD pass.
Brent Venables was *not* happy.
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The view at Beaver Stadium from the seat purchased by Connor Stalions for Penn State games against Indiana and UMass.
Section WF, Row 1, Seat 4.
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If you have to dip your crawfish in anything, your chef did a poor job.
If you dip your crawfish in Ketchup, you should be shot on the spot.
What do you like to dip your crawfish in? Melted butter? Ketchup? Nothing? Let us know your favorite in the comments!
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The lobby restaurant of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis,
#LSU
’s designated team hotel, has already run out of bottled beer.
It is 5 pm. Kickoff is in 25 hours.
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BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm to The Advocate that
#LSU
has fired football coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron.
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Mike Leach once took a call from Donald Trump - at practice.
He tracked raccoons, sang karaoke, hung with Willie Nelson. He paddle boarded, wrestled turtles, swam with sharks.
He learned Spanish, ate day-old burritos, dipped Copenhagen.
On the Pirate -
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News: The
#SEC
has lifted the ban on stadium-wide alcohol sales, with restrictions, source says. Effective date is Aug. 1.
🍺 🍸 🍹
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Nick Saban: “This is like playing an SEC game on the road. They’re going to be in the SEC. If they were in the SEC now, they’d probably be in the top half of the league.”
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#LSU
coach Ed Orgeron was just asked a question at the SEC championship game news conference and it made me think of this quote from him in February 2017 at a banquet in his hometown of Larose.
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Mike Leach was notorious for calling friends deep into the night.
Said Bob Stoops at his memorial: “Let’s reach out and call each other after midnight every once in a while in Mike’s honor.”
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Born on the Bayou is playing and Ed Orgeron is upper cutting air. Fill my veins.
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Mike Norvell and Florida State have agreed to a new eight-year contract that will pay him more than $10 million a year, sources tell
@YahooSports
.
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Auburn is finalizing a deal to hire Liberty coach Hugh Freeze, sources tell
@SINow
.
Freeze would return to the SEC, where in 2017 Ole Miss fired him amid NCAA and personal scandal. In 12 years as a college head coach, he’s had one losing season.
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On Monday, the NCAA notified the Big Ten that there are no known connections between Ohio State coach Ryan Day or his family and the organization’s investigation into Michigan, senior officials at both the NCAA and Big Ten tell
@YahooSports
.
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Joe Burrow sucking on a cigar and blowing smoke into the air while exiting the
#LSU
locker room is a thing that has happened.
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CFP chair Boo Corrigan on the Bama-FSU debate: "The questions we do ask from a coaching stand point is who do you want to play and who do you not want to play."
Oh my
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Unbearable agony and unnecessary death.
The most difficult two weeks of my life.
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Lane Kiffin: “We don’t have the funding resources as some schools with the NIL deals. It’s like dealing with salary caps.”
He says some schools can pay “5-10” times more.
“I joked I didn’t know if Texas A&M incurred a luxury tax with how much they paid for their signing class.”
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He has survived 9 head coaches & 6 ADs, has seen 509 games & 14 titles, been dog cussed by Saban & ate Thanksgiving with Burrow.
Meet the man behind the
#LSU
program for the last 45 years.
“You’re doing a story about Sam Nader? It’s about damn time.”
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#LSU
staff member pointing toward the A&M sideline during the post-game celebration: “We spent the entire year thinking about those assholes.”
Lawd, this rivalry.
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Two years ago, you fell into a coma & woke up today
-Hugh Freeze is coaching Liberty from a hospital bed
-Tommy Tuberville is running for Congress
-LSU is running the spread
-Jalen Hurts is at OU & Kelly Bryant is at Missouri
-Les Miles is at Kansas & Mack Brown is at UNC
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Series of events:
-
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wins national title
- One of its most famous alums gives $100 handshakes to players on field of said game
- Players light celebration cigars in locker room
- Cop threatens to arrest players
- Famous alum slaps ass of cop
- Arrest warrant issued for alum
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Last October, Connor Stalions bought a single ticket to Tennessee’s game vs UK. Three minutes later, he transferred it to a person who attended the game in a seat facing Vols’ sideline.
Stalions also bought tix to UGA, Bama, CLEM & last 2 SEC title games
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Tre White didn't sleep on a bed in high school. He shared a mattress with his brother.
His signing bonus: $5,509,279.
#LSU
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Because of a COVID outbreak, Texas A&M is unable to play in the Gator Bowl, sources tell
@SINow
. Aggies don’t have enough available players.
Gator is searching for a replacement bowl team, sources say, but the only way that's possible is if another bowl is impacted.
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Unspeakable things have happened here in Charlottesville.
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For a year, Big Ten coaches have known about the Michigan analyst pictured below who they say “spearheaded” UM’s alleged sign-stealing system.
One coach once confronted the UM analyst: “We know what kind of shit you are doing and it’s f***** up.”
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SEC Network, the league’s own TV channel, has some ideas.
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Ohio State and Texas A&M, both now off this week, should play in a quasi-CFP quarterfinal Saturday.
Meet in the middle.
At the Liberty Bowl, where every big game should be played.
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Coastal Carolina coach Jamey Chadwell on playing a top 10 opponent like
#BYU
: "We’re doing a lot of praying right now and I know they are too. They’re Mormons."
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Through the first round of the 2021 NCAA tournament, your double-digit seed survivors:
- 15 Oral Roberts
- 12 Oregon State
- 13 North Texas
- 10 Rutgers
- 11 Syracuse
- 10 Maryland
- 13 Ohio
- 11 UCLA
- 14 Abilene Christian
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Lane Kiffin’s new contract with Ole Miss is expected to be for at least 8 years & average $9 million a year, sources tell
@SINow
.
While the state of Mississippi does not allow public employees to have contracts of more than 4 years, the deal is run thru OM’s private foundation.
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I’ve witnessed LSU fans..
- drink a portion of Nashville out of liquor
- drink a downtown Atlanta Marriott out of alcohol
- drink nearly 40,000 Jell-O shots at the CWS
This has been absolutely insane, like in a good way, a Cajun way.
@LSUbaseball
#RoccosOmaha
#cws2023
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UCLA coach Chip Kelly is asked to compare the state of college football from his time at Oregon to now.
"We played with five wide receivers and in shiny helmets. Now, everybody plays with five wide receivers and in shiny helmets."
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Abilene Christian coach Joe Golding: “COVID is a real thing. We had social injustice. We had a presidential election that divided our country. We needed March Madness.”
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A Power 5 AD in New York this week said a specific 8-team playoff model is circulating around the CFB world that would incorporate bowls, including a bowl-sponsored national championship game.
The model:
- 5 auto bids for P5 champs
- 2 at-large
- 1 Group of 5
Big Ten commish Jim Delany if he would favor an 8-team
@CFBPlayoff
: “I could be under the right circumstances”
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) has drafted a letter that he plans to send to Big Ten presidents, identifying reasons why he believes college football should be played.
@SINow
obtained a copy.
Sasse is a former university president.
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DeVonta Smith thanks Vincent Sanders, his barber in Amite, La., who helped drive him to camps as a kid.
Visited The Barber a couple of years ago.
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Mike Leach, one of college football’s most distinctive personalities & innovative offensive minds, died Monday night, his family announced through university spokesman
@sidsalter
.
He was 61.
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Exclusive: Cardiologists are finding so few heart issues in athletes they are no longer recommending screenings for most COVID positives.
How emerging data will impact protocols like B1G's 21-day policy.
Barry Alvarez: “It’s time to take a serious look"
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During the coin flip, the official says, "Oklahoma has won the... Oklahoma State has won the toss."
Cowboys fans boo loudly.
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Report: "Ultimately, why did the MAC cancel the season?"
MAC administrator: "Medical advice."
Reporter: "Why aren't Power 5 leagues listening to the same advice?"
MAC administrator: "I'm not touching that one."
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Why did Ohio State huddle more than usual? Justin Fields: "We didn't want them stealing our signals."
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It's Midnight in the East and we have 11:19 left on the game clock of a CFP semifinal.
Ridiculous.
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He's not dead.
Students leaving gifts like oatmeal creme pies, coke bottles, flowers in front of statue outside stadium
@WVTM13
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In obvious pain, Tiger Woods limped toward the media podium after his round and was asked what he's showing to America this week.
"Never give up," he said.
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Two days with Les Miles.
He is vegan, is 20lbs lighter, wears an Apple watch, drives like a maniac, eats Chipotle each day, stunned players at 1st team meeting, has found a new rival & is facing biggest challenge of his career at 65.
"I'm having fun."
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Lincoln Riley: "I'm not going to be the next head coach at LSU."
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