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P5s smallest stadiums. 35,000 Is small folks. We’d be one of the smallest in the p5 if we were in it. NCAA college football: The Power 5’s smallest stadiums THELISTWIRE.USATODAY.COM It’s time to flip the typical NCAA stadium list

Without a contract you can’t know if it would raise or lower member shares. Recall new members can take lesser shares or no shares like SMU.

Just because someone is running from something more than they are running to a particular thing, doesn’t mean they aren’t a great hire or addition to a team. But he is right in the importance of being honest and saying joint him and his staff in a losing program and turning it into a winner wouldn’t be easy. Filter for people who want to be there.

One thing I’ve realized is that Vegas lines and other predictions are really for people who don’t watch the teams play. And who has time? Fans are biased too.

It’s made up. Garbage in, garbage out. It’s a garbage prediction.

This weekly press conference was one of the best, if not the best I’ve ever seen. Really into Golesh’s approach to coaching and to life. Super stoked to see where he takes this team. I think he wins the conference by year 3.

It’s a top 25 job if you make it one. The big thing that becomes hard to turn down is millions. You get USF to a playoff and you will have offers for 2-3x with buyout probably in the tens of millions. You have to really value things money can’t buy, like location, to stay put. And it’s not just the salary. It’s the whole budget, the facilities, the belief you’ll have better athletes and therefore it will be even easier to win (“Hey I did it recruiting SEC and Big10 rejects at G5U, so with better athletes I’ll be unstoppable!”). The only type of coach who isn’t going to jump at more money to a more competitive conference is one who: 1). Isn’t coaching for money. 2). Isn’t coaching for ego and status. Finding any human whose ambition is not driven by either of those things is going to be difficult. They exist, but they’re probably less than 1% of highly “successful” people because their measure of success is some other value and therefore they don’t find themselves in positions that are associated with high status or high compensation.

Bama is definitely down this year and there are no clear standouts in the SEC.

I believe the 1% improvements philosophy. Barely measurable at first then suddenly looking back it’s exponential. As the saying goes, you can accomplish more in a year than you think, and less in a day than you think.

Impossible to say. If hypothetically he puts USF in the playoffs then he may get monetary offers USF cannot match, with resources and boosters and NIL that USF cannot match. But then he would have to weight being able to make the playoff at USF and keep building USF or trying to do it again in a more competitive league. If winning is the goal maybe a coach might turn down money. Maybe he decides he just likes Tampa for his family and wants stability. But USF is going to have to pay him as much as we can if he succeeds here. I think it largely hinges on USF having a path to the playoff with a weak schedule. The AAC is weak and even going undefeated won’t earn respect towards playoff eligibility. We shouldn’t schedule any cupcake games period. We should schedule all of our out of conference games against P5 members.

We did that against Alabama. Give Golesh credit. Golesh is way more mature with much better coaching experience than Sanders. Sanders and his players lack of maturity is an embarrassment. Sanders isn’t a proven coach without his son who was a 4-star rated recruit with offers to SEC schools who went to play for his dad at Jackson State instead. Sanders has won with superior athletes, not coaching, but maybe he can win with superior recruiting only if he can get other great coaches on his staff. How does Sanders do coaching a team with a QB that he hasn’t coached since birth? He coached all of his sons high school and college teams. I’m curious to see what Sanders does when his son leaves college football. I’m very glad we have Golesh instead of Sanders. Also, that new coach Elmo at Duke in his second year looks like a good get, 13-5 so far at Duke, won a bowl game last year, almost beat Notre Dame this weekend. He’s got Duke winning without all of the media circus Sanders brings, although media circus can bring in money, ultimately winning is what matters.

Thank you for sharing!

Even FSU couldn’t keep a winning coach. But I do have to wonder if guys like Taggart or Frost or Herman ever regret their moves. They both flopped at their next stop. They both built more competitive teams at the USF and UCF and Houston than they did at FSU or Nebraska or Texas. Their careers are proof that a coaches winning formula at one school in one conference often doesn’t work at another university and conference. If you build a team that wins the conference and is winning new years bowl games or in the playoff conversion, it’s hard to be certain that success can be repeated at a different university. Now there are some truely great coaches like Urban Meyer and Nick Saban who win a national championship at two universities, but take a look at Jimbo Fisher who has yet to even win the SEC West after 6 years despite having won a national championship at FSU. Would love to see a winning coach turn down a bump in money and name brand and instead just keep winning where it’s been working for them.

They can’t account for the coaching or roster turn over.

Transfer portal is somewhat of a double edged sword. Skilled players will transfer to get a starting rather than sit on the bench at a Blue Chip program. This is especially true for QBs. While it seems like with NIL the most well funded programs will just get all the best players with money, some argue that the ease of transferring and proliferation of NIL will result in less depth, and more talent spread around the league. The thinking being that the 2 and 3 deep will transfer to get more playing time, and still get NIL deals as the star player at another university.

Wow, lots of amazing stats.

A lot of media in the past 24 hours writing about an impending Clemson and FSU move to the SEC.

No salary caps. No contracts. It’s worse than pro sports.

Smazza is right. If and when USF moves to the ACC, the conference will have lost its slot in the playoff. The ACC will be a have not conference.

We can call It the AACC.

Basically this. it’s all about eyes and number of fans. all of those Texas and fly over schools In the big12 are football hungry. For that reason, it might be a better conference for our football program. (I also think our rivalry with UCF is good for both university, and we should cultivate the rivalry to increase ratings if we are both in autobid conferences). Is the big 12 better than the ACC for non-football sports? For academics? For the athletes? A gutted ACC without Clemson, FSU, UNC…. It might be worse than the big 12.

Trash mouth Buffalos, how embarrassing. Duck didn’t even acknowledge their existence. https://x.com/ShehanJeyarajah/status/1706519198837481704?s=20 (not sure how to embed if someone could be so kind)

Give us an opponent that will sell the place out and be full. We need a butt in every seat. Im not sure a patsy would put a butt in every seat.

I think sometimes the players can see things the coaches can’t since they are there in the action.

This please.