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If we win out, we would have a case for the #1 overall seed. I think that's Arizona's to lose. Winning out, though, would give us a 29-3 (19-1) record with at least 1 win over Michigan, as well as the big ten tournament and regular season championship.

You're treating every opportunity for HC equally, but they're not. Some people--like Nate--may want to apply for everything. Other people--like Ben Johnson or Mike McDaniel do not. I don't see how that latter group of people are lazy for not wanting to deal with a "little extra work" for a job...

I think you've ignored the only point I--offhandedly--tried to make, which is that a bad organization is going to limit its pool of candidates if its hiring process is much more onerous than any of its competitors. The articles I've read seem to suggest that that is exactly what's happened...

Stefanski’s a better hire than Freddie Kitchens or Hue Jackson, neither of whom is in the NFL, but that’s a low bar. The number of openings is small, but so is the number of qualified candidates. Until recently, almost all new head coaches were NFL coordinators. There are definitely coaches...

If it's unique to them, meaning that no other team does this, then I'm not sure how it's lazy to opt out. Why good coaching candidate--who likely has multiple options--go do a bunch of make-work essays to coach the Browns as opposed to just interviewing with other teams? It's not like we're...

That seems like a sure way to limit your candidate pool to people who don't have better options for a head coaching gig.

Guess we need to get a TRO from the Champaign Circuit Court!

What is the player on the hook for? What would be the basis for a breach of contract claim against the player? As someone else pointed out, I’m sure the transferred player would be happy to come back and perform services in exchange for the NIL. It’s not the player that wants to break the...

I mean Luke badmouthed the SEC last night. But he won he bowl games against the SEC.

ND got left out to the ultimate benefit of his conference. He’s just making the smart political statement to keep the focus off the fact that some really weak SEC teams (AL and OU) made the CFP.

And for IL, a bowl game is a great marketing opportunity. We get to go up against a beatable SEC opponent. For a school like us, that’s invaluable.

Why would a 5-7 team accept a bowl bid? The money for going to the bowl is going to be terrible, and it’s multiple weeks that the coaches can’t be planning for next year. Extra practice made sense before NIL, but a 5-7 team is likely to have a lot of new players next year. Who cares about...

Absolutely not the best story just because it’s Indiana

That’s a highly lawyered statement that was likely approved by Fitz as part of this settlement, and means nothing except that he was a complete moron about the horrific hazing that occurred at the program he ran.

At home against a team that will likely have lost 5 straight? I hope not.