Absolutely. They might be the biggest winners in this shifting landscape. Especially once conference champ top 4 seeding gets nixed.
They’re also not going to get left behind if/when the SEC/B1G break away and form their whatever football league. Good spot to be in.
Where do we think Henry ends up. He was 30 this season, just turned 31 a few days ago, so he'll be 31 next season. Peterson/E. Smith etc.. played until 35/36. I think Henry can do that. He averages 1269 yards per season which will obviously go down. but I think he can pretty easily get into the top 10 in the next season or two barring injury. I think he ends up around Curtis Martin and Adrian Peterson. Titans really fucked him over early making him 2nd string behind Demarco fucking Murray.
I think he gets 15K, so agree with you. Would love for him to get to 2nd all time, definitely a chance. I'm sure he's missed a few games due to injury, but he's never had a season-ending injury that I know of. His non-existent injury history is the craziest thing about him.
ND gets what 15-20M to keep for themselves because they’re not having to split it among their conference. No telling what their tv deal with NBC is. Obviously Alabama would never leave the SEC but what do yall think Alabama could get for its own tv deal if they hit the open market?
Alabama being an independent and the network bidding on them getting a home schedule that, I assume, would be 3-4 historical southern rivals and then 2-3 P4 games from around the country? It wouldn't be anywhere near Notre Dame because the market share outside of the current SEC footprint would pale in comparison, but it'd be decent.
We're still rolling 10 deep. Loved having Mallette as an option, but with Youngblood back playing full minutes we are in good shape. We are 1 more injury away from Naas entering the deep rotation, though. LOL this team's depth is absurd.
Mallettes presence in the rotation is irrelevant. I hope he gets a medical redshirt because we might actually need him next year.
Absolutely, they would be fools to join a conference unless it was absolutely forced on them. They have an amazing setup.
Only 9 other players have ever rushed for 1900 yards in a season regardless. Henry is the only one to do it twice.
Keelon has already taken over in his 4 days on campus. He's moved into the athletic facility and made Debo give him his office. Heard he's redecorating.
If your bar is "win a title or you cant silence the haters", very very few coaches will reach that bar. There's currently all of 2 active coaches with a natty. It's been said that Franklin "can't win a big game." Playoff games qualify as big games. It doesn't have to be a natty.
I don’t think the bar is necessarily winning a title, but not beating a top 5 tram since 2016, and having an overall record of 1-18 vs the top 5 doesn’t inspire any confidence in him ever figuring that portion of it out. And a lot, though certainly not all, of that falls squarely on his shoulders. No one is debating whether or not he’s a very good coach, people are debating whether or not he can ever get over the hump. Which is a fair discussion. I don’t think anything PSU did this year has changed anyone’s opinions on Franklin, regardless of where they stood going into the season.