Official 2025 CFB Talk Thread: The Year of Diego McGloin

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  1. CB

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  2. Jake Scott

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    A lot of what is mentioned seemed fairly normal/expected but not having the chance to renegotiate is wild.
     
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  3. herb.burdette

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    I have a dream, one day, quarterbacks and kickers will share revenue equally, for four years of eligibility.
     
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  4. Jimmy the Saint

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    So Illinois just gave up two home games? I don't understand the logic here.
     
  5. Truman

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    idk why. Without looking - I assume they already have P4 teams their OOC and wanted out? idk
     
  6. Jimmy the Saint

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    Just seems weird to be doing a 4 for 2 with an SEC school. Very beta!
     
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  7. PSU12

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    That is certainly a bold negotiating strategy to give up your home games and get nothing in return.
     
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  8. CB

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    they have Duke and Southern Illinois for 2026. Mizzou was the 3rd OOC until now

    for 2032, the only game they have in place now is Western Michigan
     
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  9. Fran Tarkenton

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    it seems like they have had a run of good old boy politicians as school decision makers, entirely enabled by the entrenched gop state leadership.

    this era seems like its going to set them back a generation; which seems unfathomable to all of us who grew up with them finishing top 5 for like 15 years straight.
     
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  10. CB

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    the thing is, this is who FSU is

    2001-2024 they have averaged 4 losses per year with 18 of 25 years being 4+ loss seasons. I don't expect them to ever be a legit consistent contender again. they are poorly run and in an era when money matters more than ever, they don't have the resources to keep up; and I'm not talking tv revenue, they lack the alumni base and old money given they have only been co-ed since 1947
     
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  11. herb.burdette

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  12. PSU12

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  13. CB

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    the program would be dead to me forever. I despise him
     
  14. herb.burdette

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    It still remains to be seen if he can coach, but he can recruit.
     
  15. CB

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    we'll agree to disagree on his recruiting ability. his lack of effort in HS recruiting is concerning and it's not like he's bringing in top 20 HS classes. 65% of his acquisition thus far has been via the portal
     
  16. The Banks

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    Roster is essentially fully turned over at this point?
     
  17. CB

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    and yet he keeps going to the portal because he isn't getting volume from HS

    he's only signed 48 HS kids across the last 3 classes; he brought in 47 kids in the 2025 cycle and just 14 came from HS
     
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  18. Tex

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  19. CB

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    will they move the Cotton Bowl game back there now? I hate it at Jerry's World
     
  20. Tex

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    No clue. That would be nice though. I’m just glad Texas OU still play there.
     
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  21. Jimmy the Saint

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    No way
     
  22. PSU12

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    Who is paying for this / why?
     
  23. VaxRule

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    That hockey national championship has the AD flush with cash. 6 years to build a football powerhouse sounds about right.
     
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  24. Fuzzy Zoeller

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    City of Dallas, because it's worth it.
     
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  25. PSU12

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    Other than red river , who uses it?
     
  26. Fuzzy Zoeller

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    It hosts Grambling-Prairie View and used to host the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Unsure if that's still a thing.
     
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  27. PSU12

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    I’m all for historic venues marching forward but the actual cotton bowl already sold their souls to jerryworld and it seems like a steep price for the city to foot the bill for 3 games a year and 2 of those 3 are Grambling / PVAM & Heart of Dallas bowl
     
  28. Fuzzy Zoeller

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    Ok, I'll let the city know your thoughts.
     
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  29. CB

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    Heart of Dallas became the First Responder Bowl; 2024 season featured Texas St vs North Texas

    but they moved out of the Cotton Bowl and over to SMU's stadium beginning in 2019

    the game is the day after Christmas primetime game this year for anyone who cares
     
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  30. Jimmy the Saint

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    Atletico Dallas is going to be playing at the Cotton Bowl.
     
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  31. Fuzzy Zoeller

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    The Cotton Bowl also hosted the Stars Winter Classic in 2020.
     
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  32. Saul Shabazz

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    Lol
     
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  33. Saul Shabazz

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    spoken like a program that never had to Pat Payton

    fuck them kids
     
  34. bro

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  35. Sir Phobos

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    nobody's worth a shit this year, huh
     
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  36. The Banks

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    NIL has done a fantastic job at spreading out talent.
     
  37. leroi

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    I've been building a web-based simulation of a college football coach, inspired by football manager style games. Need testers, need some ppl to tell me if this is fun or not.

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  38. CB

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    No it hasn't
     
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  39. PSU12

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    The portal has done much more for any parity than NIL and that is really only due to the top of the top teams losing depth pieces that want to start and don’t have that path at those programs. Looking at like UGA, Bama to a degree, OSU, etc. UGA has tons of examples of 2’s (or 3’s) that were promising and they would have otherwise liked to keep especially for depth that went elsewhere and started (and thrived). OSU has examples of that. List goes on.
     
  40. CB

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    Even then, half of the blue chips in the portal are still ending up at the top 18 programs

    Meanwhile 64% of HS blue chips are going there to begin with, the same ratio we saw pre nil and pre portal
     
  41. PSU12

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    Yes maybe better way of saying it is that it’s knocking the top 5 down closer to the next 10…imo. More parity amongst the top 20, not the whole of the sport
     
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  42. CB

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    These seems accurate based on tge trends in the data
     
  43. Tex

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    More Week 0 football #bless

     
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    56 Days!!!
     
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  46. DeToxRox

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  47. The Banks

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    Did the BYJew do some super soakin?
     
  48. Jimmy the Saint

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    nm
     
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  49. PSU12

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    Doesn’t he have a sexual assault allegation against/ civil suit against him?

    edit: reading article now. What a predicament for Jake. The legal defense saying it was consensual sex but that disobeys and spits in the face of the church of Jesus Christ and the ladder day saints and the byu honor code
     
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  50. Mix

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    Sucks he raped a girl and will be rewarded by going to a more fun school making millions.
     
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