Recent content by 50PoundHead

I'm against byes for anyone. I say stop at 16.

Hard to get a read when it's 3rd-stringers v. 3rd-stringers, but he looks decisive and while his arm isn't a cannon, he can get the ball there. His macro-accuracy (putting the ball in the vicinity of the receiver) is excellent. His micro-accuracy of putting it where the receiver can do the...

It probably won't apply to the top-tier guys, but I can see guys a bit down the list wanting to go to a program where they will see significant playing time as a freshman in hopes of either garnering a big-time NIL deal or impressing pro scouts. To one of your main points, if you can get them...

I want to see the parking lot at NCAA HQ. It's their version of NIL. As for the penalty, I had a couple of friends who attended Catholic school in the 1950s and 1960s and they told me the nuns could be pretty rough on the knuckles with the ruler. Looks like the NCAA rapped Michigan's knuckles...

D-Line should be pretty good if everyone stays healthy.

I remember the Gophers squeaking out a 19-17 win during the 1981 season. Gophers were stinking up the place and they would have lost if an Ohio U running back hadn't dropped an easy pass in the flat that would have resulted in a first down. It's the same year the Gophers beat Ohio State...

Memorial wasn't a terrible stadium. It was old, but the sight lines were good. I don't know if it could have been updated, but the move to the Metrodome, while not a complete disaster, didn't contribute to the program the way a lot of bigwigs (or maybe I should use Sid's term "brain wizards"...

I think that was up in the Grandstand before they moved down to the main drag. I remember the room and I remember to having a great conversation with baseball coach John Anderson. I don't remember a lot of team gear being available in the 1980s, but the poster above is right. If there was...

Had to get blood test for annual physical and the streets are an absolute mess.

I don't follow the game as much as I used to, but I browsed the box scores for the opening weekend of the NFL pre-season and there a ton of QBs trying to hang on for one more round so there will be a ton of movement at the last cutdown. I don't know if that helps or hurts Brosmer. Given...

I wondered about his arm strength, but he showed as last season went on that he has at least an average arm. He's not going to become Aaron Rodgers, but the raps on Rodgers as he came into the league were his arm strength and Jeff Tedford's tutelage. I think arm strength can increase in the...

Same with Mike Max though not as egregious. They frame their questions with their preferred answer. Too often their opening line to the interview subject is something on the line of "It must have felt great when you did that" which is a statement and not a question. A good interviewer would...

Bottom line for me is I don't think the NCAA cares about this as much as it used to. I agree with many here that academic risk doesn't seem to hit the recruiting news the way it used to. I'm pretty sure recruits haven't gotten smarter, but maybe high schools find ways to help them academically...

I can't take it seriously. No Harold Howell.

I agree with a lot of your reasoning. I wrote above about just having 8 conferences with 12 teams apiece and work a 16-team CFP out of that. That approach would pretty much decimate the conference imperialism that's going on right now and that's not likely to happen But let's say that the B1G...