Recent content by 50PoundHead

If Koi spends 183 days outside of Minnesota, he's not a Minnesota resident for tax purposes. If he's at Texas Tech starting spring semester and is there throughout 2026, he can be a Texas resident for tax purposes. I don't know if he has to do anything other than that to establish residency...

I read a tweet from James Madison University the other day hailing the arrival of Jaylen Bowden. I guess the ink didn't dry.

Not saying this was the case with Koi, but I think what you say is true for a lot of big fish/small pond guys when they take a step up in the competition. They are often so gifted physically that they don't work on technique or develop better instincts. Again, I'm not leveling this directly at...

Oh stop it. Players have been paid, but how many death penalties have been doled out over the years? The needle went so far into the red at SMU that it busted the meter. I'm old. I know players who were if not directly paid, were given "just show up" jobs in the summer. I knew someone from...

I think the idea is to rotate fresh and effective rush ends to try and keep the QB in the pocket and funnel everything toward the interior, which makes effective DT/ILB play crucial. Problem with that strategy is that there will be more blockers than defensive players on the inside which can...

Refrigerator Perry for DL coach!

Upper half for sure. Upper third likely. I wasn't impressed with their QB at all. Sorsby is heading there (he's had an interesting collegiate journey and it will be a hoot if Indiana and Texas Tech end up playing each other in next year's CFB) so their offense may take a big step forward.

SMU was an isolated incident and there was always the chance that the NCAA would assess penalties for others caught cheating (see tOSU). What is going on now is entirely different with the mass movement of players and the formal framework that the NIL provides that simply didn't exist during...

Not if Pavia has his way. I've become a dour doomsdayer, but I think eligibility rules are the next thing to see major changes.

Exactly what I was trying to say. The game is making scads of money, the players are getting paid (handsomely in some cases), the quality of play at the upper levels is very good. It's just that the environment and bounds of competition have changed dramatically. And it won't be going backwards.

I was talking more about the superstructure. The games are still very good to great and Indiana is a great story, but what we are now seeing is basically professional football. It's no longer a college game.

I was talking more about Karmo's potential explosiveness. He just looks quicker than the other two.

If he takes the next step, I see him as the disruptor that is needed in the LB corps. More gifted athletically than Baranoski and Kingsbury (and I'm not dissing those two).

Things have really changed. I went to Augsburg in the early-1970s and River Falls was usually on the schedule and it was usually a good game. I think Augsburg at least split with them when I was there. Changing landscape now.

It's too bad Prince passed away. He could have been our sugar daddy! Imagine the halftime shows! Downside is he probably would have insisted to call at least two plays a game. He probably would have been bigger on basketball. I think he played for Minneapolis Central way back when.