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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.

Seattle does look like the most complete team right now. What their defense did to the 49ers Saturday was otherworldly. That said, Darnold could lay an egg although I am happy that he has resurrected his career after playing in a couple of untenable situations. O'Connell has his work cut out...

This season may turn out a bit like Johnson's first (although the brand of basketball will be much improved) in that the team will likely wear down due to a lack of depth. The difference (as obliquely referenced above), Medved has an idea of what he wants the team to do and has them playing in...

Thanks. I should have remembered that. Without the fingernail, the Gophers would not have been bowl-eligible and we would have been spared the collapse against Texas Tech and Mason's subsequent firing. Of course, in the absence of the fingernail, Mason would have probably been let go at the...

But I bet they all had great 40 times. I kid of course, but I am way old and I remember when the late Al Davis was running things and drafted guys like Jarmarcus Russell at #1 (well, just because).