Nice write up MS!
I’d take any of those: CK seems to have “it". Same with AG. EM is qb savvy (vital) and can put up numbers like Dana and Monken but was shut down by AG this year. Soft spot for ZR but one article said his scheme was predictable after the loss to the lowly Dolphins - Staff would be vital but Glass could help perpetuate culture.
Glad I dont have to choose.
oSu
I’ve heard rumors that Glass will be gone as well.
Brian Kelly to Oklahoma State. You heard it here first folks!!!
Good. He should’ve been gone when Gundy attempted to clean house last offseason. He had his great run, but the injuries particularly along the o-line have been an issue for the past 5 years.
The recruiting of Texas is key to the success of the next coach. BTW (new coach) your direct and most formable recruiting competition is Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, TCU, Baylor and Houston. On the peripheral include KSU, Boise State and Colorado.
I don’t hate this. I don’t love it, but I hate it much less than a 16 team playoff.
What would be your preferred post season format? Just curious.
Boise St & Colorado are not “factors” in Texas recruiting. Colorado was a blip on the radar at times the last couple of years. but Boise…hell no. Everybody recruits Texas. The big boys from the SEC, along with Ohio St, Oregon, USC do far more damage than those two. The Big 12 Texas schools. Texas Tech has gotten into the mix. Colorado is getting around the 50th best out of Texas and Boise will get in the 70’s or something.
I think the key for OSU will be to do exactly what they did early under Gundy. Go find hidden gems in the HS ranks. Spend a little more on the HS recruiting trail than youd like. Listen, OSU isnt going to outbid others for portal players. But, they can spend a little more for a 3 star/low 4 star kid out of HS and then you hope you can keep him. Hope he gives you a bargain when it comes time to renegotiate after he has a really good Soph yr.
8-team playoff based on BCS standings. Get rid of the polls. They’re heavily biased. Get rid of the committee. Their logic is flawed and inconsistent.
The logic is only inconsistent if you aren’t in the Big 10 or SEC.
Well, the BCS was a combination of computer polls and human polls (Coaches, AP later replaced by the Harris). So if CFB were to go back to a BCS standing, what polls would you use? Not trying to be a prick.
Oh, what I prefer wouldn’t happen. I would prefer either…
A.) A smaller playoff that removes bias using the BCS-style computer ranking as the primary or only ranking. Polls marginalized (~33% or less) or excluded from determining the matchup. I don’t need weaker teams in there to pad out a postseason.
B.) The old 2 team championship in whatever way we want to determine it. A playoff, especially a large playoff, just makes college the Temu NFL. Upsets are exciting when they happen, but then your title game or conference finals ends up being disappointing when bad teams advance after playing above their head. The exceptionalism of college football was setting up the postseason like a a fight card. You set up your dream matches as best you can up and down the card. For instance, we didn’t want to see TCU-Georgia and it was a bad game… no hype and bad payoff. At least if a prizefight ends in a domination, it gets the hype going.
LSU people that I’ve heard are saying BK alienated donors and belittles players. 
Hope there is a home run hire in the wings!
oSu
For anyone interested Carson and Colby are going live at 2PM CST today (10/31) on Youtube. The description reads “Carson Cunningham and Colby Powell discuss the latest on OSU’s coaching search, including Carson’s intel on who has interviewed so far.”
Take the polls out of the formula entirely.
Shocker here…but I completely disagree.
A.) The bigger the pool of playoff, the smaller room for bias. The old way went strictly with computers and it was flawed (see 2002 & 2003). Then it factored in a human element and was still flawed (see 2008). If you go with strictly 2 teams, you will never, ever see a team outside of the Big 10/SEC get in that isnt named Notre Dame. “I dont need weaker teams in there to pad a postseason” College Basketball. College Baseball. College Softball. They all would like a word. So would the NFL. The NBA. MLB. Playoffs are what makes these sports even greater than they are. Now, Im with you in that I dont want a bigger tourney. 16 is as big as I want it to get
B.) “Upsets are exciting when they happen, but then your title game or conference finals ends up being disappointing when bad teams advance after playing above their head” That does happen on occasion (in every sport). People scream every year about wanting a reseed once the Final Four hits. Or once you reach OKC for the Softball WCWS. But, its the exception. Not the rule. Wanting to limit the amount of games because theoretically too many Cinderellas win…is a wild take. There have been great games that have happened as a result of these playoffs. Are they all great? Of course not. But neither are these Prize Fights you speak of. TCU-UGA ended up being a route, but tons of people were rooting for TCU and tuned in to do so. To say “no hype” is completely inaccurate. I guarantee you the whole Big 12 was tuned in rooting for the Frogs, as was everyone not in the SEC.
You could put 64 teams in a playoff format, and 7 out of 10 times or more, a blueblood will win it. NIL and portal will never provide the parity some folks want.
Two things are true in terms of parity during the NIL/Portal era