GDT: The 2020 NCAA Football Thread

[Brock Anton]

Michigan tried like hell to give Rutgers the victory but Rutgers showed why they are Rutgers.

That playcalling in OT1 was truly pathetic. Either go for the throat and go downfield or hand the ball up the middle 3 times and make it an easier FG, don't do whatever the hell that was. They deserved to lose after that clownshow, especially considering the great playcall to start OT2 (why not f***ing do that in OT1 and win the damn game?).

 

[HisIceness]

Uh oh, Dabo mad lol

 

[Sens1Canes2]

He’s not wrong.

 

[Brock Anton]

lmao Michigan lost to Penn State

 

[tarheelhockey]

Syracuse with a solid entry into the “dumb ways to lose” Hall of Fame.

 

[HisIceness]

lmao Michigan lost to Penn State

What a great year for football in the state of Michigan

Syracuse with a solid entry into the “dumb ways to lose” Hall of Fame.

I didn't even know they were 1-8 going into today. Now it makes sense.



The sack on 3rd down is just as bad

 

[Navin R Slavin]

It's nice to see someone on the other side of the field do something stupid.

 

[Brock Anton]

I think taking the sack was worse than the spike. That's the one thing you can't do there, throw it away dude.

 

[DaveG]

Syracuse with a solid entry into the “dumb ways to lose” Hall of Fame.

Holy shit that's a first ballot hall of fame entry. They might even waive the 4 year waiting period for it.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Is this on ESPN or Spectrum? Living in the past, they are.

 

[Chrispy]

He’s not wrong.

Clemson had a player with symptoms and let him practice. He then flew with the team and was discovered to have tested positive on landing. Clemson saw no need to be concerned with a positive player practicing all week.

FSU was right here.

 

[HisIceness]

Kansas is Duke pre-Cutcliffe level bad. Worse perhaps.

 

[HisIceness]

Winless Vanderbilt dismisses Mason as coach

Wonder if this is where Jamey Chadwell goes. Would be attractive for him in my opinion.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Winless Vanderbilt dismisses Mason as coach

Wonder if this is where Jamey Chadwell goes. Would be attractive for him in my opinion.

Tbh Vandy, Kansas, Duke, and a couple of others should be avoided by any coach who wants to be successful. Sure Spurrier and the Penn St coach may disagree but they are outliners.

 

[HisIceness]

I think Mason mostly won with Franklin's players/recruits but the guy did take the Commodores to a couple of bowl appearances and even beat Tennessee 3 years in a row, which I think was a first for Vanderbilt.

Point is, in a 2012 type season (a win in the Music City Bowl and a win against Tennessee) would be more than satisfying for that fan base, and in any power 5 conference that is saying a lot.

 

[Chrispy]

Tbh Vandy, Kansas, Duke, and a couple of others should be avoided by any coach who wants to be successful. Sure Spurrier and the Penn St coach may disagree but they are outliners.

The difficulty is you have two options:

Gamble on a young promising coach who either does well and jumps at a bigger job (Spurrier, Franklin) or does poorly and gets fired.

Go for a nontraditional or "gimmick" choice. This is where Wake Forest has been successful with Grobe and Clawson by using different offensive schemes to help hide the recruiting differences.

If I'm at Vandy, I'm looking at Troy Calhoun first.

 

[Canes]

Vandy should look at all 3 service academy coaches. They're the only team in the SEC I think that could make the option work for them. They're never going to recruit better than the bottom 3rd of their conference so they don't have to worry about how top recruits would perceive an option team.

 

[DaveG]

I kinda expected to see it happen, Brown started to show up on the SC job radar this past week, though he's now come out and shot that down.

Neal Brown Addresses South Carolina Rumors: "I'm Not a Candidate There"

I think they end up with Beamer.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I kinda expected to see it happen, Brown started to show up on the SC job radar this past week, though he's now come out and shot that down.

Neal Brown Addresses South Carolina Rumors: "I'm Not a Candidate There"

I think they end up with Beamer.

Seems likely it's heading that way. I'll be rooting for Beamer if it comes to pass.

 

[Canes]

I kinda expected to see it happen, Brown started to show up on the SC job radar this past week, though he's now come out and shot that down.

Neal Brown Addresses South Carolina Rumors: "I'm Not a Candidate There"

I think they end up with Beamer.

Literally no one else is interested in Beamer so that would be the most South Carolina thing ever to hire him after paying a coach 15 mill just to go away.

 

[HisIceness]

For a moment here I thought you guys were talking about Frank Beamer and I thought "Geez, how bad is this search going that a 75 year old man out of coaching for 5 years now is a candidate?".

Shane Beamer kind of strikes me as a Chad Morris type I guess. Good coordinator and recruiter but questionable as the head coach of a major program.

 

[Canes]

For a moment here I thought you guys were talking about Frank Beamer and I thought "Geez, how bad is this search going that a 75 year old man out of coaching for 5 years now is a candidate?".

Shane Beamer kind of strikes me as a Chad Morris type I guess. Good coordinator and recruiter but questionable as the head coach of a major program.

The thing is that Shane literally has no head coaching and coordinator experience, and the South Carolina fanbase actually thinks that's a good thing because Muschamp had experience so now that's bad a thing to them unless you're Urban Meyer, and because you recruited a few good players in your limited time there and that you're a mainly position coach being named to head coach, you're automatically Dabo Swinney. Literally such a stupid fanbase, they absolutely deserve barely being .500 all-time.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

For a moment here I thought you guys were talking about Frank Beamer and I thought "Geez, how bad is this search going that a 75 year old man out of coaching for 5 years now is a candidate?".

Shane Beamer kind of strikes me as a Chad Morris type I guess. Good coordinator and recruiter but questionable as the head coach of a major program.

Until you said it wasn’t Frank Beamer, I assumed it was.

 

[HisIceness]

BYU/Coastal Carolina game of the year.

 

[Canes]

BYU/Coastal Carolina game of the year.

It's actually hilarious South Carolina is going to let Chadwell escape from their own backyard to hire some nobody like Shane Beamer, who literally would be even more of a nobody without his dad. To go from hiring two HoF coaches then hiring Muschamp then a nobody like Beamer, what a fall for a clown school. They're about to get beat by 4 or 5 TDs by a 3-6 Kentucky team and are like... Shane Beamer is the answer!! LMAO.