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847badgerfan

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2023, 07:49:01 AM »
When I saw Syracuse had their TE taking some snaps at QB I knew it might be a long night for the Orange.
Gophers had to pay their 3rd string QB $30K from NIL to stay and play in the bowl game. QB's 1 and 2 are in the portal.

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2023, 08:43:45 AM »
If they are concerned about player safety, seems like having guys play out of position, and whole positions emptied out of the depth chart, seems unsafe.  Why would any QB play behind whatever OL haven't entered the portal or opted out?

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #30 on: December 22, 2023, 08:46:51 AM »
Did anyone play for Cuse last night?

45-0 win by USF??? 
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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2023, 09:17:52 AM »
You should be allowed to bring back alums.  I'd rather watch a 45 year old Donovan McNabb than whatever Cuse rolled out there last night

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #32 on: December 22, 2023, 09:18:59 AM »

Ok,Kyle McCord is going to change all of that
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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #33 on: December 22, 2023, 09:26:19 AM »
Did anyone play for Cuse last night?

45-0 win by USF???
Just picked this off of a Buckeye game thread

USF coach Alex Golesh was at OSU as a student assistant coach in 2004-05.


He has done a great job at USF this year taking over the Bulls who were 1-11 last year and the program was in shambles.


To get this bowl win and finish 7-6 is one of the best coaching jobs done by any coach this year.

According to Wiki:Born in Moscow, Golesh moved to the United States as a child, growing up in Brooklyn,New York and Dublin,Ohio


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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #34 on: December 22, 2023, 09:32:40 AM »
so, if Day doesn't beat Michigan nest season, Alex is your guy!
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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #35 on: December 22, 2023, 09:57:21 AM »
If they are concerned about player safety, seems like having guys play out of position, and whole positions emptied out of the depth chart, seems unsafe.  Why would any QB play behind whatever OL haven't entered the portal or opted out?
The Minnesota 3rd-stringer got 30K reasons. 

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #36 on: December 22, 2023, 10:15:50 AM »
Psh.  In that bowl game we got our teeth kicked in a couple years ago vs. K-State where we had 39 scholly players left on the team for the bowl, we had a WR play QB for zero NIL $ and zero benefit other than pride and playing with his team one more time. 

Probably the last great Tiger, imo.  Asked about having to play QB and only having 39 players, he gave probably my favorite quote ever:  "Hey, this is LSU.  If we have 22, we're gonna get out there and fight like Tigers.  We don't back down, no matter what it looks like."  This, after many had opted out or portaled out on their teammates. 

But yeah...safety seems like a concern not only with having guys switch positions, but also having only 39 players on a team.  That's......not good.  He did manage to throw a couple TDs though, on the way to having our doors blown off.  

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #37 on: December 22, 2023, 10:16:56 AM »
Gophers had to pay their 3rd string QB $30K from NIL to stay and play in the bowl game. QB's 1 and 2 are in the portal.

This is where we are.
you do know that is fake news
first he was our 2nd string QB who is hanging up his cleats after the year, and he did not take 30K to stay.  he was out the door until AK left and was asked if he wanted one last game where he would be the main guy. and he said yes.  had to put planning his wedding off a few weeks but his Bride did not object.  I hear there was a low 4 digit offer to help pay for the wedding that was accepted


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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #38 on: December 22, 2023, 10:27:20 AM »
so, if Day doesn't beat Michigan nest season, Alex is your guy!


Pointing out ALEX career trajectory is off to a good start.Day won't be going anywhere unless that transpires
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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #39 on: December 23, 2023, 11:47:38 AM »
It starts today.

7:30 PM EST we have Northwestern facing Utah. 

Utah has lost 14 transfers. NU has lost 4.

I have no read on this game at all, but it will be fun to watch some Big Ten football tonight.

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #40 on: December 23, 2023, 12:31:19 PM »
Today's full Saturday Bowl slate is somehow worse than last Saturday's. Save for Utah-NW in the Vegas, the rest are body bag matchups:

Birmingham Bowl - Troy vs. Duke (on now)
Camellia Bowl - Arkansas St vs. Northern Illinois (on now)
Armed Forces Bowl - James Madison vs. Air Force
Idaho Potato Bowl - Georgia St vs. Utah St
Ventures Bowl - South Alabama vs. Eastern Michigan
Las Vegas Bowl - Utah vs. Northwestern
Hawaii Bowl - Coastal Carolina vs. San Jose St

Looking forward to Utah-NW. Willingham usually has his teams ready for bowls, but about a dozen players have transferred out. New Raiders stadium is gorgeous.

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Re: Bowl Season 2023
« Reply #41 on: December 23, 2023, 12:37:31 PM »
Whittingham.

JMU-USAFA would be cool, except JMU's QB portaled.
Same with Coastal Chicken Myrtle Beach Carolina's QB.

This is all so broken.
Zero leadership.
This is what happens when you take a probably fair and good idea and just shove it in, with no outline, formatting, or plan.  Just pushing play and seeing how many car wrecks there are before the opening credits are over.

If they can just conjure up a playoff committee, independent of the NCAA, "they" can come up with a leadership group with a plan and a path towards sanity.

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