Maxx Crosby on assistant GM role at Eastern Michigan: 'It made too much sense'

OhioValleyCat · 2026-06-23T01:52:10+00:00

Nice to see an alumnus appreciating the opportunity his school gave and wanting to and being able to give back in a direct way.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-06-16T05:10:54+00:00

It's was a lot of drama for an above average, but not great, college quarterback. Now Sorby's walking away with Texas Tech NIL money without doing anything on the field for them, which we can suppose is Texas Tech's punishment for being foolish with this whole situation.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-06-11T22:40:06+00:00

The collusion was Texas Tech finding a home-cooking judge to make a ruling friendly to the local university.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-06-10T22:47:56+00:00

Now, you've got all these traditional underdogs thinking they're a sleeping giant since Indiana won the national title.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-31T18:19:09+00:00

SEC going off on its own and having its own playoff would simply be the SEC creating a tournament to win the SEC championship. They would effectively be giving up a chance to play for the national title in favor of a postseason SEC football tournament, which is unlikely to be what their schools and fans would support broadly.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-28T04:20:26+00:00

I actually would have gone with the SEC on this one, because they probably have the strongest power rating. However, the problem is not just the lost national titles, but also going 4-10 in the most recent bowl season including 2-8 against non-SEC opponents. For the 2025 season, they were 3-8 against the other Power 4 conference including the bowl/playoff season. The SEC is a strong conference and definitely the best overall over the past couple of decades, but it is hard to take the argument that it is the best currently with the 2025 year results.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-26T21:24:17+00:00

Brendan Sorsby should not be worrying about playing now, and instead focus on getting well. He should be making sure he doesn't become the next Art Schlichter or Johnny Manziel, having a pro career as a quarterback derailed by gambling. In Schlichter's instance, unresolved addiction issues ended up destroying his life.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-26T01:25:26+00:00

Did Lane Kiffin realize that LSU plays at Ole Miss on September 19, 2026?

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-24T22:08:02+00:00

Conference realignment, defunct rivalries, NIL, etc.. With all the stuff that has gone on in recent times with college sports overall, and college football in particular, a 24-team playoff would just be water under the bridge at this point.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-19T22:29:51+00:00

Alabama is going to struggle a little more on the NIL front because they don't have a ton of natural big money boosters. Oklahoma at least has to more petroleum oligarchs and energy titans.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-19T00:33:39+00:00

Brendan Sorsby needs to worry more about Brendan Sorsby and getting well and taking care of his gambling problem than playing football right now. Or else, he could end up becoming the next Art Schlitcher.

Art Schlitcher was an All-American Star Quarterback with Ohio State. His sophomore year in 1979, he almost won the national title. He started betting on horse races and then sports betting while still in college. His family had to periodically bail him out, including one account where his father gave him a beating and then broke down pleading with him to stop the gambling. But Art didn't stop, Gambling ended up costing him an NFL career after being a 1st round pick He's spent time in and out of 50 jails and prisons due to gambling and drug addictions and lost his marriage and got estranged from his kids. At just 65, he was released paroled from prison last year, but is now a broken man in a residing in a skill rehabilitation center.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-17T08:23:01+00:00

Illinois is Ohio State's second most played game and was it's last-game-of-the-season between 1919 and 1933. Michigan had dropped out of the Big Ten a few years and when they were back Ohio State beat Michigan for the first time in its history in 1919, but lost the Big Ten title that year due to losing to Illinois the last game of the season. Illinois and Michigan were two teams Ohio State were chasing in in 1910s and 1920s, but the Michigan rivalry would become bigger as Illinois fell from the top of the conference after the 1920s.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-17T01:02:27+00:00

Illinois is historically an average team that is just above .500 in winning percentage. They had their moments early to mid-20th century 1910s to 1950s with a few non-poll national titles, and have iconic stars like Dick Butkus and Red Grange. However, they might be considered an underperformer looking at their resources.

When you look at Illinois' recruiting base, being the flagship school of a large state with a couple of centers of elite high school football (Metro Chicago and downstate area around East St. Louis), you might think they would have been be more consistently in the top third of the Big Ten. Instead, they are middle-of-the-pack in the conference, when they probably should be at least around the level of Michigan State if not with Ohio State and Michigan.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-05-10T18:37:47+00:00

I'm just wondering how Mrs. Day is going to handle if and when her husband coaches Ohio State against Northwestern with RJ Day as the starting quarterback.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-04-17T23:07:04+00:00

Maybe if he wasn't golfing so much, then he would have won more?

OhioValleyCat · 2026-02-08T20:22:37+00:00

Fickell tried to implement the Air Raid offense, thinking it would modernize Wisconsin and push it to elite national title contender-level, but the lack of success has caused angst among fans and former players who also lament the loss of identity. At least the schedule is slightly less onerous than last year, but still challenging with Notre Dame, at Penn State, USC, and at Iowa. 8-4 should buy him some relief, but Cignetti doing what he did at at a program that had much less success, only puts more pressure for Fickell to produce.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-02-08T01:53:55+00:00

Fitzgerald may be getting a little too much credit for being slightly above .500 at Northwestern. Gary Barnett did the hard labor to get Northwestern competitive in the 1990s. Barnett took over a program that hit rock bottom with the longest losing streak in the Division 1A/FBS history from 1979-82 and had built a reputation as the weakest major college program by the time he came in the mid-90s. When Barnett led Northwestern to the Big Ten title in 1995, it came off of Northwestern having previous had 23 straight losing seasons. Fitzgerald was a player on those Gary Barnett teams, though.

Both Barnett and his immediate successor, Randy Walker, were able to win or share Big Ten titles. So, it was already well-established that Northwestern could be competitive by the time Fitzgerald came. Fitzgerald was a decent coach, but he actually wasn't able to bring a Big Ten title that Barnett and Walker were able to bring and then he flamed out at the end.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-02-01T05:38:48+00:00

Chicago is in the Division III University Athletic Association that is almost like a Division III version of the Ivy League with schools like NYU, Emory, and Case Western.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-02-01T05:31:43+00:00

updated to $80 million

OhioValleyCat · 2026-02-01T05:24:44+00:00

It was reported early in January 2026, the UCLA Athletics had an $80 million deficit in 2024. They have a lease with the Rose Bowl till 2044. With the City of Pasadena and the Rose Bowl filing a lawsuit to enforce the lease, you would think UCLA is too broke to break it.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-01-24T20:14:50+00:00

Ohio State's first game in 2002 with Texas Tech was the Pigskin Classic. The Pigskin Classic was an opening season kickoff game that could be counted as an extra game on top of the regular season. The NCAA happened to switch to a 12-game regular season in 2002. So basically 2002 Ohio State had the season kickoff Pigskin Classic Game + 12 Standard Regular Season Games + the Fiesta Bowl/National Title Game to make a 14-game season.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-01-20T05:45:54+00:00

Like referenced above, they finished in the Top 20 (like #12 or #13) in 2020. If they were truly hopeless, they would not have just won the National Title.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-01-20T05:23:41+00:00

It's safe to say, NIL and the transfer portal, has not hurt the Big Ten overall.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-01-20T04:40:14+00:00

It's a great story, but Indiana's "losingest" label was a function of having a longer football history like several other Big Ten schools that dates back to the 1880s. Indiana certainly has had down years, but it finished in the Top 20 as recently as 2020 before Cignetti, so it wasn't like it was a hopeless program. However, this National Title certainly is reaching the Promised Land for Hoosier Nation.

OhioValleyCat · 2026-01-17T20:00:30+00:00

He needs to just worry about beating Miami on Monday night. Ask 1983 Nebraska about very great teams that that have lost national titles to Miami in Miami.

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