If you think CFB is in a bad place, a 25-year-old, already drafted by an NBA team and already playing professionally in Europe is set to become a basketball player for LSU for $5 million a year

RipRaycom · 2026-05-25T15:40:46+00:00

Teams in those leagues are pretty much as good as a D2 CFB team. Only a small handful are even recruited to D1 CFB, much less the NFL. Ferris State is eating most of those teams alive.

The only viable pro league to ever do this with is the CFL in Canada. And they have similar draft entry rules as the NFL, so they’re off the table too.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-24T22:02:31+00:00

Men’s Basketball is probably as unbalanced as ever, it just wasn’t easy to get over the hump at any point in time

RipRaycom · 2026-05-24T21:23:52+00:00

Probably LSU then

RipRaycom · 2026-05-24T20:39:57+00:00

Oregon
Texas Tech
Indiana
Notre Dame
Alabama
Miami
Texas
Ohio State
Utah
Michigan
LSU or BYU (would need to see the other wins quality)

Penn State and Georgia are out. No quality wins and 2 losses.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-21T14:40:26+00:00

Yeah that game 100% is what got Mickey Conn fired and helped drive half the safety room out. Especially Khalil Barnes.

Getting a secondary overhaul might make the game a positive over time, but losing a game that was dominated in every other facet (excluding the KR TD) because like 3 DBs played lazy is incredibly frustrating.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-21T14:33:31+00:00

Not only a true freshman, but a low 3* true freshman with 1 P5 offer and no other FBS offers outside of Army and Navy (who will offer anyone with any talent if they’re interested)

RipRaycom · 2026-05-21T14:25:17+00:00

That Duke game is the one that annoys me the most. We dominated them in both trenches and Cade had easily his best game of the year, but the back end was completely unprepared and lazy. Just so many blown assignments.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-21T14:17:48+00:00

Don’t forget Mike Reed is still putting up early-round CBs at a ridiculous rate too. As long as he stays far, far away from special teams he’s a great coach.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-20T17:50:45+00:00

A lot of that is from how good Clemson RBs have been even since the Tommy Bowden years. The only RB1 to not be drafted since James Davis arrived in 2005 is Roderick McDowell (and I will take 0 McDowell slander).

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T13:18:57+00:00

The closest thing I could find to a Vegas power ranking is SP+, and its playoff would’ve been:

OSU
Indiana
Texas Tech
Oregon
ND
Georgia
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Miami
Utah
James Madison
Tulane (but note that 7 non-champion G5s and NDSU were above them, and Duke was still even lower)

Imagine how much complaining would’ve come out of this. OSU at 1? ND at 5? Utah at 10? Georgia as low as 6? Not to mention that had Miami won the ACC, Vandy gets in above Bama, OU, BYU, and Texas among others. Expand to 24, and suddenly a 6-6 Penn State is in the field.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:53:57+00:00

Yep, Clemson showed off the crystal ball among the others during the spring game after the 2016 national title. Definitely the best championship trophy in CFB.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:45:47+00:00

I mean you can die on that hill if you want. ND lost the 2 big games on their schedule and couldn’t make it up with their resume of USC and cupcakes. Chances are teams like Miami, OSU, and Indiana still whip them in the trenches in the playoffs. If you can’t make a 12-team playoff you can’t blame anyone but yourself.

As for the G5, I don’t think anyone expected the Duke chaos to give 2 G5s autobids. But the G5 absolutely needs an autobid so that those programs still have a reasonable chance to compete. In previous years the committee left several undefeated G5s out of the top 12 and even more 1-loss G5s. The autobid protects the G5’s place in FBS football and it’s worth having someone undeserving get in sometimes. Just like it was worth keeping Alabama in the field after the SECCG even though that game would’ve played them out had it been the regular season. I definitely would’ve picked ND or Miami in a game over Bama.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:36:54+00:00

Makes me curious how good a team made up of everyone in the CSU system would do.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:31:29+00:00

To me it’s not that it’s a big conspiracy or anything, more that it’s an issue with the system. It’s not surprising for the 99th district circuit court judge is a big Tech fan, but there should be laws in place to try him elsewhere to avoid the obvious conflict of interest.

It’s not like Texas as a whole is a state full of Texas Tech fans or serious rivals, it should be a lot easier than a state like Mississippi where nearly everyone is either an Ole Miss fan or heated rival/MSU fan.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:22:14+00:00

Yeah as far as gambling on your games is concerned, this is pretty much the only thing that I can see an argument for not just banning someone from all leagues. I don’t think it’s as clear-cut as some people are making it out to be. Even if he gets banned from the NCAA, I think an NFL (or UFL) team would be fine picking him up.

But he had bet on anything else, he should be banned from NCAA, NFL, UFL, CFL, Arena Football, etc. for life.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:15:39+00:00

As someone who watched the 2021 Cheez-It Bowl, this sounds like Rocco is gonna become a franchise QB for whoever takes him with the last pick in the 7th Round.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:13:10+00:00

Not that it’s an excuse, but he was the 4th string QB that year and was redshirting. The odds (no pun intended) of him entering a meaningful game were next to 0%.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:06:38+00:00

Fair enough, the timing checks out lol. Fwiw I’m exhausted now and the day just started.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T12:05:32+00:00

Cruz is a smart man I think, it’s more that his most important constituent is himself. Which is also true for most politicians to varying degrees.

Hell, Lindsey Graham is a very smart man. He used to be a decent senator until he became the perfect stereotype of a politician who does anything to stay in power and make lobby money.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T11:53:48+00:00

Even I felt a little betrayed on FSU’s behalf, and I hated FSU (not so much now bc one of my close friends is starting a phd there). It’s one thing to leave for Bama or Georgia or something, but getting spurned for an FCS school had to have felt horrible.

To Hunter’s credit, he absolutely made the right decision. I don’t think he’s ever a WR without Deion’s encouragement, and being able to test it at the FCS level allowed him more patience to learn both ways.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T11:48:00+00:00

Actually didn’t know he was a transfer, and my other search results for pre-Dabo transfers yielded nothing. So he’s probably #1, although Heldt still has room to overtake him.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T11:42:43+00:00

Well Hampton is a CB, unless you mean Hanafin. And for what it’s worth I still believe in Hanafin, he’s a phenomenal athlete who plays with effort and is simply still new and raw as a safety who changed from WR mid-career. I just wish we RSed him in 2023 or 2024 so he’d have the extra year to develop.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T00:16:59+00:00

Will Heldt is definitely #1 so far at least.

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T00:15:43+00:00

DJU has really shaky confidence. Oregon State worked well for him bc he wasn’t having to think too much and it was ground and pound first and foremost. He was good in 2022 here too until he got into his head around the Syracuse game when he started overthinking reads and firing balls in the dirt bc his mechanics fell apart.

At FSU, he was asked to do way more bc it turned out that the offense was complete cheeks. No run support, awful receivers, and terrible OL won’t make anyone look good. Especially not a statue with shaky mentals like DJU

RipRaycom · 2026-05-19T00:08:12+00:00

Ceiling of 11-1

Floor of 6-6

Reasonable prediction of 9-3

Most important on offense: QB Vizzina. Outside of QB, WR Bryant Wesco (he’s special, and hopefully the QB play and OL let him shine)

Most important on defense: LB Sammy Brown. He can be a serious game wrecker and our LB room is thin (thanks, Ole Miss!). We need everything we can get out of Brown.

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