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I attended Oklahoma in the mid 80's, was in the band so all of my tickets were free. Other students were $25 for a season ticket, no reserved seats. You had to go stand in line outside the ticket office and it was one per person with their own student ID. The line would usually start to form...

CJH knows firsthand as a player about taking a program from not very good (poor) to a NC. He's the guy to do it. Vols are in really good shape, IMO. As a Sooner born and Sooner bred OU grad, I have to take my Sooners over the Vols, but that's the only time I am rooting against the Vols. My...

Rattler seems to be an example of the kid who was never told no. He was far superior to all of the kids he played with growing up. People in Phoenix treated him like he was already a 10x Superbowl winner when he was in HS. He believed what they sold him: that he was awesome and people should...

Go all Deion and kick them all to the curb. That strategy worked out really well. :{

And all other college sports. You have to evaluate, make decisions and implement while the train is moving on down the tracks. No time to pull into the station and sort it out.

Almost all of those guys, if not all, played at least 1 generation if not 2 before today's kids were born. I don't think the name really means anything except to the school's boosters/donors who remember their success as players decades ago. I could be wrong, often am, but I think that HS/JH...

He did, but the rules violations were stupid. Too many text messages/phone calls to recruits. He knew better (certainly did at Indiana after getting Oklahoma in trouble), but did it anyway. He's a really good coach, though, and Houston has a big money donor backing him. Football isn't nearly as...

Achieving a solid athletic department with great coaches across the board is very hard to do and even harder to keep the band together. It's a great time to be a Vol fan.

I see collectives and everything else that is trying to get money from "regular guys" (not big money donors) really struggling if players are employees. IMO, most people are not going to give any more than they have to in order to get their tickets (ticket fee plus donor requirement).

I'm gonna take the other side for argument's sake. Why not have rules on the field and just let everyone do whatever they want off of it? Murca, free enterprise, and all that stuff. If you can't hang with the big boys, get out of the arena. Noting illegal, of course, but other than that...

The team may not play well, but if you don't blame the refs you aren't a true fan of your team. Any team. It's a time honored tradition, regardless of school or franchise. Refs stink, should be fired and banned from even watching another sporting event of any kind. That's the true spirit. :cool:

Tennessee is taking the point on this fight and fired not across the NCAA bow, but broadside into their business. I wouldn't be surprised if NCAA man Baker had no idea this was even going on. He's a politician by trade, I believe, and not necessarily a detail man. NCAA is gonna lose this in...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/tennessee-under-ncaa-investigation-related-to-potential-nil-violations-across-multiple-sports/ Provides no additional details, doesn't reference Forde so who knows where else the info is coming from.

He notes that no team has won a NC without a top 10 recruiting ranking. When you break it down to individual kids and positions, it seems to become a crap shoot pretty quickly.

It's not mostly in his head. The opiniated media that you don't pay attention to discusses it quite often.