OFFICIAL 2017 COLLEGE FOOTBALL OFFSEASON THREAD - Spring Game schedule on first page

[ThaxbyChamblis]

2018 4* WR/ATH Justin Watkins might legitimately commit to 5 schools during his recruitment. Committed to LSU, Flipped to FSU then flipped to Texas. Looking like he's gonna flip to another school (possibly Alabama) and then I wouldn't be surprised if he was to flip one more time, prob to an instate school like Florida or somewhere way across the country like Oregon

Decommitted from Texas today. Says he's gonna wait until NSD before he commits again

 

[dacomeup]

 

[RyGuy45]

Sorry if posted..


Top 50 College Football Players of the Past 50 Years (Athlon Era)

The inaugural edition of Athlon Sports was published in 1967, the same year that a running back named O.J. Simpson led the USC Trojans to the national championship. As we celebrate 50 years of covering the sport, we thought it would be fun to take a deep dive and compile a ranking of the top 50 players of the Athlon Sports era. To help us sort through the list of all-time greats, we assembled a panel of college football experts. Each member submitted a list of top 50 players, and we used a simple formula to tabulate the final rankings: A player received 50 points for a first-place vote down to one point for a 50th-place vote. To be eligible, a player had to have played at least one season of college football between 1967 and 2016.

50. Desmond Howard, Michigan
49. Doug Flutie, Boston College
48. Danny Wuerffel, Florida
47. Marcus Mariota, Oregon
46. Keith Jackson, Oklahoma
45. Peyton Manning, Tennessee
44. Chris Spielman, Ohio State
43. Reggie White, Tennessee
42. Jonathan Ogden, UCLA
41. Bruce Smith, Virginia Tech
40. Randy White, Maryland
39. Mike Singletary, Baylor
38. Matt Leinart, USC
37. Ricky Williams, Texas
36. Archie Manning, Ole Miss
35. Jerry Rice, Mississippi Valley State
34. Ed Reed, Miami
33. John Elway, Stanford
32. Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma
31. Steve Emtman, Washington
30. Cam Newton, Auburn
29. Jack Tatum, Ohio State
28. Lawrence Taylor, North Carolina
27. Marcus Allen, USC
26. Anthony Munoz, USC
25. Kenny Easley, UCLA
24. Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska
23. Larry Fitzgerald, Pittsburgh
22. Randy Moss, Marshall
21. Derrick Thomas, Alabama
20. OJ Simpson, USC
19. Dave Rimington, Nebraska
18. Ronnie Lott, USC
17. John Hannah, Alabama
16. Orlando Pace, Ohio State
15. Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
14. Reggie Bush, USC
13. Lee Roy Selmon, Oklahoma
12. Tommie Frazier, Nebraska
11. Charles Woodson, Michigan
10. Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh
9. Deion Sanders, Florida State
8. Vince Young, Texas
7. Hugh Green, Pittsburgh
6. Tim Tebow, Florida
5. Bo Jackson, Auburn
4. Earl Campbell, Texas
3. Archie Griffin, Ohio State
2. Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State
1. Herschel Walker, Georgia

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/top-50-college-football-players-athlon-era

 

[gunna get it]

No Marshall Faulk? HOGWASH

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

You sure he's coming out of his own pocket for that trip? 

Yes. The University of Sexual Ballers would never engage in such chicanery.

 

[nako xl]

*Reads Athlon list*

Cue complaining Miami fans in 5, 4, 3, 2...

 

[nako xl]

USC pulled commitments the past two days from 4 star TE Camren McDonald from Long Beach Poly, 4 star LB Kana'i Mauga from Hawaii, and 4 star RB Mychale Salahuddin out of Woodson in Washington D.C. 

Currently averaging 3.9 star average with 10 commits and after losing Corral. Not bad.

 

[gatorb807]

No Percy Harvin or Darren McFadden?

 

[Bobby Layne]

List was trash.

No Jerome Brown, Sapp, Sean Taylor, or Faulk.

And if we're talking option QB's healthy Jamelle Holloway > healthy Tommie Frazier.

 

[Bobby Layne]

OL (especially IOL) don't ever get any love on lists like this either but if I had to pick another Michigan player to make it after Chuck it would have been Hutch.

 

[Bobby Layne]

 Brenden Ertle‏ @BrendenE_Saints  Jun 24
 #Texas QB Shane Buechele wins the manning passing camp Challenge

 Tj Simmons‏ @a_scouts_dream  Jun 25
 Next Chapter #WVU20 @WestVirginiaU

 Cecil Hurt‏ @CecilHurt  Jun 25
 If UA summer 7-on-7 reports are accurate, TJ Simmons' transfer may confirm rave reviews of freshman WRs Jeudy, Ruggs, Smith & Shavers.

 

[dacomeup]

Too bad Hurts is throwing them the ball

 

[Bobby Layne]

Too bad Hurts is throwing them the ball

Is he?

 

[nako xl]

 

Too bad Hurts is throwing them the ball

Is he?

 

[Bobby Layne]

 

 

Too bad Hurts is throwing them the ball

Is he?

 I have no idea why Saban would even sign off on even recruiting a kid like that if he wasn't also willing to build an O around him. 

Kid's going to be overthrowing dudes again against FSU and get yanked at halftime for Tua. 

 

[Bobby Layne]

I'm not as down on Speight as some Michigan fans are but I'd take Hurts in AA in a heartbeat. 

Unlike that NFL retread special Daboll, I'd trust Harbaugh could build an O to maximize Hurts' ability. 

 

[10508 cardo jr ln]

RBU

 

[Bobby Layne]

 
Realignment appears to be in sleep mode. For now. But the potential for realignment -- and the strategy for when it surfaces again -- never completely leaves the radar of college sports' power brokers. That's why they're thinking about 2023.

Why 2023? It starts with expiring TV contracts. The ACC and SEC both have long-term media grant-of-rights agreements, running through 2035-36 and 2033-34, respectively. But the other three Power 5 conferences have agreements ending roughly around the same time (the SEC's Tier 1 deal with CBS runs through 2023-24). The Big Ten last summer opted for a shorter agreement with Fox and ESPN, which runs through 2022-23. The Pac-12 deal expires after the 2023-24 sports year, and the Big 12's ends the following year.

"Conferences have expanded primarily to take really good football schools to enhance their football footprint and strength, and also to help their [television] networks," Aresco said. "The question down the road will be whether any conferences want to add schools that they feel will strengthen them in football, whether it's because of an upcoming rights fee deal, or they feel it would strengthen their conference network.

"So '23, '24, that's what everybody thinks about."

Traditional rights deals aren't the only reason 2023 matters. By then the traditional rights deal itself might be obsolete. Conferences recognize that fans are consuming content, including live events, in different ways. This shift will continue to impact current distributors like ESPN, Fox and CBS, and could bring different companies into the distribution market, like Amazon, Google, Facebook or Twitter.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/19743196/why-2023-next-big-date-conference-shuffling

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Tommie Frazier his sr year > *

RBU

Are y'all landing Zamir today?

 

[Bobby Layne]

Cardo must have dropped the bag off himself. 

 

[nako xl]

SC pulled a commit from Andre Hunt last night. 6 commits in 1 week. Also, quietly, JT Daniels is leaning towards SC now that Corral is out and things are trending positively with ARSB because of that.

 

[アミーゴ]

JT has been an SC kid for awhile now.

 

[nako xl]

JT has been an SC kid for awhile now.

Shhhhh  

 

[dacomeup]

StanFan will pop in here any moment now. 

 

[アミーゴ]

When I was at MD it was insane how bad the football kids wanted that offer.