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gocatsgo2003 said:
Gronowski reportedly visiting Iowa today, which would make a ton of sense — he’s the kind of veteran game manager QB that they really need.

I think Gronowski is a “high floor” QB take whereas Stone is a “high ceiling” QB take. Happy with the guy we got.
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Let's hope that does not give them a leg up on Wilde. He is the real prize for us in this process.
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The Rant Board

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Hungry Jack said:
You guys are doing it wrong.

Basketball rants only. Plenty of fodder after last night. My eyes are still burning.
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Fine. There's a lot of shit still to unpack from 2012 and on, but if you insist on focusing on true crimes against humanity, then we can limit this to discussing the war crime that was the refereeing last night.
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Officiating in this game

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SmellyCat said:
I naively expected a make-up call on the inbound. Instead a no-call when Nicholson was pushed. How silly of me.
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I think the make-up call was to call goaltending the 2nd time (when it didn't happen).
Whichever ref blew his whistle was trying to make up for the first blown call.
While the ball was being put into the basket.

If the refs realize they can fix games by blowing their whistle "inadvertently" when a guy is about to score, all hell will break loose.
That needs to be fixed immediately. Any field goal attempt during an inadvertent or erroneous whistle must be counted if it goes in. Seems obvious, but thats not the rule. The current rule is idiotic.
And we lost because of it.
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CatManTrue said:
What if: Gronowski had come with Lukan for 2024?

Preston Stone looks like a winner based on his 2023 performance.

It doesn’t matter now. Lujan has a QB ready to go (Lausch should play a Colter type role - he’s too talented not to be a WR with some real Wildcat potential).


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South Dakota State QB Mark Gronowski to enter portal, keep eye on draft

Quarterback Mark Gronowski, who won two FCS national titles at South Dakota State, is entering the transfer portal but also keeping his eyes on his NFL draft potential, he told
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Gronowski reportedly visiting Iowa today, which would make a ton of sense — he’s the kind of veteran game manager QB that they really need.

I think Gronowski is a “high floor” QB take whereas Stone is a “high ceiling” QB take. Happy with the guy we got.
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

TheC
AdamOnFirst said:
My proposed solution to the byes thing is: move the round of 4 bowl games to the first round. Teams 5-12 play at the bowl sites. This eliminates the big advantage a team gets by being seeded 8 instead of 9, which is very marginal and subjective and probably not fair.

Give the 4 conference champs the bye week AND give them home field advantage. Now we're talking a really major advantage. The reality of the conference champs rules means a lot are still going to be underdogs and lose, but you're heaping all the advantages on the teams who actually earned it through titles and not based on seeding.
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As long as that's based on regular season champ and not the stupid conference championship game. One game shouldn't decide that big advantage.
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

AdamOnFirst
Sheffielder said:
We got to 12 teams for a host of obvious reasons:
* Preserving the "value" of conference championship games and ensuring participating teams don't just bench their starters.
* 12 teams is more than 8...more games = more money.
* The 12 team model will forever inherently favor the Big 2, and they know it. In most years it will include no less than two (but probably three) teams from B1G/SEC.
* 12 teams significantly brings down the heat on the last team in. If it were eight this year, then we would've been debating the exclusion of Ohio State or Tennessee (under the current system, there is literally no difference being #8 or #9)...that ball could've easily bounced the other way since OSU was coming off a "bad" loss to Michigan. As it is, no one is losing too much sleep arguing over 12th/13th/14th.

...so I totally get why they included 12, and I'm fine with it. My favorite solution to the problem we think we're seeing right now: let the top three seeds pick their opponents coming out of the first round. So, in this case, Oregon would've been allowed to pick who they play between Ohio State, Penn State, Texas, and Notre Dame. And then Georgia, and then Boise, and then Arizona State would've gotten the last team left.

Or, if you don't like that...then let Oregon pick from any of the seven teams remaining after the first round...so they could pick Boise (who still got a first-round bye for being one of the highest-ranked conference champs). If logistics and planning are raised as a concern, then you can have Oregon submit its rank-order list once the first-round games are announced, so if they wanted Boise that could've been known on Dec. 8, regardless of the first-round results.
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My proposed solution to the byes thing is: move the round of 4 bowl games to the first round. Teams 5-12 play at the bowl sites. This eliminates the big advantage a team gets by being seeded 8 instead of 9, which is very marginal and subjective and probably not fair.

Give the 4 conference champs the bye week AND give them home field advantage. Now we're talking a really major advantage. The reality of the conference champs rules means a lot are still going to be underdogs and lose, but you're heaping all the advantages on the teams who actually earned it through titles and not based on seeding.
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

Purple Pile Driver
prez77 said:
I don't think Georgia was national championship material. I think Ohio State and Oregon are the top two.

I agree, not making mistakes is part of being good. Great baseball teams don't make errors at critical moments and great basketball teams don't leave their free throws on the floor.

However, if Georgia had their starting QB, and ND and Georgia were to play a series, I think Georgia wins. Overall, I think they have the better athletes and I think their peak ability as a team is higher than ND's even if ND did play a more disciplined game yesterday.
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There is no doubt Georgia has better athletes. However, this game is still decided in the trenches. ND dominated there and that’s why they would beat them most times even if Georgia had their QB.

This isn’t Georgia 2022. The SEC powers are hurt with NIL and the Transfer Portal. Players with NFL dreams/real potential just aren’t willing to sit for 2 or more seasons on Georgia or Alabama as back ups any more. The dominance that Saban had is unlikely to be repeated in our lifetimes. Blue Bloods will still be Blue Bloods but any one team or even one conference will not dominate as they have. I couldn’t be happier to see the smug SEC come back to earth!
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

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We got to 12 teams for a host of obvious reasons:
* Preserving the "value" of conference championship games and ensuring participating teams don't just bench their starters.
* 12 teams is more than 8...more games = more money.
* The 12 team model will forever inherently favor the Big 2, and they know it. In most years it will include no less than two (but probably three) teams from B1G/SEC.
* 12 teams significantly brings down the heat on the last team in. If it were eight this year, then we would've been debating the exclusion of Ohio State or Tennessee (under the current system, there is literally no difference being #8 or #9)...that ball could've easily bounced the other way since OSU was coming off a "bad" loss to Michigan. As it is, no one is losing too much sleep arguing over 12th/13th/14th.

...so I totally get why they included 12, and I'm fine with it. My favorite solution to the problem we think we're seeing right now: let the top three seeds pick their opponents coming out of the first round. So, in this case, Oregon would've been allowed to pick who they play between Ohio State, Penn State, Texas, and Notre Dame. And then Georgia, and then Boise, and then Arizona State would've gotten the last team left.

Or, if you don't like that...then let Oregon pick from any of the seven teams remaining after the first round...so they could pick Boise (who still got a first-round bye for being one of the highest-ranked conference champs). If logistics and planning are raised as a concern, then you can have Oregon submit its rank-order list once the first-round games are announced, so if they wanted Boise that could've been known on Dec. 8, regardless of the first-round results.
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