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CatManTrue said:

Who did he beat?

He looks like a deer in the headlights. I’m unimpressed.

Wasn’t SMU in the AAC last season? 😂

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Good players have bad days, especially against totally ferocious defenses on the road in the cold.

Any QB SMU plays in 2nd half will get hammered by PSU blitz. Please don't play Stone

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CatManTrue said:

Who did he beat?

He looks like a deer in the headlights. I’m unimpressed.

Wasn’t SMU in the AAC last season? 😂

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I mean he beat 6 bowl teams, 3 of them with 8+ wins, it wasn't like they exclusively played the dregs of the ACC. Again, I'm not saying he's the best QB in the country, but he's absolutely not a terrible player.

And I wish, you know, any NU QB could have put up a stat line like that in recent years.

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corbi296 said:

You totally missed the point I was making. There are people on this site that week in and week out during the season make comments that our roster is composed of Ivy League talent. It’s not.

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The bottom half of the roster, including most of the starting offense, is, unfortunately (okay, not literally ivy league talent, but G5 talent).

Defensively, yeah we still have some dogs in there, no doubt. We just lost three of the.l biggest dogs, but at least we’re on track making acquisitions. Still need several more.

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gocatsgo2003 said:

Good luck with that, Sean.

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At least he was a pretty good college player

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Ok CSC, as a Minnesotan THAT is ****ing FUNNY 😂😂😂😂😂

Indiana and SMU both deserved to be in this tournament. In a 12 team tournament, the 10 and 11 seeds often get waxed, that doesn't mean they didn't earn their spots. And quite frankly I think both ND and PSU would also have smoked Alabama if they'd been given a spot.

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Styre said:

Jennings isn't terrible, he's having a bad game against a great defense. Entering this game, in 2024 he's completed 66% of his passes for 3050 yards at 8.9 ypa, with 22 TD and 8 INT, plus 5 more rushing TD on 4.1 ypc. That's not Heisman-caliber but it's very good.

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Both head coaches are tripping balls too. Going in fourth aggressively is smart, but this has been psychotic on both sides and consistently been a disaster.

This game looks like last night though. One team has genuinely elite talent on the defensive side of the ball and the other team is just a very good overall college football team that isn’t necessarily stockpiled with 4-( star NFL style talent across the whole team, and the disparity is clear.

Styre said:

Jennings isn't terrible, he's having a bad game against a great defense. Entering this game, in 2024 he's completed 66% of his passes for 3050 yards at 8.9 ypa, with 22 TD and 8 INT, plus 5 more rushing TD on 4.1 ypc. That's not Heisman-caliber but it's very good.

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Who did he beat?

He looks like a deer in the headlights. I’m unimpressed.

Wasn’t SMU in the AAC last season? 😂

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CoralSpringsCat said:

Couldn’t agree more. Their timeless work far outweighs having to deal with @CappyNU as a moderator.

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This remains my only objection. I genuinely miss the coverage of the portal this time of year.

As for the transfers, Farrell isn’t a big impact get for 2025, he’s a young player they must have liked out of school. He’s not some mega recruited guy or a big contributor on an awful Stanford team, so we’ll just have to see.

OT Xavier Gray was the big impact guy along with Karlaftis. All CUSA guy from a good program stepping up to presumably be an immediate P2 starter.

Karlaftis is clearly coming in to be an impact guy, but I’m not sure if it’s one I’m excited about. He was a central figure on, but not a standout within, a genuinely pathetically dreadful defense. However, we probably just need to trust Braun and McGarigle on this one. It certainly qualifies as acquiring an intended starter.

Is there a formal need to declare for the draft if a player has run out of eligibility?

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