Forget it, Jake; it’s football town.
One of my favorite sayings back in the day: “my wife went to Florida State. Most of my family are gators. Everyone loves me because I went to Vanderbilt.”
Scuzz
1688
I thought maybe the original Vols football team used to celebrate victories by pissing in the river or something like that.
LOL: We’re the greatest in the land!
Also: We’re too poor to pay for our goalposts.
I would not doubt it. I would doubt nothing associated with SEC football fans, really.
SEC revenue sharing totaled around $56 million per school in 2021. That does not include stadium concessions sales and parking fees (I believe) nor does it count any money donated directly to a school or program from that school’s boosters, and none of that $56 million can be used for NIL (that money has to come from outside the school’s revenue).
But poor Tennessee can’t pay to replace the goalposts after a signature win that likely will bring in additional revenue outside of the revenue sharing pool for at least a couple of seasons to come. College goal posts cost an average of $30,000 to replace (“How much does it cost to replace college goalposts” was the #2 result when typing ‘How much does it cost’ into Google this weekend), perhaps a small bit more if there are special circumstances, but nowhere near $150,000. EDIT : (It looks like they may have included the $100,000 the SEC fined them for fans storming the field.)
It’s just a blatant and ridiculous money grab crafted to take advantage of Saturday’s victory, and it’s worked to the tune of $80,000 donated thus far. UT should be ashamed of itself and donate all money raised to helping build better facilities for local high school football programs in underprivileged areas around Knoxville.
What is this “shame” you speak of? In the context of sports finance, the word does not exist.
In the other Power 2 top 10 undefeated matchup, WTF were the Penn St. Coaches doing?
Watching that game, they routinely had 6 or fewer guys in the box and the safeties playing a deep shell.
WTF was that game plan? Well, whatever it was, it worked to give Michigan over 400 yards rushing…
The thing about Penn St this year is that they are absolutely loaded with talent, but dear lord do their schemes rely on having a physical advantage everywhere and winning every single one on one matchup on every single play.
Especially in the Running game. It’s why Clifford has to play hero ball so much, and why he gets injured every year.
They may still beat Ohio St at home, their DB’s are really, really talented and can win those one on one battles if Ohio State doesn’t just run the ball down their throat too.
It didn’t hurt that Corum is an NFL-quality back, but yes, PSU didn’t have a good game plan.
Yes, it is, but this is just fundraising by another name with a cutesy tint on paint slathered on. It’s barely any different than how funds are raised normally, on both the athletic and academic side, and most likely they already had this fundraising goal in mind prior to the field storming. It’s perfectly fine to find it unbecoming, but probably not worth harping on this particular instance since that’s how the game is played universally.
The point is to fundraise, the ‘cost’ is immaterial.
I’m a big Umich fan so I loved the Penn State game. I kept wondering why the announcers kept talking about Manny Diaz as some sort of living defensive god.
His coaching style looked a lot like Michigan’s Don Brown. One on one, may the best player win. It works great if you have better talent, but once you come up against equal or better talent then there is nothing to fall back to. A blowout commences.
That’s also Penn St’s offense. They rarely motion or pull into getting an advantage at the point of attack, which is why they can’t run the ball consistently.
As a Bruin, I compare that to how well Chip Kelly does at putting players in a position to succeed in offense and it’s almost criminal how pathetic the offensive scheme is there.
Lol, they ain’t leaving early
Awful news from Starkville
rshetts
1702
I am no fan of Ohio State, in fact as a fan of Michigan sports I kind of hate them but damn, OSU just made a statement. Its no surprise that they beat Iowa but to put up 54 pts on them? Against Iowa’s defense that is impressive. Michigan has to go to Columbus to play the Buckeyes this year. They had better bring their “A” game or it could be a rough day for them.
vyshka
1703
I guess the defense finally got tired after carrying the offense all season, and yet they still scored more than the offense again. I feel for the Hawkeye defense this year. OSU would be a tough day, and likely still a beating even if they had a functioning offense, but it would’ve been a better game.
dfs
1704
Yeah. That Iowa defense was simply on the field too long.
Frankly Michigan should be drooling at how Iowa was able to push the buckeye O line around in the first half. Couple that with the Michigan O-line being able to run on the the buckeye and I think it may be a long day in Columbus in a couple of weeks.
vyshka
1705
Ferentz, or the board better figure out what they plan to do, because it certainly isn’t go to get any easier in the west when UCLA and USC show up. :) I haven’t really watched so I don’t know if they just don’t have the players or if the problem is Ferentz’s son running the offense.
rshetts
1706
Perhaps but they gave up 26 in the first half so I am not buying the tired out excuse. The score was pretty consistent by quarter and Iowa gave up more points in the first quarter than any other quarter in the game. I guess they were gassed coming out of the locker room. To be fair though, the D did have a long day. The offense only gained 158 total yards and turned the ball over 6 times. I do feel sorry for the defense and it kind of looked like the season just caught up with them. The interesting thing in this game was that time of possession was pretty close. Iowa had it 29 mins to OSU’s 31 so the D was only on the field for half of the game.
vyshka
1707
Who had all the turnovers? It looks like the QB threw 2 picks, and then the other QB apparently fumbled a snap if I understood the highlight correctly.
Edit: wow, so Petras 2 picks, plus a fumble. Then other QB had a pick, and I think he was the person that had bad snap that was recovered. Then RB had another.
Yeah, I didn’t really understand this headline from ESPN: “No. 2 Buckeyes catch fire late, pound bumbling Iowa 54-10”, as it looked rather consistent in the box score.
