Head coach rumor.....

[HoopsDawg]

His decision won’t come down to money. He will have to decide if he wants to stay in little league ball for another year and take a chance on his stock dropping next year or if he wants to coach in the SEC now with a lower profile SEC team than he wants to go to.

And Mullen showed that the MSU job doesn't have to be your last job anymore.

[HoopsDawg]

In reality, and I'm not saying it's a "better job" define that how you will but in the current 12 team playoff format Liberty has a better chance than we do to make the playoff. One non p5 champ gets a seat at the table every year

At least you stopped short of calling it a lateral move.

[DownwardDawg]

Or you know Liberty could just offer him 7. I think some of you do not realize how much money Liberty really has. Their athletic dept budget trumps ours. Their dept is on the level of mid tier to upper tier P5.

This is the same argument people have with Lashlee and acting like SMU does not have 25-30 boosters that could not triple our athletic dept budget in one check. Just because these schools are G5 does not mean they are Sisters of the Poor or Southern Miss.

^^^This^^^. Liberty has crazy money. Not quite aTm money but more than most SEC schools. They can pay whatever they want to pay for a coach and recruits.

[Homedawg]

I agree with the last sentence, but going undefeated this season and not making a NY6 has to be a tough pill to swallow

Not arguing that. Just saying liberty has a better chance to win their league and win the extra spot than we have to finish in the top 3 in ours and THEN hope we get 3.

[Homedawg]

At least you stopped short of calling it a lateral move.

I do t think it's lateral at all. Not close. Not at Liberty. But its place you can sit still get paid stupid money, and get something even better while having a shot at the playoff. Where as before there was none. Zero shot

[confucius say]

If the new 5+7 model replaces the current 6+6 model, a G5 team will no longer have an automatic spot in the playoff.

[Homedawg]

If the new 5+7 model replaces the current 6+6 model, a G5 team will no longer have an automatic spot in the playoff.

If they change what is proposed yes. But at present ....

[Homedawg]

If the new 5+7 model replaces the current 6+6 model, a G5 team will no longer have an automatic spot in the playoff.

Which the way now that is in play is stupid. No g5 should be guaranteed a spot dumb.

[HoopsDawg]

If the new 5+7 model replaces the current 6+6 model, a G5 team will no longer have an automatic spot in the playoff.

The 5-7 just gets rid of the Pac12 essentially. 1 G5 school will still get in.

[HoopsDawg]

Not arguing that. Just saying liberty has a better chance to win their league and win the extra spot than we have to finish in the top 3 in ours and THEN hope we get 3.

There will always be 3 SEC teams in the playoff. Sometimes 4.

[Quaoarsking]

The idea that Liberty has a better shot of getting 1 bid shared by 60-70 teams than we do of getting one the 3-4 (sometimes 5) bids the SEC will get every year is pretty ridiculous. As we're seeing right now, even 13-0 isn't necessarily good enough for Liberty, while we'd very likely be in at 10-2, maybe 9-3 in some years.

Regardless of where Chadwell coaches next year, I'm confident that if the 12-team playoff format exists for the next 50 years (it won't - I bet it's 16 or more by 2030), that every SEC school will end up with more CFP bids by 2073 than Liberty, even Vanderbilt.

[Homedawg]

There will always be 3 SEC teams in the playoff. Sometimes 4.

Can I get that in writing?? Yes there should be. But to say always when there are only 6 at large spots left is a stretch

[HoopsDawg]

Can I get that in writing?? Yes there should be. But to say always when there are only 6 at large spots left is a stretch

7 at large bids for 2 SEC teams. Yeah, that's a safe bet. Damn bro.

[Quaoarsking]

Can I get that in writing?? Yes there should be. But to say always when there are only 6 at large spots left is a stretch

Most years, the playoff will consist of:
Big 12 champ
ACC champ
SEC champ
Big 10 champ
Some G5 team that probably sucks, but occasionally doesn't

3-4 SEC at larges
2-3 Big 10 at larges
1 at large from Big 12 or ACC, or maybe another SEC/Big 10


There will be random odd years that break this trend because of the conference championship games (which should be abolished and probably will be), but this will be the norm.

[HoopsDawg]

Can I get that in writing?? Yes there should be. But to say always when there are only 6 at large spots left is a stretch

We damn near get 2 every year with only 4 slots.

[Anonymous]

^^^This^^^. Liberty has crazy money. Not quite aTm money but more than most SEC schools. They can pay whatever they want to pay for a coach and recruits.

Their athletic budget does not dwarf ours. Their athletic budget is literally half ours.

[HoopsDawg]

Their athletic budget does not dwarf ours. Their athletic budget is literally half ours.

Where do people come up with this stuff. Endowment is different than athletic budget. We've got 2 prominent posters that think Kansas is a lateral move. Sheesh. I think I need to give up on MSU fans.

[DownwardDawg]

Their athletic budget does not dwarf ours. Their athletic budget is literally half ours.

Well sure, depends on "how serious" they want to be. Their budget can be extremely high. They are loaded. I get your point though.

[Bdawg]

Where do people come up with this stuff. Endowment is different than athletic budget. We've got 2 prominent posters that think Kansas is a lateral move. Sheesh. I think I need to give up on MSU fans.

Think some of them are “institutionalized.” Like on Shawshank Redemption.

[DownwardDawg]

Think some of them are “institutionalized.” Like on Shawshank Redemption.

Then there's some of us that don't accept our history and think we can do better.