@chief_disruptor @Flamingmunkey You’re quoting games from 2013!? lol
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@Flamingmunkey @CFBNerds Here are the results of the bottom Big Ten teams' last SEC games. So may be Big Ten is deep. lol
NW 35 Auburn 19
Purdue 7 LSU 63
Rutgers 28 Arkansas 24
Minnesota 31 Auburn 24
Maryland 31 Auburn 13
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I keep seeing this and I’m not sure where it’s coming from. Major SEC schools make $200M+ in revenue. Texas is over $300M.
I think somewhere someone got confused on what the total revenue numbers vs maybe what the TV contract numbers are?
JBook.@JBook_37
I don't understand how programs like Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, Minnesota can all make $76M and still claim broke and not field teams that compete. Those bottom Big Ten teams made more money than the top teams in the SEC. What are they doing with their money?
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Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State, etc. are right in line with those SEC numbers. The Purdues are far less, which is why there’s such a stark divide.
All that said, NIL is required to come from third parties, not from the school, so big money boosters at schools like Indiana can pay big money for players even if school athletic revenue sucks. Player NIL money and school revenue are mostly unrelated.
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@troynovaa @Coach_Moore_BU They were with Florida - that was the point.
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@CFBNerds @Coach_Moore_BU indiana in no way was competing financially in offers with texas tech and michigan
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Any conversation of “what Cignetti has done at Indiana is something no one has done before” HAS to lead with this.
What Cignetti has done is impressive, no doubt, but it was never done before because instant roster replacement on a bad team simply wasn’t possible before.
Max Olson@max_olson
New record, as expected: 123 of the 2026 NFL Draft picks transferred during their college careers. That’s 48% of all draft picks. The total has jumped from 82 to 123 in 2 years. Texas Tech (8) and Indiana (7) led the way this year in most transfers drafted.
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@MagersNicholas Both the Phillies and the Mets have rosters to turn it around. But man it's hard to make any excuses for their starts.
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@CFBNerds I have a short and incomplete story for your. Rick Sutcliffe commented about being out of contention in the middle of May in Cleveland. He was traded (not for that reason) in June I think. It has been decades. Paraphrasing, I think he said it was an empty feeling.
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@Coach_Moore_BU Michigan /did/ do it - they used NIL to retain players and take key transfers at the LOS.
Ohio State also did it last year. QB and best defender were transfers among others.
Beyond that, you’re underestimating that Texas Tech and Indiana were competitively bidding against them.
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@CFBNerds Why hasn’t Texas done it? Michigan? USC? Florida? Penn St? But Indiana was able to do it? What is your argument here?
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@CFBwSam Yep, but the parallel is telling - Snyder made that turnaround heavily mining the Kansas Juniors College talent pool for experienced players.
Jimmys and Joes are still what matters - it’s just you can buy ready guys now, not rely on recruiting what’s in your own backyard.
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@CFBNerds Yes. I would say Bill Snyder, while different, was close in turning around a KSU program that was about to shut down their football program.
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@CFBwSam I greatly appreciate the pace-adjusted stat, but I also wonder if this hints at sustained drives being more important in CFB?
I suspect pts/play is down somewhat across the board in line with the 90s and early 00s.
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2021 Georgia: 0.154 opponent pts/play (3rd SOS)
2023 Michigan: 0.173 opponent pts/play (7th SOS)
2025 Ohio State: 0.175 opponent pts/play (20th SOS)
2021 Georgia is in a tier of its own, man.
✌️@smithunleashed
only modern defense that is on 2025 ohio states level is 2021 georgia man stop playing.
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That whole Alabama front 7 was a tier worse than a lot of people realized. Overton was a 4th rounder and Keenan a 6th rounder. They were propped up by truly elite CB play, letting them stack boxes, but their defense could improve tremendously with better DL talent (eg via the portal).
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@CFBNerds Deontae Lawson going undrafted is a bigger surprise
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Imagine? We did!
Took a TON of hate for not buying into the (fun) hype and trying to tell y’all he was a tweener on tape. Definitely a freak athlete, but couldn’t shed blocks well enough to play edge full time (sacks were mostly unblocked) and couldn’t scrape or cover at ILB.
SleeperCFB@SleeperCFB
Imagine telling someone after Harold Perkins’ Freshman year he would be a 6th Rounder 😳
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@ConfCommandos That thread should be hung in the “most rabid fans don’t know ball” hall of fame.
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@CFBNerds This was the only time somewhat recently I had to mute this app
Conference Commandos@ConfCommandos
Perkins at STAR completely handicaps the LSU D They can’t walk him away from LoS and over the slot, which leaves them exposed on RPO’s For this reason, someone has to line up over the slot. So when they walk the SS up, LSU is then stuck in basic, predictable single-high shells
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For receipts - this is us his first game as a sophomore playing vs FSU. We’d already seen the red flags.
College Football Nerds@CFBNerds
Perkins for LSU is interesting because he's electric but rather small. 4 of his 8.5 sacks in 2022 came spying Hornsby of Arkansas generally unblocked. He struggled a bit vs Texas A&M when engaged by blockers. I'm not sure how he'll handle LOS duty - got decleated by FSU already.
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Ultimately the issue is weight. Perkins is 223 pounds - you can’t play edge in the NFL at that weight (just like he really couldn’t in college).
If Arvell Reese is fighting a “tweener” EDGE/ILB label at 241 pounds, what was Perkins doing playing edge in a safety’s body?
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The tape above shows Perkins’ true gadget value as a spy. This game vs a backup QB who wouldn’t use the pocket, and then vs Bryce Young who constantly scrambled from a bad OL, are what built the hype. The see-ball-get-ball hype is real, but it only flashes when not engaged at LOS
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@Heisman4Sayin Keep in mind Reese has 20 pounds on Perkins - he’s a “tweener” but much more borderline and that’s not an awful thing in a pass-happy NFL. Perkins should arguably be playing a box safety at 223 pounds.
That said, it’s the Giants, so Reese will play LT and get traded.
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@CFBNerds Where do you think the giants will use Arvell ? Thats what I’m afraid with him is that he will be a tweener as well.
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The Spice Girls and my toddler when asked what they want:
"zig-a-zig-ah"
Judging by the screaming, I did not give him zig-a-zig-ah.
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