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Sports šŸ„Œ 2025 College Football Thread - UNC home games are sold out for the season

mendelman said:
Pretty good game that MI won easily.

Just like my HS's football game this past Friday - our team won 70-16. :cool:
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On the high school football topic: We go to all the homes games now since our daughter is in marching band (and a bunch of the away games if they're doing pep band). Last season our team was really good and undefeated until the final game of the regular season (and then also quickly lost in the playoffs). They lost a lot of seniors but were still pretty good through the first few weeks of this season... until last week when they fumbled 7 times and threw 2 interceptions. Even our daughter, who really doesn't care about the actual football game and often doesn't even know who wins or loses, commented on the way home about how bad they were. :omg:
 
High School football here is a bit insane. I grew up going to a high school with 1,200 students and there might be 40 kids a year on the football team. The system we're at now has 1,600 kids in high school and looks like they have over a 100 on the football team. Some of the kids are huge. I though it was hilarious about 10 years ago when they built an indoor 60 yard practice field and weight training complex. All of the school athletes are now on nutrition programs. The high school media students run cameras during the game and they show replays on a digital screen (I wouldn't call it a jumbotron). I know its been 25 years since I left high school but it seems over the top.

I know there's a school in NE Georgia that just built a $60 M stadium with luxury suites.
 
Luxury suites at a high school game is insane! :rofl:

Barry Sanders's son was on the team for the other high school in our district the last few seasons (I think he's in college now) and that school has always been the better one here for football. If Barry Sanders can sit on the uncomfortable cold metal bleachers to watch a game just like the rest of us we definitely don't need luxury suites!

Our high school has a big brand new "auxiliary gym" that has an indoor field, a nice weight room, a golf simulator, running track, etc. There was a millage to improve the athletic facilities at our two high schools and the three middle schools in the district (and they did definitely need some improving) but the auxiliary gym and all of its features were out of the scope for what the millage was designed to cover. The owner of the Phoenix Suns went to our high school and still lives in the district and stepped in and ponied up some money to cover the extra costs. We went on a tour of the facility when it opened at the end of last summer and it's pretty nice but it's got all these cheesy inspirational quotes from Ishbia all over the place. I guess if that's the price to pay to get some rich donor to step in, it could definitely be worse.

My big complaint with our high school football program is that our concession stand sucks. It has hot dogs and hamburgers (though the hot dogs are legitimately fantastic) and chips and soda and usually pizza.... and that's about it. We cannot even get a hot chocolate when it's cold! Then last season we went to an away game at a school the next district over and they had pulled pork, pulled chicken, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, Italian sausages, big soft pretzels, street tacos, nachos, etc. I was legitimately jealous! And their prices were better! :angry:

Our godson plays on that team and we were talking to his parents and they were saying the football parents run the concession stand (same as our school) and about a decade ago some mom and dad came in and took over and really up-ed the game. They usually do enough sales during the season to give each graduating senior on the football team something like a $2k or $2.5k scholarship from the Boosters as long as one of their parents also puts in X number of volunteer hours over the course of the year.
 
FSU drops from #10 to 'out=of-top-25'
Florida beat Texas :omg::cool:
Belichick's Tarheels no show against Clemson

That's what I remember from Saturday,
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
www.si.com

Buford (GA)'s $62-Million Dollar Football Stadium Is Officially Open

The Buford (GA) Wolves are ready to make their grand entrance for the 2025 football season and what better way to open up the season than with a brand new $62-m
www.si.com www.si.com
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Buford is in North Central GA, not NE Georgia, fwiw (closer to the Bama line than the SC line). Regardless, they're one of the few municipalities in Georgia (outside of Atlanta proper) with their own city school system (versus the typical countywide systems), so they think they're special...
 
Bubba said:
Buford is in North Central GA, not NE Georgia, fwiw (closer to the Bama line than the SC line). Regardless, they're one of the few municipalities in Georgia (outside of Atlanta proper) with their own city school system (versus the typical countywide systems), so they think they're special...
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Sorry. I suck at GA geography. I generally just look at where things are in relation to ATL, even though its no where near the center of the state.
 
Bubba said:
No worries, I classify AL as Lower Alabama and Not Lower Alabama.
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Anything south of Birmingham is south AL, LA doesn't start till your south of Montgomery. Even though the 'ham is no where near the middle of the state. Only place that has an area designated as "south" and then an area south of that.
 
Bubba said:
No worries, I classify AL as Lower Alabama and Not Lower Alabama.
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bureaucrat#3 said:
Anything south of Birmingham is south AL, LA doesn't start till your south of Montgomery. Even though the 'ham is no where near the middle of the state. Only place that has an area designated as "south" and then an area south of that.
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In case we want to create a themed thread split, Michigan and Illinois have colloquial geographical relationships as well.

Michigan: Northern Michigan is the lower peninsula north of US-10 and the upper peninsula is simply The UP.

Illinois: Looking from Chicagoland, southern Illinois is everything south of I-80.

@Maister @michaelskis @Wannaplan? @btrage @estromberg
 
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Here in beautiful southern Indiana, it seems like the rest of the state thinks everything south of Bloomington is Kentucky. :astonished:
 
mendelman said:
In case we want to create a themed thread split, Michigan and Illinois have colloquial geographical relationships as well.

Michigan: Northern Michigan is the lower peninsula north of US-10 and the upper peninsula is simply The UP.

Illinois: Looking was Chicagoland, southern Illinois is everything south of I-80.

@Maister @michaelskis @Wannaplan? @btrage @estromberg
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I always think of Northern Michigan beginning north of M-46, except for the tip of the Thumb. The Thumb, specifically Huron and Sanilac and Tuscola Counties are their own separate region.
 
Well, fellow Stroudsburgian is getting what he deserves, both in terms of employment and compensation. I hate to say it as a PSU fan, but it was probably time.

Now I have to worry about the Nittany Lions poaching my current coach. The previous PSAC association does make me nervous that he could go in the midst of our historically-awesome season. In any event, Cigs is in the catbird seat come the end of the season.
 
mendelman said:
In case we want to create a themed thread split, Michigan and Illinois have colloquial geographical relationships as well.

Michigan: Northern Michigan is the lower peninsula north of US-10 and the upper peninsula is simply The UP.

Illinois: Looking from Chicagoland, southern Illinois is everything south of I-80.

@Maister @michaelskis @Wannaplan? @btrage @estromberg
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I came to understand the same regarding the geographies. But to confuse the matter, Northern Michigan College is in Traverse City... but Northern Michigan University is in Marquette in the UP. And central is in the middle of the lower Peninsula, just south of US-10.




Back on Topic, Michigan did not play well at all. I don't know if it is a lack a maturity or a lack of coaching. But I would be surprised of they beat IL or OSU this year.

In regards to PSU, let's think about it for a moment, they are 3 and 3 this year. There are programs that would love that record. But that got James Franklin fired with a $49 Million dollar buyout. You know darn well another program will pick him up.
 
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is # 3 & is 6-0
 
michaelskis said:
Back on Topic, Michigan did not play well at all. I don't know if it is a lack a maturity or a lack of coaching. But I would be surprised of they beat IL or OSU this year.

In regards to PSU, let's think about it for a moment, they are 3 and 3 this year. There are programs that would love that record. But that got James Franklin fired with a $49 Million dollar buyout. You know darn well another program will pick him up.
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I forget whether it was the Detroit News or the Free Press but after the MSU game, one of them had the headline, "State Embarrassed by UCLA" on their webpage for a few hours. They could have basically put up the same headline for Michigan/USC later in the evening. For Michigan fans, it was probably a good thing the game ended too late for the newspapers to care about the headline.
 
@michaelskis @WSU MUP Student

I missed the UM v USC game because I was chaperoning my sonā€™s marching band at the state competition at ISU. But the score said it all.

woof.
 
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mendelman said:
@michaelskis @WSU MUP Student

I missed the UM v USC game because I was chaperoning my sonā€™s marching bamd at the state competition at ISU. But the score said it all.

woof.
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Well, Michigan looked like MICHIGAN FOOTBALL this weekend. I didn't have much optimism for the game going into it, but the team really showed up against a 5-1 Washington.

This coming weekend is our family rivalry. My step mother and step brothers are obsessive Michigan State fans. Michigan better show up and win big if they want to stay in the top 25.


I also watched a bit of the OSU game, and to be blunt, as much as I hate them, they are a powerhouse team again this year.
 
I could totally see James Franklin at Florida. He already has a house there and he's coached in the SEC before.
 
I have a lot of mixed feelings about 'Laney-pie'

Franklin might not be too bad. Vandy's always tough place to coach being in the SEC.
 
MD Planner said:
I could totally see James Franklin at Florida. He already has a house there and he's coached in the SEC before.
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I, for one, fully support UF hiring a coach who was fired for his inability to win big games and/or beat 20+ point underdogs.
 
Bubba said:
I, for one, fully support UF hiring a coach who was fired for his inability to win big games and/or beat 20+ point underdogs.
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The big game thing is valid, but until the wheels came off this year beating those underdogs was almost a guarantee.
 
Now that Indiana is becoming has become a football school, I wonder if the ubiquitous basketball goals found everywhere here will start coming down, to be replaced by goalposts?
 
Bubba said:
I, for one, fully support UF hiring a coach who was fired for his inability to win big games and/or beat 20+ point underdogs.
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We can't all have Kirby.

I for one wouldn't mind having Franklin. Auburn is not going to be the national conversation every year. Freeze is a good recruiter, but hasn't shown up as the offensive guru he labelled. Plus he's sleazy.

Kiffin is exciting and fun when he's your coach, but as soon as anything better comes along or the water gets hot for his liking he's gone.
 
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