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Questions on Georgia's graduation rate?

The Clemson folks have tried to justify their football drubbing by saying that Dabo runs a better overall program. Their main point is that Clemson is ranked 3rd in the power 4 conferences in graduation rate, and Georgia is last. The first question would be, is this because we have more guys going pro early or is it due to a large volume of transfers? Regardless, that's not a great stat and I'm surprised that it is not being used against us in recruiting. That being said, does it matter? For decades colleges played the game by saying things like: graduation rates matter, the well well being of the student athlete is paramount, that college football has a greater purpose beyond the playing field. Whether that was true or not at some point in the past can be argued, but it's certainly not true today. It's all about the money and this is true for every aspect of college football and basketball. Colleges accept portal transfers without looking at a transcript and the new football player (money maker) is admitted to the institution without a second of scrutiny, in a way that a regular student never would be. Duke and Kentucky have brought in one and done basketball players for years, knowing that their future lottery draft picks will never complete their final quarter of their freshman year, nor will they graduate. So, why should graduation rates matter, why pretend that they do? if college football is nothing more than the NFL's developmental league, which seems to be the case, then college football is nothing more than a business designed to make all of it's participants money, nothing more? I think it would be refreshing to just honestly admit it.
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Best channel no one has ever heard of...

Origin Sports. I stumbled across the fact that Roku has what seems like hundreds of free channels available. (one is an '80s music video channel...unreal) But Origin Sports has me a bit hooked.

This channel plays nothing but nostalgic college football games/content 24/7. (I might have seen a college basketball game on there once.) Right now I am watching what appears to be Dak Prescott's first game against LSU in his freshman year vs. Odell Beckham.. Each game they show has a theme. (Patrick Mahomes throwing for 700+ yards vs. Arkansas or Texas...can't remember.) There was Manziel's victory in Tuscaloosa, Vince Young's Natty, etc. The best part is there are very few commercials and they cut a lot of dead time out of the broadcast. In between games, they'll show a highlight reel of Randy Moss moments or put together a Darren McFadden reel.

I love this channel.

Thumbs up to Mods, fwiw

The post that got moved to the Chat should be moved there at this point. I think it was prudent to leave it here for a long time as these sorts of events are both unusual and fast evolving. We’re all humans and the need to communicate about them in real time - even though not about football - took priority over the hard fast rule. At least in my mind. I think it was a solid effort at using discretion in a difficult situation. We can quibble about whether it should have been moved earlier but I just wanted to give you guys an attaboy.

I’m sure many of us recall 9/11 and how this place was a lifeline and a place for sanity and communion.

Time for a glass of bourbon.

I often disagree with Joel Klatt, but I agree with him on this point..

You may have seen the graphic on ESPN this past weekend that the SEC matched the most 60-point wins by a conference in a season...in just one week.

Or Heather Dinch tweeting the same:
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Joel Klatt mentioned in his podcast that the Power 4 and Group of 5 conferences have raided FCS schools of talent via NIL & transfer portal, and the result is that Power 4-FCS match ups are less competitive than they ever have been. He suggested that the Power 4 shouldn't schedule FCS schools going forward because of this, and that the money that FCS schools get from such mismatches to sustain their programs can be carved out of the CFP money pool. I actually agree with him on this point. There has to be a better way than allowing these hugely noncompetitive mismatches, where the talent levels are severely unequal.

Direct Stream vs Fubo vs YoutubeTV vs Hulu.....

and I dont even know Uzzu but I felt this needed its own thread so people can decide. I have been with Directv for 20 years and Im really frustrated, missed the game last night and internet where I am is not amazing yet, however I am moving to a new home soon where internet is good so I am trying to make a decision on whether to not move my Directv there and use a streaming service. I never thought I would do this but we have had other issues with our DVRs just screwing up all the time and recording stuff that we never authorized or deleting things on their own, it's been ridiculous.

For those of you that know how this works, is this Directvs fault or is this ESPN/disney screwing Directv at just the right time to get them to pay what they want to carry the channels???
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