College football 2016 offseason thread

Jones has to go, right, if the "traitor" incident is true?

 

I would think so, but there's really no way to know if he did it. And I'm sure he won't admit it publicly.

The AD is probably on thin ice, too.

 

Seems like it. Or if he is found to have lied about whether the kid got punched. It certainly sounds like yes, the kid got punched and yes, Jones lied about it.

 

He's safe as long as the Vols earn an SEC championship appearance.

 

I predict a few collisions and a beanball war.

Harbaugh will coach first base for Tigers in Florida

 

Bielema, Dantonio and Butch Jones joked about meeting for lunch at IMG Academy to watch the open practice.

 

Not huge national news ... but the Sun Belt has decided to boot Idaho and New Mexico State out of their conference.

Idaho’s football membership in the Sun Belt will end in 2017

This isn't a huge surprise; in fact, the only reason the Sun Belt really wanted those two western patsies was to reach 12 football-playing schools, which would allow the league to play a champion$hip game. With the Big 12 decision, that reason's gone.

Idaho never really was a D-I football school on the field. The past 20 years has been about making money for the rest of the sport programs. We'll see if any of those (ahem, swimming) shut down once the Vandals take their rightful place back in the FCS Big Sky conference.

 

Could doom the Aggies of Cruces, tho. They'll have to take their half-built new stadium to 1-AA or whatever it's called this week.

 

ESPN just posted that Illinois fired Cubit, after granting him a two-year extension. Apparently they just found out dude had a losing record.

 

New AD made the move on his first day on the job. I guess he really wanted to get his own man in there. Of course, there's not a lot of people available at this point in the offseason.

Illinois fires head coach Bill Cubit

 

Lane Kiffin, baby!

 

Illinois hasn't gotten the timing right on firing a coach since Lou Tepper.