Now what does Riley do? You have a two-point lead, a FG beats you if you go for two and miss. A FG ties if you kick the PAT. They have to score a TD on you to win if you make a two-point conversion. 5:44 left.
Sunday, September 01, 2024
TOUCHDOWN TROJANS!
He went for it and didn't get it. LSU ball. On their first play they got a 15-yard unsportsmanlike pen. 1st and 25 own 21.
8:38 left. USC must stop them here.
He did. SoCal (23) 13 Bengal Chinese 10, 7:13 3rd
That was a 4:14 drive by the Prophylactics. T.o.P. is still +4:17 Loozeanna State, but we're now more than half-way through the third. I think LSU is probably as tired running after USC receivers as the USC defense is tired staying on the field for those extra 4+ mins. SC is killing them with big plays and would have the game in hand if penalties hadn't stopped them, or held them. But Brian Kelly is 4th Q Kelly. They keep knocking, knocking, knocking, Kelly's teams know no quit. I would favor them to pull this out.
Fucking another big play
SC 3rd and 10 own 23. T.o.P. lopsided in LSU's favor. Gonna get the ball back agayne with one more stop. Instead? 41-yard pass to LSU 36.
He did
I don't fault him on the first drive but. They would be leading right now if he had taken rhe peep.
That was too easy. 7-7, 7:02 2Q
Another long, 75 yard, time-consuming, 3:58, drive, this time with the finish. Those two together will wear a defense down. ToP: 15:49-7:09.
Elle Esse Yieux (13) 0 SoCal (23) 0, End 1Q
Bengal Bandits 4th and 5 own 48. Kelly should pull a Fourth and Five Franklin here.
LSU went for it on 4th and goal at the USC 3...
They didn't get it. The Chinese Tigers were methodical in the game's opening drive, going 64 yards and chewing up 7:14 of clock.
I can't fault Brian Kelly here. After all that and you're on their 3. Take the peep? I don't think so.
Boy, that's a pretty good point
Florida football on trajectory to become next Nebraska
Now, of course, there are differences. Florida is in Florida, for one. There's a five-start recruit in a stone's throw in any direction. Nebraska is in Nebraska where you have to jet to Florida to get a five-star.
But it all starts at the top, the very tippy top, with the Athletic Director, and then to the head coach. Florida had one of the best ever in Jeremy Foley. Now they have Scott Striklin who hired Billy Naps.
Nebraska had Steve Pederson who fired Frank Solich, jetted all over the country trying to get a replacement and ended up with Bill Callahan. Which didn't work out.
Then Nebraska had Shawn Eichorst who fired Bo Pelini and hired Mike Riley. Which didn't work out.
Then they hired Scott Frost who inexplicably didn't work out.
Then they hired Trev Alberts as AD, who hired Matt Rhule, which may work out. Then Alberts left.
Florida is at approximately the Scott Frost point.
The point of comparison with Nebraska is that a football program can go south with great rapidity and getting it back north is extremely difficult.
Take those recruits. Florida is not the only game in town in Florida, unlike Nebraska, where you can't fall behind Nebraska State or the University of Omaha. Florida has fallen behind Florida State and Miami. Forget all of those out of state schools recruiting in Florida, how does Florida compete against FSU and UM for Florida players?
Billy Napier's buyout is $26M. That is, apparently, giving Striklin and the interim university prez pause. It shouldn't. Foley had an adage that "When something has to be done eventually, it must be done immediately." There is no compos mentis football person on the planet who thinks Billy Napier shouldn't be gone eventually. That means he should have been gone already.
The University of Florida has more money than God. They can afford a $26M buyout. What they can't afford is another seven-loss football season.
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