College Football 2014-15

Interesting article, and after reading it I probably agree. Jameis needs to get out of Tallahassee ASAP, they've been sheltering him from the shitstorm that is looming as long as they can and it sounds like it is about to run out.

Jameis Winstons best legal move may be to drop out of Florida State - College Football - SI.com

I can be pissed all I want about my teams recent lackluster performances, but at least we kick our criminal sh*tbags to the curb immediately(and honestly, every D1 team is going to have some eventualy), we don't let them linger around for a season and a half in the name of winning football games. Very few programs do that. I've always respected Mark Richt at Georgia for that too, his punishment usually comes down swiftly on players, regardless of how good they are. Alternately, as good of a coach as he is I'll never respect Bill Snyder at K-state, he has no issue with harboring known criminals for the sake of the almighty football W.

If they do, they are gone. We often kick players completely off the team before legal charges even come to fruition. Pinkel doesn't fuck around. When we kicked Dorial Green-Bekham off the team(#1 recruit in the country in 2012), the only legal charge he had ever been filed with was criminal tresspass (he had other things looming, and we booted him before he was ever formally charged with anything)

I'm not saying we don't have players that break the law, we do just like anyone else. Generally a misdemeanor will get you a suspension for a few games, a 2nd one is maybe a season suspension/possibly kicked off the team. If someone gets arrested for anything violence related, they are generally done immediately whether charges come later or not. Since joining the SEC 3 years ago, Missouri has had 10 arrests(7 separate players). 8 of the 10 arrests were marijuana-related. The 3 guys that got arrested twice are all gone. The other 4 players all served multi-game suspensions even though legally they got penalties that were no more than misdemeanor fines.

Mizzou, Georgia Top List of SEC Student Athlete Arrests | KOMU.com | Columbia, MO |

A lot of Mizzou fans actually feel that Pinkel is too tough on the kids(especially in the case of Marijuana incidents) and that it possibly hurts our recruiting, but he's kind of an old-school hardass, and I don't mind it.

Not every program necessarily needs to be that strict, but the other extreme is something like Florida State where you just let your star player keep on playing under allegations of rape, theft, and soon to be taking money(just like Gurley). They're going to ride that cash cow until the NCAA tells them they can't. Missouri pretty much never waits for an official NCAA ruling on a kid, they're long gone before it even gets to that point. Georgia could have easily let Gurley keep playing until the NCAA made a ruling. Florida State sure would have. A&M sure as heck didn't do anything to Manziel until the NCAA made them for his autograph ordeal.

In 2007 a 2-loss LSU won the national title

This year may end up being just as crazy

I could absolutely see something like a 2-loss Alabama or Auburn still winning the West and be ranked about 7th, go to the SEC title game and beat a top-10 Georgia and make it into the Final 4 playoff and winning it all. I think the SEC champ would have to have 3+ losses to not make it into the playoff.

I don't think so, but they did win the SEC West as recently as 1998...somehow.

Egg Bowl > Iron Bowl this year. Maybe.