*casts Thread Necromancy*

If only...

Well, for comparison, here's the remarks from a few years ago...

247 was speculating a while ago that we could end up getting College Gameday for the Meatchicken game, since it's kind of a weak weekend. https://247sports.com/longformarticle/predicting-every-2025-college-gameday-location-248138662/#2629443

Come to think of it, Venables looks kinda like Mike Riley at this point. Two losing seasons with one decent one in the middle. Venables is .564, Riley of course was .500. Riley took over from a solid if unspectacular coach, while Venables took over a perennial title contender team.

Yeah, I debated whether to include the last few of them, as they were sites I hadn't heard of. The cycle is still going, by the way. Here's a fucking hillbilly Oklahoma writer taking that plus his comment on how the Big Ten plays 9 conference games vs the SEC's 8 and spinning it as Rhule trying...

The number of people taking that quote 100% seriously... https://huskercorner.com/matt-rhule-college-football-playoff-comments https://athlonsports.com/college/nebraska-cornhuskers/nebraska-cornhuskers-coach-matt-rhule-drops-hammer-down-on-college-football-playoff-expansion...

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that 40 teams would've been just enough to get us in last season!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/moodys-downgrades-us-aa1-rating-2025-05-16/

Here, let's get back to our regularly scheduled off-season hype that we read every year.

Yeah, about that 'Trump tariffs having little effects' idea... https://time.com/7285637/walmart-raising-prices-us-tariffs-consumer-impact/ But hey, I'm sure I'm just quoting people who have no idea what's going on again, right? I mean I can't imagine that the CFO of the largest retailer in...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/bell/2025/05/08/sanders-nfl-draft-slide-league-executives/83498525007/