Call in show has turned into nothing but an hour long conversation with DaReal. Might as well title the show "DaRealMVP and Mark Rogers talk college football".
Da Real and Mark's analysis of Stanford, is shallow and uninformed. Yes, Stanford is bad, historically bad, as a matter of fact. That is apparrent by their last few loss margins to Notre Dame.....but...There are reasons for that, and it's not just because they have 6 road games at some of the longest travel distance in the nation. First, they have one of the youngest rosters in the nation, certainly as starters. Their defensive backfield are starters essentially right out of high school as a lot of their experienced guys have left to play on pay-for-play teams like SMU. Up until the early first q of the Clemson game they had Washington transfer Jay Green holding down the safety position, which is why they beat Kyle McCord, and gave TCU a tight game, but since the first quarter of Clemson game, any half way competent D1 QB has had a statistical field-day with the Stanford secondary. They havent laid down and died as Da Real claims, they lack so much depth there is simply no one else to plug in ( even from the offensive side) that can defend a D1 receiver. Add to this, the two best non backfield defenders with experience, either got ejected or were injured and on the sidelines vs NC State(a mediocre team also playing a lot of freshmen). ADD to this that their only effectice offensive threat (who's also been in and out all season with injury) Ashton Daniels , who was torching the NC State rush defense, took a blitzing defender's helmet crown directly to the chin and was out with concussion most of 2nd half. NO penalty or targetting review. Plus the referees didn't make a single holding call against NC STATE all game....yet, the wolfpack O line was holding on almost every play, to the point that Bailey ended up kicking one in frustration. The cheating O line opened up huge holes that NC State was able to exploit at will all game long for length of the field rushes. I'm actually surprised that Arkansas suffered a worse loss margin yesterday. Stanford is perhaps that team most negatively affected by portal and NIL in all of P4 FBS...they cant just import any player to plug a gap. Its a unique situation. I see the possibility of Stanford exiting the D1 football stage, as they can't complete on such unlevel wild wild west playing fields of Portal and NIL....Its not a self imposed restriction from the athletics department as in Clemson's case. The administrators, who control the money and most of the faculty, despise modern college football and never cared for it much in its older form. There have literally been meetings about the tolerance level of football stars potentially having bigger pay days than their internationally acclaimed instructors, and if the rules should be bent to allow access to such scenario. They are horrified at the thought a student athlete may potentially earn more for a few hours on a playing field than some of these tenured professors might make in a lifetime, A situation already reality with head coaching.
1:29:12 : Sh!t. USC & Nebraska actually may not make bowl games. These collapses are pitiful
Call in show has turned into nothing but an hour long conversation with DaReal. Might as well title the show "DaRealMVP and Mark Rogers talk college football".
He was one of seven callers.
DA real is the best caller!! These other guys bring nothing but “what if” questions
Oh waaaaa....you must be a Michigan fan
Da Real and Mark's analysis of Stanford, is shallow and uninformed. Yes, Stanford is bad, historically bad, as a matter of fact. That is apparrent by their last few loss margins to Notre Dame.....but...There are reasons for that, and it's not just because they have 6 road games at some of the longest travel distance in the nation. First, they have one of the youngest rosters in the nation, certainly as starters. Their defensive backfield are starters essentially right out of high school as a lot of their experienced guys have left to play on pay-for-play teams like SMU. Up until the early first q of the Clemson game they had Washington transfer Jay Green holding down the safety position, which is why they beat Kyle McCord, and gave TCU a tight game, but since the first quarter of Clemson game, any half way competent D1 QB has had a statistical field-day with the Stanford secondary. They havent laid down and died as Da Real claims, they lack so much depth there is simply no one else to plug in ( even from the offensive side) that can defend a D1 receiver. Add to this, the two best non backfield defenders with experience, either got ejected or were injured and on the sidelines vs NC State(a mediocre team also playing a lot of freshmen). ADD to this that their only effectice offensive threat (who's also been in and out all season with injury) Ashton Daniels , who was torching the NC State rush defense, took a blitzing defender's helmet crown directly to the chin and was out with concussion most of 2nd half. NO penalty or targetting review. Plus the referees didn't make a single holding call against NC STATE all game....yet, the wolfpack O line was holding on almost every play, to the point that Bailey ended up kicking one in frustration. The cheating O line opened up huge holes that NC State was able to exploit at will all game long for length of the field rushes. I'm actually surprised that Arkansas suffered a worse loss margin yesterday.
Stanford is perhaps that team most negatively affected by portal and NIL in all of P4 FBS...they cant just import any player to plug a gap. Its a unique situation. I see the possibility of Stanford exiting the D1 football stage, as they can't complete on such unlevel wild wild west playing fields of Portal and NIL....Its not a self imposed restriction from the athletics department as in Clemson's case. The administrators, who control the money and most of the faculty, despise modern college football and never cared for it much in its older form. There have literally been meetings about the tolerance level of football stars potentially having bigger pay days than their internationally acclaimed instructors, and if the rules should be bent to allow access to such scenario. They are horrified at the thought a student athlete may potentially earn more for a few hours on a playing field than some of these tenured professors might make in a lifetime, A situation already reality with head coaching.