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By Marc Lawrence
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Friday, Dec 19 |
A whopping 14 head coaches, coordinators or assistants on College Football Playoff-bound teams are departing for other programs at the end of the season, notes Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger.
That list spans eight of the 12 CFP teams, with Ole Miss "leading" the way at six departing personnel.
Texas A&M and Oregon have two each, while Ohio State, JMU, Tulane and Alabama have one.
Congratulations to Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Georgia and Indiana for avoiding the coaching carousel!
"We've got to fix the calendar," said Tulane assistant Will Hall, who will replace Jon Sumrall as head coach after the Green Wave's playoff run ends. "We are the only sport in the world where free agency for players and coaches begins in the middle of the season."
Those are wise words and the NCAA needs to listen to what’s being said. |
ON TODAY'S SCORECARD
The Bears Could Be on the Move!
The Chicago Bears are thinking outside of the box — and possibly the state — for their next stadium.
Bears president Kevin Warren sent a letter to season-ticket holders on Wednesday with an update on the franchise's years-long search for a new home after a century at Soldier Field.
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In recent years, the campaign has focused on a site in the suburb of Arlington Heights that the Bears purchased in 2023, with Warren saying in September that the team needs to finalize plans this year.
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However, Illinois state leaders have told the Bears the project will not be a priority in 2026, according to Warren. Thus, the team will now expand its search to include Northwest Indiana.
From the letter:
‘Stable timelines are critical, as are predictable processes and elected leaders, who share a sense of urgency and appreciation for public partnership that projects with this level of impact require. We have not received that sense of urgency or appreciation to date.’
‘Consequently … we need to expand our search and critically evaluate opportunities throughout the wider Chicagoland region, including Northwest Indiana. This is not about leverage. … Our fans deserve a world-class stadium [and] our organization must keep every credible pathway open to deliver that future.’
Border crossing: The NFL has never seemed to mind the location of a stadium not matching a team's name.
The New York Jets and New York Giants play in New Jersey; the Washington Commanders play in Maryland (though they're moving back to D.C.
Still, a move to Northwest Indiana — where Gary and Hammond are the two biggest cities — would be a shocking outcome for the Bears… and the Colts.
The backdrop: All of this hits just three days before the first-place Bears (10-4) host the second-place Packers (9-4-1) in one of the most meaningful games at Soldier Field in years.
Talk about a weird moment to remind fans the team might be looking for the exits. The term is "tone deaf." |
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GRINDING OUT THE PROFITS
Kick This Around
$50 million.
Next year's World Cup will feature the biggest prize in the history of the tournament, with the winner taking home a record $50 million.
That's up from $42 million four years ago and $2.2 million back in 1982, the first year FIFA publicized the prize money.
Full payouts: Champion ($50M); runner-up ($33M); 3rd place ($29M); 4th place ($27M); 5th-8th place ($19M); 9th-16th place ($15M); 17th-32nd place ($11M); 33rd-48th place ($9M).
Add up the total prize money payouts and it totals a cool $651 million.
*Issue 2 Due Monday, Dec 22*
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TRENDING TODAY
I Can Kill You
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Tonight, Jake Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) may finally get what he secretly sought — authenticity as a real fighter, though possibly at a terrible price, when he meets former two-time heavyweight world champion and 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist Anthony Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) in a scheduled eight-round Netflix main event from the Kaseya Center in Miami.
Joshua has made it clear that he plans to show Jake Paul no mercy tonight in their polarizing Netflix boxing match.
"If I can kill you, I will kill you," the former heavyweight champion Jpshua said Tuesday ahead of his bout against the YouTuber-turned-boxer. A day later, when pressed on those words, he doubled down:
"It's my job — we fight. We have a license to kill … When you're in that ring, it's a dangerous place to be and anything can happen. You hope your opponent leaves the ring safely, but if they don't, you still have to go to bed at night knowing that you've just done your job, it wasn't personal."
To which Paul responded: "Let's f***ing go, bro. Let's put on a show for the fans. Let's go to war … I want his hardest punches. I want there to be no excuses when it's all said and done, and let's f***ing kill each other … This is going to be the biggest upset in the history of sports, and you guys get to witness it."
This just might be worth tuning in. |
STAT OF THE DAY
100 |
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Duke's victory over Lipscomb on Tuesday
was the 100th win
of Jon Scheyer's career, making him the fastest head coach
to reach the century mark in ACC history (122 games).
That's six games faster than Duke's Vic
Bubas
(1959-69) and seven games faster than
UNC’s Roy Williams (2003-21).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY |
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man
who wants to read a book and the tired man
who
wants a book to read.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW
The Other Side of the Coin
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It’s been reported that Philip Rivers' surprising return to the NFL will delay his induction inot the NFL Hall of fae for five years.
What it also means is that he and his family are now eligible for five more years of league-sponsored health insurance, which was otherwise set to expire next August.
On the one hand, he's made $244 million in his career, so he can certainly afford his own insurance; on the other, he has 10 children between the ages of 2 and 23.
Those premiums ain't cheap.
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