𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔 | 🐐 Marian Hossa scores his 500th career goal! best FA signing in Hawks history

Looks like Notre Dame should have had time for one final play…

OTD in 2015: Trouble With The Snap 🙌 @MSU_Football

NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB are all much better run than college football has been thru the decades by the NCAA and all have very large playoff pools (that have expanded over the years). Not surprisingly, they’re all doing just fine. Too many people treat college football like it’s holy and sacred ground. September is a mess (worse now w NIL) where AP top 25 teams destroy outmanned opponents. Conference Championship games (outside of the SEC) were mostly forgettable. Ten teams backed out of bowl games last season and it was only getting worse. “Nobody asked for this” is a reasonable take but nobody asked for an IPhone either or the countless entrepreneurial products that enrich our lives or at minimum make life more efficient. College football in the 90s had multiple split national champs, so it’s always struggled w how to end the season. So finally it will end like our better run pro leagues do — with a large playoff. A general rule that holds true, is that if the quality of something is strong, it will thrive regardless of change. The NIL has made the college rosters older and therefore more experienced and the game has benefitted. Onward.

“I’m a proponent of 24-teams.” 👀 Marcus Freeman weighs in on the CFP expanding to a 24-team Playoff in 2027 on the @patmcafeeshow ⬇️

My ideal #WhiteSox off-season (lockout pending of course): TRADES Trade #1: Mariners acquire: SS Colson Montgomery OF Junior Perez SP Shane Murphy White Sox acquire: SP Emerson Hancock RP Matt Brash OF Juan Rijo _____________ Trade #2: Astros acquire: 3B Caleb Bonemer SP Hagen Smith SP David Sandlin OF Jaden Fauske White Sox acquire: DH Yordan Alvarez SP Tatsuya Imai ______________ Trade #3: Rockies acquire: SP Luis Castillo SP Jonathan Cannon White Sox acquire: OF Larry Suero ______________ Trade #4: Diamondbacks acquire: DH Andrew Benintendi White Sox acquire: SP Dylan Ray

Most fun White Sox teams of my lifetime: 1 - 2005 Champions 2 - 1990 Doing the Little Things 3 - 1983 Winning Ugly 4 - 2026 Strokin 100! 5 - 77 Hitmen (I was 3 so if I was older this may be higher) 6 - 93 Good Guys Wear Black 7 - 2000 Herbert Perry’s Milk Men 8 - 1994 Punch in the Face 9 - 2021 Coulda Been Contenders

The #WhiteSox should use Colson to trade for consistent veterans. Bryce Harper and Jesus Luzardo’s contracts end in 2031, coinciding with most of their current player’s control term. They could package Montgomery with youth and make a push for both. Also would be intrigued by the Mariners cache of pitchers. Colson could easily fetch someone like Brian Woo (who would be much better and more affordable than Luzardo), though you’d likely have to pair him with a solid but less impact veteran bat like Brendan Donovan. Then Re-Sign Grichuk, Fedde, and Newcomb, sign Robbie Ray in FA, shift Kay and Fedde to the bullpen, and DFA Benintendi. Eat some salary and pick up some money to be legit. C Teel 1B Mune 2B Sam 3B Vargy SS Chase RF Braden CF Peters LF Grichuk DH Harper or Donovan ROTATION Luzardo or Woo Burke Ray Schultz Best of Thorpe/Hagen BULLPEN Shane Fedde Kay Hudson Vasil Newcomb Hicks Taylor When Bonemer is ready, Peters shifts to a super UTIL OF guy and Caleb will be able to spell Vargas and Meidroth occasionally in the IF too.