I’m slightly confused. Is being number one on the worst list the worst of the worst, or the least worst?
Also, either way we apparently have a better spring game atmosphere than either Alabama or LSU. That seems highly questionable to me, but I’ll take it.
Alabama wina so much my guess their fans kind of take success for granted, it happens. Virginia excitement stems from hope and a renewed energy in our football program.
This is maybe his worst list so far. Marshall and Utah St D1 while Mississippi St and a bunch of BIG schools go D2? Ok then. Also, Cal being D1 over TCU, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi St, etc in some sort of eventual football schism that separates out the schools that prioritize football enough to do what it takes to stay D1 - feels straight up laughable.
Man I’d love to know what goes on in the head of Boomer to put together these list. This is pure Steven A. Smith/Skip Bayless/Colin Cowherd strike a match and watch the internet burn troll material.
Honestly, I’d move Virginia to D2 over 5 or 6 of the squads he has down there.
Marshall, SD State, Utah St, Wash St. Cal, Houston, Fresno, South Carolina are all borderline D1 at best if we’re doing this exercise. Half of them have no Power 5 experience and even the Power 5’s have no Major Bowl experience.
Also I mean putting GT, Duke, and Vanderbilt in D2 is pretty funny. Not just because those are all very wealthy, strong academic universities, but because they are in 3 of the fastest growing, hottest job market metro areas!
Yeah I am pretty critical of the car-oriented sprawl in most of the rapidly growing sunbelt cities and I wouldn’t want to permanently live in one, but you can’t pretend that Durham closing in on 300,000 residents, Atlanta 500,000, etc won’t influence the ability for these places to sell tickets. Durham is a particularly good example because the city has no pro sports teams.
So true as a current ATL resident, I can tell you everything here is skyrocketing as more people continue to move in mostly from up north NOVA looking to escape to cheaper markets. The sprawl of ATL is massive now.