Day 407

• Like college football is going to survive in any form approximating present to make it this far...  The CFP is proposing expansion scenarios for after the current contract expires, so we are talking 2025 here.  A four-man committee will look at over 60 scenarios, involving anywhere for six to sixteen teams, for the future of the process.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

First off, for this to even remotely work, the sport of college football in this country has to get beyond the Alabamas and Clemsons of the world.  This is one of the reasons I believe that we are closer to a process equating to soccer's failed Super League than anything approximating a 6-16 team CFP.  Clemson and Alabama have only missed the CFP twice since it started in 2014.  Only three other schools even have multiple appearances.

Second off, there has to be something approximating "college" in the near future, or the entire process fails.

Third off, unless the Group of 5 is actually in the tournament (you can set reasonable conditions, like they have to run the table or one high-level loss or something), this is a non-starter.  The biggest problem (and what they identify) is that 5 conferences cannot go into 4 spots -- so even conference champions-only can't work.

The SEC would never sign off on my 6-team proposal:  5 Power 5 Champions, best Group of 5 champion.

And the only 16-team scenario I could see won't fly with anyone in the Power 5:  All 11 FBS conference champions, 5 at large.

So, non-starter.  The entire process for almost 25 years now is that no one but the elite are in.  

• Justin Layne of the Steelers was arrested this morning -- firearms charge stemming from a speeding stop.
• Steve "Mongo" McMichael has ALS, he revealed today.
• The CEO of Spotify wants to buy Arsenal as the fans are trying to see E. Stan Kroenke off for his role in the Super League boondoggle.
• The LA Galaxy have lost Sebastian Lletget for two matches due to a viral post he made, showing him giving an anti-gay slur in Spanish (and I can think I can guess which one!) to a teammate on the practice ground.
• Having done some research on a YouTube fandom, I think I have my answer as to how Predator Poachers got onto the EDP445 situation -- he'd apparently been on the radar of people looking for child molesters since at least last July!
• Derrius Guice has been banned from the LSU campus for at least FOUR separate domestic violence investigations -- two in 2016, one in 2017, and one in 2020.  (At least one of these allegations is why he was fired from the Washington Football Team.)  This is part of their response to the Les Miles fiasco.  They've also fired their law firm.  The assistant athletic director is banned from any contact with the football team for at least this season for ignoring a 2018 domestic battery complaint.
• Want to see how hard the balls were juiced the last two years?  The batting average for Major League Baseball (according to Deadspin, and as of the start of play today) is a paltry .233.  If (and, admittedly, it's a big IF) this extrapoliates over a season, it will be four points less than what was considered the greatest pitching year of the modern era, 1968.
• Runners in scoring position?  .239
• Why?  Simple.  Strike out or home run.  You are literally seeing 7 or 9 inning games not that dissimilar to Home Run Derby.