Monday Dots: Preps to Pros

SEATTLE, WA - NOVEMBER 11: Washington #4 (Edge) Zion Tupuola-Fetui during a college football game between the Washington Huskies and the Utah Utes on November 11, 2023, at Husky Stadium in Seattle, WA. (Photo by Jesse Beals/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

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• In the latest bit of NFL-ification of college football, the NCAA coaches voiced their support for a 24-team CFP model. Jon Wilner examines what the support from coaches means and what could come next in the evolution of college football’s postseason. One of the reported reasons for the coaches’ support is that more CFP berths would give more coaches job security from makin the CFP. That reasoning shows a shocking lack of understanding of the principle of scarcity. Finishing 20th in the country is 20th in the country whether 2, 4, 12, or 24 teams play in the CFP. A first-round playoff loss will quickly become a mediocre final season result.

• It was a rough season or Husky Men’s Basketball, but Mark Pope and Kentucky are betting the results are not attributable to the players. After Zoom Diallo joined the Wildcats as a transfer earlier in the off-season, UW Center Franck Kepnang announced that he will join his teammate in Lexington. Kentucky is undoubtedly a CBB blue blood, yet they’re taking two players from a bad UW team, and not even the one bright spot, as Hannes Steinbach remains in the NBA Draft.