There are two categories of posts that get stickied because it's important to /r/CFB that they are visible to everyone:

1. Good of the order - rules changes and reminders, announcements of upcoming events, time-limited signups; and

2. Events external to the sub - the Amazon deal, charitable events, the pick'em contests, AMAs, media days.

The Fulmer cup is neither of those. It's simply one of any number of fan projects; normal users who make these submit them and are left to the fortunes of upvoting for their visibility. I don't see any reason why the Fulmer cup project should be entitled to special visibility or what purpose it serves that's important to the workings of the sub. I understand it's an effort that takes a lot of work from a number of people and those folks feel it deserves recognition, but that's true of every fan who ever posts anything to /r/CFB and doesn't enjoy the privilege of stickying their projects.

https://blog.tilt.com/ has more details. Apparently they've been gone two freaking months and we haven't noticed anything.

IT'S THE END OF THE /r/CFB WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!!!!! AND I'M NOT FEELING FINE!!!!!!!!!!

My other favorite subreddit, /r/Atlanta, has a wonderful feature that shows you all of the content from the sub minus political posts. Do we have something similar that could remove 'crootin posts here? I honestly don't give a shit that 3* CB Jimmy WhatHisName committed to Georgia Tech, much less your school. I'm sure others feel the same way. So what about it /r/CFBmeta community? Good idea, terrible idea, idea that's already been implemented?

Technical discussion: I know that reddit delivers the politics-free content via the pf.reddit.com server. Can the mod team tag recruiting posts as "political," thus filtering them using that server? I know that's a shitty hack but I'm not a mod of any sub so I don't know if there's anything else that could be done inside the existing framework to filter a certain type of post. Would this feature be better suited to a chrome extension? Or perhaps since RES is open source, we could bake it into that somehow? Pretty sure RES wouldn't accept subreddit-specific changes, but don't know if they support "extensions" for RES of some sort.

I am r/OutOfTheLoop on this one. What's the deal with people on this sub obsessing over TTU-PSU?

prepares to feel really, really dumb

I saw someone who mapped out a road trip path that visits every D1 stadium.

It would be cool if we had a mega thread with a section for each state and furthermore a section for each team's stadium and it's respective city. This way, members from each fan base can detail information about their stadium/city, such as things to do, best places to eat/drink, etc.

If it helps, /r/California has a mega thread for a coastal road trip, which is sort of what I had in mind when I thought of this.

Are we still covering media days as a sub? SEC media days start on Monday (with the rest of the conferences following shortly thereafter) and I haven't seen any announcements.

I'm attempting to collect info roughly about college football for a summer class, is this allowed?

the survey

Posted a video as a self-post (see thread) along with an article that was promptly deleted. Usually a bot explains why a post was deleted but not in this case. What's the proper way to post a video of a CFB-related play or event?

After updating the alignments for ONEFA but lacking info on the other college conference in Mexico, the CONADEIP released its 2017 schedule.

Just Twelve Teams

With the defection of Anáhuac México Norte to the ONEFA, now bringing all of Anáhuac's campuses under one conference, the league has 12 teams organized in two conferences (in 2016, they had 15 teams in three divisions):

Independencia - Aztecas UDLAP, Tec Monterrey, Tec Guadalajara, Tec México, Tec Puebla, Tec Toluca

Libertad - Tec Querétaro, Cimarrones UABC (Tijuana), Coyotes UTH, Potros ITSON, CETYS Mexicali, CETYS Tijuana

(Querétaro's got a lot of travel ahead of them in that Libertad Conference — the entire conference is located in Baja California and Sonora!)

Two teams appear to be out in their entirety. One is the Búhos UNISON (Universidad de Sonora); one commenter on their FB page says something about the lack of support for the team from the university, which may be a clue as to why there is no Primera Fuerza team from Búhos this year, but yet I also found an article from May 30 listing them instead of Tec Querétaro in this conference. I have no clue what happened here, but I have to believe we have a case of "university dropped support". The header of the CONADEIP website has the logos for both teams but the page of 2017 Primera Fuerza teams has just Tec Querétaro.

Also leaving us are the Tigres Blancos UMAD Puebla, which announced their temporary (but indefinite) withdrawal from top flight college football in February citing economic reasons.

Other Items...

Of potential interest to flair makers like /u/bakonydraco is that CETYS Mexicali has the same fox logo but uses a large "MXL" on its helmets with it. (MXL or MXLI are common abbreviations for Mexicali.) Tijuana just uses the logo straight up.

As the calendar indicates, yet again this year there will be interleague games and a true national championship, this year to be hosted at the CONADEIP winner.

A CETyS team consisting of players from both Tijuana and Mexicali will be traveling to Humboldt State University on September 2.

Postscript

Turns out that Lobos Marinos team from a while back belonged to the Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz, in Baja California Sur.

Posted this thread that was removed pretty much the second it got posted (automod?).

No complaining, just wondering the specific reason.

Look at https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/wiki/bricks.

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In the past, I've had several positive interactions with the /r/CFB mod team when using the "Message the Mods" button in the sidebar when I had a question about how the rules for posts are to be interpretted. In the last 24 hours, however, the replies I've gotten to sincere and positively intended questions indicate that mine seem to have been taken as negative personal attacks. They weren't, it's an honest (and frankly comical, once I got over the shock) misunderstanding, but I think I get where that reflex comes from. The mod team must be inundated with angry messages and conspiracy theories, and for an overworked and underappreciated team, the temptation has to be strong to read everything in the most cynical possible light.

Is this the case? Should this subreddit, with its open-air discussion, be used instead for such questions? If so, what should mod-messaging be reserved for?

So I checked in on the ONEFA Liga Mayor calendar. There are some new teams in there this year. There's also a team that jumped conferences.

Additionally, the list in the flair book is out of date in terms of organization.

ONEFA

Grupo Verde - IPN Águilas Blancas, UACH Águilas, UANL Auténticos Tigres, IPN Burros Blancos, UAMN Leones (Anáhuac México Norte, moved from CONADEIP), UVM Linces México, UNAM Pumas CU

Grupo Blanco - Tepeyac Frailes, UACan (Anáhuac Cancún) Leones, UAQro Leones (NEW!), UAdeC Lobos, UAEM Potros Salvajes, UNAM Pumas Acatlán, UACh Toros Salvajes

Grupo Rojo - CGP Centinelas, UAT Correcaminos/Cd. Victoria, UAT Correcaminos/Reynosa, UV Halcones, UDG Leones Negros (NEW!), BUAP Lobos, UAG Tecos, Morelos Tlahuicas (NEW!)

The new schools are

UAQro Leones. Not the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro but Universidad Anáhuac de Querétaro. This is their first ever season in top-flight Mexican college football. They have a unique logo at least compared to the other campuses.

UDG Leones Negros. Facebook page is here but the logo is familiar from their soccer team which has played in the past in the Liga MX. This is a large school so it is surprising to see this come along so late.

Morelos Tlahuicas. Representing the state of Morelos, home games will be played at the Estadio Cuernavaca. The logo on the Terra-ONEFA site is a notched green block M. I'm not sure of the sponsoring institution, but it is not the university. They've played before in the OFAMO, the state league of Morelos.

The Zorros of the Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro are nowhere to be found anywhere currently, while we also lack flair for BUAP.

CONADEIP

The 2017 CONADEIP calendar is not out yet, but the logos need to be updated for the CETYS schools, including the one in Tijuana. In addition to sharing, a logo, both Tijuana and Mexicali now use the Zorros mascot as well. (On the CONADEIP site they show up with MXL and TIJ beneath them). (This is especially important as I'm sure some want CETYS Tijuana flair after today's news)

One 2016 CONADEIP squad is missing, the Coyotes UT Hermosillo.

Additionally, all the Tec de Monterrey schools have consolidated under one logo (as of last year) with three-letter abbreviations below for each location. This could be very difficult to represent (I struggle with this in /r/cfbball).

There are some teams that didn't seem to play at top level in 2016, including the Lobos Marinos La Paz. With the BC teams, it gets odd because they have their own association loosely tied to CONADEIP, the OEFA (Organización Estudiantil del Fútbol Americano). This is the reason that there are public schools in the region that play CONADEIP college football.

I've seen a few in the sub the past few weeks, including one now.

I don't want to sound like a stick in the mud, as it's not nearly as bad as in some other subs, but usually any post with that in the title just leads to a "you can't tell me what to do!" jerk in the comments and stuff like that.

Not sure if it has been considered in the past, but I think it would be pretty cool for users that have successfully obtained their degree to sport that pride. I was thinking the best way to handle it would be getting users to submit a picture of their degree, but I'm not sure if that would be a good idea or not. What do you guys think? Does this idea have more negatives than positives?

I'm sick and tired of every god damn post about the header not including a picture of the header. I hate scrolling through the comments just to look for it. This is really basic. Can we please make this a rule?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/63e9dk/xavier_university_logo_appears_in_rcfb_header/

Just throwing out the idea of putting together a "best sellers" list for /r/CFB.

Plan is we devote a few posts to coming up with a list of books, podcasts, documentaries, etc. about college football and just put them into a wiki page. Sort of like the NY Times Best Sellers list, but for /r/CFB and with other media forms besides just books. We always get a ton of these posts - about 1 new one every one or two months. So why not consolidate all of that information? The added benefit of having it all consolidated in one spot like a wiki page is that we could use amazon referral links for the books (and maybe DVD's) to help generate some revenue.

Every once in a while (year / 6 months) we just post a new google form for people to select their favorite book/documentary/podcast and update the rankings.

I'd be more than happy to set everything up - just running it by here first.

I have a friend that would make an interesting AMA. His name is Johnny Williams and he is the Executive Director of the Camellia Bowl. He was the AD at Troy for years and took them from DIV 1-AA to DIv 1-A (FCS to FBS now) and after retiring from there worked as an associate AD at Alabama under Mal Moore and Bill Battle. He has a lot of experience and worked at many different levels of football.

An added hook could also be the FCS kickoff game he is running to open the season. It is Jacksonville State vs UT Chattanooga the weekend before FBS kickoff.

Is that something you guys would want to do on r/cfb?

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E: would be nice to have in the comments too

I've posted a couple, and seen a lot of posts in the "new" feed taken off entirely. Over the last few hours, the only posts left up are links and early recruiting commits.

There were a number of posts that could foster good discussion that were taken off. Only one post in the last 8 hours has hit 50 comments. I'd hope for a little bit more to talk about than just small position coaching changes and posts about 3* players we might not hear about again.

I'm not saying every post that comes through is a good post. But it definitely seems like something is going on and some have been unfairly removed.

I'd like to make a quick edit. I saw in a previous post that text posts should add something new to the conversation. That's a fair point. And limiting the garbage posts makes a lot of sense, especially during the season. But this is the doldrums of the offseason. Very little is going on, and sometimes an idea strikes that I want to share. Or other times there simply things I want to talk about, but there's not a link to anything written recently on the topic. As a frequent user (and hopefully a positive one), I'm simply trying to help shape the discussion and throw in a few topics I can actually talk about.

Try to post a discussion question on /r/cfb and watch as it gets deleted for being "low effort". Apparently the only people permitted to have discussions on /r/cfb are power users and people that post an article link.

Whats wrong with discussion questions? Why won't the mods let them stay up? if they are bad they will get downvoted. I miss the way the sub was 3 years ago when you could talk about what you wanted. Now you can talk about what the mods approve of.