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And yet the Big Ten gets paid 1) more money, 2) on far better networks, and 3) with a contract they can renegotiate several years before ours expires. It’s absurd how the SEC keeps getting stuck in below market tv deals while putting out the best product and ratings. We add two of the top 6 o...
Unpopular opinion: Texas/OU and Texas/aTm will be the 2nd and 3rd best rivalry games in the SEC....
[quote]They only averaged 20K fans last year anyways.[/quote] Completely absurd that in a rapidly changing collegiate environment we continue to allow decisions from 100 years ago to dictate the distribution of 75 + million a year, with current value playing no role. Northwestern and Vandy wouldn...
[quote]I think this is exactly backwards. If scholarship limitations are gone, Alabama will likely give more football scholarships and no scholarships in baseball; they will have to maintain compliance with Title IX in any case. That's what I would support.[/quote] There will still be roster caps...
Mullen is the kind of coach you keep if you are content being a consistent 8-10 win program. Florida is better than that and isn’t irreversibly flawed. ...
[quote]I believe title 9 will still apply though.[/quote] It definitely will. Which is why this doesn’t automatically mean every school is going to fully fund scholarships for every sport up to the roster caps. Thamel specifically named Mississippi State as an example of a school who cares a lot...
[quote]Scholarship limitations are due to a federal law, not some arbitrary NCAA bylaw. Why would anyone listen to anything Pat McAfee has to say about anything, especially his layperson legal opinion of a lawsuit[/quote] Everything in your post is incorrect. Title IX requires an equitable number...
The existing Pac schools regularly playing Texas and OU would have boosted fan interest across the board. What I find interesting about the collapse of the Pac is that the conference had such poor fan interest and revenue that it led to collapse, even with the geographic defensive advantage it h...
You guys expect way too much perfection out of a part time, 30-40k a year profession, particularly in non or low revenue sports. These refs/umps have to make split second, real time decisions, live, on national television, with thousands of screaming fans and two coaches chomping at the bit to screa...
[quote]Hell, Alabama’s legislators won’t even let Alabamians vote for a damn lottery. [/quote] People assume it is because Alabama is too conservative but that has zero to do with it. The real reason is the state legislature is bought by Indian, “bingo”, and Mississippi gaming interests who don...
In a discussion with Pat Mcafee he says that because the NCAA lawsuit is based on anti-trust violations, scholarship limitations will basically be gone. The NCAA can set roster caps to preserve fair play but they can’t limit the amount of scholarships a school wants to give. This wont affect footbal...
Baseball “fights” are about as fake and dumb as professional wrestling. It’s not even a contact sport....
[quote]It’s crazy to me that the entire state of Florida could be dormant as a football power for decades…. Then have the the Top 3 programs for a a quarter century, and then basically fall back down to mediocrity (with the exception of a few seasons for FSU).[/quote] Miami, FSU, and Florida esse...
[quote]it looks like both have been very good with a lean to the team that had the GOAT coach for that time frame. Congratulations.[/quote] Nearly a third of that time frame was pre-Saban or in the couple years he was building up the program. And that was the worst stretch in modern Alabama histo...
Surprised Alabama is only #11 at linebacker. Saban obviously produced talent but I feel like it was one of the few positions that had good players prior to Saban in the 2000s - Demeco Ryans etc...
Makes perfect sense for ESPN. Keep the majority of playoff games so people need to pay subscriber fees for ESPN access. Sell off a few games a year to another network for more money than ESPN could profit off of ad revenue alone. ESPN’s better announcers were going to be stretched thin as is bet...
[quote]Scottie did something that numerous golfers on tour already did that morning[/quote] His status as a golfer has zero to do with this. It is a public road and an active accident scene. If the road in front of my office is blocked due to a major traffic accident, does that mean I can drive o...
They are odd, but the oddness is actually why they are a great SEC fit. You have to care a ton about college football to do the weird things they do for their school. Passion is the common denominator in the SEC (except Vandy)....
[quote]Vanderbilt is not leaving the SEC unless they want to. Period.[/quote] Temple says hi. And the Big East kicked them out for failing to invest in athletics long before the era where 60 million paychecks were at stake. Vandy costs the SEC far more than the 60 million we pay them with not...
[quote]I heard we need Vanderbilt’s private emails to evade FOIA. How true was that?[/quote] This rumor has been around forever, but I have yet to see a legitimate source report it. The new way conferences evade foia is by having university administrators log on to private internal conference ...