MillerLiteTime
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
| Location: | Atlanta |
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| Number of Posts: | 2551 |
| Registered on: | 8/1/2018 |
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re: Pete Thamel: Scholarship limits for baseball likely eliminated
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/28/24 at 7:53 pm
[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...
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re: Do Florida fans regret running Dan Mullen off?
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/28/24 at 7:44 pm
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. ...
re: Pete Thamel: Scholarship limits for baseball likely eliminated
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/28/24 at 4:55 am
[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...
re: Pete Thamel: Scholarship limits for baseball likely eliminated
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/28/24 at 4:46 am
[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...
re: Does the Pac 12 survive if they closed the deal with Texas and Oklahoma 12-15 years ago?
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/27/24 at 10:42 am
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...
re: If I’m Woody… you don’t let that one go. You press the issue and demand a Formal Apology
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/26/24 at 11:15 am
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...
re: Pete Thamel: Scholarship limits for baseball likely eliminated
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/24/24 at 9:57 pm
[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...
Pete Thamel: Scholarship limits for baseball likely eliminated
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/24/24 at 5:38 pm
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...
re: What’s with all the SEC East teams having mouthy players?
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/23/24 at 9:42 pm
Baseball “fights” are about as fake and dumb as professional wrestling. It’s not even a contact sport....
re: Is Florida football a One-Hit Wonder?
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/23/24 at 6:42 pm
[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...
re: Alabama vs LSU - NFL production by position since 2000
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/23/24 at 5:24 pm
[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...
re: Alabama vs LSU - NFL production by position since 2000
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/23/24 at 5:21 pm
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...
re: So why would ESPN agree to this regarding college football playoffs?
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/22/24 at 3:47 pm
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...
re: Over/Under on body cam footage including a “do you know who I am?”
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/17/24 at 10:05 am
[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...
re: The SEC fan base who does not fit the SEC style an are just weird and odd in every way.
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/15/24 at 5:23 pm
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)....
re: ESPN: Some schools may take full tv share but won’t spend full 20 mil player salary max
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/13/24 at 9:15 pm
[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...
re: ESPN: Some schools may take full tv share but won’t spend full 20 mil player salary max
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/13/24 at 8:50 pm
[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 ...
re: ESPN: Some schools may take full tv share but won’t spend full 20 mil player salary max
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/13/24 at 8:27 pm
[quote]They should be kicked out. College football made the decision a long time ago to go professional with the TV contracts. You cant go half in. Vandy has different goals. They should be out[/quote]
Agree. The good ole days are gone and the game is unfortunately moving forward into a semi-pro ...
re: ESPN: Some schools may take full tv share but won’t spend full 20 mil player salary max
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/13/24 at 8:14 pm
[quote]I thought the schools couldn’t pay players? Why would tv shares go to players? [/quote]
They likely soon will if this lawsuit settlement becomes a reality. ...
re: Why are there rumors about Kansas joining the SEC?
Posted by MillerLiteTime on 5/13/24 at 8:02 pm
Kansas simply isn’t happening. The SEC’s last expansion will be along the Atlantic coast with FSU, Clemson, and a NC and VA school. Then the SEC is closed for good. ...
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