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Now that it's truly athletics & money NOT academics...
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:26 pm
Now that EVERYONE is in full agreement that college sports is about money and athletic competition and not academics (in the least) it's time the SEC dump Vanderbilt. Candy is competitive in one sport, baseball and only because they've been able to fully fund while everyone else remained at roughly 1/3.
shite can Vanderbilt.
shite can Vanderbilt.
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Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:30 pm to VolunGator
Vandy keeps everything private. Having one Private school in the conference keeps the FOI people away. That's why every conference has at least one. Big 10 has Northwestern. Big 12 has Baylor. Pac 10 has Standford and USC.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:32 pm to VolunGator
Where is that box.... where where where.... AH HA, FOUND IT!!! Box checked for gator baseball being scared of vandy baseball 
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:34 pm to Auburn80
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Vandy keeps everything private
Trade em for Miami
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:38 pm to VolunGator
Troll less.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:39 pm to VolunGator
The SEC is not going to dump a charter member. Keep dreaming.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:14 pm to Auburn80
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Vandy keeps everything private. Having one Private school in the conference keeps the FOI people away.
lol no
This is not some sec-wide loophole. Every other school in the conference can be FOIA and working with a private entity is not some lifehack to protect it
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:17 pm to VolunGator
But it still is about academics. USC wasn't ever going to park their football team in the SEC. It was always going to be the B1G or stay in the PAC.
The BTAA is why Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, Oregon, Washington and Stanford will always wait on the B1G regardless of the SEC 's football dominance. That $10 billion BTAA is way more important to them than just a football TV contract.
The BTAA is why Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, Oregon, Washington and Stanford will always wait on the B1G regardless of the SEC 's football dominance. That $10 billion BTAA is way more important to them than just a football TV contract.
This post was edited on 7/3/22 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:44 pm to rbtgoodson
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Troll less
You're obviously unaware of my posting history. I do draw twice the ire though.
I'll troll for just you.
How's it feel to live in BAMA's shadow and in your own state nonetheless? I feel dirty just thinking about Auburn. BAMA will always be the big brother. Oh and your campus (assuming you're not just a tag along) sits n the middle of a trailer park.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:50 pm to El Segundo Guy
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The BTAA is why
Pre NIL academics played a role in conference expansion. Post NIL I'm not so sure.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:52 pm to El Segundo Guy
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The BTAA is why Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, Oregon, Washington and Stanford will always wait on the B1G regardless of the SEC 's football dominance. That $10 billion BTAA is way more important to them than just a football TV contract.
Well said. I could not have explained it any better myself. The B1G has unlimited financial and political resources. That is why the B1G will win.
This post was edited on 7/3/22 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:55 pm to VolunGator
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Now that EVERYONE is in full agreement that college sports is about money and athletic competition and not academics (in the least) it's time the SEC dump Vanderbilt.
When folks were downright proud about paying the coach multi-millions, and building facilities in the hundred million range, how hard was it for some people to still believe it wasn't about money and winning ?
It hasn't been about academics for a long, long time. It's semi-pro football. It's fun because the names change, and it's grafted onto regions that don't have pro sports. But it's semi-pro football.
Now - the money doesn't just go to the coach or the contractors building the facilities. That's all that's changed. Well, that, and maybe the cold shock of reality for some that this isn't "student athletes".
If it was, the team with the best GPA would get the option at the coin toss.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:00 pm to ScoggDog
It's not about student athletes. It's about elitist academics having something to be happy about (the BTAA) and their ridiculous research budget.
If academics didn't matter USC would have been trying to join the SEC.
If academics didn't matter USC would have been trying to join the SEC.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:07 pm to VolunGator
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shite can Vanderbilt.
They've actually produced a national title in one of the Big 3 sports (Football, Basketball, Baseball) in the 21st century.
They've contributed much more in terms of athletic achievement in the past 20 years than the voLs
This post was edited on 7/3/22 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:12 pm to El Segundo Guy
With NIL, the connection between the universities and their athletic departments are going to be near non existent, out of necessity. Once the NCAA is dead what’s to keep an Alabama or a Texas from just ignoring eligibility. What not pay and keep your QB till he’s 30.
The SEC will continue to dominate athletics because that’s where the athletes are.
Universities in general will continue to decline in influence because they are utterly unnecessary in a free information era. They just don’t provide value relative to their opportunity cost….unless you’re in a stem field that requires a sequence of undergrad, grad, doctoral.
The SEC will continue to dominate athletics because that’s where the athletes are.
Universities in general will continue to decline in influence because they are utterly unnecessary in a free information era. They just don’t provide value relative to their opportunity cost….unless you’re in a stem field that requires a sequence of undergrad, grad, doctoral.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 7:38 pm to jonnyanony
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This is not some sec-wide loophole. Every other school in the conference can be FOIA and working with a private entity is not some lifehack to protect it
It's amazing how many times I've heard that urban legend.
I'm dumbfounded that people actually believe it for the reasons you described. I guess some guys got together once upon a time and were trying to figure out why each league had private schools in them and that ridiculous assumption is what they came up with.
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