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[quote]”We want fans to think that you know a game in the second week of November, even if you've already lost two or three games, still has a lot of value. That's the goal."When you're as deep as we are, we've got to do things to make sure that we have the access to the postseason that we think we ...

Ok so here is my concern. You’ve alluded to it with collective bargaining, but in essence the outcome you are describing is a pro league. I think that would be such a radical change to the status quo that it would result in either an unrecognizable product or a collapse of the system. The fi...

[quote]Anything the NCAA does which inhibits a player from getting paid runs afoul of the Sherman Act.[/quote] Ignoring that this isn’t a final ruling and there are appeals etc. I have a question for you Smokey: why is this something you are so excited about? Is it just so Nico can play? He’s...

[quote]College football is now a professional league. The NCAA has no business meddling into professional athletics.[/quote] I’ve posted about this before but again, making this jump from amateur to pro is not quite as easy as snapping fingers. First you are correct that a pro league will nee...

I don’t want to be a doomer and it’s beyond overplayed to say the sport is dying, but I really thing this could be the critical point where either the ncaa is locked out of top tier CFB or potentially collapses all together. There are some who will be really happy to hear this and that’s fair en...

That and just the fact we picked a guy who had already failed in the conference....

And we all know how great it worked out. ...

[quote]You can't reject what you weren't offered.[/quote] We don’t know if he was or wasn’t, none of that info is public. The only thing we know is his public statement, which is worded in a way that makes it sound like he does not have any future interest leaving Oregon. ...

Bama may be one of the best jobs in the abstract, but following up Saban is not the best job to have in real life. This shouldn’t be that hard to understand. ...

Look I’m no fan of espn so them not getting exclusive rights is fine by me, however I cannot find an article expressing media rights as the reason the three conferences initially voted against expansion. It seems that since everything was behind closed doors it’s all speculation. However if we look ...