generalgator87
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re: It’s Official: LIV and Phil nuked professional golf
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/23/26 at 12:27 pm to lsupride87
I am with you. The initial reporting was that it was more set it stone. The more that comes out, it does seem like a wish list item more than anything solid. Which makes sense. Why would those clubs want to be involved?
My guess is that they end up at Dream Golf resorts where they (1) don't have the infrastructure to handle normal tour events and (2) can use the PGA playoffs as marketing.
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re: It’s Official: LIV and Phil nuked professional golf
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/23/26 at 10:48 am to tigerfan88
It does look like the Tour Championship will be held at venues like Seminole and Cypress Point which would be awesome. I could see a Bandon, Cabot and Sand Valley working their way in there as well. Dream Golf would probably love to be part of the Tour Championship model.
re: It’s Official: LIV and Phil nuked professional golf
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/23/26 at 10:43 am to bstaceyau19
It looks like the cut is going to be top 65 and ties. LINK
I think you are definitely right that some sponsors will leave. Traveler's already left. It's why Sentry is taking over for them in San Diego. I am sure there will be more.
I have connections with 2 tournaments that are definitely not on the top tier of the PGA. Neither company is too worried about their time on network TV. Their tournaments weren't huge TV draws as it is. Neither tournament got great fields with the signature model that was in use. It was more about giving their clients the ability to go a cool destination and play pro-ams with some great golfers. Both were having a hard time dealing with trying to justify their purses going from the $5 million dollar range to the $10 million dollar range. They were never going to be "Championship" or "Signature" level events. But a $4 million dollar purse will be much more palatable from a marketing budget standpoint.
One interesting wrinkle is there are 7 weeks where the "Challenger" tour gets the week to themselves. I could see those going to tournaments like Valspar, Zurich and John Deere who have long relationships with the Tour and where they would get network TV time. The other weeks will basically be opposite field events. The purses for the "challenger" tour will basically be the same as the opposite field events (and DP world tour events) are right now. Having over 20 of those events would give a ton of opportunities to the guys who are 130-300th in the world to make a good living. Way better than current KFT events which average around $1 million dollar purses.
I think you are definitely right that some sponsors will leave. Traveler's already left. It's why Sentry is taking over for them in San Diego. I am sure there will be more.
I have connections with 2 tournaments that are definitely not on the top tier of the PGA. Neither company is too worried about their time on network TV. Their tournaments weren't huge TV draws as it is. Neither tournament got great fields with the signature model that was in use. It was more about giving their clients the ability to go a cool destination and play pro-ams with some great golfers. Both were having a hard time dealing with trying to justify their purses going from the $5 million dollar range to the $10 million dollar range. They were never going to be "Championship" or "Signature" level events. But a $4 million dollar purse will be much more palatable from a marketing budget standpoint.
One interesting wrinkle is there are 7 weeks where the "Challenger" tour gets the week to themselves. I could see those going to tournaments like Valspar, Zurich and John Deere who have long relationships with the Tour and where they would get network TV time. The other weeks will basically be opposite field events. The purses for the "challenger" tour will basically be the same as the opposite field events (and DP world tour events) are right now. Having over 20 of those events would give a ton of opportunities to the guys who are 130-300th in the world to make a good living. Way better than current KFT events which average around $1 million dollar purses.
re: It’s Official: LIV and Phil nuked professional golf
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/23/26 at 10:09 am to bstaceyau19
The sponsor portion is going to be by far the most interesting part of all of this.
On one hand, you are totally correct that a bunch of sponsors could leave. But the purses going from $8-10 million down to $4 million might keep a couple around or get some new sponsors who can handle that level of funding. For companies like John Deere, it is probably way more palatable to have a worse field for $4 million and keep it in the current location rather than spending another $10 million to make the purse go to $20 million and have to move the tournament to Chicago.
The 2nd most interesting part to me is what happens if guys like Speith/Ricky/JT if they got relegated. Would they keep chugging along trying to earn their way back into the big show or would they just call it quits. They are all very rich already. I wonder if they would deal with the grind or just retire.
On one hand, you are totally correct that a bunch of sponsors could leave. But the purses going from $8-10 million down to $4 million might keep a couple around or get some new sponsors who can handle that level of funding. For companies like John Deere, it is probably way more palatable to have a worse field for $4 million and keep it in the current location rather than spending another $10 million to make the purse go to $20 million and have to move the tournament to Chicago.
The 2nd most interesting part to me is what happens if guys like Speith/Ricky/JT if they got relegated. Would they keep chugging along trying to earn their way back into the big show or would they just call it quits. They are all very rich already. I wonder if they would deal with the grind or just retire.
re: Which Fanbase Will Be Most Disappointed This Football Season?
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/22/26 at 10:34 am to theCAW
5-7 is being optimistic. Should be underdogs in every game after week 1 and I am expecting Campbell to dominate us in the Swamp.
re: Golf ball rollback development
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/17/26 at 1:28 pm to AlxTgr
What they were trying to do was the worst of both worlds. It was going to cause a bunch of issues with normal am events because a bunch of 1-2 year old balls were going to be non-conforming, but it wouldn't have actually had any impact on distance as seen by Cam Young's performance with a ball that would be conforming.
Hopefully they lower the driver size and forgiveness for pros. That is the only way to actually make an impact. I know equipment companies aren't fans of bifurcation, but if you actually want to prevent courses from having to go to 7,750+ yards and everything that comes with it, that is the route they have to go.
Hopefully they lower the driver size and forgiveness for pros. That is the only way to actually make an impact. I know equipment companies aren't fans of bifurcation, but if you actually want to prevent courses from having to go to 7,750+ yards and everything that comes with it, that is the route they have to go.
re: Course recommendation around Lakeland, FL
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/15/26 at 3:29 pm to AUjim
Drive over to Southern Dunes in Haines City.
re: United States of Hydration Breaks vs Pair of Gays | World Cup Group D | 8pm CT (FOX)
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/12/26 at 9:54 pm to MetArl15
Would take it over being injured, but I got that on Reddit so could definitely be BS.
re: United States of Hydration Breaks vs Pair of Gays | World Cup Group D | 8pm CT (FOX)
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/12/26 at 9:51 pm to OleVaught14
Evidently BBC reported it was for behavioral issues?
Florida NIL
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/10/26 at 12:00 pm
Zach Alboverdi posted a pretty good article about Florida's NIL situation.
Right now, for football and basketball, we are over $50 million in NIL. Football is $30+ and basketball is at $20+.
For football, Stricklin said there were 3 or 4 outliers that are ahead of us, but that we are in the second band of spenders. Basketball is near the top. Football and basketball get about 90% of the rev share dollars ($18.5 out of $20.5 total). Football gets $15.4 of rev share and basketball gets $3.075. The rest of the money comes from Florida Victorious.
Basketball seems like it might be a little artificially high with Haugh, Condon and Chinyelu coming back. Haugh himself is making over $8 million. When they leave, football's NIL budget is supposed to go up.
Golden had a pretty good quote about the situation with football too:
Right now, for football and basketball, we are over $50 million in NIL. Football is $30+ and basketball is at $20+.
For football, Stricklin said there were 3 or 4 outliers that are ahead of us, but that we are in the second band of spenders. Basketball is near the top. Football and basketball get about 90% of the rev share dollars ($18.5 out of $20.5 total). Football gets $15.4 of rev share and basketball gets $3.075. The rest of the money comes from Florida Victorious.
Basketball seems like it might be a little artificially high with Haugh, Condon and Chinyelu coming back. Haugh himself is making over $8 million. When they leave, football's NIL budget is supposed to go up.
Golden had a pretty good quote about the situation with football too:
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“It’s incredibly tricky,” Golden said. “For me, I wasn’t born yesterday, man. I know that we at the University of Florida want and need football to be good, and I think getting coach Sumrall here was awesome. I think he’s a great fit and I think he’s already brought great energy on campus. I think people really appreciate the excitement he has about the opportunity. But we need to make sure football gets good guys. We need to make sure that for those six or seven Saturdays in The Swamp in the fall that we’re getting 90,000 in there and that we have the best product we can.
“But I do believe basketball needs to be as high as it can possibly be without taking anything away from football. And that’s just the reality with us being the two revenue sports. We’re able to drive a lot of eyeballs. We’re able to drive a lot of people to campus. Knock on wood, we’ve been selling out almost every home game we have. So, I don’t think we can take away anything from football to put our program forward. But I do think we need to be at the highest level possible outside of that football spend to make sure we maintain being competitive.”
re: Your team's floor and ceiling in 2026?
Posted by generalgator87 on 6/4/26 at 7:57 am to GetPiggywithIt
Floor - 0-12. Campbell and FAU won't be easy for us. The rest are losses.
Ceiling - 2-10. See above.
Ceiling - 2-10. See above.
re: 2026 French Open Thread.
Posted by generalgator87 on 5/28/26 at 9:55 am to Bunk Moreland
He definitely took a while to round into form this year, but he did win the BMW which is a 500 on clay. Then he crapped the bed in Rome and Madrid. Just really hard to get a read on him.
re: 2026 French Open Thread.
Posted by generalgator87 on 5/28/26 at 9:13 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
Shelton is an enigma. He isn't quite as bad as he was on clay now. He typically has good conditioning. He is great at majors.
Still don't trust him to make it too far though.
Still don't trust him to make it too far though.
re: PGA Tour may want to continue to skip Doral(tv ratings are now in-FAILURE)
Posted by generalgator87 on 5/3/26 at 3:43 pm to lsupride87
Miami is full of international immigrants who aren’t interested in golf, it’s a very spread out metro area, the weather is terrible and F1 is also in Miami this weekend. This tournament was doomed from the start.
re: 2026-27 Gators Men’s Basketball
Posted by generalgator87 on 4/21/26 at 11:01 am to bgator85
re: Anyone hearing big LIV rumors?
Posted by generalgator87 on 4/14/26 at 10:48 pm to Hou_Lawyer
That’s what they should have done in the first place. Would have been much better money spent building on top of the European tour than paying hundreds of millions for guys like Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Bubba Watson and Taylor Gooch.
re: The 2026 Masters - Congrats to Rory on his 2nd straight green jacket
Posted by generalgator87 on 4/10/26 at 6:12 pm to ReauxlTide222
I really doubt he loses it, but if he does, the choker tag will come back with a vengeance :lol:
re: The 2026 Masters - Congrats to Rory on his 2nd straight green jacket
Posted by generalgator87 on 4/10/26 at 5:41 pm to grizzlylongcut
I want a blow up just because this weekend looks like it’s going to be unbelievably boring. I’m pretty indifferent on Rory, but I hate boring majors.
With the conditions being so hard, I can’t see anyone running him down. It’s going to take him melting down. And Rory hasn’t even driven the ball well. But he’s been hitting his irons great, putting very well and getting up and down from everywhere. Just hard to see happening. It’s way easier to see him pulling away even more tomorrow and giving us a very boring Sunday.
With the conditions being so hard, I can’t see anyone running him down. It’s going to take him melting down. And Rory hasn’t even driven the ball well. But he’s been hitting his irons great, putting very well and getting up and down from everywhere. Just hard to see happening. It’s way easier to see him pulling away even more tomorrow and giving us a very boring Sunday.
re: At this point florida should have held out with napier one more year
Posted by generalgator87 on 4/10/26 at 2:23 pm to luciouslou
This might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on this site.
Napier was the worst coach at UF since 1950.
Napier was the worst coach at UF since 1950.
re: 2027 Football Recruiting class
Posted by generalgator87 on 4/8/26 at 6:49 pm to finchmeister08
Maxwell Hiller committed. Five star. Highest ranked OL commit since Martez Ivey in 2015. Get ‘em Trout!
re: How Much of Miami’s NIL Fund Is Drug Money?
Posted by generalgator87 on 3/30/26 at 11:31 am to brambo
Ruiz was never their biggest NIL donor. That would be the Mas brothers.
Ruiz is a clown and they let him do his thing because it took the attention off of them.
Ruiz is a clown and they let him do his thing because it took the attention off of them.
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