LOTOTiger

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I won’t pretend to know.

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I don't think anyone knows. They changed the rules without really establishing new ones, so the schools and players are going to be testing this stuff for a while. Lot of lawsuits coming - letting the courts sort it out instead of thinking it through. Lawyers will get rich, schools will spend money on things they shouldn't, players will get caught between the agents and the schools and may/may not come out ahead.

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The Rams were greatly supported in STL

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This is truth, but "Fan support" is not really a factor in these things. Most Billionaires get rich by being opportunists and taking advantage of others... it's what they do, it's who they are. Kroenke took the opportunity to marry into the Walton family, and built his fortune developing retail shopping centers (often funded by tax incentives) anchored by Wal-Marts - then building new shopping centers anchored by a new Wal-Mart down the road every 10 years or so leaving communities and their tax payers with empty, cheaply built eye-sores.

Ultimately, the Rams left St. Louis for one reason and one reason only - the value of the franchise tripled overnight when they did. That was a business decision. It was the way they did it that pisses me off. The BS that Enos Kroenke spewed about our ability to support a team and allowing STL to spend hundreds of millions on plans for a stadium that had no chance of getting built is unconscionable. Ironically, Kroenke only had an ownership stake in the team because the NFL required some "local" ownership as a condition of the Rams moving to StL in the mid 90s (he is from Columbia, MO and his realty company originated in St. Louis). Wealth obviously can't buy class or integrity, but of course the uber wealthy have no need for either. The StL region did get close to $1B in settlement from him - but of course the leadership in STL (city) is a shitshow and will blow through their share of that windfall.

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Some owners did not want that to happen

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Interestingly enough, fellow Billionaire and Chief's owner Clark Hunt did. He was one of the deciding votes that helped push the Rams over the line to LA (vs the Raiders/Chargers option). Hunt probably thought that would make MO desperate and we would give him whatever he wanted in KC. Turns out he will be in a shiny new building built on a landfill in KS.

Be nice to see MODOT do a lot of road construction on KC area interstates and the bridges over the KS and MO rivers starting in 2031. To not interrupt too much traffic, they should only work on Sundays - should only take 20 or so years to complete that.

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Well done SEC.

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Gymnastics is basically the SEC, UCLA, Utah and Michigan State. That last one is a bit surprising given what took place there.

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Florida got robbed

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How were they robbed? I know they were one of the top teams in the country - but they really fell apart on vault in the semi-finals and did not even make the final 4 (like, I think it was their worst vault rotation in years - certainly their lowest score of the season). Saying they got robbed is like saying a basketball team got robbed because they missed all their free throws down the stretch. It was an unfortuante time to have a really bad rotation, but they did it to themselves.

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a total of 128 teams make the postseason in Conference 6A.

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Just curious how that works in Texas... So, the teams that win/lose the state championship - how many total games do they end up playing? My math says that would be 7 rounds of playoffs... how many regular season games are there?

In Missouri - I think, altho its been a bit since my kid played so it may have changed, we have fewer schools, so classes are smaller (up to 64 teams per class, 8 districts per class, 6-8 teams per district). They play 9 game regular season - and everyone makes the playoffs (so guaranteed 10 games) - that means the championship game is potentially game number 15 for the 2 teams playing.

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Auburn is ranked higher than Missouri academically.

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I'm not doubting you found a source that ranks AU over Mizzou - just curious what your source is. There are lots of college rankings, and most are even more suspect than the rankings used for college football. Most are not fully based on academics. For example, US News uses 6 primary categories - only 2 of which are purely academic, and those two are weighted such that they make up only about 25 -30% of their formula. US News ranking tends to skew toward value and "outcomes" like graduation rates, acceptance rates, debt/cost, and "social mobility". While those are are very important considerations for applicants (especially to someone like me who has 2 full time college students) they aren't necessarily an indicator of academic stature.

btw, I used US News as my example as Mizzou and AU are actually tied in that ranking at 49th (public schools) and 102 (national).

"Ohio fires coach Brian Smith over 'serious' misconduct". I saw he was suspended a few weeks ago, now it's permanent...

What is it with these college coaches that makes them risk their careers, families, and sizable paychecks? I know Ohio is not a super high paying job - but several million over 5 years is nothing to sneeze at.

Is it stress? Competitive nature? Ego?

I was aware, and everyone around me was aware and holding up 5 fingers and screaming at the top of our 21 year old lungs during that last play which was 5th down. However, I don't think many people realized it (myself included) when the mistake actually happened, which I believe was between 2nd and 3rd down when they didn't change the down marker. I don't think many fans check the actual down marker on the field during the game - or could even see it, and the Mizzou coaching staff did not or they would have called it out. That miss haunted Stull the rest of his days. Ultimately, once the ball was snapped after the mistake (the second second down) there was no going back. BTW - Bob Stull was a really top notch person and decent coach in a really bad situation. He was a good leader as an AD for many years at UTEP.

Woody's wagon crashed and burned, and ran over the future prospects of Mizzou football in the process. Not sure it was because he was a bad coach (but the record is what it is). As others have said, the administration at the time was about anything and everything NOT related to football or athletics in general. The chancellor was all about campus beutification and pretended to be about academics (both of which she made very little progress on), and the AD had no spine to stand up to her and the facilities fell way behind. If not for Norm Stewart already having the basketball program established those years would have been really, really bleak.

I will say this for Woody - he started off great, recruited the number 1 running back in the country (Tony Van Zant out of St Louis), and a top option QB out of East St. Louis (running the option was king back then). It all unraveled before TVZ ever stepped on campus when he blew out his knee in a High School all star game. TVZ never recovered fully (altho he did play some), Woody never recovered, Stull followed with the same results, and Mizzou was dead in football for a long time. I was there and I lived through it with a few dozen others that still attended the games. Stull did beat Colorado the year they were voted national champs - except the Big 8 referees forgot how to count to 4 and then gifted CU a TD on down 5.

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Supposedly Sherrone Moore is available,

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He may be coaching at the Big House again... just not "that" big house.