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  1. Anything interesting in this?
  2. The article I posted suggested that it will be like the MLS deal where you pay $99 a year for MLS content separate from the payment for normal Apple plus. It’s not likely to be like the MLB deal where you get it just for having a subscription to Apple plus.
  3. https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/apple-emerges-as-potential-landing-spot-for-pac-12-football/ If this ends up being a separate deal where you have to pay $X per year for Pac 12 content, that is way worse than just being on Amazon Prime available to everyone with Prime. No one that is not a fan of a Pac 12 team is going to fork over money for just Pac 12 sports.
  4. This logic doesn't make any sense. If LSU would have no one but OU to play on the last week of the year; having them play A&M would leave Texas with no one at all to play, because they obviously cannot play OU that weekend. So either way, you are going to have to move one of the other rivalry games if you want everyone to have a rivalry game that weekend.
  5. Singles not going well so far. Already lost two first sets and down in two others.
  6. I had not realized that “the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry” had recently caught up to “the South’s Oldest Rivalry” (UVA/UNC) because they played twice in 2017.
  7. I would be surprised if UVA/UNC split up. If they had a choice, I am not sure which way they would go (SEC vs. B1G), but I think it would be together.
  8. It is the flagship University of a decently sized state that is relatively wealthy and growing and that has disproportionate influence in DC. It is also one of the few schools that is located in geographic proximity for both major conferences (especially when paired with UNC). It does not hurt that is is a great academic school with good non-football sports. Obviously football is questionable, but perhaps being in a major conference could help it keep some of it's home-grown recruits from going to Penn State.
  9. Ah yes, a five team pod in which all of the teams do not play each other...
  10. I was looking at the list of SEC champions and two things struck me. First, no team that has joined the SEC since 1932 has ever won an SEC championship; and second, only six teams have won an outright SEC championship since Ole Miss in 1963. So really, Alabama, UGA, Florida, LSU, Tennessee, and Auburn are the only ones that have won championships in sixty years. If you add Texas, OU, and A&M (purely based on willingness to spend), then you have nine potential champions and seven also-rans. Optimal fairness would probably be to give all nine of the potential champions two other potential champions and one of the others. Each of the others can get one or two potential champions to fill out the schedule, but it does not really matter.
  11. Even so, it looks like tOSU basically confirmed it: If this was because of Washington moving to the Big Ten, tOSU would not be paying the liquidated damages.
  12. Some speculation is that it is because tOSU does not want two West Coast trips in one year.
  13. Almost assuredly unrelated to realignment, but fun to speculate.
  14. Q - How much of my contribution will go to Texas A&M student-athletes? A - Fuck if we know. We have a lot of overhead and expenses. Hopefully some of it will make it to student athletes. Why even include this in the Q&A?
  15. It would be pretty shocking if Auburn did not have both Alabama and Georgia as two of their permanent rivals.
  16. It's because the Texas-Bama game is the end of a nonconference home-and-home series, while the UGA-OU game is the first in a series that was scheduled to be completed in 2031. If they played the game as scheduled, the SEC would lose out, as the first game was at OU, so the Big 12 would get the benefits of the game, while the 2031 game would just be a normal SEC game.
  17. They’re not doing pods, but it’s not as wrong as you suggest. While it’s true that A&M has played LSU more than OU, LSU has played the two Mississippi schools and Alabama a lot more than A&M. Similarly, while Arkansas has more history with LSU and Ole Miss than OU, Ole Miss has played Miss State, LSU, and Vandy way more than Arkansas. Obviously they cannot just match up the teams that have played the most, because that is often not true for both sides of each “rivalry.”
  18. Obviously, the key will be whether the schools are forced to sign a grant of rights in order to get a deal done.
  19. I have a hard time imagining Auburn is getting Florida along with Bama and UGA. That's rough.
  20. It’s because we need to split up the 50 million into two years to avoid getting no money this year. Some of it will be withheld from the Big 12 payment for 2013 and the rest from the SEC payment in 2014. 40 million or that will go to the 8 leftovers and 10 million to fox. We should make up the lost money by 2016 or 2017 from the increased payment in the SEC.
  21. Anyone have access to this? https://theathletic.com/4171699/2023/02/09/college-football-realignment-pac-12-smu-big-12/.
  22. https://catalog.utsa.edu/policies/tuitionfees/mandatorysemesterfees/mandatorysemesterfees.pdf
  23. The AAU may not include any religious institutions, although that is probably because those universities do not tend to be top research universities. However, the AAU includes a ton of private universities.
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