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Texas Wahoo

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  1. Grand Canyon is really using that online for-profit university money to increase their athletic standing recently.
  2. I watched the press conference. He basically said that he knows that he is no longer the best person to coach in the current environment. He got choked up quite a few times talking about it. He mentioned that they will need collective bargaining and a salary cap. He thought about it at the end of last season, but had to jump right into recruiting, etc. and did not get much of a chance to fully consider it. Wanted to leave now to give the new guys a couple of weeks to take charge, and he will still be around the program, if they will have him.
  3. I know everyone is excited about Gameday in Austin this week, but do we think there is a decent chance Gameday is in Nashville for the Texas game next week? Vandy already upset No. 1 Alabama this year and has been a good story - and I cannot imagine Gameday has been there in a long time. The other options seem to be LSU at A&M, Mizzou at Bama (both locations where they've already been this season), Boise-UNLV (which would possibly have been the location if UNLV hadn't lost the week before last and if the game wasn't on CBSSN), and Notre Dame at Navy (in New Jersey).
  4. My guess is that a scheduling arrangement in football is not going to take affect until 2026 at the earliest. My understanding is that the format is set for 2024-25, but it could change for the rest of the ESPN contract.
  5. I generally buy from whatever source is the cheapest for the tickets I want, but I guess fortunately for me, it has not been StubHub in about 5 years - pretty much always TickPick or SeatGeek.
  6. It's not that unusual, to be honest. It reminds me of my current county. They require builders to include a certain amount of affordable units in order to increase the density of a site, but in almost every case, they agree to let the builders pay towards an affordable housing fund instead of including the affordable units on the more valuable property. Theoretically, the county's affordable housing fund is then used to build the affordable housing elsewhere in the county, but who knows how much of it is actually used for that. What's ridiculous is how the Brentwood school sought to provide a "benefit" to veterans - by allowing them to use the athletics facilities during certain house as long as there were no high school plans to use the facilities during that time. I don't have the decision in front of me any more, but it was like 4:30-6:30am MWF.
  7. On August 25...
  8. From what I can tell, the land was donated to the government for the housing of Veterans and for whatever reason the Department of Veteran Affairs decided to lease it to UCLA, Brentwood School, etc. Presumably they did not want to build housing there (probably the neighbors worried about having formerly homeless vets living in affluent areas), so they leased it at what is clearly way below market rate (at least in the case of the Brentwood school). A group of veterans sued, saying that the land was not being used to house veterans, and the judge agreed. From the first page of the Judge's order:
  9. Antitrust violation. If all of the big tech companies conspired to keep wages down, former Google employees could still sue, even though they voluntarily agreed to work for Google. It's the same for college athletes. They can sue because the schools/NCAA conspired to keep their wages down (by limited/banning NIL and prohibiting the schools from paying players what they are worth. It is not a contract issue, it is an antitrust issue. You cannot contract around the antitrust laws unless it is in the context of negotiating with a union. FYI, from the Judge in the House case in a denial of a motion to dismiss. It summarizes the argument pretty well:
  10. Transfer windows shortening, but they are keeping the second window for football.
  11. I mean, probably in the same situation. If it would have been a first down, you definitely take the points off the board.
  12. It looks like he played in five games (before the bowl) last year.
  13. It is pretty funny if they are not going to broadcast big home games for any of the West Coast schools because it does not fit in their window and then they have Friday games that Michigan and Nebraska have basically said they refuse to play in (anymore for Nebraska). It seems like they are paying for tOSU and Michigan home games and then a bunch of filler.
  14. Fox must have gotten a lot for trading away the first selection this week.
  15. I always assumed they were not in the MWC for other sports because the MWC did not want them for other sports because of the huge added cost of traveling to Hawaii for every sport. Obviously the calculus is different now that the MWC needs another school, but it is still a pain to fly to hawaii for tennis, volleyball, etc. from Wyoming, New Mexico, Reno, etc.
  16. It's probably a bit of an upgrade, but not enough to make the move.
  17. Definitely sounds like the Pac-12 is hoping to get more concrete media numbers and then going back after one or more of the AAC schools.
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