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  1. With UVerse we've had one of the 4 local network channels off the air for several weeks. Just yesterday another one was off. The cable companies are not rolling over for anyone.
  2. 28 members of FBS were FCS or not even playing football 30 years ago. 19 of those weren't FBS or weren't playing football only 20 years ago. 16 of those moved up 2012 or later. There is a lot of FBS that wouldn't be missed. As for Division I, 40 years ago over 100 of the 364 were Division II, III, NAIA or not playing sports. You could lop the bottom 10 conferences out of NCAA basketball and nobody would notice as they hardly have any fans.
  3. And the Tennessee president got his bachelor's at Tennessee, but his master's at OU! I thought when I looked it up I would find a bunch of UNC, Cal and Michigan degrees.
  4. Well the current Alabama president IS an aggy.
  5. Two key quotes from that article: "The joint advisory board is tasked with tackling the most pressing challenges before the industry in what Big Ten and SEC commissioners describe as an “urgent” mission to find solutions for issues such as ongoing antitrust lawsuits, most notably the multi-billion dollar House case; disagreements over the NCAA’s new governance proposal, Project DI; and the unsettled landscape of athlete transfer movement, tampering charges and name, image and likeness (NIL) inducements.... Settling on an acceptable athlete compensation model is perhaps the most pressing issue before the Big Ten and SEC’s advisory group, as well as the other FBS leagues. A new model could rectify both the House v. NCAA antitrust case and the current landscape of college football and basketball recruiting — a space which coaches and administrators describe as a pay-for-play, unregulated free agent marketplace...."
  6. For those who didn't notice BOW's thread.
  7. Swaim's tweet, for all we made fun of what he posted, did start the endless Shaggy realignment thread, so it is with sadness to share this tweet. He is going into Hospice.
  8. The meat of the FSU argument seems to be on pages 25-31 of their 59 page document linked in the article.
  9. https://www.on3.com/teams/florida-state-seminoles/news/fsu-takes-aim-at-former-acc-commissioner-john-swofford-in-amended-complaint/ FSU amends their lawsuit. "In a 59-page amended complaint for declaratory judgment — 21 pages longer than the original complaint Florida State filed in December — the university took sharp aim at former ACC Commissioner John Swofford for a number of allegedly self-serving actions it says cost member schools millions upon millions of dollars. FSU’s attorneys also rebutted several claims from, and questioned the legality of, the ACC’s complaint...."
  10. WSU and OSU didn't have all their legal ducks in a row so they asked for more time. They did approve the 8 team minimum to qualify as a conference. When you look at the whole BCS/CFP era, in 26 years the current G5 would only have gotten 17 bids in a 6/6 model. Most of those #5 and #6 champs are schools now in the P4, either BE schools or the Big 12 newbies (UL, TCU, Cincy, UH, UCF). So a 5/7 gives the current G5 teams better access than they would have had in the past with a 6/6 when the Pac 12 was still around. And 8 of those 17 would have been Boise when they had their great streak.
  11. No, more people would probably watch. I don't watch 16/1, 15/2 games. Most often they are ugly, even in the rare occasions when its close. Cinderellas are relative. NCSU was a Cinderella in 1983. 10 conferences could disappear from Division I and nobody would notice. Probably 15. The tourney was a big deal when there were 250 Division I teams instead of 364 and it was a 48 team tourney. Now if you were to take gambling out, then that hurts viewership! 64 does make for nice brackets.
  12. I don't see how the P4/5 stay in a 364 school Division I basketball tourney with the NCAA keeping the bulk of the revenue. Some sort of breakaway seems inevitable. But is it a P4/5?, FBS?, or FBS + BE?, or FBS + BE + 3-5 other conferences? Its not going to be all 31 Division I conferences (not counting Pac 12). If 10 conferences dropped to Division II, nobody would notice.
  13. https://sports.yahoo.com/with-college-sports-at-a-critical-juncture-is-project-di-the-answer-everything-is-on-the-table-161809460.html P5 commissioners (guess Kliavcoff hasn't been excommunicated yet) meeting with NCAA president Baker. SEC and Big 10 don't like Baker's proposal. Good stuff in article. But this is a big takeaway: "...In no secret, the two commissioners of the behemoths, SEC’s Greg Sankey and Big Ten’s Tony Petitti, have developed a close relationship, communicate regularly and hold the power to steer college football’s future. Its direction is quite clear. Both Sankey and Petitti have expressed an intent to both accelerate NCAA governance and condense the amount of schools operating under a single umbrella. “How do you take larger groups and make them smaller to drive forward?” Petitti asked in an interview last year with Yahoo Sports...."
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    Applewhite Out

    Good for Major! Interesting the head coach was making 810k at USA and got a raise to 2 million for being Alabama's coordinator.
  15. He apparently wants to be a coach and will work the coaching staff as well as being backup in case of injury.
  16. From the video when they got in the car,, yes, she was probably in worse shape than the driver.
  17. Its simple. The top 4 champs get the byes. Everyone else plays the first round. I haven't heard specific discussion on whether the top 4 champs are seeded 1 to 4 or if they simply get the bye. I suspect they are 1-4. The fourth, regardless of whether they are ranked #4 or #14, will still get the toughest 1st round winner in the 2nd round.
  18. Georgia had one less loss than Bama. They lost by the narrowest of margins. Had 4 common opponents and blasted two who Bama narrowly beat and did better against UK who both stomped and won solidly over Auburn who Alabama beat on a prayer. In the SEC CCG, Bama got a few breaks and just wanted it more that day. The rest of the season UGA was a better team. It wasn't a fluke they were ranked #1 before the Bama loss. Its not just about FSU.
  19. Yeah. I have zero sympathy for SMU, but its a piece of shit move by Sankey (and probably Pettiti).
  20. Exception if its done for humor
  21. How do we know Craig James didn't do it?
  22. One thing to feel good about is that we didn't have luck with injuries. Ewers missed 2 games. Brooks was lost for the season in game 10--we had good depth, but Brooks really is a difference maker. Sanders, Whittington and Worthy were banged up pretty much the whole 2nd half of the season. Mitchell may have been the only key offensive playmaker at full strength throughout (and maybe he was hampered and I missed it).
  23. It was much worse this year because of th4 transfer portal growing. You have MAC teams losing 6 starters.
  24. Looking at those plays again, if Whittington could have kept his balance, he walks in.
  25. Don't know how many of you noticed it, but the OU player getting a humanitarian award did a horns down while getting the award. He got roundly booed. OU being OU. Seemed like almost all the Texas fans left real quick after the incompletion. Its hard to get out of the Superdome.
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