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WSU/OSU want to get their 1/69th (or 70th) share of the CFP power money in 25 and 26.

Saw someone else say Wilner said (twitter I presume) said the judge was going to make sure nobody took advantage of anyone else. The WSU president himself said publicly that there was no way WSU could get at current year's media money. The by-laws were very specific.

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-cfp-leaders-moving-closer-to-adjusting-12-team-playoff-format-230208506.html Leaning to 5+7 and this: "...Commissioners also established a new policy requiring a league to have eight members to be eligible for an automatic qualifying spot to the 12-team playoff. Both moves were made in the wake of the Pac-12’s collapse. In the originally approved 6+6 format, the highest-ranked six conference champions earn automatic qualifiers and the next six highest-ranked teams earn at-large bids. That format was designed based on the existence of 10 FBS conferences. Realignment leaves FBS with nine leagues, though Oregon State and Washington State are attempting for at least two years to preserve the Pac-12 as a two-team league. The new policy requiring leagues to have eight members makes the champion of a two-team league ineligible to earn an automatic bid...."

Jester may have gotten better by the time you were there. Breakfast was ok, not great. I guess it was good enough we didn't finish our Friday night poker games until the cafeteria was open Saturday morning! The only things I thought were good there they usually served all on the same day and usually on Sunday afternoons when not many students were there-steak, baked potatoes, Dutch crumb apple pie and a pineapple chunk, cheese chunk ambrosia dish. There were a couple times my freshmen year there was mass food poisoning. Fortunately I avoided it, but it hit about 20-30% of the students. There was an article a few years back on the nutritionist the athletic department had hired to work in the athletic cafeteria. They were getting a variety of healthy dishes. Football players were saying they had been getting tired of steak all the time. It was a little different than the typical student's cafeterias! I imagine all these P5 programs have nutritionists working on diets specific for each sport. The costs of running a program keep going up.

My freshmen roommate and some of my hallmates moved to Brackenridge or Moore-Hill their 2nd year. The rooms were larger and cheaper and you could eat at the Moore-Hill cafeteria instead of the abominable Jester. BUT no A/C. So there was NO way I was going there. When the football players were there, no air conditioning was probably the norm. I never had A/C in my schools until 8th grade. The off guy's roommate who had his stuff stolen was a bit of a character. When talking to a guy who lived in the room he had the year before he showed us the burn marks on the ceiling he created with a chemistry experiment. Apparently didn't do too much damage. Room was still habitable. So even in those days, we had mattress and room and dorm realignment! And the SWC expanded with UH who came in and won the football title 3 of their first 4 years.

I imagine the athletes have been moved to better digs than the 3rd floor of Jester East by now. One of the guys on my hall, who was a little off, decided to knock on dorm doors with a hammer and then try to hit the people in the head. Fortunately, he started down on the 3rd floor with the football players. He was quickly stopped. And promptly expelled. That was some time after his roommate was a victim of the Budweiser bandits (no the off guy didn't do it). Happened to a number of people. Every single thing in their room, including the mattress, was stolen. They were left a ransom note to leave a case of Budweiser at a certain location at a certain time in order to get their stuff back. They never caught the guys. Pretty impressive that they could get a mattress out without being noticed.

https://sports.yahoo.com/change-is-coming-to-the-college-football-playoff-145517600.html "At this time next year, the College Football Playoff’s latest rankings will be revealed in a televised broadcast much like they were Tuesday night. While that’s not changing, so much else is. By next year, the CFP… • will have a new executive director. • will have expanded from four to 12 teams. • will have developed a new revenue-sharing model. • will have agreed to a new television deal and long-term contract. Change is coming. The aforementioned topics will be at the center of meetings this week in Dallas when the 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick gather. The group is scheduled to meet on Thursday with plenty of agenda items to explore. Will decisions be made? Not on all of it. Here’s the gist on each of the four topics ahead of Thursday’s meeting:...."

Never slide. Good way to get seriously hurt. Run out of bounds, take a knee, lean forward and go down. Slide rule should go away.

Hopefully not on a particular day! You did understand the point of the previous post? The athletes aren't all just online, but are actually on campus.

Sark isn't alone in this mindless following of analytics. Seen some really dumb stuff this season.

I saw Earl periodically on campus. Saw Lam Jones all the time at Jester East, often enough we would usually say hi or nod when we passed. Probably saw a number of others that I didn't recognize.

Yes. Fox and ESPN require it.

Sounds like there really is no dispute over future NCAA distributions or the Pac 12 name. But the groups disagree over current revenues (which they shouldn't-Schulz already said it had to be distributed), residual assets (reserve funds, Pac 12 N, etc.) and liabilities.

Well Georgia had Auburn and Florida had LSU, so all 6 of the powers had a tough fixed cross division rival.

We had 4 big rivalries when I was in school, Land thieves, pigs, 7-11 thieves and aggy. The last few years we only had one. In the SEC we get pigs and aggy back. I think most agree that ending OU-NU was one of the Big 12's biggest mistakes. The Big 12 has nothing of that caliber, but you don't want 15 rotating games without any special intensity.

What makes the SEC and Big 10 special and more valuable are the rivalries. The SEC often went years without seeing other teams. But the key teams they saw every year. I think it is a huge mistake to not give every team at least two every year rivals. It just loses the spice. In addition to the 4 above, add Utah/CU, BYU/ASU, CU/AU in the west. UC/UCF/WVU all play each other in the east. Add Farmageddon and ISU/KU. Then add TT/OSU, TT/UH, UH/TCU and BU/OSU. You can also do 2 others 3 out of 4 and the other 11 still see 2 out of 4.

How do they give up Farmageddon???

Don't make it quite so structured. BYU, AZ, ASU, UU, CU-play 3 games against each other (except BYU-2), skip CU-BYU, UU-AZ, BYU-ASU KSU, KU, ISU play each other and one of the 3 east schools (say KSU-WVU, ISU-UC, KU-UCF) UCF-WVU-UC play each other and one of the Big 12 N schools OSU, TT, TCU, BU, UH-play 3 games against each other (except UH-2 who plays BYU), skip TT-TCU, UH-OSU, UH-BU Besides the 3 fixed, you get everyone else every other year.

That's why I listed them with UH, Cincy and Louisville who aren't there anymore either.

Actually the whole conference left. UH didn't inherit all the SWC assets when they were the last to turn out the lights. This isn't at all like 2 schools out of 10 leaving. And UT and OU never acknowledged that their voting rights were gone. They just quit coming to future oriented meetings.

CUSA with a lot of the schools now in the AAC. Memphis, Tulane, UAB, ECU along with Southern Miss, UH, Cincy and Louisville. And eventually USF and TCU before they dropped out.

The by-laws are not clear at all. The same passage that says they have no voting rights says the remaining schools can sue for damages to the conference if announce intent to leave, when its clear there is no penalty for leaving on 8/2/24. It seems like that passage is talking about them actually leaving instead of just announcing. Or maybe its mixing the two. Its just really unclear and very poorly written. And while you can sympathize with them for being left behind, they are easily the two weakest state schools in the P5 in fan support despite being decent sized schools. OSU is bigger than Oregon. The assets of the Pac 12 were overwhelmingly earned by someone else.

They ARE in mediation negotiating with them now.

Being a 2 Pac sounds like a stupid idea that will kill their athletic programs. All seems to be about the lawsuit. Much better solution: Negotiate with CFP to get 2/70th shares for the next two years for OSU/WSU. Article seems to indicate nobody is opposed to that. Negotiate with 10 Pac to allow the 2 to add all 12 MWC schools. Continue on with the lawsuit over residual money, assets and basketball credits (or reach a settlement).