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We basically had this but the issue is that none of the helmet schools wanted divisions like these and actively blew them up LOL. You’re alluding to money and conference media rights but the heart of the problem is this: the power programs want to get paid for being in a conference of only other power schools but then are unhappy when they take losses and wish they had a Kansas on the schedule. Honestly a hard reset to 2003 would produce good (enough) conference balance with the PAC, Big XII, Big Ten, SEC, Big East, ACC plus ND. You could have a great 16 team playoff with all the champs, 8 P6 + ND at large (no more than two per conference) , and then the two best mid-majors. Remember that at the time the superconferences weren’t bloated and teams like TCU, Boise, Utah, BYU, etc that were more than worthy of squaring up. But teams didn’t want those conferences!
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Anyone who followed FCS or DII football could tell you that you could put half the teams in the division in the POs and there’d still be endless whining about who got left out.
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Fuck the “new media” at the Pentagon is insanely good. You won’t find this type of reporting from the LAMEstream media.- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Matt Campbell is the Josh Heupel of James Franklins.- Trump’s America
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Only one loss to an P4/ND team with a losing record (FSU). Both of the Big XII SEC losses came to teams with losing records (MSU, Auburn). It’s not the top of the SEC beating up on the bottom of others.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
The SEC’s losses against the P4 plus ND were: Ohio State (TX) Miami (FL) FSU (Bama) Clemson (USCe) Louisville (KY) Notre Dame (Arkie) So 3/6 losses came to CFP/bubble teams, and one of those CFP team also ate a SEC loss aside from beating a bad Arkie. The only upset or “bad” loss was FSU over Alabama.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
This gets even more painful for everyone but the SEC once you eliminate the PAC-12 win column. LOL.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Most of the “solutions” to ND that are being floated run afoul of antitrust pretty quickly, which is deeply ironic given that the gripe is over alleged unfair treatment that ND receives. An explicit or tacit agreement to not do business with a competitor to force them to join a revenue-share model with you is very much anti-competitive.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
That would be a painful lawsuit that ND would file and probably win.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Right, and the bulk of those dropped to D-1AA when it was created. The remaining D1A programs save Notre Dame couldn’t make the numbers work as Indy after SCOTUS broke the NCAA National TV monopoly. Again; that was not a suit ND filed or joined and every school in the NCAA is free to try and do what they did.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Yeah, and I think that the history of how it went down and how we got to super-conferences provides more context. I, for one, applaud ND for telling the rest of the world to fuck off. They are playing by the rules the giants of the CFB set. - ND tried to join the Big Ten. Twice, I believe. They were turned down. And in a fit of anti-Papism, which was a potent political force at the time, the precursor to the Big Ten organized a boycott from scheduling them. - In response they took their show on the road and built a national brand and fan-base of “Catholics.” By mid-century the Big Ten would have taken them but why would ND want to now? - Through the 1980s being an independent power was nothing odd and no one blinked an eye. ND won NCs, so did PSU, Pitt, Miami, or got bent over FSU’s rise. - In 1984 UGA and OU sued the NCAA to break their monopoly on national TV media rights, as proxies for the SEC/Big 8. ND did not join that suit. The end result was that schools or conferences could bargain their rights. This is the moment where conferences ceased being regional alliances and became money-making sports cartels. This is why the SWC no longer made any sense, and why college football fans suddenly started caring about media market presence. - Within a decade all the other independents joined. Note— they didn’t have to and could have sold rights like ND did. There were no offers worth more to them than joining a consortium would be. Note also, Texas approached CBS about an ND-like deal in the 1990s and got told “not now.” - Notre Dame, as you mention, could make the numbers work and they did it with NBC. They could do it because of their own brand-building for decades and because power conferences sued the NCAA to give them the structure to do it. Yes, ND is uniquely positioned to make money outside of a conference. That provides some competitive advantages. But they’re playing by the rules others set. I don’t see the SEC/Big Ten powerhouses waving their hands to voluntarily disarm their NIL qualitative advantage. Them’s the breaks, and getting overly agitated at ND for playing really well in the game others designed comes off as really sour grapes, as does continually trying to force others to abandon an advantage thet came by fairly. Let’s talk first about a NCAA-wide voluntary NIL salary cap or NIL redistribution before changing rules to make ND go in on a revenue redistribution scheme they don’t want a part of.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Any team can also go independent and play by the same rules ND does.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Under this structure, there’s an argument for ND to join a G5 and then just be the highest ranked non-P5 champ every year while still cracking the door to get an . Which would be hilarious tbh. I bet the SunBelt would agree to some crazy unfavorable revenue-sharing terms.- 2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
In a season where the Big 10 very nearly sold themselves to private equity, it’s hard to argue that ND hasn’t been right about conferences all along. Going independent is an option for any school that wants to try it. I’d like to see more do it.- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
I really miss a more diverse sports media. Someone needs to draw a cartoon where every CFB analyst is just a puppet on the hands of a multi-armed Mickey Mouse because we are close to that. The only other alternative is each college’s in-house On3 agitprop producer.- UTRGV commits to add FCS football by 2024
- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Here’s the Fran to USC column. Seems it was first in The Sporting News. TL;DR: Carroll is the next Paul Hackett, look at ‘Bama— they landed Fran but could have had Butch Davis if they wanted! USC should have pursued Fran or at least Mike Riley. - Trump’s America
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