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  1. There are several pretty charts with the article that aren't embedding for some reason, so I guess click the link.
  2. https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/ncaa-tournament-units-sec-payment-march-madness-1234845447/ SEC to Net NCAA Record $70 Million From March Madness Units By Eben Novy-Williams, Lev Akabas March 30, 2025 7:54pm The SEC entered March Madness with a record number of teams in the tournament. It will finish with the biggest payout in tournament history. Long considered more of a football conference than a basketball one, the SEC qualified 14 of its 16 teams into the men’s field this year, including No. 1 seeds Florida and Auburn. Both are still alive heading into the Final Four next week in San Antonio. The NCAA distributes hundreds of millions of dollars each year based on success in the men’s tournament. The money flows directly to each conference for every game its teams play in the tournament before the final. It’s a complex formula called “units”—which Sportico broke down in detail here—but in its simplest form, every game played in this year’s tournament will be worth an estimated $2 million for each conference. Now that the Final Four is set, we know exactly how many units each conference has earned. The SEC, which will play 35 games before the final and therefore earned 35 units, will receive roughly $70 million for its performance in the tournament. That’s by far the highest total ever, eclipsing the 25 units the ACC won in 2016. This year the Big Ten was second, with 21 units, which will pay an estimated $42 million. The Big 12 was third with 20 units for $40 million. Smaller conferences fared far worse. Twenty leagues earned just one unit, and another four earned just two. The SEC’s rise as a basketball conference began with Greg Sankey’s ascension to commissioner in 2015. At the time men’s basketball coaches in the league felt the SEC had given up on the sport to focus primarily on football. Sankey and advisor Mike Tranghese, former commissioner of the basketball-focused Big East, raised officiating standards, encouraged teams to spend up for top coaches, and pressed self-promotion. The rise of NIL, which has let richer schools flex their might; expansion; and a new batch of TV deals all helped as well. From 2014 to 2023, the average SEC men’s basketball budget jumped 76%, a bigger increase than in the Big Ten (69%), Big 12 (66%), ACC (61%) or Pac-12 (50%). The SEC now averages the second-highest men’s basketball budgets in the country, behind only the ACC. Units are distributed over six years, generating payments to the conferences in annual chunks starting the year after the tournament in which the units are earned. For units earned in 2025, that starts with a payment of roughly $360,000 next year and ends with a payment of roughly $345,000 in 2031, per Sportico’s rough calculations. The funds typically grow about 2.9% each year, but the value goes down temporarily because the canceled 2020 tournament concentrated payments for the following six years. Many conferences split their unit payouts evenly among their schools, but not all. The West Coast Conference, for example, gives a higher percentage of its distribution to the team that actually earned the units. The ACC, which won the most units in last year’s men’s tournament, also gives more money to the championship teams. This is also the first year of units in the women’s tournament, a much smaller pool of money ($15 million this year) that is paid out slightly differently. Those payouts can be fully calculated when women’s March Madness finishes its Elite Eight on Monday.
  3. Totally know what you mean. UF is a decent though not lights-out free throw shooting team -- a few percentage points behind TT -- but it almost cost us against UConn. But then UF was lights out against TT. If we shot our normal free throw percentage against TT, we lose.
  4. Missing the front end of one and ones kinda contributed to the delta. Personal fouls were about the same between the two. Florida would have been better off fouling TT in the act of shooting. Would have probably won by double digits. Golden taking advantage of the single bonus at the end was a great strategy.
  5. It definitely felt worse than it objectively was. The game was essentially tied for 30 minutes. Then TT went on a 10-2 run and held it for about 4 minutes, and then Florida went on a 9-0 run to tie it up and then Clayton's ridiculous jog out 3 just left everyone shocked. Florida made free throws. Fin.
  6. It's like the 1 and done strategy only you actually know if they are good first.
  7. So Florida still has not played a complete game this tournament and is in the final four. Go figure.
  8. Ahh the good old days when you couldn't get your uniforms to match your helmet.
  9. What is love? Caleb don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
  10. Look, pollen is really bad right now in Florida.
  11. Apparently it's $500k for each game, so $1M total. https://x.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1892992814864064844 Nebraska is adding Bowling Green and Miami (Ohio) to their schedules: https://huskers.com/news/2025/02/21/huskers-announce-changes-to-future-non-conference-football-schedules
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    Florida Gators

    Wait... how did they fit that gator in that smoker?
  13. gatormarc

    Florida Gators

    Alligator gets chewy really easily too. I have never attempted to cook it myself.
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    Florida Gators

    I have no idea what's going on with our coaching staff. No one can seem to figure out who is responsible for the good stuff and who is to blame for the bad stuff. Half the fanbase is pissed when someone leaves and the other half say they were pushed out. Titles are all over the place, making it tough to find out who is exactly responsible for what. Guess it doesn't really matter. Napier will succeed or fail based in part on these moves and they will be self evident in the end.
  15. I need some charts or something.
  16. Can't wait for Blackrock to buy out the B1G and break them up to sell off the pieces for additional profit.
  17. TL; DW: Guy has a source within the B1G and this what he is being told: ESPN is pushing SEC to expand and is working with ACC SEC would add #17 UNC, #18 NCState; possibly #19 FSU and #20 Clemson if they choose to go to 20. ACC and ESPN have already approved whoever the backfill teams are and ESPN would extend the contract (they did) B1G is content to wait until all legal issues are taken care of because they know SEC is getting first pick. B1G will always leave open a spot for Notre Dame no matter what so they will ask them first B1G will look at ratings and matchups if they expand would next consider FSU an Miami. B1G and SEC are looking to get 4 guaranteed spots each in the playoff B1G and SEC will agree to a standardized schedule; B1G will drop to 8 or SEC will increase to 9. B1G wants 2 crossover games between the two conferences for each team.
  18. FSU: We're better than everyone, we deserve more money ACC: What if we give more money to the better programs? FSU: <shits the bed> ACC: What if we give you more money simply because of your name even when you bring in less revenue and field a non-competitive team? FSU: Sounds like a fair and impartial deal. We promise we won't go anywhere. Ignore that last little bit. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/43623233/sources-espn-ok-option-televise-acc-sports-36
  19. Right, but that's all directly due to the playoff, not the regular season schedule with nationwide NBC coverage. It's more of an anomaly. Then again, so is Deion.
  20. Crazy that Colorado had more big games than Notre Dame.
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