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  1. If Notre Dame were eventually to join a conference, I agree it would probably be the Big Ten. However, that is not likely to happen, even in the medium to long run and certainly not before 2036, when their agreement to not join any non-ACC conference is up. Even if the ACC gets watered down in some way (like if Clemson and FSU leave), I doubt that matters much to Notre Dame. The only thing that would force their hand is if they do not think they can get a decent schedule because the major conferences are not playing enough non-conference games, but everyone will make room for Notre Dame games, because Notre Dame games are immensely valuable.
  2. I’m sure there would not be much angst on Surly about whoever they hired to replace him.
  3. I think if he makes the final four or higher, he will get the job. I think that's the right decision for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I do not think they can fire the coach that just led the team to the final four. I also think if he fails to make the sweet 16, then he will not get the job, and I would also agree with that decision. The question is what happens if he loses in the sweet 16 or elite 8. My personal opinion would be they should keep him if Texas' makes the elite 8 and lnot if Texas loses in the sweet 16, but it's a really tough call and I could see Texas going either way.
  4. I'm just speculating that televising separate pro-days at Bama, Georgia, Texas, OU, Florida, LSU, etc. will make the conference and ESPN more money than joining them all up into a single SEC pro-day, like the Big 12 is doing.
  5. It is a great idea for the Big 12 (and Pac 12), but I'm not sure it makes sense for the SEC. Does ESPN/SEC Network want to give up broadcasting all of the school specific pro-days in order to have one event?
  6. Agree to disagree I guess. Do you really think that all of the writers and reporters discussing why hasn't Texas fired Beard yet would have stopped doing so if Texas just never did anything? They would be writing about it even more. And once RT started winning, the players would be asked about RT vs. Beard and whether they thought Beard would/should be back and when. It could even lead to factions on the team - with some wanting Beard to return and some feeling betrayed and wanting RT to keep the job. I do not see how that is less of a distraction than what we have now.
  7. LOL at the thought that the distraction on the team would be lessoned if Beard was currently still suspended.
  8. Do you really think the calls to hire RT would be lessoned if Beard he was having all this success while Beard was currently indefinitely suspended? There would still be the same articles, just with the added component of criticisms of Texas for not firing Beard. Not to mention the fact that Beard's lawyer would have been even more annoying saying that Texas was being unfair in suspending his entirely innocent client.
  9. I think it’s pretty clear from the letters between UT’s lawyers and Beard’s lawyer that it was not CDC’s decision on whether to fire Beard. I understand why Beard’s lawyer took the tone he did, but I think the lack of contrition and lack of any suggestion that Beard felt bad about the situation is what ultimately doomed his tenure. The Beard Ole Miss strategy is clearly to pretend that his Texas time never happened, but that would have been a lot harder for Texas to do.
  10. Oh good - now we get to argue about who everyone's two rivals should be. I'm assuming it will be OU and A&M for Texas.
  11. They got a lot more money and a network that they thought would pay out more in exchange for locking it in for so long. The deal would have been much lower if they had signed a shorter agreement.
  12. USC Michigan will pretty much always be big, but is tOSU UCLA really that big after the newness factor goes away? It will do numbers because all tOSU games do, but is it better than tOSU vs Wisconsin or Nebraska?
  13. Any idea how many players are opting out of the jersey sales and why?
  14. I do not follow Illinois basketball other than my dad, who went there for undergrad. He gets his news from places like espn.com and "watches" the games through a play by play app when he watches anything, so he's not exactly plugged into the program. However, he has seen enough articles about Underwood treating the players poorly that he seems to be a bit predisposed to be skeptical of Underwood.
  15. I think the biggest potential fly in the ointment is that Bennett already won a title at UVA. While that will not keep him in his job forever, it will buy him a hell of a lot of goodwill even if he goes through a few tough seasons.
  16. I can say that Illinois fans are getting tired of him pretty quickly.
  17. People always mention the idea of dissolving conferences, but they generally have a disinterested party clause that means that the other schools can declare another school disinterested if they are trying to leave and then they do not get to vote on whether to dissolve the conference. Even if you somehow got eight teams to want to dissolve the conference (and that alone seems pretty far-fetched), you'd somehow need to make sure the other schools did not suspect any of them were trying to leave, which would be difficult to do if they are calling for a vote on dissolution. Just for fun, let's say they can do it (or the ACC doesn't have a disinterested parties clause), who are the eight schools? Obviously (1) Clemson and (2) FSU. Then (3) UNC and (4) UVA seem like the most talked about. I guess after that it would be (5) Miami? Although that seems like it would only happen if FSU goes to the SEC and the Big Ten desperately wants into Florida. For the last three, maybe (6) VaTech, (7) NCState, and (8) Pitt?
  18. Six years times $14.5 mil /year = $87 mil, but I assume he was just rounding it.
  19. I do not see any way that any of those ACC schools are going to be motivated enough to even try to get out of their GOR for Big 12 money, even if it is a decent amount higher than ACC money. Personally, I doubt any of them are getting out of that GOR for at least a decade, but for them to even attempt it, it is going to have to be for a LOT more money (i.e., at least current SEC/Big Ten money).
  20. I do not think FSU could "force" a court ordered settlement, but they could certainly try to offer the ACC enough to let them leave. I doubt $17 million would do it, but they could offer the value they say they are worth to the ACC, which is 15% of the ACC contract. If they offered that, they might be able to get out of it.
  21. Eh - it just seems like particularly loud saber-rattling to me. For me, that video confirms the reason for going public like this, and that is to satiate the fanbase and make FSU and its administrators look like the good guys. Every comment is something like "Hell yeah! Tell them to call us Daddy!" or "We needed great leadership like this." In a decade, when everything is mostly changed, it may be harder to pull off, but it will work for a few years at least.
  22. Cincinnati is pretty close to WVU. UCF is actually a bit further away from WVU than KU is.
  23. The obvious distinction between the FSU situation and every other school that has moved so far is the fact that there is 13 years left on a GOR. I am not sure why they are doing so much publicly, but I do not think it means anything vis-a-vis the other schools because the situation is so different. As others have said, it probably has something to do with embarrassing the ACC in order to get a more uneven share (whether through TV money, bowl money, etc.). It may also be to point the ire of the fanbase, etc. on the conference and not on FSU. "We are struggling because of the conference holding us back, not because of anything we have done wrong."
  24. Not to mention the fact that the SEC deal actually ends before the ACC deal, so unless this leads to the SEC and ESPN extending their agreement a decade before it ends (which is going to cost ESPN a fortune), those schools could actually join the Big Ten sooner in such a scenario, assuming ESPN is actually that concerned about that happening. I can't imagine that ESPN is sitting up at night worrying about which schools will be in which conference in 13 years after all of their current deals are over.
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