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ermahgerdhorn

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  1. I'd refine that a bit. The booster pays the player and his only payoff is winning. The owners (universities) can still benefit from the talent acquired by the boosters. If we recruited a lightning bolt media whore - a 2026 Manziel - but went 9-3, the boosters who paid him millions might be pissed, but our Athletic Department would be stoked at the higher ratings and licensed merch sales. How long that is sustainable remains to be seen. There aren't too many comparable scenarios where the person spending the money is completely disconnected with the person reaping the fruits off those investments.
  2. I said "cashing in". He is NOT a good coach and is currently riding a wave thanks to Klein and an embarrassingly easy schedule. If Klein leaves he'll be back to 7-5 or 8-4 in a good year and won't be a hot commodity. If he cashes in now, knowing he doesn't have an OC next year, and goes to PSU or UF for $10mm/yr he can get a several years and a buyout before reality sets in. That's a lot of money.
  3. This makes fat Elko cashing in and bailing damn near 100%. Klein is the only thing plugging the damn of mediocrity right now and if he leaves, Elko will be back to 7-5/8-4 for the foreseeable future. He'd be an idiot to not bail for PSU/FL/LSU before that happens.
  4. So you are saying they have a good chance against aggy?
  5. 40k was being charitable. This is a game supposedly attended by 90,000. You know you are fucking up when CBS puts down the Metamucil long enough to make fun of you on the social media machine.
  6. Oh so aggy gets carry forward credit for joining the SEC when Alabama was winning a bunch of championships 13 years ago? That seems less than relevant today. The fact is they manipulated the situation to have the easiest possible schedule this year while other teams (like us) are playing actual hard schedules.
  7. We have a better resume at 10-2 than they have at 11-1 (with us spoiling). They beat ND sure, but they are overrated this year and aggy needed some cheating to win that game. LSU won't be ranked after this weekend and aggy again benefitted by a shitload of bad and non calls. Absent that the game would have at least been close if not an LSU win. sure aggy beat MSST and Florida but (1) those games were at home; (2) the opposing teams were in a different place aggy sure as shit didn't have the balls to go on the road to OSU and only come up 1 score short. They continue to schedule powerhouses like Samford instead.....
  8. Thanks for triggering a lot of old trauma.
  9. Attention rules experts - is there a scenario where both teams can lose here?
  10. Fat Elmo to PSU keeps building up more and more mentions as the days go by. It will be interesting to see if he has a done deal and sandbags aggy the rest of the season.
  11. The SEC is getting bottom heavy and while tradition is grand and everything it doesn't pay bills when it comes time for TV contracts. If you look at the conference today for football MSST just doesn't belong (like a few, cough cough, others) and collectively they need to go. Blue Bloods: bama Georgia Texas On the Cusp/Good enough: LSU Auburn ou Tennessee Florida Necessary Evil: Miss pig SC Kentucky Doesn't belong: MSST aggy vandy Mizz
  12. She would not be happy with that 66-6 guy....
  13. I think Sark is being called out plenty this year. Whether he actions on all that calling out is the key question.
  14. Your statement is a bit of a straw man. They do draw 2mm viewers occasionally (and always on the back of a blue blood program) but average much much lower. Their worst rated games (plural) are down in the 20k area. aggy has no national appeal and ratings for our games, even within the state only, are orders of magnitude higher. They bring nothing to the SEC and are feeding off big brother's TV money yet again, just like the Big 12/SWC days. If aggy gets the boot from the SEC, which I think would make economic sense, they would be middle of the pack, at best, in the American of CUSA in terms of what they bring in terms of viewership, program budget, and visibility. aggy would be a solid add for those conferences but not automatic if we are being honest.
  15. An undefeated season that's a complete dumpster fire - Shit facilities and even the scant effort aggy has made to improve them only makes them worse An impossible place to recruit - probably tied with or slightly behind Lubbock He's slowly losing recruiting battles and his class has been tumbling down the rankings for months now Athletics department in a mess financially (see free renewals for long time season ticket holders and the resulting "sold out" crowds that are 40-50k at most) NIL money is trending downward and doing so quite hard About to hit the meat of his schedule and probably go 1-4 or 2-3 at best SEC experiencing a hangover from bringing in aggy and Mizzou, two teams that contribute nothing to the conference, instead of actual blue blood programs, resulting in some big freaking question marks going forward. He's not even remotely a good coach but his stock is as high as it's going to get. As far as credibility with recruits. First, that doesn't fund his retirement. Second, would he have more credibility recruiting a kid there if he stayed until the end of the season before leaving and the kid ends up finishing his senior year at an aggy that's probably sub-500 in CUSA? Either way the poor kid that is dumb enough to listen to him is probably not very happy.
  16. Also shows that he's completely fed up with the dumpster fire that is aggy athletics. Lot of buzz still on twitter that he's going to bail mid-season due to all the unrest.
  17. All the words hurt my eyes
  18. Also in FPI we are ranked the third highest in the SEC, behind only Georgia and bama. So any trip by those teams and we move in to #1 in the SEC, which should be good enough for at least a 1st round playoff game.
  19. At 9-3 we jump 10-2 programs with less of a resume. Going through the SEC, having the talent we do, and playing @ OSU is a big bump in our resume.
  20. With the exception of like 2 years with Manziel aggy and Kentucky have traded last place in the SEC ratings. This is why it is bullshit they get a full share of the TV revenue as that has trended even worse since we joined and take school agnostic texas-based eyeballs. This is getting to be a bigger and bigger issue and probably leads to changes when the next TV deal is being negotiated. At least KY brings other sport viewers, aggy sucks at all sports and has zero national appeal (or even awareness).
  21. Yes - PSU's donor base smokes them - and aggy's NIL well is drying up. Fact is they have a handful of big donors but they built a huge, ugly, expensive stadium that they've filled like twice and don't have new money coming in. aggy's chances of having any meaningful NIL money next year is damn near zero.
  22. I like to break my problems down in to small, manageable bites. #5 is rapidly on the way to resolving itself with more and more chatter that Elmo is gone before the end of the season (and if his agent is smart before his overrated team goes on a 1-4 tear). Even Bruce Feldmen has gone full in on fat Elko as the most likely followed by Rhule. Now on to the other 4....
  23. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPzghykDaZG/?igsh=MWd3ZDYzcnQ5dXI0NA%3D%3D Looking more and more like Elko is hitting the road....
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