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Uncle Nate

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  1. I don't know...Pat McAfee may give him a run for his money on this front.
  2. Excuse me for not being the all-knowing vetter of all things X. I saw it, it was interesting and bizarre, so I thought I would share it at the place that has typically enjoyed the interesting and bizarre.
  3. And BYU has gotten left out two years in a row with 11 wins seasons each year.
  4. Didn't know where else to put this one...maybe we can start a thread for all the psychos in college football?
  5. Oh please 6lb 8oz baby Jesus....please make this happen.
  6. I never bet on sports...ever. But in light of the news yesterday, is there a reason I shouldn't put every dime I have on Texas to cover at -5.5?
  7. Exactly. Replace the trainwreck. Never replace the legend.
  8. Flight tracker Baton Rouge to Ann Arbor?
  9. Ouch...big loss for IU:
  10. I just laugh at the number of folks who took the bait and thought this could really happen. I have a better shot at bedding Sydney Sweeney than the Big 12 has at getting ND to join the conference.
  11. Which one? Twiki or Dr. Theopolis?
  12. Translation: We have a top heavy administration. Edit to add: And how much you want to bet some administrators are going to get nice pay increases from this deal to boot?
  13. And hopefully you have smart people running your university and on your BOR.
  14. I don't think near enough credit is being given to McGuire's DC hire...Shiel Wood. As for the new OC, I still think the jury is out. He makes me scratch my head more than I would like. But to be fair, I don't know if it's him or if it is Behren checking into different plays. But that's the thing a lot of people don't realize...Tech had both a new OC and DC this year. That fact alone had caused me concern going into the season that we would not be able to maximize the talent on the roster. But they have, for the most part (again, offense not quite so).
  15. Indiana says "not so fast".
  16. Can you imagine how many SEC championships aggy will claim if you get rid of the CCG?
  17. Utah a few years from now after these current administrators are long gone...
  18. C-stat sounds like a medical procedure to me. Which is appropriate because I feel like I would need some kind of medical intervention after visiting that place.
  19. The schools don't pay for the bowl gifts/swag that are given to the teams. That comes from the bowl and their sponsors. The schools pay for the travel and they have to foot the bill for the guaranteed allotment of tickets. The travel ends up being 3-4x more than a normal game because not only are they staying longer, but they have a much, much bigger travel party, and they foot the bill for the band to go. For the lesser bowls, or bowls far away, schools can lose their shirts on the unbought tickets alone, much less that extraordinary travel costs. Add to it the conference taking its cut and yes, the non NY6 bowls can often be a deficit for the schools.
  20. It's a cash bonanza to our TV network overlords who are truly the ones in control of this.
  21. ESPN is what has ruined college football. Yes, it gives us all the games on TV, and that is a great thing. But in return, we had to sell our souls to the Mouse. ESPN, and by extension it's leading competitor Fox, have destroyed what made college football great. The conference realignments have been about one thing and one thing only...money. College athletics sold its soul (regional conferences, old rivalries and traditions, etc.) for the almighty dollar. The CFP is just an extension of that. We wanted a true championship, but what we got was an enslavement to ESPN. One television network should not own the entire CFP. But they do, and they've manipulated the conferences into a realignment that only benefits the network. We all mock the B1G for considering the PE route (and we are right to do so, because it's an insane thing to do), but at the same time we fail to realize WE'VE ALREADY SOLD OUT TO PRIVATE EQUITY. And that PE is ESPN.
  22. I think the NBC TV contract has these administrators fooled into thinking that Notre Dame is the biggest brand in all of sports, and thus, they must have them included in whatever they do. These are the same administrators who think private equity would be good for schools, who designed the CFP and comprised the current committee, and who give coaches insane contracts with insane buyouts and then fire them after 3-4 years. These aren't smart people.
  23. If you really want it to be like every other sport, you have to get rid of all polls and rankings and guaranteed byes for conferences. Otherwise, it's still a subjective list. To get a true playoff you have to restructure the conferences. Until we do that, this is going to continue to be based on voters and rankings to some extent, which is not how a true playoff field should be determined.
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