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  1. 19 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    The solution, in my crazy proposal, is to split the 2 big revenue sports (football & mens basketball) out from the NCAA and out from direct oversight by the universities. You would then create a sports franchise (minor league) that will be located in the home city of these universities, the university would license the school name/mascot/colors etc and also rent facilities for the teams to use for training, practice, residence, and stadiums for competition.  There could be agreements to allow players to attend the school, and I am sure there are alumni groups that would love to fund this set up and have an ownership stake in said affiliated sports franchise. 
    I've thought this for a few years, as a way to deal with Title IX issues, but really with the changes brought by NIL we are miles closer to this model being actually viable..

    FWIW - this model would only apply to the top divisions of football and hoops at the college level; DII and lower would still be able to maintain being under the Athletic Dept. In all honesty, playoff eligible football and top level mens hoops programs have become defacto minor league sports with NIL money for "salaries"

    Lots of bugs and details to something like this, but it isn't as far from what is actually happening as it was only 2 years ago.

    That model is my idea for an alumni league.  Think how many people would go to an Austin Horns game on summer nights, featuring players who just didn't make the draft or are angling for a practice squad spot. 

     

    It might get tricky with unlimited transfers where someone attended 5 schools and has no degree.

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  2. 14 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    Title 9 is going to fuck this whole deal.  When the women's rowers demand to be paid the same as the starting QB, he'll sue for not getting his value.  And they'll sue for equal pay.  Rock and hard place.

     

    13 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    Title IX doesn't give a shit about the market.  The university level administrators and their Federal guidance are seeking "equitable" treatment for females vs. males from the university -> student.  That's why we have a women's rowing team with literally dozens of fans that recruits any female willing to sign up on campus; so we can have the same # of scholarships for men and women.  Doesn't matter to the government that there isn't an equivalent female sport to football...85 scholarships are 85 scholarships.  Also won't mater to the government Title IX administrators that the market value of the starting QB is higher than the volleyball libero's...$1 to him has to be $1 to her (note: IF it's coming from the university) or it's not Title IX compliant...

    The only way I see to work this out is to pay everyone equal, and establish that as a "floor" to keep the schools from getting sued: "See, we're rev sharing with our athletes!  And yes it's Title IX equal!"  Then, keep the NIL collective structure in place to pay the market value out to those whose market value actually dictates it.  Anyone dreaming all of this will end up under the school umbrella is wrong, there's just no way to manage it save a huge legislative overhaul at the Federal level which won't happen.

    I can't tell if NIL is a part of Title IX or not.  The journalists are discussing NIL as though it was a part of the athletic budget.  

     

    But otherwise T9 is not an insurmountable problem.  The schools figure out what % they have to pay to the gender racket and cough it up.

  3. 3 hours ago, Fletch said:

    Doing a rewatch. I can really only make it through the first 6 seasons. Season 7 sucks ass. Are any of the other seasons past the 6th any good? If not then I’ll just keep bathing in the glory that is seasons 1-6

    No one remembers numbers, what was the theme of the season?

    i.e. 

     

    Drug dealers took a few rewatches but got better.  

    CIA's bitch season was back up to speed.

    Veronica Dean, not as funny but great characters. 

    The first wake up season was good, the rest not so much. 

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  4. 3 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    It’s kinda wild how CUSA went from being one of the better mid majors to far and away the dregs of FBS so quickly.

    It seemed like their territory overlapped with the MAC and Sun Belt but they didn't have the programs with a bit of tradition. 

  5. On 4/11/2024 at 6:42 PM, mr. sunshine said:

    Also fuck your diploma from Southern New Hampshire University.

    New Hampshire is way too fucking small to have a north, south, east or west. It's just fucking New Hampshire

    I'm from New Hampshire, and had no idea what they were talking about.   Turns out Manchester College rebranded itself for more online appeal.

     

    It's no Texas, but the region of NH that gets the Boston media has a different feel than the hick towns. 

     

     

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  6. 23 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

    Sorry, but whatever breakaway happens, there will still be cupcakes to pad wins at the top. They may take less in their share, but they’ll still be there.

     

    That inequity can be seen all the way from the SWC.  The small schools still get to pad wins for UT et al but no longer got a seat at the table. 

  7. 13 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Hopefully they get into the dark side of his work; especially of the problems his actors had.  Oscar ended up living in a dumpster.  Kermit developed a nasty intravenous drug habit.  And David Bowie?  He's dead now.

    That one turned into an eating disorder monster.

  8. On 4/26/2024 at 7:49 PM, Patrick Bateman said:

    Draftniks consider this a reach..... 4/5 round grade by most.  I haven't seen enough of him to wage an opinion....

    Seems to lack explosion.  Isn't really a hammer.... meh.  

     

    That was the opinion on our boards.  Marist was good in certain situations but would probably still be available in later rounds. 

  9. On 4/18/2024 at 12:04 PM, 0xdeadbeef said:

    I felt like his talk show style just got old and tired (at least for me), but this looks like it could be worth watching.

    I was a loyal fan. He weirded out around 2005 and then moving to TBS was a kill shot.

  10. 11 hours ago, nnm said:

    Ron Goldman cares, and so does the jury that awarded him a civil judgment against OJ.
    The criminal jury found that the prosecution had not met its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that OJ caused the deaths.

    The civil jury found that a preponderance of the evidence established that he did cause the deaths. 

    There’s a huge difference in the standards of proof necessary in criminal and civil proceedings. You’ll care if you get in a wreck and the other driver isn't prosecuted or is acquitted by a criminal jury, but you can still recover from him in a civil suit. 

    Lolawyers.  WE can't put the killer in jail but we can sure sue him for all he is worth.

    and then never collect a quarter.

  11. 8 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    the documentary is fantastic when paired with The People Vs OJ SImpson, the Cuba Gooding Jr Movie. Perfectly spells out and explains everything about the case, both before and after. I fully understand why he was found innocent after watching both of these. He deffo 100% did it, but the entire case was lost the moment Mark Furman could not say he didn't plant evidence to frame OJ Simpson because he had to plead the fifth otherwise he would have been asked if he'd ever planted evidence to frame anybody in his career, of which he likely had. If it's a question of reasonable doubt, they had done a good enough job of showing how systematically corrupt the LAPD was from top to bottom that not hearing outright "We didn't frame him" could constitute reasonable doubt.

    I love the part in The People vs OJ Simpson where they go to his house and they've changed all the pictures on the walls, haha.

     

    1 hour ago, TrashMaster G said:

    He was not found innocent.

    Syntax. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. 

    Yes the conduct of the government established reasonable doubt against itself.  It seems to be a question of individual philosophy, Should you vote guilty or not guilty if the gov rigged it against the actual criminal?

     

     

     

  12. It irks me that we never beat Simpson; only two games because he started at City College.  OJ cut us up in 67.  68 was a tie despite the Irish pressing the juice to 55 yards rushing.  Ara Parseghian's offenses had two first half leads and two second half goose eggs.  

     

    The closest to justice would be the 1969 Rose Bowl, where #1 Ohio State came back, after OJ's 80 yd td, against #2 SC with defensive coach (DC!?) Lou Holtz.  The articles say that Simpson threw an interception.

  13. On 4/12/2024 at 12:58 AM, notre dame joe said:

     You can tell what generation you are by answering the question, Why is OJ famous?

     

    Most everyone says "football"   few could answer the follow up, what team did OJ play for?

    Spoiler

    No respect for San Francisco City College.

    So far my favorite answer came from a couple of 20-somethings at my globogym, He was the guy found not guilty of murder because his lawyer was Kim Kardashian's father.

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  14. On 4/11/2024 at 5:13 PM, mr. sunshine said:

    Also I can could do the Strother Martin soliloquy way before this song came out. Creeps most folks out which is OK by me

    A young girl north of town fell into a well, I wondered if it was you.

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  15. On 6/19/2019 at 6:18 AM, Guest Lobo said:

    So Ford missed out on the crossover opportunities of the 25th anniversary of all this by waiting a whole other year to bring back the Bronco?  

    At least O.J. knows how to capitalize on these kinds of opportunities.  

    I mean, I've seen the renderings/hearing about the new Bronco for 5 or 6 six years now.  You had one job, Detroit!  

    I thought OJ missed his chance during the 2020 BLM riots to get back in the spotlight as a social justice warrior.  I was mildly surprised because he had always been in the public eye.  You can tell what generation you are by answering the question, Why is OJ famous?

     

    Spoiler

    Me watching the Ford Bronco: All this fuss over the guy from the Naked Gun movies?  

     

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  16. 10 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    Let my athletic subscription lapse but this might get me back for a month 

    edit: free details 

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    Does the chancellor at SMU live in a tower and talk to a black ball?

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  17. On 3/23/2024 at 4:30 PM, thunderlounge said:


    Still doesn’t put eyes on TV. TV costs money, subsidized by advertising. No dough, no show.

    This is a numbers game, and if the numbers say something, that’s what the networks support. Which in turn is what companies are willing to spend some ad rev on. This isn’t rocket science. 
     

    Now that may not make it right, and sure there are people who don’t/won’t like it. However, that doesn’t make it so. 

     

    On 3/23/2024 at 5:52 PM, TKthunder2 said:

    Again, sportswriters and common fans like to romanticize underdog upsets but the cold hard fact are that no one watches those games outside the final minute or two.

    Oakland like St Peters and Fairleigh Dickinson, Abilene Christian, or insert random school here…are fun to talk about after the fact but the next game they play also has horrible viewership too because those casual fans despite talking about the tournament and the bracket socially…don’t watch.

    They see the final shot/miss on sportscenter or YouTube/tictok or twitter/fb but none of that brings in any money to the NCAA or P4+BigEast. The data doesn’t lie.

    It's about the health and size of the sport.  That will supply the ratings for the games.  The super league types want to remove a few pounds of flesh from the entire sport. 

  18. 2 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Take a look at the ratings because they agree with him. Nobody watches the small school until the final two minutes. While that fun for fans and sport writers to romanticize these games have lower rating than your standard 8/9 matchup which means advertisers don’t pay for them. What is memorable and what makes money aren’t always the same thing.

    I don’t think they need to fully split from all of DI, but I think you could drop 10 historically one bid leagues and the tournament would be far more interesting and profitable.

    We have divisions for a reason. DII schools can upset DI schools, it doesn’t mean we should include them in the tournament. Shrinking the number of DI leagues is likely healthy for the NCAA.

    It draws clicks to tournament and local news coverage even far from those 'power teams.'   Only hard bball fans would care that UK was upset but when it was done by the other Oakland, it was on the local news all over the country. 

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