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Richard Kimball

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  1. Call him anything you want, but he just made about 80% of all the college football coaches shit a brick.
  2. Why is that motherfucker wearing two watches?
  3. These two posts are indications that the money train is going to run out soon. Dr. Pimple Popper on TLC gets over a million viewers. Just rounding around and doing loose math, but a conference getting a 30 million per team payout means the networks are paying over 5 million per game, and that doesn't include their production costs. Looking through last year's college football ratings, the worst one I saw was Rutgers vs Maryland on the BTN, with 97K viewers. Pretty sure a Shamwow commercial could pull that. On the whole, though, over half the college games can't beat Dr Pimple Popper, which I didn't even know existed until I looked up the ratings. Sporting events only have value for a one time broadcast. There's no rerun value. Reality TV programs cost between $100,000 and $500,000 per episode, and can be rerun multiple times. Old sitcoms can go on forever, like the Munsters, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island. Will networks continue to pay this much money for a game, when for one tenth the price they could produce a show like, "Fat Girls Trying to Climb Ladders" and get just as many viewers?
  4. Why not do a spring game against a team about your level? Scrimmage after March Madness ends. That's a pretty dead time, and you could scrimmage against a really good team without hurting yourself in the standings. Texas vs Notre Dame or Clemson vs Oklahoma would get good ratings.
  5. Conferences aren't conferences as we used to think of them. They're negotiating agents for a collection of teams for media contracts. Nothing matters except what makes the most money. Right now, it's working great for my alma mater, Texas, cause we got Arkansas, OU and LSU. I know LSU isn't a historical rival, but those should be awesome games. aggy's back, but I was happy to have scoreboard on those bastards and never have to see them again. We'll also have to play fukkin Mizzery every so often. As for the money, none of it's going in my pocket, so "yay." I just want to see some good games. What I don't get, to some extent, is why schools that don't want to make the athletic investment and can't go big time try to keep up. About forty schools can make money, and schools like Washington State and Cal have mortgaged their futures trying to keep up. I cover a 2A school in high school. They play 2A against other 2A schools. They don't run around wanting to play 6A schools. Why (other than money and fuck the players) do schools like Vanderbilt want to go out on the field and see their players get a mud hole stomped in them by Alabama's second string? The quest for money will eventually lead to what the ASU president was talking about with apps, but he didn't tell the whole story. Make a gambling app where you watch the game and make micro bets for the whole game. Make an account, put your credit card in. Ten bucks charged to you on the game. Use that ten bucks during the game to bet on whether he makes the field goal or goes for it on fourth. Point spread at the end of 1st, 2nd, 3rd quarter. Bet on the point spread. Your card is on file, and they keep a tally on how much you bet.
  6. That's one of the reasons these negotiations go until the last minute. Oregon and Washington will be getting about what they would have gotten joining the B12 during the first contract. Pretty sure they were holding out for a higher share, and kept waiting for B1G to blink. B1G didn't blink, so when they had the meeting to sign the PAC grant of rights, Oregon and Washington folded. BTW, @bullet thanks for posting those attendance numbers.
  7. https://www.si.com/college/stanford/football/ranking-pac-12-teams-by-average-attendance-in-2022#gid=ci02b8bac4200125d6&pid=12-washington-state Attendance stats for the PAC from 2022 show that B1G is getting the top three, (USC, Washington, Quack) B12 should be taking the next four, (Colorado, Arizona, the Arizona State fighting crows, and the Utah Youts) then B1G gets UCLA. Of the last four who don't have landing spots, Cal is the only one that drew over 30,000 per game. Of the top 25 teams in home attendance, Florida State, Clemson, Notre Dame and Virginia Tech are the only ones that aren't in either the SEC or B1G, or are committed to them for the future, and Clemson is the highest non SEC/B!G at #14. https://badgerswire.usatoday.com/lists/top-25-college-football-teams-in-home-attendance-for-2022-season/ Shows a clear demarcation. ACC is top heavy, but they're going to die on the vine if they don't figure out a way to get out of the contract. UCF being better funded than FSU drove them crazy.
  8. There's a lot of playing poker, playing chicken, seeing who will blink going on. There are three factions: Some of us: Others of us: Then, there's Arizona State and Utah
  9. Common board of regents with ASU, and ASU president Crow is pushing hard to stay in PAC. BOR has to approve Arizona departure, and they want Arizona and ASU in the same conference.
  10. You never know what you're willing to do until there's a gun to your head.
  11. The PACACC pitch doesn't make sense to me. ESPN won't bid on the PAC schools, and the ACC is locked in, although unhappily. Why would the networks pay more to the ACC to add PAC teams they've already passed on?
  12. Especially for UCLA. Dammit. I didn't want to say that. Why did you feed me a straight line?
  13. You said Stanford twice. I like Stanford.
  14. PAC is out of options. If the college presidents turn down the Apple deal, where do they go? Disney is in a world of hurt right now, and they may have trouble meeting the payment requirements for their existing contracts. Their subsidiary, ESPN, was the entity driving the higher prices for the sports package agreements. With them out of the picture, FOX, Apple, Amazon, etc., are NOT going to care about what the PAC wants. They're not going to bid up a price against air, and nobody else is bidding. My opinion is that FOX and Comcast sprang a trap on Disney. Rupert Murdoch had a garage sale on all the stuff FOX didn't want anymore. He knew Iger bought everything in sight, and Comcast bid up the price until Disney paid an astounding $71 billion for the properties. This cash strapped Disney. Now, Comcast is, through an old contract, forcing Disney to buy out the rest of Hulu, so the mouse is going to have to come up with billions of dollars that they don't have, and interest rates are the highest they've been in over twenty years. They don't have the money, and I'm not sure they can get the money. That's why Iger has been talking about selling ABC and getting "strategic partners" for ESPN. What he means is he needs the money fairy to bail them out. He wants someone to give them a cash infusion while letting Disney continue to have controlling interest. That ain't happening. The only organizations with that kind of money aren't going to be passive partners. They're going to want the steering wheel. Iger has always spent money like a frat boy in a whore house with his daddy's credit card. With him out of the game, prices are going to drop. The remaining schools can sign off on Apple, look for another conference landing spot, or enter the 2024 season with no media contract.
  15. Yormark to AZ prez Robbins: "You come here on the day of my daughter's wedding, and ask me to kill a conference for you..."
  16. Schools won't jump until they see the final numbers. If you never show them the final numbers, they can't ever jump.
  17. When the SWC broke up, Rice decided they weren't going to emphasize athletics (not that they ever did, that much.) They're an academic institution, and are okay with annual conference payouts of $5 to $8 million. The Ivy League doesn't give out any athletic scholarships. Some of the PAC schools have to make a decision. If they are too academically prestigious to deal with a "Truck Stop" conference, that's cool. They can't expect to get the benefits (money) of being in a conference that emphasizes football when they think they're too cool to associate with schools that do emphasize it. My breakdown right now: Oregon wants their football, but the only reason the administration gives a shit about athletics is because of the Phil Knight money. Washington. The administration doesn't give a shit about football, but wants the reputation of being a football school. Stanford doesn't give a shit about football and with their endowment, not sweating the money. Cal doesn't give a shit about football, but really wants the money. Washington State and Oregon State are remoras looking for a bigger fish to latch onto. Utah is like Sarah Jessica Parker. They think they're a lot hotter than they are. Arizona doesn't have delusions. They're looking out for #1. Arizona State. All I know about them is their administration seems to peg out the goofy scale.
  18. @66BUFF, that's a little different. It was a one time minor addition to honor a former coach, and they still looked like Alabama. I also think it was cool when several teams put pirate flags on their helmets to honor Mike Leach. If they wear lime green cause "IT'S AUBURN WEEK!" I'll change my opinion on them. Not that they give a shit what I think one way or the other.
  19. I know, I know, the kids love alternate uniforms... I get it if a school like Purdue or Wisconsin feels the need to go to alternate uniforms, but it's stupid for an established top tier program. Texas, Alabama and Southern California have kept their dignity, although I was worried about Texas when they put the sparkly Longhorn on the side for a while. Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame and Oklahoma should hang their heads in shame. Especially Oklahoma, cause their alternate cream helmet with the red stripe down the center makes them look like Nebraska. Course, they're Oklahoma, so they should hang their heads in shame, anyway.
  20. What da fuck the beavers doing in there? I mean the team, not the girls.
  21. They're going to merge the Pac & Mountain West. The new conference will be called Broke Pac Mountain.
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