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  1. On 9/4/2025 at 1:50 PM, statsman said:

    It is simple. The B12 has a nice media contract. I contend a portion of it is a payoff to let Texas and OU out a little early. 
     
    ESPN and Fox got a look at what ratings the B12 could draw without those schools, last year. This year, the B12 is putting on as many games as it can on off days, and off weeks, to attract more viewers. ESPN is dumping games onTNT to salvage some value. Baylor won the B12 four years ago and half its games are on streaming. 
     
    Does the B12 have value? We’ll find out how much in the next media contract. Until then, Cody Campbell will try to drive national media revenue sharing. 😂
     
    If any Left Behind wants to play a non-con game in Austin, or maybe even a 2-1 split, I suggest they begin their call with CDC’s assistant with, “Thank you for carrying us for all those decades”. 

    Actually, the TNT games are the ones that would have gone on ESPN+.  They aren't "dumped."  They are upgraded.

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  2. On 8/29/2025 at 10:26 AM, LTbear said:

    McMurphy (see above) and several others with contacts in the SEC and B1G have continually reiterated that UNC and Virginia are the two schools that both conferences want. 

    Presidents are sometimes clueless.  They love those schools academically, but will they pay the bills?  I think they are both just filler after FSU, Clemson and Miami.

  3. 2 hours ago, wood said:

    This. I couldn't put my finger on it, but he just never looked 'right' to me. Maybe a nagging injury or some weird kink in his mechanics has popped up? Who knows. But he always looked relaxed and loose last year. He never looked that way last Saturday.

    He was always stretching his arms like he was tight.

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  4. On 8/10/2025 at 10:47 AM, LTbear said:

    I don't think Notre Dame will ever go B1G. I would bet the B1G's top (realistic) targets are UNC, UVA, and Florida State. I would think the SEC is similarly after UNC and UVA and assume they're also interested in FSU and Clemson.

    They will have to eventually.  I just think they are in a good enough position, its not going to happen for at least 10-15 years.

    Notre Dame also has a demographics problem.  The Irish and Catholics who love them are aging.  The subway alumni are dying off.  20 years from now they may not be nearly as valuable.

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  5. On 5/16/2025 at 8:18 PM, immamac said:

    Sark has done an exceptional job at letting people around him within the program and in his network help him. I think when he takes over and does too much, that's when the wheels start to come off now. 

    Quinn was a lot of things, but clutch wasn't really one of them. 

    Sam legitimately took over a game against the future national championship LSU team to the degree that the ogre not only acknowledged it but praised Sam. 

     

    Yeah.  Sam had "it."  Vince did, Colt did, even the far less talented Case did.  A way to play better than your best when it mattered most.  Quinn didn't.

     

  6. Actually, that ESPN deal is for 2024-2025.  In 2023-2024, Texas got money from the Big 12.  And we got less than usual because Fox and ESPN wouldn't add any money to the old contract, so we had to take a $7 million hit to pay for BYU, UCF, UC and UofH.  We got about $40 million instead of $47 if the 4 had simply joined a year later.

  7. On 5/7/2025 at 7:33 AM, Mother mopar said:

    Yup

    https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/college/sec-revenue-shares-oklahoma-texas/287-ea3ffd13-1ddd-476c-a04f-4dedaa696086

    Because the distribution covered the fiscal year ending in August 2024 -- and Oklahoma and Texas joined the conference in July 2024 -- they didn't receive full revenue shares. The full revenue share received by the other 14 SEC schools was around $52.5 million.

    But ESPN had a special undisclosed separate deal with the two.  Presumably they made them whole.

  8. On 7/1/2025 at 5:15 PM, 'stache said:

    They lost that status last season when they only had 2 members and I don't think they'll get it back based on the new additions. So as it sits they are not part of the autonomous (i.e. power) conferences and I doubt they would even try to regain that status.

    Officially, they are still in the group.  They drop out when the CFP contract renews in 2026.  They still have veto power over changes.

  9. On 6/28/2025 at 11:26 PM, TrashMaster G said:

    When were they DII? That would have to go back more than 40 years ago, because they were 1-AA in the mid-80's.

    The last time they had a good football team.  They won a couple of Division II titles in 81/82 with Jim Wacker.  In 84 they moved to I-AA.

  10. On 6/27/2025 at 1:49 PM, 'stache said:

    The FCS games are for early season warmups or for SEC a November rest week. There are other matchups every week for TV purposes. The networks know the ratings will be low for those games, they would be the ones pressing to stop them if it was a problem. 

    Well the Big 10 tried to stop it to get a better TV deal, but the ADs are trying to undo that.

  11. 6 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    I wish they would just change the name of the conference.  For this shit product to carry the great name of the PAC 8/10/12 is a travesty.

    Boise St. can prove they can do math, unlike AAU schools like Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan etc. who are in the Big 12 and Big 10.

    Its not like the Pac 12 name has been around long.  Only around a dozen years.  It was Pac 10 for about 35 years.  Just make it the PAC with the same logo, but no numbers.

  12. 4 hours ago, PGFrog said:

    As my wife would tell our kids when they were young, use your words.  

    Formatting doing odd things yesterday.  I didn't know how to do subscripts and did them without trying!!!

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  13. I've pointed out there are 20 schools who have dominated the top of the rankings going all the way back to 1960.  Of those 18 with 50% of the viewers, only Wisconsin isn't among those top 20.  And the 3 who aren't have been in a slump.  Nebraska and Miami, obviously, were well down most of that period.  Also Colorado, who was 20th of the 20, was really, really down.  Although coach Prime has gotten CU some attention, at least for a while.

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  14. Some performance specs, fb & bb: W L % ranked  NCAA  sweet 16
    SMU 74                63 54.0%                    2                    2 0
                 
    Washington St. 74                58 56.1%                    2 1 0
    Boise St. 106                36 74.6%                    5 4 0
    San Diego St. 86 53 61.9% 1 7 2
    Oregon St. 51                79 39.2%                    2 2 1
    Fresno St. 64 63 50.4% 1 1 0
    Colorado St. 58 71 45.0% 0 3 0
    UNLV 49 82 37.4% 1 0 0
                 
    Memphis 99                43 69.7%                    3 3 0
    Connecticut 36 87 29.3% 0 6 2
    USF 62                72 46.3% 0 0 0
    Temple 62                72 46.3% 2 2 0
    East Carolina 54 78 40.9% 0 0 0
    Tulane 69 71 49.3% 1 0 0
  15. Games on rated networks, average rating per Sic-Em analysis (2013-2021) (note that ratings are calculated on 36 games-schools with less than 36 are not officially ranked), 4 year average attendance, revenues, MSA population, Population in state per P4 school (assuming school moves up).  For reference, I've included ACC and Big 12 averages and medians and SMU, the last school to move up.  You can see why nobody else has been invited.

        rating 4 yr att revenue    
      Average B12 2.069        47,269    125,041,940    
      Median B12 2.031        47,830    121,080,103    
      Average ACC 2.468        44,808    146,079,157    
      Median ACC 2.08        41,353    139,458,791    
    games   rating 4 yr att revenue MSA pop million/P4 in state
    45 SMU 0.728        25,853       99,506,414    8,344,032    4,470,119
    West            
    56 Wash.  St. 1.905        24,960       89,041,553          48,399    3,979,090
    72 Boise St. 1.258        35,726       59,885,466        845,877    2,001,619
    40 Oregon St. 1.214        33,698    120,225,018          98,899    2,136,186
    33 Fresno St. 0.697        38,256       55,761,420    1,189,557    7,886,253
    22 Colorado St. 0.605        28,395       50,262,504        374,574    2,978,747
    28 SDSU 0.522        22,542       83,949,123    3,298,799    7,886,253
    20 UNLV 0.307        25,083       65,376,772    2,398,871    3,267,467
    East            
    52 Memphis 1.257        27,956       62,737,618    1,339,345    2,409,250
    48 USF 1.103        33,122       95,425,212    3,424,566    4,674,443
    42 Temple 0.891        16,527       70,320,170    6,330,422    4,359,584
    37 E. Carolina 0.56        37,057       65,211,957        180,783    2,209,325
    31 Uconn 0.571        21,704       91,800,871    1,169,048    3,675,069
    35 Tulane 0.419        20,962       39,305,494        966,230    2,298,870

     

     

     

  16. On 6/20/2025 at 1:50 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

    Why is ECU in the spot they're in?

    They have probably the biggest fanbase of a remaining G5 school.  Their stadium wouldn't be the smallest in any P4 league.  They've shown you can win there.

    But they've never ever even been close to being a candidate to move up in the world.  Just always seemed a little weird to me.

    Lousy basketball.  Small market.  4 P schools already in NC.  And they really haven't been very good in football lately.  Since 2014, beginning of CFP era, they are 54-78.

    Their TV ratings are #75 of the 75 schools who met the criteria (36 rated games over 9 years) in the Sic-Em TV analysis for 2013-2021.

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