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On 8/29/2025 at 11:29 AM, TxEx84 said:
The only reason the SEC wants UNC and UVa is to complete the Confederacy.
Well they have 11 of the 13 stars (KY and MO had rump secesh legislatures).
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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.
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On 8/30/2025 at 7:21 PM, mdmost said:
Going for it wasn't the issue. The play calling on 4th was.
Yeah. Against that defense, if I was going up the middle I would have used Baxter. Arch is for going off tackle or outside in that situation.
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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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34 minutes ago, closetojumping said:
Damn. Next year’s OOC schedule isn’t fucking around.
We seem to be rotating between UTEP and UTSA.
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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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On 8/9/2025 at 10:37 PM, Texas Wahoo said:
Interesting notes from the VaTech BOV meeting. I recommend reading the whole thread.
https://bov.vt.edu/assets/Materials-August 18-20, 2025-38.pdf
From the above, the link is the board report. Page 774 (of 899) is where the athletics discussion starts.
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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.
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5 hours ago, LTbear said:
I would bet UVA is one other school both the B1G and SEC are interested in.
Probably, but that doesn't mean Fox will pay for them. Not with UNC.
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5 hours ago, Texas Wahoo said:
More.
Well when SBJ reports, its something to be taken seriously. The Inside Carolina guy did say he got it from several sources.
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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.
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On 5/7/2025 at 7:33 AM, Mother mopar said:
Yup
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.
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5 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:
UNC to the SEC confirmed
/jk
Well its their equivalent of Chip, but its more than we've heard before out of Carolina.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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 -
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 -
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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.
Realignment talk not going away
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Actually, the TNT games are the ones that would have gone on ESPN+. They aren't "dumped." They are upgraded.