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  1. https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/heres-what-college-football-will-look-like-in-2026 Somebody on another board found this article from 2016. This guy predicted the drivers (TV contracts, paying players, content instead of coverage) and the time frame. Called the expansion of the playoff. It could have been written today. There isn't the 24 team super league he predicts, but people are thinking about it. "...The next window for mass shuffling will start around 2023, when all five* power conferences’ primary rights deals come up within a three-year span. (The Big Ten has not yet formalized its forthcoming TV deals, but reports indicate they will be for six years, ending in 2023. The SEC’s contract with CBS expires in 2024, but its ESPN/SEC Network deal is in place through 2034.) Perhaps more important, the College Football Playoff's 12-year contract ends with the 2025 season. As I’m about to outline, the next big realignment shift will go hand in hand with the evolution of the playoff. Only two years into the four-team system, you can already see what direction the sport is headed. The playoff race now dwarfs all other aspects of the season, including the other bowl games...."
  2. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/06/espn-fox-and-warner-bros-discovery-to-launch-joint-sports-streaming-platform-this-year.html This will have a significant impact. "Walt Disney's ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to launch a joint sports streaming service this fall, giving consumers a new way to access marquee live sports for the first time, the companies said Tuesday.... From Disney, that includes ESPN and its sister networks, such as ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, as well as the ABC broadcast network. Warner Bros. Discovery's networks that showcase sports are TNT, TBS and TruTV. Fox will include the Fox broadcast station along with FS1, FS2 and BTN...."
  3. We can afford it. We probably should add men's soccer and women's gymnastics. We should be able to shortly be nationally competitive in both. Don't know that we would ever be regularly competitive in wrestling or lacrosse. Those sports are just bigger elsewhere.
  4. They never counted those as they were not competitively bid. Its just that medical and engineering research dollars shot through the roof, leaving those schools without medical or engineering schools behind.
  5. If so, why did Nebraska lose their AAU membership after joining the Big 10? And South Florida got admitted while in the AAC? Sure, it means Stanford and Cal get consideration for the ACC. But it still took SMU's boosters to buy Stanford and Cal in. Texas, Florida, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Rice and others have all done fine academically without being in the Ivy League or Big 10 or even the Pac 12 or ACC. The academic alliances have nothing to do with conference affiliation. Texas is working on the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile with (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Magellan_Telescope) University of Arizona Arizona State University Astronomy Australia Limited Australian National University Carnegie Institution for Science FAPESP Harvard University Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (한국천문연구원) (KASI) Smithsonian Institution Texas A&M University University of Texas at Austin University of Chicago Weizmann Institute of Science
  6. Its not going to make any difference on academic alliances. That is not impacted by sports conferences.
  7. With UVerse we've had one of the 4 local network channels off the air for several weeks. Just yesterday another one was off. The cable companies are not rolling over for anyone.
  8. 28 members of FBS were FCS or not even playing football 30 years ago. 19 of those weren't FBS or weren't playing football only 20 years ago. 16 of those moved up 2012 or later. There is a lot of FBS that wouldn't be missed. As for Division I, 40 years ago over 100 of the 364 were Division II, III, NAIA or not playing sports. You could lop the bottom 10 conferences out of NCAA basketball and nobody would notice as they hardly have any fans.
  9. And the Tennessee president got his bachelor's at Tennessee, but his master's at OU! I thought when I looked it up I would find a bunch of UNC, Cal and Michigan degrees.
  10. Well the current Alabama president IS an aggy.
  11. Two key quotes from that article: "The joint advisory board is tasked with tackling the most pressing challenges before the industry in what Big Ten and SEC commissioners describe as an “urgent” mission to find solutions for issues such as ongoing antitrust lawsuits, most notably the multi-billion dollar House case; disagreements over the NCAA’s new governance proposal, Project DI; and the unsettled landscape of athlete transfer movement, tampering charges and name, image and likeness (NIL) inducements.... Settling on an acceptable athlete compensation model is perhaps the most pressing issue before the Big Ten and SEC’s advisory group, as well as the other FBS leagues. A new model could rectify both the House v. NCAA antitrust case and the current landscape of college football and basketball recruiting — a space which coaches and administrators describe as a pay-for-play, unregulated free agent marketplace...."
  12. For those who didn't notice BOW's thread.
  13. Swaim's tweet, for all we made fun of what he posted, did start the endless Shaggy realignment thread, so it is with sadness to share this tweet. He is going into Hospice.
  14. The meat of the FSU argument seems to be on pages 25-31 of their 59 page document linked in the article.
  15. https://www.on3.com/teams/florida-state-seminoles/news/fsu-takes-aim-at-former-acc-commissioner-john-swofford-in-amended-complaint/ FSU amends their lawsuit. "In a 59-page amended complaint for declaratory judgment — 21 pages longer than the original complaint Florida State filed in December — the university took sharp aim at former ACC Commissioner John Swofford for a number of allegedly self-serving actions it says cost member schools millions upon millions of dollars. FSU’s attorneys also rebutted several claims from, and questioned the legality of, the ACC’s complaint...."
  16. WSU and OSU didn't have all their legal ducks in a row so they asked for more time. They did approve the 8 team minimum to qualify as a conference. When you look at the whole BCS/CFP era, in 26 years the current G5 would only have gotten 17 bids in a 6/6 model. Most of those #5 and #6 champs are schools now in the P4, either BE schools or the Big 12 newbies (UL, TCU, Cincy, UH, UCF). So a 5/7 gives the current G5 teams better access than they would have had in the past with a 6/6 when the Pac 12 was still around. And 8 of those 17 would have been Boise when they had their great streak.
  17. No, more people would probably watch. I don't watch 16/1, 15/2 games. Most often they are ugly, even in the rare occasions when its close. Cinderellas are relative. NCSU was a Cinderella in 1983. 10 conferences could disappear from Division I and nobody would notice. Probably 15. The tourney was a big deal when there were 250 Division I teams instead of 364 and it was a 48 team tourney. Now if you were to take gambling out, then that hurts viewership! 64 does make for nice brackets.
  18. I don't see how the P4/5 stay in a 364 school Division I basketball tourney with the NCAA keeping the bulk of the revenue. Some sort of breakaway seems inevitable. But is it a P4/5?, FBS?, or FBS + BE?, or FBS + BE + 3-5 other conferences? Its not going to be all 31 Division I conferences (not counting Pac 12). If 10 conferences dropped to Division II, nobody would notice.
  19. https://sports.yahoo.com/with-college-sports-at-a-critical-juncture-is-project-di-the-answer-everything-is-on-the-table-161809460.html P5 commissioners (guess Kliavcoff hasn't been excommunicated yet) meeting with NCAA president Baker. SEC and Big 10 don't like Baker's proposal. Good stuff in article. But this is a big takeaway: "...In no secret, the two commissioners of the behemoths, SEC’s Greg Sankey and Big Ten’s Tony Petitti, have developed a close relationship, communicate regularly and hold the power to steer college football’s future. Its direction is quite clear. Both Sankey and Petitti have expressed an intent to both accelerate NCAA governance and condense the amount of schools operating under a single umbrella. “How do you take larger groups and make them smaller to drive forward?” Petitti asked in an interview last year with Yahoo Sports...."
  20. bullet

    Applewhite Out

    Good for Major! Interesting the head coach was making 810k at USA and got a raise to 2 million for being Alabama's coordinator.
  21. He apparently wants to be a coach and will work the coaching staff as well as being backup in case of injury.
  22. From the video when they got in the car,, yes, she was probably in worse shape than the driver.
  23. Its simple. The top 4 champs get the byes. Everyone else plays the first round. I haven't heard specific discussion on whether the top 4 champs are seeded 1 to 4 or if they simply get the bye. I suspect they are 1-4. The fourth, regardless of whether they are ranked #4 or #14, will still get the toughest 1st round winner in the 2nd round.
  24. Georgia had one less loss than Bama. They lost by the narrowest of margins. Had 4 common opponents and blasted two who Bama narrowly beat and did better against UK who both stomped and won solidly over Auburn who Alabama beat on a prayer. In the SEC CCG, Bama got a few breaks and just wanted it more that day. The rest of the season UGA was a better team. It wasn't a fluke they were ranked #1 before the Bama loss. Its not just about FSU.
  25. Yeah. I have zero sympathy for SMU, but its a piece of shit move by Sankey (and probably Pettiti).
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