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  1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/clemson-sues-acc-over-unconscionable-fees-to-exit-conference/ar-BB1kbLsY The story on Clemson's lawsuit. They take a different tack than FSU. FSU went the fraud angle. Clemson is taking a legal misinterpretation angle.
  2. https://sports.yahoo.com/will-sec-big-ten-greed-ruin-college-sports-as-we-know-it-202735432.html Dan Wetzel suggests the Big 10 and SEC extreme demands may well be an effort to destabilize the Big 12 and ACC and lead to more raids. "...If the Big Ten and SEC are able to set a playoff up in direct contrast to how college sports have always operated — codifying more guaranteed access, more guaranteed on-field competitive advantages (including a bye) and more guaranteed money — then the operation may be passing the point of no return. This isn’t just about hoarding power — although that’s part of it. It’s about eliminating other teams and leagues from being able to compete on the field, therefore further destabilizing other conferences. We just saw the century-plus-old Pac-12 perish for no particularly good reason. The ACC and Big 12 might be next. “Automatic first-round byes for the Big Ten and SEC is like the NFL saying the [Dallas] Cowboys get a first-round bye since they have more fans than the [Cincinnati] Bengals,” TCU coach Sonny Dykes noted. “How preposterous is that?” So preposterous that the cutthroat, bottomline, chase-every-nickle NFL wouldn’t even try it. And Dykes' point extends to uneven revenue sharing and multiple automatic bids. It’s particularly preposterous because based on the competitive strength and historic success of Big Ten and SEC teams, they would likely be able to earn those bids, byes and even money via competition. If so, good for them. By putting it in writing though, this becomes a play to break apart other conferences and pick off a few more of the most valuable brands...."
  3. No. Giving the SEC and Big 10 more access is a Scarlet letter on every ACC and Big 12 team. It will be used against them in recruiting by the Purdues and Mississippi States. Plus, it damages the CCGs which are big money makers.
  4. Only a little more than half of the G5 has even been in FBS for 30 years. They really don't belong. And other than Boise (6 times from 2004-2011), only 5 G5 teams have made the top 12 or even top 14.
  5. Beyond 16 and you gut the regular season. 4 losses will get you in. There is a lot of money made by schools on Saturdays.
  6. Minnesota used to be a national power. They have 4 MNCs. But then the Vikings arrived. SMU and Rice were solid before the Cowboys and Oilers.
  7. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39625514/wsu-president-urges-member-schools-reform-not-replace-ncaa https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39625392/new-pac-12-commissioner-teresa-gould-considering-all-options 2nd article-new Pac 12 president considering ALL options. Sounds like OSU/WSU are still hoping to get invited somewhere in the next two years. Haven't had formal discussions on absorbing MWC. Talking to people about TV deal for the two. 1st article follows on the ESPN site. Talks about NCAA reform, but there is an interesting quote near the bottom. "...New Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould, who now represents the conference on the CFP management committee, said the commissioners are "aligned" in their desire to develop a plan that has "adaptability." "I think none of us would have ever anticipated the amount of change that is going on right now," she said in her introductory press conference. "Yesterday looks different than today. And who knows what the headline is going to be tomorrow. So our job collectively as the leadership of the CFP is to make sure that whatever plan it is that we have a plan that is adaptable and nimble to the changing times that we're in. And that is one of the conversations that I want to make sure we continue to have in that room....""
  8. The P4 are catching their breath, trying to figure out how to avoid a 2 billion dollar lawsuit and generate 1.3 billion in a 12 or 14!? team playoff: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39619331/sources-14-team-college-football-playoff-momentum
  9. I might put Burrow's senior year #1 with Vince #2. Colt makes the top 10.
  10. Its possible. Its getting harder to schedule as an Indy. They've only got 3 or 4 P4 schools on their schedule now. WKU was interested a year ago, but couldn't find a partner then.
  11. A lot of people were expecting them to be #12 in CUSA instead of #13 in the MAC. Delaware announced they were joining CUSA in late November. Sure that's somewhere on this thread. With the Atlantic 10 becoming a 1 or 2 bid league, I guess UMass decided it wasn't worth staying for basketball: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/sources-umass-set-to-become-13th-member-of-mac-for-25-26-season/ar-BB1iVNwr
  12. That's possible.
  13. Let's be real. #15 KSU would be 11-1 and #3 UGA would be 11-2 because of SOS.
  14. Kind of a cowards way to do it. Does the SEC want to look like a bunch of aggys? Earn your spots. Get incentive pay based on spots earned. Maybe average over 2-3 years so it doesn't go way up and down. I don't like 3 guaranteed for the Big 10 and SEC at all. What is even more stupid about that idea is that you have to do all kinds of stupid NFL type tiebreaks to figure out who #3 is. With 12 teams in a 5/7 model, the SEC would average around 4 in the BCS/CFP era. Big 10 would be about 3.5. But it goes up and down.
  15. https://sports.yahoo.com/with-college-sports-at-key-juncture-what-does-the-future-of-the-ncaa-tournament-and-cfp-look-like-164559682.html?guccounter=1 Good article by Dellenger talking to the P commissioners and Aresco about changes. Pettiti is privately talking about 14 and 16 team playoff models. Sankey wants more money. And realigning the whole NCAA is in the air.
  16. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39520319/college-football-playoff-board-managers-expected-vote-5-plus-7-format WSU/OSU seem to be coming to some sense on 5-7. If they try to burn down the next two years to get a guarantee later, they are likely on nobody's list for expansion (or scheduling other than in-state schools). ""...For our two schools in the Pac-12 as it's currently configured, there is no question that five-seven, with seven at-larges, is better than six at-larges," Schulz said. "That's part of the discussion we're having within the conference footprint -- or the two schools -- is that very point. There's no question our football coaches are going to want to compete for one of those seven slots, and seven is going to be better than six." Schulz said he views the revenue distribution as a separate conversation from the 5+7 model, and he's not trying to use one to influence the other. "We've got to be a good colleague in the college football world," he said. "We asked for the opportunity to have a hearing on [revenue distribution], that was granted. We have to be really careful about saying, 'If you don't give us exactly what we've asked for, we're going to hold up some other things.' The decision has to be one made by us and Oregon State and we're still going through that decision-making process leading up to that meeting next week. There's no assumption to be made that we have to get X to get Y, either way....""
  17. I don't remember any school adding a men's sport. A number of schools have added women's sports.
  18. 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...."
  19. 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...."
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. Its not going to make any difference on academic alliances. That is not impacted by sports conferences.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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