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  1. 11 hours ago, Hurtlocker said:

    Most damning quote in that article: "Consultants tell us FSU is paid 7%, but worth 15% of the ACC's contract"

    • ACC's contract  = $240m/year
    • FSU's estimated value per year = $33.6m

    No offense to our favorite Nole, but it seems we've been overestimating the brand power of FSU.

    I think the Noles and Clemson get out of the GOR by saying they’re being  irreparably harmed by making so much less than other conferences 

  2. https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/SEC/2023/04/12/sec-expansion-2024-oklahoma-texas-bobby-bowden-florida-state/70097800007/

     

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    Adding Arkansas and South Carolina allowed the SEC to split into divisions and launch a trendsetting conference championship game. Still, other schools the SEC had eyed – FSU, Miami and Texas, among them – would have boosted the conference’s profile more. Neither Arkansas nor South Carolina has ever won an SEC football championship.

    When the conference realignment carousel twirled again two decades later, the SEC further expanded its footprint. Texas A&M and Missouri came with television markets in tow and greased the wheels for the SEC Network’s launch. The Aggies’ culture meshes with the SEC, but Missouri still presents as a Big 12 school that stumbled into the SEC’s party and somehow talked its way past the bouncer.

    The past two rounds of SEC expansion each served a purpose, but they didn’t elevate the conference like Oklahoma and Texas can when they arrive in 2024. That’s what makes this the SEC’s best expansion yet. These schools wield the football clout the SEC missed on when Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles embraced the ACC.

     

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  3. 10 hours ago, USC Traveler said:

    That tweet is hilarious.

    It really shows the depth of delusion that a lot of WAC10 types live in.

    UW vs Eugene Community College is top 10 nationally?😂


    In no particular order, rivalries above UW-UO historically and at present (UT vs aggy and Arky coming back in ‘24):

    USC-ND

    USC-UCLA

    RRS

    UT-aggy

    UT-Arky 

    Iron Bowl

    The Game

    FSU-Miami

    UF-FSU

    UGA-UF

    UGA-Auburn

    LSU-Bama

    OSU-PSU

    UM-MSU

    Bedlam

    Tenn-UF

    Bama-Tenn

     

    That’s 17 off the top of my head without putting any thought into it.

    So glad to be leaving the WAC10 in the dust.

     

    Copy pastad to him this 

     

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  4. https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/why-nfls-bad-idea-for-thursday-flex-scheduling-barely-helps-amazon/

    pay wall busted

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2023%2F04%2F10%2Fwhy-nfls-bad-idea-for-thursday-flex-scheduling-barely-helps-amazon%2F

    The Pac-12’s media rights agreement won’t be completed until late spring or early summer, according to The Athletic college football writers Stewart Mandel and Max Olsen. They said The CW is now in play. We will add this to the conversation around potential defections from Pac-12 to the Big 12: Watch Colorado.

     

     

     

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    Pac-12 deputy commissioner Jamie Zaninovich is leaving the conference this week after nine years to become managing director at TrailRunner International, a global strategic communications firm.

    Zaninovich doubles as the Pac-12’s chief operating officer and has worked closely with commissioner George Kliavkoff on the media rights negotiations.

    Friday will be his final day. However, his first consulting project at TrailRunner will be to advise the Pac-12 on the media negotiations, expansion and basketball strategy.

    (The media rights saga, which began in July, is expected to conclude later this spring.)

    In his new role, Zaninovich will help TrailRunner grow its sports business operation. The company is based in Dallas-Fort Worth but has offices across the country and in Shanghai.

    Its clients include the Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Oakland A’s and, on two previous occasions, the Pac-12.

    TrailRunner worked with the conference during its multi-year initiatives in China and provided communications advice in January when two executives were dismissed for failing to properly disclose overpayments by Comcast to the Pac-12 Networks.

    The SportsBusiness Journal was the first to report Zaninovich’s move.

    His duties at the Pac-12 include serving as the liaison between the conference’s executive staff and the athletic directors. Deputy commissioner Teresa Gould, a former athletic director at UC Davis, is expected to take over that role.

    A former member of the NCAA Tournament selection committee, Zaninovich also oversees Pac-12 men’s basketball. He played a leading role in several strategic endeavors, including the move to a 20-game conference schedule, the implementation of non-conference scheduling standards and the creation of the series with the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

    Drew Seidenberger, the associate commissioner for men’s basketball operations, will replace Zaninovich on an interim basis and seemingly is a candidate for the permanent position as the sport’s supervisor.

    Zaninovich, who was the commissioner of the West Coast Conference before joining the Pac-12 in 2014, will continue to live in the Bay Area.

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