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  1. 7 minutes ago, Jabberwocky said:

    Overall. So, they are looking to add about 2 MM per team per year, or maybe 30 MM divided up between 3 or 4 schools.

    Weren't they talking about giving some performance based payouts at one point but no one wanted to give up money to pay for it?

  2. 2 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

    and also this week the Noles seem to have figured out the mute button. 

    They missed their 8/15 deadline without getting what they wanted, so it's back to working behind the scenes since they've got at least 22 months.

    Their short term plan is probably to keep voting no on expansion until they extract the maximum amount of money from MethCalFord to at least let them redo the math.

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  3. 19 minutes ago, USC Traveler said:
    1 hour ago, CustersDoctor said:

    August 24th, 2021. The ACC, B1G & ACC try to counter the SEC coup with a piece of paper that loosely defines the meaningless alliance. 

    You're giving Klownkoff and Phillips too much credit.  There was no piece of paper.  

    "There is no contract.  We shook hands as gentlemen and looked each other in the eye."🤣

    “Even though I’m a lawyer, one of my favorite law professors at Notre Dame said, ‘If you have to go back and look at a contract you signed, you probably entered into a deal with the wrong parties,” Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said. 

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  4. 18 minutes ago, CustersDoctor said:

    I love historical reminders like this. Here's a little timeline.

    Don't forget one of the primary reasons for the Alliance was to block playoff expansion.

    They then reversed course after adding USCLA and signed everyone on to the exact same playoff plan a year later.

  5. 1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

    Our first year in the sec we got an "easy" draw and will face Georgia, Florida, OU, A&M, Arkansas and Kentucky. And on the road against Michigan non conference plus Colorado State. Three losses against that slate should get in the playoffs. 

    Unless it's one those scenarios where you're competing with other 3 loss SEC teams. Just a totally ridiculous scenario below. Don't check my math or anything.

    Bama - 12-1 SEC Champs (loss to UGA regular season)
    Georgia - 12-1 SEC Runner Up (loss to Bama SECCG)
    Florida - 9-3 (losses: UGA, UTn, LSU; notable wins: UTx, Miami, FSU, UCF, A&M, Ole Miss)
    Texas - 9-3 (losses: UF, UGA, OU; notable wins: UMich, Arky, A&M)
    Tennnessee - 9-3 (losses: UGA, Bama, OU; notable wins: UF, Arky)
    Oklahoma - 9-3 (losses: Bama, LSU, Ole Miss; notable wins: UTx, UTn, AU)
    LSU - 9-3 (losses: Bama, Arkansas, USCw; notable wins: UF, OU, UCLA, Ole Miss)

  6. 16 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

    Notre Dame claims to be the only team that does not claim a title they were awarded, 1953.  No thanks to Iowa

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team

    Unless I'm missing some distinction, there are plenty of schools out there that don't claim a title that they were awarded by someone other than the AP/Coaches/BCS.

    I know Florida doesn't claim 1984 or 1985.

  7. 4 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:
    2 hours ago, gatormarc said:

    If you're already gonna break the GoR, why not break the bylaws too?

    Reportedly FSU woulda needed a board meeting yesterday or at least called one with 24 hours notice. 

    Yeah. They have to put notice in by 8/15 of a given year to leave by 6/30 of the next year.

    All that happens by not making this cutoff, is that now the soonest they can leave is 6/30/25.

    It was just a joke that since they are already breaking the GoR, why not just say fuck it, and break the bylaws too.

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    I would just ask the Noles publicly, "If the ACC meets your demands you will extend the GOR?" 

    Bwahahahaha. Something tells me the goalposts would move.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

    Her telling an investigator that she wants the conservatorship removed doesn't do anything though. It's like Michael Scott "declaring" bankruptcy.

    She has to actually petition the court for a judge to actually make a change. And it sounds like the moment she actually did that the conservatorship was removed.

    Why she didn't talk to a lawyer about any of this sooner is beyond me. 

    How does talking to a court investigator end there? Especially when talking about something like conservatorship where it's so easy for someone to be taken advantage of.

  9. 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    No, she only petitioned the court once to have it removed after 10+ years of the conservatorship, and it was removed when she asked for it. At least according to the NYT.

    Article quote on the hearing where she and her family asked for the conservatorship to end: 

     

    Same article:
     

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    “She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report. The system had “too much control,” Ms. Spears said, according to the investigator’s account of the conversation. “Too, too much!”

    Ms. Spears informed the investigator that she wanted the conservatorship terminated as soon as possible. “She is ‘sick of being taken advantage of’ and she said she is the one working and earning her money but everyone around her is on her payroll,” the investigator wrote.

     

  10. 6 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    On the idea of the conservatorship and maybe why he still had it at 37, I'm reminded that Britney Spears had a conservatorship for years. In the last few years, she went to court and asked the judge to remove it, and the judge told her that she could have removed the conservatorship at any point by just asking. She expressed surprise at that at least towards the media.

    Makes sense. The NYT released documents where she had been asking to have it removed for years and those requests were ignored or declined.

    And when she finally did get it removed, it was a helluva battle, not simply asking the judge.

  11. 1 hour ago, bullet said:

    61,000 in 2018 is pretty good (BTW it was just less-about 58k in 2017).  There are only 23 schools that have averaged over 60k for the last 4 years and only ND, Clemson, FSU and Virginia Tech are not in the P2.

    Yup. There are a handful of teams worth expanding over. Miami isn't one of them, at least not for the SEC. B1G does different math though.

  12. 1 minute ago, USC Traveler said:

    What do you think about FSU and Clemson to the SEC ?  

    Seems like Sankey would want them as a defensive play, but would UF, UGA, Bama, AU, etc vote to add them ?

    It's the reverse of the aggy-UT situation.  SEC already has UF.  FSU isn't bringing UT-level benefits.

    Would SEC schools rather recruit against Clemson and FSU as BIG members ?  

    "Mr five star FL HS player, do you really want to play in MN, IN and Iowa instead of the South ?"

    I have no desire for the SEC to expand.

    I've hated the current schedule rotation and really want 3-6-6.

    But if the SEC were to expand and it made sense financially, FSU is an easy add. Same culture, geography, athletic strengths, existing rivalries.

    I'm personally neutral on Clemson, but I know UGA and USC fanbases look at them like I would look at FSU.

    I don't think the SEC needs to worry about what the B1G is doing. Just make the right call for the SEC.

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