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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

     

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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  8. 4 minutes ago, USC Traveler said:

    There's not that many schools that are worth adding beyond ND, FSU and Clemson, but, depending on how you factor in UNC, Miami is probably the fourth or fifth most valuable tv property left on the board.  Despite the fact that they've been down for years, they were so dominant during their run, and got so much media attention during that time and in later years, that they still attract viewers.  

    Well, I'm convinced. The B1G should definitely take them. 

  9. 32 minutes ago, bullet said:

    Maybe those fans were generating revenue ordering beer?!

    Maybe some but not nearly enough. Miami had to take money from their med school recently to cover an athletic deficit.

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    They drew 55,000 last year, 44,000 the year before that, 53,000 in 2019,  and 61,000 in 2018.  They were as bad as 28k in 1997, but as good as just under 70k in 2002.

    So it looks like you went back 20 years to find one example of a year that they had decent draw.

    I'm not sure that's proving the point you think it is.

     

  10. 48 minutes ago, bullet said:

    People follow Miami when they win.  They draw close to 70k in their good seasons.

    Now in their bad seasons, they may be in the 20s.  They are like UofH, stuck in a pro sports market without a large diehard fan base.

    Let's not confuse Miami today with 40 years ago.

    Miami doesn't draw even 70k during good seasons.

    Their last good season they did pull in a couple of games where they claimed mid-60s but you could see 10k empty seats in the stands. And that's when they had somehow managed to get into the top 5.

    Maybe when Notre Dame or FSU comes to town, they will have legit 65k because the other school takes 25k tickets.

    The other half of the winning season schedule, they are claiming 45-50k attendance but it's a half empty stadium.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    I’m pretty sure they did it to sell commercials in New York, LA, and Chicago. 

    Feels like the bubble is really close to popping when they are still pushing the idea of selling ads based on the size of the market rather than if anyone is actually watching them.

    It's like how they keep bringing up Miami as an expansion option.

    Sure they have no fanbase.

    Sure no one in Miami watches them.

    But Miami is a big market and we can sell ads like the first 2 sentences weren't true.

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  12. 2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    if you get a porch pineapple, how do you know where it came from?

    and if you do know where it came from, if  you return the pineapple, does that mean "yes" or "no"?

    what other fruits are involved in this radical new form of communication?

    guessing bananas are involved somehow

    or cucumbers

    When life gives you pineapples, make tepache.

  13. 19 minutes ago, Lidig8r said:

    bwahahahahahaha!!!!

    So now your new neighbor is wondering ... "Sooooooo, are gatormarc and gatormarcette swingers? And if so, are they interested?"

    Oh my!

    I guess however, if they ARE wondering this doesn't than necessarily imply that they too are swingers?!

    Oh, the SEC is gonna be so much fun!

    I wonder if I should warn gatormarcette.

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  14. 19 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    I like how they tweeted this out before they could even think up a name for that god awful final pod. 

     

    It's funny and sad after this many years, you still have casual fans who are like "this is ridiculous, I could realign better than this" and then they get about 60% done with their own "perfect" realignment concept and then just start throwing shit against the wall. But rather than just going "oh" they fucking post it to the Internet.

  15. 11 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:

    a lot of folks think Stanford is fine because they have $$$ everywhere.  They have $36B in endowments...but all of that is tied up in specific things, they cant just move the money around.  There was a reason they tried cutting 13 sports during Covid (or whatever it was).  Furd athletics are broke too... that said, both Furd and Cal have the alums to fix all of this if they get their heads out of their asses.  Thats the challenging part

    Makes sense. I was really surprised how quickly they started cutting.

  16. 10 minutes ago, bullet said:

    Stadium is too.  Hard to believe it was worth saving.

    More likely, they just didn't want to relocate any other departments to find a new site.

    It's on the list of National Historic Places.

    I wonder if it would have been near impossible to tear down. Also, is there a legit place it could have moved to?

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