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  1. I think the talk about academics is an attempt to put a respectable face on the conference expansion money grabs. It's not a secret the Big Ten has always wanted Notre Dame who wasn't in the AAU until 2023. I've always thought Stanford should be in a conference with the UC's or join the University Athletic Association which is composed of peer schools (University of Chicago, Washington University, Carnegie Mellon, etc) that explicitly won't make the academic compromises to play football at a high level.

  2. Trump does what AIPAC tells him to do just like every politician except Thomas Massie. It's out in the open now so we don't have to speculate why our foreign policy is what it is. Because AIPAC wanted it. End of explanation.

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  3. There's endless media articles like this which are "young men struggling, women most affected." Articles like this are why young men have tuned out mainstream media because it's endless negativity. I'll believe women want to get rid of traditional gender roles when it's common for women to ask out men and pay for dates but that isn't going to happen. If young women aren't interested in dating that's perfectly fine but stop bashing young men because there's already too much of that.

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  4. I don't advocate moronically chanting a conference name but I do hope the other schools do well out of conference because that affects the seeding and perception of my school's teams. In men's basketball the non-conference performance of the schools in the SEC absolutely helped everyone when it came to NCAA tournament seeding and getting in.

  5. Cal and Stanford's academic rankings means absolutely nothing in the athletics world which is why they had to beg for a bargain basement offer in a conference on the other side of the country. And in athletics I mean football, football and football. The Big Ten supposedly cares a lot about academics but the reality is they accepted Nebraska (when they were relevant in football) and rejected Cal and Stanford so it's clear what actually matters. 

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  6. It's not unusual for a coach to have a young woman he's seeing but it is unusual for a university to be so desperate that they agree to let her have a role in the program. IF UNC had any self-respect they would tell Bill to keep his sugar baby away from the program. ESPN had an article about this hiring and it was a circus with some trustees and politicians trying to hire Bill without the Athletics Director knowing what they were doing.

  7. I'm a UK fan and many other fans have lost perspective about that game. UK under Cal would have a couple of games a season where they look like the best team in college but most of the time it was a disorganized mess that could and did lose to anyone. UK will have a better SEC record and a better future. Look at the big wins Pope has with a team cobbled together in a short time frame. 

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  8. 10 minutes ago, markstanco said:


    So you are saying vandy and New Mexico State also has the potential to be a top 10 program? No idea where you are going with ucla has the potential to be a top 10 program other than softball and swimming.

    UCLA is a great large public university in a recruiting hotbed with great weather and a million things to do and you're comparing them to New Mexico State? Is this a joke? USC has all these pluses (except they're a huge private school) and that's why they have historically had one of the best programs. I don't see why UCLA can't be successful like USC.

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  9. Florida State signed of their own free will and you don't get out of contracts because you don't think it's fair. It's understandable that the Big Ten and SEC aren't interested because if FSU will sue the ACC, they will sue the Big Ten and SEC and the last thing presidents want is to have ugly lawsuits that air out all the dirty laundry. As a secondary fan of an ACC school, FSU has acted terribly for a long time and that's why they were singled out. Any conference that has them as a member will regret it.

  10. TV executives are calling the shots now and they don't care about Stanford and Cal which is why they had to take a bad deal with the ACC. Several of the PAC presidents (notably the Arizona State president) demonstrated repeatedly that they are out of touch with reality which is the main reason their conference is gone. 

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  11. Cal's athletics department is in terrible financial shape and needs to cut a bunch of sports. Is the state going to fund all of the sports that they sponsor? I hate to see athletics siphoning money away from one of the world's great universities. Cal's value to the state and world isn't in athletics.

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