College Football

[sardis]

Yeah, but no one had angst against your dad to pressure the IRS to look into him.

Competing athletic programs? Another story

[Jungle Rat]

Of course.

[DooKSucks]

Yeah, but no one had angst against your dad to pressure the IRS to look into him.

Competing athletic programs? Another story

Ha. Correct.

However, please do not think folks were not dropping dimes on competing boosters in the past. Do you not remember the shit that went down between Bama and Tennessee boosters in Memphis?

[Dave23]

Albert Means / Logan Young / Bammer

[Jungle Rat]

One of my dads clients was an NBA agent back in the 70-80s. Had a shoe deal with Pony. That's how long ago. Another client was Ed Badger the Bearcats coach via the agent. I wish I was old enough or interested enough to care about that stuff back then. The shoes were cool as hell though.

[Jungle Rat]

I remember meeting Danny Manning right before he was drafted. About the time I started getting into basketball.

[Jungle Rat]

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xp ... story.html

[Jungle Rat]

Damn. Looking him up it brings back some fun memories as a kid. I forgot about Cornbread Maxwell. He was just a really tall black man. I was like 9.

[eCat]

[Jungle Rat]

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[innocentbystander]

every team can't be my New England Patriots

[Jungle Rat]

Holding in football is not what you think IB.

[Jungle Rat]

[Jungle Rat]

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[innocentbystander]

I am at our summer home. Not in Arizona at the moment. I am guessing that this news has lit up the sports wire all over Phoenix in absolute shock and horror. For ASU/U-of-A NOT to play USC and UCLA every year, oh my heavens.

Rat, the move that USC/UCLA made, I don't necessarily agree that this is all doom and gloom for smaller ACC schools wondering if they are on the outside, looking in. But it doesn't look good, I agree with you. At this point, I think it would honest, okay even, if fans, boosters, and employed administrators affiliated with the athletic programs at the largest universities with the largest alumni base went on the record to say,

look, we don't want to share the football $$$$$. Why should we share? No one gives a damn about Wake Forest football other than people who went to Wake Forest. They don't have enough alumni to "rate." So fuck'em. Who cares if they win every once in a while, no one watches them except to root against them when they are playing a school with a meaningfully large alumni base.

If an athletic conference sets up the rules to the broadcasting contract game in such a way that they can't lose the game [the way the B1G-T(14)N did] then the only thing that matters to get the tv $$$$$ is fannies in the seats in the living rooms watching the games. In that sense, the SEC and the B1G-T(14)N have the most clout. If you are on the outside looking in, it is more important to join those conferences (even if it means you will always lose.) I think that is why Nebraska is not regretting their move for even a second even though they can no longer win the way they once did.

That said, I am not sure that all the baby rapist schools have the largest undergraduate programs.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/917 ... nrollment/

• Central Florida - 61,500
• Texas A&M - 56,000
• Florida Int University - 49,000
• Ohio State - 47,000
• ASU - 45,000
• Utah Valley University - 41,000
• Penn State - 41,000
• University of Texas - 40,000
• Houston - 39,000
• Michigan State - 38,000
• Rutgers 36,000
• U-of-A - 36,000 (including my daughter)
• Cal State - 35,000
• Minnesota - 35,000
• Texas at Arlington - 35,000
• Florida - 35,000
• Purdue - 35,000
• Cal State Northbridge - 35,000
• Kennesaw State - 34,000

BOLD - denotes baby rapist

hmmmmm..... USC, UCLA, Notre Dame, Alabama, LSU, Oregon, F$U, Clemson, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Tennessee didn't make the cut

Obviously (just looking at the numbers and the presumed largest numbers of LIVING ALUMNI watching games) for tv contract money, the B1G-T(14)N is where it at, followed by the SEC. What I find interesting thought is that Houston and Central Florida have massive numbers of alumni and they both joined the Big-XII. Neither are baby rapists. So its not always just math to determine the clout over tv contract size. There are other factors.

[innocentbystander]

SDSU positioning itself to join the Pac-12

[Jungle Rat]

[eCat]

holy shit

According to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports, the Big 12 is in “deep discussions” with six Pac-12 teams about joining the conference. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah were known from previous reports but Dodd said Oregon and Washington are in consideration as well.

Now add UCLA and USC joining the Big 10 and that conference just blew up

I assume the Pac 12 was part of the P5 right which makes the remaining ones even more powerful

[sardis]

I'm guessing Oregon or Washington is being looked at by the Big 10 to match with Notre Dame. SEC will pick up Clemson and FSU and maybe two other ACC schools. Big 12 is making the desperate move to survive while the ACC could be sent back to it's roots as a basketball conference. Which would be to the pleasure of many traditionalists on here.

[Jungle Rat]

SEC Football will still be King in the end.