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I never even tried that one. Of all the Tolkein stories that could be made into movies, it seems like they just made up their own stories to try to get good visuals. The Hobbit movies were the same. They only slightly resembled the book.

I understand that. I was just pointing out that the NCAA is only an group of colleges that compete in athletics. NAIA is another one. Not you, but I think too many people see the NCAA as some kind of independent organization. Since the NCAA is just a group of it's member schools, it has no...

But that is still mainly money from the schools. If the NCAA doesn't pay out money for tournament appearances, then conferences have less money to pay to schools. Any money the NCAA pays out for any reason comes from the schools, or from money that would have otherwise been paid to the...

Isn't that kind of like saying that if the HOA does something bad and is sued that the HOA will pay all the fees, not the individual home owners? The NCAA doesn't really have any revenue generating activities, except for fees from schools and media revenue from the athletic product of the...

The rub isn't that FSU would not have made it into a 12 team playoff. The rub is that an undefeated P5 champion was left out for two defeated P5 champions. If we take that same loss differential to a 12 team playoff, then it is very possible that a 3 loss team could get in over a 2 loss ACC...

The conference schedule can be changed quickly, but it is still a big deal. Changing the conference schedule isn't just shifting one or two games, it is changing the entire schedule for every team. The ACC went through that practice in the past year because of the changes to the conference...

The big problem I have with the attitude is that schedules are made years in advance, and we don't have a clue what the strength of teams will be in even two or three years. How do we know what the strength of schedule will be in four or five years? The ACC schedule is set until 2030. The OOC...

That quote also says that they excluded the four Ivy-plus schools Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago.

How would you do that on a pragmatic level? The 2024 schedule has 9 ACC obligated games, the mutt game, Ga State and VMI. The only games that are in GT's control are Ga State, VMI, and the mutts. Are State and VMI increasing the strength of the schedule? If not, then replacing them wouldn't...

I only watched the first season. As far as I was concerned the story was completed at the end of the first season. It was a perfect story that had a perfect ending. I don't even know what the plot of subsequent seasons were, but they had to be simply using the same characters in some endless...

Their Clemson and FSU have already left. (well in another month will leave)

This is something that I have said many times in other threads comparing the mutts to GT. People want to believe that if GT had the SEC media revenue, then we would be even with the mutts. The SEC gave the mutts $10 million more in media revenue than GT got from the ACC. However, the mutts...

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OK, so it is 6 out of 8 instead of 9 out of 11.(excluding 2020 since there was no tournament) Go back the last four years in the ACC and it would be 6 out of 12. Their last 20 years in the ACC, they made the tournament 13 times out of 20. Their last 10 years in the ACC, they made the...

I think GT would be happy to be irrelevant in basketball if your definition of "irrelevant" is making the NCAA tournament 9 of the last 11 years. With respect to football, they did have a large scandal regarding an in practice death of a player in the middle of the time period in the Big 10. I...

The SEC didn't make a billion per year in 2022, much less a billion more than the ACC. The per team payout in 2022 for the SEC was $49.9 million, a total of about $700 million. The ACC payout in 2022 was $39.4 million per team, a total of about $550 million. That isn't pre-ACCN, but the SEC...

It was widely reported that DRad was pushing for GT to make the move. I have see a couple of different people say that they were told that the decision to not move was made above DRad's head and that he had no control over it. I have some faith in the sources for that information, but I can't...

Yes, it does disturb me. Also, take into account that the vast majority of people who post about it on forums, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, etc. haven't even read the lawsuit for themselves. It disturbs me that people simply believe what they hear instead of researching and being skeptical. You...

To believe that it is exactly what you think it is, you have to believe FSU's characterization 100%. Their legal filing does contain things that are not 100% unbiased. I guarantee you there is no chart in the ESPN agreement that is blank at the bottom and contains the words - nothing unless...

I am going to get too far into the weeds in this post, sorry. First, I haven't seen proof that such an option actually exists for ESPN to completely withdraw from the contract. I am not saying no such option exists, but I don't know that it does. However, for this discussion, let's assume...