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You get around collusion with a union agreement. This is how most pro leagues do it (some have certain additional legal protection, but not all). Liability/insurance concerns don’t seem realistic to me - lots of broke minor league baseball teams out there paying peanuts that don’t seem to have...

Different join dates seems like it would be because they’re leaving different places but lol what a quote

Caps/restrictions on NIL aren’t very realistic, the goal of a employee/union bargaining world would have to be to make the fundraising for the “real” salary paying cause “collectives” to lose the ability to raise fund for iffy NIL deals where there’s not a lot of actual sponsorship going on...

The casual fan or recruit isn't gonna audit every TE on the list from every school on the list. Getting the name out is good.

That seems very improbable, how lol?!?

Obvious they aren’t going to come out and say “we’re going to win the decline phase” but it’s perfectly compatible with all of their actions. I can’t claim to know if they think the overall game is in a decline phase or not or if they think they’re driving national growth of the game outside...

CFB leadership wouldn’t be the first to confuse “our audience has gotten more valuable” with “our audience and/or popularity is growing”. Think they can take credit for advertiser behavior post-dvr and streaming? Here’s the alternate explanation for what the SEC is doing: They know the game...

I have a hard time finding total viewership numbers or seasonal average across all p5 or such, but I’m skeptical of the “never been better” story - the title game this year, for instance, was still down, with fewer viewers than any but one championship game from the 2010s...

In a world without the big money makers I can’t see it making sense to anyone mid-tier who’s left to continue to carry the real little guys instead of trying for a big 2 shot or otherwise settling for the Big 12.

Agree with the idea that SOS is overly flat with respect to “expected tesult” or expected team quality. A top 25 team playing team 80 vs team 120 shouldn’t care. A team ranked 90, on the other hand… So if you expect GT to win 8 in 2024, you’d want a “difficulty level” specific to that...

What Maryland has to show for themselves is a whole lot less worry about if they’ll find a home at all after the ACC implodes. If not for that I’d be more sanguine about turning it down then.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/320040228/west-virginia-clemson “Clemsoning” was basically at it’s peak in 2012 for non-ACC fans. They weren’t taken that seriously as a title threat for a couple more years. You’re right about when VT fell off, though.

But nobody expected that to last, it was a period of crazy rights battles and everyone assumed the next time the SEC or Big 10 renewed they’d leapfrog the ACC. The SEC and Big 10 were able to poach from the Big 12 and ACC for a reason then. The story nationally about the ACC in 2012 wasn’t that...

I’ve always wondered what would’ve happened with different coaching. I think the two things catalyzed the coaching path to try to make him play a certain game that wasn’t the right fit at all. His completion percentage dropped through his career and his freshman year had his fewest INTs too -...

A&M ranks CONSIDERABLY higher in the irrational cult department than UT in all the ways that fit wonderfully in the SEC. The Aggies would be a wonderful SEC fit if they didn’t keep letting their UT inferiority complex dominate their brains.

A&M in the SEC and UT in the Big 10 seems like better fits all around but I’d be surprised if either move again.

If Herbstreit/ESPN are in bed with the SEC because of their media deal why didn’t they lobby for FSU (because of their big ACC investment) over a Big-10-bound PAC team on the coast nobody in CFB cares about?

I don’t think so, personally. If everybody was running it then the guys who can make the throws and make the right decisions more often are still going to be at a huge premium. They’d have a different skill set but someone would still be willing to pay $$$ to lock up the best QB.

Being a "sucker" is if you're taking it that personally as a fan. A coach has a relationship with a player and could have reason to feel rejected or bitter. A fan? Nah. Taking it too seriously at that point. I want to see GT win because I'm as silly as anyone here, but let's not act like we're...

I’m curious about the transfer rate for other first rounders. I’d expect blue chip all-world players to be less likely to transfer if they also stand out in HS - so get to pick their destination - and then quickly make their way up the depth chart.