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    Nil-NCAA.com link

    Public discourse has become tribal arguments over memes instead of any discussions of significance. I don't doubt anyone's love of GT if because they want college football to be professional, nor if they want college athletics to be non-scholarship actual students playing against actual...
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    Conference Realignment

    How many people, in general, pursue long term goals over short term satisfaction? If a high school kid is offered $10-20k, is he going to turn that down now because he might be able to make more in college? Or even more later in the NFL? Also, to risk of injury, that can happen anywhere even...
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    Conference Realignment

    I don't see any problem with an ACTUAL professional league. I don't have any problem with college nor high school students making money from ACTUAL name, image, and likeness opportunities. Should a high school student be prevented from making money on Instagram simply because he plays football...
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    Bobby Dodd Renovation in the NE Stands

    It would be interesting to see what happens if the law in VA and the BOR rules in NC cause those schools to have no offers from any conference. IF there are more shakeups, it would seem possible to me for VT and NC State to get invitations to the SEC If UNC and VA both join the Big 10. I don't...
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    Conference Realignment

    You will never get 100% agreement on "best" team. You can get 100% agreement on a champion from a championship tournament. If the goal is to crown a "best" team, then get rid of the playoffs, and go back to a system that doesn't have a "champion" at all, but "best" teams that are declared by...
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    Conference Realignment

    Which totally ignores what I said. Sankey says that the SEC is not interested in added teams in states already represented. However, the SEC is adding Texas, which is from Texas. Which is already represented by Texas A&M. What he says doesn't exactly match what they are doing. He doesn't...
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    Conference Realignment

    What does this even mean? Texas is joining the SEC this year. Texas A&M was a member of the SEC already. Sankey has said basically that the SEC is not looking to add members from states already represented. What I said is spot on. I fail to see how this is any kind of rebuttal to what I said.
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    Conference Realignment

    And you take his word for it? Isn't he the same guy that said that the SEC has no interest in adding a second team from an already represented state? I guess Texas and Texas A&M are not in the same state? Sankey is a marketing guy. (not exclusively, but is well adept at marketing the SEC) He...
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    Conference Realignment

    I think that what will happen will be decided by outside factors instead of what any conference does. A breakup of the NCAA, court decisions, or legislation, could all completely change college athletics. I think the schools and conferences are trying to prepare and control the outcome of...
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    Conference Realignment

    It is the old model of channel bundling, which is still in effect. Fox negotiates higher rates for the Big Ten Network in areas with Big 10 teams with the cable/sat/streaming companies. Those companies then build it into the price overall, or like DirecTV, add a regional sports fee to cover...
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    Conference Realignment

    It is the contract for the Big 10 Network with all of the cable/sat/streaming providers. Each subscriber pays for the Big Ten Network. I saw estimates from years ago that the SEC Network received 40 cents per subscriber out of market, and $1.40 for every subscriber in market. I don't exactly...
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    Conference Realignment

    I think you are somewhat misguided also. All of those factors will come into play. "definitely not academics!"? I don't think academics will be a primary reason for a conference selecting a school, but given similar schools, it could be a deciding factor. Take FSU vs Miami. If we consider...
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    Conference Realignment

    I think we are making the same point. This isn't a case of a landlord-tenant in a poor neighborhood where the tenant is tricked into an unreasonable contract. Everyone had their eyes wide open when signing the contracts.
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    Conference Realignment

    If three times your yearly earnings are legally unreasonable, then I want GT to get $10.5 million back from TFG. Same kind of contract breakage.
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    Conference Realignment

    But he said that AFTER adding a second school from Texas. With people like Sankey you have to parse words very carefully to try to decipher what the actual meaning could be. Also, in that quote, there is a ...., which means that some words were left out of the quote. Those words could...
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