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There are alot of coaches who felt the B12 was gaming the system this year. Very few B12 teams had strong OOC SoS. They mostly beat up alot of bad teams by huge margins. In the more performance driven metrics that drives up their ratings. Then they played each other and stayed high by beating...

One story i've seen is that Schertz had already signed a memorandum of understanding with St. Louis (before L'ville came calling). It would cost $700K to break it and UL didn't want to pay it. There was also a twitter post by Matt Jones a couple of days ago where he posted that UL's radio guy...

At the end of the season Pitt looked like the best of the ACC bubble teams, but their SoS basically killed them. They had almost no chance to get in with their schedule. Wake was somewhat of a similar situation. They had a weak OOC and then all their good wins happened at home. Committee always...

The SEC and B1G strategies are relatively easy to see. SEC wants 'brand' names from contiguous states. B1G prefers the large state public school, preferrably AAU, with major media markets. I've seen charts that show ACC's revenue continue to outpace B12 revenues by increasing margins over the...

In terms of the SEC - both Miss St and TX A&M making runs in the conference Tourney helped. ACC was very fortunate to get UVA in the Tourney. They haven't looked good (except against GT) for weeks. Their offense is painful. Very surprising that Big East only got 3 in - though they were 3 of the...

Howard has sort of an interesting coaching career. He has the Elite Eight run in 20-21, but that is the only season he won 20+ games. He is 1 game over .500 in conference for his career. In 3 of his 5 seasons he was largely a middle of the pack type finisher. One top of the conference and one...

CFP to be approved for 14 teams. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-expected-to-approve-expansion-as-fbs-leaders-agree-on-revenue-distribution/ The funny part is it hasn't been decided yet how the bids will be divvied up - just that there will be 14 of...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-expected-to-approve-expansion-as-fbs-leaders-agree-on-revenue-distribution/ New CFP to be approved tomorrow. 14 teams - format will be decided later (no agreement yet on any auto bids, etc). But agreement on 14 teams...

Picking up on my comments from yesterday you can really see the weaknesses that need to be improved upon if the program wants to move forward. In ACC Games GT was 13th in FG%, but 7th in 3FG% (4th in 3FGM), 4th in rebounding offense and 7th in assists. While GT was 7th in assists, it was 13th...

Wake's issues are twofold. First, their SoS is not good. Second, they haven't beaten anyone away from W-S. They have some really good wins, but all of them are at the Joel. Pitt/Wake is an elimination game today.

I think the following from the article is something we should keep in mind about Stoudamire's background. Stoudamire won 71 games in 4 1/2 seasons (COVID year) at Pacific. Ironically his 14-18 record this year is the 3rd time in his 6 seasons as a college HC his team had that mark. Pacific...

Article on the coming legal battles for the NCAA and the Power 5 Conferences and how it could affect the future of FBS. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-sports-further-dividing-among-haves-have-nots-may-be-spurred-by-huge-financial-hits-from-court-cases/ The NCAA and the...

Didn't feel like commenting during the season - just wanted to watch it. I'm still largely in wait and see mode. This season would get a C from me. The big wins were great, but the bad losses were too many. GT went 6-8 against teams that were .500 or better in the ACC, but 1-6 against teams...

ACC has added Dr. Pepper and Crush as official sponsors of the conference. https://theacc.com/news/2024/2/28/general-disney-and-acc-crush-a-new-collaboration-dr-pepper-named-an-official-conference-sponsor.aspx Dr Pepper is the newest official sponsor of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as...

While i'm not thrilled with this, it would have worked in the ACC's favor last year. If you apply this proposal to how the CFP rankings played out last year you would have the following teams getting in B1G - Mich, Wash, Ohio St, OR, Penn St SEC - TX, AL, UGA, Missou ACC - FSU, L'ville B12 - AZ...

Interesting article on challenges that college football HC are facing and whether they feel it is worth it. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/why-trend-of-college-football-coaches-bolting-to-nfl-taking-lesser-job-titles-has-no-end-in-sight/

Wolken opinion piece on the new SEC-B1G committee. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/02/08/sec-big-ten-greg-sankey-college-sports-bigger-mess/72528401007/ When it comes to expanding their conferences and negotiating huge television deals, Sankey and his...

Thought this was an interesting article on B12 recruiting this year. Only one school in the Top 40 nationally in HS recruiting. That does jump to 5 when you add transfers to the mix...

I agree with this. If UNC leaves that is when the ACC dies. If UNC left I would expect UVA to follow them. FWIW, my understanding is that ESPN can only renegotiate the contract with the ACC if there are fewer than 14 teams in the conference (including ND - since they play all sports except...

Thoughts on the ruling - fro Dennis Dodd so take them for what they are worth. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/how-a-ruling-that-dartmouth-basketball-players-are-school-employees-can-join-union-may-change-college-sports/