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Couple of punters made big contributions several times in the Gailey years which were so field-position-oriented. Ben Arndt stopped a punt return with a tackle to save a TD and the win in 2004 when GT won at #3 Miami. Durant Brooks boomed a bunch of huge long ones the next few years too.

Wake up just before 9am local and park my butt in front of the tv with some snacks, and plan on having a happy lunch after!

Still not what I said. I said he had a lazy take by comparing Utah -> Florida in 2005 to OU/TX joining the SEC this year. No need to try to read more into it than that.

Imma take that as conceding the point about Meyer having a lazy take then

Here’s why the Meyer thing is extremely relevant: the ACC can’t really even take Vespidae’s advice to find and sell their own thing to solidify third place as long as media figures are just gonna do things like this “everyone outside the SEC is the same, trust me, I was at Utah” false...

He was an Alabama assistant for three years after spending a decade in the PAC, mostly as a HC. This isn’t some long time disciple of SEC greatness bringing offense to UT. This is a west coast offense-oriented guy who benefited from the Nick Saban Rehab Program and then put up a bunch of points...

I went back and looked at Alabama‘s schedule last year re: Meyer being sloppy. Seems like Texas put up more points than anyone else. Dropped 21 points in the fourth quarter against a majestic SEC defense. Texas is a big damn school. Oklahoma is big too. There’s no reason for ESPN to be...

In college football? Haha nobody right now, basically. The ratio of haves to have nots would have to shift a bit more with further realignment/“demotion” so that the middle of the pack schools are more incentivized to police the super elites instead of looking to hold onto advantages compared...

The boat hasn’t sunk yet! I’m just not optimistic about the leagues ability to turn it around…

It’s literally not that lol, it’s literally a way to try to prevent circumventing the cap… the claim that a CBA couldn’t be interested in outside activities doesn’t stand up based on what other CBA’s do.

I want to hear more about this lol and what “going to the SEC” means in context. That they overpay in the SEC for basketball? That this person doesn’t take the SEC seriously? Something else?

Right now everyone feels like the top 2 are quite secure. If the gap between them and the ACC was X% smaller and the gap between the ACC and Big 12 was X% larger the story would be very different and the Big 12 would be getting all the focus as being on the outside looking in. Is that X%...

And instead of saying that could cut both ways - the SEC teams meeting a school that emphasizes offense more - he’s treating OU and UT like 2004 Utah. That’s lazy!

Re: better talent leading to better marketing. That’s why I asked about 2004 or 2001 (to get the old Big East in there too). The consolidation absolutely did not depend purely on better talent. Go back to the SEC’s expansion to 12 which maybe is the earliest harbinger of all this, they weren’t...

Yes, that’s viewed as a legitimate endorsement and allowed under their CBA. The question was about what you could do with a CBA more generally and they have one of the more interesting ones due to the resource constraints.

What does that chart look like if you use 2004’s conferences? Or 2001’s? Better marketing helped the SEC and Big 10 swallow other leagues. So did big fanbases. But the ACC could’ve been more competent and been in a solid third place instead of an extremely perilous place.

Meyer is being super lazy here because he’s saying his experience going from early-2000s Bowling Green and Utah to Florida is what Texas and OU will experience. Texas ain’t that Utah team, and the conferences they’re leaving behind aren’t the same either. He’s being lazy and he’s repeating an...

They’d likely follow the WNBA model and (attempt) to enforce that endorsements and marketing deals are legit and not just thin facades over bypassing the salary cap. Similar situation in terms of most teams not having super deep pockets. There’s a recent investigation in that league over just...

The contractor vs employee game to try to get around having to deal with unions is one Hollywood played a long time ago and the unions largely won. I don’t think the schools would want to avoid it for long, though. I think PR-wise they aren’t going to willingly start the process, but I think in...

“SEC speed” was brilliant marketing given that it wasn’t really even an approach innovated by the SEC. As I recall, Miami really was the pioneer there, and it really took off after Miami shut down the Nebraska option and the defensive speed got the credit. At most it was a regional thing that...