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$21M doesn’t feel like much of a cap! :D Aren’t there only a handful of schools generating revenue over $200m? That “cap” is nearly 10% of the richest schools’ total revenue. It’s probably more than the TOTAL revenue of a LOT of D1 schools. Am I thinking wrong here? I’m thinking all of...

I’m not questioning the settlement aspect. Trial could be a catastrophe….. Just think my that roughly 20% of D1 is responsible for 90% of the issue and I’m betting there is little attempt at proration. That probably why a lot of “non-P5” schools are squawking.

So the NCAA screwed the little guys again in order to save their own skin? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya!

Donnie Davis… circa B*** L****…. No slight to Davis! Didn’t grow up in GA and wasn’t much of a college football fan as a kid. My first GT game was fall of my freshman year. I also got out before Joe Hamilton really hit stride in the 98 season. That’s usually how I time things. :D That said, I...

This is very valid point and it’s where I am concerned as well. If the NCAA has to pay out, how does that payout affect schools down the line? The bottom half of D1 probably constitutes less than a 5% of the issue (totally made up statistic for illustrative purposes). The top 30-40 programs...

It’s gotta be the time zones. Darned things always confound me too.

Agree, but I think you misinterpret my post. I am wondering whose interest would be served if the NCAA went away via bankruptcy or otherwise. I agree that a member or two pulling out is unlikely, if even possible. Ironic that the “Big 2” have been rumored to want to leave the NCAA, but at the...

Very good points… and with regard to going after member schools, it would seem that the greatest interest in preserving the NCAA would come from the largest D1 schools. After all, they are the ones with the deepest pockets and perpetrated most of the alleged inequity / exploitation. The NCAA is...

Precisely! The only thing you left out is that we shouldn’t even be on the list in the first place. It’s not a prototypical Waffle House and there is no parking, so it really doesn’t count. Beside that, the distance measurement doesn’t consider traffic and the fact that you must cross the...

So… all sorts of questions to whomever feels like opining…. How much should we care about the existence of the NCAA at this point? They are not an enforcement entity at this point, so I don’t see that they offer any “protection” or fairness. They basically just disperse payments to schools...

Almost as if it’s a different conference. Welcome to college football 2024

Good! If I recall correctly, a couple of these games previously were kicking at 10am eastern. I’m glad that isn’t the case

The colleges have already decided… they are all in, and It’s not unique to the athletic departments. The money grab is pervasive throughout, but the academic side gets some level of cover due to the moral / intellectual high ground they hold. I think if there were truly a commitment to...

You’re not wrong… you’re right on the verge of a legitimate merit based playoff. It’s where we should’ve gone before all of the powers started concentrating in just two conferences. How great would it be to go back about 40 years and seed conference champs in a legit playoff? Back then they...

Add this one to the Reggie Ball praise thread too…

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Unless crooked numbers in the loss column is a scandal, I doubt it. I am proud of you for believing that there are still good people in that athletic department though. Faith in humanity is a good thing, even if misguided.

Dang man… I’m sorry. I hope you aren’t around any sharp objects. If you are, I hope you miss those points too.

As I recall, Maryland was also about to gut their athletics department. They were faced with ending several “non-revenue” sports programs. Their move to the BIG kept them afloat. I have no idea if they ultimately cut the programs or not, but that was part of the discussion when it was all going...

This will probably sound little arrogant and maybe even short sighted, but I hope we’re never seriously having talks about B12 membership. Yeah, I know anything can happen and the B12 could look very different in a few years, but color me unimpressed. If we reach that point, I just feel like a...

That sequence was so ridiculous and I was so excited that I actually got nervous watching the replay the first few times. I just knew they were going to throw a flag for something and take away our points. Two other times I felt so ridiculously nervous that “they” were going to “steal” it from...