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Birmingham exceeds Houston for CFB. In the car, but will get the most recent figures. https://footballscoop.com/archive-news/eight-of-the-country-s-top-11-college-football-tv-markets-are-in-the-south

So you are actually making my point, thanks. If everyone wants to pee on the SEC for football success (while politicking behind the scenes), shouldn't the same argument be made about the ACC? The SEC built a football program and used it to expand into basketball. (It's been talked about for...

The ACC for decades was the premier basketball conference. No one complained about conference dominance, media bias, or conspiracy then. Well, a little. Clemson, a few years ago, was a dominating football program. But Dabo made the call to abstain from NIL and the portal. That’s a self...

100%. It’s Fox v ESPN now. Conferences are increasingly irrelevant. It’s matchups now. That’s the game.

This is only my opinion from a strategy point of view. The third player in almost any stable industry is the most innovative. They have to be ... otherwise, they slowly lose market share because the larger players can offer the same value for less by spreading over a wider market. The SEC...

The ACC isn’t going to disappear. It is not that the ACC is falling in comparison to others, it’s that others are accelerating ahead. Those are very different dynamics. Tech was in the Southern Conference and left it to form the SEC. It left the ACC to become independent. It was on the outside...

That's pretty much how it goes. The larger the fan base, the more you rely on royalties; the smaller the fanbase, the more you rely on cash and/or product. Product is better for the brand because the value is the dollar value not the material cost ... so if it's $3M in product allowance, that's...

TOSU may not have licensed through CLC and simply gone direct.

The whole discussion is around revenue to the school. Revenue = Cash + Product + Royalties. Tennessee's royalties, for example, are 12-14% of sales, so a large fanbase, with good designs, generates sales and in turn, royalties. The smaller fanbases will get some cash, maybe in bonuses, and...

No idea. But let FSU pay $500M to the ACC, exit ... and welcome ND, their NBC contract, and a revised GOR.

Yep! But FSU is so determined to get out, it can't see straight. It wants the money and ND will bring its own.

The ACC was supposed to be relevant IF FSU and MIA maintained their programs. They didn't. It would be the ultimate irony to watch them leave and ND literally walk into the CFP.

I think it is more likely that should FSU leave, ND would join for the same reasons as Bobby Bowden. It's the easiest path to a playoff.

Did they whiff? It appears Saban is advocating for OC Tommy Rees. AD Byrne has a list he’s working, but the goal was to be done by Fri. They should have announced the retirement and the new coach at the same time.

Agreed. But he has not embraced the new reality of NIL and the portal, not to mention peeing on past feelers from Alabama. I find it fascinating that his love fest at Clemson is turning into a toxic relationship. I won’t be surprised to see him leave Clemson but to where?

Franklin has zero support at Bama. Saban apparently indicated he will hang around to ensure a success transition. Lanning has been mentioned as has Kiffin, who desperately wants it. (And probably why Saban will stick around to make sure he doesn’t get it.) I wouldn’t be surprised to see...

With J Batt and Pope on board, I would not be surprised to see Key go back to the well at Alabama. Lupoi is probably too expensive, but Kuligowski, Scott and Perry are options. And I would not rule out a return of Jeremy Pruitt either.

It‘s irrelevant. Your premise is that a Troy University v Michigan would draw decent ratings. I don’t think it would. I’m done with this. Moving on …

You tell me. You wrote it.

Ask @Northeast Stinger. He proposed it. “If there are, say, 24 teams in a college football playoff, you can bet Michigan vs Troy State in a first round would get decent ratings.”