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As I recall, Tech gets to sell more luxury suites and keeps the money.

You can argue one of two points. CFB is consolidating and the best programs are monetizing that consolidation. Or … CFB is perfect competition with no barriers to entry and consumers will enjoy wide variety of providers equally. I will wager Option I as 100% likely. I‘m NOT arguing that...

I think you need to study industry evolution. Consolidation in CFB has been happening for 30 years. Technology is accelerating it, but it’s happening nonetheless. The US fanbase is highly concentrated already into 16 teams. You can account for the majority of interest in the sport in just 40...

Industries evolve. Always have. And in very predictable patterns. You can ignore it if you want, but that same evolution totally displaced the national sport … baseball.

Isn’t that exactly what the NFL did? Does anyone remember the Pottstown Maroons?

It’s the haves trying to extract a bigger share of a growing pie. And it is growing. Just not evenly.

It’s human nature. A former colleague of mine had worked for a motorcycle dealer. The owner told him, “Don’t take anything less than $5,000.“ So my colleague quotes a price, the prospect heads for the parking lot, and the owner chases after him. And then closes for $4100. ”I thought you said...

MS State is about on par with Tech over a 20 span. The last 10 years or so has been a wpt of 0.59, so respectable. Missouri is not a team I follow much, but they were explosive a few years ago. They can (at times) but up quite a fight. My point is, we have very strong opponents (UGA, Clemson...

BC and UVA are not OOC.

I didn't say replace Bowling Green with Alabama. We are already in a weak conference. Boston College and UVA are among the weakest teams in the country. You are going to have to play somebody reasonably good if you are to have any reputation at all. There's nothing wrong with playing low end...

7-5 may be more common than not.

CPJ quipped that GT was more like a service academy than a typical P5 program. He also said that Tech was pretty much a 7-5 team. If you look at our last 20 years, we have a wpt of 0.529. You could argue that under Collins, those years are outliers, and that's fine. If so, we can use 0.57. The...

My mistake. D1. Shouldn't text while driving ⛳️

Isn't that what you said? If we're 10th worst out of 131, that makes us 121st. Or in that vicinity. Suggesting there are 5 to 8 worse teams seems immaterial.

Out of 131 teams, you’re quibbling over being ranked 113 vs 121? The fact is, we aren’t very good. We have to at least best weak sisters in our own conference. If we can’t beat Boston College and UVA, I don’t know what to tell you.

Here are the 10 worst Power Five teams, per ESPN's FPI: Colorado Rutgers Indiana Boston College Vanderbilt Virginia Stanford Kansas Northwestern Georgia Tech

Peterson played for Kansas State. Not GT.

Forget spin. The SEC brings eyeballs. Lots and lots of eyeballs. That’s why they have a seat. $$$ Don‘t underestimate LSU. They are number one in talent going to the NFL.

I think Bud Peterson could look at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, CalTech and think, “Why can’t we be like them?” The GT Prez receives no compensation for how athletics does and frankly, probably would not have minded seeing it go away. Joe Petit certainly thought so. It was only Kim King going...

Sixteen teams account for 50% of the national CFB fanbase. The average ACC school has a fanbase of 1.5 million, Tech probably less … say 1.0 to 1.2 million. UGA is roughly 4 million. I think you’re right. As one ESPN head said, “The era of nostalgia in CFB is over. It’s all about money now and...