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I think you're definitely right that more players have gotten better at 3pt shooting than have gotten better at FT shooting. My assumption: The guys who've gotten to >30% 3pt now probably aren't the ones who shooting came super-easy too, who used to be great at 3 and FTs even in a game that...

So is the play “convince ESPN that you can blow up the ACC to get them to come back to the table since otherwise they’ll have to pay more for new negotiations with other leagues or lose some of them to other media partners in other leagues”?

Carriage fees like that have been the strategy for a while but they’re hitting some limits. Look at the streaming TV services dropping Bally stuff, or never picking up the new Dodgers TV network. I see no reason to believe that squeezing more money out of cable subscribers is gonna get any...

Texas/OU and USC/UCLA didn't have crazy long GORs to worry about. That's where the GOR helps a school like GT. Clemson/FSU want out of the ACC? Gotta finagle some back-room dealings to make it worth their while for most of the other schools too. So if anything happens to the ACC, it'll all...

Lots of reference in that GoR to "the ESPN Agreement", I wonder what exactly the terms of that agreement are. E.g. are there tricks open to ESPN to initiate a dissolution of that agreement, and would that then eliminate yielding the rights as necessary to "perform the contractual obligations of...

The SEC/B1G would need to bring over enough teams to have TV and advertising revenue growth. I’m not convinced a Midwest/South two-super-league situation does that with much of the rest of the country no longer invested at all. Even in LA, UCLA and USC playing a bunch of teams 2-3000 miles away...

I just don't think anyone would be a legend from these GT teams. They weren't competitive enough in enough big games.

Taking on a league with a national footprint with a regional league seems a bit foolhardy, but hey, it's worked for them so far, I guess. But how long can the SEC or B1G demand national eyeballs if they play no relevant games in, or against teams from, large swaths of the country?

It’s been “rooting for laundry” for decades. Pre-transfers, pre-NIL - if one of our GT hero players, even one we really like off the field and in their personal life too, had gone to UGA instead, most of us wouldn’t see them the same way. The players didn’t personally matter then, just the...

I inherited my parents (both Tech grads) mindset which was roughly "I already paid my tuition, the only way you'll get more out of me is for ongoing value" and that ongoing value was really only found in the athletics side. Otherwise you don't see many people donating more to Toyota cause they...

A bit more from that Athletic article (I got paywalled out shortly after scrolling past this quote, though): The On3 data doesn't even claim to be an accurate representation of what anyone on their list *has actually gotten*, just Or, the shorter way they put it in their google search result...

I’d be worried about long term tv deals with non-ESPN networks because linear TV channels are only going downhill from here, and Disney is way in the lead in terms of building out compelling subscription packages. Big question in my mind about if geographic footprint matters at all then vs just...

Do you really gotta ask that? Is it really so crazy that some people wish people were better towards each other, and want to be better themselves? Is being incessantly focused on just yourself really something to be smug about?

I think if teams paid directly a lot of the outside money would dry up. Why pay a player directly when you can pay the athletic association and let them deal with all the paperwork and all? Trying to get around a salary cap is a potential reason, depending on just how deep some of those pockets...

GT loves to talk about graduate salaries, millionaire status, etc. I'm not a graduate so does that mean I get to blame all of y'all for not ponying up or reaching billionaire status? ;)

Yeah, SEC fans were pounding that message about SEC football dominance in 2003 for the LSU vs USC title debate, even while the media was on the fence and USC got the AP votes. At the time, the last champs were Ohio State, Miami, Oklahoma, FSU, and Tenn. I have no doubt that the incessent...

Pastner had some nice moments but the idea that you could rate an AD *well* for hiring him seems nuts. Way too low standards. Were there institutional issues that limited that hire? Ok, but then did the AD fix those things? (And ask the same question about the football program...)

I think "something else" is just a trend of bad results for all of them. The trend for basketball has been bad for 15 years now, and even the bright spots 7-10 years ago in the football program weren't capitalized on (or even always supported!) by any of the ADs. Does there need to be anything...

Crazy (tragic, sad, disappointing) thing in retrospect is that Braine was probably better overall for GT than his successors to date (hopefully not than Batt). I would not have bet money on that…

One of my pet theories about the ACC/GOR/Conference Realignment is that the real trigger point for things is when the ACC basketball schools realize they've fallen too far behind in the arms race. I think right now there's some walking zombies who don't know how much trouble they're in yet, and...